Ellen Webster, professor of history, can't help but fantasize about her next-door neighbor Kate Fosterafter all, she sees her on the evening news every night.Sexy and smart, Kate is Ellen's dream girl, but the dynamic TV newscaster doesn't know Ellen exists. Struggling with self-doubt and low self-esteem, Ellen can only watch the parade of beautiful women Kate brings home. But a rainy night and near tragedy change everything when Kate is involved in an automobile accident and turns...

Your trusted guide to surgical weight-lossSixty percent of individuals over the age of 20—or 58 million people in the U.S.—are overweight. As the obesity epidemic continues to grow, many Americans are researching the benefits and complications of weight-loss surgeries. Weight Loss Surgery For Dummies, 2nd edition is the most up-to-date and authoritative guide to understanding the impact of surgical weight-loss before, during, and after surgery.Weight-loss s...

A sweeping saga of an impassioned romance set amidst the upheaval of a nation under siege and a way of life threatened with destruction.The American Civil War creates enemies of lifelong friends and allies of strangers, but no relationship is more unlikely than that of a passionate Northern Unionist and a loyal Virginia sympathizer. Actress and Northerner Jordan Colfax is hired by Allan Pinkerton to spy on behalf of the Union. When she meets Confederate sympathizer, Laura St. Clair...

Momma, you are not alone.But we know sometimes it feels like you are. You love your family dearly, but you are tired. You have questions in your heart and a weariness in your soul. It's in the midnight moments of motherhood that you need to know, more than anything, that God is with you, no matter what.In Tonight We Pray for the Momma, bestselling authors and mother-daughter team Becky Thompson and Susan K. Pitts offer encouragement and hope for th...

USA TODAY AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • A yearlong book of prayers to bring nightly hope and a sense of connection to mothers who feel alone, from the mother-daughter team behind the Midnight Mom Devotional Facebook pageThere is something about a quiet house in the midnight hours that causes stress and anxious thoughts that have been ignored throughout the day to rise to the surface of a mother’s heart. When the world goes still around you, i...

The Whens of Wick:Wick knows he's old. It's his memory that upsets him. Hovering somewhere around 120 years old, he's forgotten large chunks of his life, and Wick wants to know where he came from and how he began.He recalls an important detail: a boy named Tad who had fed and cared for him when he was struggling to survive on his own. With few details to go on—a U.S. President hung in effigy and men lighting suckers on fire—Will thinks he knows the first When to vi...

When faced with total exposure, women react in ways as diverse as their bodies. Some are concerned about their reputation, others about their perceived physical flaws. Some are angry, and some are aroused. It's that moment of exposure and the explosive feelings that it provokes that inspired the tales in this collection. Naked Truths is an anthology of five kinky and juicy ENF stories that really dig into the emotions of stripped women and the people who see them."Thus an Actress B...

Hyrum Munson spent two years walking across Florida and Midlam for one reason: to deliver a message to his sister, the Queen of Pacifica: Daddy wants to kill Red and the Prince. He has no way of knowing that the war has been over nearly as long as he's been walking, or that Levi is long dead; he certainly has no way of knowing that his oldest brother is losing control over Florida's governing Quorum and nuclear war is looming. Hyrum, an eight-year-old boy stuffed into the body of ...

Rhys Blackshear is surely his father's son: they share many of the same gifts, and Rhys not only resembles him strongly, but has his physical strength and intellectual prowess. At fifteen, he's insatiably curious and more than anything wants to find a way to bring the simulated citizens of Saint Francis out into the real world—a desire that counters laws forbidding advanced artificial intelligence.Hyrum, his uncle and best friend, just wants Rhys to be happy. On a mopey day, he convin...

This is the combined edition of the Wick After Dark two-book series that follows The Wick Chronicles.The Space Between Whens:Fresh from a time-travel date gone very wrong, Wick reminds the Emperor: the woman he was currently holding hands with had warned him—if she survived the battle with wizards and elves, she was murdering his virginity. Time to pay up, dude. And while Wick prefers to ignore the intimacies in human relationships, he isn't sure Will can h...

In Space, no one can hear you breathe...These stories are tasty snack bites of Wick's world, starting with a quiet telling of Hyrum's typical day, Rhys's discovery of a gift that arrives wrapped in time, building to Drew's pulse-pounding, hold-your-breath inaugural visit to Elysium. The world is no longer bound to the history of the Emperor's When, and he's tempted—very tempted—to stick his finger into time's pot…and stir.

Sky Angel is a collection of letters and poetry written by GK Thompson to a dear friend, after reconnecting after many years apart.