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After sixteen years of marriage, Jack and Christine's sex life has gotten as boring and predictable as their overbooked schedules. Between work, soccer practice and grabbing dinner on the run, there's little time for just the two of them. Jack's had enough. He's decided to live life to the fullest, and he's starting with their love life. It's time to spice things up and re-ignite their love. If his plan works, it will unlock a passion for each other they never knew they had.

This book documents the life of one man over a 60-year span. Significant elements of important relationships, from childhood on, that influence him in positive and negative ways are identified. An attempt is then made to demonstrate how those experiences molded and led him into a lifelong commitment to self-understanding and self-acceptance.

Imagine finding out that you had been brainwashed into believing you were helping people, but you were actually hurting them. For years, Nehemiah Flynt provided therapeutic foster care without realizing the harm he was helping the government inflict on innocent children and families. By the grace of God, the blinders fell off and he began to see the wickedness of "the system."

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.

Tiffany and friends are adjusting nicely to life with Miracai, the cantankerous, carnivorous unicorn, and Verna, the Fairy Godmother. They have high hopes of returning to a semi-normal life, but whatever is controlling the strings of fate isn't going to let that happen. Adding to the daily chaos, an honest-to-goodness leprechaun is dropped into the living room.

Alongside Plato, Aristotle is, without question, one of the most influential ancient Greek philosophers and arguably the greatest icon of ancient thought. His life and work expanded rapidly and extensively across the ancient world, helped in part by the fact he tutored Alexander the Great. He was a recognized and celebrated intellectual force during all of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Furthermore, after Aristotle, Greek thought and political influence began a rapid decline.

Something with a weird sense of humor is stranding mythical creatures in Tiffany's courtyard. Renowned psychiatrist, klutz, and Arkansas hillbilly with her feet firmly rooted in reality, she isn't quite ready for a one hundred twenty pound fairy godmother sporting dragonfly wings, nor a unicorn to come waltzing into her life. Especially when the unicorn starts talking and farting rainbows and her new fairy godmother insists she's been sent because happily-single Tiffany made a wish to find her one true love.

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.

According to his degree, Luke Stills is an archaeologist. His attachment as a civilian asset to a paramilitary organization is not on that degree nor on his resume. Only a few know about the POW camp he and his team just uncovered in China, but Luke is used to a certain amount of secrecy and adrenaline when it comes to missions like that. In fact,the most exciting thing on his plate at the moment is rushing home from China in time for Thanksgiving dinner with his friend and colleague, Kate Andirson.

Winter Beauman left behind glitz, glamour, and the Manhattan skyline for a calmer existence in Wyoming. Taking up welding, she built a life around the new talent in the tiny town, with no need to be anyone but herself. Mason St. Croix spent five years alone reconciling the death of his wife when he decided it was time to finally rejoin the living. Commissioning a custom sleigh to take presents to many of the children in town puts him face to face with the beautiful and talented Winter, making his long-dormant libido roar to life.

In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what would become Western philosophy.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Ebenezer Scrooge is a man who does not recognize the true riches of life, which is the friendship of family and friends. He goes out of his way not to give to others, even those with great need and especially at Christmas. The experiences brought upon Ebenezer on Christmas Eve show him the error of his ways and what he's lost out on by being miserly.

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.