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Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life–working hard all day and partying all night–until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She'll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose–to assassinate his boss's enemies, no questions asked.

After escaping entombment, evading a megalomaniacal art dealer, and confronting both Norse legends and a relentless cult, Freya stands on the brink of completing the most perilous mission of her life. Just one piece of Freya remains elusive, and it may lie in the uncharted depths beneath the waves, where a colossal, enigmatic creature has recently surfaced. This time, they're not the prey; they're the hunters.

Cults are bad. Cults with high-grade explosives? Worse. But what's truly terrifying? A cult armed with high-grade explosives and magic. Terra had the misfortune of stumbling upon one. As if that isn't enough, the cult worships a deity whose malevolence knows no bounds. Terra and her team are thrust into a world where chaos reigns supreme, and it's starting to feel like she's the designated cleanup crew for the gods' mess.

When Terra chose to wield the power of her patron goddess, she expected challenges. What she didn't expect was to become a magnet for magical adversaries, each more cunning and powerful than the last. Now, she faces a new breed of enemies, ones who wield magic that rivals her own god-gifted abilities. But why are they targeting Terra? And what do they want with the artifacts of a goddess? Terra's journey has taken a perilous turn. Gone are the days of simply fending off pursuers. Now, she's entangled in a game with twisted rules and high stakes.

Terra Olson never asked to be chosen. But when she solves the puzzle of the Norse goddess Freya, she finds herself imbued with astonishing power. Can she master her fledgling abilities and reclaim her goddess' lost relics before they fall into the hands of evil? Terra's quest leads her into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the ruthless Beatrice Villon. But the stakes are raised to apocalyptic heights when a confrontation leaves Terra's ally, Leif, gravely wounded. With Leif's life hanging in the balance, Terra bargains with Odin himself for her friend's soul.

Bethany Anne is going stir crazy after more than a decade of having to be 'The Empress.' Now, her advisors have to deal with an Empress who is determined to be on the front line. The Ixtali's come to the Etheric Empire, hat in hand. Nathan decides that the best way to handle soft intelligence, is to create a new company. What they name the new company should give a clue what it is about. The Skaine are able to finally get Ranger Tabitha's group right were their missiles can attack. The problem is, who is sucking whom into a trap?

Bethany Anne and those in the Etheric Empire have conquered the Aliens who would conquer Earth. However, there are a few that do not appreciate the new rules. Dealing with insurrectionists down on the planet, or with a large military rebellion coming from another system, Bethany Anne and team are ready and willing to give everyone a piece of their mind.

Miller Sloan may not be an active duty general anymore, but he still has one final mission to complete. If he succeeds, the top secret government research on shifters will remain classified. Failure is not an option. He’s lost too much along the way to give up now. But without a pack, or a mate, or family at his side, his iron will is starting to falter.

Each of us has a finite amount of mental bandwidth, the cognitive resources that are available for learning, development, work, and everything else we have to do. These "attentional resources" are not about how smart we are, but about how much of our brain power is available to us for the task at hand.

It could be said that Terra Olson has achieved her dream of being an archeologist . . . if you were liberal with the exact details of her duty as Freya's chosen. Granted, she's hunting down magical treasures. Doing it at the behest of an eccentric curator and the goddess herself to prevent Freya's sacred belongings from falling into the wrong hands falls outside the job description she'd imagined.

Five puppies have plans that surprise everyone. The Queen has a problem, and her closest friends travel to Earth to find her a solution. It's time for an audience with the King of Yoll, and he isn't going to like the outcome. Not one bit. He has a secret he has been hiding, and those sneaky Aliens in space find out what it is, and turn it against him.

As the son of a felon, Fisher Wakefield is no stranger to the seedier side of life. So when Eliza Meadows, BKI’s elegant and efficient Girl Friday, finds herself the target of group of low-down murderous thugs, he doesn’t hesitate to jump into the fray despite Eliza insisting she doesn’t need his help.

Terra Olson is an archeologist in the making. When she gets an opportunity to work with one of her idols at a dig that may contain artifacts linked with Norse mythology, she jumps at the offer. What more could she ask for? Probably to not be betrayed by that very same idol. She'd expected the job to be a killer . . . just not in the buried-alive-and-left-to-die-alone way. How could she have seen that coming?

Based on two years of research, Nice Is Not Enough shares striking dispatches from one high school's "regime of kindness" to underline how the culture operates as a Band-Aid on persistent inequalities. Through incisive storytelling and thoughtful engagement with students, this brilliant study by C. J. Pascoe exposes uncomfortable truths about American politics and our reliance on individual solutions instead of profound systemic change.

It's been three years Bethany Anne and her team have been building, trying their best to stay off the radar and not fight with those they are trying to save. The emotions have boiled to the surface. The is a line drawn in the sand, and some idiots just have to step across it. Those that thought the cat didn't have claws are about to find out how very, very wrong they are.

Janie Mason just wants to get through the season. She's under enormous pressure at work, her boss is brilliant but self-centered, and the holidays bring up a lot of memories she'd rather leave unremembered. The only thing that's making things tolerable for her right now is that she's getting to work more closely with Bill Sparks, the man she's crushing on, and Jeremy, someone who was just beginning to be a friend pre-lockdown and who has become the only person she can rely on now that everyone is back in the office. January really can't come soon enough.

Take advantage of today's sky-high demand for data engineers. With this in-depth book, current and aspiring engineers will learn powerful real-world best practices for managing data big and small. Contributors from notable companies including Twitter, Google, Stitch Fix, Microsoft, Capital One, and LinkedIn share their experiences and lessons learned for overcoming a variety of specific and often nagging challenges. Edited by Tobias Macey, this book presents ninety-seven concise and useful tips for cleaning, prepping, wrangling, storing, processing, and ingesting data.

When famous actress Melanie Dyson arrives in the small town of Dallin seeking medical treatment from her old friend, she never expects to find love with the shy and handsome waitress Margaret Miller at Dinah's Bistro. Despite their differences, they share undeniable chemistry, and romantic sparks sizzle.

As you age, you may find yourself worrying about your memory. Where did I put those car keys? What time was my appointment? What was her name again? With more than 41 million Americans over the age of 65 in the United States, the question becomes how much (or, perhaps, what type) of memory loss is to be expected as one gets older and what should trigger a visit to the doctor. Seven Steps to Managing Your Aging Memory addresses these key concerns and more.

Betha and the crew finally made it to Mountain Hold, the city of the gargoyles. There, she discovers Starwalkers had meddled with the gargoyles before, providing salvation at a steep cost by tying the gargoyles to portals across the land. It's a race against time to get back home, only Betha and her friends have a little extra baggage. Gargoyles are called into action to bond with portals to stop the demons' crawl across the various worlds. Yet, Betha’s success at rebuking the demons has turned the king’s attention to her. Demons flock to the Fey Wilds with one mission: kill the traveler.