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Antonio Morris has it all, until an accident takes everything from him. Now disabled, this once alpha male is left with an uncertain future. Until she enters his life. Karina is finally living her dream directing movies, and she has her eye on Antonio as her new lead. She can see everything he can still be, even if he can’t see it himself. When Antonio flirts with her, she is flattered, but she is a professional, and she is definitely not his type. Passion ignites, though, and Karina finds that she cannot resist this bad boy.

It was supposed to be a night of mind-blowing sex - a night without strings or traps - and nothing more. But somewhere along the way, both Gideon Romanov and Gianna Ellington found more than just unbridled passion in each other's arms. Now, neither knows how to escape the trap without causing the other more pain. With their fates intertwined and written long before their births, Gideon and Gianna must decide what is most important in their lives and fight for what they want.

Private Lewis Freeman has a problem. The treasure map passed down through generations of family, from slavery to modern day, shows his legendary ancestral fortune is buried in the dead center of the war zone. Corporal Vince Masini has several problems. He is struggling to keep a ragtag group of outcasts and misfits together as a military unit. He must also keep them out of the clutches of Captain Nikki Christopoulos, war regulation enforcement, while making it look as though they are obeying the orders of a blood and guts veteran commander, Colonel Thaddeus T. Fattingham.

Fifty billion dollars worth of food is wasted each year. That's half of all the food produced on Earth thrown away while millions die hungry. World waste has reached a tipping point revealing that we are engaging in a level of consumerism that is killing us slowly, as we succumb to a massive conspiracy created to make more and more money and to maintain power within the ruling elite.

For millennia, mankind lived upon this planet without the need for electronic devices. No smart phones, tablets, or gadgets running our homes. We knew about the cycles of nature and the balance of life. Now, we live in an artificially created dream state that controls every aspect of our lives. The majority of people in the world have no idea how to hunt and gather, how to heal themselves, build a shelter and even communicate without texting. Huge leaps in technological evolution have destroyed in one generation what thousands of generations developed.

He presided over the "murder castle", a devilish architectural creation in downtown Chicago made specifically to murder people. Trap doors, chutes, false doors, hidden passageways, and spy holes made the Murder Castle the infamous building of its age. Many victims were beaten to death; some were strangled; others gassed; and even more were tortured on racks before they lost their lives. When he was finally caught, he confessed to 27 murders; although, it is believed by many that he butchered over 200.

Orchid & the Wasp brings to life the charged, compulsive voice of Gael Foess - daughter of a self-interested investment banker and a once-formidable orchestral conductor, and sister to a vulnerable younger brother - as she strives to build a life raft in the midst of economic and familial collapse. Moving by wits alone, Gael cuts a swathe through the leather-lined, coke-dusted social clubs of London, the New York gallery scene and birth-throes of the Occupy movement.

Over the last four decades, debt, bankruptcy, and home foreclosures have risen to epidemic levels, and the personal savings rate has sunk dangerously low. Why, in the richest nation on Earth, can't Americans hold on to their money? First published in 2008, Stuart Vyse's Going Broke described the epidemic of personal debt that existed in the years leading up to the Great Recession and anticipated the home mortgage crisis that started it. Ten years later, this fully updated new edition tackles the post-recession era of economic recovery.

Man of the World is the gripping account of the first year of British adventurer Graham Hughes's daring Guinness World Record attempt to visit every country on Earth using only surface-based transportation, told with refreshing candor in his own words. Buckle up for a rib-tickling multinational caper of courage, tenacity, love, friendship, danger, panic, passport stamps, and geo-politics washed down with copious amounts of alcohol.

Thomas has only vague memories of the night his parents vanished, and the memories haunt his dreams: an old mansion, hide and seek, and panicked screaming. After their aunt threatens to split them up, Thomas and his two sisters run away to the abandoned family mansion to look for clues to their parents' disappearance. Soon after they arrive, terrifying messages make it clear that someone or something doesn't want them there. When another person close to Thomas disappears, the children must work quickly to stop the sinister force before they become the next victims of Branson Manor.

Half-vampire and half-warlock, Rune faces life with a wisecrack and some powerful magic. Whatever happens, he does not want to be a vampire like his father. Unfortunate events lead him to fatally call on his vampire half. This failure leaves him in anguish. How can he assuage the guilt he feels? His mother thinks he needs to visit dear old Dad, a vampire residing in the Tatras Mountains of Slovakia.

In this dazzlingly original debut novel, award-winning Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes introduces a heroine of mythic proportions in the form of one Gael Foess. A tough, thoughtful, and savvy opportunist, Gael is determined to live life on her own terms. Raised in Dublin by single-minded, careerist parents, Gael learns early how a person’s ambitions and ideals can be compromised - and she refuses to let her vulnerable, unwell younger brother, Guthrie, suffer such sacrifices. When Gael’s financier father walks out on them during the economic crash of 2008, her family fractures.

The streaming shape reared...like a sudden wall of cliff, pouring cataracts of black mud and clotted, rooty lumps of reeds. Mankind for has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge. Lucy understands the Iron Woman's rage, and she, too, wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants to save her town from total destruction. She needs help. Who better to call on but Hogarth and the Iron Man...?

It is time to cut the bullshit in your marketing and focus on the two things that really matter: your customers and running marketing programs that generate revenue for the company. By applying Cut the Bullsh*t marketing principles, you will be able to make a real impact for your company and, by doing so, impress your investors, CEO, CFO, and - most importantly - your customers!

As we all know, weight loss can be difficult for the average person who knows little about health and fitness. But intermittent fasting is a tool that allows you to tap into your fat stores and utilize them for energy instead of the food you intake. By daily fasting, you are training your body to become a more efficient, fat-burning machine. This is the ultimate step-by-step guide to implementing intermittent fasting into your daily life today.

This audiobook focuses on habit stacking to help you create the future you want. Small habits can make a big difference.

Hollywood has been putting out Bible movies since the Silent Era. This amazing new book, Hollywood and the Bible, is your guide for some of the most memorable Bible films from the past century. They're all in here: the big-budget extravaganzas and hopeful near-misses. Focusing on the Old Testament, but including a glossary of mostly all Biblical epics ever made, this reference guide is a must-have for Bible movie aficionados. The main chapter, of course, is about DeMille's 1956 epic The Ten Commandments (starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner).

A vacation is a tremendous ordeal for Emma, who doesn't like to venture outside her comfort zone. Jay is Emma's greatest admirer. He is an incorrigible optimist, as well as an ardent world traveler. For the most, Jay is naively blind to the depths of Emma's quirkiness and eccentricities. However, even he is beginning to understand that the never-ending obstacles that she constantly sets up for herself are getting increasingly out of control.

Is there a God? Many have misunderstood or created concepts of what God actually means, believing it to be the one defined by Christians, Jews, or Muslims, or other religious belief systems of the world. But in a world where miracles occur daily, the void between belief and reality is indicative of the troubled planet we live on and it has become apparent that the truth and understanding of our inner-selves is, in the end, our ultimate quest and perhaps it’s a simple question of faith.

Plague has ravaged the world. The people that remain spend their time immersed in the Games. AI controlled virtual reality. Lost in a fantasy world that make life tolerable. Unfortunately, someone is trapping people online, refusing to let them out. Keeping them there until their bodies wither away. Gamer extraordinaire, Tor Roberts and Miss Jenny Morgan race across a desolate world to find her father. The one man who might be able to stop this new terror.