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Mother and father, Pat and J.P. (Joe Paul, Sr.) leave home early on April 19th, 1995, relying on their capable teenage sons, Joe Paul, Jr., and Dale, to take care of the ranch outside Perkins, and their siblings, nine-year-old Thomas and 11-year-old Henry. After some rocky times, both personally and financially, Pat and J.P. are taking a much needed day together without the kids to do some shopping in Oklahoma City, with plans to return home by eight pm.

A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the Earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the Earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe's life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been changed irreparably. In A World to Live In, the distinguished ecologist George Woodwell shows that the biosphere is now a global human protectorate and that its integrity of structure and function are tied closely to the human future.

The story begins in 2010 with the discovery of a badly injured, unclothed woman found with the remains of a special forces team in Afghanistan. When she is brought to the field hospital, high ranking military Chaplain Gabriel "Gabe" Wingford arrives to give her an identity and take her out of the country. Moving to 2014, Gabe is retired in Utica, OK where Angeline - the woman found in Afghanistan - is an exceptionally perceptive investigative consultant for the police department.

In New Orleans, Louisiana, something with a weird sense of humor is stranding myth in a non-magical world. Dr. Tiffany Crews and gang find themselves no longer chasing Damn Duck, running into walls or spilling soup. As a matter of fact, no accidents have happened in the last week. It isn't until they find Damn Duck sitting quietly on the balcony, Miracai, the carnivorous unicorn, eating greens without flatulence, and her klutz tendencies missing, Tiffany realizes something is up.

Classified is the first book in the Phoenix Series written by Peggy Hoy. It is a Christian Fiction/FBI Mystery. A special agent with a mottled background, one with OCPD, and a military psychiatrist, meet up in the Phoenix field office as co-workers on assignment to take down a Mexican drug cartel and human trafficker.

Outlaw James is a woman on the run from the cartel, and hiding from people who don't appreciate her blatant honesty, especially when it comes to her testifying against them. Colum McKissic is a man struggling with his own demons, but Outlaw James isn't one of them. After saving his life, he can't get her out of his head, and he can think of more than one way to say thank you.

Doing the right thing was always a clear, easy decision for LaShelle Roland, editor of Payne County Weekly in Stillwater, Oklahoma until she discovers the District Attorney's Drug Task Force is actually shielding major drug dealers from prosecution. The Sun, Stillwater's powerful daily newspaper is part of the corruption cover up and is pressuring LaShelle to sell her struggling paper to keep a lid on the story.

Hot, spontaneous, adventurous sex defined Max and Julie until real life turned them from lovers into barely-ever-have-sex roommates. But no more. Finally, with time alone, they have a chance to rediscover everything they once loved about each other. Can the touch of her mouth on him still steal his breath? When he kisses the dimples at the small of her back, will she still come apart under him?

Over 2,300 years after their deaths, Plato and Aristotle remain the most influential ancient Greek philosophers and arguably the greatest icons of ancient thought. Their legacies expanded rapidly and extensively across the ancient world, helped in part by the fact Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great. Both philosophers were recognized as celebrated intellectual forces during all of antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Riot Rippons, demigod and Braider, never forgave the gods for driving his mother to suicide. But carrying immortality and the ability to braid time into new endings has a price all its own--the two create an extreme evil that Riot fights every moment. But in the darkness is a small pinpoint of light warning him to save young, innocent,Braiders hidden from the gods to keep mortals safe. The gods found a way to track them, with plans to use the children's power and souls to win ego-driven wars.

Join Shama'al, Sheba, and Suzie, three dogs that are off to find adventure! From battling crazy cats to transforming into superheroes, this is not your normal romp in the park. Shama'al travels to another world and has a nightmare that continues every time he falls asleep. How will he solve this and stop his nemesis, Skimbles the cat, from destroying everything he loves?

Aiden Middleston spent years surrounded by blood and death, first in the Army, then as a mercenary. But after helping a friend survive deadly espionage, and learning his love for her will never be returned as anything more than friendship, he heads home to the family ranch in Dillon, Montana. Yet escaping blood and death isn’t in the cards when he lands in the middle of a range war over water rights, and a family vendetta in the blood and generations old, pulling him into the sort of life he’s been trying to escape.