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Parenthood doesn’t begin at birth—it starts the moment you learn you’re expecting. From the first flutter of excitement to the sleepless nights preparing for your baby’s arrival, the journey is full of challenges, emotions, and incredible growth. That’s why Parenting Starts Now is the ultimate guide to help you navigate every step of this life-changing adventure, no matter where you are—whether in the U.S., the U.K., or beyond.

Acting jobs don't grow on fire escapes, so struggling actress Esther Diamond is outraged when her guest role as a hooker on controversial TV drama The Dirty Thirty is jeopardized by zombies, angry spirits, and a voodoo curse. Meanwhile, the talented teens Esther is coaching at a Harlem cultural center are also being attacked by the sinister supernatural power that's spreading through Manhattan.

I tried to make each prayer, poem, or inspirational story stand on its own merit. However, you may find that some are interconnected. How appropriate, since we are all interconnected with each other through God.

This is an autobiography of my last years of high school. It is about young innocent love, fun times, breakups, and betrayal. It does have some throwbacks to younger me....

Run to Freedom is the first of a trilogy set on an 18th century Jamaican plantation. Thirteen-year-old Kofi is an enslaved African who works in the pickney gang on McDermott Plantation. His father Kwame secretly trains him in tribal knowledge and hunting skills, and embeds the urge to escape the plantation in Kofi's psyche.

After losing her grandmother, Tori distances herself from everyone she knows and falls into a deep depression while losing control of her life. With the gift of being able to visit heaven and the guidance of her nanny, she is able to get back on track with her life and even find love.

Nadine's family waits for her to awaken after destroying her nemesis. They wait in fear because they are unsure which Nadine they will find when she wakes, the Nadine they had come to know or the old wild child they all dreaded. They are worried because Nadine has some of her memories back. Meanwhile, Nadine's friends and family in the Real have no idea what has happened to her. All they know is Nadine is in a coma and it is a mystery if she will ever wake up.

Meet Lara Dominguez—a troubled Creighton cops reporter obsessed with the city's debonair vigilante—The Black Ghost. With the help of a mysterious cyber-informant named LONE, Lara's inched closer to uncovering the Ghost's identity. But as she searched for the breakthrough story she desperately needs, Lara will have to navigate the corruption of her city, the uncertainties of virtue, and her own personal demons. Will she have the strength to be part of the solution—or will she become the problem?

As Lara Dominguez settles into her new role as the Black Ghost—the corrupt city of Creighton's last defense—she finds herself face to face with a monster borne out of the city's own dark past. Can she handle her new foe while trying to balance her own shaky personal and professional lives?

In 1917, Madeline Fairbanks is an herbalist healer devoted to the people of Jamesville, a dying town in the Southern Appalachians. Renetta Morgan—with whom it is taboo to fraternize because of race—is her apprentice. Maddie’s precocious granddaughter, Hannah Tillman, is mesmerized by an ancestral box in Maddie’s possession that contains hints of a mystical heritage.

Ember has spent the last 20 years of her life in a dance with the devil. Derek is a broken and narcissistic man, but Ember wants nothing more than to make things work with him.

Loki likes sending unauthorized visitors to Midgard back to their home realms. Or he once had. Now it no longer feels like retribution, but a chore. Can’t he sit back, drink his coffee, and run his businesses? Why must Bronwyn call him yet again? All to check out alleged poltergeist activity centering around a lowly janitor at the mall, no less. What does he look like? A security guard? But the temperature is about to drop as Loki discovers the truth.

A generation after a nerve agent decimated the planet, legendary Barbara Hanson's children, Summer and Amon, attempt to discover the dark secrets of the past. Tall tales and gossip have destroyed their mother's credibility and it's up to them to make it right. But, will they be banished for their curiosity? A quote from the Old Testament may hold the key.

The ongoing battle between star quarterback Quentin Barnes and team owner Gredok the Splithead is coming to a head. Endless threats and promises of ultraviolence hang on their every word. With sentients of several groups trying to manipulate or kill him, Quentin must chart a new course if he is to survive and overcome his injury to once again lead his beloved Krakens into battle.

Frankie Alvarez has built a life for herself in Fortune Bay, has a good job teaching at the high school and a bungalow on the lake. Although she hasn't spoken to her father in three years, every month he sends her a check. And every month she rips it up.

N65 was designed to give the US and its allies the upper hand by decimating its enemies' young and intelligent citizens, leaving only those with fewer neurons—the elderly, the limited, the psychotic—behind. They didn't count on the gas affecting the entire planet. Or that the Earth itself would revolt. Will those that remain be able to survive the New World? Or will civilization come to an end?

If you are in the throes of a battle, don't surrender your hope. Encourage yourself in the Lord, and say "I can, and I will do all things through Christ who strengthens me." God has great plans for you. The moment has come to go through till you break through so you can be through. Let this be your battle cry—I can, and I will—and then tunnel through to victory!"

Set against the backdrop of a professional American football franchise seven centuries in the future, the Galactic Football League puts huge humans on the field with five alien races to create a game that is faster, stronger and deadlier than anything we know today. Quarterback Quentin Barnes has grown from a racist, small-town standout into a proven leader, a uniter of peoples, and the Galaxy’s most-famous being. Willing to do anything for his team, his Ionath Krakens have bound together through shared sacrifice, tragedy, devastating losses and thrilling victories.

In her debut work, Dawn Washington vulnerably chronicles the dark nights of fumbling through faith to the beautiful radiance of finding faith. From losing her mom to cancer at 15 years old to the kind of public failures that would make anyone want to run and hide, Dawn brings you to the sofa of life to have an honest conversation about faith. In The Breaking of Dawn, Dawn helps you identify the context clues in the paragraphs of your life that were designed to reveal, reflect, and ultimately reassure you of the light and love of God.

For the animals and plants of the Arizona desert, every day is about staying alive. But it’s all the other stuff—desire, fidelity, hope, envy, grief, betrayal—that bridges the gap between science and fiction, and highlights the interconnectedness of the human and natural worlds. A wealthy Gila monster suffers from halitosis. A young peccary chooses a side in war. A rattlesnake upends the historic enmity between serpent and man. A subterranean termite princess comes home. These and dozens more characters run, hop, slither, and fly through captivating storylines.