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Confidence & Self-Love Secrets is the ultimate guide on how to live a meaningful, fulfilling, and harmonious life. It’s a combination of four audiobooks, stacked one on top of the other. Each edition includes vital information on how to downplay the negative sides of excessive and unhealthy emotional reactions while building up your character and resolve in the process!

In this bold reimagining of the classic Grimm’s fairy tales, five iconic heroines—Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Mother Holle, and The Goose Girl—are given the chance to reclaim their stories. While the original tales remain intact, each is followed by a sharp, witty essay from the perspective of the so-called villains. From wicked stepmothers to jealous queens, these familiar antagonists finally get to speak for themselves—adding unexpected humor, insight, and a touch of irreverence to the timeless tales.

When 64-year-old Kay O'Brien hears her young Ojibwe neighbor, Shawna, scream out on the lake behind her house, she wants to help. Kay knows the girl's mother was killed years ago by a white man, but what she doesn’t know is that Shawna may soon be in trouble herself. At the same time, Kay and her son, Douglas, are both fighting ghosts of their own. Kay keeps her husband’s ashes on top of the TV and talks to him every day while drinking stiff Manhattans and trying to ignore the onset of Alzheimer’s.

Della Ralston is hosting her cousin Charlotte when she finds out a surprising fact - Charlotte is the mother of Tina, a young girl living at a nearby orphanage. Charlotte has kept the child a secret for many years and is set to be married to Joe Ralston, a man who does not know about this secret daughter. Della is quickly pulled into a plot to ensure that Charlotte is not separated from her daughter. When a series of circumstances ends with Charlotte and Tina moving into Della’s home, Della and Charlotte work to ensure that Tina has a chance at a good future.

In this harrowing narrative first published in 1682, the author tells the story of her capture and being held for ransom after an attack by Native Americans during an attack on Lancaster in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Exiled from the communion of the Tremere Pyramid, Antigone Baines sheds the robes of her novitiate like a second and ill-fitting skin. In their place, she dons the Widow's Weeds—the formal mourning clothes, symbol of her solitary vigil over the restless dead. Alone she must unravel the riddle of the Conventicle, discover the identity of the prince's would be assassin, and carve out her own place along the treacherous precipice between the worlds of the quick and the dead.

When architect Elena Santos inherits forty-seven acres in rural New Mexico from a great-aunt she never knew, she expects to find empty land and old foundations. Instead, she uncovers a devastating secret buried for over a century—and a love story that ended in flames. In 1890, two women—Josephine Marlowe and Clara Vance—built a sanctuary in the foothills of Sierra Blanca, a place where women in need could find safety, healing, and hope. For six years, they helped hundreds of people. Then, on Valentine's night 1896, three men burned it to the ground. Josephine died in the fire.

Mysterious happenings to a small handicapped boy in a little Somerset village, way back in the 1930s, suddenly repeat themselves in the 21st Century. At the first event the villagers kept quiet about what they thought was either hallucination, witchcraft or a little boy’s mischief. They suspected, quite rightly, that they wouldn’t be believed. However, silence turns out to be impossible in the present media and online culture, with the result that the lives of two families are disrupted and changed forever.

This book honors all the women who ride motorcycles and inspires others with rebel souls to do the same. Women Who Ride is a delightful compilation by, and for, women motorcycle riders, filled with true stories from both youngsters and those with a lifetime of riding experience.

Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, who can help her get home.

The Power of Concentration is a manifesto by William Walker Atkinson, originally published under the pseudonym Theron Q. Dumont. In this exploration of the powerful benefits of concentration, Atkinson posits that utilizing the power of concentration is how humans can unlock greater accomplishments. Atkinson asserts that by focusing all mental energy on the task at hand, humans are able to attract success into their lives.

This story is told as a series of journal entries from a woman who is on forced rest as a treatment for hysteria following the birth of her child. As was common in the time, she is forbidden from any work or "strenuous" tasks and is left to sit alone most of her days without mental stimulation, trapped in a room and a marriage that are not fulfilling her. The woman's isolation and mental state cause her to believe that there is a woman stuck in the wallpaper of her room.

In the fourth and final book in the Before Watson series, Sherlock Holmes and his companion and assistant, Dr. Poppy Stamford, embark on their greatest adventure yet. They are charged with solving not just one case, but three.

A drone mission gone awry just blew up one bride's special day, and she calls on celebrated war hero and justice-hungry lawyer Christine Sussman to bring the responsible parties to justice. But while court cases fought solely on US soil are tough, this international battle is near impossible to navigate. Especially when big oil spills into the mix.

For psychic Mira Morales, it begins when a crazed woman accosts a jogger and demands to know where she can find Mira. In a confrontation, the lunatic is killed by the jogger and turns to stone before she hits the ground. Mira reads the body and makes a startling discovery. The stone woman is from 2144, where the descendants of climate change survivors—Normals and White Crows—live in a giant dome. Crows represent nature’s rapid evolutionary leap to save humanity by endowing people with extraordinary abilities.

FBI Agent Angel Blondeaux is the focus of a man the press has labeled the Blindfold Killer. With each victim, she receives the call informing her where the dead body is to be found. The New Orleans Police have no choice but to enlist her help in his capture.

Robert and Janet Patterson and their young daughter, Krissy, went looking for the perfect getaway vacation spot. They found it in a backwoods Florida town. Far away from civilization. Quiet and peaceful. And terribly isolated. Robert and Janet should have listened to the local legends. They should have heeded the warnings about the blackwater lagoons. And they should have listened to their daughter when she told them about the whispers in the woods. Because now, it's too late. Krissy's disappeared, and whatever took their little girl is coming back for more....

Are ready to discover the best ways to improving your focus? Is it safe to say that you get irritated in light of the fact that you can’t seem to concentrate for long periods of time and are not keeping on top of things in your everyday life? You can't seem to get out of that hole of switching between various different things? The only way to get over this is to take that leap into learning how to solve your focus problems. This book is ideal for somebody wanting to learn the best ways of how to organize your life and get everything back to efficient, working order.

Gathered together for the very first time, these often hard to find tales include "Grass Dancer," a Nebula Award Nominee for best short story of the year. The collection includes the first four chapters of the forthcoming novel "Coyote Rage", the first book in a trilogy featuring shape-shifters, talking animals, giants, Little People and a horde of other critters and people from Native American history and folklore.

Approaching the end of her life, Alice Mayes, notorious caretaker of the anomaly known as The Garden of Sunray, is eager to tie up one last loose end before moving on. The last loose end. For decades, she’s been dreaming of finding someone to share her secret with, someone worthy of her truth, and in 20-year-old Emily Newell, she thinks she finally has. On a momentous stroll through her massive garden with her young friend, Alice delves back into the past, back to those five horrific, mind-bending days in the summer of 1944, when she was 16.