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Heroes tells the tale of a daring escape from Kuwait after the invasion by Iraq and prior to Operation Desert Storm. Hawk and Ali have a common goal: get out of Kuwait alive! Using ingenuity and perseverance, they succeed in making their way through war-torn Kuwait and over a treacherous desert to Jordan - a feat Saddam Hussein deemed impossible.

With one sniff, sex researcher Leigh Fromm recognizes that any offspring she might have with the mysterious stranger would have a better-than-average chance of surviving any number of impending pandemics. But when Leigh finds out that the handsome "someone" at her great aunt's wake is Prince Roman Habsburg von Lorraine of Austria, she suddenly doubts her instincts - not that she was intending to sleep with the guy.

Her name was Crimson...and she was a legend. A beautiful pirate queen who plundered the 16th Century Caribbean sea by day and confronted voodoo and vampires during the steaming tropical nights.

What could be worse for a former high school beauty queen who never landed the only man she ever loved than attending - alone - a 10-year high school reunion in a small town teetering on the edge of a time warp? At least that's how successful textile designer Jane Louise Jones views her situation and her hometown, just south of nowhere in the rolling hills of Louisiana, where a woman is still looked at as a failure if she isn't married.

Bookish Hero Fenster and heir to a duke Arthur Watterly share a common passion: the Legend of King Arthur. When the pursuit of the original manuscript of Malory's Le Morte d'Artur leads them to be trapped overnight in a bookshop attic, they find themselves unexpectedly married. They might be happy. If only they'd admit their biggest secret: they love each other even more than they love books.

Joanna Lyon is the great-granddaughter of the legendary TwenCen musician Sean Lyon. Joanna may have inherited some of her ancestor's musical talent, but her parents' bitter divorce and her Uncle Jack's attempts to remake her into another Sean have left her hostile toward her family and music. Her passion is for science, but since she has no access to the family funds, she struggles to earn enough credits for graduate school. Then her uncle sets up a business deal with her employer....

Yolo dares you to look closer at the little flutters of negative thought that paralyze you from moving forward. It is an enlightening story of Yolo, a little spider monkey, who lives in her perch high atop the jungle floor and attempts to find happiness without ever taking a risk. Yolo is faced with the same unexpected challenges that we all deal with, including love, loss, family, abandonment, depression, and success.

We are so accustomed to wearing a mask, disguising ourselves from others, that we’ve successfully ended up disguised to ourselves. For the Sake of Sharing is a collection of spiritual poems, along with what the author considers random threads of transformative thinking, to help you remove that mask for good.

Lucy Luo. Author, Artist, Curator. Born in Beijing, China. Studied in London, Britain. Lives in NY, America.

Finding Peace follows the relationship between Miss Mazey and Jamie as they travel through the obstacles, twists, and turns of Christian living. Miss Mazey will astound you as she gently teaches Biblical principles in answer to life’s problems. She lovingly guides us through the challenges that often grip us as we go about our daily lives. Her lessons will bless you as you learn what it takes to live a peaceful, rich, and rewarding life.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Hearing What I Hear, Seeing What I See and experience the compelling world of personal trauma and healing.

Short Stuff is a compilation of both narrative and poetic forms. I have always loved writing, but it took some jolts from my life journey to lead to more introspection and more freedom to hone these writings into some publishable form.

The life of a woman who met and married an incarcerated narcissistic man—this book will take you on a journey of lies, cheating, and mental abuse as she finds her strength and courage to let go, move forward, and heal.

We live in a society of excess and extremes. In "The Golden Mean: Mindful Moderation in 7 Key Areas of Life," Dr. Anita Gadhia-Smith discusses practical psychological methods to use moderation to maximize our strengths in 7 key areas of life: time, relationships, money, food, thought, speaking and activity. By applying time-tested knowledge and powerful principles, we can learn to manage even the most difficult challenges that we face in managing our lives in today's complex world.