View our feature on Elizabeth Vaughan's Destiny's Star.A return to the world of the Warlands... Bethral, a beautiful warrior, and Ezren, a quick-witted storyteller, are confronted with a civil war and a tribe or warriors with their own code of honor and their own rules of pleasure and partnership. To stay alive they must learn new customs, confront their enemies, and conceal Ezren's fiery power.

The first novel in an epic crossover trilogy uniting characters from every corner of the Star Trek universe, revealing the shocking origin and final fate of the Federation's most dangerous enemy—the Borg. Half a decade after the Dominion War and more than a year after the rise and fall of Praetor Shinzon, the galaxy's greatest scourge returns to wreak havoc upon the Federation—and this time its goal is nothing less than total annihilation. Elsewhere, deep in the Gamma Quadrant, an ancient mystery is solved. One of Earth's first generation of starships, lost for centuries, has been found dead and empty on a desolate planet. But its discovery so far from home has raised disturbing questions, and the answers harken back to a struggle for survival that once tested a captain and her crew to the limits of their humanity. From that terrifying flashpoint begins an apocalyptic odyssey that will reach across time and space to reveal the past, define the future, and show three captains—Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise, TM William Riker of the U.S.S. Titan, and Ezri Dax of the U.S.S Aventine—that some destinies are inescapable.

About the book. In a world where dragons, beasts of the air, shadows and creatures of the night, have waged a terrible war upon each other, destiny has selected a fated few to decide the outcome of the war, and not only that, but ultimately reshape time and space itself. Ray a fourteen year old boy living in the town of Selaren is starting to realize he was destined for extraordinary things. Since the door of destiny has been opened wide for Ray and those around him, he discovers that he was blessed with a star type dragon spirit and is involved in a cosmic war between dragons and shadows. With his best friends, Nalla, the enthusiastic clown and Arsa, the cool and collected tom boy, Ray begins a journey that will take him across fantastic people, powers, hidden truths and fabled lands. The path before them is filled with challenges, choices and people who will play key roles in their destinies. As the fate of Bellsmara begins to unravel, Ray experiences possibilities he never could have imagined. Those incredible dormant powers will be called upon. The things that he learn helps him discover his clouded past and his role in this war. Unbelievable choices will be made, bloody battles will be raged, fated allies will be met and the first event in the Advent Cycle unfolds . . .

Organizations, countries, individuals, and sources of great powers are manipulated by mysterious entities from the shadows on the planet of Jido. Hundreds of natural disaster rip the planet asunder, destroying peace and prosperity. During this time of a great many upheavals in Jidian Society, Brock Soceil a special agent and the wielder of the Destiny Star, decides to accept the arduous responsibility of traveling the world, to idenify the problems and provide a solution. But with the increasing malice of a suffering world, will even his training in the ways of the Blade Rush Sword Style be enough to see him through? And if he does discover the problem, can there be any guarantee's he has the ability to provide solutions? Follow Brock Soceil and his many companions as he embarks on his journey to unlock the secrets of Jido, discover the truth of the Destiny Star and save the world from the impending catastrophe that will inevitably destroy them all...

As the great-great-granddaughter of Sam Houston and Margaret Lea, Madge Thornall Roberts played in her great-grandparents’ home in Independence, Texas, which had Santa Anna’s saddle in the upstairs hall, the San Jacinto sword over the mantle, and where she kept her doll’s clothes in an old chest of Margaret Lea’s. Trunks of documents sat unattended in the barn. Some of those papers later were burned, and what remained were divided among descendants. Madge Roberts has gathered these documents together again and, along with other Houston letters and interviews, woven them into the story of the Houstons’ marriage. Much is known about Sam Houston’s political and military career, but the influence of his wife and children on his life has been overlooked. The letters are astonishing in their emotional honesty, revealing a deep interdependency as well as a close and loving marital partnership.

• Explains how each of the 12 signs of the zodiac has 30 degrees, and each degree, like every star, is the center of a whole system of meanings • Provides detailed write-ups for each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac • Details how to use the degrees for personal chart interpretation and as an oracle for guidance and inspiration In this extraordinary synthesis of 50 years in star work, astrologer Ellias Lonsdale explains how each of the 12 signs of the zodiac has 30 degrees, and each degree, like every star, is the center of a whole system of meanings. Inspired by the Chandra Symbols--evocative images for each degree channeled by John Sandbach nearly 40 years ago--as well as his studies with master astrologers Dane Rudhyar and Marc Edmund Jones, Lonsdale explores the deeper story, or Star Spark, of each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac, providing detailed write-ups for each degree. The author explains how to use the degree of your Sun sign and other planets from your birth chart for personal chart interpretation. Offering a way to tune in to your future star cycles as well as analyze a past event, he discusses how you can learn about personal cycles from studying the degree of a transiting or progressed planet at a specific time, such as Mercury Retrograde, or by following the degree meanings for successive New Moons or Solar Returns, revealing collective as well as personal timings. He also details how to use the 360 Star Sparks as an astrological oracle to consult when you need guidance or support for your awakening process as well as how they can be used as a source for daily contemplation by following the Sun through each degree day by day throughout the year. Providing an astrological tool to help you see deeply inside your life, your shadow, what you are questioning, and where you are being guided, this key to the symbolic power of the 360 degrees of the zodiac shows that by embracing our star cycles, we can discover our unique life path and light up the stars within.

The second book in the Texas: Star of Destiny series by Lyn Cote, Her Inheritance Forever is an unforgettable story of faith, duty, destiny, and love that unites a proud Tejano lady and an American cowboy in a time of great upheaval in the West. A 2006 Rita Award finalist, author Lyn Cote demonstrates the great power and range of inspirational fiction in Her Inheritance Forever, as two hearts are joined and tested amid the historic events—including the legendary stand at the Alamo—that would ultimately lead to Texas statehood.