THREE YOUNG WOMEN. THREE DARK DESTINIES.ONE CHANCE TO CHANGE EVERYTHING. BRIDE OF DREAMS In order to escape her mother's war-torn legacy, Diya must marry. Nevertheless, she is pulled between her own desire to explore the lands beyond her home and her duty to end decades of hostility through an arranged marriage. But when her wedding day brings a curse upon her betrothed, Diya must rescue his soul from the gods-or risk the destruction of their villages. HUNTRESS...

Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "god" (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts that are foundational to Aztec religion-teotl (god), teixiptla (localized embodiment of a god), and tlaquimilolli (sacred bundles containing precious objects)-to...

When the gods of Gentricus wage war, they brand mortals with prophecy and let the world bleed.Elter never asked to be chosen. Not by prophecy. Not by the soothsayer who warned he had a one-in-two chance of surviving, and not the good half. All he wanted was Rolisha. But when a Dinehin-worshipping coven raids their city in service of the gods, the lovers are torn apart and thrown into separate slave carts. Elter is marked for death. Rolisha is bound...

Suppose the universe expands and becomes a void, as most scientists think. Would that mean God failed? If that is the fate of the universe, then some of our beliefs concerning God and our place in nature, as well as our beliefs concerning how we should live in the world, will not be borne out. From the biblical perspective, it looks as though the formless void and deep darkness opposing God from the beginning prevailed in the end. Today, when we consider...

Ich werde dich ihm nicht überlassen, Rayna, denn wir sind füreinander bestimmt. Du denkst, du seist wie die Nacht. Denkst, dass er und du zusammengehören. Doch ich weiß, dass es nicht so ist, und ich werde dich davon überzeugen. Alles, was ich je wollte, warst du, und das lasse ich mir von niemandem nehmen. Wenn die Nacht die einzige Wahl ist, die wir denken zu haben ... Nichts mehr in Raynas Leben ist noch so, wie es war. Plötzlich dreht...

Once upon a time, philosophy was a dangerous business-and for no one more so than for Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century philosopher vilified by theologians and political authorities everywhere as "the atheist Jew." As his inflammatory manuscripts circulated underground, Spinoza lived a humble existence in The Hague, grinding optical lenses to make ends meet. Meanwhile, in the glittering salons of Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was climbing...

"An epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day ... On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a...

An ordinary woman, a mystic stone, and a truth that will change their lives . . . Caitlin Reed is a simple woman living a simple life until Ewen MacLean crashes into her world, and an old family enemy resurfaces to accuse her of harboring a magic stone. Now, plunged into a world of time-travel and magic, she and Ewen have ten days to locate the Tempus Stone. Or people die. Ten days to discover the real danger may not be the villain holding them hostage,...