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Reggie was a society girl, a castoff wife, soon-to-be divorcee, stolen away from Earth, a victim of her own bad choices. Little did she know that one mistake would lead her onto a journey of finding her own happy ever after with a serpentine species of aliens on a strange matriarchal jungle planet. Giant spiders, gargantuan lizards, scrambled green eggs for breakfast. Life had suddenly got a lot more interesting.

England, 1422: Owen Tudor, a Welsh servant, waits in Windsor Castle to meet his new mistress, the beautiful and lonely Queen Catherine of Valois, widow of the warrior king, Henry V. Her infant son is crowned king of England and France, and while the country simmers on the brink of civil war, Owen becomes her protector. They fall in love, risking Owen's life and Queen Catherine's reputation, but how do they found the dynasty that changes British history - the Tudors?

Weikart reveals the startling and fascinating truth about the most hated man of the 20th century: Adolf Hitler was a pantheist who believed nature was God. In Hitler's Religion, Weikart explains how the laws of nature became Hitler's only moral guide - how he became convinced he would serve God by annihilating supposedly "inferior" human beings and promoting the welfare and reproduction of the allegedly superior Aryansin accordance with racist forms of Darwinism prevalent at the time.

Returning from the dead, Duncan reestablishes control as the nation’s spiritual leader. Sent south to persuade Alexis and the Kingdom’s tarrac to return, he manages instead to drive her farther away, creating a rift between them and in the process, making an enemy - to both himself and Gambria. With the King believed lost at sea, Queen Guina declares him dead and finally marries Father Konrud, the man she truly loves, elevating him to Lord Chamberlain. Yet her throne is far from secure, for events in the south threaten to split the kingdom.

When a dwarf with no claim to the throne manages to overthrow the kingdom and take over, an unlikely hero steps forward and challenges his rule to the throne. Will the hero succeed - or will his defiance lead to the entire kingdom's downfall as ogres, giants, dragons, spell casters, and more converge against the kingdom and start one of the greatest wars in all of times existence?

The Otiosi? As far as Mathew Longstaff knows, they're just a group of harmless scholars with an eccentric interest in the works of antiquity. When they ask him to travel east to recover a lost text from Ivan the Terrible's private library, he can't think of anything but the reward - home and a return to England and an end to the long years of exile and warfare. But the Otiosi are on the trail of a greater prize than Longstaff realizes - the legendary "Devil's Library". And they are not alone. Gregorio Spina, the Pope's spymaster and Chief Censor, is obsessed with finding the Library.

A Sting in the Tale is the sort of book to listen to if you appreciate humor. However, if you are need of a humor transplant then, perhaps, this is not the book for you. This fully authorized memoir of Sting and Jim Berryman's time together is, indeed, a hilariously, eye-wateringly funny listen. Just imagine a P.G. Wodehouse book, and substitute Jeeves and Bertie Wooster with Sting and Jim and you'll have the right picture!

When an oil tanker is hijacked by a novice band of Somali pirates, it's a near impossible problem to solve in one of the most remote and dangerous places on earth. A team of negotiators, security, and maritime experts are called in with one job to do, save the lives of the crew. Can this "A-team" of experts do so? Can they prevent a massive environmental disaster, rescue the ship, and its hundred-million dollar cargo? There are reputations to be made, or lost....

Four puzzled husbands. Five mischievous young wives. Justin Burke's secret sweeps through their homes to restore domestic tranquility. Justin Burke's family had a long and distinguished reputation for domestic tranquility. His father, and his father before him, believed a good spanking properly delivered was the secret to a happy marriage. He hadn't had the opportunity to introduce it to his new bride, so when he returned from a business venture to wild tales of how his wife had infiltrated the gentlemen's club in his absence, he could not put it off a moment longer.

Mira never expected a single fragment—the scent of pine after rain—to change everything. But when she uncovers this outlawed memory, she’s thrust into a hidden world of rebels, dreamers, and exiled scientists. Together with Critical the daring pilot, Dr. Raven the fierce archivist, and Dr. Dove the gentle healer, Mira must decide how much she’s willing to risk to feel alive.

A spate of brutal murders occur in and around the small town of Thussock. The bodies of the dead - savagely mutilated, unspeakably defiled - are piling up with terrifying speed. There are no apparent motives and no obvious connections between the victims, but the killings only began when Scott Griffiths and his family arrived in Thussock....

After the domes fall and the Filter shatters, Mira and her companions lead a fragile new community into the vast, uncharted sky. But freedom brings new dangers: children struck by memories that aren’t their own, caravans vanishing in the wilderness, and coded signals from distant settlements that may be invitation—or trap.

He was about to be tried for treason. His gay lover had been ordered to kill him. He was trying to evade a clever inspector from the Privy Council as well as the Black Plague. And he had hired a bumbling actor named Shakespeare to front for his writings. It was obviously time for Christopher Marlowe to fake his own murder.

Mullah Nasruddin (Nasreddin Hoca), the eight-centuries-old wise fool character originating from Turkey and the Levant, is the subject of thousands of funny, wise tales, jokes, and anecdotes told across the Middle and Far East and retold today worldwide. Carefully chosen from beloved authentic sources, these short stories and folk tales will bring readers a smile, nod, or chuckle of self-recognition.

Reveling in the adoration of a nation charmed by their new High Priest, Duncan begins setting the Temple house in order. Unfortunately, his contentment is short lived. Failing to account for a paranoid king jealous of this stranger’s sway over the people, and an entrenched corruption within the Temple - not to mention a scheming senior prelate furious at being denied the high priesthood - Duncan is quickly caught up in the game of power, and just as quickly condemned to die in the wastelands, in the hope that the desert sands will eradicate any memory of the former wizard.

The Associate is at it again. His intent? To carry out the most daring raid ever against one of the largest gold mines in the world. Deep in the forests of Ghana, drone technology, so out of place its almost alien, crushes the hardened defenses. What follows is a game of cat and mouse through the jungle. The theft is so vast that the president can't ask even his most loyal allies to recover it. And so he turns to Max. Max and his team of highly trained specialists are people he thinks he can trust.

Not quite dead as some had hoped, King Diad sits once again on the throne. Discovering his wife married to another, he quite happily divorces her and exiles her from the capital. The once powerful queen is now relegated to the role as the wife of a mere prelate. However, King Diad is not the same as he once was and soon he is king in name only, for the new Lord Chamberlain has deftly assumed the power behind the throne. Yet the kingdom is in turmoil, for Lord Dade’s rebellion is pushing the kingdom to civil war.

Shadrak the Unseen should have known better. Stealing from one wizard on behalf of another was the sort of job he'd sworn never to take. But times were tough and grief had left its mark. The thing that should have really warned him off, though, was that the artifact he'd been commissioned to retrieve was a ring crafted by none other than the Witch Queen of Thogani, the Desecrated City.

A game of cards years ago opens a series of mysterious doors to a past where General Sam Tarkington once walked the edge of right and wrong. Someone is out for revenge, and it is up to Alex Brown and his team to solve a mystery and protect the elusive Jonathon Michael Masterson, but in the end, who is protecting who?

When the worlds largest oil refinery opens in Madagascar, The Associates long-laid plans start to bear fruit. Kidnapping, wanton destruction, and a terror plot led by Abdi, the Somali henchman with nine lives. The insurgents attack during the grand opening with devastating effect. Mike and Raj have to use every available resource to protect their client and make good their escape. Do they run, do they hide, or do they fight?