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If you’ve just fallen into this beguiling treasure, then it’s in your best interest to just spank yourself and throw this book back in the vault where you found it. Because once opened, fabulous words that grow into sentences and paragraphs and stories will leave you with a massive rock-solid sense of the surreal. Leave now and we can both forget about this momentary plunge of lusciousness your eyes were about to feast on. Go! Prevail upon the legendary badassery life that is yours elsewhere. You have been thanked for your no-obligation, risk-free read of this secure blurb and I wish ...

Childrens books like you've never seen before: the atmospherically illustrated story of Zandra, a cave-girl, who befriends a wolf and a sabre-tooth tiger as she escapes a geological upheaval in the cold north, splitting her family, forced to leave behind all she has ever known and leading to the discovery of a new land and a new people. And yet the challenges she has to overcome are very, very dangerous. These books are an example of imagination and inspiration to show children it is good to be imaginative and to reach to achieve dreams. This is important. They aren't about fluffy animal ...

The first season of the Tor.com Collection includes the following Tor.com audiobooks originally published separately in the fall of 2015: The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson; Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell; Sunset Mantle by Alter S. Reiss; Binti by Nnedi Okorafor; The Last Witness by K. J. Parker; Of Sorrow & Such by Angela Slatter; Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace; The Builders by Daniel Polansky....

Biology postgraduate, PhD hopeful, and single mom Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the saurian origin of birds when her academic supervisor, the highly respected yet widely despised Dr. Lars Helland, is found dead in his office chair at the University of Copenhagen. The police discover a copy of Anna's thesis in the dead man's bloody lap.When the autopsy suggests that Helland was murdered in a fiendishly ingenious way, brilliant but tormented young police superintendent Soren Marhauge is called to investigate.

Wyatt Hamilton has been my best friend since I was in diapers. He is the yin to my yang and we’ve always been inseparable. But now I’m trying to break away because I’m ready to find a man that looks at me as more than his best friend. Wyatt isn’t getting the hint that I need my space. I’m doing everything in my power to ensure that he sees that I’m now a woman and I’m looking for a man. Even if that means that we can’t be in each other’s lives as much anymore. I never expected to find out that my best friend wasn’t just a cowboy, but a confident alpha male as well.

Ex-DCI Luke Sackville is asked by Globo Energy to investigate two environmental movements. Both groups promote protests and nonviolent civil disobedience, but when members of his Ethics Team go undercover they discover this is a facade. Beneath the surface sinister forces are at work. Luke becomes embroiled in a race to find and stop a murderer who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. Sow the Wind is the sixth book in the series of crime thrillers featuring Luke Sackville and his Ethics Team.

Written by Wall Street Journal best-selling author S. J. Scott, Happier Human provides a detailed examination of the strategies and ideas that actually make people happy. Each idea is supported by a wealth of research into why it works. Plus, it also includes a simple action plan for turning these ideas into permanent habits that people can incorporate into their busy lives.

When you’re young, anything is possible. Love is pure magic, and time seems to stand still. I remember those days like I remember seeing my first rainbow. When the sky was bleak, he painted it full of color. We came from different worlds. We had no business ever interacting. He was the wolf with glowing eyes and a cocky grin. I was the innocent sheep he wanted to eat up. I knew he was trouble, but then he went and saved my life. I was in the wrong place at the right time. Or so I thought. I didn’t realize that he was the leader of the pack.

Deputy Marshal Zebadiah Clemens can't die. After the Civil War came to a close, Zeb decided to head west to raise cattle and a family. No sooner did he step off the train in Texas, a stray bullet knocked him senseless. Believing he'd somehow cheated death, he gave up on his peaceful plans and became a lawman. After migrating farther west into New Mexico, he expected to find the usual run-of-the-mill outlaws - not a strange woman watching him from the edge of his dreams. He might be imagining it all - or still unconscious with a head wound - but with his luck, it's probably real.

I met Dylan at a party last weekend. Dylan was hot and dominant, and I loved the way he treated me. I knew I wanted more. So when Dylan invited me over to “watch TV” with him at his apartment, I thought I knew what to expect. Except it wasn’t just the two of us. Dylan had his friends over, and they all wanted me. From the moment they saw me in my short, little dress, I was the center of attention. So we started playing truth or dare. And then they stopped letting me pick truth.

During the coldest winter on record, an EMP sends America back into the Stone Age. It’s been a week without power. No phones. No computers. Nothing. As the crisis unfolds, one family seeks sanctuary from the cold on the city's outskirts.

Stephen Masters and his team are called upon by their "bosses" in the ultra secret Council organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. to help the Portuguese government stop a sinister plot to keep the country from signing an agreement to join the European Central Banking Community. This signing is a prelude to full membership in the European Economic Community now known as The European Union. Portugal is only a few years away from its past rule by a Dictator and just gaining poise as a democracy and need the help of Masters and his Team from the Council. A coalition of former Nazis, ...

This is a very dirty story about a young woman named Sabrina who finds out that being the only girl playing cards with a group of guys can be explosive. When Sabrina runs out of chips, the guys offer to buy her back into the game if she removes an article of clothing. Sabrina continues to lose, and the guys' demands for how she can earn more chips grow more and more outrageous. Before the night is over, she's naked and pleasing everyone, on her back and on her knees

When the nation falls, who will rise from the ashes? After an EMP explodes over the United States, Kora Clark, an ambitious rookie cop, finds herself leading a revolution in a lawless city. Looting, murder, and the worst of mankind bubble to the surface of our broken nation. From an invading foreign army to cut-throat gangsters, multiple factions vie for power in the explosion’s aftermath. Now our country’s survival hinges on San Antonio’s success: Can Officer Clark maintain order or will the powerless city consume her like it has millions of others?

Samantha Moon is back and fighting crime! Hired for what seems like another cheating spouse case, Samantha couldn’t be more surprised when the target of her surveillance seemingly walks in on a bank robbery. Is he somehow involved? Sam doesn't know, but a few twists and turns later, she soon finds herself hanging from a helicopter’s landing skid... and heading out to sea. Turns out, this is no ordinary cheating spouse case. Luckily, Sam is no ordinary private eye. Click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE today!

Rachael spends her camping trip in a state of constant arousal, being gagged, forced to wear a leash, spanked in public, and roughly used for pleasure. The four men she's with don't hesitate to take advantage of Rachael, embarrassing her and using her as they see fit.

Mila Brookstone has been in love with TJ Walker for years, so when he asked her to be his fake fiancee, she knew she would say yes. However, Mila wasn't prepared for the gamut of feelings and emotions that would hit her once playing that role. TJ Walker is a handsome successful man with a penchant for exciting and crazy past times. He doesn't do love, but there is something about Mila that he can't seem to get out of his head.

I always thought the gods were a myth. Then again, I thought the same thing about witches. I'm no stranger to darkness. I've been dealing with it all my life. That's just part of being a "mutant psychic". But when my witch powers start to manifest, my life takes on a new direction entirely. Suddenly, I’m recruited by the Shadow Order, a supernatural agency dedicated to the protection of the covens. My primary task? To read supernatural crime scenes. Trust me, at that point the word “dark” takes on a whole new meaning.

Heidi was raised to be a huntress ever since the Order took her off the streets and trained her in the deadly arts. Foremost among her peers, she was chosen by the Master to be his assassin. She never imagined that she would fall until the day she went against his will and saved his stepdaughter by helping her to escape from his formidable mansion. It made her a target and she became the hunted. They nearly killed her.

From 14 best-selling authors comes a new crime thriller anthology guaranteed to keep you up all night.