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Sami Reagan is having a very bad day. On her way home from work for a large Manhattan jeweler, her car breaks down. She accidentally left her phone at work. Lying beside her, on the passenger seat, are two boxes containing over a quarter-million dollars' worth of gold rings and diamonds that Sami needs to assemble as part of her take-home work. She's going to have to carry them with her when she walks the final two miles home. When she enters her very wealthy neighborhood, she is spotted by two police officers who pull up beside her! Talk about suspicious! And talk about tempting!

Vanessa knows what aliens want—babies— and she’s not having it. She’ll change her name, change her ID chip, and hunker down on a miserable moon on the far side of the galaxy before she gets matched to an alien brute. Again.Jaxar knows that Vanessa is the one for him, but he needs time to convince her. With the clock ticking, he’ll do anything to claim her reluctant heart. Even steal her.

While analyzing parchment fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, grad student Susan Bauer pieces together text that indicates the existence of a stolen Secret Temple Scroll that was penned decades before the gospels. If discovered, this document could free the Jewish people from the centuries-long blemish that they are responsible for Yeshua’s death. From the basement of the Israeli Museum to a basilica in a picturesque French village to the ruins of Herculaneum, Yigael Dorian and archaeologists Valentina Vella and Erika Simone journey to uncover the truth behind this rumored scroll.

Nine classic science fiction stories.

Whether it be pinning up paper chains in the house, decorating the yard with lights and decorations, cooking soul food for the Eve of Juneteenth, visiting park celebrations, patronizing Black American-owned businesses, or going out for a night on the town, Juneteenth is celebrated all over for all ages. This book is the perfect family story for the Juneteenth holiday and for any family who is curious about what Juneteenth is, how to celebrate it, and why it is important. This day is used as a recharge so the spirit repeats. Black American pride and freedom live within Juneteenth!

College freshman Alyson Ames knows she’s in trouble—she just doesn’t yet realize how much trouble! Having just flown from the States to England to attend law school at Plumpton College, a severe case of jetlag has caused her to oversleep, and now she’s running late for her freshman orientation. And her hair is all mussed. And her clothes…rumpled and untucked—hardly appropriate attire for such an auspicious occasion. That’s not good because Alyson has already heard the rumors that the dean of the college is quite strict, prone to anger, and just plain mean.

Nakia may have lost a leg during the invasion, but she’s not going to let that keep her from what she wants. And she wants Rohn. She has since the moment the alien warrior rescued her from a collapsed building. But she’s afraid he still only perceives her as a damaged, frail human. She wants him to recognize her as so much more, and she won’t rest until he understands they belong together. Rohn might be past his prime, but he’s not blind. He sees how the other males look at his mate with envy, admiration, and want.

Captured, starved, and blinded, Tas hates humans. For 80 agonizing years, he’s plotted his vengeance. Then one day, his captors make a fatal mistake. When the door to his cage opens, he’s ready to destroy the human on the other side. But a different instinct takes over when he scents the female. His fangs ache, demanding he make the fearless female his. Juniper owes a lot of money to a very bad man. To clear her debt, all she has to do is drive a van and not ask questions. When she hears a voice in the back, she finds a gargoyle…who intends to claim her as his mate.

College professor Annie Macintyre is not happy about the new Dean, Albert Epstein. Talk about hypocrisy! On the one hand, he is a hard-core, fire-and-brimstone religious extremist. On the other, he is a blatant pervert who can’t seem to keep his hands to himself when in the company of female staff members. But one day, right in the middle of a class on planetary orbits, the Dean barges in and accuses her of going against God by teaching such blasphemy that the Earth orbits the sun. After all, every good Christian knows that our world is the center of the Universe!

Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. One minute Alice was camping, trying to connect with nature, then there’s this blinding white light. Gravity must have quit because Alice and her sleeping bag were floating off the ground. Classic alien abduction. She wakes up on an alien planet full of, you know, aliens. Outlaws. Rules are optional and people are property. So not cool. Then there’s a train robbery and she's getting abducted. Again. But this guy? He’s a giant lizard man, just a solid wall of muscle, scales, and bad attitude.

College junior (and pervert upstart) Derek Monroe can’t believe his eyes! While waiting in the airport security check line in Budapest on his way home from a class trip, he sees a foxy young woman being intimately patted down by a trio of male guards right out in the open! Well, he can’t resist—he videos the embarrassing procedure on his phone as a souvenir. But if he thought that was the highlight of his trip, he's happily mistaken! Minutes later, his gorgeous teacher, Kathy Windsor, is pulled out of line for a "random cavity search"—and right out in the open!

Susan Miller knows that her boss, Hoshi Tanaka, is a pig—a lecher whose obsession with women's behinds is the talk of her office. But when she is caught on video surveillance cameras sneaking pens and notebooks into her briefcase, she learns firsthand just what a lecher he really is. Right in the middle of a company meeting, Mr. Tanaka accuses her of theft, shows the video to everyone, calls her to the front of the room, and then subjects her to the most humiliating bare-bottom spanking imaginable—in front of everyone. Bare bottom? More like bare everything!

Question: What might be the most embarrassing, debasing, humiliating situation a modest young woman could ever find herself in? Well, just ask Layla Nelson. This sweet college cutie is just trying to enjoy her family’s annual Labor Day cookout—along with her friends and her boyfriend of three months, Joey LeBlanc. Unfortunately, right at the start of the family badminton game, she suffers an attack of severe stomach cramps. But not to worry. Layla’s step-uncle Mel is on hand, and he happens to be a doctor. She has no idea what sort of medical examination he has in store for her.

College senior and high school student teacher Hailey Clarke is about to have a VERY bad day. A day more degrading, debasing, demoralizing, embarrassing, and humiliating than this sweet, innocent, and beautiful young woman could ever have imagined! It’s bad enough that her stomach has been hurting pretty badly for the past two days. It’s even worse that the principal of the school she’s been student teaching at told her not to come back until she gets her stomach looked at. But that’s nothing compared to what happens next.

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5,000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. A global history, covering six continents and seven religions, it discusses topics such as the origins of human script; the development of textual media such as scrolls, codices, printed books, and AI; the collection and destruction of libraries; the use of books as holy relics, talismans, or shrines; and the place of literacy in the history of slavery, heresy, blasphemy, censorship, and persecution.

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Peaceable needs a man to get her parents off her tail and stop their matchmaking. Desperate, she blurts out a made-up, surprise engagement to the worst, most aggravating man in the galaxy: Joseph Moonquest. Instant. Regret. The problem is that Joseph is the most insufferable, arrogant, and wildly attractive human male she’s ever met. Worse still, he takes news of their surprise engagement in stride. He’ll play her games. Joseph and the stunning alien woman have been circling each other for months. He’ll be the best fake fiancé in the cosmos. Game on.

Seeran never lost control. Responsible for the security of his clan and warlord, he couldn't afford distraction or attachment. Then, on a Terran beach, he stumbled upon a male assaulting a female. The ice that ran through his veins turned to fire. The frightened female is his mate. Whatever control he'd possessed snapped in a moment of recklessness, and he hoped that was all he'd lost. Hazel shouldn't desire the terrifying alien. She'd just escaped a disastrous marriage with a violent man, so how could she fall for a growling soldier who punched first and asked questions later?

What to expect when you’re expecting an alien’s baby. Mercy has been pregnant for-freaking-ever. She’s tired, grumpy, and ready to get this kid out of her. Of course, being adored by her alien warlord husband is awesome, but she hasn’t seen her feet in a month. And she can’t get over this sneaking suspicion that there’s something Paax isn’t telling her. Just as Mercy needs Paax the most, tension within the clan pulls them apart. He’s nowhere to be found when she goes into labor.

Question: What would be the most humiliating and debasing thing that could ever happen to a woman? Just ask high school principal Bonnie Willis. Thanks to a Burmese gut infection that has begun to spread throughout the community, the health department has set up curtained examination areas in the middle of the gym. And all faculty and staff are required to submit to a very intimate medical exam.