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Adam West, a high powered lawyer, gets the shock of his life when he arrives to meet a new client. She’s the wife he hasn’t seen since they separated 10 years ago. Sam Reece doesn’t need the added complication of working with the husband who abandoned her a decade ago. She’s tried hard to put her failed marriage behind her, going back to her maiden name even though they never got divorced. The situation is bad enough as it is, but it seems Adam is the only person who can help.

Struggling? Juggling? Drowning? Argh! These experiences of being overwhelmed can be a common part of a normal day or week in our life. Yes, the world can be an overwhelming place. We might have an emotional experience of being overwhelmed. We can experience the "too much" workload - too much to do and not enough time in which to do it.

After inspiring the captain to exercise her privilege in choosing her reproductive partner, the Genesis’ first officer, Major Dylan Cobb takes the same privilege for himself. The middle-aged man chooses the sweet and flirtatious 27-year-old Cassie to be his partner, eager to fulfill her need for nurture and submission. And to show her how an older man takes care of his younger partner.

After the disaster aboard the Mission X ship Genesis that cost precious stores of water and the life of a crew member, it’s up to the Engineering department to solve the crisis. A difficult plan is in the works. But is the cost too high? Will it be enough?

Lee Clavering, a young playwright, falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet. Unknown to the young lover, the object of his devotion is defying age with artifice in this controversial pseudo-science-fiction romance.

I never thought the end of the human race would come at the claws of aliens. But here we are, a casualty in an age-old intergalactic war between two species fighting for our planet. And I hate them both. Or at least I'm trying to. When a huge, blue, and bronze-scaled dragon man shows up at my doorstep, I'm determined to resist the sudden temptation roiling in my gut. I don't care if his kisses steal my breath or his touch leaves me a hot, quaking mess. There is nothing on this hellish Earth that can make me forget the past and all that's been stolen.

Young Gincy Tate's father is murdered before he can fulfill a contract to supply the Army with remounts. In order to pay his debts and save the ranch, she must make the sale in his place. Afraid the lien-holder, whom she suspects of being the murderer, will foreclose before June 7, 1883, she tells no one Morris Tate is dead. Instead, she says he is here, there, or elsewhere. Gincy hires two cowboys to help trail the herd to Fort Spokane.

During my research and writing, I was fortunate to discover managers in a variety of businesses who actually understand and practice the awesome power of dignifying and respecting the people who depend on the businesses for their livelihoods and on whom the businesses depend on for their existence - the perfect win-win. In addition, the profiled managers are totally convinced that dignity is the root cause of their firms' profitability and sustainability. I think you'll enjoy meeting them and profit from their insights.

Ahead of the critical Saturn ice harvesting operation to save the Mission X crew, Engineer Ella Davies joins one of the Genesis’ best pilots on a test flight of the new equipment. And gets more than she expected from this Alex Vega. The charming and overtly flirtatious man exudes sex appeal and isn’t shy that he wants her. Even in front of her partner, Chief Engineer Oliver Campbell, who seems turned on by the idea of Ella being with another man. But will she submit to Alex’s advances and have the sexiest, most lustful flight of her life?

The loss of Jonathan is affecting Mission X’s Captain Mercier deeply. She’s angry over the accident that took him. Feeling guilty that their two nights together were spent exerting her feminine dominance over him. And a sadness that his legacy won’t carry on as a pregnancy inside her.

With an in-depth understanding of the traditions of yoga, and a clear-eyed perspective, this book bridges the gap for folks who never considered doing yoga, or those who have tried and were turned off. This is the yoga book for people who have trouble with the Zen and appreciate a little zing.

Rebecca is ready to give up on men. She’s fed up with disgusting jocks always hitting on her at the NBA. When will she finally find that true connection, instead of this unyielding chain of players? All she wants is a kind-hearted guy that genuinely loves her for who she is! Is that so much to ask for? Deciding to make a small change, she heads to a new bar with her friends. Little did she know who she would meet would change her life in much bigger ways. From across the bar, her eyes lock with Conan's and a spark is unleashed.

A one-time flight attendant founds a cybersecurity business. A yoga instructor opens an organic mattress company. A former steel industry executive forms a limousine service. A retired nurse creates an international golf clothing line. Late-Blooming Entrepreneurs introduces these and other contemporary entrepreneurs who started prosperous businesses in their forties, fifties, and later. Just about all of them say they wouldn’t have succeeded if they had started their companies when they were younger.

While the crew of the Mission X ship Genesis recover from the recent crisis and make bold preparations to mine water from Saturn’s rings, Senior Medical Officer Dr. Will Phillips has his own problems. None of the crew who’ve partnered up in the reproductive breeding protocol have become pregnant. It could be random chance, but Dr. Phillips suspects other causes and must test everyone involved.

Joshua Ryder is eight when his mother is murdered. An old cowboy becomes the father he has never had and, when he is dying, asks Josh, now 18, to leave the ranch with their neighbor, Miguel, and get some experience working for another outfit. Riding Shadow, the buckskin he's raised from a colt, Josh comes to the Rawlins' ranch and hires on to help drive a herd of longhorns to Kansas.

The time has finally come for the Genesis’ crew of Mission X to fight for their survival. After a major malfunction cost the ship thousands of gallons of life-giving water and the life of one of their own, and poor bio engineering of their food source crops nearly brought an end to the breeding program at the heart of their future interplanetary colonization mission, their last and only hope lays ahead in the brilliant icy rings of the giant planet Saturn.

Strange dreams start to plague Malak, the lead scientist of a utopic settlement, that’s thrived for almost a millennium. As many prepare to celebrate that thousand-year milestone, the distance from their present to their past threatens to strain the very fabric of their colony, now turned a mature civilization.

As the lead on his strike team, Jaxim is the one who destroys alien strongholds, but Amira has completely undermined the one around his heart. They are going to have to work together to get Jaxim, his team, and the human hostages out of the line of fire before the war destroys everything they hold dear.

A classic English murder mystery story, set in the legal center of London, draws the reluctant attention of a journalist as he makes his way home after a long night on the job. But his newshound instincts kick in. Who is the elderly man? What was he doing at the law chambers in the middle of the night? Why had someone seen fit to strike him on the back of the head?

Bath-based BBC Audiobooks hosted a sell-out event for the Bath Literature Festival. Reading Between the Lines: From Page to Production featured Rula Lenska, Lynne Truss, Sir Derek Jacobi, and Lorelei King in an entertaining and lively discussion about the art of the audiobook. They were joined by Sunday Times audio critic Karen Robinson, BBC Audiobooks' Publishing Director Jan Paterson, and Senior Producer Kate Thomas.