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After a century or so of terraforming Mars, many bases and settlements have been set up as an interim process to assist in terraforming animals and plants that can live on Mars have been created. An eccentric bio-geneticist, Neals Wells, creates intelligent beings adapted to the Martian atmosphere. Creating intelligent life is illegal, so he flees with his creation into the Valles Marinaras, an immense Martian canyon where it has been found not practical to set up settlements. His creation propagates, and after a few centuries, develops into a small tribe.

Early Alaskan military and bush pilots navigated some of the highest and most rugged terrain on earth, taking off and landing on glaciers, mudflats, and active volcanoes. Although they were consistently portrayed by industry leaders and lawmakers alike as cowboys—and their planes compared to settlers’ covered wagons—the reality was that aviation catapulted Alaska onto a modern, global stage; the federal government subsidized aviation’s growth in the territory as part of the Cold War defense against the Soviet Union.

An international best seller ranked number one in six different business and finance categories, Your Dollars, Our Sense is your go-to guide for decoding the essentials of life and money. It makes sense of a variety of topics including credit, saving priorities, investing, home ownership, insurance, marriage, children, retirement, estate planning, and much more.

Actively investing in real estate can sometimes seem impossible. Not everyone can spend all hours of the day dashing off to talk to motivated sellers, managing fix-and-flips, or screening tenants for rental properties. Instead, you can choose a different path by “being the bank” for other active real estate investors. What used to be a trade secret for corporate lenders is now available to the average person, and Lend to Live makes the private lending path actionable and accessible for everyone.

You negotiate every day in everything you do: vacation time, work duties, even child care. Yet you probably have never had a course in how to negotiate effectively. Often, we are afraid of negotiating because we think it will strain or kill relationships. But negotiation doesn’t have to be a win-loss game. You can strike a deal good for everyone. The skill lies in negotiating in a way that relationships can be built, developed and maintained. This is the first book ever written on how to combine negotiation with psychology to get the outcome you want.

Raven Sinclair's first love had always been ballet until she met Remy Peters. She fell hard and she fell fast and never looked back. He was everything she always believed she wanted but he had other plans. Remy Peters didn't believe in love, and he wasn't looking for it. He just wanted to have a good time in between classes and swim team. He's been seeing Raven for over a year and a half, and he's not sure how it's lasted this long. It's not like he's made any commitments but when he stumbles on the prettiest girl he's ever seen, he knows it's time to let Raven go.

A bookkeeper with a two-year college degree retires with more than five million dollars in his investment accounts. A renowned surgeon is shocked to discover that he doesn’t have enough to retire. Based on real people, the two stories in One Decade to Make Millions prove that anyone can retire wealthy and anyone can go broke.The only question is how much attention you decide to pay to your finances—and when you decide to start.

Jonas ist genervt: Wie wird er nur seinen kleinen Bruder Ben los? Am besten, Ben verwandelt sich in eine fette Fliege. Dann findet Jonas einen Zauber-Umhang und sein Wunsch geht tatsächlich in Erfüllung! Blöd nur, dass er nicht weiß, wie man diesen Zauber wieder rückgängig macht. Doch das ist erst der Auftakt einer ganzen Reihe von Missgeschicken: Denn während Ben als Fliege durch die Gegend saust, passiert ein magischer Unfall nach dem anderen.

Edmund Blake is driving down a deserted road trying to escape the rigors of his life. A collection of unlikely events and irrational decisions lead him to discover a house in the woods. The house from a time long forgotten compels him to investigate. The endeavor leads him to one terror stricken mystery after another.

Lauren Keller understands strategies. She adores them and never enters a marketing meeting without Strategy A, B, and C tucked away in the back of her mind. She's one of the top executives at her firm...until it all comes crashing down with the news that her boss has been stealing money from their clients for almost a decade.

How different would your life be if you knew how to better navigate the season you are in? Dr. D'Ann V. Johnson initiates an intimate conversation by explaining the difference between stages and seasons that women experience. Written with the wisdom of a mother and the compassion of a friend, each chapter explores the significance and beauty of every season.

When a young man finds himself in that awkward stage between middle and high school, a difficult time for anyone, he begins to understand what it means to find yourself in the modern world. Between navigating life both in school and online, his family begins to crumble around him, and everything he once relied on becomes everything he fears. As the struggles at home and school pile up, he begins to lose the few things he has left until he feels there is nothing left to lose.

Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges listeners to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many names—booze, hooch, spirits, sauce, and the evocative “firewater.” Confronting the harmful stereotype of the “lazy, drunken Indian,” and rejecting medical, social, and psychological explanations of the roots of alcoholism, Johnson cries out for solutions, not diagnoses, and shows how alcohol continues to kill so many.

Have you ever considered why sometimes we hear things that we believe are not there or feel spectral sensations? I used to question my memories of those events and, at times, speculated on my mental stability. However, such a volume of interactive experiences has assailed me during my journey, and after that, in applying basic laws of scientific inquiry, I must conclude their validity.

I've promised myself that this was going to be the year to finally buckle down. I'm a junior, and I’ve settled on a major. I've got focus and determination. The one thing I haven't figured out yet? How to deal with the massive crush I've been harboring on the guy in study carrel six. I don’t know his name, and some of my friends think it’s time for me to move on, but he has this whole sexy, broody, dark eyes and messy hair thing going for him. And yeah, he seems like he could be my polar opposite.

Brixton Flew works as a professor of wielder instruction at Rembrandt Academy, hoping to erase the regrets of his youth along with the resulting debt. But when he comes face to face with his biggest regret—the woman who broke his heart, Adelaide Favan—Brixton soon realizes his troubles have only begun. Unable to control her magic, Adelaide knew leaving Brixton was the only way to protect him when they were younger. Now she discovers he is the key to recovering the Dragon Eyes, a legendary treasure connected to her magic and her family's disgraced legacy.

Jonas wäre gern so mutig wie Piraten-Bill aus seinem Lieblingsbuch. Zum Glück besitzt er einen magischen Umhang! Damit will Jonas sich um Mitternacht auf das Piratenschiff wünschen. Doch dann sind der Umhang und das Buch plötzlich verschwunden. Und auch von Jonas' nervigem Bruder Ben fehlt jede Spur.

Author, artist, and retired Deputy Head Jo Johnson was born and brought up in Greenock in the West of Scotland. Educated at Greenock Academy until the age of 14, he experienced a profound culture shock when the family relocated to Kilwinning in Ayrshire where he found himself in a much rougher school environment. Born into a devoutly Christian family, Jo had to balance the competing demands of "church and state" at an early age. His story is peppered with entertaining, poignant, and occasionally unpleasant memories of growing up in 1960s Greenock and 1970s Ayrshire.

Bookish divas delight. The urban romance omnibus you've always craved is here! With African American fiction heavy hitters like Aisha Hall, Jamila T. Davis, Sunshine Smith Williams, Angel Santos, and Reds Johnson, there are stories of bad girls, book boyfriends, and tender romantic moments. Wahida Clark Presents Innovative Publishing delivers!

When the cyborg Umlac threatens to enslave Earth, Lt. Jade Mahelona defeats him in a hard-fought duel. Now she stands to inherit his interstellar empire. But Umlac's inheritance comes with a catch. Her vassals are two-ton blobs who believe that if they kill her, they win her right to rule. And on top of that, Umlac's former master expects Jade to serve under him in Umlac's stead. Naturally, Jade avoids the cyborg kingdom. But Earth faces invasion by Umlac's brothers, and terrorists destroy Earth's only interstellar link to its allies.