This book was previously titled ""Friends of Choice."" Karla needs permission to stay overnight at Carol's because it is the only way she can go to the party her new friends have invited her to. She needs to give Carol an answer before they cancel the invite. But Karla is afraid her mother will say no. Mrs. Centon says no to a lot of things Karla wants to do for apparently no reason at all. How can she convince her mother to say yes despite knowing she will say no?

Collects Spider-Woman (2020) #1-5. Spider-Woman is back, and she’s pulling no punches! Jessica Drew hasn’t been feeling like herself lately. When the angry, irritable and unwell Spider-Woman takes a simple security gig to help her get back on her feet, she finds herself besieged by unknown forces out to destroy everything around her. But what does Jessica’s illness have to do with the daughter of her old nemesis, Otto Vermis? And how does a shipment of black-market spiders fit in? Jessica Drew is fighting for her life while someone is pulling the strings of her web. She soon finds herself forced back to where it all began — Wundagore Mountain, the nightmarish place that gave her powers — but who is making her relive her traumas? The answers are about to get personal! This is the Spider-Woman book you’ve been waiting for!

“I don't know when I've been so wowed by a new author” –Chip Health, co-author of The Power of Moments and Switch A talented journalist reveals the hidden patterns behind what we call "luck" -- and shows us how we can all improve outcomes despite life’s inevitable randomness. "Do you believe in luck?" is a polarizing question, one you might ask on a first date. Some of us believe that we make our own luck. Others see inequality everywhere and think that everyone’s fate is at the whim of the cosmos. Karla Starr has a third answer: unlucky, "random" outcomes have predictable effects on our behavior that often make us act in self-defeating ways without even realizing it. In this groundbreaking book, Starr traces wealth, health, and happiness back to subconscious neurological processes, blind cultural assumptions, and tiny details you're in the habit of overlooking. Each chapter reveals how we can cultivate personal strengths to overcome life’s unlucky patterns. For instance: • Everyone has free access to that magic productivity app—motivation. The problem? It isn’t evenly distributed. What lucky accidents of history explain patterns behind why certain groups of people are more motivated in some situations than others? • If you look like an underperforming employee, your resume can't override the gut-level assumptions that a potential boss will make from your LinkedIn photo. How can we make sure that someone’s first impression is favorable? • Just as people use irrelevant traits to make assumptions about your intelligence, kindness, and trustworthiness, we also make inaccurate snap judgments. How do these judgments affect our interactions, and what should we assume about others to maximize our odds of having lucky encounters? We don’t always realize when the world's invisible biases work to our advantage or recognize how much of a role we play in our own lack of luck. By ending the guessing game about how luck works, Starr allows you to improve your fortunes while expending minimal effort.

Hannah Mattox longs to be a mother. However, her heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, prevents her from safely bearing children. Karla Valez is a homeless prostitute who despises the thing growing inside her and hopes to kill it in utero with the drugs that have buried her painful past for nearly five years. Gabriella Greene, founder of the Sanford Crisis Pregnancy Center, finds herself the bridge between these two women. A time when questions far outweigh answers, there is one most pressing: why would God allow this? Weaving together the lives of three very different women, Loving will take readers on an emotional journey that reveals one common thread: they each need to surrender to a God of love.

Take a cowboy home for Christmas... from USA Today bestseller and Top 10 Amazon Kindle All-Star Author Liz Isaacson! Get five feel-good, satisfying, and uplifting cowboy romances in this clean and sweet holiday collection. You'll get lost in ranch life, with sexy and sweet cowboys, swoon-worthy, faith-filled romance, and the perfect love story to curl up with as you sip a cup of hot cocoa in front of the fireplace! This boxed set includes these Christmas cowboy romances: Her Cowboy Billionaire Best Friend: A cowboy returning to his hometown—and the best friend he left a dozen years before. This Christmas, can they build a family and find their happily-ever-after? Cheering the Cowboy: A cowboy with anger management issues, the woman whose ranch he "stole," and their chance to get everything they want for Christmas...including each other. Last Chance Christmas: She's tired of having her heart broken by cowboys. He waited too long to ask her out. Can Lance fix things quickly, or will Amber leave Last Chance Ranch before he can tell her how he feels? The Sleigh on Seventeenth Street: A cowboy with skills as an electrician tries a relationship with a down-on-her luck plumber. Can Dylan and Camila make water and electricity play nicely together this Christmas season? The Christmas Cowboy Competition: Two next-door neighbors vying for the same job this Christmas...who will win? And who will lose their heart?

After her sweetheart Joe dies in a road accident, twenty-four hours after he returns from Army service, grieving Karla Payne slams the door on love. Five years later, Karla's tavern business is booming, and she owns her home, but she knows forever love has no part in her future. Headed to interview for his first civilian job, retired career Army 1st Sgt. Zane Blackthorne can't resist visiting his late buddy's beloved Vermont hometown. He also can't resist looking up Joe's sweetheart, Karla, who is an alluring mix of brains, beauty, and bravery. Loyalty to his brother-in-arms demands Zane fight his attraction to Karla. Besides, even if Karla wants him, she'll never love him. Can Zane say goodbye to the woman he has no right to call his own? Even if his only true home is in her arms?

Logan Jeffrey has a reputation... He's gruff, deliriously handsome, and domineering. As a tenured criminology professor at the University of Newport in Southern California, he can say whatever he wants and won't have to worry about the repercussions of his attitude. He's known for calling students out, making them feel like idiots in front of the entire lecture hall, but pushing them to their truest potential. Every student who passes with an A somehow ends up with a full-time job by the time they graduate. Rumors swirl that he has a habit of sleeping with his teaching assistants and breaking their hearts (totally true). For those who don't know his reputation, he tends to scare the piss out of students and his TA's. Peyton knows all there is to know about Logan Jeffrey. She also knows that she can't avoid him forever, especially since she had been accepted into Newport's prestigious graduate program. She also happens to his only TA this quarter, which means she would be spending too much time with him. The more time Peyton is around her professor, the more she realizes there's something magnetizing about him. She can't stay away but she knows she should. She knows she must unless she wants to get swept away in his beautiful darkness. Warning: This contains a gorgeous jackass hero, which means lots of swearing and lots of rough sex. Do not read if you don't like jackasses or swearing or sex.