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He was supposed to be a holiday flingnot her daily temptation.June Young had a Christmas traditionhot cocoa, jammies, and no drama! But when her best friend dares her to have a one-night stand, she decidesfor onceto throw caution to the wind.One night. One scorching-hot stranger. No rules. No regrets. Mason was tall, sinfully sexy, and knows exactly how to make a woman forget her name. Their chemistry was explosive, their night together unforgettable. June thought shed leave him in the past, tucked away like a naughty holiday secret.Until she walked into her brand-new job and met her new bosshim.Now every heated glance across the office, every accidental touch, and every memory of what his handsand mouthcan do drove her insane. And Mason? Hes not backing down. He wants more than one night, and hes ready to play dirty to get it.Workplace rules are about to be broken, small-town tongues are bound to wag, and Junes carefully controlled world is about to go up in a blaze of holiday heat.The Christmas Dare is a steamy BWWM holiday romance that will leave you hot under the mistletoe. This short novella is reserved for mature readers only.

The essential annual guide to the newest voices in literatureBest Debut Short Stories celebrates the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these eight stories are the 2025 winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes outstanding debuts published in literary magazines.Each story is accompanied by an introduction from the journal editor who first published it, providing insight about whats exciting in fiction right now, and recognizing the vital work literary magazines do in nurturing new voices.

Experience vibrant health and balance through a unique, seasonal self-care approach that intertwines the earth-based wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine with yoga and meditation.In this practical exploration, experienced Chinese medicine practitioner and yoga teacher Jennifer Raye guides you through movement, mindfulness, and healing practices that align with the natural rhythm of the seasons.Drawing on these time-tested systems, Raye offers modern insights into using yoga postures, healing foods, herbal medicine, meditation, and other practices to balance the body and mind in an accessible and holistic way. This book includes: A unique way to understand your body, mind, and spirit based on the natural rhythm of the seasons. An easy-to-understand exploration of five-element theory and how it manifests in your life. Suggestions on what foods and lifestyle practices to implement at different times of the year. Yoga practices and postures that target the organs and meridians according to the Chinese medicine model. Numerous meditations, breathing techniques, inquiry suggestions, and journal exercises to maintain health and balance your energy. Inspiration to heal your spiritual self and transform your heart to benefit the world we share. And much more!

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5! Ace the newly-digital AP Physics 2 Exam with this comprehensive study guideincluding 4 practice tests with answer explanations, timed online practice, and thorough content reviews.The Princeton Review Expertise Study with prep and practice written entirely by AP educators Learn test-taking strategies backed by 40+ years of test prep success Focused, supportive lessons designed and perfected by experts Everything You Need for a High Score Updated to address the new digital exam and the recent College Board content updates for AP Physics 2 Customize a study plan and target areas of improvement by using our diagnostic answer key Comprehensive coverage of thermodynamics, electrostatics, magnetic fields, electromagnetism, geometric and physical optics, and more Tons of charts and figures to illustrate key concepts Online digital flashcards to review core content, plus study plans and more via your online Student Tools Practice Your Way to Excellence4 full-length practice tests (2 in the book, 2 online) with detailed answer explanations Online tests provided as both digital versions (with timer option to simulate exam experience) online, and as downloadable PDFs (with interactive elements mimicking the exam interface) Practice drills at the end of each content review chapter Step-by-step walk-throughs of sample questions

When problem solving doesnt work anymore, we need a different logic: start with the underlying human values, reframe, and create space for deep change.The nature of the problems we are facing has shifted, becoming more open, complex, dynamic, and networked than ever before. As a consequence, domains across society are finding out the hard way that business as usual doesnt work anymore and that our current modes of innovation fall far short of what is needed. Our current reality truly requires us to change our thinking on a deep level, to embrace a different logic, and develop new approaches that go beyond mere problem solving. In Deep Change, Kees Dorst shows how this can be done.Building on his bestseller Frame Innovation, Dorst takes creative practices from design to a wholly different level. He shows how these practices can be used to inform organizational change (by synchronizing top-down and bottom-up reframing), sector-level change (by creating and adopting new paradigms), and even societal change (by shaping major transitions). All these practices come together in his studio model, a new type of innovation infrastructure that creates the space for deep and ongoing change.With 24+ fascinating case studies and many other real-world examples, the book takes the reader through the new thinking and the new practices, inspiring growth and change. Once you see this, you cant unsee it.

The Wildest Samurai Who Ever LivedTetsuo Haras masterful follow-up to the generation-defining Fist of the North Stara rollicking samurai epic inspired by a real-life legend.Tall, handsome, and deadly, Keiji revels in his own taste of beauty, whether it be slaying men on the battlefield or carousing with courtesans in the pleasure district. But in an era when might and ruthless politics reign, staying true to oneselfwhile staying aliveis no easy feat.As feudal lords vie for supremacy, Keijis House prepares for a clash with the powerful Hojo Clan. When a team of scouts is dispatched to procure wild horses for the Houses army, they are attacked by a creature unlike any they have ever seen. Tasked with slaying this beast, Keiji sets out to tame it instead. Once the Hojo and their ninja master catch wind of this expedition, however, Keiji will have more than a wild beast to break

One bed. One (very awkward) shared past. What could go wrong?With a fun and steamy twist on the only-one-bed trope, this debut contemporary romance will delight fans of The Love Hypothesis and The Paradise Problem.Chemistry teacher Ashleigh Hutchinson knows better than anyone that love and lust dont mix. The feelings come from different hormones, they trigger different responses, and they demand different reactions. Which is why she doesnt date. She hooks up. No catching-of-feels required.When Ashleigh is fired from her job without notice, she signs up to participate in a month-long sleep study, which will pay her enough to cover rent while she job hunts. It seems easy enoughuntil she walks into the clinic and finds herself staring right into the gorgeous eyes of Xander Miller, the only man to have ever tempted her to abandon her no relationships rule.When Xander and Ashleigh realize the study is only looking for couples, they agree to pretend to be togetherwhich means sleeping in the same bed every night for the next few weeks. How hard can it be to keep their cool under the covers? With steamy will they or wont they tension and plenty of hilariously awkward moments, Bed Chemistry is sure to appeal to fans of Christina Lauren, Ali Hazelwood, and Meghan Quinn.

Until now, youve only heard one side of the story: how Abraham Lincoln defeated the Confederacy to end slavery, but the truth involves a vast network of abolitionists who would keep fighting for freedom long after the end of the war. Heres the true story of the Civil War and Reconstruction, from the African American perspective.A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARBy 1850, Africans had already been in the United States for nearly 300 years. Their labor created a strong economy and defined American society in profound ways, but their rights nearly tore the country apart, a century after its founding.The beginning of the Civil War marked a turning point: the beginning of a public fight to recognize African Americans as Americans. Though much of this played out on the battlefield, the real fight was going on in every corner of the country: North and South, free households and enslaved, in the halls of government and secret meetings. That fight didnt end when the South surrendered, and young people were central to the way abolitionists envisioned the future. From soldiers to public speakers to the Underground Railroad, this is the true story of the African American experience of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5! Ace the newly-digital AP Physics C Exam with this comprehensive study guideincluding 4 practice tests with answer explanations, timed online practice, and thorough content reviews.Test Prep That Actually Works Written by real AP teachers and tutors for an expert edge Backed by 40+ years of proven test prep expertise Consistently excellent content thats always being updated Everything You Need for a High Score Comprehensive coverage of all AP Physics C topics Proven strategies that teach you to avoid test traps and achieve your highest score Diagnostic answer key that guides you toward the areas where you most need work Extra online Student Tools, including digital flashcards, customizable study plans, key equations and formulas, and more Premium Practice for AP Excellence4 full-length practice tests (2 in the book, 2 online) with detailed answer explanations Practice the way you want it, with both in-book paper tests and online tests (provided either digitally with timer option, or as downloadable PDFs with interactive features) Practice drills at the end of each content review chapter

In a dystopian future, organized wars are serial entertainment, and overpopulation is controlled through a millionaire death lottery. A mute samurai, discharged with honor, finds out his wife was among the "lucky victims," and he embarks in a ruthless revenge to get her heart back. Literally.

A classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy, attacking the decolonial question with poetic ferocity.A classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy. Both attack the decolonial question with poetic ferocity, ignited by the moment when colonialist rationality meets its limits in the "magnificent disorder" of the Amazon jungle. Described in Eduardo Viveiros de Castros foreword as "no longer an interpretation of Brazil but an interpenetration with Brazil," Jean-Christophe Goddards strange theory-fiction plunges Western philosophy into the great American schizophrenia, where its ordered categories are devored by uncontainable contaminationsfirst and foremost the rainforest itself, a "monstrosity unapproachable by the cogito." In 1664, the Portuguese Bento de Espinosa wrote of his terrifying hallucination of "a scabby black Brazilian." But rather than a vision of "the Other," the dream figure was a frightful glimpse of Bentos own duplicity. Upon adopting the "clean white nickname" of Benedict de Spinoza, the philosopher cut ties with his homeland and its colonial misadventures, repudiating this specter that flees along the lines of migration: "Spinoza is American the journey is intensive." And in his wake, a cannibalized cast of conceptual personae are sucked into Goddards Pernambucan delirium: Franny Deleuze, Dina Levi-Strauss, Chaya Ohloclitorispector, Galli Mathias The rainforest also precipitates a deregulation of the senses in Verdant Inferno, Alberto Rangels classic 1904 work of Brazilian literature. In Rangels astonishing tales, this "poet-engineer" sent into the dark interior as a state representative records his encounters in a style that shimmers between objective documentary and visionary limit experience.

A swoony, sweet YA rural romance between a rancher and the Hollywood hotshot shes tasked with turning into a cowboyperfect for fans of Kasie West, Erin Hahn, and Kristy Boyce!Sixteen-year-old Cassidy Sterling cant imagine life beyond her familys Wyoming ranch. Her days are filled with colt breaking, cattle rustling, and an online Intro to Astronomy class. Seventeen-year-old Wilder Nash also has his sights set on the starsthe ones on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A teen heartthrob, hes now hes ready for the big time. To land a lead role as a cowboy in a prime-time mini-series, he must convince the casting director hes an experienced horseman. The problem? Hes all hat and no cowboy.With less than a month to learn to ride, Wilder heads to Silver Stallion Ranch.Cassidys quiet life is disrupted when Wilder arrives. As he mucks out stalls and grooms horses, Wilder begins to see theres more to life than his looks. And Cassidy starts imagining a future beyond the ranch. The growing spark between them threatens to ignite into something more, but Cassidy must decide if shes brave enough to take the reins of her own life. Meanwhile, Wilder faces a choice: the glamorous life of a star or a simpler life under the stars.

Sojiros new wife Chiyo is more beautiful than he could have imagineddespite the fake smile she wears always throwing him off. But although the insecure samurai continues to worry that hes not enough, the infatuated Chiyo simply struggles keeping her desire for him under control. As the two navigate their daily lives amid more miscommunication chaos, others around them have begun to catch on. Perhaps this clumsy couple, as awkward as they seem, have been a perfect match all along.

Derrière le Voile sommeillent les légendes…1534. La science prend son envol, lart italien fascine lEurope et un parfum didées nouvelles révolutionne le monde.Tandis que se dessine cette nouvelle ère,

CRUEL TRUTHJustice has two faces. One serves the law. The other demands payment in blood.Vivian Erinn is not just a dominatrix. She is The Queen. The feared Mistress of the Shadows Club, she wears cruelty like armor to shield the dark wounds of her past. By day, she rules the club. By night, she slips behind the mask of the "Red Demon," hunting down the monsters the law let walk free. She is driven by a single purpose: to avenge the death of her childhood friend and protect the innocent.But in the life of every ruler, there comes a moment when the throne begins to shake.Major Faye Harold, a tough-as-nails Miami detective, didnt come to the club to play. She is on the hunt. Her target is the mysterious vigilante leaving a trail of bodies in her wake. But when Faye steps into Vivians crimson-lit empire, the investigation takes a dangerously personal turn.The tension simmering between these two women is more than just a battle between law and sin; it is a collision of two dominant wills. Faye represents order. Vivian commands chaos. And the desire that ignites between them is just as dangerous as the secret that keeps them apart.When Vivians past returns to haunt her and a young girls life hangs in the balance, The Queen must make a choice. Will she reveal her true self to the woman who could put her behind bars? Or will she sacrifice love on the altar of truth?Two women. Two sides. One fatal attraction.Anabelle de Sades latest release is a breathtaking lesbian thriller where love doesnt offer redemptionit brings you to your knees.

Dear Barry Manilow: Memories of a Prep School Loser by Rachel Marbach is a raw and darkly humorous memoir that exposes the toxic underbelly of an elite preparatory academy. Through vivid recollections of alienation, cruelty, and family dysfunction, Marbach unearths the pain of adolescence while recounting surreal experiences, such as writing letters to Barry Manilow to escape the harsh realities around her. This candid coming-of-age story explores the tension between outward appearances and hidden struggles, offering a relatable glimpse into the emotional turmoil of being an outsider.

This prequel to the creation of the human universeHistory of Creationis the story of the seven Glorified, who lived in contentment until the name-calling. It was the first any Glorified had been called a name. Suddenly, for one Glorified, having all was not enough. Seh longed for something that creation did not bestow. He wished to be acknowledged as "the master", to lead the others into a new way of being. Seh did not share his purpose with the others; the others knew the Glorified were the sameone could not be above the others. As Seh struggled to cast aside that truth, the First, the Self-Generator asked another Glorified to assist with a task. Seh knew that if Hu completed the task, there would be more name-calling and he did not want her to be set apart from the others again. Seh and the others accompanied Hu as she journeyed towards the task. As the company neared the task, Seh planned one final gathering of the Glorified. They broke bread and shared ale, while Seh plotted and deceived them, bringing chaos where order had been, so that he could gain what he coveted.

DARK INITIATIONEvery woman is a queen in her own life. But what happens when the crown falls, leaving nothing but desire?Valerys life was a diamond cut to perfectionuntil her divorce shattered it. The former queen of the beauty industry suddenly finds herself in a void, where freedom feels lonely and the future is a blur. Then, the envelope arrives. Black, elegant, and the key to a door Valery never dared to dream of.It is an invitation to the Shadows Clubs most exclusive event: the Midnight Rite.This is no simple party. It is another dimension, ruled by a single man: the mysterious and ruthless figure known only as The Master. In his empire, the rules are simple: there is no past, no outside world. Only the pleasure of the here and nowand unconditional obedience.Valery, who has spent her life in control, now tastes the power of surrender. Through mystic ceremonies and sultry nights, she rediscovers not only her body but the deepest, repressed desires of her soul.But the Rite comes with a price. The Master doesnt just want to play. He wants to teach. To break. And to rebuild.Can Valery face the mirror he holds up to her? Or will this "initiation" be her undoing?Step into the circle, where magic is not a spell, but the language of bodies.

Its the leftists worst nightmare: a Latino population that is awake, not WOKE!For decades, leftists in the media and in the Democrat Party have tried to sell a simple equation: to be Latino is to be liberal. Theyve claimed that any resistance to their radical, anti-American agendawhether its open borders, defunding the police, or socialist economic policiesis racist. But that narrative was never true, and millions of Latinos are proving it wrong every day.The Rise of the Liberty-Loving Latino tells the story mainstream media refuses to cover: how a growing number of Hispanic Americans are standing up for faith, family, freedom, and the Constitution. This movement isnt theoretical. Its political, cultural, and spiritualand it helped re-elect President Donald J. Trump in 2024.Latinos are done being told what to think. Theyre thinking for themselvesand voting like it.

A 540-year-old mystery has been solved. Compelling in breadth and detail, this book asks its readers to re-examine one of our greatest historical enigmas.Revised and updated editionIn the summer of 1483, two brothers were seen playing in the grounds of the Tower of London, where theyd been lodged by the Kings Council their uncle, the future Richard III, its chief member. From there the boys seem to vanish from the historical record, and so one of the greatest and most intriguing mysteries of British history was born. Over the centuries, historians have debated tirelessly about the fate of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York: did they die in the Tower? Did they escape? Were they murdered?After astonishing success in locating and laying to rest Richard III, Philippa Langley turns her forensic focus onto this enduring case, teaming up with criminal investigative experts, historians, archivists and researchers from around the world in her groundbreaking The Missing Princes Project. Following ten years of extensive research, investigation and formidable dedication, this landmark study has finally reached completion, with stunning conclusions.In The Princes in the Tower: How Historys Greatest Case Was Solved, join Langley as she records the painstaking investigative work undertaken and lays out the evidence to reveal the remarkable untold story. Here she is able, finally, to address any injustice and solve the mystery surrounding the Princes in the Tower once and for all.