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CHUCK - My father’s African American CFO thinks she’s my boss. I’ll have her bent over her desk begging for more before she knows what hit her. If anyone finds out about my intentions with her, I’ll be out on street and shipped off back to London. But I can keep a secret…I bet she can too with these come-hither brown eyes that she can’t keep off me. Nobody says no to Chuck Banks. It’s only a matter of time before she’s MINE.

Her ex sold her to pay off a gambling debt... And now her body belongs to Nashville's hottest heartthrob - the rebellious guitarist Seb Jefferson. Angie hates celebrities. She would never relent to a sin-soaked playboy like him. Nothing will change her mind... Not his flawlessly chiseled body. Not his skills with his tongue... And especially not his money.

"In der Form der Aussage (...) wurde zunehmend ein Problem wichtig: Es muß gelingen, die Substanz der Philosophie, wenn sie einmal erarbeitet ist, in eine einfache Reflexionsfolge und Sprache zu bringen, sodass Philosophie ohne Substanzverlust nach einem elitären auch ein allgemeines Denken werden kann. "Die 'Einführung in die Philosophie" (1950) war der erste und glücklichste Versuch darin (...)." (Hans Saner)

Captain Clayton Cross and his crew encountered the Kyra, an advanced race of avian carnivores. They fled this first encounter, but the Kyra beat them back to Earth by almost a century. Earth lost the war in just a few weeks. Our cities burned, and billions died. After we surrendered, the Kyra helped us to rebuild, but on their terms, confining us to city centers and building high walls to keep us in.

Eve never thought she'd fall for a guy in the mafia. But Nico is persistent and refuses to take no for an answer.He wants to make Eve his... No matter the cost.She can't allow herself to fall in love with a guy like that. But she does.And her life changes forever. Through childbirth, heartbreak, and uncovered secrets, Eve and Nico prove that interracial love can last a lifetime.

With a fragile peace established in the Enclave between humans and Chimeras, both species must learn to put aside their differences to ensure their continued survival. But racial tensions are simmering just beneath the surface, ready to explode. Meanwhile, Clayton and Samara’s daughter, Dora, might be the answer that everyone is looking for: her immunity to both strains of the Chimeran virus could soon lead to a cure, making it possible to establish new settlements beyond the Enclave.

2069: Earth is dying, and society is on the brink of collapse. We are out of time to save the planet. All that’s left is to watch the world burn, but the apocalypse is about to take an unexpected twist. Alice Rice has discovered the impossible: a potentially habitable world in close proximity to Earth. The media is calling it Planet B.

Darius Drake is desperate to save his daughter, Cassandra. So desperate he's willing to risk their lives in cryo-sleep to give her a future. But the dark, freezing vault where he wakes up is nothing like the luxurious Florida hospital he remembers. Everything about this place is alien to him, even the language. Little does he know how alien it really is. Darius and his daughter go exploring their new surroundings with a few others from the cryo pods, and they soon discover frozen, mutilated bodies everywhere.

Maar dat is lang niet het enige succesverhaal op haar palmares. Na een onbezonnen start als Limburgse kleuterjuf bouwde deze grande dame vanaf de late jaren 1960 een indrukwekkende carrière uit, op televisie en vooral in haar geliefde theater. Als docente begeesterde ze generaties acteurs en actrices in onder andere de Britse Guildford School of Acting. Aan het conservatorium in Brussel ontdekte ze het talent van Veerle Baetens, James Cooke en nog vele andere studenten. Als zangeres bracht ze Marlene Dietrich opnieuw tot leven.

Do you trust a Gemini man? Natasha, a superstitious half-Haitian college student, practices "birthday racism" like you wouldn't believe. While cutting off every Gemini she knows from social media and the rest of her life, she makes one critical mistake. Moving in with one.

Mysteries abound in the new world: Who are the so-called architects that built the Menagerie System? Why are people being brought to Novus, and why is no one allowed to leave? With dozens of new arrivals appearing by the day, the abductees must hurry to organize themselves if they are to defend against the many dangers on Novus. Meanwhile, trouble is looming on Earth. With the discovery of Planet B’s healing water, superpowers are racing faster than ever to colonize the new world.

Ronice Milton is a no-nonsense professor who doesn’t take orders from men—especially arrogant, know-it-all builders. When she hires a contractor for home renovations, she meets a man named Derek, whose hands are just as skilled in construction as they are at driving her wild.

An imaginative tale for 4 to 7 year olds. Come and meet Nelson and Mr Woznotiz.Nelson had just moved to this country when he met Mr Woznotiz, the wildest, wackiest imaginary friend anyone has ever had and he was a little scared and lonely. Mr Woznotiz fixed all that at first, but when Nelson wants to make real friends Mr Woznotiz starts to get in the way. Then Nelson meets Marjane a clever little girl with a really imaginative way to solve his problem.

Bill Steele is in the trenches, trying to survive in the competitive world of luxury vacation resorts on the island of Kauai. Then a dark shadow falls over the island. It’s not a lunar eclipse, because Bill can clearly see the crescent moon shimmering on the water. This is something else. Moments later, the meteors begin to fall. One of them lands in the water just beyond the resort. On the news, the anchorman is fleeing from his hillside vantage point with his cameraman in hot pursuit. Their muffled screams are the last thing anyone hears before the signal is lost....

The Deliverance is low on fuel and stranded in the middle of a war zone. Tanik Gurhain claims to have relinquished his hold on the crew, and yet they’ve all mysteriously elected him as their rightful leader, anyway. Blake is back to his skeptical self, and alarm bells are going off in Darius’s head, but with no fuel and the Eye of Thanatos blocked by increasingly tight Cygnian patrols, it hardly matters who suspects Tanik of foul play. He has a captive audience for the next phase of his plan.

Humanity has just won a major victory against the invading Sythians - the first victory in the history of the war. The savage Gors have joined forces with Dark Space, and now for the first time since the invasion, it looks like the tide is turning. But the Sythians weren't defeated. Humanity just bloodied their noses. Now they know where Dark Space is, and they are coming back for revenge.

A podcast starring Justin Hicks, David Cooper, and Jasper Dobb. We talk about a variety of topics, such as stories from our lives and weird memories. Each episode is a casual, fun, and interesting conversation amongst friends.

Criminal attorney Liam Price can't believe his luck. He scored a deal for a suite aboard the Starlit Dream to the exotic world of Aquaria. He surprises his wife, Aria, with the trip for her 40th birthday, and the Price family gets ready for the trip of a lifetime. Soon after the voyage starts, they learn that they’ve somehow jumped to the wrong star system. Liam consults the ship’s computer to determine their location, but he can't access the navigational data. The captain claims that there’s nothing to worry about. Then the ship plunges into darkness....

Darius vaporized the Cygnian home world to end the war before it began. It didn’t work. Little does he know, he's been played for a sucker from the start. Terrible as the Cygnians are, there is a more ruthless enemy manipulating the Union to tear itself apart in a bloody war between the Revenants and the Cygnians. Darius is surging up the ranks in the Revenant fleet, winning victory after victory, but they're all hollow with his daughter, Cassandra, frozen in cryo and no way to safely wake her.

Omnius has been hiding a lot from the people of Avilon. The war with the Sythians is not what we thought, but that raises the question: If not the Sythians, then what did Omnius go to fight in the Getties Cluster? Omnius knows what people will do before they do it. He predicts citizens' behavior, and, some suspect, he even makes those predictions come true.