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Four years ago at a film festival, Cici Fine met Cooper Wild, a man who turned her world upside down in the span of one deliciously perfect week. He was everything she'd ever dreamed of: sinfully sexy, intelligent, and incredibly loving. When the festival ended, they returned to their own hometowns with promises of forever. But Cooper disappeared, and Cici was left to raise the daughter he never knew about alone.

After fleeing from the Goblin King, the Svoda step through a new magical portal only to make a gruesome discovery: a devastated and smoldering habitat with belongings strewn about and ruined. Just one thing is missing...the people. An investigation commences, and the Svoda are on high alert. With each new mystery that they uncover, the more dangerous the situation becomes, and they find themselves fugitives with no place to run from a dark magic too powerful to stop.

In this gorgeous memoir that moves from Jon Kerstetter's impoverished upbringing on an Oneida reservation, to his harrowing stints as a volunteer medic in Kosovo and Bosnia, through the madness of Iraq and his intense mandate to assemble a team to identify the remains of Uday and Qusay Hussein, and the struggle afterward to come to terms with a life irrevocably changed, Kerstetter beautifully illuminates war and survival, the fragility of the human body, and the strength of will that lies within.

Word is out, the soul eater has gone rogue, and not even the might of Osiris can stop him. Or so everyone believes. That would suit Ace just fine, but after he narrowly escapes an assassination attempt, he knows it's just a matter of time before those around him end up in the crosshairs of the gods. After 500 years on earth, it's time for Ace to go home. Little does he know, the underworld is hungry for revenge, and what awaits him in the Halls of Judgment could be far worse than any fate on Earth.

Angus MacKay, leader of the Dragon Knights, failed his brothers and his clan upon the death of his sister. Now he must fight the darkness of despair tempting his soul. Back on Scottish soil, he comes face to face with Deirdre who can wield a sword as mightily as his warriors, and he takes her captive. Yet, with each passing day, the fire dragon inside him roars to claim the one woman fate has destined for him.

Leo Craft is the best at what he does; he assassinates superheroes, but only the ones who deserve it. Life is good, simple, until an ultra-secretive government agency hires Leo to execute two impossible tasks: eliminate the world's foremost superhero, Patriotman, and hunt down a fellow assassin whose target is the president of the United States.

Graeme MacGruder didn’t go to Glasgow in search of a wife but for his sister Jeanie, who disappeared when his parents’ traveling party was ambushed along the road. Now he’s the chieftain of his clan, and his first two orders of business are to find his missing sister and avenge his parents. He buys Cait hoping that she might have news of Jeanie. Cait and Graeme join forces in common cause: vengeance. But achieving that goal might cost them a lifetime of happiness together—and their eternal souls.

It was a bright, warm spring day when Alador sat upon the hilltop looking down at the valley below him. He knew he did not fit into the world around him. His presence was tolerated and accepted but not welcomed. Little did he know how much his life would change that day. How could one large stone make such a difference in one's world? Renamaum, was a large blue dragon with one desire. He wanted the pact between man and dragon re-established. He wanted the hunting of the eggs and fledglings to stop.

Elsie thought she had found love. The handsome young minstrel awoke her desire and his music fed her soul. But just as love was blossoming, the inconceivable happened—Elsie awoke more than seven hundred years in the future, in the body of Dr. Elizabeth Quinn. Gabriel Soldani thought he had found love several times, only to have it slip from his grasp. In medical school he had fallen hard for Elizabeth Quinn but their careers led them in different directions. When their paths cross again, he hopes they’ve been given another chance. There’s only one problem, the woman he's never forgotten doesn’t remember him. Once love is found and then lost, can it be found again?

Bill Haley, the man who brought rock 'n' roll into the mainstream. His song "Crazy Man, Crazy" was the first rock 'n' roll song to break the Billboard Top 20 in 1953 and was followed by his evergreen "We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock", the first song of its kind to hit number one. His success made him an idol not only in the US but throughout the world, from Canada to the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and beyond.

The Shadow Grid has plundered and destroyed the city of Miklagard. Aonach Tower has been razed to the ground. The High Council is scattered, and many council members are dead. The dragon riders search desperately for their kidnapped leader while a sinister plot unravels in Everwood Forest. In the face of so much chaos and death, how will the dragon riders defeat an old enemy whose intent is to destroy them all?

In The Blackguard, Alador finds himself in the city of Silverport, the Lerdenian capital. Surrounded by a culture that sees murder as a path to social power, he struggles to find his place.

Sent by his uncle, the High Minister of Lerdenia, to the Blackguard, he begins his training as both a soldier and a water mage. The dragon dreams have not stopped and he learns more of the bloodstone he had harvested and what it means for him.

Alastair MacKay, a battled-scarred Dragon Knight, flees to the sea to separate himself from his fae-given power connecting him to the land. But it is on land that he rescues a woman from a slave trader in Ireland. It is through Fiona that he steps back inadvertently into a world filled with magic - taking on the role of protector and at the same time leading him on a journey to confront his greatest regret and fears.

Thomas Watson left London two years ago and crossed the Atlantic to become a newspaper reporter in Philadelphia, 1920s Philadelphia, a city that rivals Al Capone's Chicago for its crime and corruption. Why would he go so far from family and friends? Admittedly, he was trying to get away - away from the shadow of his famous father, Dr. John Watson, and his father's even more famous friend, Sherlock Holmes.

The orc plague has spread across the land, routing the dwarf clans from their ancestral home. The dwarves must turn to the dragon riders for help, hoping to reclaim Mount Velik and save the clans. Untold lives are at stake. Are the dragon riders strong enough to lift off the spirit of death from Mount Velik, and defeat the evil that lies within those ancient caverns, or will they all be destroyed?

After the shocking destruction of Aonach Tower, the dragon riders gather together to save the city of Miklagard from a similar fate. As the High Council bickers and argues about the future, a deadly group of rogue spellcasters gather outside Miklagard's borders to rain destruction down upon the city. The dragon riders find themselves opposed on all sides in a dangerous clash between forces of justice and power.

At some point, good salespeople learn the difference between simply "doing the job"...and accepting the personal responsibility to produce certain results. This book focuses on "Bootstrap Selling", which is all about becoming fully accountable for sales behaviors. You might have a large team around you, and you could have a great and supportive boss. Yet the difference between a self-starting, high-performance bootstrapping sales professional and an order-taker is that the bootstrapper knows personal commitment and acceptance of responsibility makes good things happen....

Aura is her mother's love child, a living memory of the biggest mistake she ever made, and she never lets Aura forget it. Shunned by her mother, dismissed by her stepsisters, Aura drifts through life. She has little to sustain her miserable existence but her dreams. Until fate takes a hand and tosses her far into the past, a past she must learn to survive in. Alone with nothing but a couple of pets Aura learns what it is like to be on her own. She learns how to make a life for herself in a time where she does not belong. Or maybe she does. Thorn is the right hand of the Duke Vernon.

Hiding from a dangerous man, Tess Crawford thought The Wiggons' School for Elegant Young Ladies would be the perfect place to disappear. Or it would be if the local villagers weren't on edge because of the vampire in their midst, at least they think he's a vampire. The fascination with the reclusive viscount disrupts the girls' studies and Tess fights an unending battle to convince her students that monsters do not exist.

An earthquake unnerves Tokyo on March 11, 2011, triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster - and a tectonic stirring of the collective past. Mr. Yoshie Watanabe, an aging executive at an electronics company and a survivor of the atomic bomb, feels as though he is a fugitive of his own memory. As the seams of his country threaten to come undone yet again, he braces himself to make the biggest decision of his life. Meanwhile, four women narrate their own memories of Watanabe to an enigmatic Argentinian reporter investigating his life.