"You're underqualified to bag groceries." Make that make sense, but it's a true statement.America has never had a 100% employment rate, but it is a lie to believe that the unemployment rate is less than 10%, let alone less than 4%. Join me as we take a closer look at how difficult life is becoming for the average working American. Quality jobs are hard to find, and for those of you struggling to attain work, you're not alone.This book covers it all and then...

Edgy, provocative, and wonderfully imaginative, My Life: The Last Photo tells a story of armored blades and trickled swords, bullies and heroes, the strong and the weak, friends and enemies, and the incredible power of good over evil. Friends Ami Naming and Hyki Momoshe band together to create an unstoppable force and recruit others to their cause. They fight metal robots and ominous shadows, create waves of energy, harness their powers, and prepare for continuous battle with dark...

Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios. Listen as the voices of Idris Elba, Blair Underwood, Taraji P. Henson, ...

A Haitian American woman survives a brutal kidnapping in this "commanding debut novel" from the New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist ( The New Yorker).Author and essayist Roxane Gay is celebrated for her incisive commentary on identity and culture, as well as for her bestselling nonfiction and short story collections. Now, with An Untamed State, she delivers a "breathtaking debut novel" ( The Guardian, UK) o...

The ice will melt between them...in one hot night.When Rachel returns to her hometown for the Christmas holiday, she doesn't expect to be stranded alone in an ice storm with David Harris. David is her brother's best friend, and she's known him all her life. She lost her virginity to him. And he's the one man she can never forgive.Despite all the reasons she has not to trust him, she finds herself falling for him again. It doesn't matter how irresistible she still f...

Imagine a tiny little girl, no bigger than the size of a thumb! Now imagine how strange and scary the world must seem to her. Thumbelina is snatched from her home by a toad, who wished to marry her off to his son. But this is not the end of her misfortune; upon her adventures she meets beetles, a catfish, a butterfly, a mouse, a bird and many others.Some of the animals are kind and friendly, while others are decidedly less so. What will happen to poor tiny Thumbelina? Will she ever...

She survived the apocalypse. Now can she have survive the man she loves?Theda wakes in the hospital, rescued from certain martyrdom by a bargain made by Ezekiel to save her life. Unfortunately, that bargain means she is slated to be re-educated in one of The Beast's sanatoriums.Behind its doors, some of the most heinous atrocities are committed on its residents in an attempt to dampen the divine spark within. Now, it's Theda who is in the crosshairs of the ...

Another gem from the Japanese maestro of storytelling Kenji Miyazawa. Gauche plays the cello in the town orchestra, but he needs to do a lot better if he wants to keep his place. He realizes he is going to have to practice every spare moment if he is going to improve in time for the big concert. But will that be enough? Just when he is getting into his rhythm a visitor drops in - and then another. This beautiful short story (around 5,000 words) by Kenji Miyazawa explores themes of passion ...

Book 1 in the Carried Away series.A passionate erotic romance perfect for fans of Sylvia Day.“Mr. Taureau, is there anything I can do for you?”For years, the Taureau-Werner building has been Grace's playground. Hot men in suits have provided her with one sinful diversion after another without ever having to leave the thirteenth floor.Grace thinks her secret indulgences are safe, until one late night alone in the office, a call comes through from billionaire ...

Because of a quirk of history during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, present-day America is rigidly divided between people who live and work during the hours of darkness—Smudges—and those known as Rays, who populate the day. A group of Smudges called the Noma live on the fringes of society in loose tribes, preying on Smudges and Rays alike. Gigi is a ruthless Noma, but in this prequel companion story to Plus One, she is ordered to abduct a cell phone hacker named Ciel Le Coeur and reveal...

Mia Ingalls, artist for a travel magazine and approaching retirement, revives an old passion–writing mystery novels. New to the Internet, she quickly discovers chat rooms and happily forms an anonymous relationship with another writer wannabe. For two years they enjoy sharing ideas and challenging each other in a writing game, but the fun ended the day she shared her idea for the perfect murder. Her young and obnoxious boss was nearly killed by her brilliant plot making Mia the prime suspe...

On the desert planet Cydonia, Lune, a naturalist and explorer, is assigned a new trainee. The young Rider is supposed to follow him everywhere to learn the skills of his trade.Lune would gladly be spared the trouble, especially when informed that the boy has been formerly apprenticed to a vicious and abusive Rider, and likely to be difficult and traumatized. But when Laz'law, a stunningly beautiful, fiercely touchy creature enters his life, Lune has no choice other than to employ h...