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Roman has a secret. He not only likes to collect toy soldiers of all kinds, but to play with them. That's not his biggest secret, though. No, that one is a fantasy he'd held close to his heart. His one biggest wish, to find his own soldier daddy and be his Little.

In the 22nd Century colonies spread out to the stars, hidden by a secretive industrialist. 80 years later the locations are revealed, one at a time, once a year. Midshipman William Grace, sole survivor of the genocide on the colony Farshore, is shipwrecked and stranded with a handful of surviving marines and soldiers. The good news, they're alive. The bad news is that they face the frigid climate, betrayal, a harrowing ocean crossing, terror drones, and a mercenary force intent on holding the planet.

Michael Owen's new autobiography will enable him to open up about his football life for the first time and set the record straight once and for all. It promises to make for an explosive listen and one of the most hotly anticipated football books of the year. The legendary striker published his first book, Off the Record, in 2004 but feels he didn't have a voice during his playing days, and now, six years after hanging up his boots, he can finally lift the lid on what really happened during his career.

If you want to end battle with food and get permanent weight loss, then keep reading! With our newfound mindfulness and by identifying our needs, values, expectations, and even identities, we can make decisions at key points on our consumption journey that will help us create the eating experiences we crave. We should be able to identify the correct time when to eat and what are the best foods to eat to become healthy. Once we understand and apply mindful eating, we will be able to enjoy the foods that we love without feeling guilty and without binging.

Sick of the spying business, professional assassin Art Gordo decides to quit the Secret Service - but his old life won't leave him alone. It's Christmas, three months after his retirement, and Gordo is visited by an old colleague with a proposition. A senior MI7 agent has been selling secrets to the opposition and needs to be eliminated - and the job can't be traced back to the Department. What's more, the task must be completed within the next five days. Clarke's offering big money - but despite the temptation, Art turns him down. Only someone won't take 'no' for an answer.

Will true artificial intelligences be able to appreciate or even create art? Explore dystopian societies, where AI generates most of the content and human artists must eke out an existence, and utopias where artificial minds help unlock and enhance human creativity.

Knowing the future isn't a blessing. It's a curse. Especially when you've seen your death. I'm going to die in the arms of someone I have never seen before. He's a person I will love, but I don't know anything about him. When TerraMates matched me with Airik, I couldn't believe it. This sexy alien could see the future, just like me. I wasn't alone anymore. I quickly found out he knows nothing about Earth or humans. I married him, but will I be safe with him?

In his sidesplitting new special, Owen Benjamin touches on everything from the prank he loves playing at Starbucks to the surprising reason his parents have been married for so many years. He also takes to the piano to reveal the surprising trend that links all commercials geared toward women and much more.

In Woodhaven Run, Michigan, Nivie Emerson, Bryn Troxell, and Jacqueline Stanton have animals who touch their lives in many ways. As important members of their families, these steadfast companions bring joy and compassion into their homes through the ebbs and flows of life. But, when a beloved animal dies, the painful inevitability triggers grief and soul-searching. A community solution is then created to foster healing and celebrate their animals’ lives.

Robbie had been devastated when his old Daddy dom left him, but he knew he’d been right. He wasn’t quite the right sort of Daddy that Robbie needed. Robbie needed one who let Robbie make his Little side front and center. Too bad all of those seemed taken. At least, that’s what he thought until one fateful day, Mama Lorraine reached out and took him to the Agency.

Mama Lorraine can hardly believe her eyes when the application comes across her screen. Applications to adopt are strictly by invitation to apply, so someone had to have given this man a link to the Agency's secure web application portal. A glance at the password tells her it was none other than her good friend Richard, though the name of the applicant does not yield a clue about the vampire business until she does an internet search.

Comic Owen Benjamin shares his infinite wisdom and musical ability; how Owen gets out of speeding tickets; and tackling Eddie Vedder.

The narrow alleys are brimming with jazz bars, bookies, black-shirts, ponces and tarts, so when a body is found above the Windmill Club, detectives are content to dismiss the case as just another young woman who topped herself early. But Geats - a good man prepared to be a bad one if it keeps the worst of them at bay - knows the dark seams of the city. Working with his former partner, mercenary Flying Squad Sergeant Mark Cassar, Geats obsessively dedicates himself to finding a warped killer.

Leonidas Piper watched from the surface of Jergan as the warship he was serving on with his best friend was blasted into rubble by John Blakely's Pirate Fleet. That warship was all they had left after the Unity Government disbanded their mercenary legion. Now nothing remained of it but gas and debris in orbit above Jergan. Two years later fate stepped in again; Leonidas was on a commercial Starliner traveling to Kellinger when it was stopped and boarded by a crew of pirates led by John Blakely.

When the body of a local crime lord is found buried up to his neck in the tidal sands of North Wirral, all the clues point DCI Blake and his team toward his main rival in organized crime. But, as the investigation progresses, it turns out that there was more than one person happy to see the victim dead. Meanwhile, the man’s family have come to their own conclusions and are looking to settle the score.

Could you obey an order that might cost you everything? When the director of a local veterans’ charity is found murdered on the steps of a war memorial, it seems like a straight-forward case of random street violence. But similarities with a previous death arouse Blake’s suspicions and the apparently well-loved victim turns out to have had hidden flaws and many enemies. Blake is drawn into a web of intrigue and danger as he investigates the murder. Could it be terrorist activity? Is a psychotic serial killer stalking veterans? Or is there another explanation?

When a young boy goes missing, DCI Will Blake and his team are led into the little-known subterranean world beneath the Wirral. But the investigation unearths the body of a man who has been missing for almost 60 years. Ernie Hughes, lead singer of the little known Merseybeat band Arthur and the Galahads, disappeared one November in 1964, the night before the band were off to chase their dreams in Hamburg. It appears that Ernie’s death was violent. Blake’s investigations take him back to the heady days of The Cavern Club and Liverpool during the swinging '60s.

When life throws Molly Butterfield a curveball, she decides to spend some time with her recently widowed granddad, Wally, at Hawthorn Place, his quirky Victorian house on the Dorset coast. But cosseted Molly struggles to look after herself, never mind her grieving granddad, until the accidental discovery of an identical Arts and Crafts house on the Norfolk coast offers her an unexpected purpose, as well as revealing a bewildering mystery.

This book is an excellent guide: It explains what intermittent fasting is and the beneficial effects it has on your health. You'll discover the 11 most effective protocols for intermittent fasting. It provides you practical support tools, mindset exercises, yoga practices, and holistic practices. Cookbook included: with a wide variety of tasty and easy-to-follow recipes.

Canine private eye Trigger wishes someone would throw him a bone. Without a case to solve, the quick-witted Chihuahua is stuck digging for scraps in a city run by criminal cats. So, he thinks his luck has changed when a classy purebred hires him to find her priceless stolen collar. With his client insisting that an infamous master thief took the jewel-studded accessory, Trigger sniffs around for clues.