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Are you overwhelmed, stressed, or on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Are your projects stalled? Breathe, the author gives you her magic wand - her book. If only I were more confident! Who hasn't wanted this before? People who have strong self-esteem have a good opinion of themselves, are optimistic, and are on an equal footing with their fellow human beings.

A handsome stranger with steel-blue eyes makes love to Kristen Cole each night in her dreams. She presumes the men in her life are manifesting her nightly erotic experiences. But when Kristen awakes one morning to see the stranger vanish from her bed, she fears she is losing her mind. Confident that poor sleep caused her hallucination, she gives up alcohol, takes up exercise, and adopts a guard dog to watch over her. This morning, after a wild night with her boyfriend, Kristen awoke to find his lifeless body on her bathroom floor.

The unseen resident of 515 Cambria Pines Road is alive...and he will not be ignored. Kristen Cole, a clinical psychologist, is shaken by misfortune when her retired father falls victim to a terrible accident. She journeys to the seaside hamlet of Cambria, California, where she lays his body to rest. Distraught and faced with the need to sell her father’s house quickly, Kristen employs a local contractor to renovate it for sale. When Kristen falls in love, she learns why her heart must not be given to any other man.

Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and '40s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children of an immigrant family. They each experience a very different childhood, depending on age and sex, as they encounter the complexities of birth and death, love and hate, kinship and otherness. Mingling with the realities of Canada and the horror of war are the magic, ghosts, paper uncles and family secrets of Poh-Poh, or Grandmother, who is the heart and pillar of the family.

When Erin buys a strange plant from a bizarre flower shop, she's unaware of the power it possesses. Her college friends, Kristen and Wes, come over for the evening, but little do they know what the plant has in store for them. Will Kristen get taken? Will Wes get probed? Will Erin get seeded hard?

Essence best-selling author and winner of the Nubian Literary Award, Karen E. Quinones Miller was also named Author of the Year by Turning Pages Book Club. Passin' introduces Shanika Ann Jenkins - a light-skinned black woman who decides to remake herself. Shanika is blonde and beautiful. But after being rejected for a job she makes an incredible choice: to use her God-given assets to become the white woman she always imagined she could be.

This volume of the ongoing collection of children's stories offers six well known and well loved classic fairy tales. Included are: "The Princess and the Pea" read by Jaclyn Smith, "The Emperor's New Clothes" read by Michael York, "Thumbelina" read by Jaclyn Smith, "The Ugly Duckling" read by Michael York, "Aladdin's Lamp" read by Lou Diamond Phillips, and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" read by Sharon Stone

Markiewitz Audioworks is proud to present "A Cratchit Christmas," a full cast audio dramatization based upon the 1843 story "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. In this original script, an international cast of voice actors, a Victorian soundscape and sound effects, and a beautiful Christmassy score, serve to bring you a rendition of this tale you've never heard before!

Meet Constance Ann, age 6. Her best friend Mary Margaret, age 6 and a half, and our tumbling genius Elliot, age 7. In truth, they were all exceptional geniuses living in Johnsville, Vermont, solving mysteries and problems in the lives of the young children and sometime even the lives of the old.

Megan has a lot on her plate. She is running a farm with her brother and cousin, trying to qualify for Nationals, and having to baby sit a childish firefighter. Derek, the firefighter, has his own baggage and reasons for the way he is. He has never met anyone like Megan and she's dangerous. Great thing about being a firefighter, they always run towards the danger. The two must learn to get alone and work together and work together to keep the farm going but the flames keep getting bigger. One of them just might get burned.

Tenía que haber sido más listo; tenía que haberla dejado en paz… Me dijo que tenía veintiún años, pero era mentira. Le llevaba una década, y, aunque era madura para su edad, debí mantener las distancias. O intentarlo, al menos. No había demasiados sitios donde esconderse en el campus, y sí un montón de sitios donde podían pillarnos. Nunca quise que ocurriera: yo era su profesor y ella debía ser solo mi alumna.

Martín y Roberto se han enamorado locamente y piensan casarse en breve. Ellos son felices y sus ex… están en ello. En realidad, Carlota no es que tenga muchas ganas de fiestas, pero decide venirse arriba por su amiga. Y Daniela otro tanto de lo mismo, no tiene ganas de nada, pero elige sobreponerse por Carlota. Con lo que no contaban era con que las vacaciones fueran a empezar en las urgencias de un consultorio médico que dirige el borde cañón de Beltrán.

Me mintió. Y no un par de veces: todo el tiempo. Para ella, yo era el típico Don Popular, el quarterback estrella que reinaba en los partidos de los viernes por la noche. Para mí, ella era la friki gótica que estaba sentada en las gradas y tocaba el clarinete en la banda. Pero, a pesar de lo diferentes que éramos, todas las noches entraba en su dormitorio a través de la ventana, incluso cuando empezamos en la universidad.

A Lola le ha abandonado la inspiración y tiene tres meses para entregar su manuscrito salvador. Su cuenta corriente está más roja que el parque de bomberos, y el único bote salvavidas que encuentra llega en formato intercambio de casas al otro lado del Atlántico... O eso cree. Está convencida de que, si tu musa se larga a por tabaco y no vuelve, debes montarte en un avión para que regrese.

Maya no está pasando por su mejor momento. Acaba de dejar un medicamento que regula los ataques de pánico, sufre síndrome de abstinencia, lleva días sin dormir y bebe demasiado. Por eso, cuando frente a la pantalla de su móvil revive lo ocurrido el verano de sus diecisiete años no sabe si puede confiar en la lucidez de su mente. Las imágenes de seguridad de una cafetería registran la muerte súbita de una joven. Junto a ella está Frank Bellamy. Ni siquiera se han rozado, pero Maya sabe que él es el responsable, igual que lo fue de la muerte de Aubrey siete años atrás.

Lúa no está invitada a la boda de Milo, su ex, pero se presenta de incógnito para corroborar que tiene superada la ruptura y que no le afecta ver cómo se casa con otra. Milo se percata de su presencia en cuanto entra en la iglesia, le pregunta que qué pinta en su boda, con una peluca verde y un maquillaje de payasa, convencido de que quiere arruinarle el día más feliz de su vida, y a ella no le da tiempo a responder nada. Quien responde es el hombre que tiene al lado, que de repente asegura que son pareja.

In Seattle to reunite Elliot with his father, the three families continue to enjoy their vacationing while Constance Ann and her two best friends, Mary Margaret & Elliot, must find a way to save all the children in Seattle from losing their childhood years by the time reversal machine that immediately thrust all children into the state of adulthood!

Still on summer vacation, our young detectives from Vermont and their parents are on the last leg of their long trip ~ Hollywood! Mary Margaret has been kidnapped by party crashing teenagers! It's a race against time as Constance Ann & Elliot must face several obstacles in each studio as they search for their friend!

Trapped in Dream Valley, our three geniuses must find a way out of this nightmare dream and expose the mastermind behind kidnapping children into a not so friendly Wild West dream!

A sinister presence has reawakened in the forest, and the mystical felines who once guarded the woods cannot stand against the supernatural wolves sent by a dark being known as the Shadow. Crox and his loyal feline companion, Jax, are called upon to fight this evil force once again. As they delve deeper into the mysteries of their past, they discover something even more terrifying than they could have imagined: a portal to another dimension has been reopened.