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Torture porn, shock-for-shock’s sake, violence that doesn’t serve the plot, and characters you hate — what was going on in the 2000s in horror cinema? And why were audiences hungry for it? Millennial Nasties takes a critical but appreciative look at an oft-ignored subset of horror. This book dissects the English-language horror films of the 2000s and the cultural events they were responding to.

What to do when the male "escort" you hired to take your virginity turns out to be a jaded billionaire playing games with your body... and your heart? As a card-carrying Good Girl, I'm the last person anyone would expect to end up in a "Reverse Pretty Woman" situation... I'm the sweet, shy one, not the type to hire an escort to show her the ropes in the bedroom. I'm also not the type to lie to my family, sneak away to New York City for a week of no-holds-barred pleasure, or enjoy being told what a "good girl" I am when I get down on my knees for a gorgeous, commanding older man.

Ross Mathews (The Drew Barrymore Show y RuPaul’s Drag Race) y su esposo, el doctor Wellinthon García-Mathews, nos traen una historia conmovedora y entretenida sobre el amor y la familia, acerca de dos niños que viajan a México para ser los pajes encargados de los anillos en la boda de sus...

In the early '60s, in a seemingly more "innocent" time, a group of teenagers were lured into a supposedly haunted house. The place on Sycamore Lane has a morbid history, but that's just hearsay and rumor, isn't it?

Lucian Voss is the man who has made my life the pleasurable hell that it is. He sees everything. He hears everything. He wants me to submit, and no matter how hard I try, I can't deny the pull between us. He is relentless, intense, and obsessed. He is everything I should run from, but the only thing that I want. If I win, I get my freedom. If he wins, he gets me. This begs the question, do I really want my freedom, or do I want to submit?

The job was simple. Answer the phone, solve the single dad’s dilemma, and move on. I’m the temporary solution. The fill-in. The short-term Single Dad Hotline Helper until a more suitable one can be found. I don’t get attached, I don’t stick around, and I certainly don’t fall for the single dad. Until the job said, “Hold my beer,” and tipped my world upside down.

It’s been eight years. Eight years since I changed my name and ran from my duties. Falling for my sweet and spicy competitor certainly wasn’t what I expected. After all, it’s not like I can tell her my secret and risk everything I've built in my new life falling apart.

What to do when a bossy billionaire makes an aggressive bid to get you knocked up with his baby?Say no, and return to your perfectly normal, baby-free life. Or you could do what I did, sign the Bossy Jerk's illicit contract, and sell yourself into sexy servitude. Clearly, mistakes were made... Now I'm tangled up in a dizzying mixture of business and pleasure with Hunter Mendelssohn, the sexiest man to ever pull my hair while delivering multiple Os. This is supposed to be simple—He wants a very devoted, very pregnant fake fiancee to convince his dying mother their family line will live on.

Death rarely lingers… but this time, it pauses. When a young woman hovers on the edge of darkness, she encounters a shadow unlike any she could have foreseen—gentle yet unyielding, a figure with secrets woven deep within a veiled gaze. An unexpected reflection beside her, offering one of countless paths through sorrow, fractured memories, and a strange, elusive solace. As she steps into the depths of her own shadows, she glimpses a world stretching far beyond loss, a place where some find something close to peace while others stumble into something far from it.

I should've married my childhood best friend, but I chose another man. Now I'm a single mom, back in my hometown, trying to make ends meet, and my ex-bestie is my new boss. The moment our eyes meet, I know I'm the last woman on earth Nash McCreedy wants to see. Now we're forced to work together and face old memories I've avoided for years. Everywhere I look, he's there, and it doesn't help that he's the only man I've ever loved. I ignore him and the bubbling feelings for as long as I can, but fail.

The Power of Laughter: Simple Ways to Add Humor and Make Life Brighter offers fun-filled yet practical tips on how to inject humor into your home, office, family celebrations, therapy sessions or any environment that could stand to lighten up a bit. Author Lila Green advocates the rejuvenating power of humor, showing how humor helps us through difficult times and makes good times even better, enhancing our communication, relieving stress, and increasing work performance and productivity.

Heal and empower your family, even if your ex is exceptionally manipulative and you’ve felt hopeless for years Are you exhausted from the constant conflict with your narcissistic ex? Fed up with the emotional manipulation and anxious about its impact on your children? Do you ache for a healthy co-parenting relationship but feel it's impossible with a narcissist? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you're not alone. Many parents in similar situations feel isolated and overwhelmed, but there is hope.

Gordon's name was a joke. It was given to him by Anthony Zola, a controlling, and abusive father, to taunt his wife over her love of cheese, and the fact that she had been steadily gaining weight since their marriage. Andrea was a doting mother, and maybe a little overprotective of her boy, but she didn't see that as a bad thing. On discovering a secret, one the child had been told to keep to himself, everything changes. Now she must do whatever she needs to keep her, and her boy, alive. Needs must.

I fell for the boy next door, and then my father ripped it all away from us. The first person to catch my eye in a long time is a colleague who tells me what we just did over his desk will never happen again. Then my mother calls with news from back home. I have to head back to the small town my father forced me to leave seven years ago, knowing the boy I still love will show up, too. When I finally see him, it's clear we have unfinished business. But it doesn't matter. His life is in the Vegas spotlight now, where he plays pro football and goes home to his wife.

Christian McGuire is the last person I should be asking to boss me around in bed. Sure, he's a bonafide Sex God, but he's also my co-worker AND my shiny new brother-in-law. But after a few too many tequila shots one night, I shoot him a text, asking him to be my smut mentor. As soon as I sober up, I'm MORTIFIED, of course. I try to steal his cell phone and destroy the evidence, only to find I'm too late. Christian has already read my message.

On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp—an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan—herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest—the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn—has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook, to grow up wild.

For 17 years, I was the outcast of the Northwest Territory— the only wolf shifter who couldn’t shift or connect with the pack. Seen as worthless and weak. Leaving was my only escape. But everything changed the day I met Bodey, my sexy fated mate. With him by my side, magic surges through my veins, making me stronger than anyone. When marked queen, I wasn't ready for the throne...or the enemies brought with it.

If there's room in her heart for anything more than literature and controlling those around her—Renee hasn't allowed herself the chance to discover that possibility. Her life is perfectly in order until one fall weekend, when her world collides with possibility and the past, setting off a tidal wave of changes she could have never predicted.

All I wanted for so long was to remember the car crash that killed my mother. Like it might somehow chase away the guilt and grief that followed her death. But now I remember, and everything has changed. I should be relieved. Instead, I'm angry at the world. My mother. Father. And especially the boy who stole my heart and crushed it beneath his palm. Everyone warned me to stay away from Atlas Scott—the bad boy football star with a reputation for trouble. Maybe I should've listened. But our bond was seemingly unbreakable, forged in the fire of tragedy. Until it wasn't.

In diesem Single-Ratgeber der etwas anderen Art zeigen Lila Sauerschnig und Stefanie Scharaweger pointiert und warmherzig, wie ihre Leserinnen wieder bereit werden für die Liebe. Sie erfahren, wie sie mit Enttäuschungen, unerwiderter Liebe und der Single-Einsamkeit umgehen können. Vor allem aber führt ihr Weg zu einer erfüllenden Partnerschaft über Selbstakzeptanz und Verletzlichkeit, die echte Nähe erst möglich macht - man macht sich quasi "pudelnackert" für die Liebe.