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Entrepreneur Ethan DeTournay has devoted his life to two things: solving the problem of clean energy, and achieving full membership in the elite philanthropic Order of the Global Brotherhood. At last, he has an opportunity to potentially achieve both objectives at once. The only problem is, their mining operation would result in an environmental poison to the neighboring rural Mexican community. The Order considers this a reasonable sacrifice in the name of ‘the greater good.’ If he refuses, he’ll lose everything.

Oscar-Blane (Ob) Jones wakes up cold, with more muscles, and in a place he has never been before. Confused as to where he is, how he got here, and where his pants went, Ob sets off to discover a brand-new dimension for him to live in. Ob discovers magic, mystery, and DRAGONS. Ob woke up with the power of a Draconian Ally; this has marked him as an enemy to most people in his new world. Where he is an enemy to people, he has befriended a young dragon. Ob is one of the few people who have always loved dragons; he understands that they are creatures of beauty and grace, not just destruction.

Er ist dein schlimmster Albtraum. Und deine einzige Hoffnung. Eigentlich ist Rubys Leben perfekt: Sie gehört zur High Society, leitet ihre eigene Kunstgalerie und will bald den begehrtesten Junggesellen von Beverly Hills heiraten. Doch plötzlich wird sie in einen Van gezerrt und verschleppt! Etwa, um ihren reichen Vater zu erpressen? Jamie heißt der Mann, der Ruby eiskalt aus ihrem Leben reißt und an sein Bett kettet. Allerdings entpuppt Jamie sich nicht als das Monster, das sie erwartet hätte.

As a combat medic, Lina LaSalle went to Iraq to save the lives of fellow soldiers. But when her convoy is attacked, she must set aside her identity as a healer and take a life herself. Although she is honored as a hero when she returns to the US, Lina cannot find her footing. She is stricken with PTSD and unsure of how to support her young son, Teó, a little boy with Tourette’s. As her attempts to self-medicate become harder to hide, Lina realizes she must do the toughest thing yet: ask for help.

Think about it. Everything that has ever happened or will ever happen begins with a thought. Listen to this book to learn the power of your thoughts and how to use that power to become who you want to be and make your desired success happen! Billy Mullins shares how he came from the humble beginnings of a small working farm in Alabama to becoming a self-made millionaire and psychologist by the power of SALTing his thoughts. In this action-oriented book, he provides 32 assessments to walk you through the self-awareness process of discovering your thoughts.

Amelia, Dave, and Luther are back for another adventure to the past, this time with higher stakes! When they go snooping in Grandpa Joe's office at the museum they find his sundial again. It drops them in ancient China...during a power struggle for the fate of an empire! They make new friends, Princess Coco, taken from her family when she was only a girl, and her orphaned servant, Mei. Coco must travel across the world to marry a man she's never met and Mei is about to be thrown out on the streets, alone.

Ti accolli sempre i problemi degli altri anche quando non vorresti, reagisci in modo eccessivo davanti a piccole cose, hai sentimenti persistenti di rabbia, solitudine, tradimento o abbandono: se ti riconosci in questa descrizione potresti essere stato cresciuto da genitori emotivamente immaturi. La psicologa clinica Lindsay Gibson da anni studia gli effetti distruttivi che una genitorialità immatura può avere sui figli.

Ausgerechnet mit deinem Feind passiert dir ein Missgeschick! Ein nervenaufreibender Vorfall zwingt Maria zu einer Auszeit, deswegen bucht sie sich eine Hütte mitten im Nirgendwo. Als sie dort ankommt, erwartet sie der nächste Schock: Es gab versehentlich eine Doppelbuchung, und so ist noch jemand angereist, um in der Hütte zu übernachten. Aber nicht irgendjemand, sondern ausgerechnet Mr. Daniel Black, der Unternehmer, der Maria urlaubsreif gemacht hat und gegen den sie gerade eine Klage vorbereiten lässt!

Lucy und Edmund verbringen die Sommerferien bei ihrem unsympathischen Cousin Eustace. Ein magisches Bild bringt die drei auf die "Morgenröte", ein Schiff, das unter der Führung von Kaspian, König von Narnia, aufgebrochen ist, um das Schicksal von sieben verschollenen Lords zu erkunden. Die abenteuerliche Fahrt führt in Gebiete, die noch kein Narniane zuvor betreten hat. Was mag die wagemutige Crew hinter dem Horizont erwarten?

Simmering with the pain of loss, the warrior known as He-Dog and his silent, disfigured companion Chop are the last two survivors of the fallen city of Foust. Pursued by ruthless beastmen, former slaves of the Zuthenian Empire, they fight to stay alive in the unforgiving land of Big Rock. Their only hope: travel across the ocean to the mysterious jungle island of the Sanjou—a place untouched by time—following whispers of an unfathomable treasure. But they are not alone.

He needs me to play the role of fake fiancée to appease his family of tentacle-tailed cops. I'll keep up the charade as long as I need if it means being reunited with Abraxas and Rurik. It shouldn't be too hard, right? To play pretend…My life force is now inextricably tied to handsome, gun-totin' Officer Hyt. But do you know what happens if my new in-laws find out that I'm mated to three different males? Intergalactic war, that's what.

Though the words "foster care" are not in the Bible, the act of caring for the vulnerable is clearly important to God. Perhaps nowhere is that kind of tender attention and care for the vulnerable more evident than in the act of fostering a child. But as foster parents pour themselves into the children God has called them to care for, they may find themselves feeling emptied, in need of being refreshed and reinvigorated for the day to come.

Trish Beckett had her entire life figured out until the night the man she loved left her to die on their kitchen floor. Her only choice is to leave, following her best friend halfway across the country to a small town in the middle of nowhere, Colorado.

When someone we love dies, it's difficult to look beyond our grief to understand that they are still with us. And yet we hear in the funeral liturgy that "life is changed not ended." In Our Faithful Departed, University of Notre Dame theologian Leonard J. DeLorenzo shows us what this means and how we are called to remain faithful in our relationships with the dead.

Claire Andrews spends her entire life desperately trying to save her little brother from the demons of their past. After he takes his own life, she knows the only way she can survive the pain is to get far away from their hometown. When her boss offers her the opportunity to start fresh in another state, she jumps at the chance. Not realizing she's heading straight into the path of a man who has sworn off love.

Christian doctrine sees creation not as a one-time event but rather as an eternal outpouring of divine merciful love. In Creation: A Catholic's Guide to God and the Universe, Christopher Baglow explores how the doctrine of creation addresses the why of the universe, making it perfectly open to science, which helps us to answer how the universe came to be and continues to exist.

Will Aster excels at two things: soccer and self-sabotage. Following a viral incident involving him and the club owner’s wife, his only option to continue playing is overseas on FC Kluvberg—a team known for not tolerating scandal. A last chance and a harsh wake-up call. Sophia Beck has spent her life avoiding football. Growing up in the shadow of her family’s stratospheric success in the sport left scars. About to begin her final year of university, she’s eager to pursue a career in photography, not receive an internship assignment involving her brother’s team.

Una ragazza è seduta su una ruota di scorta bucata, in mezzo al nulla della campagna novarese. I suoi capelli, un tempo rosa zucchero filato, ora sono un garbuglio di colori improbabili. Pochi riconoscerebbero in lei Cloro, celebrità di internet con milioni di follower in tutto il mondo. Insieme a lei, a tentare di riparare un'auto che ha macinato migliaia di chilometri, c'è Leo, trentaquattrenne disilluso, che dalla vita non ha avuto nulla di ciò che si aspettava - e dire che non si aspettava molto.

Le due sorelle Williamson, Penny e Josephine, sono nell'ordine: veterane della Resistenza francese, ottime ballerine di foxtrot, grandi bestemmiatrici sempre pronte a bere un Martini ben fatto, e - ma è solo un dettaglio - ultranovantenni. Lo sa bene il nipote Archie, il loro "agente", che le scarrozza alle varie commemorazioni di fatti della Seconda guerra mondiale cui sono invitate come ospiti d'onore. Quel che Archie non sa è che il passato delle due care prozie non è esattamente limpidissimo.

The far right manipulates class anger to undercut progressive goals and liberals often inadvertently play into their hands. In Outclassed, Joan C. Williams explains how to reverse that process by bridging the “diploma divide” while maintaining core progressive values. She offers college-educated Americans insights into how their values reflect their lives and their lives reflect their privilege.