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Vicky Peterwald is no longer just the heir apparent to an imperial dynasty. She survived naval training and proved her mettle in combat to help the starving people of the ravaged world of St. Petersburg. Now she is truly a grand duchess, leading a growing battle fleet in a rebellion against the tyranny of her stepmother, the empress.

When one wedding leads to another.... Kate Parker distracts herself from her memories by keeping busy - and how better than organising weddings for Dolphin Bay's sweethearts? But tall, dark and handsome tycoon Sam Lancaster's arrival suddenly has Kate forgetting where she left the confetti. And mysterious Sam will be around awhile longer - because he's got to oversee Kate's building project!

Sheri Rose Shepherd was overweight, depressed, and emotionally distraught from an eating disorder when she discovered God's design for spiritual and physical health. In Fit for Excellence, she shares the biblical principles not only for losing weight but also for gaining a self-image based on Christ's image of you.

Seeking revenge for her brother's death, Grand Duchess Vicky Peterwald underwent an unlikely transformation - from pampered heir to naval lieutenant. Now a new challenge looms: Vicky will need to use both her military and political ranks to rebuild war-torn planets, planets ruined both by the Peterwald Empire and by Kris Longknife's revolutionary quests.

Nachdem der Riesenroboter OLD MAN gewissermaßen aus der Vergangenheit aufgetaucht ist, sitzt der Schock bei den Menschen tief - und jetzt kommen noch die Hypnokristalle als zusätzliche Bedrohung hinzu. Diese unheimliche Gefahr macht aus Menschen willenlose Sklaven. Die neue Bedrohung des Solaren Imperiums und aller intelligenten Wesen in der Milchstraße sprengt alle Vergleiche mit vorher Dagewesenem.

1814, London's Covent Garden entices rich and poor alike with a cocktail of gin, beer and sex. In the surrounding parishes a group of young men are found murdered, all of them wearing masks, all of them behind locked doors. Constable Charles Horton's investigation into these violent crimes begins at Thorpe Lee House in Surrey, where accusations of witchcraft have swept the village. What connects these broken London men, and a village awash with talk of burning witches?

The Magnificent Jumbalia Kornwell is the creative signature story of pushing forward against the barriers that arise, to quiet the fundamentals of young creativity. The unnamed narrator learns from Jumbalia Kornwell that stories are at the core of creativity, and stories move you, and they are meant to be told.

One man's experiences of living with bogeymen and his struggle in the end to figure out who are family and who are the real monsters. A unique and humorous look at a ridiculous situation.

When shots are fired, bodies turn cold. Detective Andrea Mainiero knows this all too well when a squad of home invaders raid her house after a night of lovemaking. Her boyfriend is gunned down and her old friend, Lacy Barret, goes missing. Andrea and her smooth-talking partner, Bret Gamble, must shuffle through the clues of a series of crimes to discover Lacy's kidnapper.

Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Victoria Maria Teresa Inez Smythe-Peterwald, daughter of wealth and power, was raised to do little except be attractive and marry well. Then everything changed - her brother, her father’s favorite and the heir apparent, was killed in battle by Lieutenant Kris Longknife, daughter of the Peterwald’s longtime enemies. Vicky vowed revenge, but her skill set was more suitable for seduction than assassination, and she failed. Angry and disappointed, her father decided she needed military training and forced her to join the Navy.

Candy just got out of the shower when she heard someone at the door. She put on her robe that hangs on the back of the bathroom door. She hardly ever wears it, except for the rare occasion like this. As Candy walked through the living room, she could see through the glass front door a man she’d never seen before. He was tall, tan, 34 years old, had blond hair, and dressed like a banker, wearing a decent suit from The Men’s Wearhouse. But he was too built, too poised to be a banker. He was definitely a cop.

Retired Colonel Ray Longknife and Marine Captain Terrence “Trouble” Tordon come to Savannah via different routes, but what they find is the same. One bully strongman is intent on keeping power no matter what the new rules are for peace. He’s got the population cowered by thugs, and tanks at the ready. He expects to win the coming elections handily. He doesn’t expect Mrs. Trouble - aka Ruth Tordon - a Marine wife on a mission to find the drug lords that almost killed her and her husband and put them out of business - and she’s not about to be stopped.

The Magnificent Jumbalia Kornwell, Change Has Come is one in a series of imaginative literary works supported by the interesting and entertaining ideas of the life journey of Jumbalia Kornwell. It tells of a young Kornwell before his long and rewarding career as a missionary. Most listeners will find something in the story that will make them say, "Yeah, I could do something like that; Boo-Shay-Moe-Fray, sounds like something a Supernova would say."

Did you know that you can be stupid, incompetent and even moderately repulsive and still make a a fortune in television? It's done every day! Did you know that you can be a cowboy star without knowing how to ride a horse? That you can earn more than the president of a network merely by knowing how to open a refrigerator door? And that you can be a famous news commentator without knowing anything but how to sound worried? These and many more television careers await you, all described with loving detail....

From the author of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, this is the story of women becoming inexplicably pregnant. And it happens to every type of woman, regardless of race or creed, from nuns to lesbians.

It happened to Beauford Abel's wife. With her, a perfume tester called; one of his more exotic samples made her black out for a split second. At least, she thought it was a split second.... When Beauford eventually figures out what's going on, he plays amateur sleuth. But instead of finding sex maniacs, he finds brainy apes planning to invade the Earth.

Asteroid miner Mary Rodrigo and freighter owner Mattim Abeeb are green draftees of the Society of Humanity, forced to fight for Earth - a planet they’ve never even seen. Major Ray Longknife and his lover, Senior Pilot Rita Nuu, are career soldiers, invested with the cause of the Unity Party - and its ambitious new president. These four soldiers on opposing sides of the battle are about to discover the true nature of this terrible war: a quest for profit - from the high command of both sides. What they will risk is nothing less than their lives. For although truth may be the first casualty of war, it’s not going to be the last….

Have you ever thought about life? Jean Shepherd did, in his inimitable way, and Life Is will please those who can appreciate the thought and the inherent humor therein. The eight shows in this collection include performances pondering forbidden magazines, playing tuba in the school band, his old man’s love of Oldsmobiles, chauffer-driven Ferrari's, home in Hammond, the insidiousness of public relations, and so much more.

Es gibt zwei Arten von Frauen, meint Shepherd Mead, solche, die ausführen, was man ihnen sagt (vor allem, was ein Mann ihnen sagt), und solche, die Karriere machen. Die Heldin dieses Buches gehört zu den letzteren. Dennoch ist sie kein sexumwittertes, männervertilgendes Carreer-girl, sondern eher ein ganz neuer Typ von Femme fatale, der mit bestgeschärften Waffen hellwach und mühelos den Weg nach oben erklimmt.

Shepherd Mead's hilarious and timely Male Manifesto takes a fresh look at the issues and perils of the coming sexual war and exhorts his comrades-in-arms to rally 'round this book, boys, in one of the most delightfully chauvinistic satires to come along in years.

Who is 'ER? What is she? A medieval beauty whose likeness was carved on a brass burial plate back in the 14th century.... Switch to the 1960s. The lady is still snugly interred at the bottom of what is now an English garden attached to a rented house in the sleep town of Poke-on-Thames. Along comes a schoolteacher/archaeology buff fresh out of St. Louis, Missouri, who exhumes her from a bed of dahlia corms. The discovery - a rare and valuable find - sets off a chain of events that shatters the town's perennial tranquility to its staid foundations.