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Bestselling author Jennifer Estep serves up a stand-alone urban fantasy adventure filled with secrets, lies, and super spies with amazing magical abilities. Perfect for fans of Alias, James Bond, Jason Bourne, Nikita, and Netflix's Bodyguard.A SPY . . . My name is Charlotte Locke, and I'm an analyst for Section 47, a secret government agency that tracks terrorists, criminals, and other paramortal bad guys who want to unleash their abilities on an unsuspecting mortal world. I have a magical form of synesthesia that senses danger and uncovers lies-making me a stealthy operative.I'm trudging through another day when one of Section's cleaners-assassins-takes an interest in me. I don't need my synesthesia to realize that he is extremely dangerous and that he will do anything to achieve his goals-even if it means putting me in the line of fire.. . . AND AN ASSASSINI'm Desmond Percy, one of Section 47's most lethal cleaners. I'm also a man on a mission, and I need Charlotte Locke's skills to help me keep a promise, settle a score, and kill some extremely bad people.Charlotte might not like me, but we're stuck together until my mission is over. Still, the more time we spend together, the more I'm drawn to her. But at Section 47, you never know who you can trust-or who might want you dead.

Loss can create overpowering emotions.Emotions happen, but they don't have to rule our lives.When Emotions Run Rampant helps you figure out what you need to release from your life. Join authors Karel Murray and Cammie Reed as they take you on a life-changing journey towards resilience, healing, and the creation of a new normal. This book is a groundbreaking exploration of grief, its impact, and the journey to renewal. It's a compassionate guide, drawing from a wealth of research and real-life stories.The only person who can decodeand realign your life is You."When Emotions Run Rampant is a vitalcompanion for those navigating the stormy seas of grief. Blending psychological insights with powerful narratives and practical solutions, this book is not only a beacon of hope, but your guide to overcoming your grief and constructing ahappier and more meaningful life."-Bernice L. Ross, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology,Author, Trainer, and International Speaker

Can your favorite hockey players finish their first season together undefeated? Five months in, NHL forward Ryan Wesley is having a record-breaking rookie season. He's living his dream of playing pro hockey and coming home every night to the man he loves-Jamie Canning, his longtime best friend turned boyfriend. There's just one problem: the most important relationship of his life is one he needs to keep hidden, or else face a media storm that will eclipse his success on the ice. Jamie loves Wes. He really, truly does. But hiding sucks. It's not the life Jamie envisioned for himself, and the strain of keeping their secret is taking its toll. It doesn't help that his new job isn't going as smoothly as he'd hoped, but he knows he can power through it as long as he has Wes. At least apartment 10B is their retreat, where they can always be themselves. Or can they? When Wes's nosiest teammate moves in upstairs, the threads of their carefully woven lie begin to unravel.
 With the outside world determined to take its best shot at them, can Wes and Jamie develop major-league relationship skills on the fly? Warning: contains sexual situations, a vibrating chair, long-distance sexytimes and proof that hockey players look hot in any shade of green.

Jill Mceldowney's Otherlight plunges us into the rarefied limbo of grief. Suspended in time, in action, in ice, its speaker is halfway out the door of this world-is half-turned to follow the beloved who hovers, conjured, just at the edges of these pages. Otherlight's iconoclasm is arresting and terrifying; it rejects the advances of a world that refuses to understand that sometimes the past is a mine we never want to be hauled from. In these lyrical, annihilating poems, Mceldowney shows us how a life can be utterly derailed by a death; how even after a lightning-struck past, choosing to stay alive can be the biggest risk of all.-Claire Wahmanholm, author of Meltwater and Wilder¿¿Otherlight beams its lantern light from the mouth of a cavernous grief. As we descend, Jill Mceldowney guides us through a liminal space only the loss of a beloved can forge, a world where the past and future continually collapse and distort, a purgatory of questions, a guilt that is '-terrible to survive / and surviving is never over.' These poems are raw as an exposed nerve in their exploration of addiction and precise in their portrayal of the jagged contours of depression: 'I pretend like I'm living.' There are 'rivers that children wade into / and do not return from as children,' insomniac nights that stretch into endless days. But this collection is also proof that there is power in naming the beast, even if it can't be tamed, even if its teeth are still bared." -Ruth Awad, author of Set to Music a Wildfire

Shortlisted for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards Premier's Award for a Work of State SignificancePart provocateur, part seducer, this young gay man's account of life offers one of the freshest takes on Australia and the world today.Honouring poets of the past - Jean Genet, Veronica Franco, Euripides, Hunter S. Thompson, Oscar Wilde - and joining in their task of finding meaning in existence and the modern world, Tolcher has produced a brazenly honest debut without precedent.Through his writing he subverts his own shame, weaponises it, and positions himself as an anti-hero of our time right when we need him the most.Following his humble beginnings as an outcast in the dreary outer suburbs of Brisbane and escalating into a Dionysian, poetic and pornographic international climax, Poof follows Tolcher's search for love and purpose as he is drawn to the beds of powerful, sadistic men. If he can endure just a little longer, a little more... will they love him?In an age of victimhood, Tolcher offers us a roadmap to empowerment and integrity as he pulls back the curtain on both our pride and our shame, and shines a spotlight on a hidden history that has been erased time and again.

Soms weerhou die geraas van die wêreld jou om die stem van God in jou lewe te hoor.Hoe klink God se stem?Druis dit oor waters en laat dit die donderweer dreun? Is dit magtig, vol majesteit wat kan oopkloof en laat bewe (Psalm 29) of is dit 'n stil sagte stem wat vrede, liefde en bevestiging bring (1 Konings 19)?In die boek, LUISTER. God se stem in my lewe, beleef jy die karaktereienskappe van 'n lewende God deur die oë en lewenservaringe van Suid-Afrikaanse sportpersone soos Neil Powell, Duane Vermeulen, Sandile "Stix" Ngcobo, Vernon Philander en Mignon du Preez.Skrywer Karien Basson vertel passievolle stories van die liefde vir sport, uitdagende tye en 'n persoonlike ontmoeting met God uit die monde en harte van bekende sportlui. Stap saam deur die lewens van 40 verskillende sportsterre wat sonder huiwering erken: "God is net goed. Ons is almal onvolmaakte mense wat 'n volmaakte God dien en sonder nog 'n kans sou ons verlore gewees het."Hierdie boek is vir elke mens wat die een of ander tyd in hulself en die genade van 'n lewende God getwyfel het.

With Down's syndrome and a heart defect, Éléonore recounts her years of struggle with her parents to remain in a mainstream environment. Changing people's perception of Down's Syndrome is what she is now striving to do.

Laura D. offers us a poignant and original account of a contemporary phenomenon that has only become more pronounced with the prevalence of the Internet and cell phones: student prostitution.

Anthropologist Marion Dapsance conducts the first field survey of Buddhism in the West, delving into the heart of a hijacked religion: sectarian organization, sexual aberrations, financial pyramids, hierarchical humiliations...

The deprivation and control of sexual relations in prison represents an additional punishment for prisoners and their families. Through an ambitious sociological study, Arnaud Gaillard shows that the right to intimacy is violated.