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I never thought I'd have a sexual awakening at 34, but, well...here I am: River Burke, novice deviant and master class neurotic mess. With my laundry list of control issues, submission doesn't exactly come naturally, but I figure if I can find the right person - someone big, buff, and crazy intimidating - maybe I can learn to let go. And then in walks Ellison Fitch. He's not at all what I thought I was looking for, but with his piercing eyes, his too-personal questions, and his brilliant mind, he's under my skin from the moment we meet.

Lady Cecilia of Danby Hall feels adrift. She couldn’t be less interested in helping to plan the church’s upcoming bazaar. Instead, what excites her most is the Woman’s Suffrage Union meeting she has just attended. Inspired by the famous and charismatic leader of the group, Mrs. Amelia Price, Cecilia is eager to join the Union - if she can hide it from her parents, that is. But when Mrs. Price is found dead at the foot of the stairs in her home, her Votes for Women sash torn away, Cecilia knows she must attend to a more urgent matter: finding the killer.

Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern's Moscow living quarters, the Hotel Lux. Historian Maurice Casey reveals the connections and disconnections of a group of forgotten communist activists whose lives collided in 1920s Moscow: a brilliant Irish translator, a maverick author, the rebel daughters of an East London Jewish family, and a family of determined German anti-fascists.

While the industry continues to undergo growing pains, transitioning to value-based care from fee-for-service, hospitals and providers are also fielding new challenges that have emerged on the regulatory, technology, and patient-consumer fronts. Hospitals and providers are in a race against one another to find new ways to attract and retain patients. Now that patients are assuming greater financial responsibility for their healthcare costs, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, their expectations are high about having a positive clinical and financial experience. Therefore, the engagement ...

No one asks for restless moments. No one wants to feel irritated, unsettled, or stuck. When pressed into restless seasons in our relationships, work, or faith, we feel the hum: You can't go back, but you can't stay here. But what if restlessness is normal, healthy, and even holy? What if spiritual questions are not problems to be solved but invitations of the soul? And what if spiritual maturity inspires restlessness rather than inoculating us against it?

MENAFTER10 is a gay hookup app for "urban men looking for urban men". Among its users is Chauncey Lee, who is always online, always looking. What exactly he's looking for is a mystery even to him, but he does his best trying to find it by dating in bedrooms across an unnamed city. Brontae Williams is just the opposite. He's lonely and desperately wants to settle down into a long-term relationship. The stories of these men and the men they meet online intersect and converge in this brilliant and sexy debut novel.

To honor her brother’s dying plea, Vayl Halifex carries a message that might prevent war with the elves: the location of their captive princess. Fortune and circumstance align in her favor and Vayl’s life is forever changed when an opportunity arises that only she can seize. With the help of a matchmaker, she becomes the emperor’s newest concubine. The new role affords her unfettered access to the gilded mountain stronghold, where the princess is rumored to be hidden away.

En La Corona del Montañés, el herrero solitario Callum MacPherson solo busca tranquilidad en las Tierras Altas, hasta que Lady Aileas Fraser irrumpe en su refugio perseguida por enemigos y portando secretos que podrían desatar una guerra entre clanes. Mientras buscan la legendaria Corona de Alba, el peligro, la traición y un amor prohibido amenazan con separarlos para siempre. Con clanes rivales acechando y su vínculo fortaleciéndose cada día, Callum y Aileas deben elegir entre la lealtad a su sangre y el amor de sus corazones, o arriesgarse a perderlo todo en la batalla por las ...

"Really enjoying [Casey Handmer's] "How To Industrialize Mars," which is full of interdisciplinary thinking and clever ideas..." Nat Friedman "[Casey Handmer's] "How To Industrialize Mars" is a stimulating, optimistic, and fun exploration!" Michael Nielsen "I almost never recommend a book until I've finished reading it, but every space settlement geek needs to read "How To Industrialize Mars." Trent Waddington After humans visit Mars, a city will be born. This city's mission: Autonomous self-sufficiency. The challenge: Mars is a deeply lethal, hostile frozen desert vacuum. This book ...

Liz Madden has a storybook romance—high school sweethearts, second chances, and a happily-ever-after. But when she finds out that her husband cheated on her, she is forced to make the hard decision and walk away. Unable to reveal the betrayal to those closest to her, Liz instead takes refuge with her father and half-sister, Zoey. Zoey is nursing her own broken heart after a devastating end to her first love. But true to Reid-sister heritage, she's courting disaster with a no-strings-attached affair with her ex.

In the farming town of Riverside in Washington, Toby Fuller is feeling more alone than ever. Nothing Toby did was ever good enough for his father, but he never expected his father to leave, to abandon him and his mother forever. He loses hope, until a scruffy golden retriever called Buddy follows him home from school. Though he’s struggling to walk, Buddy matches Toby step for step, never taking his eyes off him, as if Toby is all he needs in the world. And from that day on Buddy never leaves Toby’s side.

He stole my heart long before my sister stole his. She was the "bad girl" all the guys wanted and I was the "good girl" everyone overlooked. Now my sister is dead. I'm alone, left in the shadow she cast over me. He's the last person I expect to see at the funeral. And now I need him more than ever.

Sure, men fight for their beliefs, their country, and their ways of life. And often times the battles are hard fought and devastating. But more often than not, the outcome is decided by who has the better gear.

Casey J. Culler tells the story of his service in the United States Army in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, and at bases in the continental United States such as Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Fort Benning, Georgia, and his life near Mount Airy, North Carolina, the town made famous as Mayberry in The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968). Casey Culler was originally from Mount Airy, North Carolina, and graduated from North Surry High School in 1996. He joined the Army in the summer of 2001, and his world, like so many others, was sent in another direction after 9/11. Casey spent the first two ...

He meets women. He gains their trust. He kills them. That's all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been targeted in their homes by the same sadistic killer. With no sign of a break-in, every indication shows that they let him in. But the evidence is pointing at a shocking suspect: DI Josh Derwent, Maeve's colleague. Maeve refuses to believe he could be involved, but how well does she really know him? Because this isn't the first time Derwent's been accused of murder.

Alafair Tucker is a strong woman and the core of her family’s life on a farm in Oklahoma where backbreaking work and the daily logistics of caring for her husband and their nine children, and of being a good neighbor, requires determination and a clear head. She’s also a woman of strong opinions, and it is her opinion that her neighbor, Harley Day, is a drunkard and a reprobate. So, when Harley’s body is discovered frozen in a snowdrift one January day in 1912, she isn’t surprised that his long-suffering family isn’t particularly broken up. When Alafair helps Harley’s wife prepare the body for burial, she discovers that Harley’s demise was anything but natural.

Michael Dolan is a stoic perfectionist and former combat pilot with a dark and labyrinthine psyche and troubled past. While working a staff job at the Pentagon he is approached by the Central Intelligence Agency with an improbable request—to help them forestall impending terror attacks in Europe. He agrees and is sent undercover to Paris, France. He quickly takes to the task of infiltrating a terrorist cell by rekindling an old friendship and passing on what he learns. As his deep-cover role in Operation Excise plays out, however, Dolan's past begins to catch up with him.

Think about it - in one swing of fate's hammer, I lost everything. The love I knew. The love I was going to know. Everything. I signed the divorce papers only because she signed them first. She wanted out. My heart was shattered. It was supposed to give us a chance to start over. There was only one problem. I wasn't done loving her.

Sex is tragically misunderstood in our society. We get contradictory advice (frequently unsolicited) from family, teachers, religious institutions, and even well-meaning therapists who are dealing with their own shame around sex. Despite all of the mixed messages we get, sex is wonderfully good and offers the promise of improving all aspects of human life. Fortunately, for us as individuals and couples, a new day is dawning.

Building on the book by C.S. Lewis, award-winning author Casey Paul Griffiths joins the principles of love with the restored gospel of Jesus Christ to help illuminate the minds of Latter-day Saints so that they may better understand themselves, God, and their relationships with God and others.