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The birth of your firstborn child is supposed to be the best day of your life, a joyous occasion. Well that's what twenty-eight year old Ava Jacobson thought. That is until her life takes a drastic turn for the worse and her daughter is born three months earlier than planned, weighing only two pounds, two ounces. A distraught Ava is thrown into the deep end of motherhood and instead of being able to hold her baby like other moms, she has to sit back and watch her daughter fight for her life in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, while her fiance, Sebastian Gilbert is in the midst of a messy war in Afghanistan. Ava is left to pick up the pieces with the help of her only friend, Caleb...
Nature-Based Solutions and Water Security: An Action Agenda for the 21st Century presents an action agenda for natural infrastructure on topics of standards and principles, technical evaluation and design tools, capacity building and innovative finance. Chapters introduce the topic and concepts of natural infrastructure, or nature-based solutions (NBS) and water security, with important background on the urgency of the global water crisis and the role that NBS can, and should play, in addressing this crisis. Sections also present the community of practice's collective thinking on a prioritized action agenda to guide more rapid progress in mainstreaming NBS. With contributions from global aut...
What happens when you meet your soul mate, but he’s married? You have to walk away. Kaelyn and Chase never expected to see each other again, but months later, Kaelyn’s eyes find Chase’s across the sports bar. This time, there’s no wedding ring in sight. Though he might appear to be single, the darkness and sadness surrounding him mean that he’s still just as unobtainable as before, and they are forced to go their separate ways for the second time. However, fate keeps bringing them together, and with a connection that’s too hard to ignore, Chase eventually lets Kaelyn in—but only as a friend. It’s not long before lines begin to blur, and their friendship quickly turns into something more, something explosive. Forever is within reach, but are they able to latch on to their happily ever after, or will they let it slip away? Warning: Recommended for ages 18+ due to subject matters of drugs, explicit language and sexual situations. **This can be read as a stand-alone**
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When you fall in love with your best friend, it’s supposed to last forever. Jo Donovan was a true believer of happily ever afters—until her best friend, Christopher, was killed in Afghanistan. Destroying her. Destroying her world. Five years later… Jo finds herself still stuck in the past, unable to find closure. When she moves to Austin, Texas, with her son, she finally finds the fresh start she’s been desperately seeking. What she doesn’t know is that the fresh start comes in the form of her sexy neighbor, Drew Greyson. Their friendship starts off rocky, but eventually, a spark between them ignites. It isn’t long before their attraction turns into something explosive and unexpected. Drew wants to be her everything, her forever, but will Jo’s loss and grief stop her from following her heart? Warning: Recommended for ages 18+ due to explicit language and sexual situations. **A stand-alone spin-off from the Look After You series**
It wasn’t supposed to happen yet... ...it was too early. The birth of Ava’s firstborn child should have been the best day of her life. Instead, she has to sit back and watch her daughter fight for every breath she takes, while her fiancé fights for his country in Afghanistan. As her vulnerability hits an all-time low, she finds comfort in a pair of intense, green eyes. Eyes that belong to her daughter’s doctor… Dr. Ashton Bailey. She tries to ignore the way her heartbeat quickens each time Ashton is in the same vicinity. She’s engaged to be married to another man...he shouldn’t be making her pulse race. But when the pull between the two is so strong, will it be impossible for her to stay away? As Ava battles with her feelings, she’s convinced things can’t get any worse...until a shocking revelation blindsides her and threatens to bring her down once and for all. Ashton’s job is to save the lives of tiny babies but can he save Ava...when nobody else can? Warning: Recommended for ages 18+ due to heavy subject matters, explicit language and sexual situations.
When 32-year-old Elena Ricci wakes up in the hospital, the last thing she recalls is walking home from work the night before. Except the night before turns out to be eight years ago and Elena has no memory of the time she’s lost. Family feuds, breakups, and sexual awakenings—all forgotten. For Keelin Jax, Elena’s wife, the long nightmare only continues upon Elena’s awakening when Keelin becomes a platonic roommate overnight. While Elena struggles to adjust to her new present and find the life she left behind, someone from Elena’s past finds a way to seize the opportunity after years of silence.
Elena Gorokhova’s A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by. Elena’s country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and its pride. Born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, Elena finds her passion in the complexity of the English language—but in the Soviet Union of the 1960s such a passion verges on the subversive. Elena is controlled by the state the same way she is controlled by her mother, a mirror image of her motherland: overbearing, protective, difficult to leave. In the battle between a strong-willed daughter and her authoritarian mother, the daughter, in the end, must break free and leave in order to survive. Through Elena’s captivating voice, we learn not only the stories of Russian family life in the second half of the twentieth century, but also the story of one rebellious citizen whose curiosity and determination finally transport her to a new world. It is an elegy to the lost country of childhood, where those who leave can never return.
The moment Sebastian Gilbert watches his soul mate declare her undying love to another man, his entire life changes. Unable to cope with the loss of his fiancée, his job, his life, he turns to the only thing that helps ease the pain. Cocaine. Seven months later… Sebastian checks out of rehab, but after three months locked away from the outside world, he struggles to adapt to his new life. When he reaches out to his drug counselor from rehab, Addison Scott, he begins to find hope. Addison is sweet, smart, and understands him in a way that no one else does. As she helps Sebastian rebuild his life, their friendship grows but lines become blurred and lust quickly turns into love. Sebastian’s broken heart is slowly mending, but will letting Addison in shatter it once more? **Can be read as a standalone** Warning: Recommended for ages 18+ due to subject matters of drug abuse, violence, explicit language and sexual situations.
Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. Reality is buried somewhere in the fertile soil of memory, and Delia is determined to find it. This stylish fiction from the author of The Days of Abandonment is set in a beguiling but often hostile Naples, whose chaotic, suffocating streets become one of the book's central motifs. A story about mothers and daughters, and the complicated knot of lies and emotions that binds them.