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Theirs to Hold

Author : Sierra Cartwright

Publisher : Sierra Cartwright

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 22,62 MB

Release : 2021-12-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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With every touch, I bring her closer to surrender… I've wanted Kristin for years, my obsession growing with each rejection. Now, thanks to a ridiculously generous bid at charity auction, she belongs to me…and my twin brother. She's sworn off billionaires forever. I'll prove her wrong. My brother Noah is the gentle one, but I'm not afraid to push her limits. Every trembling moan, every surrendering whimper fuels my need to possess her completely. She fights her desire, but there's hunger in her eyes, and she melts under our touch. I've built an empire, but it means nothing without her. Kristin doesn't know it yet, but she's ours. Forever. My brother and I share everything. Now we'll share a wife. Theirs to Love is a contemporary, BDSM, twin brothers, menage story set on a Texas ranch. Welcome to the Titans Captivated billionaires, a secret society of the world’s most powerful, ambitious gentlemen. Always a sexy read and guaranteed happily ever after.



Theirs to Keep

Author : Maya Banks

Publisher :

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 39,70 MB

Release : 2013-10-09

Category : Abused women

ISBN : 9781492746621

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When Cade Walker and Merrick Sullivan find Elle hiding in the cabinet of a gun store, they know they can't just walk away from the fragile woman with no memory of who she is or who tried to kill her. Merrick is training for the title shot in the heavyweight division as a mixed martial artist and can't afford distractions, but neither can he turn his back on the woman who tugs at his heartstrings. Elle feels safe with her two protectors, and the longer she spends with them, the more she realizes that she has no desire to remember her past. Not when it could compromise her future with Cade and Merrick. Cade has his own set of issues when it comes to Elle, and it quickly becomes clear to the two men that for the first time in their friendship, a woman is coming between them. But what if they just kept her there? Between them. Where she belongs.



Going Broke

Author : Stuart Vyse

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 26,8 MB

Release : 2008-01-29

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 0198041942

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Over the last three decades, debt, bankruptcy, and home foreclosures have risen to epidemic levels. To make matters worse, the personal savings rate is at its lowest point since the Great Depression. Why, in the richest nation on earth, can't Americans hold on to our money? Winner of the prestigious William James Book Award for Believing in Magic and an authority on irrational behavior, Stuart Vyse offers a unique psychological perspective on the financial behavior of the many Americans today who find they cannot make ends meet, illuminating the causes of our wildly self-destructive spending habits. But unlike other authors, he doesn't entirely blame the victim. Bringing together fascinating studies of consumer behavior, he argues that the mountain of debt burying so many of us is the inevitable byproduct of America's turbo-charged economy and, in particular, of social and technological trends that undermine our self-control. Going Broke illuminates everything from the rise of the credit card, to the increase in state lotteries and casino gambling, to the expansion of new shopping opportunities provided by toll-free numbers, home shopping networks, big-box stores, and the Internet, revealing how vast changes in American society over the last 30 years have greatly complicated our relationship with money. Vyse concludes both with personal advice for the individual who wants to achieve greater financial stability and with pointed recommendations for economic and social change that will help promote the financial health of all Americans. Engagingly written, with startling insights into modern consumerism and with poignant human-interest stories of people facing financial failure, Going Broke offers a provocative new perspective on American economic behavior that is likely to stir controversy and serious debate.



Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath

Author : Helene Boudreau

Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 14,11 MB

Release : 2012-05-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 140226447X

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Normal is Never Coming Back Jade is totally confused. As in, "will this be a leg-day or a tail-day?" kind of confused. Even worse, it's been forever since her first kiss with Luke and now—nothing. Not even a text message. Sigh. But Jade doesn't have time to figure out the weirdness of boys and how to use her shiny new tail. (Seriously, being a mermaid should come with a handbook.) She has to come up with a plan to get her missing mermaid mom back on dry land. The only problem is...Jade is afraid of the ocean. But even aqua-phobic mer-girls have to take the plunge sometime... Praise for Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings: "Bravo to Hélène Boudreau for hitting the bull's-eye with a fresh, affectionate, watery twist on the classic coming-of-age-story."—New York Journal of Books "The author keeps suspense high...while tapping straight into young teens' angst about friends, enemies, and boys."—Kirkus Reviews



The Truths We Hold

Author : Kamala Harris

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 34,55 MB

Release : 2019-01-08

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0525560726

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The #1 New York Times bestseller From Vice President Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders, comes a book about the core truths that unite us and how best to act upon them. "A life story that genuinely entrances." —Los Angeles Times “An engaging read that provides insights into the influences of [Harris’s] life...Revealing and even endearing.” —San Francisco Chronicle The daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President Kamala Harris was raised in an Oakland, California, community that cared deeply about social justice. As she rose to prominence as one of the political leaders of our time, her experiences would become her guiding light as she grappled with an array of complex issues and learned to bring a voice to the voiceless. In The Truths We Hold, she reckons with the big challenges we face together. Drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, she communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values as we confront the great work of our day.







The Art of Gathering

Author : Priya Parker

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 37,17 MB

Release : 2020-04-14

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1594634939

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"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play. Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn't, and why. She investigates a wide array of gatherings--conferences, meetings, a courtroom, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp--and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience. The result is a book that's both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them.



Lies We Are Told, the Truth We Must Hold

Author : Sharon James

Publisher : Christian Focus

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 21,70 MB

Release : 2022-01-14

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9781527107960

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We are surrounded by lies. They are incorporated into the worldview of our culture. We daily absorb them, and these lies can have deadly effects on individuals, societies and whole civilisations. Sharon James investigates the origins of some of these lies and looks at how we have got to the point where 'my truth' is as valid as 'your truth', and absolute truth is an outdated way of thinking. In examining the evidence of history, she highlights the consequences of applying dangerous untruths. She also looks at how Christians often respond to the culture's lies -in silence, acquiescence or celebration of them - and why these responses can be as harmful as the lies themselves. In the second part she turns to the truth which leads to real liberation and justice. She shows why we don't need to be ashamed of Christ, or intimidated by the claims of those who are militantly opposed to the Bible. This book aims to equip Christians to navigate the minefield of current claims. To understand our inherent human significance, to know genuine freedom, and to work for real justice, we need to know the truth. Chapter headings include: Part One: The Lies We Are Told 1. There is no God and no Absolute Morality · Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72): God is Just a Comfort Blanket · Charles Darwin (1809-82): Made Atheism Intellectually Possible · Karl Marx (1818-83): Overthrow the Old Society · From Dream to Nightmare 2. 'No God': From Atheism to Death Camps · Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1908): No Transcendent Morality · Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): To be Human is to be Sexual · Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957): Father of the Sexual Revolution · Margaret Sanger (1879-1966): Sex as Salvation · Sexual Liberation: Triumph or Tragedy? 3. 'No Absolute Morality': From Relativism to Fatherlessness · Five Ways to Destabilize Society 4. 'No Universal Truth': The Death of Common Sense 5. 'No Universal Humanity': Divided We Fall 6. False Prophets: The Compromised Church Part Two: The Truth We Must Hold 7. The Biblical Worldview: Foundation of Truth,Freedom and Dignity · God the Creator · Created in His Image · We Are All Sinners · We Can All be Forgiven 8. The Biblical Worldview: Foundation of Human Flourishing · God's Good Design: Family · God's Good Design: Work · God's Good Design: Communities · God's Good Design: Nations 9. The Biblical Worldview: Christ is King - Hope for the Future 10. What Should I Do Now?



Dispossession

Author : Pete Daniel

Publisher : UNC Press Books

Page : 351 pages

File Size : 21,13 MB

Release : 2013-03-29

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1469602024

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Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure. More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this "passive nullification" consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.