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Aiden Lake adopted his institutionalized sister's two daughters, and he's a good dad. He works nights on websites and gets in his adult time twice a week at the Roasty Bean, where he meets with other single gay parents. Devon Smithson wants to be a good dad now that his 16-year-old sister asked him to babysit her newborn...three months ago. But he's overwhelmed with the colicky baby. An invitation to the daddy-and-kid gatherings at the café is a godsend. The pot is sweetened when his friendship with Aiden develops into more - maybe even something that can last.

There is a grimoire, known by most as the Necronomicon. It is ancient and powerful. Its very name is said to be the sound of howling demons. Upon its yellowed pages are spells and rituals that give terrible knowledge and power to those mad enough to seek it. The book is bound in human skin, inked in blood, and contains the dead names of Those Who Dwell Beyond.

Presbyterianism is good for you! This short introduction shows the value of Presbyterianism to your spiritual well-being as a layperson in the church. An extensive Q&A section answers practical questions.

Lanista Laeca is the master of a gladiator school in Rome that has fallen on hard times. His business of providing skilled fighters for the Coliseum has begun to fail, and he is desperate to find a new spectacle of glory and battle to please the bloodthirsty crowds. He finds his answer in the cannibal corpse creatures brought to him from a distant land by a retired soldier, and soon the gladiators of House Laeca are being pitted against ravenous beasts that once were men. Will sword and shield win victory over tooth and claw?

Neal and Way from The Closet Boy are back, only now they're dom and sub, and exploring their relationship through the lifestyle. Way is eager to learn everything, and more in love with his master every day. For his part, Neal can't believe how lucky he is to have found such an innocent but sensual boy. As they learn what works best for them both, Way has trouble obeying some of the rules Neal imposes. Like the no touching himself rule. Neal wants Way to learn control, but Way, after so long holding back, has trouble not indulging.

The stars are right. They are coming. From the rain drenched metropolis of New Seattle to the vibrant urban sprawl of Bangkok, datarunners burn each other out in digital war zones even as enhanced cyborgs shoot and slash each other into oblivion on the mean streets. In this frenzied future of neon and chrome, the data cold war pits corporations and cults against each other, allowing something much darker to fester in secret. Hex is a brilliant datarunner, and when a routine hack turns violent, she and her lover, a beautiful and deadly razor girl named Brida, must go on the run from the ...

If you enjoy a fast-paced, true story, Five Weeks in the Amazon is the book for you. It's an honest story filled with peaks of humor and valleys of despair. Author Sean Michael Hayes has written a book that many would put on their shelf next to Cheryl Strayed's blockbuster success, Wild. His adventure took him into the middle of the jungle alone, but Hayes' unique writing style makes the listener feel as though they are right there with him.

Neal McPherson is an unattached Dom in his mid-twenties and a member of the gym. One evening after working out, he notices Way'ra on the stairs and he's immediately attracted and intrigued, so he asks Way'ra out. There are a lot of obstacles to the relationship they attempt to build after their date, but with patience and persistence, Neal might convince Way'ra not only to accept himself, but to loosen his inhibitions enough to explore and find a happy ending together.

While new couple Tide and Lance spend time deepening their relationship and further introducing Lance to the joys and vagaries of being a sub, established couple Tyrone and Bran discover that they still have a thing or two to learn as well.

At 75, Marian Ffarmer is almost as famous for her signature tricorn hat and cape as for her verse. She has lived for decades in the one-bedroom New York apartment she once shared with her mother, miles away from any other family, dedicating herself to her art. Yet recently her certainty about her choices has started to fray, especially when she thinks about her only son, now approaching middle age with no steady income. Into that breach comes the letter: an invitation to the Silicon Valley headquarters of one of the world's most powerful companies in order to make history by writing a poem.

Ragnarok is upon us. Ajax returns to an age of relentless war, his mind ravaged by terrible visions and with his rifle at the ready. An axe age. A sword age. A wolf age. The Hive Mind reveals strange new ships and hideous new creatures as the extinction fleet strives to feed its endless hunger. Swarms strike all along the border worlds, seizing as much raw biomass as they can and making their escape before human forces can respond.

Battle androids from a long forgotten war are reawakened by ancient gods to take up arms alongside the scattered remnants of a human resistance as diabolical alien invaders ravage Earth. Combat Unit Thirty-Three is brought online by the divine power of Crom Cruach, and emerges from an underground burial site to discover a world torn apart by war. Armed with dual rail guns, rapid repair drones, and fueled by the god's energy, the android hurls himself into the fray. Risten is a dirt marine, one of the hardened veterans striving to keep up the fight against the invaders. Risten has grown ...

Blaine Franks is a member of the paranormal research group, the Supernatural Explorers. When the group loses their techie to a cross-country move, newly graduated Flynn Huntington gets the job. Flynn fits in with the guys right off the bat, but when it comes to him and Blaine, it’s more than just getting along. Things heat up between Blaine and Flynn as they explore their first haunted building, an abandoned hospital, together. Their relationship isn’t all that progresses, though, and soon, it seems that an odd bite on Blaine’s neck has become much more.

Us Conductors is the imagined story of Lev Sergeyvich Termen, inventor of the theremin - one of the first electric musical instruments - and his unrequited love for Clara Rockmore, its greatest player. A tale of espionage and electricity, it takes listeners from the gardens of St. Petersburg to the Jazz-Age nightclubs of New York, through concert halls, speakeasies, and the Siberian wastes.

An unabridged audio collection of the best-of-the-best science fiction stories published in 2015 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster, as narrated by top voice talents.

Business is war, and business is booming. Economic competition has escalated into a full-scale galactic conflict, and the salvage marines are pulling hard duty at the center of the catastrophe. All around them, vast armies of conscripts, convicts, and contractors are fighting their way across hostile alien worlds and through the cold void of space at the will of their corporate masters.

They are bold, daring, reliable...and doomed. The salvage marines of Tango Platoon have gone up against everything from space pirates and resistance fighters to savage mutants and the heavily armed elite troopers of Helion Corporation. By all accounts they are some of the most battle-hardened veterans in the fleet and experts at hostile salvage operations.

Lance Packet just got a contract to shoot an erotic BDSM deck of cards; the only problem is finding models. So far everyone he's interviewed thinks he's looking for sex for hire. Then in walk three perfect examples of men: Tide and his friends, Tyrone and Bran. Tide Germaine is a model and a dom. He and his best friend Tyrone opened The Iron Eagle Gym as a place for gay men in the lifestyle to work out, do scenes, and congregate with like-minded men.

During an apocalyptic battle against murderous machines and hardened soldiers, a lone salvage marine turns the tide with a devastating counterattack. Having revealed herself as a consummate warrior, Jada Sek is welcomed into the ranks of the Dire Swords, an elite fighting force loyal only to the contract.

A tough as nails crew of space marines, experts in battling heretic cults and interdicting hostile vessels, are sent on a mission to recover an ancient derelict starship, the Tesseract, that has appeared in the Carcosa sector at the remote edge of the system. What they’ve found on board could spell not just their own doom, but the end of humanity. Trapped on the Tesseract by a combination of savage ambush and conspiratorial sabotage, medic Hestia Kratos and veteran sergeant Rynn Cobb must lead their squad of injured marines to safety. But, aboard the derelict, every shadow is a possible ...