With a promising new way to train slaves, the Dearborn's embark upon a plan to turn the process they developed into a business. The journey to that end is laid out here for you to witness, and enjoy, as they explore the way to turn slaves into voracious and sexually addicted vixens.

The works translated here deal with two major themes in the thinking of St Augustine (354–430): free will and divine grace. On the one hand, free will enables human beings to make their own choices; on the other hand, God's grace is required for these choices to be efficacious. 'On the Free Choice of the Will', 'On Grace and Free Choice', 'On Reprimand and Grace' and 'On the Gift of Perseverance' set out Augustine's theory of human responsibility, and sketch a subtle reconciliation of will...

Most teens feel alienated from the adult world but Sam Kahu is more alienated than most. For a start his home just burned down and all his friends and family are missing, presumed dead. Worse, he knows they are out to get him, and if he doesn't successfully hide within the system he could find himself inside a UFO having his brain dissected. Fortunately he has a few resources: he's innately psychic, and he has high technology gadgets. But the most promising development is the youn...

After the shock encounter with the UFO Sue Williams is ready to listen to Sam's history of Renwick House. Hiding out in an Auckland safe-house Sam gently pushes the boundaries of Sue's credulity as he tells Sue how six families, all needing refuge, and all with one psychic teenager, ended up coming to live and work for the mysterious Russian financier, Dr Gennady Prosperov, at haunted Renwick House. But it was Dr Prosperov's odd physics experiment in the abandoned lighthouse which shocked ...

"This appealing detective serves up nuggets of culinary trivia and wry food humor" (People).In the days of Marco Polo, men risked their lives for spices. And in an age when black pepper was so valuable that it was sold one peppercorn at a time, there was no spice more valuable than the legendary Ko Feng. Known as the Celestial Spice, it supposedly vanished five centuries ago, and its name lives on only as culinary myth. But now a sack of it has turned up i...

From sourcing rare ingredients to solving crimes, "this appealing detective serves up nuggets of culinary trivia and wry food humor" (People).They call him the gourmet detective; the only thing sharper than his mind is his palate. When chefs need a rare ingredient, an ancient wine, or simply a new idea to gain that extra Michelin-star boost, they come to the detective's cozy London office and plead for his help. For top-notch cooking, he is always happy to...

"Frolic through the vineyards and fine restaurants of Provence" in this delectable mystery set in French wine country, where the time is ripe for murder (Publishers Weekly).The vineyards of the Willesford Wine Group occupy a particularly choice section of French wine country. From the grapes of Provence, the owners of this impeccably managed syndicate have squeezed international fame and fortune. Next to their spectacular estate lies the petite Peregrine W...

In the not too distant future democracy has faltered and pseudo-fascist regimes dominate the world. In this story a young woman is convicted of a crime, and her sentence is sold to a wealthy family where she will serve her term as their servant.But her arrival at their estate coincides with the discovery of a way to amplify certain aspects of her mind and body. As she becomes the first guinea-pig in an evolving experiment, she finds that they are releasing the beast within her. Her...

The grand opening of a gourmet market is soured by foul murder in this mystery full of "fast fun, delightful characters" (Library Journal).London's gourmet detective is contemplating an empty bank account and, worse, an empty stomach, when a phone call solves both problems at once. Over lunch, Desmond Lansdown, world-renowned actor and burgeoning restaurateur, hires the detective for a chef-hunt, sending him to Italy to eat until he can decide which cook L...

In the harsh and beautiful frontier of 1850s Australia, a routine police patrol becomes the beginning of a chilling mystery. When Sergeant Norm Green dispatches four mounted constables to investigate the disappearance of a settler named Nigel Martin, they uncover far more than an abandoned homestead. Hidden across the lonely plains are murdered families, stolen government gold, missing children, and evidence of a ruthless conspiracy reaching far beyond the frontier settlements. As the trai...

The book is an adult fictional novel, based on a young man's struggle with sadness, tragedy, complicated romances and family life. He attempts to bring up twin girls and an older stepdaughter as a single parent through their middle school years. He encounters all sorts of problems that readers could relate to in their own personal life, involving mixed emotions and hardship, including his own complicated and failed romances on his journey through this stage of parenthood. He has to deal wi...

When a jousting match at a medieval fair turns into old-fashioned murder, the Gourmet Detective sets out to unmask the killer.At Sir Gerald's medieval festival, the castle is authentic, the jousting is rousing, and the wenches are the sauciest in the land. The only thing missing is decent food. And so Sir Gerald calls in London's gourmet detective, an expert food finder, whose specialties include locating rare ingredients, designing historically accurate menus, and...