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Ayla thinks she's just a comic-book geek with photophobia until the day a space fold opens in her living room. Her father drags her through to an alien world. Her birthplace. Karanik. For the first time in her life Ayla can see without pain. She's home.

The wizard Archiebund always forces the gorgeous demon Scythe to do his bidding, but one day his chants go wrong and Scythe gets control of him! Now the demon has a chance for some very sexy and creative revenge.

Malstrum has joined Demetri after suffering his own ordeal. Everything looks like it will be made right. Demetri's hero-worship of Malstrum evolves into something more, but he's unwilling to admit what it might be. Demetri has finally learned the true implications of 'Lightning', that planet Secren phenomenon that happened between him and Malstrum. Now he must decide: can he be Malstrum's lover? Or will he have to survive the merciless world without his hero once more?

Ex-soldier Lenora is determined to escape an alien slave colony no matter what the cost. Her disobedience angers her male alien overseers, who are trying to breed humans so they can intermarry with them. Lenora, and willful women like her, are sent to the Bride Games. If they win they will be granted their freedom. If they lose they must accept marriage to an alien nobleman.

Ambassador Janel is proud to have finally brokered an alliance with the powerful Haraden. What cinched the deal? The Haraden warriors want brides. Since war ravaged her planet's male population they actually have a surplus of women looking for husbands. It seems like a win-win.

Recent college grad and rare female Jaguar Michelle is ready to mate, but her spirit has bonded to two Jaguar males instead of one. How can she reconcile her love when the men she's bonded to despise each other?

The alphas of planet Hexor aren't supposed to get pregnant. Gruff mine-worker Harsen finds himself in a crisis, but it's one that could open the door to the kind of love he never felt he deserved.

By 1970 racial tension was at a breaking point in the Southern town of Gallatin, Tennessee. Desegregation had emotions running high. The town was a powder keg ready to erupt. But it was also on the verge of something incredible. Eddie Sherlin and Bill Ligon were boys growing up on opposite sides of the tracks who shared a passion for basketball. They knew the barriers that divided them - some physical landmarks and some hidden in the heart - but those barriers melted away when the boys were on the court.

Kind-hearted Maritza was kidnapped and transported 2,000 years into the future to be the bride for one of the aliens who conquered Earth. After a difficult adjustment, Maritza has come to care for her husband, Lord Elentinus. The last thing she needs is for a troubled alien/human couple to visit. Inga, bride to the cruel Lord Nayjoor, begs Maritza to help her escape. Now Maritza must make a choice: betray her husband, or betray her people?

The horrors of planet Secren reveal themselves to Demetri one by one, making him even more desperate. His parasitic computer guide, Brainbox, continues to tell Demetri his only chance for survival is to become the "beta" (lover in the submissive role) to the charming mine overlord, Malstrum. Someone is after Demetri's claims and the precious beads his group must mine in order to have food for survival. Their new enemy is named Flurry.

The heroes of Lavintia need the mysterious demigod Xenoskar's help, but his price is the submission of one of their most beautiful members. Will it be the sweet and compliant Rin-Timber, his defiant and unnaturally possessive older twin brother Taylen - or both of them?

Lord Elentinus may be one of the alien tyrants who has enslaved planet Earth, but he's shown his captive human bride Maritza nothing but kindness and compassion. She feels ready to yield to his formidable sexual desire.

Megalomaniac Maximus always achieves his goals. Right now, his goal is to destroy a massive army that tried to draft him using a mind control device. The only way Maximus can accomplish this is with a Rig-mertian: an alien that can transform into an invincible monster. Zolabarth is the Rig-mertian lent out to Maximus. Since Zolabarth is so destructive, his master cursed him with a weaker form. Every time Zolabarth takes his monster form, he has to become a female afterward.

"I must ask you - with greatest respect, Lord Demon...." The general looked up with eyes maddened by fury. "Why do you drape your arm around the divine emperor with such intimate familiarity?" Rodukjo stared down his nose at the general. "Your emperor has but one thing of value to offer in exchange for my fealty. The pleasures of his body."

Straight student Ryan got kicked out of the dorms. His BFF's gay older brother has a spare bedroom for him - but not for free.

From Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address in 1861 to his brief remarks on the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, battlefield in 1863 to his Second Inaugural Address given in 1865, America's 16th president, in three key speeches, defined the course of the nation's entry into, through, and out of the Civil War. These three speeches tell the story of a nation's stubborn reluctance to face peacefully the challenge of slavery, disunion, and war among the states.

Rachel Monette arrives home to a scene of unspeakable violence: Her French-born husband, Dan, is dead - the victim of a savage stabbing - and her five-year-old son is missing. A neighbor claims she saw a rabbi taking Adam away. But there are no synagogues in Williamstown. The only clue is a letter Rachel finds in Dan's safety deposit box. Written in 1942, it's about the reassignment of three German soldiers to a place called Camp Siegfried in the supposedly unoccupied western part of North Africa.

After his unit is decimated in the Israeli war, Lieutenant Isaac Rehv returns to Haifa to find his family savagely murdered. Torn apart with grief and rage, he vows that his enemies - and the enemies of Israel - will pay. As Rehv prepares to unleash his secret weapon on an unsuspecting Islamic world, a terrorist watch group, led by a former CIA agent named Krebs, follows his every move. But Krebs may be too late to prevent the coming destruction.

While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect on January 1, 1863. Freeing the slaves held in the still Confederate controlled states, it is heralded as one of America's most significant documents.

Drei Jahre vor seiner Wahl zum Papst sprach Franziskus mit seinem langjährigen Freund, dem Rabbiner Abraham Skorka...