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On an island in the Middle Sea, 3500 years ago, Kitane is next in line to inherit her family's trade fortune and properties. She will inherit only if she marries by the time she is seventeen, which is coming up quickly. There are plenty of suitors, but Kitane can’t decide—because there is something she must do first. Time is in short supply. The God Potidas is angry. The ground rumbles and islanders flee from the threatening volcano at Thera. Will the Goddess Jasasara intervene and save Her people? If Kit doesn’t succeed, she may lose everything she loves: her bull, her home, her ...

Historical cozy mystery: When three strangers visited Qurtuba, the western limit of ninth-century civilization, they brought tales of buried treasure. The ensuing treasure hunt shook the peaceful capital of the Umayyad dynasty with murder. Bhaja and Pai searched to uncover the mysteries of the murders that reached back decades, meanwhile discovering through dreams and visions their timeless love that began millennia ago. This Islamic golden age was a period of tolerance with a focus on education, but the people who lived there still experienced jealousy, pride, greed, and love.

By 2045, the progression of the Hot has disrupted lives around the world. Sea levels have risen. Much of the Arctic permafrost has melted. Shortages of food and water are widespread. Cattle, pigs, and other domestic and wild animals must keep moving north to survive. Mammoths have been cloned as a meat resource, but they aren’t reproducing. Corn, rice, and wheat wither on the stalk. Oklahoma is too hot to grow grains. People in China are starving. Communities in Canada already see the disastrous results of the warm winters and melting permafrost. Can the efforts of these families solve ...

In cities and villages world-wide, drug companies must defend their clinical trials against anti-science activists. Eleanor Powell is convinced the drug companies have done their due diligence, but the global population is shrinking and politicians are looking for a scapegoat. Eleanor is finding herself suddenly in the middle of a cultural battle over science and statistics. Meanwhile, in a remote village in Vietnam, Mike Johnson fights to understand if Agent Orange is the cause of the miscarriages and low birth rates he sees there. Why are the children dying, or not being born at all? ...