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Most Christians believe we know all there is to know about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and its symbolism. We’ve learned about it in Sunday schools, catechism classes, church services, and even in our exposure to religious painting and sculpture. But what you don’t know is going to surprise you. In The Cross and Its Meaninglessness, Timothy John Tracy has taken thousands of years of Christian religious doctrine surrounding the Crucifixion and turned it on its head.

Anger is one of the most basic human emotions. In the right context and amount, it can actually be beneficial for one’s state of mind. It’s not healthy keeping your emotions bottled in, so getting angry and letting some of those frustrations out is good for you. To a point. Problems start when our emotions get the best of us and we release the piled up stress of the day through uncontrolled anger.

Lane DeMarco is a broken vampire plagued by a horrific past that makes intimacy and trust impossible. His passion for playing music is the only thing satisfying enough to curb his insanity...until Vanessa shakes his life up harder than the San Francisco earthquake. She’s smart, sexy, headstrong, and his desire for her could spiral out of control, except she is a witch. The same witch who once cast a nasty spell on him.

She was everything he’d learned to hate, but she was also everything his soul desired. Josh Barrett knows his priorities - reporting the news by day, drinking himself into a self-loathing stupor by night. His workaholic tendencies can’t completely mask the horrific night that changed his life forever...until a beautiful, sexy, and utterly mysterious woman enters his life and changes everything. Newly turned vampire Chelle Masterson only wants to find her place. Her unrequited love and devotion for her maker, Lane, has left Chelle broken, vowing to never fall for any man again.

Walden is a work by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and to some degree a manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amid woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.

Save my inheritance or follow my heart? My Internet-order husband is the key to both. Unless he succumbs to the schemes of our enemies. I didn’t realize I loved Nolan until he betrayed me and left. I won’t accept his resignation from my company - I’ll track him down and make him mine. Even if the marriage of convenience that will save my family estate is on the line. Fate must be laughing at me, though. I discover Nolan is the answer to both my dilemmas. I refuse to relinquish what is mine - even though an enemy is whispering in Nolan’s ear, sabotaging my plans.

A married man decides to surprise his hot, mature wife with a present for which she has been secretly pining for years - a one night stand with Carl, the black Adonis from his office for whom she has long had an intense crush. He films his wife being pounded by the hulking beast of a man while she wails in ecstasy, but before long she is crying out to be stuffed even harder. This story is a work of fiction and contains sex scenes and is suitable for adults only. All characters are fictional and are over 18 years old.

Two young men decide to start up a small boutique web-design company and visit their bank manager to arrange a small business loan. She is more than willing to lend them the money they require, but only on the condition that the two strapping lads satisfy her additional criteria, resulting in a steamy romp right there in her office.

Twelve-year-old Stian's plans to be the greatest Viking ever appear to be over before they even begin when he's captured by Dahlia - a dark elf and a girl. If being captured by a girl wasn't bad enough, he discovers he may be the son of Loki. The same Loki who is the greatest enemy of the Viking gods and the one foretold to bring about the end of the world. Knowing he is meant to do more than just be an ordinary Viking, Stian decides to discover the truth himself and free Loki from the clutches of Odin.

The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. It is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning politics and ethics.

The virus is spreading, the future is uncertain, and the Degenerates are taking control. Ike Glass and Ace Cullen have found themselves in quite the predicament: the Degenerates have located their hideout and kidnapped Phoenix and Rian, and now they must fight for their lives. Phoenix Blue knows she must tread carefully if she expects to keep her sister alive. What she doesn't expect is the strength her young sister possesses and the lengths her newfound family will go to in order to save their lives.

Stoicism is tailored for the “good life.” It doesn’t emphasize abstract, philosophical musings, like many other philosophies that might seem irrelevant to day-to-day life. It doesn’t require an education, a stellar IQ, or wealth to begin following its principles. One of its major thinkers was actually a slave, and another was an emperor. Clearly it’s a philosophy as applicable to those at top as to those at the bottom, to those who’ve known the best of life as to those who’ve known the worst, to the rich as to the poor, to the healthy as to the sick - because there are no true obstacles to bettering ourselves.

Axel's eyes took on a strange shine as he looked at me. "When you were a child, your mother warned you about the dangerous creatures that lived in the forest beyond the fence, didn't she?" I nodded, my arms crossed over my chest. "The fearsome creatures that she warned you of - that she protected you from - do exist." Axel's glittering eyes met mine. "They congregate in these woods for one reason only - you."

A new job in a small town fire department sees Jacob on nightshift with his new commander on the very first week. The attraction between them is already there, and there’s no fighting it off. It ends with Jacob giving in to feelings he’s been suppressing, as he lets the commander take charge to show him just how good it is to be with a man.

Steve’s relatively cushy existence in prison changes when he’s informed a new inmate has been assigned to share his cell. His despondency about the arrangement changes when the man arrives. Instant attraction wasn’t what he expected, but there’s no ignoring it, and he can’t resist the dominance of an older man who wants to play with his nubile young body.

A break-in at his apartment results in Craig calling the police. The officer who arrives is sympathetic to his plight, but tells him not to get his hopes up that his property will be returned. It’s something else that catches Craig’s interest though as the opportunity to have an encounter with a handsome, uniformed man presents itself. The officer is more than willing to give him what he wants as things get out of hand.

When a childish prank threatens to shatter the peace of a quiet suburban town, a father sees his opportunity to rid himself of the crushing guilt he feels. He must put everything on the line to save people he barely knows, face his worst fears head-on, and stop an ancient evil that he alone has been charged with to keep at bay.

This bundle contains 10 steamy man-on-man and threesome stories, and everything you could want to get you going including spanking, bikers, doctors, interracial, sex toys, BDSM, cowboys, and more.

A short stint temping for an attractive business executive has Darren fantasizing about office sex. The interest shown in him raises his hopes that he’ll get what he wants on his last day. The appearance of his boss’s best friend quashes the idea, but only until he finds out that he’s been set up for a threesome. There’s no denying two alpha males what they crave and he willingly lets himself be taken over a desk by a couple of kinky men.

Brendan’s meeting with a young doctor in a bar turns to more when the discussion turns to examination tables. The tipsy medic confesses he has dreams about tying down a man and it gets him an invitation to play out his fantasy. When they get to the examination room, Brendan asks the doctor to demonstrate the position he should assume then turns the tables by tying the young man down and takes full advantage to indulge in some dirty medical play.