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It was supposed to be an innocent night, celebrating my brother’s birthday. Nothing was supposed to go wrong. We’d vowed to be on our best behavior after all.... But it only took one rowdy night with my brothers to flip my world upside down. One unlucky encounter saddled us with a family curse and the promise of doomed relationships. I laughed it off immediately. “Yeah, right,” I thought. “A love curse. Ha!” Boy, was I wrong.

There are two little words every small-town man dreads: She’s back. Harper Sanders, the girl who was supposed to be my forever, has returned to Port Snow, Maine, for good - and she’s bringing back memories of our shared past. We once had a bright future together, but when tragedy struck, I threw it all away and pushed her out of my life. People in our small town think I’m cursed, but I know better. I did it all to myself.

I’ve had feelings for Eve Roberts for as long as I can remember, but because she also happens to be the twin sister of my best friend, Eric, I’ve never acted on my feelings and long ago resigned myself to keeping my crush under wraps. But after a terrible falling-out with Eric involving a failed restaurant venture and plenty of blame on both sides, I’m back in Port Snow without my best friend and without any direction. But can you guess who’s here? Eve. And my attraction to her is as strong as ever.

Lawyer Ian Michaels is drawn into a sensational murder case to represent a 16-year-old killer and feels compelled to know what drove the young man to kill. During his investigation into the boy's life, Ian begins to understand that the publicity of the case has affected his own life in more ways than one. When his wife leaves him, not only does he see how selfish he’s been for a long time, but realizes he’s been in love with another woman for many years. Have these circumstances changed his life for the better, or does he wish he had never taken the case?

When I was on the inside I found my faith again. I only found my faith because it helped lessened my sentence and let's be real - no one wants to be in the slammer. My priest told me that an angel would come to me, that she would help guide me through many trials and tribulations. Imagine my surprise when a woman named Angel comes barreling into my life. She's not perfect, but neither am I. When our pasts come back to haunt us both, I know that there's only one way we're going to make it through - together.

The job seems easy enough at first for private investigator Andy Hayes: save his client’s reputation by retrieving a laptop and erasing a troublesome video from its hard drive. But that’s before someone breaks into Andy’s apartment in Columbus; before someone else, armed with a shotgun, relieves him of the laptop; and before the FBI suddenly shows up on his doorstep asking questions.

World War II, the Philippines. Johnny Oldfield tells what it’s like to grow up in a Japanese prison camp, his pivotal teenage years filled with danger and defeat, adventure and intrigue, cruelty and betrayal, starvation and death, survival and liberation.

Listen as five criminals tell their stories. Jay Jay found trouble young, very young. Serving time at age 12 is not the beginning of Jay Jay’s descent into criminality. Cjay has been in nearly as many prisons as she has fingers, yet nothing in her upbringing predestined her for crime. Lawrence, a child raised in American ghetto circumstances, became the epitome of extreme violence while at the same time holding tight an inner secret of female identity. Brian was a young man with a twinkle in his eye and a propensity for getting caught.  

From a cell in San Quentin, the San Francisco Bay Area’s internationally known California state prison, comes to you the true biography of an incarcerated felon, Jay Jay. Raised in the Silicon Valley during an era when farms out numbered industry, Jay Jay found trouble young - very young. Serving time at age 12 is not the beginning of Jay Jay's descent into criminality. Take a crash course on the drug game with Jay Jay, and you will find yourself hearing about scenarios you never imagined possible.

The Western Catholic Church is fast losing her centuries-old sense of the uncreated beauty of God, as manifested through the created beauty of sacred art, by buying into postmodern minimalism for the adornment of new churches. This loss is occurring despite the Church's longstanding tradition as Patroness of the Arts and the 1999 call of Saint John Paul II for the urgent need to return to "epiphanies of beauty" in Catholic churches worldwide.

Migrants and refugees have long been considered vulnerable populations within Christianity, but many, Christians included, remain to this day insufficiently knowledgeable about the specificity of the Church's views on the matter. Addressing the way in which the Catholic faith has regarded voluntary and forced migration from the time of Pope Pius XII onwards, this audiobook provides the teachings of the Catholic Church about the fundamental human rights of migrants and refugees.

Deification is the transformation of man into god through the grace of God. Predominant in the theology of eastern Christianity, but marginalized and obscured in contemporary interpretations of the theology of western Christianity, deification, not just salvation, as Marcelle Bartolo-Abela explores, is what was and remains the intent of God for mankind, with deification occurring not solely in patria, but in via in patria.

Exploring the question of the executive orders titled Protecting the Nation from the lens of Scripture and the teachings and praxis of the Catholic Church, Marcelle Bartolo-Abela elucidates in this audiobook how race is the key sociopolitical ordering factor at play in the history and current state of America. Bartolo-Abela reminds listeners how an effective remedy to America’s conflict does exist in accordance with the Faith and provides recommendations for non-violent change.

Help for Suffering Humanity: Mary, Help of Christians is a devotional audiobook with numerous stories about the miraculous interventions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, in the lives of individuals, families, peoples, towns, cities, and nations throughout history. The particular aspect of Mary as the help of Christians in times of war, both physical and spiritual, is highlighted.

This intriguing collection of essays presents reflections upon the birth, proliferation, enduring appeal, and future of UFO mythology. Highly respected authors and researchers, representing the varied and sometimes competing perspectives of ufology and the sociology of religion, provide a fascinating and instructive voyage into the exotic social worlds of UFOs, abductees, and contactees.

With the click of the handcuff snapped around her thin wrist, Anna's deep dark secret comes to life. A chance meeting has introduced her to the Dominant Roland, and he quickly, systematically, trains the naturally submissive Anna into being his perfect slut. They experiment with bondage, spanking, anal sex, nipple play, orgasm control, intimate interrogations and rituals of submissive humiliation.