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Bucking family tradition, Dyre is determined to become his planet's first hero, even if it breaks his mother's heart. He sets out on numerous quests to bring justice to the universe. However, his altruism never seems to turn out quite as expected. Who knew doing the right thing was so hard? In between saving those who don't want his help - and the chaos that follows - he rescues a damsel in distress. She doesn't appreciate his heroic abduction, and, even worse, once Dyre gets to know the outspoken human, he entertains thoughts about ravishing her.

The death of an evil vampire hybrid should have meant the end of the troubles plaguing the werewolf packs. Instead, it's just the beginning.... Marc can't escape the memories of what he did while under Roderick's mental control, but he can attempt to atone. He begins his quest by saving a female Lycan who needs guidance - and a mate. The problem is convincing her to accept his help, and his love.

I'm a monster. That's what Brandon thinks when he flees the medical institute that changed him. Living a normal life isn't in the cards for him because, while he can hide his scaly skin, his wings are hard to miss. So he runs and lives in the shadows where monsters belong. What he didn't expect to find were others just like him, and they call themselves dragons. Or so Aimi with the violet eyes tells him when she pins him to the ground. Seriously, though, dragons? He doesn't want to believe, but the evidence is mounting.

Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences.

Juggling a happily ever after is harder than it looks, especially when it involves a fallen angel who is my soul mate, a hunky cat shifter who stole my heart, and a darkly delicious vampire who is like that piece of forbidden chocolate you just can't resist. Add in a precocious little girl, who is totally spoiled rotten - not surprising given Nana and Poppa were Mother Earth and the Devil - and my life was a never-ending series of dramas, foot stomping, yelling, and tears. By me. I never knew being a grown-up could be so much damned work.

Torn from my men by a favor owed, I'm thrust into the dark underworld of Liverpool, a city I'm not that familiar with. It is also where my sister lives. Trapped until I find the woman I've been tasked to find or be sent to prison for my crimes, I have no choice but to keep up my dangerous mission. I'm shocked to my core when I discover that my older sister is involved in some shady business that I had no idea about.

The thought of morgues gives us chills, and for good reason. Dead bodies in and out, no wonder some claim that the dead linger behind. Why? Are they lost, stuck or just afraid to move on to the afterlife?

It’s not fair that only males get to go out and pillage the universe. Being born a female automatically means staying home and birthing the next generation of warriors. Azteriya has other plans. She has a dream of traveling the galaxy and exploring strange new worlds. Fighting fierce foes. Of clubbing a viable male to bring home to her mother so that her transgression is forgiven.

Jenna inherited two things from her grandfather: her love for mechanics and his 1969 Dodge Charger. She thought the car just had a ‘personality’—until a rival street racer tries to get revenge for his loss against her, and her beloved car transforms into a leather-clad bad boy to protect her.

I'm the true heir to the Dragon Empire. My uncle thrust the title upon me 22 years ago, but I'm not ready to rule an empire. Until it becomes the answer to my problem. Two suitors have been presented for marriage. Both of whom were born to be mine, but I'm already in love. A love that is true but forbidden. Should be easy enough to tell my mother I want both men. Now, all I have to do is find a way to make them accept the man that I love, while trying to get my act together enough to take control of my destiny.

Jewish masculinity as a diverse set of adaptive reactions to masculine hegemony and the political, religious, and social realities of American Jews throughout the twentieth century. For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of masculinity.

Read by the author. Even children experience lonely moments. When they do, this book reminds them that you will always be there, and God is right there too. Max Lucado's comforting words reinforce the thought that no matter what happens--the good and bad, the firsts and lasts--children will...

This oversized elf is on a mission to save Christmas. The unthinkable has happened. Krampus has escaped his prison and is out for revenge. It's up to Leif Blitzen, member of the Yule Squad, to locate the dangerous prisoner before anyone is harmed. His mission takes him from the North Pole to a small town with an interesting shop and an even more intriguing owner. Bella might be almost forty but that hasn't diminished her love of the holidays. Filled with unique gifts and antiques from all over the world, her Christmas store keeps her spirit bright all year round.

Roxanne knows where she'd like to shove Cupid's arrow. Tired of cheating men and false promises of love, Roxanne launches a campaign against Cupid's Dating Service. But it's hard to smear a company when you've got the hots for the owner. Maverick Eros is more than the CEO of CDS, he's Cupid himself. However, forget the media images of a chubby diapered cherub because the god of love is actually six feet plus of yummy, muscled male. When they meet, sparks fly - the lusty kind - but they both know from experience, love hurts. In the end though, they'll learn that love will have its way, with or without the aid of Cupid's arrow.

"Get married or you're out of the will." Blackmail pure and simple, but Bryce doesn't have much of a choice if he wants to remain Grandfather's heir. With the old man on his deathbed, the clock is ticking, so he'd better get cracking because a supposed cousin has just shown up looking for a pint of the maple syrup business. "I'll gore him with my rack first!" Lucky for Bryce, he sniffs out the perfect woman and makes her a deal. What he doesn't expect is to lose his heart in the process.

Selene's spent her entire life keeping her emotions in check to avoid wolfing out in public. She's single, but not by choice. Not many men can handle a woman who turns furry on the full moon—and every time her adrenaline gets pumping. She's just about given up on love when she meets Dante. The insufferable man is on the same cruise as her and, for some reason, pursues her. As if she'd ever date a womanizer.

“Distressingly smart, wickedly sly, and side-clutchingly hilarious.” —Vanessa Chan, author of The Storm We Made “If you want a book that perfectly evokes millennial sexual politics under late-stage capitalism, and in which all of us—gay, straight, cis, and trans alike—are read for...

This Cryptid Authority agent—and witch—is tired of being assigned useless partners. I prefer to work alone, but my new boss says I have to play nice with Special Agent Koda Whiteclaw. I'm ready to hate the guy, only it turns out he's not that bad—and he's super cute to boot.

Everyone has had a nightmare at one point of their life. But what if that nightmare was crouched next to your bed watching you sleep? A figure so terrifyingly darker than the unlit surroundings of your room. Some places contain secrets, others are local lore, but some have unimaginable truth behind the stories that echo throughout the world from their walls.

Tuck yourself in tight, you are in for one sinister paranormal journey. Twenty-six sections of ghostly sightings to keep you up past dawn. Hospitals are where we go to feel better or to mend our bodies. Unfortunately sometimes we don’t survive our stay. Even more so...on occasion we linger. We have collected the most gripping real ghost stories from staff, visitors, and patients who have seen, felt, or heard unexplainable paranormal events at hospitals.