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The One didn’t exist. Then I met Meadow. The band's honorary little sister was off-limits. Too late for that. She says we’re "nothing serious", but she’s gotten under my skin and I can’t stop thinking about her. And when I touch her, I know we’re meant to be. Happy Endings don’t exist. Not even with Ridge.

Taylor Barrett was looking for answers in a universe that had abandoned him. Jude Boehler flooded her dark world with charisma and mystery, drawing everyone into her hurricane. It was a most captivating of love affairs. They were shooting stars, meteors in the sky, colliding to create a spectacularly wonderful reckless romance, leaving them breathless and tethered.

Imagine: a fantasy world, but not one based on medieval/Dark Ages European culture and myth, but rather on the tropes of the spaghetti Western and Chinese Wuxia. Add steampunk elements. Mix well.

For more than 30 years, the internationally renowned marital researchers from the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver have been helping couples around the globe replace loneliness with connection, frustration with understanding, fear with confidence, instability with commitment, revenge with forgiveness, and monotony with passion.

Life is perfect. Paradise is found in the arms of a redeemed playboy. Evan Ashford’s cocky side never stood a chance against true love. He pursued me with an unbridled determination and passion that couldn’t be denied, winning me over heart and soul. Our lives are now set...or so I thought. Nothing stays perfect forever and happiness comes with a price. I thought we had paid that price, so when we’re thrown into the biggest battle over our love yet, I’ll fight to claim my forever.

Poseidon and Athena. Finally friends. When the Greek and Roman gods are forced to merge into one pantheon, the unthinkable happens. House Poseidon and House Athena agree to set aside their centuries-long feud in the interest of self-preservation, betrothing their heirs. For close to twenty years, Lukas Poseidon and Daphne Athena knew they were destined to get married, somehow finding a friendship in the face of it all. Until a year ago, when Daphne disappears without explanation. Or so Lukas thinks.

Love can overcome any obstacle. I hope so because choosing to be together will take an act of complete faith, something I’ve never been capable of before Mallory. But now that I’ve tasted heaven I have no intention of letting her go. The last three months were the best of my life and now our time together is over too soon. Selfishly, I need more. I want all of her, which is more than she can give with the distance that divides us.

What is "the one great thing to love on earth", according to J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings? The Eucharist! Tolkien made sure his one great love was woven throughout his books. It's easy to find if you know where to look. In Smith's new book, find Tolkien's hidden Eucharist!

This book looks at the weird and wonderful world of parasites, the most abundant form of life on Earth. Parasites come in all forms and sizes and inhabit every free-living organism. Parasitism is now, and always has been, a way to survive under changing environmental conditions. From arctic oceans to tropical forests, Scott Gardner, Judy Diamond, and Gabor Racz investigate how parasites survive and evolve, and how they influence and provide stability to ecosystems.

Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson, and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the science fiction and fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field.

Beyond Integrity offers a balanced approach to a number of concrete ethical issues. Readings from a wide range of sources present competing perspectives on each issue, and real-life case studies further help the listener grapple with ethical dilemmas. The authors want to help the listener arrive at his or her own conclusions. To this end, they provide a decision-making model. They also present, in addition to several views on each topic, a distinctly Christian perspective on each issue under discussion.

The Greek and Roman gods have co-existed for over two thousand years. In the Underworld, House Hades and House Pluto have shared the responsibility of providing souls with a place to rest or a place to be punished. It stayed that way until an unexpected birth caused the godly systems to merge. Dominic Pluto wants revenge. Rose Hades wants solace from Dominic's prying eyes and thinly veiled contempt. When marriage between their two Houses is the only option to keep the Upperworld happy amidst political upheaval, they are forced together.

Imagine Monty Python writes horror...Welcome to the wonderfully horrific world of Bizarro - that dark, forbidding corner of the horror genre where absolutely anything goes and one may delve into the farthest recesses of the authors' warped imaginations. Prepare yourself, dear listener, for a journey into the unknown reaches of terror, from which you can only hope you will return with your sanity intact...

Build the Domestic Monastery! Adapting productivity hacks, lifestyle design, and best practices from Getting Things Done, 4-Hour Work Week, and other secular sources to the Catholic Faith and Tradition to create the Domestic Monastery.

Dr. Irvin Scott, author of "Leading with Heart and Soul: 30 Inspiring Lessons of Faith, Learning, and Leadership" and a faculty member at Harvard Graduate School of Education sits down with educators from across the US - and the world. Together they talk about what it means to educate the world's children.

On Sacred Ground offers an unexpectedly spiritual approach to the account of a controversial, officer-involved shooting as told by the retired, well-seasoned officer who pulled the trigger. Scott Haslar's memoir offers a look into race-related issues, the effects of posttraumatic stress, and the gritty realization that history in the United States has only been repeating itself. Get an inside, on-the-ground look from the eye of the hurricane as Haslar takes you through the tragic events that conspired in 1990.

So, a positively edible billionaire property developer and a hopelessly down-on-her-luck real estate agent walk onto a beach property and…Operation Cliffside Cottage Cleanup is born! That’s all I’ve got as I scrape together the last crumbs of my optimism when I inherit an eight-cottage money pit--er, beach property--from my aunt Ellen. With a whole 10 dollars to my name, I couldn’t be more over my head. But what I lack in funds, I make up for in the best friend department.

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Now more than ever, every Catholic needs to learn how to defend their mother, the blessed mother. Because now more than ever, the family is under attack and needs its mother. This audiobook will help you give a robust defense of the Catholic Church's Marian dogmas using scripture. This collection of essays will demonstrate through scripture how the Immaculate Conception of Mary was prophesied in Genesis and how the Virgin Mary is the new Eve, the new ark, and the new queen of Israel.

Since Jet Black discovered The Sorcerer’s Guide, a book with a mind of its own, he has uncovered elemental magic, clashed with mythological creatures, and obtained the first tablet piece of the Phoenix. Jet has only scratched the surface of the new magical world around him. War is on the horizon, but his promising development is about to come to a screeching halt. Plagued with roadblocks, dissension, and something far more sinister, he must achieve the impossible. Acquiring the second tablet piece is vital for their success, but can they beat Shane Fallon to the location?