Sheikh Ra'id Al Maktabi has mastered the wild, inhospitable desert out of necessity. But the sexy stowaway who has clambered onto his yacht he'll tame for fun…. He assumes that socialite Antonia Ruggiero is used to being pampered and preened. But on his boat, Ra'id is the master. So he'll put her to work clearing the decks—and after hours pleasure her in his bed…. But that's until they get to dry land, where the only mistress Ra'id obeys is duty. Or so he thinks—until he gets an unexpected surprise! Now Antonia is with her sheikh for the journey….

In the future, most of Earth's fresh water has dried up. While searching for a single drop, Todd and his friend are captured by desert pirates. To save the planet's most valuable substance, they must free themselves or risk the death of the entire world.

Tarker is a formidable power master. His constant companion is a krawk called Kok, a cranky black bird with a dubious vocabulary. They are called upon to assist peasants and rulers in times of danger and distress. They find themselves battling demonic creatures and other power users (magos and Zongs), who hire out to anyone willing to pay their price. Tarker, his sons, and Offa, a desert-living hermit, aid Al Dron to suppress an invasion by the tects into the Dorongo domain. Al Drons son is kidnapped as part of a conspiracy to overthrow Dorongos ruling family. Trained krawks help to save the boy before Tarker and Kok again join forces with Lord Dron and his knights to face an invading army raised by greedy men who want to enslave the population and bend them to their will. Power mistresses who are great healers and carers of sick animals and the environment are called upon to purify the domain of Findelling, when all the land and water were deliberately poisoned and the population faced starvation. Meanwhile, all the power masters find themselves battling against their deadliest foe yet.

Border crossing is a significant experience in the global era when many people cross borders, whether in cultural, geopolitical, relational, or existential terms. Border crossing can provide a great opportunity for spiritual growth, yet it is often a violent and dangerous process. Thus there is a need to explore border-crossing spirituality: to examine how various aspects of border crossing impact human life, analyze why border crossing happens, and explain how the act of border crossing provides transformation. Border crossing is an action undertaken to expand one's own boundaries, and from it emerges the borderland--a third space where one's transformation can occur. This book primarily focuses on various teachings of border crossing and the notion of "being in between." Almost every religious tradition has within it a spiritual teaching of border crossing and the importance of the borderland. This book is, by nature, cross cultural, interreligious, and interspiritual. Through the action of border crossing, transformation occurs in the borderland, and border-crossing spirituality can be crystallized as living a radical hospitality, valuing friendship, remaining in the present, and reclaiming subjectivity.

Whether by falling prey to Algerian corsairs or crashing onto the desert shores of Western Sahara, a handful of Americans in the first years of the Republic found themselves enslaved in a system that differed so markedly from nineteenth century U.S. slavery that some contemporaries and modern scholars hesitate to categorize their experiences as 'slavery.' Sears uses a comparative approach, placing African enslavement of Americans and Europeans in the context of Mediterranean and Ottoman slaveries, while individually investigating the system of slavery in Algiers and Western Sahara. This work illuminates the commonalities and peculiarities of these slaveries, while contributing to a growing body of literature that showcases the flexibility of slavery as an institution.

Drawn from all of Edgar Lee Masters's diaries correspondence, and the unpublished chapters of his 1936 autobiography, this is the first full-length biography of the celebrated author of "Spoon River Anthology", one of the most widely read and discussed volumes of poetry ever written in America. 25 photos.

This book guides the reader through the best-preserved ruins and monuments of Petra, the lost city of the Nabateans, and the desert cities of the Negev, and gives many practical tips for the visitor.