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When debonair Asher St. James enters a prestigious pirate ship race around Barbados, he is forced to pit his wits against a worthy nemesis, a real pirate, Vlad Dragamillof. He also encounters a former lover, the countess de Fleurie. This continental beauty still has hopes of winning his heart. From the US to Paris and then onto Barbados, Asher swashbuckles his way into international intrigue.

Desperate housewives, hormonal teenagers, and role-playing fantasies run amok in suburbia in this comedy. Here’s the typical suburban community from hell. As hormonal teenagers and over-sexed adults carry out their secret agendas, they’re spied on by their neighbors. Raucous behavior runs rampant on the streets, while role-playing fantasies are consummated behind closed doors. This all culminates into one huge, hilarious climax.

A Young Explorer’s Guide to Space is a series of chapters that deal with topics that should be of interest to a middle school, high school, and even college level student who is considering a career in aerospace, either as a civilian or the military. It includes topics on Model Rocketry, Types of Rockets, Space Suits, the Rocket Equation, The International Space Station, Becoming an Astronaut, Exploring the moon (Luna) and Mars, Ecological Implications, and Exploring the cosmos beyond that.

In this romance, havoc ensues when Lindy, orphaned at ten, is forced into an arranged marriage with a man she thinks of as her despised brother. Old-world “Pop” Castellano will listen to no refusals. She must marry his son, Joey, or leave the family she loves. It may be the 21st century, but not in the Castellano home. “I’m very sorry to make you unhappy, Pop,” Lindy replied with genuine sadness, “But, Joey is the last man on earth that I would ever consider marrying.” “Listen to me, Lindy. You’re going to marry Joey in three months . . . or you’ll leave this family ...

On Penny’s 30th birthday, all of her friends desert her except for Jess, her old buddy since high school. She has always thought of him as a comedian and a ladies’ man. When Jess tells her he’s going to prove he’s the most romantic man in the world, she takes him up on the challenge. You might want to share his techniques with someone who needs help in the romance department.

Are you all worn out and wonder if it’s your hormones? Do you have questions about menopause or testosterone replacement? Have you heard that hormones cause cancer and heart disease? Hormone Secrets will clear up the controversies for you. Robert Yoho is an award-winning author who spent a career studying and prescribing hormones. He is retired, so he can tell you the truth. Hint: Big Pharma and big money are involved, and you have been listening to lies.

Kat Bloodmayne is one of the first women chosen to attend the Tower Academy of Sciences. But she carries a secret: She can twist the natural laws of life. She has no idea where this ability came from, only that every time she loses control and unleashes this power, it kills a part of her soul. If she doesn't find a cure soon, her soul will die and she will become something else entirely.

Time is running out. Cities are being engulfed in the Mist and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Theo believes he has found a way to stop mankind from Turning, but he doesn’t know how to alter Cass’s unique blood into a cure. Or if it can even be done. Meanwhile, Cass struggles with the idea that she is possibly the savior of the world—a world she is not sure is worth saving. From the Winchester manse to the steel city of Decadenn, there is something more chasing Cass than the House of Lords or the masked man who can walk in the Mist.

Dragons, space aliens, demons, AI, celestial sea creatures, gods, portals, or robotic locusts that feed on human flesh. These are just a few of the things you can expect in this professionally curated collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy. From one story to the next, you will have no idea what to expect.

Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dreamwalking. As a dreamwalker, she can enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. For the last hundred years, the Ravenwood women have used their gift of dreaming for hire to gather information or to assassinate. As she discovers her family's dark secret, Selene is torn between upholding her family's legacy - a legacy that supports her people - or seeking the true reason behind her family's gift.

In a world where humanity lives in the sky to escape a deadly mist below, Cass’s only goal is survival. That is, until she finds a job on the airship Daedalus as a diver. Now she explores ruined cities, looking for treasure and people’s lost heirlooms until a young man hires her to find the impossible: a way to eradicate the Mist.

Kaeden carries the blood of the ancient Eldaran race in his veins but turns away from his heritage after the death of his parents. Years later, he is called back to his homeland and invited to be a healer for the southern forces. With the help of an old mentor, the power inside of him starts to awaken. However, his life is turned upside down when a mighty warrior of the Nordic forces is captured. As Kaeden interacts with the enemy, he discovers there is a darkness behind the Nordic Wars, one that is manipulating the people of the north

Selene Ravenwood, once the heir to House Ravenwood, is now an exile. On the run and free of her family's destiny, Selene hopes to find the real reason her family was given the gift of dreamwalking. But first she must adapt to her new life as wife to Lord Damien Maris, the man she was originally assigned to kill. While adjusting to her marriage and her home in the north, her power over dreams begins to grow. As the strongest dreamwalker to exist in ages, her expanding power attracts not only nightmares but the attention of the Dark Lady herself.

In Reckoning with Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic.

Celia was only fourteen years old when she was acquired by John Newsom, an aging widower and one of the most respected citizens of Callaway County, Missouri. The pattern of sexual abuse that would mark their entire relationship began almost immediately. Over the next five years, Celia bore Newsom two children; meanwhile, she became involved with a slave named George and resolved at his insistence to end the relationship with her master. When Newsom refused, Celia one night struck him fatally with a club. Her act quickly discovered, Celia was brought to trial.

When Reece is almost violently kidnapped, her entire life begins to change. She soon learns about the man who saved her life in the park and instantly is filled with questions about who he is and why he seems so familiar. The answers she receives from Levi are something that Reece would never have imagined possible. There is life beyond Earth, and it exists because of her!

Lady Selene Ravenwood has come into her full power as a dreamwalker just as the war with the Dominia Empire begins. Working with the other Great Houses, Selene and Damien use their gifts to secure the borders and save those devastated by the war. But conflict, betrayal, and hatred begin to spread between the Great Houses, destroying their unity as the empire burns a path across their lands. At the same time, Damien Maris starts to lose his ability to raise the waters, leaving the lands vulnerable to the empire's attacks.

Imagine Monty Python writes horror...Welcome to the wonderfully horrific world of Bizarro - that dark, forbidding corner of the horror genre where absolutely anything goes and one may delve into the farthest recesses of the authors' warped imaginations. Prepare yourself, dear listener, for a journey into the unknown reaches of terror, from which you can only hope you will return with your sanity intact...

In the second book of the Ancient Guardians supernatural romance series, listeners continue to follow Reece Bryant as she takes up residence in the enchanting dimension of Pemdas. After she accepts the proposal of marriage from Levi Oxley, the emperor of Pemdas' son, their romance heats up in preparation to begin their new lives together. Their love is stronger than before, and it appears that nothing can come between them. Or can it?

Murder brings together a suburban community’s embezzlement, prostitution, bigotry, perversion, and black humor in this intense drama. Take a close look into the dark heart of suburban culture. Behind the phony smiles, lie chilling thoughts of murder, embezzlement, prostitution, bigotry, and perversion. This is spiced with black humor. When a sex murder is discovered, the suspects crawl out of the walls. We have a lawyer and his trophy wife, a civic leader with political aspirations, his wife who has her own agenda, the owner of a construction company, and the editor of a scandal rag, ...