The authors’ analyses of innovations in social and socio-emotional education contribute to systematizing distance learning to represent children’s and young people’s socio-emotional competences and to model how they can be developed. Low social capital and poor mental health, a key feature of the COVID-19 pandemic, are leading to an increasing number of suicides among youth and adolescents. These factors, reflecting the changing social-emotional feelings of children, adolescents and teache...

Do it.Don’t do it.Never in my life did I think I’d wager in my head whether to sleep with Chicago Grizzlies wide receiver, Damon Siska.He’s the perfect package—hot body, killer smile, and flirts like he earned a doctorate in it. But anyone who reads gossip blogs knows he is looking for one amazing night and nothing more.I’m not the usual type of woman he beds. I’m a middle school teacher who cherishes her quiet nights in, dr...

When Mum died, I inherited a lot more than a pack of lies.I landed a $410,000 debt.Discovered her previous surname.And her real place of birth.Desperate to uncover the truth, I drive to a tiny dot on the map called Deception Valley.Coincidental name? Nope.There, I find her secret family—because she had one of those too.How many lies are we at? Honestly, I’ve lost count, but local gossip captures my attention....

A night of sedation, stimulation, and scientific ruin—where your climax is the data.Lydia has a fantasy—one that only the Midnight Den can fulfil. She's a nurse with a medical play kink, and tonight, she's not just a willing patient… she's the subject of an experiment.Her assigned monster? A blue-skinned alien with glowing veins, vibrating anatomy, and a fascination with human pleasure. He speaks directly into her mind, controls her sensat...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Six brothersSix heartbreakersSix Den HollowsEssex Redd, the youngest of six brothers at the age of nineteen. My father was murdered four years ago, and we know who did it. What we don't know is why. Things get complicated when I fall in love with the killer's daughter. As the truth begins to unravel, I realize that Bea and my family are in more danger than anyone thought.My name is Beatrice Alexandria Lin...

The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glittering, yet precarious...Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the town's most notorious brothel, but now her existence depends on the affections of her patron: a man she might not know as well as she once thought.At night she dreams of the wolf den, still haunted by her past. Amara longs for the women she was forced to leave behind and worse, finds herself pursued by the man who once owned her. In order to be free, she will need ...

*ELODIE HARPER'S FIRST STANDALONE NOVEL, BOUDICCA'S DAUGHTER, OUT NOW*Shortlisted for Pageturner of the Year at the British Book AwardsA Waterstones Book of the MonthWinner of the 2022 Glass Bell Award'Vivid, wise and unflinching, this is a triumph' The Times'I loved it' Jennifer Saint'I couldn't put it down' Claire Douglas

*ELODIE HARPER'S FIRST STANDALONE NOVEL, BOUDICCA'S DAUGHTER, OUT NOW***The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller'Brutal yet beautiful, heartfelt yet harrowing, this is one compulsive read' Susan Stokes-Chapman**Amara has escaped her life as a slave in Pompeii's most notorious brothel. She now has a house, fine clothes, servants – but all are gifts from her patron, hers for as long as she keeps her place in his affections.As she adjusts to...

Still furious at the humiliation her former submissive brought to her, the former Mistress Stacy had only one thing on her mind...revenge. It took her months of planning, but she eventually devised the perfect plan to get even with her former submissive Michelle. The plan was simply...if she could not get at Michelle, she would get at those she loved. And thus a series of events were set in motion that would not only devastate Michelle, but ruin the lives of her parents Lori and Darren.

This collection contains all five parts of the Lion's Den series where domination and humiliation are the main themes.Starting her new job at the Lion's Den - a bdsm club her friend and lover got her a job at to help pay for college, Michelle is introduced to the pleasures and pains of being a submissive in training. From satisfying both men and women, to doing the most humiliating things she can imagine, Michelle handles it all with polite grace. And when she is finally invited to...

THE CURSE OF THE DRY LAND - HORROR SHORT STORY - BREDEVOORT VAN DEN BERGBeneath the vast, merciless silence of the Karoo, a broken family is about to awaken a ancient thirst. Johan and Lena’s life on their once-fertile farm is a portrait of despair, until a single, crimson drop of rain breaks upon the parched earth. From that moment, their world is twisted by forces both eerie and malevolent. Unexplained handprints stain the windows at night, children vanish without a trace, and th...

MOUNTAIN DREAM OF THE OLD TIMES - HISTORICAL FICTION DARK FANTASY STORY - BREDEVOORT VAN DEN BERGIn the shadow of the mountains, where the rock faces are as ancient as the world itself and the whistle of marmots marks the passing of days, a forgotten kingdom lies buried. This sweeping epic, rooted in the rich mythological traditions of the Alps, resurrects the oldest stories of the mountains and breathes new life into the legends that have haunted these peaks for millennia....