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  • Crystal Monroe

    Cooper Pierce, single dad and chiseled by God. Blue eyes that could melt panties like Superman. My cutesy boutique is on the edge of bankruptcy. And Cooper just flew in with his red cape and meticulously carved six pack to save the day. There's one teeny tiny little catch. He needs me to play wifey for three months. And move into his daddy-warbucks mansion. So I’ll wear his fat 4.3 carat diamond ring and fall in love with his two adorable little daughters. But his fierce protective streak makes it hard to stay out of his bed. Daddy wants to kill Cooper. Cooper doesn’t know I’m having his baby. I can’t wait for the next family reunion! This is a full-length surprise-pregnancy...read more

  • Crystal Monroe

    Trent “Diablo” Dillon—he’s my devilishly hot boss, and he’s gonna make my money problems disappear. The catch? Pretend to be his girlfriend at three weddings this summer. He needs to get his pushy family off his back. I need a windfall. Besides, I’m used to dealing with Trent’s demands at work. But sharing a bed with my fake boyfriend is more than I can take. After one sizzling night, I’m addicted to his rock hard…er, abs. The craziest part? I’m falling for my grumpy boss—the one who plans to never settle down. My feelings for him are real. And so is this baby I’m having in nine months. Three Weddings and a Baby is a steamy 18+ standalone with a swoony HEA and no...read more

  • Crystal Monroe

    First rule of a marriage of convenience? Don’t get knocked up. When I tell off my new boss after he cuts in line, I think he’s about to fire me. Instead, CEO Harry O’Donnell proposes. He wants me to marry him and move in for six months. See, Harry needs a wife to inherit his family business. I need a windfall to pay for my mom’s medical bills. How hard could playing wifey be? Answer? Very. From Harry’s touching vows at our sham wedding to the sly glances he sneaks when he thinks I’m not looking, one thing's clear: our no funny business agreement won’t last long. Neither will the ten-foot wall I built around my heart. Now, against all odds, I’m pregnant. And I want Harry to...read more

  • Crystal Paine

    Calling the super busy, the stressed out, the overtired. You know you're made for a more fulfilling life. With this book, you’ll know where to start. You wake up tired. Your to-do list is too long. The commitments—and the laundry—are piling up, but your energy keeps dwindling. You feel like you're simply making it through the days, not living or enjoying any part of...read more

  • Crystal Paine

    Entrepreneur, author, and popular blogger Crystal Paine shares the secrets of building income at home, using real life examples to from her own journey in becoming a money-making mom as well as the stories of other women from all walks of life. The nuts and bolts of how to make more money from home are revealed in clear steps that can be immediately and easily put into practice. But more than just a how-to book for earning extra income, The Money-Making Mom is a challenge to dream big and create a pathway for life. Paine offers examples and insights about what 'finding your purpose' can look like in family, career, and service to others. Readers will find inspiration and hope for a life...read more

  • Crystal Allen

    A hilarious and spunky new heroine in the vein of the heroines of such beloved books as Ramona the Pest, Ivy and Bean, and Clementine, from Crystal Allen—the acclaimed author of How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy. Nine-year-old Mya Tibbs is boot-scootin’ excited for the best week of the whole school year—SPIRIT WEEK! She and her megapopular best friend, Naomi Jackson, even made a pinky promise to be Spirit Week partners so they can win the big prize: special VIP tickets to the Fall Festival! But when the partner picking goes horribly wrong, Mya gets paired with Mean Connie Tate—the biggest bully in school. And she can’t get out of it. Good gravy. Now...read more

  • Crystal King

    Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King’s seminal debut features the man who inspired the world’s oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction. On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar’s reign, a young chef, Thrasius, is acquired for the exorbitant price of twenty thousand denarii. His purchaser is the infamous gourmet Marcus Gavius Apicius, wealthy beyond measure, obsessed with a taste for fine meals from exotic places, and a singular ambition: to serve as culinary adviser to Caesar, an honor that will cement his legacy as Rome’s leading epicure. Apicius rightfully believes that...read more

  • Crystal Kadakia

    Ready for the Future or Stuck in the Past? Millennials have been condemned as lazy, entitled, disloyal, and disrespectful and needing constant hand-holding. But Crystal Kadakia—a Millennial herself as well as an organizational development consultant and two-time TEDx speaker—shows that not only are these negative stereotypes dead wrong, but each one conceals a positive workplace practice that forward-looking companies must adopt if they are to endure. She illuminates how the advent of digital technology is the crucial root cause of many Millennial behaviors and offers a guide for what our traditional workplace needs to do to attract, engage, and retain modern...read more

  • Crystal Allen

    Thirteen-year-old Lamar Washington is the maddest, baddest, most spectacular bowler at Striker's Bowling Paradise. But while Lamar's a whiz at rolling strikes, he always strikes out with girls. And his brother, Xavier the Basketball Savior, is no help. Xavier earns trophy after trophy on the basketball court and soaks up Dad's attention, leaving no room for Lamar's problems. Until bad boy Billy Jenks convinces Lamar that hustling at the alley will help him win his dream girl, plus earn him enough money to buy an expensive pro ball and impress celebrity bowler Bubba Sanders. But when Billy's scheme goes awry, Lamar ends up ruining his brother's shot at college and every relationship in his...read more

  • Crystal Stine

    Work without Shame, Rest without GuiltBalance. It's what we long for in our lives as we hear shouts of 'Work harder!' in one ear, and whispers to 'rest more' in the other. What if God's plan for us isn't just one way or the other? Enter the holy hustle. Crystal Stine followed the path to success as she climbed the corporate ladder. Now she explores 'hustle' in a new light as a self-employed, work-from-home mom. She invites you to join her in experiencing... ·renewed peace as you focus on serving, not striving ·reawakened potential as you ditch comparison and embrace community ·redefined purpose as you seek the roles God has for youYou were created to work with enthusiasm for the...read more

  • David Crystal

    Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation. David Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we use unconsciously, even in the most routine exchanges of everyday conversation. We tend to think of conversation as something spontaneous, instinctive, habitual. It has been described as an art, as a game, sometimes even as a battle. Whichever metaphor we use, most people are unaware of what the rules are, how they work, and how we can bend and break them when circumstances warrant...read more

  • Crystal Jeans

    ‘An absolute *blinder* … so so funny and sexy. So excited now to read everything by Crystal Jeans’ Caroline O’Donoghue, author of Scenes of a Graphic Nature ‘A glorious celebration of queer friendship and all kinds of love. Funny, outrageous, heartbreaking and so much fun’ Kate Davies, winner of the Polari Prize ‘Hilarious, fresh and sexy, with a tale that takes the reader from Egypt to Hollywood’ Irish Independent ‘Funny, filthy and phenomenally good’ Matt Cain ‘Filthy and hilarious, this is a gloriously naughty romp of a read that also has something serious to say about queer love. I didn’t want it to end’...read more

  • Crystal Hickerson

    What if your biggest fear came true? Cailyn Roberts was a single mother raising her 11 year old daughter on her own. One fateful afternoon a knock came to her door. Before she had time to react, the attacker grabbed her and knocked her across the room. He was ruthless in his assault and Cailyn was about to relive the horror she had experienced as a child. Yet she was thankful that her Lacy was safely at school. Just then, the most horrible sound in the world entered her ears: The key in the front door. Lacy was home! Cailyn was suddenly struck in the head by a nine millimeter pistol. After being in a coma for almost 3 months she awoke to learn that her daughter was dead, raped and...read more

  • Tina Nelms Boson

    Forward by Author and Actress Bever-leigh Beinfield and a collection of Women in Ministry business owners sharing their words of motivation and inspiration to remind the listener that whatever they are going through that they can make it through. Most of all that one should trust the process and continue on their journey to their destiny because they Got...read more

  • Crystal Wilkinson

    From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single mother Francine Clark is haunted by her dead, lightning-struck husband and forced to fight against both the moral judgment of the community and her own rebellious daughter, Mona. The residents...read more

  • Crystal Carroll

    There once were twelve princesses, who so frightened their father by wearing out the soles of their slippers each night in their locked room that he offered princes a kingdom for the secret and death for any prince, who failed to learn the truth.   Quite simply they danced every night with magic princes in a magic palace by a magic lake in a magic forest that they reached by a fairly normal staircase under a trap door in their room. Where the trapdoor or the forest or the lake or the palace came from wasn't a question the king bothered to ask before he boarded the trapdoor up and married the oldest princess off to the old soldier who had sussed out the situation. But then, that...read more

  • Crystal St. John

    A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every...read more

  • Crystal

    A child has their story ticket, ready to turn it in. “Crystal, can you tell me a story?”   Soon, all the children are turning in their tickets. The storyteller and the children move a bit away from the parents, who are chatting by the campfire.  Each child gets to decide who is in their story (queens, builders, princesses, themselves, guardian angels, and so on) and decide where their story takes place. This book has been carefully packed with some of those...read more

  • Crystal Dwyer Hansen

    My programs are designed to help you reach your ultimate potential by using the power of your own mind. Your subconscious mind has infinite storage space, which has been filled through the years with information, both negative and positive. My program will help you to release all of those things that don't serve you and to unleash the amazing power within. These programs not only take you on a beautiful journey within - they will also put you back in control of yourself and your life. You will be able to overcome destructive habits, illness, hardship, and to achieve things you never thought possible. Learn to Make Life Happen for You is a mini-seminar in which you will team about the...read more

  • Crystal Dwyer Hansen

    Using beautiful, peaceful guided imagery and hypnotherapy techniques, this powerful program addresses the root causes of anxiety and assists you in releasing those. Using this program regularly will help you create a sense of internal peace and wellness in your life. You don't have to live with crippling anxiety anymore. God bless you in your journey. My program is designed to help you reach your ultimate potential by using the power of your own mind. Your subconscious mind has infinite storage space, which has been filled through the years with information, both negative and positive. My program will help you to release all of those things that don't serve you and to...read more