Jennifer Jill Araya
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All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with.
But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...
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The Game of Life and How to Play It is a short work of metaphysics by American artist, illustrator, and New Thought teacher Florence Scovel Shinn. Published in 1925, this book explores the foundations of Shinn's philosophy - that what one puts out into the world is what one receives back.
Shinn began her career as an artist and illustrator, drawing for Harper's magazine and several popular novels. After her marriage to artist Everett Shinn ended...
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A standalone Christmas romance short storyIt's only one woman... only one weekend. How hard can it be? Mack has one job-to keep his boss' sister safe. But there's one tiny complication... Mack has secretly had the hots for Mariah since the day they met. Oh, and one more complication… Mariah doesn't want a bodyguard. His plan is to keep watch from a distance. But when a case of mistaken identity forces Mack and Mariah to fake a relationship, Mack...
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From master storyteller Angela Hunt, a powerful story of a family's journey toward healing and hope after an unimaginable loss.
Seventeen-year-old Maddie is left reeling after the unexpected passing of her beloved father. No one has any idea why he betrayed them all so spectacularly, but that's exactly what his death feels like: a betrayal. With their world shattered, Maddie's grieving mother sends her to spend a few months with her grandparents,...
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What happens when a fake kiss makes real sparks? Ellery knows it wasn't a real kiss. He was only practicing so it wouldn't be so awkward when he kissed the girl he was actually in love with. She's nothing but a stand-in... the second-choice substitute. She knows it in her head. Too bad her heart isn't listening. Logan's feelings for Ellery are stronger than anything he's felt before. Way stronger than what he felt for his ex-fiancée. If only he could...
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American journalist Milly Bennett has covered murders in San Francisco, fires in Hawaii, and a civil war in China, but 1930s Moscow presents her greatest challenge yet. When her young Russian husband is suddenly arrested by the secret police, Milly tries to get him released. But his arrest reveals both painful secrets about her marriage and hard truths about the Soviet state she has been working to serve. Disillusioned and pulled toward the front...
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When a stranger with a lime-green mechanical hand drenches her in coffee, the last thing Brooke expects is a marriage proposal from a famous hot billionaire. A marriage of convenience… so tempting. Brooke Ponzio can't argue against Cole's flawless logic. The divorce settlement will solve all the money-troubles for Brooke and her unborn child. If only Cole wasn't so mouth-wateringly delicious. Should she risk having her heart broken again? Cole Miller...
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Tolstoy famously wrote, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." To Tracy Farber, thirty-three, happily single, headed for tenure at a major university, and content to build a life around friends and work, this celebrated maxim is questionable at best. Because if Tolstoy is to be taken at his word, only unhappiness is interesting; happiness must be as placid and unmemorable as a daisy in a field of a thousand...
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They drowned Victoire's mother, claiming she was a witch. Then her father died beneath the wheels of a nobleman's carriage.
Forced to leave her village, Victoire finds work in Paris. But domestic employment comes at a high price and the orphaned girl suffers gruesome abuse at the hands of a diabolical aristocracy.
Accused of a heinous crime, they imprison her in the depraved lunatic asylum, La Salpêtrière.
With the help of ruthless seductress,...
11) The Stricken
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"The Stricken will keep you guessing with new twists on every page." -Rosalyn Briar, USA Today bestselling author
What if our spirits walk to another life while our bodies sleep?
Every day in Clara's world, a dark cloud descends upon her town. The storm comes like clockwork, erasing everyone's memories. Everyone except Clara. But after Clara's father mysteriously disappears, things change. The Diviners, captive souls who feed off memories, come...
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Rylie's been in love with Jarrett Alvarez since long before he became a billionaire. Too bad Jarrett's in love with her twin sister! Isn't your wedding day supposed to be the happiest day of your life? Not if you're the emergency substitute bride. But how could Rylie say no when a child's life hangs in the balance? Now she's married to the man she loves, but he's still pining for her sister. Jarrett owes Rylie a huge debt. She's giving up a year of...
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Stephanie Caldwell fell in love with her boss, but he's too clueless to notice. And being blind is no excuse!Steph doesn't care that Bran is blind-at least he'll never see the longing looks she gives him. If only she could warn him about the lack of love on his conniving fiancée's face. But Steph has to keep her mouth shut, or she could lose her job, along with the health insurance that keeps her daughter alive.Billionaire Branson Knight knows women...
14) Jorvik Calling
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Step into the universe of the massively popular adventure game Star Stable, and follow four friends who discover their magic powers and learn that every girl can be a hero in this fantasy trilogy.
Soul Riders tells the heroic tale of four young girls who have been chosen by destiny to save the world from the ancient demon: Garnok and his band of dangerous Dark Riders. Lisa is a teenage girl who is still coming to terms with the tragic loss of her...
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Recently updated with an expanded study guide, Strong Women, Soft Hearts has quickly become an important study for women of all ages. Through inspiring real-life testimonies, Paula Rinehart writes as both a kindred spirit and a compassionate counselor to women feeling robbed of their passions and trapped by life's disappointing realities. Women who long to be released from the burden of hard choices and perpetually empty souls will be empowered to...
16) The Chaos Grid
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Cross the grid. Survive the storms. Let your destiny burn. When mankind's attempts to control nature backfire, Texas descends into a wasteland. Storms rage and ravenous beasts roam the Outer Grid. The only safe havens rest inside the tech-obsessed domed cities. But when her parents are murdered inside the Plex City dome, seventeen-year-old Juniper Conway wants revenge. Ties to her extended family threaten to pull her back as she runs from city to...
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There's a thin line between hate and love... and Laurie is about to cross it.Laurie's new boss may be a smokin' hot billionaire, but he despises her. And she feels the same way about him. Until she has to play the role of his girlfriend...A thousand women would love to be in her shoes, working up-close-and-personal with billionaire philanthropist, Finn Anderson. Though alluring at first glance, he's less than charming around Laurie. She's not about...
18) Darkness Falling
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Step into the final installment of the fantasy trilogy based on the massively popular game, Star Stable. Follow four friends who discover their magic powers and learn that every girl can be a hero.
A storm is coming. Darkness is falling. Will the Soul Riders find their strength in time to save Jorvik?
The four Soul Riders, Lisa, Anne, Linda, and Alex, are facing their greatest test yet. Mr. Sands' sinister plans are threatening to destroy life on...
19) Finding Faith
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★Mary's sworn off ever having children. Can one very hot and very persistent single father change her mind? ★
Two decades ago, Mary's mom walked out. A few days later, her dad started drinking. He never stopped. Mary swore off alcohol. She also decided she'd never have kids, just in case she took after her parents.
A year ago, Mary's boyfriend dumped her because she didn't want to have any children.
Yesterday, for the first time in a year,...
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Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is not Jewish. She will be fine, won't she?
But she cannot escape the horrors of World War II.
Lida's parents are ripped away from her and she is separated from her beloved sister, Larissa. The Nazis take Lida to a brutal work camp, where she and other Ukrainian children are forced into backbreaking labor. Starving and terrified, Lida bonds with her...