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A sudden, violent snowstorm and an arranged marriage gone wrong sends Nicol careening into the arms of a grumpy, violent ex-convict hiding from his past deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Zedekiah "Zed" Strangeway hasn’t touched a woman in years. He can't allow himself another life-ruining entanglement. He prefers life on his own in the deep woods and the deep winter. Most women can’t handle Zed's presence.

Getting laid before the big game should be easy. Chicks at Laguna Grove dig hockey players...except the one woman Jayce wants. His African American lab partner, Makeba Winston.

Criminal attorney Liam Price can't believe his luck. He scored a deal for a suite aboard the Starlit Dream to the exotic world of Aquaria. He surprises his wife, Aria, with the trip for her 40th birthday, and the Price family gets ready for the trip of a lifetime. Soon after the voyage starts, they learn that they’ve somehow jumped to the wrong star system. Liam consults the ship’s computer to determine their location, but he can't access the navigational data. The captain claims that there’s nothing to worry about. Then the ship plunges into darkness....

The Deliverance is low on fuel and stranded in the middle of a war zone. Tanik Gurhain claims to have relinquished his hold on the crew, and yet they’ve all mysteriously elected him as their rightful leader, anyway. Blake is back to his skeptical self, and alarm bells are going off in Darius’s head, but with no fuel and the Eye of Thanatos blocked by increasingly tight Cygnian patrols, it hardly matters who suspects Tanik of foul play. He has a captive audience for the next phase of his plan.

Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez’s electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student’s foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. Optics can make or break an election...

Aimee has no desire to go to her fifteenth high school reunion... She doesn't remember high school fondly as the chubby, unpopular black girl who was constantly teased. Her night gets even worse when she runs into the man who made her life a living hell in high school. He was the star quarterback, six-foot-five, blue-eyed, and Italian with a traumatizing mean streak. Avoiding him won't be easy.

Bill Steele is in the trenches, trying to survive in the competitive world of luxury vacation resorts on the island of Kauai. Then a dark shadow falls over the island. It’s not a lunar eclipse, because Bill can clearly see the crescent moon shimmering on the water. This is something else. Moments later, the meteors begin to fall. One of them lands in the water just beyond the resort. On the news, the anchorman is fleeing from his hillside vantage point with his cameraman in hot pursuit. Their muffled screams are the last thing anyone hears before the signal is lost....

Three people dead and only a divorced single cop can solve the crime. His main “person of interest” is an attractive, successful black woman who seems shaken up. When she tries to escape, Kane risks everything to stop her. A stormy night, a highway chase and a devastating twist that lead the cop and his suspect to be trapped together in a cabin for a long snowy night changes everything.

Darius vaporized the Cygnian home world to end the war before it began. It didn’t work. Little does he know, he's been played for a sucker from the start. Terrible as the Cygnians are, there is a more ruthless enemy manipulating the Union to tear itself apart in a bloody war between the Revenants and the Cygnians. Darius is surging up the ranks in the Revenant fleet, winning victory after victory, but they're all hollow with his daughter, Cassandra, frozen in cryo and no way to safely wake her.

The church imprisoned Jasper in fear. True faith shattered his chains. Jasper Cove spent his childhood imprisoned by dread. Promises of eternal hellfire as punishment for unconfessed sins terrorized him. As a teenager, he suffered from crippling migraines and thoughts of damnation that scarred...

Emprendedoras: Una revolución en marcha ¿Qué podemos aprender de grandes mujeres emprendedoras acerca del futuro de los negocios? Un mundo empresarial mejor es posible. Depende en gran parte de las mujeres poder crearlo. Ahora es el momento adecuado y somos las personas adecuadas. Somos las...

The year is AD 2790. With space elevators and giant orbital fleets hovering over Earth, open war looks inevitable, and people are anxious to get away. The lines are drawn, with the Confederacy in the East and the First World Alliance in the West. In hopes of finding a refuge from the looming war, the Alliance is sending Captain Alexander de Leon to explore an Earth-type planet, code-named Wonderland, but at the last minute before launch, a Confederate fleet leaves orbit on a trajectory that threatens both the mission and Alliance sovereignty.

On the threshold of 40, Jasper Rees fished his French horn out of the attic and, despite limited ability, sets himself a near-impossible target: to stand up in front of a paying audience in 12 months’ time and play a Mozart concerto. Alone. This is the inspired story, not only of a midlife rethink, but also of man’s first musical instrument, and its journey from the hunting fields of aristocratic France to Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

A historic Upstate New York snowstorm traps Michelle's high school bully, star quarterback Duke Callahan, at her house. She can't bear to look at him after what he did to her. He's cruel, remorseless and an utter sociopath. Michelle wants nothing to do with his confession of love, even from the chiseled, popular, and effortlessly charming Duke.

A vicious winter storm sends Viola careening into the arms of a gruff, lonely farmer in an isolated small town. Terran hasn’t felt the touch of a woman in years. He prefers to live alone. Most women can’t handle him. He’s too gruff. Too stubborn. Too bull-headed.

Three rich men fulfilling her every dark and forbidden desire. That was the last thing Madison expected when she left America to report on the royal wedding of the Kingdom of Saltwick. Madison's boys have a surprise for her.... Their desires have crossed into a whole new level of wild and untamed.

In neun Vorträgen führt Karl Jaspers aus, mit welchen zentralen Problemen und Kategorien man sich auf dem Weg zu einem Sinn auseinanderzusetzen hat. Das Denken ist der Beginn des Menschseins, aber philosophieren beginnt an den Grenzen des Verstandes. Herausgegeben von Franz-Maria Sonner. Urheber- und Leistungsschutzrechte vorbehalten. Vervielfältigung und Verbreitung sind nicht erlaubt. Vermietung, Aufführung und Sendung bedürfen der schriftlichen Genehmigung des Senders.

Asian-American Conan Ahn has been watching his older black neighbor since he was 17. Always patient. Always in control of himself. Tonight, all will change. An attractive man, 21 years her junior, climbs through Shaquana’s window planning to take her for his own…. An unexpected snowstorm traps them in a cramped space together, forcing them to work out their differences the old-fashioned way.

Austin Romero crash lands in Nereida Kelly's perfectly typical life. She's a normal RN working too many hours with a man who doesn't appreciate her. A patient on the verge of death comes into the ER and her heart stops. There's something magnetic about him...something alluring...something dangerous. She can't stop herself from wanting to be close to him. With her relationship falling apart, Nereida sets her eyes on someone else.

A spicy small-town enemies-to-lovers romance between a strong Black woman and a blue-eyed rancher with way too many secrets. Imani arrives in this dusty little town as part of her government-contracted job: Discover this small town’s scientific secrets—and keep it quiet. Then she meets him. Ajax. Six-foot-three of pure trouble with blue eyes, a busted-up heart, and enough family drama to fill a country song. He’s the oldest brother in his family of local celebrities—the one everyone warns her about. He glares instead of smiles.