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Award-winning author Melina Marchetta reopens the story of the group of friends from her acclaimed novel Saving Francesca - but five years have passed, and now it's Thomas Mackee who needs saving. After his favorite uncle was blown to bits on his way to work in a foreign city, Tom watched his family implode. He quit school and turned his back on his music and everyone that mattered, including the girl he can't forget. Shooting for oblivion, he's hit rock bottom, forced to live with his single, pregnant aunt; work at the Union pub with his former friends; and reckon with his grieving, alcoholic father.

Over 125 years ago the Columbian Exposition was staged in Chicago on Lake Michigan's shoreline. Visitors from around the country and world were first introduced to many industrial technologies and commercial offerings that would shape 20th-century culture. 

In the penumbra between time and space resides the nexus of our consciousness. From the darkness, our momentum percolates forth—carving its trajectory into what will no longer be a void.

Here are 160 minutes of extracted scenes from Shakespeare’s finest plays, read by a staggering cast. The plays of Shakespeare are fully alive only in performance, and the HarperCollins recordings of the complete plays offer scenes from The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Richard III, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, Othello, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.

The process of creating a personal brand begins with assessing our strengths and passions. You might have already begun or even determined what aspects you would like to be identified with professionally. This workbook will take you through the phases of generating the assets you will need to establish a presence and build awareness for your personal brand.

The process of creating a small business brand begins with assessing its strengths and goals. This workbook will take you through each phase of generating the assets needed to establish a presence and build awareness for a small business brand. This 10-lesson guide is for beginners who want to manufacture messages and professional identities as well as create a consistent vision for any branded media project.

Melina Marchetta's brilliant, heart-wrenching new novel takes up the story of the group of friends from her best-selling, much-loved book Saving Francesca – only this time it's five years later and Thomas Mackee is the one who needs saving.

Exploring the National Parks across the United States is an opportunity that should not be taken for granted. To understand the profound notion of stewardship, in terms of responsibility and accountability, we must know the land as intimately as possible.

Exploring the National Parks across the United States is an opportunity that should not be taken for granted. To understand the profound notions of preservation and conservation, we must get as close to the land as possible. This audiobook is a seed that is attempting to plant itself in you to see them for your self. Captured in words are the authors views of nine parks around the country with essays that catalogue the author’s experiences and thoughts while traveling through them.