Adult World

David Peters was the October 1982 Playgirl centerfold. Featuring Tom Selleck on the cover, it was the bestselling issue at that time. This is David’s true life story. Many photos included. David grew up in a small city on San Francisco Bay after surviving physical and emotional abuse in his childhood by an alcoholic father. Baseball became a big part of his early years building his confidence and ushering in his burgeoning physical nature. A foray to Fort Lauderdale as a teenager brought him face to face with his emerging wild side in ways he couldn’t have imagined and began a decades-...

This is the 5th book in the delightful New Bears for the 21st Century series In The Bear on Top of the World the brave young bear and his intrepid bee accomplice travel to Arctic Norway where they encounter a polar bear supremacist movement, led by a shadowy figure. Never far from trouble in their quest to protect the honey supply, the visitors quickly get caught up in the action. Humorous reading and great escapism for all age groups above 12. A tale of fun, adventure and rollicking bear antics

In the world of Spinfire magic is a part of everyday life, especially in the Dragon sanctuaries where society’s most ancient creatures grow to maturity under the care of their keepers. In the distant past, Dragons were wild, but as food supplies dwindled Spinfarians built sanctuaries as a means to avoid Dragon extinction. Beryl, a young apprentice helping out at her Aunt's Sanctuary, bonds with a newborn Dragon, Boram, and discovers she alone is able to communicate telepathically with her newfound friend. Through Boram, she learns that Dragons are not inarticulate beasts but rather ...

Eden has a secret: She has the ability to see and enter others’ dreams, a most inconvenient power when one is an outcast living in a magic-phobic village and yearning to fit in. When she accidentally exposes her powers, Eden discovers that her uncanny abilities connect her to the Dream World, home to the magical beings responsible for creating dreams and the first place Eden has felt she truly belongs.

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John is an ordinary individual striving to survive as best he can. He lives off the grid and makes money wherever he can find it. But everything changes when he discovers the horrifying truth about his reality and realizes that he may be the harbinger of death for untold billions. “Destroyer of Worlds takes you on an incredible ride into a world where ancient secrets and cosmic forces collide. With non-stop action and a fast-paced plot, this sci-fi adventure keeps you hooked from start to finish. It's like a wild rollercoaster ride, blending action, fantasy, and supernatural elements in ...

Ashley Jason, Busker Burn, and more return in Lucas Flint's newest, unmissable superhero crossover epic! Banished from her universe by an interdimensional criminal with a grudge, Ashley Jason (Crafter) finds herself aboard a dimension-hopping ship with five other superheroes. Recruited by the enigmatic Prince Tojas Malock, Crafter and her fellow superheroes must retrieve the pieces of the fabled Trinity Blade, the most powerful weapon in the multiverse, before they fall into the wrong hands. Such as the hands of Tojas' evil twin brother, Prince Karos. Dreaming of conquering the multiverse, ...

The War has begun. Old alliances must be strengthened and new ones forged. But who can you trust, when you’re still learning to trust yourself As every magic-user is hunted and The Unforgiven’s return known, Brodanna descends into chaos making Katanya Leshi’s mission behind enemy lines even more dangerous. Not only must she keep one step ahead of the enemy, but she must also fight her growing feelings for Reyn Landress. The one man an assassin should never fall for. She was forged in fire, but she can still burn. Far away from her friend Mara Lars is struggling to deal with being the ...

En natt vaknar Harry Potter av att ärret i pannan brinner som eld - ett säkert tecken på att Lord Voldemort befinner sig i närheten. Harry får snart annat att tänka på när världsmästerskapen i quidditch går av stapeln. Och när sommarlovet är slut väntar en överraskning: tillsammans med två andra trollkarlsskolor, Durmstrang och Beauxbatons, ska Hogwarts tävla i en mytomspunnen trekamp. Bara en från varje skola får delta. Alla är lika spända på vems namn som kommer att dras ur den flammande bägaren.

Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is nothing like her hero Eleanor Roosevelt. She is timid and all together uncertain that she has much to offer the world. And as World War II rages overseas, Eleanor is consumed with worry for her Jewish relatives in Europe. When a chance encounter proves her to be a one-in-a-generation math whiz—a fact she has worked hard all her life to hide—Eleanor gets recruited by the US Army and entrusted with the ultimate challenge: to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help America defeat its enemies in World War II and secure the world's freedom.

Equip Yourself With Practical Life Skills To Survive & Thrive Beyond Your Teen Years! It's time to shatter myths and master skills during your teenage years for a head start on success. You might think life skills are unnecessary, but this isn't your typical self-help book. It's like having a witty, slightly crazy mentor sharing secrets that'll keep you hooked. With just a few minutes a day, transform your life and start crushing it!

The battle lines are being drawn. The veil that separates the human world from the supernatural is failing. Can Saturday solve the murders in time and find justice for someone close to him, or will he fail and the war become reignited? In Saturday Shepherd and the World Beyond, a young adult supernatural thriller, you will enter the world beyond the darkness and journey with Saturday as he discovers that the night is more dangerous and deadly than he could have ever imagined, and as he also discovers that perhaps he’s not as normal as he’s been led to believe.

Above, in the cloudlands, Nimh has no memory of her past, only an aching, undying certainty that she has left something—someone—behind. But while she struggles to recall her identity, an imposter wields her name with deadly purpose. Below, on the surface, North looks to the sky, desperate to join the person he loves and return to his world. But with only a traitor willing to help him, and others clamoring for him to take Nimh’s place, his home seems more unreachable than ever.

Luisito Comunica viaja de un extremo a otro del planeta. La curiosidad es el motor de las aventuras que lo lanzan hasta los terrenos más inhóspitos y misteriosos.

Arris Hunter would rather be a seamstress than a mage. She has enough magic to qualify for the Academy but is terribly homesick. The suicide of one of the other students causes her to link with magic supposedly impossible even for mages. The little dragon she made as a charm and planned to give to her unwell sister is suddenly animated. The dead student's family, all powerful mages, want answers. They believe Arris can help them. Why did Ryan Dralord die? And, more importantly, to Arris, is what is the link between a toy dragon, the Dralord family, and the extinction of the dragons who used...

One shot at saving a world. One life to give. When things—dark things—swoop and crawl from the pollution, something must be done to prolong the life expectancy of Trenton’s dying three-tiered world. Recruited for a last desperate attempt at ending the contamination, he takes on a grueling and perilous climb to the top of a colossal tower perched atop a high plateau. His mission; steal vital transporter equipment. With the conditional aid of sketchy underground technology, Trenton abandons the safety of his familiar biosphere, a hardcore sacrifice he accepts for the slim hope of ...

For fun-loving Mena, life’s a peach. But then her world-traveling fiancé goes missing—without leaving his usual note—and her peachy life suddenly turns rotten. “Where’s Waldo?” she demands. Her twin is dismissive (Wenda knows something!); the neighborhood punk girl Lulu is seen lurking about with GUILT written on her kitten face; and Waldo’s nemesis Wigor is caught with his hands in the cookie jar—but denies it, even with crumbs befouling his villainous mustache. The only one Mena trusts is Fritz, a Tom Swiftian neighborhood boy who adores Waldo and tries to help Mena ...

In A Presumption of Death, Jill Paton Walsh tells how World War II changed the lives of Peter, Harriet and their growing family. The story opens in 1940. Harriet Vane - now Lady Peter Wimsey - has taken her children to safety in the country. But the war has followed them: glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalise the villagers; the blackout makes the nighttime lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London.

In the fall of 1942, the United States is still reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor. While the US starts sending troops to the front, the March family of Concord, Massachusetts grieves their own enormous loss: the death of their daughter, Beth.

Sixteen-year-old Sasha Lawson has only ever known one small, ordinary life. When she was young, she loved her grandfather's stories of parallel worlds, inhabited by girls who looked like her but led totally different lives. Sasha never believed such worlds were real - until now, when she finds herself thrust into one against her will. To prevent imminent war, Sasha must slip into the life of an alternate version of herself, a princess who has vanished on the eve of her arranged marriage. If Sasha succeeds in fooling everyone, she will be returned home; if she fails, she'll be trapped in another girl's life forever.