An alpha who won't dominate A beta who won't surrender A passion that… breaks all the rules. Thomas knows that as a beta he cannot expect to recognize his soulmate. He’s no monk, but he’s too busy with his hockey career and helping make his sisters' lives with his overbearing parents a little easier. Uriel is an alpha but he knows he cannot bear the responsibility of bonding an omega. He has his work as a lawyer and also volunteers at an orphanage trying to help the children there any way he can. He’s dated, but he is not willing to enter the kind of relationship an omega expects and betas never believe he will stay. Except that betas cannot tell if someone is an alpha… And Uriel has no reason to mention it to a one-night-stand. But the fire between them might not be fated, but it's undeniable, and neither can stop at just once. Are they brave enough to defy the world's expectations and strong enough to overcome the limitations of their own biology? "Not Destiny" is a standalone forbidden A/B/O romance with a side of hockey and courtrooms and a sprinkle of social justice. It can be read before or after "Cracking Ice", the Alpha/Omega Hockey serial about Thomas's linemates.

“[An] important book.… Heine’s vibrant writing makes it come alive with personal significance for every reader.”—Carol Dweck, author of Mindset Scientists expect one billion people to have their genomes sequenced by 2025. Yet cultural psychologist Steven J. Heine argues that, in trying to know who we are and where we come from, we’re likely to completely misinterpret what’s “in our DNA.” Heine’s fresh, surprising conclusions about the promise, and limits, of genetic engineering and DNA testing upend conventional thinking and reveal a simple, profound truth: your genes create life—but they do not control it.

Abby has her hands full with an anxious German shepherd, Destiny. While Abby helps Destiny learn to trust, Abby has to learn to overcome her old habits. Can Abby use the skills she used on Destiny to overcome her fear of the ocean in time for the family beach trip?

All people believe in fate and all people accept the greatness of karma. Generally, we put the blame of any failure on fate and accept it by stating that it was our bad luck; but the writer of this book, who became a writer and litterateur and then, become a politician and is serving the masses now, has proved in a very logical manner that whenever someone has worked very hard, bad luck has not been able to harm him in any way. By reading this unique book, which has been written in a very interesting style, you would feel that a new hope has started flowing in your life and that a new self-confidence has started flowing in your own self. You would see that every goal of yours is very much within your control.

In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism? How should gender politics be reconfigured in a world being transformed by automation, globalization and the digital revolution? These questions are addressed in this bold new book by Helen Hester, a founding member of the 'Laboria Cuboniks' collective that developed the acclaimed manifesto 'Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation'. Hester develops a three-part definition of xenofeminism grounded in the ideas of technomaterialism, anti-naturalism, and gender abolitionism. She elaborates these ideas in relation to assistive reproductive technologies and interrogates the relationship between reproduction and futurity, while steering clear of a problematic anti-natalism. Finally, she examines what xenofeminist technologies might look like in practice, using the history of one specific device to argue for a future-oriented gender politics that can facilitate alternative models of reproduction. Challenging and iconoclastic, this visionary book is the essential guide to one of the most exciting intellectual trends in contemporary feminism.

With three of the goddess Durgas quests behind them, only one prophecy now stands in the way of Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan breaking the tigers curse. But the trios greatest challenge awaits them: A life-endangering pursuit in search of Durgas final gift, the Rope of Fire, on the Adaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Its a race against time--and the evil sorcerer Lokesh--in this eagerly anticipated fourth volume of the bestselling Tigers Curse series, which pits good against evil, tests the bonds of love and loyalty, and finally reveals the tigers true destiny once and for all.

This is a story of the life of my mom and me; filled with rich wisdom and knowledge from God on the plan for our lives. God has a plan for your life that will always enrich your life with so many blessings you will not have room to receive them. As you read through these pages, I pray you will find some answers to questions that you’ve asked yourself, but you never had the courage to ask anyone else. I also pray you will know without a doubt that no matter what you’re going through, how difficult life sometimes get, God is there with you all the way. No matter how many times, you’ve had to go to bed and cry, just trust God and know that God has everything you need. He loves you, and you are very, very special to Him. Be encouraged, the best, is yet to come!