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Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J.R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys. Time and again, the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak, and eventually from reality.

In Vampire Fire, private investigator Samantha Moon's new client asks her to find a dead guy - a dead guy she knew. It doesn't take Sam very long to figure out that something wicked this way comes - very, very wicked - but there's no way she can walk away from this case...However, Sam's client doesn't want the guy's body - he wants his soul. And if Sam fails, then two others will die. Now Sam must track down the spirit of a dead man who's hiding from his destiny and hand him over.

Titus Black is a survivor. Even after getting ousted from the CIA, Black managed to land on his feet. And while his government may have quit on him, he’s not about to quit on it...even when he’s falsely accused of murder.... When black ops agent Titus Black embarks on a rescue mission, he comes back with more than just a left-for-dead pilot - he comes back with questions about an alleged secret operation that threatens to shatter trust in the U.S. military.

Through cutting social analysis, personal stories, and need-to-know advice, Dear Bi Men reclaims bi+ visibility in a culture of erasure—and unapologetically centers Blackness in a practical and deeply researched guide to navigating life, work, and relationships as a Black bi+ man.

It certainly wasn't easy to get used to the drastic change in his life, but Lucas seemed to take his new role as the secret protector of Earth and other possible realms rather well. Stuck in his own apartment for most of the time, he ventured into and conquered two dangerous Dungeons. Naturally, it wouldn't have been possible without the incredibly helpful draconic Berserker lady assisting him all the way. Yet, two will not mark the end, not even close.

Haunted by the echoes of his past, gunfighter Kit Barker is eager for a hunt. When an old friend’s cryptic cry for aid arrives, along with a bloodstained box of salt, it looks like he’s found one. Accompanied by the Navajo renegade John Swift-Runner, Kit’s quest takes him from the flame-scorched alleys of Chicago to a lonesome whiskey fortress in the harsh wilderness of the Montana frontier. When Kit and John find the desolate outpost seemingly abandoned, the mystery deepens. Was it Indians? Madness?

Newly licensed attorney Aspen Wilde joins Denver’s largest law firm to discover that an attractive, up-and-coming associate mysteriously vanished several months earlier and is presumed dead. She secretly embarks upon a brilliant but dangerous plan to trap the killer, only to find herself increasingly intertwined in a complex web of murders involving several different women killed in very different ways.

Medical-school-dropout police detective Richelle Dadd is...well, dead. But that won't stop her from trying to hold on to her house in a divorce battle with a bitter husband. Or keep her from digging into her own murder, to discover who put the bullet into her heart. Or from coming to terms with her Gypsy heritage. And it certainly won't stand in the way of finding out the reason she's been reanimated as a zombie assassin, no longer in control of her life.

Van Delano is still determined to free his sister from the clutches of Nine-Fingered Nan, whatever it takes. So, when the outlaw queen suggests an exchange, he’s all too eager to agree. Doesn’t matter the stagecoach he’s supposed to find is traveling a route that don’t make no sense toward the one town he never wanted to step foot into again. Doesn’t matter the lockbox he’s supposed to steal off it just might be Old World tech.

Eighteen-year-old James Douglas can only watch, helpless, as the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace is hanged, drawn, and quartered. Even under the heel of a brutal English conqueror, James' blood-drenched homeland may still have one hope for freedom, the rightful king of the Scots, Robert the Bruce. James swears fealty to the man he believes can lead the fight against English tyranny. The Bruce is soon a fugitive, king in name and nothing more. Scotland is occupied, the Scottish resistance crushed. Yet James believes their cause is not lost.

Karma Johnson has spent her entire adult life working to become a member of FBI's Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team. She's earned her transfer to CARD, but when she's caught up in the kidnapping of an infant from a festival, she learns what it's like to be the victim. Pretending she's a teen keeps her alive while trying to get herself and the baby to safety.

Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, available as a complete and unabridged audiobook. The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring.

Antiguo esclavo de sangre, el vampiro Zsadist todavía lleva las cicatrices de un pasado lleno de sufrimiento y humillación. Conocido por su innegable furia y su siniestro carácter, es un salvaje temido tanto por los humanos como por los vampiros. La rabia es su única compañía, y el terror su única pasión, hasta que rescata a la hermosa aristócrata de la diabólica sociedad de restrictores.

Most parents dread the day their kids grow up and meet life head-on as adults. Significantly fewer moms watch their kids leap across dimensions to save a friend from a devouring evil. It's okay though, mostly. Samantha Moon has a case to keep her mind occupied while her daughter is off doing her thing. It’s not as if Tammy is completely helpless. Crazy thing about being part of a magical bloodline... it passes down to the next generation. With Elizabeth's influence over the family gone for good, the younger Moon is coming into her own as a force to be reckoned with. Sam probably can’t ...

Ben Hutchins may have a new lease on life, but much has changed in the months since he sacrificed himself to defeat the Master’s agent and save the Alarians on Hai’alla. Just because the Imperium doesn’t have any more fleet assets in Terran space doesn’t mean it can’t continue to wage war against humanity and its allies. After forging an alliance with the Alarians and the rebellious Admiral Na’al of the Imperial Navy, the stage should have been set for the opening salvo of a Terran counteroffensive.

Becoming a bounty hunter and taking on the call sign of Murder Mittens wasn’t Harri’s brightest move, but what’s a lynx to do with millions of debt while working a customer service gig? The scars deforming her face won’t remove themselves, and she’ll bag and tag every criminal in the United States to get rid of them if necessary.

An entire generation of victory-minded Christians, spurred by the victorious postmillennial vision of Chalcedon, has emerged to press what the Puritan fathers called "the Crown Rights of Christ the King" in all areas of modern life. Central to that is Rousas John Rushdoony's jewel of a study, God's Plan for Victory. The founder of the Christian Reconstruction movement set forth in potent, cogent terms the older Puritan vision of the irrepressible advancement of Christ's kingdom by his faithful saints employing the entire law-word of God as the program for earthly victory.

Why would anyone put a mermaid and a gorgon in the same room together? While Tulip enjoys being alive, her lineage brings her nothing but trouble.

Erzählt wird der gesamte Mythos, an dessen Ende die Geschichte von "Der Herr der Ringe" die Drei Zeitalter abschließt: jener fernen Epoche, in der die Ringe geschaffen wurden, Sauron an die Macht kam, Elben und Zwerge ihre magischen Kräfte erlangten und der Krieg von Mordor wütete.

Un libro excelente para introducirse en el mundo de la fantasía. Smaug parecía profundamente dormido cuando espió una vez más la entrada. ¡Pero fingía estar dormido! ¡Estaba vigilando la entrada del túnel! Sacado de su cómodo agujero hobbot por Gandalf y una banda de enanos, Bilbo se encuentra de pronto en medio de una conspiración que pretende apoderarse del tesoro de Smaug el Magnífico, un enorme y muy peligroso dragón.