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After nearly a decade of marital bliss, Callie and Jonah remain as infatuated with each other as they had been on their wedding night. Callie keeps him on a tight leash and most certainly wears the trousers in their relationship. Sometimes, she makes him watch while she and her old friend Elsa get intimate with each other. He would do anything to please her, and watching them together appeals to his submissive tendencies.

Flora had never much been one for parties or social gatherings. As a history major studying for the final year of her master’s degree, she would much prefer the company of a textbook and a mug of hot cocoa. However, when the opportunity arises to visit a grand banquet at a famous medieval castle, she jumps at the chance. Upon her arrival, she immediately catches the eye of the master of ceremonies - the beautiful and enigmatic Luna.

Having been blown away by seeing Gary Numan perform "Bombers" on TV in 1978, Five went out the very next day and put an ad in the paper to form a tribute band. He named it the Romford Bombers. They soon went on to dominate the Numan tribute band circuit. Until last year that is, when the Storm Troopers came out of nowhere and stole their crown. The Bombers’ 56-year-old lead singer will do whatever it takes to win it back. He also has reason to believe The Storm Troopers are pursuing a hidden agenda, and he’s determined to get to the bottom of it.

Can betrayal and obsession lead to love? Shane Vaughn has it all. Well, almost. Fame, success, and money can only get her so far. After surviving a devastating heartbreak at the hands of the all-consuming Jacob Andrews, she's demanding no-strings, uncomplicated liaisons from now on. Where could she find a simple distraction from Jacob? The exclusive pleasure club, The Resort. The masked Dom with the blue-eyed gaze could work. He was hypnotizing and mysterious, rendering her powerless. A seductively simple decision.

On another planet, 200 years in the future, 21-year-old Isla Jane struggles helplessly to figure out who she is and what her world really means. Marked with a forbidden tattoo of the rising sun, she is a natural champion of humanity. She is also a gifted warrior in Heats - lavish battles fought in the conjoined minds of the participants for the morbid amusement of the masses.

A half-woman, half-cockroach fused in a bizarre gardening accident? That would be Mrs Jittery Twitch, dwelling in the shadows of our misdeeds. If in danger, you can call upon her help...all she asks is your soul as payment. But she’s just a legend, so no need to worry. Barry Harris is a 28-year-old man, still living with his dear old mum in a little flat above a hairdresser. His obsession with Star Trek and the martial arts won’t help him when he’s forced out on a date. And nobody knows about the weird string of events that’s about to put everyone’s lives in danger.

In the center of a magical world there grows a beautiful and terrible chasm of climbing plants. On one side of the Ivy Wall we find the hell-of-Tyndra, on the other, the heaven-of-Ardnyt. But legend has it that in the middle…lives a preternatural beast that imprisons and tortures the children from both sides. When the war against time begins, Azza will have to cross over the Ivy Wall, something that has never been done before by a living being. But if she does make it through, she just might discover who she really is and how she became trapped in this alternate reality.

Elise Phillips, a doctor in training, has successfully repressed her kidnapping five years prior. The only problem is...she has six and one half days to remember every terrible detail, or a total stranger will die. But to make matters even worse, in order to save this nameless woman, Elise will have to face something that scares her even more than death-intimacy.

Vitamin D deficiency is estimated to affect half of all children and adults worldwide and is one of the most common medical conditions impacting the world today. We've scoured hundreds of research articles on Vitamin D and have summarized the results in an easy to read format that aims to answer many questions.

Devyn Mitchell has a choice… listen to the voice of her unborn baby - or die - again. After a near death experience, Doctor Devyn Mitchell finds herself not only mysteriously pregnant but able to communicate with her fetus. She has two choices: give in to total madness or surrender to her new reality, which just may be the only way she and her family will survive the obsessions of the Homeless Hunter’s mind.

Auben Mutze has more vices than he can deal with - six to be exact - each branded down his arm for the world to see. They mark him as a lesser twin in society, as inferior, but there’s no way he’ll let that define him. Intelligent and outgoing, Auben’s spirited antics make him popular among the other students at his underprivileged high school. So what if he’s envious of his twin Kasim, whose single vice brand is a ticket to a better life, one that likely won’t involve Auben. Then Auben starts hearing voices that speak to his dangerous side - encouraging him to perform evil deeds....

From one of China’s foremost authors, Jia Pingwa’s Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing contemporary China, in all its humor and pathos, as seen through the eyes of Happy Liu, a charming and clever rural laborer who leaves his home for the gritty, harsh streets of Xi’an in search of better life.

In ihrer idyllischen Kleinstadt führt Hannah ein beschauliches und normales Leben, bis ein schreckliches Ereignis all ihre Wünsche und Hoffnungen für die Zukunft zunichte macht. Nur das Angebot einer mysteriösen Frau, die sich als Erdmutter vorstellt, könnte Hannah ihr altes Leben wiedergeben. Doch will die junge Frau wirklich zu einer der Jahreszeiten ausgebildet werden, um fortan in Gaias Diensten zu stehen? Eine Entscheidung, die Hannahs Leben für immer verändern wird.

Sam takes his first steps into the wonderful world of BDSM, trained by the experienced Miss Raven. But does he have the courage to see his lesson through or will he go crying home to mummy? He'll only know once the punishment starts, but by then it's too late to change his mind....

Maggie has fallen on hard times, recently having lost her job as a secretary at a PR firm. About to resort to desperate measures, she notices a mysterious advert in the newspaper asking for volunteers for a clinical trial. On the promise of a significant pay-day, Maggie agrees to cut off all ties with the outside world, but is she really ready to take on the role of human cow that the mysterious pharmaceutical company have in mind for her? This prologue to the erotic Maggie the Milked Maid series is a must for milk-lovers everywhere.

Mars, the red planet, is ingrained in our culture, from David Bowie's extra-terrestrial spiders to Captain Scarlet to War of the Worlds. It has inspired hundreds of authors, scientists and science-fiction writers - but why? What is it about this particular planet that makes it so intriguing? Ancient mythologies defined Mars as a violent harbinger of war, star-gazers puzzled over its peculiar motion, and astrologers defined human personalities by its position and bizarre dance through the sky.

The book traces an expanded, inspirational view of the human consciousness, origin, and nature. The simple practical tools given for self-empowerment focus on developing our evolving heart-felt inner guidance system.

In this book, some of the core principals of NLP will be explained and many of the techniques that are said to make the magic happen will be talked about. The model itself can be viewed as a guide to living a certain way, or it can be used to compliment your own philosophy. You could also use it to convince people of just about anything. The key to using NLP effectively is perseverance. You can try and you can fail, but the positivity that is needed to pick yourself back up again is sometimes a heavy load, so NLP offers solutions for this as well.

Theodore Roosevelt was the president who changed America and molded it into the country that we know and love today. He was the man who took the Presidency to new heights and introduced new powers that were designed to tackle many of the pressing issues of the day.

When the British army is sent into Spain to help expel Napoleon's invaders, nothing goes as expected. Not for London newsman Sam Kerr, hunting a story that will win him the editor's chair, who instead nets one that could wreck his career.