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In Ancient China, a young woman will make a stand against evil, and her courage will herald the dawn of a new order: The League of Demon Hunters. But before the League, there was the Brethren. Zen drew her sword, the Sword of Divinity Xuan Yuan, and she held the sacred blade aloft for all to see. The late afternoon light caught Xuan Yuan's burnished copper, and the sword gleamed like the sun.

It is the year 1912. The Titanic is preparing for her maiden voyage, and England and Germany are locked in an arms race. Although Europe is at peace, spies on both sides are gathering intelligence in preparation for war. In the midst of this increasingly volatile situation, Sir Thomas Blackthorn and Ms. Adelaide DeMarcy of His Majesty's Secret Service Bureau are tasked with investigating the death of a member of Parliament. In the end, it will take all of Sir Thomas' talent as a psychic and Adelaide's skill as a ninja to unravel the truth and survive.

Although the Council has been unmasked, and the Faceless Man identified, the danger that they pose is far from over. A great wedding is being planned between the innocent Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia and Ernst Augustus, heir to the Kingdom of Hanover. Its guests will include royalty from all over Europe, and it is is the perfect opportunity for peace. But this gathering is also threatened with the possibility of chaos and death. It will be up to Sir Thomas Blackthorn, Adelaide DeMarcy, her students, and their friends, to stave off disaster and foil the Council's evil designs.

The Orders - the Druid Brothers and the Semnotheoi Sisters - are in danger of unraveling under the unrelenting pressure of the Roman oppression and their search for the three foreigners. Now, there seems to be nowhere to run. Their only hope appears to be in defying the edicts that the Orders never work the magics together again.

Loosely based on the story of Lanny and Nicole Donovan, The Illicit Game is an odyssey chronicling the rise and fall of their booming multi-million-dollar cocaine and prostitution business. Lanny has come a long way since his days as a paperboy. It all started in the ‘80s, with his Colombian girlfriend Maria. These days, he’s an advocate for legalizing the world’s oldest profession, prostitution. It’s his street name, “Junior”, that’s on people’s lips when it comes to cocaine.

Rita, the only daughter of billionaire Senator Obaseki, hides behind her reputation as a spoilt wealthy heiress with no ambition to cover up a painful past. Former soldier Nosa Edosa believes the senator to be the epitome of greed and political corruption. Failing to bring him to justice through legal means, his last-ditch effort involves kidnapping the man's daughter. The plan is simple, the execution flawless...until love gets involved.

This is a story of a little girl who is motivated by her dreams to enter a dancing competition in her village. African dance uses improvisation and the entire body. Some dancers learn their moves from former dancers, who became famous by participating in dance during various rituals, celebrations, or festivities.

Leila, a young Houston attorney, is imprisoned by the psychic powers of her hairdresser and falls into addiction at the hands of her stylist's drug-dealing boyfriend as Leila is desperate to escape her abusive husband and the traps of her culture and family. Having grown up with limits of gender bias and cult-like control, Leila recklessly broke away from her old life to claim her independence - tossing the veil and fleeing her physically abusive husband.

Changing Wax is an action-adventure comedy, taking place in the fantasy world of Wax, which resides just 762,522,000,005 light years from Earth (give or take half a light year depending on Earth’s rotation). Wax revolves around rules established in the ancient Master Book of Magic, rules that don’t always follow basic logic or sanity. The story follows three adventurers: Gorath the misfortunate monk, Odd Drip the Imp who is too smart for his own good, and Thomas Twostead, a teenage girl born on the wrong side of Wax’s never-ending war between Light and Dark.

The long-awaited sequel to OblivioN: Ad Magnificum Volumina is here! Humanity has lost its way and is nearly extinct. But for a lone survivor from the Europan disaster 500 years before, the Titans are the only people left alive in the Solar System. A rugged group of scrappy survivors of the Ripping, the Titans have fallen prey to humanity’s baser instincts for survival, power and desperate need.

If you love JK Rowling’s Harry Potter movie series or George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones GoT episodic book series produced by HBO then you will love the latest New York Times best sellers series from the mind of EJ Samuel entitled The Knights of Betha. This romantic, fiction, action saga is set in a medieval world where war is common and survival is a daily struggle. Betha must persevere to overcome beasts, barbarians, ice Vikings, mythical creatures, elves, and savages throughout the kingdom all of whom want her head.

To some this is may seem like a symbolic story of the karmic stagnation of the Human Collective, which is saved by the wisdom and guidance of an over soul, by using the primordial elements of pure creation and the loving union of the Divine Female and Male Principles. Actually, this is just another story of astral space sex, twin flames, tuxedo tee shirts, and one more apocalypse diverted by multidimensional intergalactic sperm.

Growing up, Megan O’Brien believes she can become anything she wants to be, do any job she sets her sights on, and she has never been anything but focussed on her future career as a gaming developer. Now, her story is to be completely rewritten when Donovan transfers in from another school and charms her pants off - literally. Her ambitions never included teen motherhood, so she has to decide: adoption or abortion. She does not want to consider the third option of parenting. No. Way.

If Charlie cannot believe in himself and accept that he is much more than what he sees in the mirror, the Dark Master will have finally won. Violet has absolute faith in him; Narya trusts that Destiny will always find a way; only Charlie cannot understand why or how he can possibly be the hero they all think he is - and he doesn't believe in magic either! When he loses everything to the forces of the Dark he has no choice but to join Violet in her search for the other Watchers of the Crystal shards and hope that somehow along the way he finds the magic and belief in himself....

Have you ever wondered about the reason for our existence? Why we love, hate, set expectations, have needs and wants? What makes us happy or sad? That's what Terry Paul covers in this book, and so much more. This is an in-depth look at life, as told through Terry's eyes.

To escape the Wrath of God, the Widow’s Stone creates a humanistic utopia.

Lord Theodore Harrow has watched three of his closest friends fall in love and suffer for it, but now they are content, and he is left on the outside. When an accident brings him face-to-face with the woman of his dreams, he hopes his single days will be over, without the drama. Mrs. Valeria Wilson is not looking for another husband to replace the one she buried with great relief. Now, while trying to hide from her evil father-in-law and protect her young son, the last thing she needs is a peer of the realm pursuing her.

This is the sequel to the war story On Either Side, and you will need to have listened to the original to understand this one. The second book is set in the early 1970s and follows the exploits of Karl Wulf's son, Carl King, and his girlfriend, Zari Wulf, once married to his father. New characters are introduced as well as some old ones. Let's go hunting Nazi war criminals!

As the masters and special section begin to expose and disrupt the machinations of the Lyrans, Penelope must struggle with the dichotomy of God and thedevil, the harshness of war, and the myriad challenges of the nine universes. In the process, she discovers an ancient secret hidden beneath the streets of London itself. In order to prevail, she must first learn about the true nature of justice, master the tigress within, and ultimately, accept the terrible consequences of her actions.

Captain Jared Allendale is weary of war, but Wellington gives him one final assignment before he is free of his obligation to the Crown: retrieve a package in Scotland and return it safely to London. Easy assignment for a man who's been an aide-de-camp for the past several years - until the package turns out to be Lucy Cameron, daughter of the Duke of Diamond. Lord Diamonte was banished to France for his treasonous acts. As Jared fights old demons, the dangerous journey south begins. The spectre of death hovers over them as Lord Diamonte's minions hunt Lucy and Jared.