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In 16 remarkable stories, the award-winning author of Elizabeth's Field and other books captures the flavor of Maryland's Eastern Shore. While her characters are tied to the reality of the moment, their stories are about the secret life of the heart's yearning.

This is an audiobook of real stories about real kids. Kids who took their own lives because they thought it was their only way out of a hopeless situation. It is about the tragic choices they made in an effort to end the pain - when they believed there was no other solution. It is told by mothers who are willing to share their own personal pain as they watched their children suffer and struggle. It is about their own efforts to advocate for their children while they continue to deal with their own devastating loss and the aftermath of bullycide.

In the post-apocalyptic ruins of North America lies The Silo, part of the Utopian Nation that is founded upon peace and comfort. It is a society that has removed love, power, and greed, elements of humanity that have caused the most destruction throughout history. Lysa has always longed for freedom outside the gates of The Silo, and has long been suspicious that it is not the peaceful place that it claims to be. When she witnesses a secret, heinous act of violence against another citizen, she can no longer ignore her suspicions.

I have a few questions for you. Are you miserable at work every day? What are you getting out of your job? Have you seen promotion opportunities open for you? Do you have good relationships with coworkers? How often are you stressed out, even after you get home? Does feedback from your boss make you feel proud or frustrated? I fully understand those frustrations, and, having been through all of them and more, I want to help. By sharing the principles I’ve learned in customer support roles, hopefully I can cut your learning curve and increase job satisfaction.

This book will enlighten you to the many possibilities of love. It will open the doors of understanding about love and loving back all over again. It has bonus topics about dating and how to make dating more exciting and fun. Unique places to spend your dates, not too expensive, not the usual date, less serious but more on fun activities and more time to get to know each other.

When Elvis Presley decided he wanted to buy a horse in 1966, he didn't want just any horse. "He wanted a Golden Palomino," Priscilla Presley remembers. "He would get up at 3:00 in the morning, go to certain farms and ranches and say, 'Do you have a Golden Palomino for sale?' People would say, 'That was Elvis Presley!'" Elvis's legendary love of horses drove him to find the golden palomino that would become his beloved companion, Rising Sun.

She's never taught a class in her life. But when the City of Chicago calls on blind writer Beth Finke to teach a memoir-writing class for older adults, she reluctantly agrees. What she learns about her students, their stories, and herself will move and inspire you. Written the way Beth hears life, you will come to know and love Minerva, Wanda, Hannelore, and the whole colorful cast of characters who build a community around Beth's classes. Generously sprinkled with excerpts in her students' own voices, Beth's book will convince you to get your own stories down on paper.

Mr. Millionaire and his wife met me at Boca Raton airport in Florida. As they approached, I wondered whether to shake their hands, as we do in Kenya, or hug them like students did on campus. No problem! The take-charge benefactor approached, his broad smile fixed on me. "Hello, Wanjiru!" He relieved me of my luggage and, with a wave of his right hand, presented his wife. She stretched her wrinkled skinny hand while she maintained eye contact. I shook her soft hand and said how nice it was to meet her.

Gifted empath and security expert Landon Love has spent a lifetime trying to keep everyone at arm's length, never wanting to know what people personally think about him. His gift of sensing emotions isn't one he'd wish on anyone...ever. Beautician Alexis Love has been called many things by her family. Mother Nature on crack is the most accurate, thanks to her unusual DNA. The weather and the vibrations of the earth are her playground.

True crime novelist Scarlett Denton has met her fair share of seedy criminals locked away behind bars. When the elusive crime boss Salvatore summons her to write his story, she thinks this might finally be her big break. Salvatore is a mastermind at avoiding jail time, and she is about to be told exactly how he's able to stay free. When he drops the bombshell at their interview that his isn't the story she's going to write, Scarlett decides it's high time to put the crime boss in his place.

Lucy Abbott has experienced enough death to last a lifetime. When she marries a man who helps her through a tough time, she thinks their marriage is forever. There's only one problem - his idea of forever doesn't include a life with her. When she overhears his plan to kill her on their honeymoon, she does what any sane person would do. She changes her identity and runs for her life. On the run and out of money, Lucy gets a job and hides out in the last place her husband would ever look, Love Island.

Ex-Marine Cole Buchanan has seen his fair share of hate and ugliness in the world. He's experienced it up close and personal. When a move to Love Island sets him on a new path as the fire chief, he's all too happy to leave his troubles behind. He's got it all - a beautiful house and a job he enjoys, fighting evil in a whole new way, one flame at a time.

Gifted empath and security expert Landon Love has spent a lifetime trying to keep everyone at arm's length, never wanting to know what people personally think about him. His gift of sensing emotions isn't one he'd wish on anyone.

Reed Love is more than a computer genius and hacker extraordinaire thanks to his DNA. He has a love-hate relationship with the invisible pop-up boxes that appear around everyone he meets and the ease with which he can access that data. Pictures, financial data, passwords, it doesn't matter what the information or how deep in the web strangers try to disguise it. Reed has access, and these boxes dance in front of him, enticing him to look.

Flynn Love knows a thing or two about women. When he loses a bet to his buddy and is forced to play tour guide and babysitter to the man's little sister, he's warned she can be a handful and is always attracted to losers. Flynn has one job: show her around her new home on Love Island and scare away the creeps while winning her over with his charm. Should be a piece of cake, right? Wrong. He's stunned to find out the woman he's to spend time with turns out to be sex in spiked heels with an even sharper tongue.

Archaeologist Berit Katsaros travels the world in search of treasures from ancient times. A serious injury forces her to take a break from fieldwork and accept an interim teaching job at Whitman College. She finds nothing redeeming in her frustrating sabbatical, except her sexy landlord, Tace. When Stacy "Tace" Lomond takes charge of her brother's failing microbrewery, she discovers a passion and talent she never realized she possessed.

Sherriff Declan Love is a straight arrow. Everything is black and white in his line of work. Using his ability of a human lie detector to catch criminals has made his professional life a piece of cake. He was born to protect all of the citizens on the island. So naturally when his sister's best friend, Olivia Parks, starts to avoid his questions and is seen around town on dates with men he doesn't know, he's left with little option but to find out what she's up to, if nothing more than to save her from the heartache sure to follow.

Strong bonds tie FBI Agent Lexi Carrington to her two best friends. When one of them goes missing while working undercover on a case involving Hathaway Enterprises, Lexi is determined to do whatever it takes to find her. She'll finish solving the case Catherine was working on and capture the parasite responsible for her disappearance, even if that means repositioning herself back into the high society she spent a lifetime renouncing.

Shop owner Skylar Love and her family have lived on the same island her ancestors discovered several centuries ago. Her life isn't perfect, but it's hers. After dumping her lying, cheating boyfriend, she isn't surprised when her brother tries to bribe their best friend to take her out on a pity date. When she finally agrees, her life turns on a dime.

Collin Martin is adored by many and loved by all. Not only handsome and sexy, he's a self-made millionaire with a heart of gold. Every woman's dream. When Collin's ex-girlfriends become targets of a killer, and he's the common denominator, he's left with little choice. He needs the help of professionals to figure out who's behind the killings to stop them before anyone else gets hurt.