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Ambassador Janel is proud to have finally brokered an alliance with the powerful Haraden. What cinched the deal? The Haraden warriors want brides. Since war ravaged her planet's male population they actually have a surplus of women looking for husbands. It seems like a win-win.

Ex-soldier Lenora is determined to escape an alien slave colony no matter what the cost. Her disobedience angers her male alien overseers, who are trying to breed humans so they can intermarry with them. Lenora, and willful women like her, are sent to the Bride Games. If they win they will be granted their freedom. If they lose they must accept marriage to an alien nobleman.

The alphas of planet Hexor aren't supposed to get pregnant. Gruff mine-worker Harsen finds himself in a crisis, but it's one that could open the door to the kind of love he never felt he deserved.

Eddie Sherlin and Bill Ligon were boys growing up on opposite sides of the tracks who shared a passion for basketball. They knew the barriers that divided them—some physical landmarks and some hidden in the heart—but those barriers melted away when the boys were on the court. After years of playing wherever they could find a hoop, Eddie and Bill entered the rigors of their respective high school teams.

Cruel alien masters have oppressed Tabitha for the last 10 years. An Alliance observer discovers that she's been experimented on and pulls her from the slave colony. She's going to be granted the privilege of becoming an indentured bride. Tabitha doesn't see her new assignment as a privilege. Her duties seem pretty clear cut, and she knows what Hax-Rah aliens are like. The last thing she wants is to be stranded on a moon with one. Hex-Lord Jaxil took an isolated mission for a reason, and he never asked for a bride.

Lord Elentinus may be one of the alien tyrants who has enslaved planet Earth, but he's shown his captive human bride Maritza nothing but kindness and compassion. She feels ready to yield to his formidable sexual desire.

Karin is a dedicated administrator in her once prosperous country of Red Scale. When their militant neighbors begin a merciless war, Karin and her governor father contacted the isolated country of Lohocke for help. All they know of this mysterious neighbor is a legend about metal men. They not only make contact, but are promised the help they need. The price? Karin must go to Lohocke and become the bride of the Alpha Lord Eisler Durant. Karin has been tied to Lohocke in an intricate way since her birth.

Megalomaniac Maximus always achieves his goals. Right now, his goal is to destroy a massive army that tried to draft him using a mind control device. The only way Maximus can accomplish this is with a Rig-mertian: an alien that can transform into an invincible monster. Zolabarth is the Rig-mertian lent out to Maximus. Since Zolabarth is so destructive, his master cursed him with a weaker form. Every time Zolabarth takes his monster form, he has to become a female afterward.

During the Civil War, Union supporters in President Abraham Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, Illinois, asked him to speak at a rally on September 3, 1863. Lincoln could not attend but wrote this letter to be read at the gathering by his long-time friend, James C. Conkling.

Straight student Ryan got kicked out of the dorms. His BFF's gay older brother has a spare bedroom for him - but not for free.

From Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address in 1861 to his brief remarks on the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, battlefield in 1863 to his Second Inaugural Address given in 1865, America's 16th president, in three key speeches, defined the course of the nation's entry into, through, and out of the Civil War. These three speeches tell the story of a nation's stubborn reluctance to face peacefully the challenge of slavery, disunion, and war among the states.

Kind-hearted Maritza is transported thousands of years into the future to be a bride for one of the malevolent aliens who has conquered Earth.

Rachel Monette arrives home to a scene of unspeakable violence: Her French-born husband, Dan, is dead - the victim of a savage stabbing - and her five-year-old son is missing. A neighbor claims she saw a rabbi taking Adam away. But there are no synagogues in Williamstown. The only clue is a letter Rachel finds in Dan's safety deposit box. Written in 1942, it's about the reassignment of three German soldiers to a place called Camp Siegfried in the supposedly unoccupied western part of North Africa.

After his unit is decimated in the Israeli war, Lieutenant Isaac Rehv returns to Haifa to find his family savagely murdered. Torn apart with grief and rage, he vows that his enemies - and the enemies of Israel - will pay. As Rehv prepares to unleash his secret weapon on an unsuspecting Islamic world, a terrorist watch group, led by a former CIA agent named Krebs, follows his every move. But Krebs may be too late to prevent the coming destruction.

Drei Jahre vor seiner Wahl zum Papst sprach Franziskus mit seinem langjährigen Freund, dem Rabbiner Abraham Skorka...

Dans ce passionnant dialogue placé sous le signe de l'humilité, de la simplicité et de l'ouverture, le pape et son interlocuteur abordent tous les grands thèmes spirituels, sociétaux, philosophiques et moraux. Ces deux importantes figures religieuses débattent ici de sujets tels que Dieu, le diable, le fondamentalisme, l'athéisme, la mort, la Shoah, mais aussi de sujets profondément d'actualité comme l'homosexualité, l'avortement, l'euthanasie, le capitalisme, l'argent, la mondialisation... Le premier livre audio pour comprendre les grands axes de la pensée du nouveau Souverain Pontife.

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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War, directed to all of the areas in rebellion and all segments of the Executive branch (including the Army and Navy) of the United States. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the eleven states that were still in rebellion, excluding areas controlled by the Union and thus applying to 3 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at the time.

Abraham Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War - its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. Three days before he was shot, Lincoln delivered this, his last public speech. Dealing with "reconstruction", and especially Louisiana, Lincoln for the first time publicly endorsed black voting rights. John Wilkes Booth, who was in the audience, vowed "That is the last speech he will make."

A New York Times bestseller! Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover. That’s the real-life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It’s a...