Delicious and Healthy Soup Recipes from the Mediterranean Region!

A tasty bowl of soup fills you up, reduces cravings, keeps you energized for hours, and is one of the best diet-friendly meals. Preparing your own soup at home is even better because you can choose what ingredients you put in and that way control sodium and calorie intake.
Mediterranean way of cooking is healthy home cooking. You can always improvise, invent, vary recipes, and substitute one ingredient for another.
Eating a tasty Mediterranean soup every day will pay off with plenty of health benefits and will almost certainly prevent you from overeating. It will also prevent diet boredom and at the same time will help you slim down.

Anne's relationship with her boyfriend Neil has disintegrated. After a two-year separation, they pack for a week vacation in hopes of reconciling. But fate has other plans for them.
The discovery of a bejeweled cross and ancient human bones opens a door to a new and frightening world--one where the ghost of a medieval nun named Genevieve will not let Anne rest. This new world threatens not only to ruin Anne and Neil's vacation but to end all hopes of reconciliation as Anne feels compelled to help free Genevieve's soul from its torment.
Can Anne save her relationship and help Genevieve find her eternal rest?
The twists and turns in this paranormal tale keep the reader guessing up to the end and weave themselves together into a quest to rekindle love.

More than 2,000,000 children worldwide are bought and sold each year to be used as slaves.

This may be just one of their stories....

When his parents agree to send Tavi off to a special school in the city that promises wealth and success, they have no idea that they are handing their son over to real life human traffickers.

Tavi's excitement soon turns into horror as he learns what kind of a life he has been forced into and the things that are expected of him. As his world comes crashing down around him, he struggles to stay true to himself in the midst of the darkness.

But when one of his friends dies a horrific death, Tavi knows that he must escape if he is to survive and ever have a chance at a normal life again.

Meet the Duke of Ruisdell, the unlikely hero of this traditional Regency Romance, after the manner of Georgette Heyer and Candice Hern.

The duke has just returned wounded from the Napoleonic wars. He is weary, cynical, and very bored. Known as the worst rake in England, he finds he has no interest in upholding that distinction, when his friend, the Marquis of Somerset, proposes a bet: "Five thousand guineas says that seducing Miss Elise Edwards will cure your ennui." Because his friend has just lost a packet to him, he agrees that the bet be posted in White's famous Betting Book.

Thirteen-year-old Gabriel Salvador has dreams about the future and his dreams always come true. When he dreams one night that he will drown, he knows upon waking it is only a matter of time before his dream becomes reality.

Plucked from the timeline of history at the moment of his death, Gabriel becomes an apprentice time mage and part of an elite team of wizards who travel throughout history to fight the War of Time and Magic.

Victorian London, the Aztec temples of 1487, the Greek island of Samos in 320 BCE, Scotland in the Middle Ages, and the battle fields of Alexander the Great are only some of the adventures in time that await Gabriel as he learns to become a time mage and joins the battle to protect the timeline of history in THE WIZARD OF TIME.

When the city of Lyone became a hellish nightmare. Gabrielle Dutton, one of the few survivors of the city's police force meets Vincent Crow, a young "Chevalier" who is the only survivor of a mysterious paramilitary team sent to control the situation, she offers to help in order to discover who are the people responsible for destroying her city. However, a formidable foe blocks their path as they race against the clock, to finish an impossible mission before the city meets its ultimate end.

Zoey and Coda are like everyone else in their small town of Gladstone, but that's about to change - forever.

Zoey has a dream, one that feels far more real than it should. A strange wolf with a beautiful, violet crystal embedded in his forehead visits her. "Please help us," the wolf implores with sad eyes. "Remember, Zoey, who you truly are." Zoey wakes up, dismissing it as a silly dream. However, she soon realizes that it was far more real than she could've ever imagined.

Destiny intervenes for Tucker Millis, a delusional writer who needs a purpose in life and a plot for his new novel. When he discovers his new phone number once belonged to a man on the verge of turning himself in for a twenty-five year old murder, it’s a dream come true. Tucker uses the messages and calls intended for the murderer to manipulate lives and to craft his story. But he’s propelled back to reality when he can no longer escape the full horror and dire consequences of the world he’s created.

Jennifer Trevor, an ambitious career woman, holds enormous power. She's about to promote a secret government directive that will cause the death of millions.

Her husband, Nick, a Christian lawyer, at odds with his wife's values, desperately attempts to stop the directive. Forced to run for his life, he battles sinister forces plotting to redesign society. His disappearance prods her to reconsider her choices.

Jennifer must decide between protecting her reputation and career or sacrificing everything she holds dear to prevent a grievous wrong.

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Liz Deveraux fled her voodoo heritage as a teenager and has returned home only for her mother's funeral. She left this life long ago and wants no part of it to touch the new life she'd built for herself. The last person she expects to see is her high school sweetheart who remembers the girl she's tried so hard to deny.

Zach can feel the distance Liz puts between them is more than ticked to learn she'd let him believe she was dead all these years. He is there to investigate the mysterious drowning of his brother and is knocked off guard by the resurgence of old feelings. But this new Liz is a woman who cared so little, she couldn't even bother to let him know she was alive. How could any man forgive that?

Reformed car thief Leah Ryan is trouble. But she is keeping her head down when her Jeep is repossessed. Unfortunately, most of her money is going toward past due attorney fees for her younger brother Jesse; a mischievous hacker serving his last few weeks in prison.

Without a way to get to her construction job, she is fired. Leah needs a job fast. She’s a natural at stealing cars, and decides to ask Callahan Parker, the man who repossessed her Jeep, to hire her. This decision marks the beginning of a nightmare for Leah Ryan.

Some families have deeper secrets than others. Private investigator Mary Walker has less than forty-eight hours to save her brother-in-law, a former Marine Corps sniper involved in an underground, deadly game of killers hunting killers. A game controlled by a rich, powerful family. A game with a secretive history dating back to the Civil War. Ten million dollars to the victor; death to the losers. With time running out, Mary must find a way to keep Randall alive, or help him win, while chasing down leads and uncovering lies that connect to the unlikeliest of places...the White House.

After a terrible accident in the ambulance, EMT Olivia Jordan didn't expect to wake up chained to a bed. The tall dark sexy man holding her prisoner is not what she expected either. But Garrick Blackthorn's not your every day kidnapper, no, there's something extraordinary about him. Something that attracts Olivia. Something dark and secret. Something that might end Olivia's life...

Newly diagnosed celiacs or anyone else needing to avoid both gluten and dairy in their diet will find Gluten Dairy Free-Easy - Tasty Easy Gluten and Dairy Free Recipes a veritable treasure trove of easy and delicious recipes that are both safe for them and good enough to serve the whole family - or even dinner guests.

Gluten Dairy Free-Easy contains over 250 recipes for everything from basics like pastry to gorgeous confections suitable for parties and other celebrations. You'll be spoilt for choice, and that's a good feeling when you're on a restricted diet - believe me, I know.

Do you have celiac disease or gluten intolerance? Do you have friends and family who need to avoid gluten? Then this recipe book is definitely a must have.

No less than 275 step by step easy recipes, all completely gluten free, will give you the information you need to feed/entertain anyone with this really tedious condition - it's not easy finding something to eat on the run, for example. But you can serve up anything from a light snack to a banquet with the recipes in this book.