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Ramon “Ray” Cosa’s life is not what he expected it to be. Living in a small Texas town ravaged by Hurricane Harvey, Ray has suffered many losses in his young life, and he has little hope left that anything will ever change or get better. That is, until the vintage Ford Galaxie and its strange, dying owner enters Ray’s life. Given a jeweled ring he cannot remove and a desperate mission, Ray is plunged into a universe of secrets, wonders, and terrors he never dreamed exists. Now, he travels the Queen's Road - a hyper-space highway that connects all the planets in creation.

In this groundbreaking book, adoption advocates Betsy S. Kylstra, Lisa C. Qualls, and Jodi Jackson Tucker-an adoptee, a birth mother, and an adoptive mother-reveal that adoption is rooted in both loss and redemptive victory. And healing is needed by all in the adoption triad-adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents-to experience restoration and wholeness.

Marked by a notoriously dangerous leader, Kong is gorilla shifter royalty who is being guarded until he is called to perform his fated duty: Take over a family group and father the next generation of gorilla shifters. Too bad he has no interest in that future. His eyes have been on a buxom beauty who works at the bar his Lowlander Crew hangs out at. Three years and he's had to keep his distance to protect her from his guards, but she's noticed his silent attention, and now she's showing up in unexpected places, tempting him to break all the rules.

This princess can shave herself! The hilarious bestselling authors of Kill the Farm Boy and No Country for Old Gnomes are back with a new adventure in the irreverent world of Pell. Once upon a time, a princess slept in a magical tower cloaked in thorns and roses. When she woke, she found no...

Like his brothers and sisters, Seth Sinclair went from blue-collar to billionaire overnight, and he’s decided to invest in what he knows best: construction. There’s only one thing in his way - the endangered birds nesting on a piece of prime beachfront real estate. And fighting for the birds is Riley Montgomery, a stubborn, pain-in-the-ass, drop-dead-gorgeous environmental lawyer.

The word is out about Sadie Hoffmiller's amateur detective work, but it's not the kind of publicity Sadie wants. When Jane's article threatens Sadie's reputation in the community, she accepts her first investigation-for-hire and travels to Portland, Oregon - if only to give herself some space from her whispering neighbors. And from Pete, who is sending her mixed signals about their budding relationship. Sadie hopes the Portland air will clear her head, and she is eager to get to work for May Sanderson, who has suspicions about her father's untimely death.

Hunter: My twin and I are looking for a woman of worth. A beauty. Smart and sassy, with curves to spare who can handle two men. Our purpose? Easy. To put our baby in her belly. Lila: I was kidnapped and then sold at a dirty auction to a pair of unscrupulous alpha males. I should hate Hunter and Talon. The twins are demanding and arrogant, and want me to parade around in sparkly bikinis and high heels just for the hell of it! But inside, I melt because Hunter and Talon are gorgeous. They’ve got broad chests, washboard abs, and best of all, twenty inches of thick power that have a special ...

The goblin horde is coming, driven by a dark Sorcerer eager to drive the dwarven race into extinction. Reborn as a dungeon core inside a fabled gem known as the Brisingstone, Bowen vows to use this new life to protect what is left of his people and avenge those who could not be saved. With new-found powers, Bowen learns to create golems of stone and clay to act on his behalf. With half-remembered mining skills, Bowen rekindles the forge of his ancestors and, under the guidance of his new Dungeon fairy, teaches his golems to create metal automatons of war.

Samantha Moon is back and doing what she does best: solving crimes, finding killers, and helping those who can't help themselves. For years, Samantha Moon has wanted to be normal. It seemed an impossible dream...right up until it happened. Well, sort of. Normality is a relative thing for an immortal former vampire. Now, with the final defeat of Elizabeth firmly in the past, Sam's world changes yet again. A seemingly routine case walks in the door of her new office and soon proves that in her life, nothing is ever simple.

Assigned to transport experimental military hardware to a base in Alaska, Colonel Hatch and his men were supposed to be prepared for anything. When their plane runs into a freak electro-magnetic event however it's soon clear that isn't the case. Fighting the elements, the soldiers quickly learn that they aren't alone and soon things take a turn that no one could have seen coming because it turns out that monsters are indeed real.

After finishing a hard-won medical residency, Owen Sinclair now lives his dream as a family physician. The windfall that brought him newfound wealth has also made handsome Dr. Sinclair the town’s most eligible bachelor. But Owen’s eyes are on Layla, his onetime best friend, his clinic’s dedicated nurse practitioner, and the one woman in Citrus Beach who has no interest in either his body or his billions.

Drago, King of the Isle of Dragons, is the last of the magnificent dragons of the Seven Kingdoms. Bitter and alone, he abandons the emptiness of his realm and retreats to the caverns beneath the palace. In the form of his dragon, he remains hidden from the world, protecting the Dragon's Heart, the last legacy of his people - until he is disturbed by a most unlikely thief.

If you have a child with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you are all-too-aware of the behavioral and emotional issues that are linked to this disorder—including rages, self-harm, sexual acting out, substance abuse, suicidal behaviors, physical and emotional attacks, and more. Traditional parenting strategies that work on other kids just don't work with a borderline child. But you shouldn't lose hope. The good news is that there are parenting strategies that do work.

Data governance programs focus on authority and accountability for the management of data as a valued organizational asset. Non-Invasive Data Governance focuses on formalizing existing accountability for the management of data and improving formal communications, protection, and quality efforts through effective stewarding of data resources.

I'm totally fine if America wants to cast me as the villain. So why do I care if brooding football player Will Pemberton believes it too? But honestly? It stings more than it should when Will—grumpy football star and walking scowl—judges me based on a five-second video from Being the Bennets, my family's reality TV show.

In this 12-lecture meditation on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, you'll uncover the clarity and ethical wisdom of one of humanity's greatest minds. Father Koterski shows how and why this great philosopher can help you deepen and improve your own thinking on questions of morality and leading the best life. The aim of these lectures is to provide you with a clear and thoughtful introduction to Aristotle as a moral philosopher.

An instant bestseller from Templeton Prize–winning author Francis S. Collins, The Language of God provides the best argument for the integration of faith and logic since C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. It has long been believed that science and faith cannot mingle. Faith rejects the rational...

Dodger Nause is not good at being a Rogue. An unconventional upbringing has him craving stability, but the Rogue Pack is anything but. On the brink of war, he has to find a way to calm the animal inside of him. His Alpha is asking him to be patient, but a new and dangerous Pack is pushing into their territory, and Dodger isn’t good at sitting back and waiting for something bad to happen. Adding to the chaos? The humans in Coeur d’Alene are wary of werewolves, and Dodger is having a hard time being polite. When a gorgeous woman approaches, offering kindness, he knows it is a trick. That ...

The Davinchi Cartel is a notorious, all-female drug empire known for its ruthlessness ways. The cartel is led by three powerful sisters: Willow is the calculating and fearless leader. Kehlani is the seductive yet deadly one, and Izzy is known as the brains, the tech-savvy genius behind their operations. Their father Ezekiel, the breeder of all girls, had no regrets about handing the reign of his empire over to his daughters, as they had been trained for this since birth.

Twice in the first half of the last century, the great powers engaged in wars that killed nearly 70 million people, with the aftermath of each shaking the international political system, changing the maps of the world, and setting the scene for the next great conflict. And for most of the past 50 years, the Cold War dominated international politics. Is this the history we are condemned to repeat? This series of eight lectures about international politics will hone your ability to approach that question with knowledge and insight.