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Mr Watanabe is a victim of one of the largest collective traumas of the last century and a fugitive from his own memory. A survivor of the atomic bombs dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, he has evaded the trauma of those experiences for most of his adult life. When the earthquake which precedes the Fukushima nuclear disaster strikes, the past becomes present and Mr Watanabe begins a journey that will change everything.

1195 A.D.—Sir Galen Burleson has a love 'em and leave 'em reputation. Enormous and powerful, he is the captain of the army at Hexham Castle. Galen is in control of his life and his future until his dying father, tired of his son's roving ways, demands he marry Lady Lorica de la Beauvriere, the sole heiress of the St. Nicholas Court Castle fortune.

Symon MacKinnon, eldest son of the chieftain, spends his days training with his sword and his nights drinking his clan’s famous whisky. But after many peaceful years, the clan is unprepared for the attack that seems to come from all sides. He fights like the devil but seeing his father and brothers slaughtered and the keep laid low by the marauders, he is barely able to escape with his sister and one young clansman in tow.

Grace Breive is strong and independent because she has to be. She has a wee daughter to care for and, having lost her parents and husband, has no one else on whom she can rely. Driven from the only home she has ever known, she travels to Castle Sutherland to find a grandmother she never knew she had.

Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto calls for an end to the War on Drugs. Just because something is illegal, that doesn't mean it goes away; it just means that criminals run it. Legalizing marijuana will serve to rejuvenate our pathetic economy and just might make people a little happier. Ventura's book will show us all how we can take our country back.

Her enemy saves her life. Can they learn to trust one another? Two soulmates, Catherine and Graeme, are about to be reborn again, and their new lives will bring them back to Scotland. Only this time, they will find themselves in the midst of a bitter conflict between Scotland and England. With new names and no memory of their connection, will they be able to find each other and stay together?

Kicked out of the underworld and cursed to walk this earth for all eternity, Ace Dante finds solace in helping others avoid the wrath of the gods. But when warrior-bitch, Queen of Cats, and Ace's ex-wife, Bastet, hires him to stop whoever is slaughtering her blessed women, Ace is caught between two of the most powerful deities to have ever existed: Isis and Osiris. The once-revered gods aren't dead. They're back, and Ace is in their way.

Are you ready to step into another dimension with this mind-bending romance, a provocative story that pushes boundaries and tests the true meaning of love?

On the heels of a devastating loss, Evelyn fights to put her life back together. Only...part of her husband belongs to another woman, and the devil owns her soul.

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.

Freya Ivarsdottir is not only the daughter of a jarl and sister to a future jarl but a well-renowned shield maiden. Committed to fighting the evil forces threatening her tribe and her neighbors, Freya does not welcome the attention of Erik Rangvaldson, the son of their neighboring jarl. Freya must put aside her dislike for the arrogant man who follows her everywhere. Erik may be the most handsome man she has ever seen, but he also aggravates her unlike any other man she knows. Can Freya trust a man every woman wants?

It all started with the girl from the river: mutilated, tattooed, murdered. Tashué couldn't help but look for answers. In the process, he uncovered the ugly truths being hidden by the very law he used to believe in—the law of the Authority. Now he's fighting for his life. Mere survival isn't enough; he desperately wants to save his son from the Authority, and he wants revolution—at any cost.

Does he hate her clan enough to visit his vengeance on her? Or will he listen to her secret and his own heart's yearning? Hatred lives and breathes between medieval clans who often don't remember why feuds began in the shadowed past. But Eoin MacKay remembers.

Sexy entrepreneur Schooner Moore receives the birthday bombshell of a lifetime - his true love, college girlfriend Mia Silver, the girl who broke his heart when she fled without even a goodbye at the end of their freshman year, has been seen on Facebook. Feisty New York City advertising agency owner Mia Silver receives a shocking and unexpected email - a Facebook friend request from first love Schooner Moore, the guy who decimated her heart and soul when he committed the ultimate betrayal.

Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for popular weekly series, were fondly remembered but not considered much more culturally significant than commercial jingles. Yet noted composers like John Williams, Henry Mancini, and Jerry Goldsmith learned and/or honed their craft in television before going on to major success in feature films.

Saved by a rebel force she'd only ever heard rumors about, Rema finds herself in a forbidden place. She is finally safe - free from the king and Prince Lennek. But not everything is as it seems at the rebel fortress. Secrets are whispered, and loyalties are tested. Once Rema uncovers the truth of her heritage, will she flee? Or will she ascend to the throne, taking on the responsibility of an entire kingdom?

Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to the region. As the war escalated, Lincoln and his allies built the case that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit the North and South alike.

Tyra Vigosdottir, the shield maiden that any warrior with half a brain would fear, does not need to be coddled by any man—especially not the one who broke her heart. The only thing more irritating than an overprotective Norseman is how her mind won't stop picturing them together. When they must travel together once more to defend their tribe, Tyra and Bjorn find it's impossible to deny their feelings any longer. Danger awaits, but so does passion. Can Tyra trust the man who broke her heart? Can she set aside her grudge over a misunderstanding?

In Collisions, Michael Kimmage, a historian and former State Department official who focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, offers a wide-angle, historically informed account of the origins of the current Russia-Ukraine war.

Anice Barrington has always been known as the prettiest of the Earl of Werrick's five daughters. Years of trying to prove she's more than beauty has failed, not only with others, but also with herself. When their mortal enemy is laying siege to Werrick Castle, Anice does the only thing in her power to keep her family safe: she offers herself as a bride to her enemy. She swears she will not lose her heart to him, but soon discovers that may be impossible when he stokes her curiosities toward intimacy and lights a burning desire within her.