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Where is the line between agony and pleasure? Lexus Davenport bet everything to dive into the deep end of this unknown world. For weeks, she's experienced agony, in many forms, at the hand of Estate. Now, sitting on the edge of it all, will her new contract bring a new perspective? Will she embrace her alternative path to pleasure? Pain may just be her only relief.

This treatise deals with the practice of alchemy in medicine, and the use of antimony and lead in particular. Roger Bacon provides the recipe for processing antimony to make the famous red oil of the philosophers. In Bacon’s opinion, this elixir was efficacious against a wide array of afflictions like fever, plague, gout, and leprosy. 

When Rie decided to walk into the sea, she was saved by a mysterious girl named Ryoka. Through her, Rie rediscovered a new purpose in life, and a passionate friendship. But Ryoka had her own dark past, and their friendship may not be able to withstand the secrets between them. Will either girl survive, when they’ve put their faith in each other?

 A young Minnesota housewife arrives at the long tunnel leading to Whittier, Alaska, exhausted from a run for her life after witnessing her husband commit a murder. While earthquake-scarred Whittier is the perfect haven due to its geographic isolation, not everyone is as they seem and most harbor secrets of their own. 

John must hide three things to maintain his famous sex icon reputation: dating his male bodyguard, being bisexual, and having an abnormal ability. If he's outed, his acting career is over, but when another abnormal becomes an underground test subject, he must free them before their connection goes public. His ex-girlfriend stopped these experiments once, and he needs her ruthless help again, even if it puts his new relationship at risk.

Kari, a young woman, has returned to the jungle planet of Dora after 10 years in Earth's schools, determined to unravel the mysteries surrounding the harpies, a misunderstood and vilified species. The harpy resemble creatures out of ancient Earth myth; half-bird and half-human, with graceful human bodies and beautiful and valuable feathered wings.

The search for intelligent life goes too far when ambitious aeronautics company Daemon Technologies steals an artifact from an alien world. Its inhabitants, powerful creatures called Nails, drive the human trespassers back to Planet Edom where they are forced to regroup. Within a generation, Daemon builds military academies around the world in search for soldiers capable of using the stolen technology, forged into humanoid war-machines called Voices, against their newfound enemy.

Treeka can’t tell friend from foe. As New York lies in battle-ravaged ruin, the desperate cyborg struggles to evade murderous hordes of humans infected by a maniacal doctor’s neurotoxin. Plotting her next move to safety, she modifies her appearance to stay one step ahead of a covert sniper targeting her for elimination. But with a power-hungry scientist and a hidden enemy ruthless in their pursuit, she fears the nightmare-filled streets will soon become her final resting place. Will Treeka live to see another dawn, or has she arrived at her grave? 

Lexus' world was turned upside down. As she embraces a life she didn't know could exist, can she live under Mr. Andrews' exquisite control, or will failure cost everything she thinks she wants in life?

A Fish Has No Word for Water is a memoir about what it's really like for homeless kids, the strength of chosen family, and a hard love letter to San Francisco.

Three hundred years after a great war shattered the Council of Races, the warrior Rüddan have all but eradicated their cousins, the faerie Aethel. In so doing, they decimated the Dryht sages and enslaved mortal Humanity. In order to save her people from being wiped out by the Rüddan, Sabine, a Human healer, must overcome generations of bitterness, suspicion, and fear incited by a betrayal centuries old and forge an alliance among enemy races. But what chance does she have when one of those races is extinct and her dreams of freedom threaten every remaining race on the planet?

No amount of goodness we do in life can cover our sins or make us clean. The truth is only the blood of Jesus Christ can make us clean. It washes us white and allows us to become whiter than snow. How can someone be washed in the blood and become whiter than snow? But the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us so we become righteous and without sin. It is as though we had never sinned before in our life. Remember, Jesus is the Lord of Heaven and Earth and is called the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. This is not a physical cleansing, but a spiritual one.

Aided by a race she once believed extinct, Sabine Rhyonselle has escaped the Rüddan who enslaved her and fled Khapor. Now half a world away, she joins the Aethel prince Aodhan and his companions in a race to beat the Rüddan to the one thing that can secure humanity's freedom: the godstone Fyrleoht.

Mark is uprooted from his home and high school in the Twin Cities and forced to move with his family into a Victorian in Nowhere-ville. Busy with the relocation and fitting in, Mark’s parents don’t see what’s unfolding around them—the way rooms and left behind objects seem alive with a haunted past.

A pastry chef, Claire’s heart is breaking. Her marriage is crumbling, but her determined mother has a plan. Claire’s annual friends retreat morphs into a couple’s weekend to bring a husband and wife back together. The new couple experience at Daydream Island might be the key for a second chance at love.