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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.

I’m the furthest thing from content with my situation. Bound to three alien husbands, I arrived on their home planet just in time to learn that everything was a con. I didn’t need to come to their home planet for a one-way ticket off Earth. I definitely didn’t need to trade my body to do it, but here I am, stuck on Lukrim with an inviolable tie to three liars. Freedom comes too late, leaving me at the brink of having to make a terrible decision. There’s no one at my side who I can trust and now I have to choose between my mental health and keeping one good memory alive.

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?

Mission X Captain Leanne Mercier has a specific set of needs in her partners. The 30-something career military woman is a great commander—of her crew and in the bedroom. Impatient with The Lottery’s random selection process, she secretly exercises her privilege and chooses her own partner. One she feels will be eager to please and bend to her dominant will and desires. But space is a dangerous place, and the Genesis is about to face its first crisis. Will she be able to balance her duty to the ship and teach this sexy younger man how to truly please a woman in charge?

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.

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.

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?

Price Ruyler has been sent to San Francisco from New York to salvage the family business after the 1906 earthquake. His success makes him one of the city's most eligible bachelors but he resists the machinations of the local girls (and their mothers). Then he meets the beautiful and captivating Helene. He proposes within a week. Into the fourth year of their marriage, he realizes something has changed. He still loves his wife and he believes she loves him but he begins to wonder about her mysterious past and questions whether family secrets were buried in the rubble left by the earthquake.

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.

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?

Becca McQuaid came to England to find the perfect horse but instead met a darkly mysterious challenge in Austen Heath, Baron of Hampton. She’s determined to buy Austen’s stallion Gambler’s Choice. He’s determined not to sell, but the rivals are thrown together by an accident that leaves Austen with a broken leg and the threat he’ll never ride again. Austen Heath has the title, heritage, and manor house but not the fortune. Becca is wealthy. Her charms are irresistible, but he believes she’s shopping for a Ladyship to go with her money.

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.

These tales, from the golden age of classic children’s literature, enchant both children and adults alike. The listener will be transported into the charming world of the "Riverbank", the grandeur of Toad Hall, the darkness of the Wild Wood as we share the adventures of capable Ratty, the trusting and innocent Mole, the wise Badger, and the conceited but irrepressible Toad. The stories are humorous, exciting, occasionally scary, and at the same time comforting, because of the wonderful bonds of friendship and camaraderie which bind the four principal characters.

Special guest Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report talks about the joys of being a science geek. Brilliant scientific discoveries and cutting edge technology have transformed our world, yet many people are turned off by science. Where has the excitement for science gone, and how can we get it back? Stephen Colbert developed an interest in science at a young age, and now he shares that fascination by inviting scientists to appear on his show The Colbert Report.

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.

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.

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, ashamed of being an outlaw's son and convinced he carries bad blood, leaves Texas in the spring of 1876 with a trail herd of longhorns bound for Montana. The following spring, he heads west with plans to settle near the Pacific Ocean and live in solitude with just his books and his horses for company. But a Nez Perce woman and her baby change his plans, and he ends up in Virginia City, Montana.

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.