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Mages live longer than regular people. Some of them live a thousand years before they even start to grow up. Otherwise, they'd know fighting necromancers was futile. We do not fear death; for us, it's all in a day's work. My enemies want to crush my little clan by overwhelming us with numbers, but even our schoolchildren are as good as a whole army of professional warriors. There's a great war coming. And, strange as it may seem, the necromancers will be the ones fighting for the side of life!

Caitlin Hewitt has been engaged to Brandon Dodds for what feels like forever. She is in love and believes he loves her. The night before the wedding her best friend, Sophie, tells her something that changes everything. It was a normal Saturday for paramedic, Jay O'Connor. If he ignored the fact that Caitlin Hewitt, the woman he loved was, at that moment, marrying another man. Jay expected the call-out to attend a young woman who had crashed her car in the middle of Leytonsfield town center, to be routine. The last person he expected to see was Caitlin—in her wedding dress.

A survivor of spousal abuse, matchmaker Olivia Heather, the Dowager Countess of Allen, devotes her time to preventing the young ladies of society from following in her footsteps—until a series of newspaper articles accuse her of murdering her late husband. Her plan to use her feminine wiles to convince the man responsible for the attacks to stop is stymied when the man in question, the infuriatingly handsome Thellusson Vaith, Marquess Lowell, requests that she find a match for his daughter.

How can we remember certain events from our childhood as if they happened yesterday and then forget we did last week? Why does our memory seem to work well at some times but not at others? What happens when it goes wrong? Can memory be improved or manipulated by psychological techniques, or even 'brain implants'? How does memory grow and change as we age? And what of so-called 'recovered' memories? This Very Short Introduction brings together the latest research in neuroscience and psychology to address these important questions around the science of memory.

Imagine my surprise when the chance to interview the country's most notorious man on death row lands on my table. His final confession. It's too good of an opportunity to turn down. Robbie Hammond is old enough to be my father, a man condemned for the murder of at least fourteen women. He is dangerous, deadly. Intense in ways I can't explain. Yet, despite the red flags, his magnetism draws me to him. I'm powerless to fight it.

Magical battles alone will not rid the world of Abomination. The necromancer prince Maximilian Richter sets out in search of knowledge that will help create new magical technologies. The Great Clans have been keeping a secret for centuries, and now it's time to reveal the truth. The planet will be healed from blight. The other Princes want to interfere with this healing, but Max now has a new weapon. Could it be . . . а dragon?!

Father O'Malley and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden must uncover a baby-selling scheme at a clinic forty years ago.

Father O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden return! When a sacred tribal artifact disappears from a museum, it's more than Arapaho history that is lost—it's an Arapaho student's life . . .

As the starting goalie for a professional hockey team, I should be oozing confidence and swagger. Too bad I'm as awkward as they come. Things go from bad to worse when I want my teammates' help to set me up. Especially when the team's general manager is there to witness the train wreck of a date. Until she proposes dating lessons . . . mutual dating lessons. How can the most confident, self-assured woman need my help? What starts off simple and uncomplicated quickly turns into more. A lot more.

Crime reporter Will Finch never saw it coming. On Telegraph Hill, a woman mistakes him for someone named Joel Griffin. "The game is getting dangerous," she whispers. Before she can say more, a drive-by assassin silences her—collapsing at Finch's feet in a pool of blood. By morning, two FBI agents are at his door. Finch is the prime suspect in a deep-web conspiracy. The evidence is airtight. The threat is real. And a merciless foreign organization is watching his every move.

In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the Atlantic. Nothing like it had ever been attempted, and Field knew nothing about electricity, telegraphy, ships, or oceans. But he believed that wiring the world for near-instantaneous communication would bring about peace on Earth. After enduring years of global scorn, catastrophic failures, staggering losses, and brushes with death, Field would finally lay his great cable in 1866 and usher in the global information age as we know it.

Zach has always been a man torn between duty and family. Strong, capable, and fiercely dedicated to being a SEAL, he's made countless sacrifices to ensure the safety of his son and his country. Driven by guilt, he leaves newborn Charlie in the care of his estranged twin brother, and no one, not even his self-destructive team mate, Kai, can make him change his mind. Their partnership can never be anything but a clash of personalities, but as they navigate their latest undercover mission, one more stolen moment is all it takes for every barrier between them to disintegrate.

Gunther Janssen, powerful ruler of the Dark Realm, is losing the war within. The darkness that fuels his powers is consuming him and soon he will be lost and become a legion of evil. His only hope lies in a woman from his home, the human realm. But how to convince the woman he has fallen in love with that he is worthy of redemption when he doesn't believe it himself? A dangerously seductive warrior from a nightmare realm asks Aubrey Maguire for help. He claims she's the key to saving him. Admittedly, he's drop dead gorgeous, but beneath the beautiful exterior, darkness looms.

When Blake Brennan came out, he made NHL history. He was the elite goaltender of the New Jersey Ruby Reds, with a cute boyfriend and a bright career ahead of him. Now, he was single, and struggling both in net, and with his team. Matthew Sawyer ended up living with his dad again after dropping out of college. His dad, the coach of the Ruby Reds, has high expectations for him. Matthew isn't sure what he wants out of life, but he knows he doesn't want the boring desk job his dad wants him to get.

Cristina had always been a confident, ambitious, and strong woman, but somehow, she allowed a man to strip her of her sense of worth. For six years, she pledged her love and loyalty to someone who deserved neither, and the result of that was allowing who could have been the love of a lifetime to walk out of her life. Now, she had found the courage to put herself first and leave a relationship that had never served her.

For millennia, people have utilized plants as foods, medicines, hallucinogens, clothing, shelter, perfumes, dyes, and even poisons. In the Caribbean, medicinal and practical use of plants began with its first inhabitants, the Amerindians. New plants and knowledge were introduced through both triangular trade with Asia, Africa, and Europe and the enslavement of Africans and Indians from Southeast Asia, culminating in the modern-day system of Caribbean herbalism. Caribbean Herbalism tells the rich and complex stories of Caribbean people and the plants that have sustained them.

The angel Dina is both young and ancient, every human epoch breezing past his home in Heaven as he waits for the end times. When the archangel Uriel reveals the truth about God's first creations, however—Dina ventures out to find a beautiful, seductive star who urges him to bring about the apocalypse for the sake of destroying evil once and for all. Lovesick, Dina agrees.

Markets of Pain traces the global arc of licit opium from poppy fields and processing plants to the clinics and laboratories of modern medicine. It shows how both the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic treated the opium poppy as a national resource. In postcolonial India, nationalist leaders initially rejected opium's imperial legacy before embracing its strategic value. At the heart of this story are the cultivators, scientists, bureaucrats, and policymakers who shaped the licit opium trade and grappled with its far-reaching consequences.

What is inevitable? Emmeline DeLeoste has always talked to the stars. As a member of a fortune-telling warrior clan, her exceptional magic allows her to read the Fates, earning her a prestigious Academy job. But it has also cost her everyone she loves. Roremar Silventa has more responsibilities...

"All tricks and games amount to nothing in the face of absolute power." This is the principle I live by, cutting ties where others would start scandals. My village has become a bastion of strength, attracting allies and enemies alike. The daughter of my enemy seeks my protection. Spies of powerful families dig for my secrets.