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I never thought I'd auction my v-card to survive. Now, I'm snowed in with three mountain men who want more than my innocence. The underground auction was my escape plan. Instead, it brought me face-to-face with three rugged brothers whose eyes see right through me and whose hands leave me trembling. Two months in their remote cabin was meant to be simple. Fulfill their terms, take the money, and start over. But I didn't expect them. Lucas is dark and intense, a leader whose control leaves me breathless—and wanting more. Bryce is playful and warm, but his charm hides a dangerous edge.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox's practical guide to depolarization teaches us how to disagree better at the dinner table, on social media, and in American politics Last September, following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Governor Spencer Cox stood at a podium and addressed a fractured and...

In this intriguing business novel, which illustrates state-of-the-art economic theory, Alex Rogo is a UniCo plant manager whose factory and marriage are failing. To revitalize the plant, he follows piecemeal advice from an elusive former college professor who teaches, for example, that reduction in the efficiency of some plant operations may make the entire operation more productive. Alex's attempts to find the path to profitability and to engage his employees in the struggle involve the listener; and thankfully the authors' economic models.

Mara Vale has built her life on procedure. As a rising analyst inside a gleaming civic bureaucracy, she believes that rules protect people, that standards create fairness, and that safety belongs to those who stay compliant. Then a high-sensitivity case breaks through her professional distance. Drawn into a rarefied world of influence, luxury, and quiet coercion, Mara begins to see how power really works: not through spectacle, but through curation, access, and quiet conditioning. As approval becomes a weapon and intimacy becomes leverage, the system she trusted starts asking for more than ...

A New York Times Bestseller A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author. “Magisterial.” –The...

Heather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

A woman is found naked, badly beaten and barely alive in the New Mexico mountains. The shocking discovery plunges Albuquerque Detective Alyssa Wyatt into a case that will test her to the limit. It appears that Callie McCormick is the latest plaything of a shadowy psychopath that leaves a long shadow on the streets of New Mexico - an individual linked to a string of deaths but leaving no evidence. But when Alyssa makes a breakthrough that just might reveal the killer, she unknowingly puts herself in the crosshairs of a brutal maniac - one with an old score to settle.  

"The full ensemble of narrators is phenomenal, and their voices feel genuine. Listeners will be enthralled by this slow-burn suspense novel until the glass-shattering end." — Library Journal (Starred Review) Featuring multicast narration, a lavish, Texas-sized Sweet Sixteen turns deadly in...

Mercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun’s expanding power. Venus, once thought to be lush and fertile, now known to be trapped within a toxic and boiling atmosphere. Mars, the red planet, doomed by the loss of its atmosphere. Jupiter, twice the size of all the other planets combined, but insubstantial. Saturn, a stunning celestial beauty, the jewel of our Solar System. Uranus, the sideways planet and the first ice giant. Neptune, dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds. Pluto, the dwarf planet, a frozen rock.

The knife slashed one way across her mouth, then the other, silencing her words. The last thought she had as the knife plunged down was that at least it would all be over soon... When Jennie Killingbeck goes missing while driving back to Albuquerque, Detective Alyssa Wyatt and the squad quickly...

I swear I'm not deliberately avoiding telling my best friend I'm in love with him. Life just has a funny way of getting in the way… for the last fifteen years or so. Now, thirteen years later, I'm back in town after Grandpa Arnie died. He leaves me his inn in his will. On two conditions. One, I get married, and two, I stay in town for at least six months. Buzz loves that inn as much as I do, so he offers himself as tribute. Now that we're married and living together, nothing is going to get in the way of me telling him how I feel.

Beneath the surface, the dead are waiting… When mermaid private investigator Alexis Silver is summoned by her CIA handler for a “quiet favor,” she expects another classified errand. Instead, she’s flown to rural Oregon, where a long-forgotten reservoir hides a drowned town, and a Cold War listening post built to monitor something the Agency still refuses to name. But the lake holds more than secrets. As Alex dives into the sunken streets of Haskell Springs, she finds spirits drifting through ruined storefronts and ghostly figures glaring from the windows of submerged houses. Some ...

By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe. At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of...

If you thought the Glitch was bad, that’s nothing compared to a Federal Virtual Detention Construct. The world is faster, looser, and deadlier than ever. Why slot digital dreams behind your ear when you can implant the real thing: cybernetic augments offer superhuman abilities beyond imagination—if you can afford them …

Can a relationship ever be repaired once trust is broken? Or is broken trust the beginning of the end? Chris White is a struggling artist who teaches oil painting at a university in Utrecht, The Netherlands. While he’d rather paint his breakout work, living costs need to come from somewhere. And while teaching isn’t quite his thing, he’s thankful it’s where he met the girl of his dreams, Julie. As an up-and-coming model, Julie also had to cover living costs. So she modelled for his class one day. When Julie walks in on Chris getting overly excited about another model, their ...

Don can’t stop becoming Donna, and his wife is fed up. Catherine has long known about Don’s feminine urges, but she turned against them when she began feeling unfulfilled in their marriage. Don wants his wife to be happy, but he isn’t sure how to give her what she wants. He can’t stop becoming Donna. When a handsome alpha comes along, they both know exactly what they need to do to make Catherine feel right. Insubordinate Girl is a short and steamy story about a crossdressing husband and the woman he loves.

Une romance de protection avec des policiers possessifs et un bad boy – harem inversé Je n’étais pas censée tomber amoureuse de l’un d’eux. Pas du jeune flic débutant qui sourit comme le péché. Pas du bad boy accusé de meurtre. Et certainement pas du partenaire grincheux dont le regard semble me transpercer. J’aurais dû fuir dès l’instant où ils m’ont touchée. À la place, je les ai défiés de s’approcher encore. Maintenant, je suis prise entre des hommes dangereux, possessifs… et impossibles à ignorer. Je suis emmêlée dans leurs vies, leurs secrets, leurs ...

Can a single night change your entire life? What if that night was Halloween? Donald Benson is one of the many invisible college guys at the University of South Carolina. He isn’t athletic, didn’t get asked to pledge to a fraternity, and gets solid grades. He’s just like thousands of others living in the dorms in Columbia. Donald’s only excitement comes from his dorm mates, three attractive girls. He says he lucked it when he got placed in their dorm. Only trouble is, none of them show even the slightest interest in Donald, only adding fuel to his frustration fire. But with ...

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Reality is an effort by one mind to comprehend the contemporary state of human knowledge and to correlate it with the latest discoveries in multiple disciplines in a quest to identify the ultimate truth of scientific and historical reality. Looking back almost 13.8 billion light years and imaging in the infrared spectrum, the Webb Space Telescope has failed to find any evidence of a “Big Bang.” On the contrary, endless, fully formed galaxies are seen generating stars and planets, and when viewed in the X-ray and radio spectra, the galaxies are observed to be connected by massive ...