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Mortimer and his brothers are looking for a home base for the Killove Brotherhood. Each has their own reason to hate everything to do with romance and love. For Mortimer, he has the ability to read emotions - to know the moment when love dies, so has sworn off love. Cory, real estate agent extraordinaire, sees something in Gertrude. She may just be the answer to his prayers. He’s tired of having to drive away the socialites who want to marry their princesses off and he wasn’t ready to pander to those who want a family man working for them.

Years ago, two children survived an explosion that killed their parents and older brother. Now, those distant events have far-reaching consequences when Leana Lonergan is killed in a car accident. Leana was the wealthy, beautiful, and brilliant wife of Gar, but due to the circumstances of her death, authorities aren’t sure if this was an accident or murder. On the west side of Massachusetts, Major Crimes Unit Captain Rudy Beauregard and his detectives are on the case. Gar is the most likely suspect with motive, but Beauregard isn’t sure of anything yet.

Life has not turned out the way Dorothy Evens, the head of the clan, dreamed it would. Now she returns home from a dead-end job every night and seeks comfort in a bottle of vodka to numb the pain. Her children find other ways to deal with life in the hood. Danny is on a paper chase, trying to make money and stay alive in spite of threats from a rival dealer. Regina keeps herself busy juggling her children’s fathers, all the while dreaming that someday she will find a man to take her away from the hood.

For the duration of her freshman year, Darcy Pennington agonized over the fate of her dear friend - the nark Yahto Veli - who sacrificed himself to the Oracle to set her free. As her third trip to camp, and to the magical land, approaches, Darcy wonders if she's capable of the daring rescue she wants to embark upon. But soon, she realizes there's much more at stake.

Fifty years after the moon landings, the commercialization of space travel is finally here, but do we still know how to dream? Final Frontier recalls the heady thrill of the Apollo era and glimpses wonders yet to come. Inside, find a dozen uplifting stories of humor, tragedy, sacrifice and good old fashioned cussedness by today's award-winning authors - plus a healthy dose of optimism. All that, plus a forward by a NASA astronaut and a piece by Spider Robinson, inspired by Robert Heinlein. The Final Frontier is open for business!

After a brutal introduction to sex leaves Prince Philippe stunned and in pain, the young Monsieur meets his namesake, Philippe, the Chevalier d’Lorraine. In the other Philippe, the prince finds a kind and kindred spirit and falls instantly in love. Although younger than the prince, the chevalier is possessed with confidence and knowledge beyond his years. His gentle hand assures the prince that love is possible after all. Philippe and Philippe are both historical figures who lived in 17th century France.

This is a creation of insightful expressions that captures the mind through descriptive language. Each minute of this audiobook is hand-crafted for a unique purpose and written in the passion of inspiration. This collection of poetic expressions treads beyond traditional poetry, and births a new era of inspired writings. Prepare to become encouraged, motivated, and uplifted.

Give: An Anthology of Anatomical Entries explores, from head to toe, the varying reasons why someone might donate an organ, tissue, or other body part, and how. Featuring 24 twisted short stories from authors including Christine Morgan, Kerry G.S. Lipp, Gio Clairval, and others.

A serial killer hunts the beautiful street of Sunnyside Road, an elegant neighborhood in Western Massachusetts. So far, six preteens are dead, and families are devastated. Despite involvement by the FBI, state police, and local authorities, no clues are forthcoming, and citizens hunker down in fear of further death. The neighborhood becomes an isolated island of potential bloodshed as no one can afford to move. Who would buy a grand home on a street cloaked in carnage?

In the town of Tilden live a farmer and his wife. For many years, they’ve enjoyed a simple, agrarian existence, raising their twin children, Gwyneth and Gavin. Tilden has always been a place of peace, and its residents could never imagine the fate that’s soon to befall them. When a vicious dragon begins to plague the village, burning buildings and stealing stores, even the strongest adults will be at a loss. After all, what purpose could their walls or their weaponries really serve? Thick of skin and fiery of temper, a sky-borne behemoth can’t be stopped so easily.

Darcy and her five friends have come back to Cedar Cove Family Camp and Alitheia. This return is bittersweet because her elusive purpose in the magical realm continues to evade her. Egged on by Tellius, the boy prince she is prophesied to marry, Darcy impulsively "petitions"...the Oracle and requests it give her information as to her purpose. To receive her answer, she must travel to the Oracle. She embarks on a journey with her friends and Yahto Veli, the nark. Too late she realizes her selfish entreaty has thrown the entire outcome of the prophecy itself into question.

Her parents were the modern day Romeo and Juliet. Now Rose faces hatred and fear from all sides. Not knowing who to trust, Rose and her men go into hiding while researching her past. But once again she finds herself under attack from the demon lord. Is she strong enough to play his mental games and protect her family? Will her men love her when they find out about her past? Will they accept her savior as one of them?

Madison, the wife of millionaire veterinarian Dr. Carston Spencer, discovers through a private investigator that her husband is plotting to steal their life savings and vanish forever. Along the way, Carston considers murdering his best friend's mistress in a vengeful plot to get rid of her since she's a witness to their disturbing plan. Madison decides to take a gamble in a vigilante effort to seek justice.

Chosen, now she is forced to serve those she hates. Kenna must forget her past and her family and submit to the will of the Dragon Lords. But she quickly learns that everything she has been told and thought isn’t as it seems. Cursed for more than 300 years to live in their dragon form, never able to shift, the Dragon Lords must find their humanity and the one who can withstand the flames to break the curse.

They are hedonists and sadists, every last one of them. That is what Rose thinks after months in captivity. Had she known her job as a research librarian in the magical repository would have caused her to end up as a slave to these creatures, she would have run the other way. But now she and her guardians are at the whim of their captors. Are they strong enough to fight, or will they lose themselves into the role of slaves?

Big challenges don't have to cause big meltdowns! Follow along as a young girl encounters multiple challenges, devises her own solutions, and creates her own super awesome, really fun, amazingly good day. All the tiny little things we do and say add up to the people our children become. The stories we read and listen to will stick with them in subtle ways. My Super Awesome, Really Fun, Amazingly Good Day will help them look through the bad parts of their days and see the positive side.

Darcy Pennington hates her life. She is an insufferably average teenager with no real friends, crushing social anxiety, and an indescribable sense of not fitting in anywhere. A change in her dad's job forces her to attend Cedar Cove Family Camp the summer before her eighth-grade year, and Darcy once again finds herself on the outside of a social circle of teenagers, with her only advocate being an awkward girl named Samantha Palm. The only problem is, Darcy has no desire to be friends with her, but as the hostility from the other teenagers increases, she decides to return the friendship.

This would be Lowen Westmon’s first Christimas since the passing of her father. She decides she'll make the most of it and spend her holiday with nothing more than sappy Christmas movies and a ton of alcohol to get her through it. However, her plans are derailed when the second half of her duplex cabin gets rented out for the next two weeks by three sexy men who are in town for an all-male, holiday strip show. At first, she's thrilled to have such hot man candy right next door.

In 1954, two Bedouin boys unearthed an ancient jewel-encrusted box, and more than a half century later, the box has reappeared on the black market. A rogue CIA agent believes that Army Chaplain Jaime Richards knows its whereabouts and its mysteries. After a three-year stay in the Garden of Eden, Jaime was armed with eternal secrets and knowledge, but the reappearance of the illustrious Treasure of Eden just might be the biggest threat Jaime has ever faced. Having escaped one pursuer, Jaime is determined to find the treasure before it and its secrets fall into the wrong hands.

Claudia Wilson never quite trusted her roommate, an artist named Tom. After finding a body buried in a snow bank outside her front door, her suspicions about his eccentric behavior only worsen. Unemployed and obsessed with the murder, she realizes how little she knows about the people who live around her, including Tom. Tempted by love but unable to trust a man with a past in light of the murder, Claudia does everything she can to find out about the killer. The results lead her to a startling discovery.