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To be fully educated, it is necessary to listen to the great pagan classics of Homer and Virgil and the ancient Greek playwrights. However, many Christians are often disgusted by the barbarity and violence, put off by the emphasis on honor and man-centered glory, and simply baffled by the long and tedious descriptions of battle scenes and elaborate ceremonies.

Nashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her six-year-old brother apparently sleeps through the grisly event. A few months later, a judge's son is convicted of the crime. Decades after the slaying, Michael Bishop, a private citizen, stumbles upon a secret file related to the case and with the help of some of the world's top forensic experts - including forensic psychologist Richard Walter (aka "the living Sherlock Holmes") - he uncovers the truth. What really happened is completely different from what the public was led to believe.

Beginning in the 1920s, an all-star team of goons, gunmen, and garrotters transformed America's criminal landscape. Its membership was diverse; the mob recruited men from all ethnicities and religious backgrounds. Most were natives of the Big Apple, handpicked from the city's toughest neighborhoods: Brownsville, Ocean Hill, Flushing. So prolific were their exploits that the media soon dubbed this bevy of hired hands Murder, Incorporated.

Her ambition got her up the mountain. But when this burly mountain man spies her curves, he won’t let her go… I’m not an outdoors person, I’m scared of the wild. So how did I end up halfway up a mountain in a flimsy tent? I lied, that’s how. A big, massive stonking lie to get my first break. But I didn’t count on Chase. The rugged mountain guide who’s making me sweat more than I should. A night in the wild turns from my biggest fear into my most pleasurable adventure. But what happens when the trail ends? Can I ever go back to my old life, or has the mountain claimed me for ...

She’s the city girl looking for a story. He’s the grumpy mountain man hurting from his past… Only bad things happen on Valentine’s Day, and this year looks to be no exception. I’ve been sent to the middle of nowhere mountain to write a story on a reclusive ex-military artist who doesn’t want to talk. My job’s on the line, I’ve got a pile of debt, and Mom needs me back in the city. But if I don’t get Marcus to talk, I’m fired. I’ve seen the way he looks at me, and I’m not above using my feminine curves to lure the mountain recluse out of his lair. But once he’s out,...

Born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Joseph Bonanno found his future amid the whiskey-running, riotous streets of Prohibition America in 1924, when he illegally entered the United States to pursue his dreams. By the age of only 26, Bonanno became a don. He eventually took over the New York underworld, igniting the "Castellammarese War", one of the bloodiest Family battles ever to hit New York City.

I'm a city girl through and through, but when I lose my job to the new office bimbo, I can't afford cab fare—much less my rent. So, I have no choice but to head home to regroup and figure out what I'm going to do with my life now that my career has gone down the drain. At twenty-one years old, I'm already broke and starting over, and it's more than a little depressing. But my mom recently got remarried, and she failed to tell me she sold the house, which means I have nowhere to go but to my new stepbrother's. I've never even met my stepbrother, and the guy lives way up in the mountains. ...

Disguised as a man, Josephine O'Malley strolls into a Dodge City mercantile with one thing on her mind: to even the score with the man who murdered her husband. What she doesn't count on is Fletcher Collins - the handsome and irresistible new marshal in town - bursting through the doors of the mercantile with guns blazing...and a plan to stop her from pulling the trigger.

Developing the Puritans' understanding of religious freedom, Jesse Johnson shows how Christ's followers have reasoned through this tension in past centuries, and he identifies biblical principles for navigating government restrictions in the future. Johnson reminds his listeners that God made government with a purpose, and that purpose makes the world livable for believers. So sit back, and let Johnson take you on a tour of what the Bible teaches about government, and why we should be more like Daniel, by recognizing the limits on our obedience to earthly authorities.

Samazzar and his family have moved to the city of Vereton to continue his magic studies. There, he is introduced to a dizzying array of culture, technology, and magic. The caves he grew up in as a kobold fade into memory as Sam throws himself into his new life studying and adventuring under the mentorship of Wind Master Pothas.

When a giant airship descends on New York City in 1892 and threatens destruction if the world doesn't submit to the Martian flag, it's up to the mysterious Smith, inventor and adventurer, to find out what forces are at work. From the dangerous basement fan-tan parlors of Chinatown to the top of the Statue of Liberty's torch, Smith and his brilliant assistant, April Malone, will have to unravel the clues and avoid danger lurking behind every corner.

Over 30 years, Burning Man has gone from two families on a San Francisco beach to a global movement in which hundreds of thousands of people around the world create events on every continent. It has been the subject of fawning media profiles, an exhibit in the Smithsonian, and is beloved by tech billionaires and boho counterculturalists alike. But why does it matter? What does it actually have to offer us? The answer, Caveat Magister writes, is simple: Burning Man's philosophy can help us build better communities.

As a child, Kyrioc was groomed to be the head of one of the most powerful noble families in Koh-Salash, a city built inside the skeletons of two murdered gods. Kyrioc himself dreamed of becoming head of the High Watch, the highest political position in the land. Those dreams have turned to dust. Presumed dead after a disastrous overseas quest, Kyrioc now lives in a downcity slum under a false name, hiding behind the bars of a pawnshop window. Riliska, a 9-year-old pickpocket who sells stolen trinkets to his shop, is the closest thing he has to a friend.

He’s a wounded ex-soldier, and she’s the older woman who’s off limits… Mel’s confident and smart with curves for days. But there’s no way this sophisticated city girl would want a damaged veteran like me. I’m rough around the edges, damaged from the military, and working as a bartender for the Wild Riders MC. I’m a bearded, tattooed biker and she’s used to suave city men. There’s no way I even stand a chance. Until she climbs into my bed and takes control, taking what she needs from me and driving me wild. When Mel goes back to the city, she takes a part of me with her, ...

There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, Hank's days of solving crimes are over...until a woman from his past begs for help finding her missing husband.

Craig Carlson set out to do the impossible: open the first American diner in Paris. Despite never having owned his own business before - let alone a restaurant, the riskiest business of all - Craig chose to open his diner in a foreign country, with a foreign language that also happens to be the culinary capital of the world. While facing enormous obstacles, Craig and his diner, Breakfast in America, went on to be a great success - especially with the French.

I'm Cadence Everett, a burnt-out marketing manager who fled to the Cascade Peaks seeking escape from my hectic city life. But when a sudden blizzard leaves me stranded in the unforgiving wilderness, I find myself at the doorstep of Brennon Holloway, a rugged mountain man as untamed and mysterious as the peaks he calls home. As the storm rages outside, I find myself in turmoil, grappling with unexpected emotions. Brennon is not just the gruff loner who saved me; he's a man whose quiet strength and hidden depths draw me in. In the close quarters of his rustic cabin, I realize I've fallen for ...

In the seventh and eighth centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he had managed to unite the feuding tribes of Arabia at the point of his sword. The Muslim conquests lasted until 750, by which time several generations of marauding Arab armies had carved out an Islamic empire which, in size and population, rivalled that of Rome at its zenith.

Sit back and hold onto your seats as Mercedes take you on a wild ride of your life as she tells her story. At 15 years old, Mercedes as experienced so much. Pregnant with twins by a married man, she has HIV and she learned some very deep and disturbing secrets that her family kept from her for so long . Her troubled soul has endured so much pain, she is clueless to if she is coming and going. Not just that she is deeply in love with Tony, no matter if he's married or not, her love for him just won't go away. Her hatred for her mother has escalated into something beyond hatred and no matter ...

He broke my heart into a million pieces when I was 18. Now I’m his live-in nurse and all I can think about is undressing him. When I showed up on my first day at the new job and realized my patient was Liam, I wanted to hightail it out of his luxury penthouse ASAP. But that wasn’t an option. Liam Kaminsky was my first love. He’s also my overly protective brother’s best friend. I wanted him to be my first for everything, practically begged him, but my brother made sure that would never happen. Helping him regain his strength after a ski accident is what I’ve been hired to do. But I...