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The complete first installment of the Bruins' Peak Bears stories. Books one through five now with an extra book zero backstory! Book zero: Lily - The year is 1885, and the dusty little town of Iron Bark is just a stage stop on the vast frontier. Lily Cunningham steps off the coach to find a strange man greeting her. Luther Campbell is dapper, rich, and definitely interested in her, but Lily senses something sinister about him from her very first glance.

Ex-US Navy specialists Carter Hunt and Jayden Takada are working one of their first jobs in civilian life - repairing a subsea data cable for an international telecom company - when their mini-sub is attacked by persons unknown wishing to stem the flow of information in and out of Egypt. They survive the encounter only to receive a call from Hunt’s ex-girlfriend, an archaeologist currently on an excavation at the Great Pyramid of Giza. She has a most unusual request - she needs someone to scuba dive inside the pyramid.

The second installment of the Bruins' Peak Bears stories. Audiobooks six to 10! Can be listened to as a stand-alone, but I recommend listening to audiobooks zero through five first. Includes Melody, Briar, Raven, Ebony, and Haven.

When high-powered business woman Tana Reynolds flew to Cairo for business, she thought that she might on the brink of something life changing. And she was right. But not in the way she expected. After blowing everyone away with a stunning presentation, Tana was surprised to find that a mysterious sheikh wanted her to join him for dinner. Tana accepted the invitation, and she was half expecting a lucrative business proposal to be put her way. However, the sheikh had a very different type of proposal in mind.

Katherine was a Phoenix who had the ability to create fire at will. However, she had just been exiled by her people who were disappointed with the strength of her powers. This meant that she was put up for auction and sold to the highest bidder. That highest bidder was a power hungry Werebear named Mason Wilde. A bear that saw something in Katherine that others did not, however he was a bear that had a dark past and dark secrets of his own....

Sol is used to flying under his family's radar, unless focusing unwanted attention away from his more outgoing, older twin. The day comes when he pays a steep price for attempting to shield his brother. Running for his life, he is nearly run down by a car driven by Seth. Can Seth help Sol find his way back from the darkness?

Filled with guilt and self-recriminations over his identical twin Sol's kidnapping and abuse, Ben seeks counseling, which reveals he too has scars from his own suffering during the ordeal. He desperately tries to make amends with Sol, Seth, and his foster parents and to make himself a better man. Meeting sweet, funny, gorgeous Marty at the Crab Derby seems like fate is finally smiling on him; then he returns to college in Atlanta and spies Marty at his favorite local coffee shop. 

Riffem wasn't a great wizard, at least not by the standards of the game. He couldn't cast big fireballs or powerful lighting bolts to devastate his enemies. He wasn't getting very far in his wizarding career and doubted he ever would. Then a chance encounter with a dragon at the local inn changed everything. Now Riffem is on a quest to find seven beautiful women for his new dragon lord, Thraxrax. Even with the help of Yth, an intensely cerebral mind melter, and the wanton dragonkin warrior Klaezarsta, he finds himself way out of his depth.

Tom Warren, a giant of a man in stature and physical strength, experiencing a deadly tragedy, turns to his new life as a mountain man in the largely unexplored mountain west, facing its many dangers in an attempt to forget his earlier life. Tom soon discovers new friendships among his kind at historic Fort Union, matched only by subsequent dangers and challenges from grizzly bears, renegade fur trappers, an Indian out to kill him and the rescue of an Indian maiden in distress which gains him more deadly enemies.

Six months ago, high school king Sumner Shadows tried to kill his friends. He led them to a cemetery and tried to bleed them dry. And he almost succeeded. But his friends lived through the horror, and ended up committing their own heinous crime in the process. They covered up what they did, and Sumner got away. That was supposed to be the end. But when a new girl moves to Armor Falls and has tangible evidence that Sumner might be back to finish what he started, the four friends he left behind are put to the test to learn what caused Sumner's sudden need to have them dead.

The rambling obsessions of a long dead relative or something more? When Gabe receives the battered leather journal of his great-grandfather, Archy, he is filled with disbelief. With pages filled with stories of a mythical monster called The Magdon, Gabe casts aside the diary as the by-product of a troubled mind. That is, until the madness begins to take shape in Gabe and his family’s lives.  

In this audiobook, the background of the revealed, diptych, ecumenical icon of the Divine Heart of God the Father Encompassing All Hearts is presented, together with the related Consecration (Seal) Prayer to the Almighty Father. The icon apologia and canon are elucidated. The ecumenical importance of the icon of the Divine Heart for the universal Church is addressed, together with the basis for the icon in Sacred Scripture and Tradition, as well as its meaning for our present times and eschatological future.

To keep from obsessing on his job when not there, Clint attempts to escape his reality in the VRMMO world of Unexplored. There, in the persona of the heroic and adventurous elf, Cleave, he joins with a smart-mouthed kobold named Tarka and a gentle half-giant, Krug - the best kind of friend an elf could have, one that would gladly stomp into jelly anyone attempting to hurt his friends or the innocent - in a grand quest to find a powerful ring.

Everyone’s perception of an MC princess is that she’s cherished and protected, but this MC "princess" was left to the wolves. My father, the loved Southern Chaotic president, dropped me like a bad habit when I was 13. My mother went off her rocker when I was 14. I had my first of many abortions when I was 15. Life for me was a whirlwind of angst and torment, but through all of that, the pain took the fear away and replaced it with yearning. I thirst for gratification that I’m not a replication of my legacy.

I crave attention. It’s not frowned upon to want someone’s love and affection, but it is when you know that you’ll never return the same for another person. He loved me every day for nine years. He gave me everything I asked for. His affection was only for me. But when he wanted a stable position in our relationship, I couldn’t give it, because there were some many others that could offer the same. I didn’t want to settle. Or at least I didn’t think I did, until I learned he was getting married.

God the Father is a divine spirit. Unlike His only-begotten son, Jesus Christ, who became the God-Man through the Incarnation, the Heavenly Father cannot be said to have a heart in the human sense of the term. Yet, throughout Scripture, the Father has often referred to His heart within the context of His relationship with humanity. This book provides a factual overview of the 28 references that can be found in sacred Scripture about the Divine Heart of God the Father, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament.  

Musings and Mutterings of a Maltese Misanthrope is an anthology of 13 short stories in the Melitensia genre by Rupert Grech - provoking heartfelt laughter with satire like "George Washingmachine"; "Procedures Rule, Okay!"; "Crap Day, Big Weekend"; and "The (re)Gifted Ones"; or moving reminiscences with "A Girl Called Jo"; "Music and Nostalgia"; "Rugby League and the Lido Shuffle"; and "A Cafe, Hank Williams, and a Pretty Girl" among others.

Clover is here in Ireland chasing rainbows, trying to turn her luck around. It doesn't take long to see that this sexy woman isn't the end of me - she's the beginning. But while I have the luck of the Irish, Clover doesn't, and getting her to open up to me is no easy task.

Sonnets From the Spirit is a collection of 52 icons in poetry on major episodes from Sacred Scripture, written according to the ancient practice of midrash, by the award-winning, British theologian and poet Christopher Villiers. The themes of the sonnets are illustrated by great works of sacred art. This book is intended to provide readers with a little feel for God working through, and sometimes despite, very human people whose strengths and weaknesses greatly resembled those of 21st century humankind.

Petals of Vision is an anthology of 72 poems and sonnets in which the vicissitudes of human love are addressed through lyrics and flawless rhymes that fill the soul with love, sorrow, hope, joy, humility, depth, and even laughter. Presented through a world characterized by versatility and surrounded by symbolism, sincere images, and heartfelt thoughts, this new anthology gives lovers of classic poetry a great opportunity to revel once again.