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"In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls-from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Overthe Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought-whether you're constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you're likely...
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Jennifer Lyell hates her job, hates her apartment, hates her boyfriend, hates her life, and the scary thing is, she's gotten used to it. Why isn't she more excited about her recent promotion to Assistant Articles Editor at Today's Woman magazine? Her boss Jane makes up questions for the "Smart Girls" advice column, her best friend Christine tries to convince the Fashion Director to use real women instead of 16 year-old models, and Jenny wonders how...
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Based on the legend of Saint Sara, who with Mary Magdalene arrived at the shores of the French Riviera after Christ crucifixion, "The Valley of Silent People" is an allegory about gaining faith and trust that even the most unexpected and radical discovery has no power to overcome. Though unrecognized as a saint by the Catholic Church, Saint Sara remains one in the hearts of people, especially Roms, who designate her as their patron. Controversy still...
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Jessica Weaver's life was perfect. Her handsome, gregarious husband, a public relations consultant, made a good salary and provided her with a lifestyle to be envied. However, when Daniel goes away on a business trip and doesn't return, Jessica, whose world revolved around her husband of five years and their marriage, has to rebuild her life and recover her self worth. Along the way, she discovers values that help her in her struggle to become whole.The...
5) The Present
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It's been a month, and Annabelle is trying to pick herself up after a breakup. Cole and Zoey are figuring out how to adapt to life that will no longer be just the two of them. Austin is growing into his own and learning from his past mistakes. Willow is relearning who she is after her life crumbled down around her, and Liam is back in England with his family picking up the pieces he left behind when he left home years ago.
6) Home Soon
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After Franklin Marshall's death, Carolyn discovered that her controlling husband had been cheating on her. In addition, his lies turned their three grown sons against her. Alone, and with the help of friends, Carolyn slowly learns to live her own life.For the first year, Carolyn begins to discover who she is and what she likes. Between work and friends, she spends her time cleaning out the house that she has lived in for most of her life. She has...
7) Ever. After
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Ever Falk's life growing up at her families resort hotel in the Catskills,and in Westchester, New York never prepared her for the fight of herlife. We follow 40-something year old Ever when she suffers astroke and she is forced to look at her life, loves, and familythrough different eyes.Ever's compelling narrative voice sweeps us along on her journeyas she desperately tries to hold on to life, faith and her dreams.
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This collection of poetry contains 40 poems that all are set to the theme of light and darkness. Some poems are exclusively uplifting and resonate beauty, while others are exclusively unsettling, evoking some darkness within them. Still, other poems combine the two, light and dark, to play back and forth on beauty and the unknown.
9) Unskilled
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A day in grocery retail is like a box of chocolates. You never know what situation you're going to be thrown into.
At least that's how Lennox, the neighborhood grocery employee describes it. Throughout her career, she finds herself caught between corporate politics, demanding customers, and situations that are too bizarre to be made up. She navigates through celebrity sightings,unruly customers, and is faced with becoming essential during a global...
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Molly Miranda makes very good money doing very bad things. (I only steal stuff from rich people. Mostly. Calm down.) Jewels, art, historical artifacts-nothing is safe when this professional thief is on the job. (That makes it sound so sinister.) Lying to everyone you love is second nature when you work in that particular industry. The truth, however, becomes a little harder to hide when she falls into bed with her roommate/crush. Avoiding dealing...
11) If Only I Could
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What if you had just learned that your days are about to come to an end?Would you quietly accept your destiny, or would you fight this one final battle?What if the vanished love of your life had crossed your path once more?Would you let that love slip away once again, or would you embrace that elusive joy, even if only for a while?And what if the demons of your past disturb the delicate reconciliation you thought you had found?These are the questions...
12) Candy
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Jeff Flanders has a perfectly good life. Until Candace Cain sashays into it and turns it upside-down. Jeff's got a good-looking wife; he loves her and she loves him. He's got a job, swinging a desk at a semi-shady finance company, signing off on usurious loans to losers; he doesn't love it and it doesn't love him, but it's easy work and it pays the bills. Until a girl called Candy applies for a $1000 loan-with no job, no bank account, no security....
13) Maureen
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Extraordinary life changes are in store for Maureen Gardner when she responds to a help-wanted ad. A professional woman, victim of a double betrayal, Maureen is more than ready for a change. She moves to eastern Washington where rancher John Cahill, mourning his wife's recent death, is desperate for someone to care for his seven-year-old daughter and oversee his household. Will destiny carve a path through pain and disappointment?
14) Women Dreaming
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Mehar dreams of freedom and a life with her children. Asiya dreams of her daughter's happiness. Sajida dreams of becoming a doctor. Subaida dreams of the day when her family will become free of woes. Parveen dreams of a little independence, a little space for herself in the world. Mothers, daughters, aunts, sisters, neighbours… In this tiny Muslim village in Tamil Nadu, the lives of these women are sustained by the faith they have in themselves,...
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Sometimes the only way to find true happiness is to go back home.
Ophelia Simmons is back home at the Paradise-the former brothel where her mom raised her and six sisters-contemplating her next career move and dodging Great Aunt Bernie's matchmaking attempts. She is about to meet her match in Jake Brennan, the ruggedly handsome owner of a local winery where Aunt Bernie convinces her to take a job for the summer. At first Ophelia and Jake's personalities...
16) From This Moment
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The last thing Rona Jameson expected was the scorching connection she feels to Cade Matthews. At twenty-four, Rona is embarking on what should have been her honeymoon to Jackson Hole, Wyoming…alone. Having just gotten out of one relationship, she's hesitant to jump into another. But there's something about the forty-five year old single father of three that calls to her.Cade knows it would be best to steer clear of Rona, but he can't deny the chemistry...
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This is a steamy romance short story (word count 4,468).Beth feels apprehensive when Matthew Wayland her charismatic boss asks her as a favour to accompany him to a grand gala ball as his plus one. Beth did expect perhaps a little drama at the gala party, but even she had not foreseen the eventful night changing the dynamics of her relationship with Matthew so that by the next morning after a night filled with passion there will be no going back...
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Love should not hurt. Caroline has been married once before, and is wary of another error of judgment in the wedded bliss stakes. She is introduced by well meaning friends to a charming, handsome foreigner, who, for reasons best known to himself, is determined to make her his wife in as short a time as possible. A probable cause of this haste is that if she really got to know him well before he slipped the ring on her finger, she would not have him...
19) Faith Departed
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Starting a family was supposed to be easy. Twin sisters June and July have never encountered an obstacle they couldn't overcome. Married just after graduating college, the girls and their husbands remained a close-knit group. Now settled and successful, the next logical step is children.But as the couples struggle to conceive, each must reconcile the goodness of God with their present suffering. Will their faith be strong enough to triumph in the...
20) Hunk for Hire
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This is a romance short story (word count 4,297).Emma is furious with her best friend Deborah when she buys her a date with the very attractive Aaron Davidson, despite her warning to her that she wants nothing to do with dating and most importantly men!However, Emma might just find herself eating her words when Aaron whisks her off her feet and organises the most wonderful date that she has ever been on.
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