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My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. I still can't decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me. Then there's Jaxon Vega. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years. But there's something about him that calls to me, something broken in him that somehow fits with what's broken in me. Which could spell death for us all.

In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.

Being a beta in a world where alphas are meant for omegas is hard. Then Love McKinley had to go and make things even harder by falling in love with not one, but two alphas—completely off the script she had for her life. Add in one giant birth-control screw-up, and she can't let herself think too hard about what might happen if her alphas meet their omega. After all, one perfectly compatible scent could rip away everything in the blink of an eye.

Das Tor zur Wüste: Nachdem Po von der Verbotenen Gesellschaft verhaftet wurde, soll er soll zum Kaiser gebracht werden. Doch ein geheimnisvoll-gruseliger Kuttenträger sorgt dafür, dass Po entkommen kann. Rabia, ein kleines Mädchen aus dem Dorf, in dem Li Gao lebte, verfolgt Wandelnde Klinge und möchte sich dafür revanchieren, dass Klinge ihr das Leben gerettet hat. Am liebsten möchte Klinge Rabia nach Hause schicken. Sie willigt dann aber ein, dass das Mädchen sie zum Markt am „Tor zur Wüste“ begleiten darf. Weimin, einer der Komodos der Verbotenen Geselllschaft, ist Po gefolgt und tut so, als wolle er sich mit ihm anfreunden.

Dimplin, a farmer from the race of small folk who live in the northern mountains, is tasked with the deliverance of his village, which has been imprisoned by an evil enchantment. On his journey to the southern lands, he is joined by a company of amiable Tall Ones who recognize that the plight of his village raises broader concerns for them all. Their struggle to uncover the source of the enchantment leads them from being hunters to the hunted and, ultimately, to an unexpected discovery.

Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable. Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of western society; that endless back-and-forth swing between one excess and another, always reminded of what we left behind.

Slider: The Leo Butterburger Story is a delightful fantasy-biography about a warm hearted character born and raised by his adopted family in the village of Mariemont, Ohio, not far from Cincinnati. Leo is the slightly plump kid nobody ever wants on their team, the one the bullies call "butterburger". Slider is the poignant story of a loveable underdog who is given a chance to be everyone's hero, a once in a lifetime opportunity that leads him to the ultimate sacrifice.

The face of publishing has changed drastically in recent years, and the 21st century promises to bring the most dramatic alterations to the publishing paradigm to date, calling for an overall revision of the structures and attitudes with which authors set up shop. By following the way of The Entrepreneurial Author, new and seasoned authors alike will discover that achieving and maintaining a professionally and personally balanced life is the way to achieve emotional and financial success, now and in the 21st century.

Unsuspecting Friends is the story of a Sweet Gum tree that was taken to a lumber mill in Grayling, Michigan when he was just 13. After being sawed and turned into planks he was transformed into a picnic table, ending up at Lake Windjammer “down in Ohio”. For over 30 years Sweet Gum encountered people of all ages as they came to picnic and play, often sitting on him and sometimes carving their initials in him. Now, his time has come.

Rector “Wreck ‘em” Sherman was orphaned as a toddler in the Blight of 1863, but that was years ago. Wreck has grown up, and on his 18th birthday, he’ll be cast out out of the orphanage. And Wreck’s problems aren't merely about finding a home. He’s been quietly breaking the cardinal rule of any good drug dealer and dipping into his own supply of the sap he sells. He’s also pretty sure he’s being haunted by the ghost of a kid he used to know - Zeke Wilkes, who almost certainly died six months ago. Zeke would have every reason to pester Wreck....

After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy “Slash” Braddock, and Melvin “Pecos Kid” Baker are ready to call it quits — though not completely by choice. Sold out by their old gang, Slash and Pecos have to bust out of jail and pull one last job to finance their early retirement....

For renegades and pioneers, there is no place like Texas - as long as you have a gun and the guts to use it. Now, the Civil War is over. Carpetbaggers and scalawags rule Austin. Soldiers return to pillaged homes. Longhorns roam the wilds and the state is in chaos. Especially in a town called Hangtree. Sam Heller and Johnny Cross are Hangtree’s newest citizens: Heller is a former Yankee soldier, a deadly shot, and a believer in right from wrong.

He was 15 when he killed his first man. Before his murderous ways ended, Hardin killed 42 men in cold blood - one, the legend goes, because he snored too loudly. From then on, John Wesley Hardin stayed true to his calling, killing man after man after man, spending most of his life being pursued by both local lawmen and federal troops.

It didn't matter that the warrant was years old, or that Smoke Jensen had been cleared of all charges. A Texas bounty hunter named Bill Pike believed he could still collect a $10,000 reward for killing Jensen - and he intended to do just that. But when Pike and his men came calling, Jensen was nowhere to be found. So they took the next best thing - Smoke's woman - left behind a ransom note, and headed up into the Rocky Mountains.

When gunfighter Monte Carson decides to go straight, returning a stolen $50,000 Army payroll, he makes an enemy of former colleague Jim Slaughter, who vows to kill Monte's wife in retaliation, and Monte's only hope of rescuing his wife is Mountain Man Smoke Jensen....

Smoke Jensen has a good woman by his side. Now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer. But a cattle war has turned the landscape into a battleground, and a ruthless gang of rustlers is hot on Smoke's trail. The bullet-proof mountain man is determined to get what he wants - even if he has to blast every one of the dirty desperadoes back to hell!