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This is a diverting delight, a window on romance in literature. There are high lovers and low lovers, tragic lovers, comic lovers, and lovers who shouldn’t be doing what they are doing at all and certainly not then and there. There is even Fanny Hill trying not to discover what physical love is about when set upon by an old roué who has paid for the privilege. Though of special interest for lovers and their special lover’s day of St. Valentine, it is an amusing and sometimes surprising collection.

She thought losing her home was the worst thing that could happen… Sixteen-year-old Jeanette Dubois has lost everything—twice. First, the British conquest forces her family to flee their beloved Montreal, beginning a harrowing journey through 18th-century North America as Acadian refugees. From the sugar plantations of the Caribbean to the bayous of Louisiana, Jeanette watches her world crumble one tragedy at a time. Then her body begins to change. Dark hair sprouts across her skin. Her senses sharpen beyond human limits. The sun becomes her enemy, and an insatiable hunger grows within her.

Trapped in the body of the legendary Scheherazade, a young woman named Camille finds herself in a land of harems, wizards, and ruthless rulers. A student of time travel, a descendant of a witch, and a curious and sensitive soul, Camille is trapped by the king's order. Night after night she's forced to tell stories of her travels across the planes in order to keep herself alive. With tales of the erotic, the romantic, the magical, and the sensual, she entertains the king in the hope that he will spare her life.

It's been almost a year since I've seen her, the only woman that's ever gotten under my skin, and made me wish I was a better man. More than just the washed up hockey player, turned sports journalist whose body is almost as scarred as his soul. Now, she's pregnant with my brother's baby. A baby he wants nothing to do with. And he's asked me to clean up his mess. I have no intention of offering her the deal he's laid out. I have a deal of my own. One that will finally make her mine.

Josh Corwood has spent his life admiring the superheroes that protect Siegel City. He's wanted to join them, wanted to be like them... but eventually, had to settle for reporting on them from the sidelines. When an undiscovered talent reignites his hope to join the world's protectors, he suddenly discovers that their world isn't everything he'd been led to believe. Surrounded by false idols, Josh decides to turn the tables on them and reveal the greatest con game in history... and hopefully, in the process, find the real heroes that have long been gone.

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Duncan Marks is just like you -- sick and tired of Christmas before the Thanksgiving turkey even comes out of the oven. But this year, a Spirit of the Season takes him on a journey that tests his resolve... and upon which Christmas itself may rise or fall.

The Power of God...Today is the inspiring story of how God stepped into the lives of a mother and daughter through Dr. Issam and Kathy Nemeh. Christine and her daughter Emily had sought out Dr. Nemeh for medical reasons. God used their willingness to surrender and believe that a miracle was possible for them by not only delivering the healing they sought, but also delivered with it a more meaningful gift - the gift of a deeper faith.

A weekly broadcast with Joan M. Blake, hosts which may include Jesus’ divine healings, scripture verses, stories by individuals who have experienced healing in their lives and those who have gone through struggles.