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Lucas Taylor has lived a long life. Though his body is failing him, his memory is still strong as he recounts his journey through life, love, and loss - and shares the incredible lessons he's learned along the way.

Detective Matilda White attempts to stop the drug Ice from being smuggled into the country. What she uncovers is her worst nightmare. A fascist regime is on the rise, using addiction and torture to take hold of the city. In order to fight back, Matilda and her all women team have to match the cartels extreme aggression and cunning. They confront the vile leaders and the hideous creatures used to kill and control with absolute terror. This war is like no other, and it tests the four women to their ends.

Perched on an unforgiving coast, the city of Anaskar is under threat from enemies within. Its own royal family feuds over possession of sentient bone masks of power, leaving Sofia Falco, daughter to the city's lord protector, to foil a conspiracy designed to strip her father of both his title and powerful Greatmask.

The Ecsoli have taken Anaskar, raiding the city for bones of the Sea God and holding King Oseto captive in his own palace. Yet there he discovers an even greater threat in the form of his own Greatmask, who grows impatient for the Sacrifice.

The enormous corpse of the Sea Beast has breached the walls, and an invasion from across the sea is threatening. Cut off from the mysterious golden egg and bereft of the hope of ever seeing his family again, Ain remains in prison, at the mercy of the new king who obviously wants something from him. Meanwhile, Flir and Luik struggle to contain the illness spreading from the Beast as Notch and Sofia begin their desperate search for her father. Charged with hunting down Vinezi, Flir and Luik find themselves thwarted at every turn.

When Alliance fleet officer Robert Sheppard is asked for help by his new allies, the Talcon, he can hardly refuse. From their planet-sized spaceship, the Talcon Starcity, the alien race is looking to establish colonies in the Milky Way. Their impressive technology forces most other planets and organizations to play nicely. The Talcon have a problem that they think Sheppard can solve. Animals from Starcity are going missing. It seems like such a simple mystery, but the solution to the puzzle will take Sheppard across space and into the hands of a strange new entity.

How does a man who lost his life to food - and ate himself into a coma - find the power to change the destructive path he was on and discover joy within himself? Read about my eight-year journey that took me from the jaws of death to a contented and satisfied life. Behind Closed Doors is my story.

A vacation is a tremendous ordeal for Emma, who doesn't like to venture outside her comfort zone. Jay is Emma's greatest admirer. He is an incorrigible optimist, as well as an ardent world traveler. For the most, Jay is naively blind to the depths of Emma's quirkiness and eccentricities. However, even he is beginning to understand that the never-ending obstacles that she constantly sets up for herself are getting increasingly out of control.

This is the story about a fictitious donut factory where all they do is make donuts. The production manager, a curious fellow with an even curious-er name - Mr. Sales Manager, is in charge of collecting the donuts and taking them to his regional manager, who then passes them on to the factory owner. One day Sales Manager's boss came to him with a direct order - "Sales...you have to make more donuts!" In fact they wanted Sales to make twice as many donuts, without adding staff or any other support. (Sound familiar?)

Rebecca Beresford left a hardscrabble farming family and never looked back. It was the best decision she ever made. She became a teacher in Riverton on the Western Slope of Colorado. The worst decision she ever made was marrying John Richards Jr., a bank manager, whose charm and worldly ways were just on loan. It was a debt the whole family would end up paying back.

So you are beautiful and sexy yet lonely. You just want love, affection. But when you can't reach between the bedroom walls into the bed of your best friend's husband, with whom you live, it becomes more than love and affection you lust after. What do you do when your thirst can't be quenched? Set on the beautiful Australian coastline, maybe, just maybe, all your dreams will come true

A drug dealer who doesn't want to deal anymore, Brazilian hit men, two shrewd trailer trash brothers, a mafia boss with a bad leg and a Chinese bodyguard fly on The Ariel. When it crashes, with 300 kilograms of pure cocaine, the trip is just beginning. Paul Hewlett is an Ivy League stockbroker who crawls from the wreckage salvaging half the cargo. He has to unload it and disappear before the mob makes him disappear.

A mockingbird denies its victim the pleasure of sleep. Comedy and drama, with a dash of mysticism, bring life-changing discoveries for everyone.

Charles finds himself in a surprising situation with his wife, Wendy, and her best friend, Samantha, as they all get to know one another. Themes of bi-curious exploration, domination, public play, and submission ring throughout this erotic tale, and Charles and Wendy's marriage is anything but typical or boring. These stories are based on real events.

When Olivia Maybone disappears, presumed kidnapped, DI Nathaniel Blackhewn is called into action. It should be a simple thing to solve, but he hears code words that change everything. The person who utters them is The Outlaw. He and the Outlaw have a personal history that will change his life forever.

Pascal Dennis offers a striking new perspective on global travel and business consulting with Reflections of a Business Nomad: Stories & Poems from the Road, a collection of prose, observations, and fragments of conversation heard over Dennis's many travels and unique experiences. Reflections of a Business Nomad invites the listener into the author s understanding of the world, providing opportunities to interact with the pieces and apply their insights. Business leaders, managers, and specialists at all levels will benefit from the unique perspective it offers.

Everyone had an agenda, and it just seemed like coincidence - and of little consequence - that they happened to end up in the small town of Cedar Falls, nestled at the base of Bakers Mountain, deep in the ancient Taconic Mountain range. Completely involved - even obsessed - with their own pursuits, it was hardly surprising that the visitors would be unaware of older agendas both within the dying town and up in the forests and ridges of the mountain looming above.

It started with a dead lady.... That chance discovery, on a dingy river bank in New Jersey, changed the life of 8-year-old Robert Galen forever. It propelled him into a lifelong study of medicine, beginning under the sage counsel of his mentor, Dr. Agnelli. In turn, his medical career led him to two ill-fated marriages and one would-be recaptured romance. Then, alone and in near despair, Galen found a new reason for being, in his old friend Bob Edison, along with his patient wife, Nancy, and in the three, orphaned Hidalgo children.

Within its modest community reside six people from two very different families - they make up the six most powerful people in the world today. Branded as "Sorcerers," they are the only six people in the world with true magical power. Yet these two families do not cooperate together and although there is no open fighting in the year 2010, things weren't always that peaceful.