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Ambassador Janel is proud to have finally brokered an alliance with the powerful Haraden. What cinched the deal? The Haraden warriors want brides. Since war ravaged her planet's male population they actually have a surplus of women looking for husbands. It seems like a win-win.

Recent college grad and rare female Jaguar Michelle is ready to mate, but her spirit has bonded to two Jaguar males instead of one. How can she reconcile her love when the men she's bonded to despise each other?

By 1970 racial tension was at a breaking point in the Southern town of Gallatin, Tennessee. Desegregation had emotions running high. The town was a powder keg ready to erupt. But it was also on the verge of something incredible. Eddie Sherlin and Bill Ligon were boys growing up on opposite sides of the tracks who shared a passion for basketball. They knew the barriers that divided them - some physical landmarks and some hidden in the heart - but those barriers melted away when the boys were on the court.

High Lord Deandred now possesses Rand, a cocky stealth fighter who caused him no end of trouble during the war. Deandred needs to satisfy his potent lust for conquest during the truce. Conquering Rand will be just the diversion he needs. Surrendering to become a prisoner was never in Rand's service contract - especially not when he's being handed over to the super-human deviant who's been trying to catch him for years. Now he's just supposed to turn himself over?

Kind-hearted Maritza was kidnapped and transported 2,000 years into the future to be the bride for one of the aliens who conquered Earth. After a difficult adjustment, Maritza has come to care for her husband, Lord Elentinus. The last thing she needs is for a troubled alien/human couple to visit. Inga, bride to the cruel Lord Nayjoor, begs Maritza to help her escape. Now Maritza must make a choice: betray her husband, or betray her people?

The horrors of planet Secren reveal themselves to Demetri one by one, making him even more desperate. His parasitic computer guide, Brainbox, continues to tell Demetri his only chance for survival is to become the "beta" (lover in the submissive role) to the charming mine overlord, Malstrum. Someone is after Demetri's claims and the precious beads his group must mine in order to have food for survival. Their new enemy is named Flurry.

The heroes of Lavintia need the mysterious demigod Xenoskar's help, but his price is the submission of one of their most beautiful members. Will it be the sweet and compliant Rin-Timber, his defiant and unnaturally possessive older twin brother Taylen - or both of them?

Lord Elentinus may be one of the alien tyrants who has enslaved planet Earth, but he's shown his captive human bride Maritza nothing but kindness and compassion. She feels ready to yield to his formidable sexual desire.

Megalomaniac Maximus always achieves his goals. Right now, his goal is to destroy a massive army that tried to draft him using a mind control device. The only way Maximus can accomplish this is with a Rig-mertian: an alien that can transform into an invincible monster. Zolabarth is the Rig-mertian lent out to Maximus. Since Zolabarth is so destructive, his master cursed him with a weaker form. Every time Zolabarth takes his monster form, he has to become a female afterward.

"I must ask you - with greatest respect, Lord Demon...." The general looked up with eyes maddened by fury. "Why do you drape your arm around the divine emperor with such intimate familiarity?" Rodukjo stared down his nose at the general. "Your emperor has but one thing of value to offer in exchange for my fealty. The pleasures of his body."

Straight student Ryan got kicked out of the dorms. His BFF's gay older brother has a spare bedroom for him - but not for free.

From Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address in 1861 to his brief remarks on the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, battlefield in 1863 to his Second Inaugural Address given in 1865, America's 16th president, in three key speeches, defined the course of the nation's entry into, through, and out of the Civil War. These three speeches tell the story of a nation's stubborn reluctance to face peacefully the challenge of slavery, disunion, and war among the states.

Rachel Monette arrives home to a scene of unspeakable violence: Her French-born husband, Dan, is dead - the victim of a savage stabbing - and her five-year-old son is missing. A neighbor claims she saw a rabbi taking Adam away. But there are no synagogues in Williamstown. The only clue is a letter Rachel finds in Dan's safety deposit box. Written in 1942, it's about the reassignment of three German soldiers to a place called Camp Siegfried in the supposedly unoccupied western part of North Africa.

After his unit is decimated in the Israeli war, Lieutenant Isaac Rehv returns to Haifa to find his family savagely murdered. Torn apart with grief and rage, he vows that his enemies - and the enemies of Israel - will pay. As Rehv prepares to unleash his secret weapon on an unsuspecting Islamic world, a terrorist watch group, led by a former CIA agent named Krebs, follows his every move. But Krebs may be too late to prevent the coming destruction.

While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect on January 1, 1863. Freeing the slaves held in the still Confederate controlled states, it is heralded as one of America's most significant documents.

Drei Jahre vor seiner Wahl zum Papst sprach Franziskus mit seinem langjährigen Freund, dem Rabbiner Abraham Skorka...

Jean-Pierre Abraham a fait le choix du phare d'Armen comme on décide d'entrer dans un monastère. Ce sera le lieu de l'attente. Les mains occupées par les besognes routinières comme le moine est requis par le cycle des rites, le gardien de phare se fait guetteur de lui-même : "Si quelque chose doit surgir, ce ne peut être que du fond de moi. Et voilà que je guette encore, comme si on allait frapper à la porte".

Dans ce passionnant dialogue placé sous le signe de l'humilité, de la simplicité et de l'ouverture, le pape et son interlocuteur abordent tous les grands thèmes spirituels, sociétaux, philosophiques et moraux. Ces deux importantes figures religieuses débattent ici de sujets tels que Dieu, le diable, le fondamentalisme, l'athéisme, la mort, la Shoah, mais aussi de sujets profondément d'actualité comme l'homosexualité, l'avortement, l'euthanasie, le capitalisme, l'argent, la mondialisation... Le premier livre audio pour comprendre les grands axes de la pensée du nouveau Souverain Pontife.

"Ce livre audio est offert afin d'aider ceux qui recherchent vraiment la maîtrise créatrice de leur propre expérience de vie. Il vous amène à faire ce que vous aviez projeté de réaliser au moment où vous avez pris la décision de vous incarner dans ce corps physique".

The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War, directed to all of the areas in rebellion and all segments of the Executive branch (including the Army and Navy) of the United States. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the eleven states that were still in rebellion, excluding areas controlled by the Union and thus applying to 3 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at the time.