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The quiet, agricultural community of Shadow Island is suddenly beset by violence. A dead man and a live calico kitten are discovered floating in an old rowboat in Shallow Point Cove. Then Dan Uley's bookstore is firebombed. With a black cat. Both men were gay. Sheriff Johnson, known to have harsh feelings toward gays, makes no progress in catching the culprit.

Senya has been exiled back to the Mother Planet of Rozari. While there, he begins to understand what his real tasks are, why he has been sent there, and what he must do in the coming years. In the meantime, Lt. Cmdr Katie Golden of the Allied Spaceforce suffers a dangerous brain injury while saving her ship from destruction. She is sent to Rozari for the cure, only to wake up and discover that Senya was not a childhood hallucination after all.

The Avenger targets prominent, wealthy men accused of sexual crimes, for a gruesome death. The Special Crimes Team is formed to catch a killer who has eluded three police departments.

After a thousand years of war, the Mishnese and Karupta have made peace by wedding the Mishnese princess royal to the Karupta crown prince. Their son whose birth was foretold 10 centuries ago is destined to rule the entire planet and end the wars forever. But the princess and the baby have died during childbirth or so it was said. In the meantime, a strange half-breed infant boy is left at an orphanage with a purse full of gold coins.

Space Cadet Katie Golden is on her way to the Allied Spaceforce Academy when the spaceplane is boarded by Talasian Pirates. Katie is forced to take evasive action to save her treasured chess pieces, the white queen and black king that were given to her years ago by a strange alien boy. Will Katie's actions doom her career before it even starts?

It was a normal summer afternoon when Mona and Bitsy left the mall to head home after their day of shopping. At least, it seemed normal except for the thunderstorm and the possible tornado, which picked up their Prius and set them down in the middle of a wheat field. Oh, and those calls from North Dakota that Mona thought were a wrong number, they might have had something to do with where the girls landed. They were definitely not in Kansas anymore, and Reuben and Sean McLean were definitely not Munchkin men. The girls want to go home to Littlefield, Illinois in the year 2010, but how?

Jerry Waldman is a schmuck, and has always been one - especially when compared to his older brother Kevin. One day, while visiting his grandpa Lou at The Home, he saves an old man's life, forever changing his own destiny, sending him on an adventure that will continue far across the stars. This audiobook is part of the Two Moons of Rehnor Series.

A Two Moons of Rehnor Novella. Thad realizes his marriage to Leslie is a colossal mistake. In fact, maybe his whole disastrous life is a giant blunder. Before he knows it, he has two kids and no way out from this trap. Leslie's exit gives him the opportunity he has been waiting for and so he heads across the stars to join Admiral Tim and Shelly on the planet Rozari.

A little girl and her bloodhound enjoy strolling through the countryside always with an eye out for the possible appearance of a fox. It's always good to be prepared! In Case There's a Fox is a tale in light verse with illustrations for readers from age one to one hundred. Children will enjoy this as a bedtime story, and adults will not mind reading it again and again.

A six-year-old Chinese girl named Ping learns to speak English by total immersion in an American first-grade class. In the process, she discovers that not everyone thinks the same, and that even when language is mastered, there can be other barriers to complete communication between friends. Sometimes we just have to accept others without trying to change them.

When two-and-a-half-year old Sword first met her baby brother, Bow, her reactions were mixed. Would he take away all her mother's attention, or would he be a new playmate?

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Kat has survived. She returns to Athelia as herself, Katherine Wilson. Edward, elated at learning she is alive, vows to bring her back to the palace. The obstacles, however, seem impossible to overcome. Marriage between a royal and a commoner is not recognized, not to mention that he is already legally bound to Katriona Bradshaw, who will do anything to keep her position as princess. And there's even more to worry about.

Seven years have passed since Kat left Athelia. Through the intervention of the goblin king's baby daughter, the book is re-opened and Kat is transported back to Story World. Upon learning she is given a second chance, Edward is determined not to let her go this time. His chance of succeeding, however, seems like nil. Kat doesn't remember anything of their past, she loathes life at court, and she's anxious to return to the modern world. Not to mention that there's a price to pay for tampering with the book again....

On his Texas hill country ranch, Nabal Cabeza de Vaca is master of all he surveys, but David Smith is running for county judge, and he has designs on Nabal's wife and his cattle and all that he owns. A familiar saga about taxation, lechery, and covetousness of Biblical proportions!

Sisters from Trinidad, Violet and Lily have never had much in common. Stunning Lily arrives undocumented in New York and makes her way as a stripper. But Harvard-educated Violet is this close to the perfect assimilated life, thanks to a prestigious job, and her rich bougie fiance.... Until she's wrongly accused of helping a notorious strip-club mogul embezzle millions of his workers' earnings. Violet loses everything - except the determination to get her life back. Now Violet's on his track with the help of his vengeful ex-wife and the Lower East Side Women's Health Clinic's resourceful crew - which includes Lily.

De Opstand (1568-1648) is in Nederland ook wel bekend onder de naam Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Die tijd zien we als het begin van Nederland. Dat het geen echte oorlog was, hoor je in dit één uur durende luistercollege. Maar waarom werd er dan gevochten? Door wie en waar ging het eigenlijk over?

De Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (1602-1799) was de allereerste multinational ter wereld en één van de meest succesvolle handelsbedrijven ooit. De vloot van de V. O. C. groeide uit tot meer dan 1700 schepen. Scheepsladingen vol specerijen, zijde, thee en porselein bereikten Nederland vanuit Azië. Door deze bloeiende handel ontstond in de Nederlanden een periode van ongekende welvaart, de zogenaamde Gouden Eeuw.

Op 10 mei viel het Duitse leger het neutrale Nederland binnen. Het was het begin van een 5 jaar durende bezetting. Waarom werd Nederland aangevallen en hoe was het om te leven onder de Duitse bezetter. Wat waren de gevolgen van de bezetting, toen en nu? En door wie werd Nederland in 1945 bevrijd?

Nel vasto mondo asiatico, il diario di Aya Kitō ha conosciuto un successo inarrestabile: pubblicato sul finire degli anni Ottanta in Giappone, ha venduto oltre un milione di copie. Una platea affollata per il racconto in prima persona di una ragazzina quindicenne che ha ispirato e incantato un intero continente. Aya racconta dieci anni della propria vita, racconta adolescenza e inizio dell'età adulta, una vita come tante, ma senza prospettiva, un'esistenza minata dalla malattia, ecco la differenza.