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I just traveled halfway across the galaxy to meet my new husband. With no women left on Auxem, he should know how to appreciate a lady. Especially me, a lady from Earth! He knows how lucky he has to have me. He knows how far I've come. So why is he acting like such a complete jerk? I know he's used to getting what he wants, but underneath his confident, chiseled exterior, he's hiding a big secret. He barely speaks to me. Now we're stranded together on a remote planet. He's got a perfect body. I hope he knows how to use it.

"Karma" is in our vocabulary, but do we really know what it means? The word is everywhere—not just in alternative spirituality, and among Hindus and Buddhists, but in news reports, ads, sitcoms, sports columns, and the everyday conversations of people who wouldn't know the Upanishads from Us magazine. Stephen Colbert invokes the term on television and Taylor Swift summons it in song.

The feisty little female I hired to work as a receptionist in my detective agency is proving to be a delectable handful. Celeste is a temptress. She stirs long-forgotten desires with her delicious curves and sassy comebacks. But as tempting as she is, I need to remain professional. Losing myself in her sweetness could unleash the monster slumbering within me, and when he comes out to play, he won't settle for anything less than possessing Celeste body and soul.

In October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the lives of another 120 miners. Today, Dawson is a deserted ghost town. All that remains is a sea of white iron crosses memorializing the nearly four hundred miners killed in the two explosions-a death toll unmatched by mine disasters in any other town in America.

Asher isn't looking for a mate. He's fine alone in his mountain cabin at the edges of his bear clan's land. His unusual shifter qualities have made him an outcast, and he has no expectations that any female would want his company. When a wounded wolf shifter lands on his doorstep one snowy night, he can't help but wonder if fate is playing a cruel joke. Because one look and he knows.

Communications Skills for Project Managers provides practical advice and strategies for ensuring success, even in the face of shifting organizational priorities, constantly evolving expectations, and leadership turnover. This important guide gives listeners the skills they need to keep everyone in the loop.  

In Kilimanjaro Snow, Finn Pilar, the ne'er-do-well former Navy EOD specialist and disgraced Key West cop, faces his most complex case. A sailboat adrift off Wisteria Island near Key West crashes into the stern of his business partner's live-aboard boat. A deceased girl is found on board wearing nothing but a strange tattoo on her chest. Alarm bells go off for Finn, who has seen this tattoo before in Cuba. Thus begins a tale of deceit, murder, and intrigue stretching across the Florida Strait.

Ever since the virus took our women, we've been searching. Searching for their magical gift to create new life. Searching for the fire in their eyes when they scream our names in the heat of passion. So when I find Priya, a curvy, dark-eyed human stowaway, there's only one thing on my mind. Do I care if I'm royalty and she's a fugitive? Do I care if mating with her could risk everything? Of course not.

Finn Pilar returns with his dog Crutch, taking on the bad guys in the southernmost paradise. This novel won the 2016 Whodunit Award, an annual writing competition presented at Mystery Fest Key West. A diver, sailor, and Harley owner, author Lewis C. Haskell can be found riding his bicycle around the island most mornings or with a glass of wine at Grand Vin in the evening.

The premature death of his dad and a tumultuous childhood has left coal miner Tommy 'Huck" Sawyer hardened to emotion and relationships. Andi Sullivan is the one woman who can break through that tough exterior. But Andi, the twin sister of Tommy's best friend, is destined for better things, away from her harsh father's control and their sooty mining town. It seems everything is against Tommy ever having the one thing his heart wants most.

If you love John D McDonald and Carl Hiassen mysteries you are going to love Square Grouper. For fans of Key West murder mysteries, laugh out loud funny storytelling, and great characters, this book delivers. Authentic locations, great humor, and compelling action, Key West author Lewis C. Haskell has captured the traditions of South Florida writers with a first novel that was a finalist for the Key West Mystery Writers 'Jeremiah Healy' Award. Here is your next winter vacation beach listen.

Wicca is a form of Pagan witchcraft that is often misunderstood by the general public. This isn't just a system of magick but focuses on nature and worshiping deities. Wicca is a way to live in harmony with nature and promotes a balanced life. This book will teach you everything you need to know in order to make a decision on whether becoming Wiccan is right for you.

It's been two years since his mom died, and Dylan is still stuck in the mental hospital he is forced to call home. On the same day every week, like clockwork, someone else disappears and someone new arrives to take their place. It's only a matter of time before Dylan is next. When two people disappear in the same week, two new people arrive, but not at the scheduled time. With the addition of the new twins, Scarlett and Hunter, everything starts to get a whole lot stranger.

It's 1930s Chicago. Inferno, a mysterious figure using flame as a lethal weapon, seeks to depose "Bull" Logan as crime boss of Chicago. A series of bizarre attacks rapidly thins out the ranks of the gang leader's trusted lieutenants. In an attempt to distract the police, Logan begins his own war of terror while he begins searching for the mysterious fiend.

Headed north to Washington, DC aboard the wrong bus, Phoebe Faegen turns for help from the handsome boy seated on her left. But his instructions are strange from the start and his ability to stop a shooting with just the palm of his hand, when they arrive at their destination, is too much to be believed.

Franz Kafka's haunting short story about a man both on display and marginalized by a fickle society.

It's been two years since private eye Will "Lucky" Marks' first case. That was the one that ended a promising police career. It was the one that started it all. The veneer has worn from the once dreamy image of an L.A. Shamus. Now, Lucky takes the cases that come and finds a life somewhere between the glitz of Hollywood and the dregs of humanity.

In July of 1781, an American privateer sailing out of New London, Connecticut, captured the British merchantman the Hanna, loaded with a bounty of luxury goods destined for British officers based in New York City. That action induced the British supreme leader of British forces in America to grant permission to the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold to lead an 1,800-man punitive amphibious expedition to destroy the American privateer base in New London. 

Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. Elliott Young focuses on five stories, including Chinese detained off the coast of Washington in the late 1880s, an "insane" Russian-Brazilian Jew caught on a ship shuttling between New York and South America during World War I, Japanese Peruvians kidnapped and locked up in a Texas jail during World War II, a prison uprising by Mariel Cuban refugees in 1987, and a Salvadoran mother who grew up in the United States and has spent years incarcerated while fighting deportation. 

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, trends already underway toward the future of work and the gig economy rapidly and unexpectedly accelerated. Physical isolation, travel restrictions, and social distancing challenged organizations to rethink how work gets done and by whom, with ramifications that will stretch beyond the pandemic. Punching the Clock explores how well workers are likely to both navigate and adapt to this new future of work, using the best of psychological science as a guide.