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He was a rock star down on his luck, just trying to get his life back together. Torn by his feelings for a taken women and looking to make a fresh start. Will he let love have it's curtain call and hide how he feels? Or.... Will he play an encore and try and get the girl? Life can be a gamble and fortune favors the brave, not everyone is so luck as to get second chances.

Working undercover can be dangerous. Sometimes the danger isn't from the criminals on a stakeout, but from the attraction between two detectives who do their best work under the covers.

There isn't a better way to describe RosaBella's introduction of romance with the good doctor. Dr. O'Donnell continues to take RosaBella to different heights of exoticism and companionship beyond her experiences. The indecencies in their separate personal lives that have repelled them have coincidentally brought them together.

The question remained. Who killed this beautiful woman? And for what reason? These were just a few questions the authorities had to answer in solving this mystery with very little to go on. The surprise is who actually committed this murder.

American Legends: The Continental Congress chronicles the history that led up to the formation of the First and Second Continental Congress, analyzes what each Continental Congress accomplished while meeting, and analyzes their legacy. You will learn about the Continental Congress like you never have before, in no time at all.

Eighteen-year-old Gaige Dupond has his life all mapped out. Lose his virginity to Emily. Get married. Become a pro soccer player and travel the world ... All plans go awry, however, when the dangerous red darkness in Gaige is awakened like a beam of hell flickering from his right eye, in a brutal ceremony. Pursued by a vicious Deltarc bounty hunter, Deltarc tracking hounds and his father's wicked minions, he loses his home, his life, all that he holds dear in pursuit of the truth.

A day that will live in infamy.... Nothing to fear but fear itself.... Ask not what your country can do for you.... Ich bin ein Berliner.... Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. From Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Barack Obama, this collection features original speeches by the presidents of the United States. These are actual historic recordings. The sound quality represents the available audio technology of the era and varies by recording.

Rosa Parks is one of the most famous women in American history, and an instantly recognizable name among Americans of all ages, thanks to the events of December 1, 1955. That afternoon, on her way home from work, Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in defiance of Montgomery’s segregated bus policies. Within days of her arrest, Montgomery’s civil rights activists had organized a wide-scale boycott of Montgomery’s buses by blacks.

From 1764-1775, a chain of events that included lightning rods like the Townshend Acts led to bloodshed in the form of the Boston Massacre, while the Boston Tea Party became a symbol of nonviolent protest.

Thurgood Marshall, the African-American lawyer who successfully argued the Brown v. Board case. Today, Marshall is best known for being the first Black Supreme Court justice, but that history-setting precedent has come to overshadow the instrumental work he did as chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Marshall argued more cases before the Supreme Court than anyone in history and would win nearly 30 of them, including the seminal Brown v. Board case.

J. D. Salinger might have been one of America's greatest 20th century authors, but only he knows for sure. As a young adult, Salinger wrote a number of short stories that were published during the 1940s in Story Magazine and his story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker magazine to wide praise. Salinger followed that up with his most famous work, the 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, which was popular among adults and adolescents alike.

Few actresses have ever gotten the kind of career start that Natalie Wood did during the 1950s. After appearing in film and on TV as a child, Wood broke out by appearing in the classic Rebel Without a Cause alongside James Dean in 1955, despite the fact she was still just 15 years old. She earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for that role, one of three Academy Award nominations she would rack up before the age of 25. Altogether, she was in over 50 films.

In the history of television programming, no show was as consistently excellent in the ratings as The Ed Sullivan Show, a variety show that brought on all kinds of acts, from dancers to artists and singers. It was the longest-running show to maintain one time slot, and today it is widely remembered for introducing the nation to the likes of Elvis Presley and the Beatles. When Elvis was on the show in 1956, over 82% of the nation's entire television audience tuned in, a rating that would make even the Super Bowl blush.

America has always preferred heroes who weren't clean cut, an informal ode to the rugged individualism and pioneering spirit that defined the nation in previous centuries. After the early 19th century saw the glorification of frontier folk heroes like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, a new breed of folk icons inhabited the Wild West, and one of the most notorious and controversial of them all is John Wesley Hardin, still regarded today as Texas' most deadly gunfighter and most famous outlaw.

Though helpless arousal has been dripping down her thighs since she was stripped naked upon arrival on Magisteria, nineteen-year-old Jendra has done her best to mask her shame with fury. But now, desperate to avoid a humiliating public climax at the mere sight of a huge, utterly dominant alien punishing and ravaging his mate, the truth is becoming impossible to deny. Soon it will be her bare ass being spanked red by one of these brutes. Her virgin body bucking and writhing as she's ruthlessly claimed by her new master.

Can a blind Dragon see without eyes? Can the Basilisk heal with a touch? Lost. Alone. Without his Clan for over a century. He searches for the one person who can make him whole. Headstrong. Independent. Trying to put her Family back together before it's too late. She didn't know what she was looking for until she found him. The enemy is near. The clock is ticking. The Fate of the Paranormal World is in their hands. Move over, Fate. Take a holiday, Death. Bad guys beware. This Dragon has found his Mate, and there will be Hell to pay.

He wished to escape a prison of his own making. Trapped by guilt and mistakes he can't undo, he's been drowning for years—until a simple coin toss connects him to a woman he's never met but somehow can't live without. She wished to save her mother. Desperate and running out of time, she throws a coin in a fountain and prays for a miracle. What she gets? A stranger who claims her wish bound their fates together.

Now that she has come of age, nineteen-year-old Chalondra has caught the eye of the company tasked with requisitioning Kamnian girls like her for use as concubines by wealthy Vionians. But it isn't just her beauty that will ensure she fetches a handsome price when she is sold at auction. Even with her cheeks blushing, her bottom sore, and her body's wet, quivering surrender on shameful display, her eyes burn with defiance her new owner will very much enjoy mastering. Claiming her will be worth every penny, but making her beg for it first will be priceless.

The Fairy Queen learns that an ancient magic has resurfaced—awakening in a single fae whose power can spark the gift in others. This time, it appears in Cailin, a young Gisburn Hall fairy celebrating her 300th year and her new status as a Tweenager. As tradition dictates, she joins the other Tweenagers on Simonstown Ridge for the Midsummer’s Eve gathering, where many receive their first kiss and, often, their lifelong partner.

Oaken and Twistle are twins. Twistle is an old word meaning where brooks or rivers meet. Oaken for where the twins were born. The Twins can be trusted to be wherever they say they are going to be, whenever they are going to be there. Until one day, they aren't, leading to a discovery that not even the Fairy Queen could have imagined. Meet a new family in the Gisburn Hall series, and enjoy listening about their adventures in England, Ireland, and Scotland as they enjoy their honey moon, where they discover there is a plot to overthrow the Fairy Queen.