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Tenacious and strong-willed investigator Arden Briar and her trusted partner Joe Carmon have spent years outside the confides of the law working thanklessly to rescue missing children and expose predators. In their most recent case, they search for the youngest Emmy winner, an 11-year-old television starlet. Traveling from the heart of urban Atlanta to the city’s surrounding rural wilderness, the investigators seek to uncover the truth behind the girl’s disappearance, but instead discover a secret that will have them questioning everything.

Julia Reynolds often daydreamed about strangers she saw in passing, imagining what their meet-cute would be like if her life were a rom-com. In the movies, a meet-cute is the scene where a future romantic couple meet for the very first time, and you just know they are destined to be together forever. Boy meets girl, sparks fly, life is good. But in reality, she was ready to give up on love. They were all jerks. She was ready to accept she might be alone forever. Until he came along. Could he be different? Or was he just like every other guy?

Core World problems... Rigel IV glistens beneath a giant, blue-white sun. Its vast surface is covered in tall cities shining like hope itself. Law enforcement protects the people. Or at least...most of the people. Because even core worlds have a seedy side. Esper finds a home of sorts among the endangered, the unprotected, the ones that the law turns a blind eye toward. And when one of her protectees gets kidnapped, Esper will stop at nothing to bring her home. Well, almost nothing. Because Esper’s work has pushed her to the edge of a moral precipice.

In this ground-breaking vision document, first published in 1998, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Y.S. Rajan offer a blueprint for India to be counted among the world’s top five economic powers by the year 2020. They cite growth rates and development trends to show that the goal is not unrealistic. Past successes - the green revolution and satellite-based communication linking remote regions of the country, for instance - bear them out. The same sense of purpose can make us a prosperous, strong nation in a matter of years, assert Kalam and Rajan.

The jig is up. The news is out. They finally found her. As Esper has tried to save the galaxy’s wayward children, she’s done it with the looming threat of the Convocation dogging her steps. She knows why they’re after her, even if she can’t remember the events. She’s shaken them across a dozen star systems. She’s bested their hunters the few times they’ve caught up. Now, Esper is about to face her greatest fear: the truth about what she’s done.

Sage Weston and Jacob Phillips met as children at Little Kitty Orphanage. They had the type of friendship that could weather any storm, and they vowed that they would always be there for each other. And then Jacob was adopted, and everything changed. At first, the letters were fast and furious, but then they stopped, and Sage was left all alone. Four years later, Sage and Jacob bump into each other at a college party. Sparks fly, daggers are drawn, and Sage wants nothing to do with Jacob or the bevy of women that seem to follow him everywhere he goes.

This new edition - more than 50 percent new and revised - is a significant update from the previous one and reveals how to harness the newest data mining methods and techniques to solve common business problems. The duo of unparalleled authors share invaluable advice for improving response rates to direct marketing campaigns, identifying new customer segments, and estimating credit risk. In addition, they cover more advanced topics, such as preparing data for analysis and creating the necessary infrastructure for data mining at your company.

Lacey wanted to find a sexy and irresistible man. She never thought she meet someone like Henry James. Henry James had a wicked smile and dazzling eyes. He was arrogant, handsome, teasing, and the sexiest man she's ever seen in her life. The only problem was Henry James was everything she wasn't looking for in a man. He was too handsome. Too rich. Too alpha. He was the sort of man who could have Lacey doing what he wanted without her even knowing. He was the sort of man who had her doing things she never thought she’d do. Plain and simple, Henry James was trouble.

A reluctant sorceress. A papal plot. If she wants to survive, she must put her life in her enemies’ hands. Rome, 1191. Cassandra’s magical powers could get her burned at the stake. Orphaned and struggling to survive, she dreams of using her gifts for more than conning men out of their coins. But when the Knights Templar kidnap her off the street, she’s forced use her sorcery on a quest to secure the Holy Grail. As Cassandra attempts to win her freedom from the Pope himself, power-hungry enemies make a play for the coveted relic.

People anxiety disorders are usually aware of the irrational and excessive nature of their thoughts and fears. However, without the proper tools and knowledge, they just can’t seem to stop them, no matter the level of effort. This book will provide the proper understanding and methods in order to take control of negative thoughts when they occur to help put the mind at ease.

This is a very dirty story about a young woman named Sabrina who finds out that being the only girl playing cards with a group of guys can be explosive. When Sabrina runs out of chips, the guys offer to buy her back into the game if she removes an article of clothing. Sabrina continues to lose, and the guys' demands for how she can earn more chips grow more and more outrageous. Before the night is over, she's naked and pleasing everyone, on her back and on her knees

Rachael spends her weekend as the submissive pet for a group of four men. She is to be obedient, naked, and ready to give pleasure at all times. She is not allowed to climax without permission. Follow Rachael as four hot, dominant men do everything they can to rile her up and then don't allow her to climax until they're in a crowded restaurant.

This is a collection of 15 essays on a variety of occult-themed topics, covering the full spectrum of classic esoteric and related subjects, which include Hermeticism, magic, ancient wisdom and philosophy, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Theosophy, spiritualism, metaphysics, and New Thought by some of the most notable and prominent names in the history of those subjects.

Esper and Kubu take an outlaw vacation to a remote planet whose tiny colony seems idyllic. It’s far enough for the Convocation wizards dogging them to lose their trail. The plan is simple: Stay out of trouble, let the heat die down, and slink back quietly to civilized space. But these two aren’t good at keeping out of trouble. Before long, they’re exposed to the rotten core beneath this purported utopia. Bitter feuds lurk just below the surface. Feigned friendships mask deadly rivalries. Cliques control what passes for a government on the colony.

The Charted Systems are in pieces. Mercy's Pledge is destroyed, and her captain dead. With no homes to return to, the remaining crew sets off on a journey to find the mythical planet of Ardulum - a planet where Emn might find her people, and Neek the answers she's long sought. Finding the planet, however, brings a host of uncomfortable truths about Ardulum's vision for the galaxy and Neek's role in a religion that refuses to release her.

Eighteen years old and fresh out of high school, Madalyn hasn't done any of those things before. She's never had someone put a belt around her neck like a leash, and she's certainly never been double-penetrated.

Esper may dress the part. She has her own ship. She even carries a blaster - not that she ever uses it. But she violates the cardinal rule of the galaxy’s most cold-blooded profession: get paid. At least she's not alone. Her partner, Kubu, is an alien who gets mistaken for a dog. One is a wizard on the run from her past. The other is a lovable eating machine. Between them, they haven’t got a ruthless bone in their bodies. But when a client hires them, they’ll do whatever it takes to bring a target home safely. This time, it’s a teenage kidnapping victim.

Rachael spends her camping trip in a state of constant arousal, being gagged, forced to wear a leash, spanked in public, and roughly used for pleasure. The four men she's with don't hesitate to take advantage of Rachael, embarrassing her and using her as they see fit.

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story. This collection brings together some of the finest and most diverse examples of Fletcher's genius. 'The Ivory God' is the tale of a failing writer who acquires a strange ivory carving of an Indian god. He becomes convinced that the statue is communicating with him, taking possession of him, even writing through him.

Derek is an absolutely luscious hunk of man-meat. He’s also the captain of our school’s football team. My name is Ally. I’m the newest member of the cheerleading squad. When I signed up, I thought it would be fun and a good opportunity to get to know some of the guys on the team. I didn’t know they would want to share me. Apparently Derek and the rest of the guys have a ritual for initiating new cheerleaders to the team. I won’t tell you what the ritual is, but it involves me doing something with all of them. And it doesn’t involve me wearing clothes.