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Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, burned out, fighting melancholia, his career ended. His interest is piqued when he learns of a missing girl, possibly kidnapped by a prominent member of Parliament. Lacey's search for the girl leads to the discovery of murder, corruption, and dealings with a leader of the underworld.

1898: Martian tripods lay waste to Earth's cities. The world's armies are unable to stem the tide of destruction. When all hope appears lost, common bacteria kills the alien invaders. From the ashes, the human race uses the technology left behind by the Martians to build new, advanced weapons.

Tim L. Gardner compiles a lifetime of research and experience into a comprehensive program designed for parents striving to deeply connect with their children to groom them to become future respectful, responsible teenagers and adults. Tim L. Gardner breaks down these complex issues of parenting into three categories of improving respect, responsibility, and resilience.

In this fascinating and vivid account, Peter M. Gardner takes us along with him on his anthropological field research trips. Usually, the author's family is there, too, either with him in the field or somewhere nearby. Family adventures are part of it all. Travel into the unknown can be terrifying yet stimulating, and Gardner describes his own adventures, sharing medical and travel emergencies, magical fights, natural dangers, playful friends, and satisfying scientific discoveries.

How can I live a more joy-filled life? Do my dreams mean anything and what's more, do they contain any useful wisdom? What is spirit and how can I learn to be guided by it? How can I grow more proficient at recognizing the lessons life tries to teach me? Have you ever asked yourself any of these questions? This compilation of works by author Evette Gardner is an exploration into the inner self. It touches on all of the abovementioned queries and more.

One autumn in medieval Provence, a nobleman's only daughter finds herself mysteriously pregnant. The girl, Lidoire, has never lain with a man and wonders if she, like the Virgin Mary, has conceived immaculately. Years earlier, her father betrothed her to the powerful prince of Navarre; through the marriage, he hopes to further his own ambitions. In her father's castle, Lidoire fearfully watches her belly grow until Moreau - her father's vintner, a man who's always been like a loving uncle - comes to her.

1967: Chestnut Circle is an average suburban community inhabited by ordinary people - teenagers, housewives, retirees. Seventeen-year-old Nick Blake's only major worries are homework, high school, and how to date the pretty girl across the way. Then a fierce storm strikes the neighborhood and, overnight, all of Chestnut Circle is transported to an enchanted realm unlike anything its residents have ever known.

With her husband's kiss, she recognized the familiar smell of pipe and sweetness that was always on his breath when he returned from his yearly trip. These trips - they were wearing him out. Perhaps it is time for him to retire?

They got out of Oklahoma alive. With a baby on the way, Lee Hammond and Vivian Baxter have settled down to uncomplicated domesticity - until Lee finds bugs in the smoke detectors. The electronic kind. It seems that there are a few details about her past that Vivian has neglected to share with Lee, and the men with the big guns are back. They want what Vivian took from them: the 30 million dollar Devil's Diamond.

After rescuing a lovely woman from an attempted robbery, Captain Lacey discovers that she is the widow of a colonel who'd been accused of murdering an English officer during the Peninsular War. Lydia declares that her husband was innocent and that she knows the true culprits' identities. Intrigued, Lacey, along with his friend, Lucius Grenville, begins to investigate. He soon finds himself mired in scandals of the past and surrounded by murders that are very much in the present.

I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself: 365 Inspiring Quotes contains 365 positive twists of thoughts from a variety of people on a variety of topics. Words that encourage you to be fearless, face life's challenges with a constructive attitude, learn to see the humor in things, and much more. Some quotes will make you chuckle or smile. Some will make you think more deeply. And some will help open you up to a brand new way of looking at something. Use these quotes to begin each day with a new reflection.

Nala and her sister live their lives as slaves in the Han Dynasty. A chance encounter at a bazaar leads Nala on a mission to keep her sister safe from evil, while learning that not everything is as it appears to be. Can she save her sister and herself before it is too late?

Short Stories from 1929 is the first set of short stories woven from the threads of the novel 1929. More than 40 years after the Great Crash, Maura gathers friends and family for an evening of storytelling. From the tales she crafts a book for Jonathan, who has suffered a stroke and is now bedridden. Loved ones narrate accounts from long ago, moments mentioned but never fully explained in the novel 1929, by M.L. Gardner.

Late December, 1818: As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, comes to him about an actress friend who's gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look for the actress, little realizing that the search will pit him against men who think nothing of abduction, assault, or sending incendiary devices to the innocent.

FBI Special Agent Jon Wells has spent his days and nights tracking and bringing down terrorists. His new case brings him to a whole new level involving the Somali community and the Chinese government through cyber terrorism and corporate espionage. Jon has to use all his skills as he navigates through this world of deception, murder, torture, and the disenfranchised to prevent a meltdown of the economy and funding to terrorists.

Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of life? Is there a God? In a moment of solitude it's likely that at least one of these so-called big life questions has crossed your mind. Why me? What's wrong with me? What do I have to do to get past this roadblock or passed this pain? In a time of distress it's likely that at least one of these soul-crying questions has also haunted you.

Lenny Hodge is a young man with certain abilities - special talents that even he doesn't understand. It is only when he joins Terrifitemps (the temporary employment agency that secretly controls the world) and meets his new team - a psychic, a vampire, a ghost hunter, and a werevole (yes, a werevole) - that Lenny realizes how much his special talent will put him in jeopardy. But it's worth it, right? Hasn't Lenny always wanted to save the world?

When Melissa leaves her beloved New York City to fly to Portland and interview a soccer player for Slash magazine, she expects the trip to be nothing short of dreary. To her surprise, the evening is filled with unimaginable delights that leave her a soccer fan forever.

AD 63. Leonidas’s former trainer, Aemil, asks him to look into the disappearances of gladiators from his ludus. Leonidas and Cassia investigate, and soon uncover gruesome murders involving some of the wealthiest citizens of Rome. Leonidas pits his skills against an unknown killer who hunts gladiators from the back lanes of the Subura to prestigious villas atop Rome’s hills. He and Cassia must succeed in uncovering the murderer’s identity before Nero grows impatient and makes Leonidas pay for the chaos the killer has rained down upon his city.

Leonidas, champion gladiator of Rome, is set free from the games by a mysterious benefactor who grants him freedom, a place to live, and a servant - Cassia, a scribe - to look after him. But the benefactor is only so generous - Leonidas must pay his own way and Cassia’s, which means hiring himself out. The sharp-witted Cassia quickly lands him a post as a bodyguard, escorting a retired senator to Ostia.