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A glance was all it took. That kind of connection, the immediate and raw understanding of another person, just doesn't come along very often. And as rising stars on their Texas high schools' respective basketball teams, destined for bright futures in college and beyond, it seems like a match made in heaven. But Carli and Rex have secrets. As do their families.

Rashid is a young Black man from Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, with a complicated life. Looking for an escape from a neighborhood few ever leave, he finds it in Rachel - married, twenty years his senior, and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. It begins with a flirtation and a tryst. It becomes an intense romance, exhilarating and enriching, that defies the expectations of Rashid’s friends and family. What draws Rachel to Rashid is his curiosity, his need for intimacy, and his adoration - everything lacking in her crumbling marriage.

It’s a miracle. The fountain of youth discovered flowing through the veins of postmillennials. In idyllic planned communities, freed from adulting and student loans, the young can live in guilt-free organic luxury. All it costs them is a weekly blood donation to extend the lives of their privileged elders. But prices are going up. There’s much more to the utopian Sunset Consortium than anyone realizes in this chilling trilogy.

The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are making history right now, including Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae, Kamala Harris, Misty Copeland, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Robin Roberts, Roxane Gay, and Simone Biles—with this compilation of celebratory odes.

Author Leah M. Forney provides practical steps to help you keep the faith and ignite the winner within. She uses her personal stories, along with biblical scriptures and practical steps, in order to bring hope, faith, and inspiration to her listeners. Courage to Win will help you to discover that your pain has a purpose.

Hail to the Dragon Slayer is Arthur A. "Buddy" Lemann's memoir of a life of criminal law practice in New Orleans, America's most unique city. Buddy was born in Donaldsonville, LA, the scion of a sugar plantation family. For one too many acts of "youthful exuberance", he was sent, some would say sentenced, to Marion Military Academy in Marion, AL. In 1964, he received his undergraduate degree from Tulane University. He attended Loyola University Law School where he was editor in chief of the Law Review and received a master of laws from George Washington University.

Kasper Wallace is a screwup. Everything he tries to do in life falls apart. He struggles to rise above his troubles until the day a global pandemic gives him a purpose. His years of immersion into the apocalypse scenarios of books, movies, and video games, provides him with the knowledge that makes him a survival asset. But, is it enough to fight an invisible invader that sickens and turns its victims into something much more threatening? The virus shows no mercy or prejudice. It is violent and swift and the after-effects of its rage leaves the human race at the edge of extinction.

Cutting herself helped her to feel better inside. It took that anxiety away that made her want to kill herself. Sure, her arms looked like "backroad" maps, but as long as she covered them no one would ever know. Did they hurt? Oh yes, every day.

Earth’s Greatest Warrior, Mitch Taylor, must make a stand in the face of a relentless invasion of Earth! Taylor remains in intensive care, and Sommers is Missing in Action. But the fight must go on. Recon continues to launch hit and run attacks against enemy facilities disrupt their operations on the Eastern seaboard. Yet they are about to discover something far larger and dangerous than they could have imagined.

Join author Kyle Walker as he explores the Garden of Eden, writing of its rich history and future renewal in his latest collection of poems.

Put an end to the inconsistent and no limits eating habits that are not contributing to your training and performing your best. Taking the next step up involves doing your best consistently. Blow past the competition and lower your risk for illness. That happens by not only being available but by placing your body in the best possible position to do what you want it to do, repeatedly and with no delay.

When a young journalist disappears after a meeting with the galaxy’s most notorious criminal in a max-lock facility, Dekker Knight and his crew are called to investigate. What they find might very well unravel the political fabric of the core worlds, and the government and its corps of mind readers are committed to keeping their secrets at all costs.

Markus has been thrown into a world he never knew existed. Now he’s faced with training for seven weeks to help a secret organization prepare for The Coming. Teaming up with a crew of demon hunters, Markus hopes to find closure with his past while he fights to save his future. The world is in peril, and less than 1 percent of the population even knows it.

Stuck on Earth in the 17th century with his ship broken and venting radiation, Eric—a former military engineer—seeks a lost item that has fallen into the hands of his enemies. He needs to fix the damage to the space-time continuum before he can return to the future, otherwise there may be no home waiting for him. When he meets a mysteriously familiar woman, he's certain that he's met her before, even though he's never seen her face. He'll have to keep her close if he doesn't want to make things worse.

It is not a war that mankind ever expects to face - one against the undead. In the fourth and final book of the Rectify Series, the battle has begun. After the rescue attempt of Sanctum, James Ung and the others make their way to Moundsville, West Virginia, where Clay Owens leads a group of survivors. They make a long term sanctuary our of an old prison. It is to be home, instead, they face using the prison as a fortress. Hope burns out quickly when they learn the world is far worse and the CO-D4 virus has only begun its evolution of humanity.

The CO-D4 virus rages the globe, leaving weary survivors and infected who roam the streets. In the aftermath of the pandemic, Doctor James Ung finds himself in a new type of world. A quiet one. Almost as if everything is put on pause. The global distribution of the vaccine breeds a different outcome other than hope. Those who receive it fall into a deep coma. Ung along with Major Tom find an ally in Ella Hoffman, a displaced survivor from another camp. Time is running out and they are clueless as to what will happen when the inoculated survivors wake.

A desperate battle for Richmond is about to begin, but Colonel Taylor knows that the war cannot be won if the Alliance continues its current path. When the genius Milo Rivers offers hope, both Taylor and Major Sommers are dispatched to retrieve information and technology which could turn the war around. Yet, Taylor’s Marines are about to descend into a deadly trap, and they must fight not just for the future of Earth, but survive to see another day.

Comedy and calamity are interlaced throughout the stories of a WW II war baby finding his place in the world. His foibles and adventures are told with a dry sense of humor as he bounces off the walls of good and bad behavior throughout his youth and into adulthood. A mischievous nature and an innate disrespect for authority cause a clash with the rigidity of serving in the military. The tales of his year in Vietnam are both hilarious and harrowing.

Earth is soon consumed by the invading alien armies as they land in their millions, and Mitch Taylor is the enemies' first target, knowing the danger he presents. Can Taylor escape his captors and rally those on Earth to fight back before it is too late, or will he fall alongside the rest of Earth’s defenders in a desperate last stand?

Marshall’s had quite an interesting day so far. Instead of waking up in his regular, teenage body, he’s found himself covered in fur and five sizes too small. After a bit of investigating, it’s become clear that something is terrible wrong. Now, thanks to a particularly nasty curse, he’ll have to help seven different dogs with their problems if he ever wants to become human again.