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Together in one volume, the three novels of the Bicentennial War. Decades after the events of the Warp Marine Corps series, new threats menace humanity. The only thing standing before the invaders and destruction is the U.S. Navy and the Warp Marine Corps. To the Strongest: The space nomads known as the Horde arrive to the Known Galaxy in unprecedented numbers, aboard massive weaponized asteroids. As the US Navy deals with the unprecedented threat, an elite Marine unit, the Wraiths, joins the fight.

A powerful story of love and loss, secrets and revelations - and making sense of a past that once seemed perfect. For Tom Brennan life is about rugby, mates and family - until a night of celebration changes his life forever. Tom's world explodes as his brother, Daniel, is sent to jail, and the Brennans are forced to leave the small town Tom's lived in his whole life. Tom is a survivor, but he needs a ticket out of the past just as much as Daniel. He will find it in many forms....

College girls Tessa and Jane are young, beautiful and carefree. On holiday with in the Caribbean with Tessa's parents, they are determined to enjoy themselves. Invited to a party by the hotel staff, they are surprised to find they are the only girls and the only foreigners. Things get quickly out of hand. Meanwhile, Tessa's yummy mummy, Maggie, has her own blacking experience.

Acknowledged at last by the Governing Council, his life mating accepted, Jonathan Thomsin makes a home on Daran with his husband, Talin of the Warrior Order. He knows he will never see Earth or his family again and learns to live with that endless grief. Jon is ecstatic when the Daranii Council gives Jon permission to return to Earth for life-saving surgery and allows him to contact and stay with his family for six months. He will be healed in body, his grief left behind on Daran. Everything is possible, even peace between Daran and Earth.

If you have a family member who suffers from mental illness, but refuses to seek treatment, you may feel like you're caught in a trap. If you try making life easier for your loved one, you wind up perpetuating dependency and entitlement. If you push for treatment, you are met with resistance or outright animosity. And when you reach out to professionals for help, you are told that nothing can be done unless your family member is ready to change. So, how can you escape the "family trap?"

It’s a snowy and chilly Christmas eve, and Cassie Meriwether, having just finished the last of her gift shopping, just wants to go home, have some hot tea, and curl up by the fire with her husband, Bobby. Except that when she arrives, he’s not there. Well, sort of. In the kitchen, Cassie finds a note from “Santa” telling her that because she’s been a naughty girl this year, she needs to go upstairs and put on the cuddly pajamas he’s left for her.

I’ve spent years trying to be someone I’m not. Controlled and humanized. Still, the darkness lurks inside me, waiting for a chance to break free. As the headmaster at Corium University, I must maintain professionalism and keep myself in check. I manage to do that until the day I discover I have a daughter and all the carefully constructed walls I’ve built around myself start to crumble.I know I need an outlet, a way to shut it off, and then she lands in my lap. Delilah. I want to punish her, humiliate her, and hurt her in the best ways.

Caitlin Strange's adventures continue. The former college student with the powers of a goddes and her motley band of heroes and immortals travel to the lands of the Tenochca, ruled by bloodthirsty Aztec gods. They must brave the Forbidden Jungle, a massive Labyrinth holding the treasures of the Tenochca. But the gods control the Labyrinth, and they have twisted normal dungeon rules to ensure no thief survives long enough to claim their loot.

An unexpected betrayal forces Hasting to abandon his closest ally. With his heart turned black, he rekindles the savagery of his race. In sacking Nantes, his bravery and luck earn him a place in the skalds' songs. Word of his deeds reach his kin in the North, and more and more sea captains sail to Francia to join him, hoping his luck might help theirs.

As social animals who are used to being around others, it is often imperative that we have good emotional intelligence that will help us to get on in our careers or personal lives. This simple ability sounds easy at first glance but for many it is an impossible minefield that they find hard to navigate. That has now changed with this new book!

Dr. Leah Wright returned to her childhood home in rural Pennsylvania with her husband to find peace and quiet, start afresh, and raise her six-year-old daughter Emily. But when she gets home one dark winter night, clutching roses in her hand, she finds her daughter huddled under her bed and her husband’s blood all over the floor.... When Detective Luka Jericho is called to investigate, he’s shocked to learn that the killer left a witness behind - the victim’s young daughter.

It's not everyday a girl gets married to a faerie prince of the Seelie Court. After swearing their love and loyalty to one another, Jareth is bound and determined to teach Crysta all she must learn to become queen of the Unseelie Court. But when Crysta and Jareth are attacked in the human realm, a journey to the Fae realm is put into play earlier than planned. Their hopes for marriage and a happily-ever-after are thwarted when their bonding fails and attempts on Crysta's life continue. That's not all they have to worry about.

After leaving the FBI, Lucy Guardino still feels like the new kid on the block with her team at Beacon Falls. But then, a new case involving a young woman with amnesia searching for her lost memories shines a spotlight on a past case involving one of Lucy's team members. Dr. Tommy Worth left his job as a pediatric ER physician to join the Beacon Group after his wife went missing, leaving him to raise their five-year-old daughter alone. Now, the press is hounding him on the anniversary of his wife’s disappearance.

A dark epic fantasy inspired by The Prince and the Pauper and the fairy tale The False Prince, from bestselling author C. J. Redwine. Perfect for fans of the Court of Thorns and Roses series and the Wrath and the Dawn duology, The Traitor Prince is a thrilling new standalone novel in the...

Stuck on a cruise ship with two annoying little sisters and an unquenchable reading habit, Jess wanders into the ship's bookstore in search of a book to pass the time. She discovers Gobblegroomer, a book that, to Jess' amazement, contains an adventure even stranger than its title. Davis' The Library at the Center of the World is the imaginative story of a young bibliophile's journey into the heart of storytelling.

LIMBUS, INC. is a shadowy employment agency that operates at the edge of the normal world. LIMBUS's employees are just as suspicious and ephemeral as the motives of the company, if indeed it could be called a company in the ordinary sense of the word. In this shared-world anthology, five heavy hitters from the dark worlds of horror, fantasy, and sci-fi pool their warped takes on the shadow organization that offers employment of the most unusual kind to those on the fringes of society.

Albert Hourani's 1991 work, A History of the Arab Peoples, is unsurpassed as an overview of Arab history, from the rise of Islam to the late 20th century. Going far beyond the political history that had generally characterized previous examinations, Hourani integrates a wide range of scholarship to provide a deep analysis of social, cultural, and economic structures. His interest in the everyday lives of Arab people and his desire to understand what united - rather than divided - many different nationalities gives listeners a new and vital perspective on the region.

Identical twins, Heather and Julie had often joked about swapping men. One boring evening in the pub, Julie dared her more timid sister to do exactly that: a night with each other's boyfriend's without them knowing. Unwittingly overheard, an unexpected chain of events kicks off that results in Heather falling into the hands of a rich, resourceful and perverted master. Life is about to take a different direction for the girls.

After having her heart broken, Brooke tries to rebuild her life and closes herself off from the one man she loved deeply. When she meets Grayson, a photographer, she has no idea that her new boss will offer her more than she bargained for. The pay is great, and her new friends are more than welcoming. Everything seems to be running well - until everyone insists that she find herself a new suitor during a night out.

Welcome back to Hellywood!! Hell Comes to Hollywood II features 22 short horror fiction stories, all set in the entertainment industry, and written by actors, screenwriters, producers, and other Hollywood-connected scribes. The audiobook contains the Bram Stoker Award-nominated stories "Hot Tub" by Hal Bodner, and "Dreams of a little Suicide" by Eric J. Guignard.