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A wealthy wine connoisseur is found dead in a city garden, and Detective Morrison has multiple suspects on hand. Plants and wine are clues, and this brings two unlikely sleuths together. Roxanne's skills as an expert gardener and Georgi's as a wine aficionado are helpful, but their escapades put them in a dangerous game of death and intrigue.

As you approach retirement, questions begin to stack up that you may not have the answers for: Do I have enough, or will I run out of money later in life? What will happen to my spouse if I die? How do I avoid costly mistakes and maximize my resources going forward? More than anything, you want to know: Am I going to be OK? These questions exist because preparing for retirement is not easy. You're not sure which advisors to trust, you worry about being sold a product for the wrong reasons, and above all, it's daunting to lay bare your financial secrets to another person.

Sexual fantasies. Everyone has them, but no one knows what they mean. People are curious about and often confused by the things that arouse them, yet they are often too ashamed to reveal their most private fantasies to their partners or even their therapists. In this fascinating and provocative book, Dr. Michael J. Bader offers a groundbreaking new theory of sexual desire, one that will liberate men and women and enable them to better understand their sexual preferences.

In Lake Maracaibo, in the northwestern part of Venezuela, a long-hidden extraterrestrial artifact underneath the ocean floor triggers a disaster. The United States military launches an expedition, sending a cutting-edge team of international researchers to the source of a magnetic instability that's destroying any electronics in the region.

The violence in the Old Testament is one of the biggest obstacles facing Christianity today. Believers regularly identify it as one of the most confounding and challenging aspects of the entire Bible.

Unfolding during an invasion of Gaza, The Lover tells the story of an affair between a young Israeli soldier and a Canadian woman. The emotional realities of ideology and war begin to change the lovers, who undergo a parallel radicalization and deradicalization. This book is for anyone seeking a deeply embodied and empathetic account of the politics of love in Israel-Palestine.

Captain Konrad Bradley commands the decommissioned battleship Oberon, the last remaining Titan of the fleet. Mocked as a flying museum-too expensive, too cumbersome, too old-Bradley and his crew of outcasts from a long-vanished colony lead a dull life on the farthest edge of human hegemony. Bradley's hope to go quietly into the night ends with the arrival of the legendary Strike Group 2 and the delivery of a secret so great it could end the war. That's why Lagunia was chosen for its construction.

Tall, dark, and handsome. That’s what I think the first time I see Rupert Evans in the library. But then I find out he is the developer who just sent my community garden a cease-and-desist letter because he plans to raze the garden and construct some towering monstrosity there. The only one who is going to cease and desist is him. That community garden is my found family. But then he asks me out at book club night. Suspicious, right?

This book is for every person 18 years old or older who wants to: have meaningful work and live a happy life in the Smart Technology Age; be successful and respected as a unique human being; and not be left behind or overwhelmed by the pace of technological change. The Smart Technology Age will be an age of constant change that will require you to continually adapt and learn new skills to have good jobs. The best research from Oxford University predicts that between 25-47% of the U.S. workforce will be automated by the end of this decade.

In 2006, John Warren and John Thompson led Marines into combat in the world’s most dangerous city: Ramadi, Iraq. But when they got home, employers didn’t understand what they had to offer. Undeterred, they founded their own specialty mortgage company, growing it from scratch into a national powerhouse over the course of a decade.

Dev Landry has a mundane life; runner-up on the track team, a nerdy best friend, and a job at his overbearing parents’ failing motel. He’s also in love with his former best friend, Hadlee Renee Morgan; the girl that never speaks, unless it's through her dark, disturbing, and taboo photography. He’s loved her since the day he kissed her at the clearing in the woods three years ago, and then woke up from a coma with scars and no memory of what happened after. Now plagued by blackouts, migraines, and sleepwalking in the woods, his only solace is running, to keep the darkness at bay.

The transition through the experimental teleporter on Al'Antis was successful. James and his team have found the original teleporter of the elders. But what awaits them on the other side is not what they expected. They find the answers they so ardently desire, but none of them makes their future any easier. On the contrary, they suddenly find themselves facing a final great danger to their home planet that seemed unreachable: Earth. But the place where James, Mila, Mette, Adrian, Meeks, and Justus find themselves turns everything they have believed upside down—including time itself.

In turbulent times, the ability to communicate with power and purpose becomes a crucial leadership competency. This insightful book demonstrates how to become a stronger, more confident leader—one who can use communication to build alignment, enthusiasm, and productivity. The Leader as Communicator presents case studies of organizations including Cadillac, Emerson, and Saturn, plus dozens of other examples, showing how leaders can shape the communications climate of their organizations.

James and his team are stranded on Prime. Their way back is blocked, and they face a world taking its last breaths. Only a small area of forest seems to defy the radiation and storms, and its nature puzzles the explorers. But on the horizon, they see the remains of a city and gain new hope—until they find out what really happened on this dark planet.

Sol has fallen, but the fight continues to rage. Oberon stayed behind, nothing more than a ghost on a radar screen, watching as the Clicks increase their presence on planet Earth. What's going on with the humans left behind? No one knows. Humanity's fleet admiral has survived! And he's issuing orders. Oberon is sent on a mission where it must succeed or die trying. It isn't what any of the crew wants, but it is what they must do.

Humanity is on the run after the epic battle of Lagunia. Oberon becomes the predator. Find their kidnapped crewmates. End the alien incursion into the human hegemony. Too often the predator becomes the prey. With the enemies of humanity emboldened by their success, Oberon takes the fight all the way to Sol at the heart of the Terran Federation. Time is running out for Oberon. Time is running out for all humanity.

This is the final journey of the the Last Battleship. Humanity has forced the Clicks to negotiate a fragile peace, but the foundation for the conflict remains. Leaving humanity with enemies on all sides....