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Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his "white static", the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the stars. But when a friend from the marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man's widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for.

A recent Civil War widow, Charity Burk must find a man to plow the tough prairie sod. When she discovers Beau Claxton - mauled by a ravenous wolf - she believes he's the answer to her prayers. She drags the dying man to her cabin, convinced God wants them to marry. But does this unconscious stranger have room in his heart for God or for her?

In this triumphant best seller, renowned novelist James A. Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of disenchanted youth during the Vietnam era. Against exotic backdrops, including Spain, Morocco, and Mozambique, he weaves together the heady dreams, shocking tribulations, and heartwarming bonds of six young runaways cast adrift in the world - as well as the hedonistic pursuit of drugs and pleasure that collapses all around them.

Helicopter pilot Vladimir Yurish is a man of his word. The last thing he wants is to abandon the safety of the U.S.S. Nimitz and his newly adopted son Ben. Still, a promise is a promise, no matter how close to death it brings him. Angie West has fought hard to keep strangers alive, but now it's time to tend to her own. Only, when she finds her family missing and their hideout burned and looted, she realizes the threat to her family isn't just the undead - the living can do so much worse.

Altia and Knave must now navigate being in a long-term relationship at the same time as being the leaders of a galactic rebellion. The empire continues to become ever more oppressive, in new and entertaining ways - entertaining that is for the listener, not the poor inhabitants of this dysfunctional superpower. Not to be left out, the rebellion also has new challenges: it is time to take their symbolic eleventh planet, a milestone that has become enshrined in the lore of the ancient Tarazet Star Empire as the point when a rebellion stops being one of many and starts to become serious.

Coral is on the run, again. But who can catch a changer—a girl who can be anything? Home at last and loaded with contraband, Coral reunites with Elias, an old flame, now the Academy’s youngest surgeon. But Coral’s perfect night is ruined when Rahu, a fanatical killer, tracks her down and tricks her into unleashing a vindictive goddess. With her world threatened, Coral turns to Cyrus, a battle poet sworn to protect the multiverse. But learning dangerous magic takes time, and Rahu is out for blood.

Once, Frank Morgan had a wife and a future on the land — until a rich man with a grudge drove him out of Colorado. Since then, Morgan's taken up the one skill that always came easy — gunfighting — and drifted to a mining town in the New Mexico Territory. But there's nothing easy about two vicious gangs descending on the town and threatening to wreak havoc. With his reputation preceding him, Morgan is elected to stand in the outlaws' way.

The war is over, and Will Kaufman is finally back home. He brings with him the technological and medical wonders of the galaxy. When an alien corporate syndicate decides to set up operations on Mars, Earth begins to wonder if the gifts they've been brought are worth the cost of potential subjugation. Earth was spared a war against the Imperium… but it just might find itself at the center of a new conflict unless humanity's only Void Drifter can stop it.

Each week, Drift Off welcomes you with a soft, melodic voice that will help you fall asleep to bedtime stories from the public domain. Every episode begins with a brief relaxation to help you settle in, followed by a calm reading of a bedtime story. Whether you're looking for a relaxing tale to help you unwind or a sleepy bedtime story, Drift Off Bedtime Stories for Adults is the ultimate destination for a restful night's sleep.

A lesbian pulp fiction classic -- back in print for the first time in 60 years! She drifted from bed-to-bed, from men-to-women, trying to blot out pain with pleasure. Dina needed love, she wanted to give love. Her husband's sadistic practices were unbearable. How much humiliation and degradation could she taken. She wanted to screan "Touch me again and I'll kill you!" Instead, she ran into the arms of another man...but also found the arms of woman waiting for her, too. Somehow, between the two, she had to find herself...and finally the love, freedom and happiness she craved. March Hastings ...

♥♥ Can a drifter escaping his past stay in one place long enough to protect a brave young widow in need of his services? ♥♥ The Drifter: Chase Masters is a drifter who has been mistaken as the notorious bandit, Bloody Bart. Chance brings these two together, and in self-defense, Chase takes the man's life. When the Dover Gang arrives in the night and thinks Chase is Bart because of the uncanny resemblance, Chase decides to assume the bandit's identity. His intentions, other than saving his own life, are to try to stop the gang from robbing another stagecoach and killing innocent ...

Smuggler Pik Lando is hired by a beautiful woman named Angel, and suddenly he finds himself involved with her and a group of hell-bent revolutionaries...and there is a price on his head.

Sam Prichard is on his way to the most unbelievable mission any PI could ever blunder into - to stop a madman who thinks he is the Antichrist! The only problem is that this madman is smart, smart enough that he's been working toward this goal for many years and has never been caught.

The Amazon rainforest holds a world-changing secret—a ship lost to time from another world. College student Will Kaufman unearthed the biggest archaeological discovery in human history… he just needs to find a way back to Earth to tell people about it. Four thousand years ago, a Federation bounty hunter Void ship crashed on a remote and primitive planet. There it remained until Will found it and accidentally reactivated it, launching him light-years away.

As a coalition of species and planets fights to unseat the Imperium, Will, the only human on the Coalition War Council, is put forward as an unlikely poster boy for galactic harmony. His unremarkable home world and its unimportant species—humans—have come to the aid of a greater galaxy they didn't even know existed. With each battle won, breaking the shackles of the Imperium seems not only possible but inevitable… until old grievances and simmering rivalries spring up among the Coalition.

Contains books one and two of the Deadland Drifter series: Deadland Drifter and Deadland Wanderer.

Pik Lando, with a very tempting price on his head, tries to avoid any run-ins with the law by taking a job on a space tug. But the reward for his capture is just too much to resist, and soon a beautiful bounty hunter shows up at his door.

When Ragland intervenes to save the life of a young girl captured by a pack of cannibals, he unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that will bring the horde down upon his head.

When United Planets Alliance Captain Henry Wong and Ambassador Sylvia Todorovich attempted to bring peace to the Ra Sector, they turned to the Drifters for neutral ground. Instead, the nomadic spacers betrayed the summit and attempted to kill everyone there. With peace forged despite the Drifters’ betrayal, Henry and Sylvia take an elite squadron in pursuit of the Drifter Convoy. Their enemies have friends at every turn, neutral worlds who will give them shelter - and if the UPA breaches that neutrality, everything Henry and Sylvia have worked for could crash down in flames.

The Imperium grip is slipping, thanks to Will's unexpected ability as a Void Drifter. But in revealing his abilities, Will may have put his home planet, a backwater most of the galaxy didn't even know existed, on the frontlines. But Earth is not as defenseless as it seems. An enigmatic billionaire, aware of the true nature of the Imperium's galactic menace, has been secretly building a defensive fleet. Still more fleets have been secretly constructed in the far reaches of the galaxy.