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Summer's over, and Connor Connolly is headed back to school to start junior year. But with metabands falling from the sky, the world has changed overnight, and now there are thousands of new metahumans. Just like regular humans, not all metahumans are using their new powers for good. Now, Connor's not only dealing with the pressures of being a super-human and training with his mentor, Midnight, but also has to balance relationships with the people he cares for most.

Two years ago, the Makanza virus was eradicated from the public. Now, everyone thinks they’re safe - including Davin. As the oldest among his siblings, Davin plans to leave for college after a short visit with his divorced father on the Cheyenne River Reservation. But then the Makanza sirens go off, and everything changes. The warning alarm splits the soft April skies over the vast South Dakota prairie. Against all odds, the virus has returned, and the outbreak is only a few miles from his father’s ramshackle home.

After leaving the medical chamber, Keith thought the long war was over. He had united two warring factions and identified the culprit behind the earlier devastating war. A xenophobic race that was out to destroy all the other races. The problem was that they didn't like that he had uncovered their deception, and they were out for revenge. Then the Earth sent their “secret weapon” out to him. Something that could possibly beat the Meduala at their own game. Unfortunately, her daughter insisted on coming out too. Much of his earlier success was based on help from the AI on his patched-up ...

The complete, authoritative, and up to date history of American feminism-intersectionality, sex-positivity Updated and expanded, the second edition of A History of U.S. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women's studies students or as a...

A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy. David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for

The Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men Hoffman reveals how a few players managed to take over Russia's cash-strapped economy and then divvy it up in loans-for-shares deals.

She came to Sunset Cove to heal. She never expected her heart to bloom again. After twenty years of marriage, Alice Harper thought she knew what forever looked like—until her husband traded her in for a younger model. Determined to rebuild her life, Alice and her daughter head for the sun-washed shores of Florida’s Gulf Coast, where turquoise waters and friendly strangers promise a fresh start. When Alice lands a job at Sullivan Solutions, sparks fly with her charming new boss, Jon Sullivan—a man who makes her believe love might not have an expiration date after all. But just as the ...

The Second Wave: Transcending the Human Drama reminds you of the plan with guidance from ascended master White Eagle for closing the "Book of Fate" and opening the "Book of Destiny". It's time to liberate yourself from the shackles of a dehumanized world, claim your sovereignty, stand in your truth and knowing, speak up and speak out, and be the change in your family systems, communities, and world.

An updated third edition of the renowned feminist’s most diverse and timeless collection of essays, with a new foreword written by Emma Watson and new material written and read by Gloria Steinem. 

We went into the box as enemies. We came out changed. Ezra Bell plays fast, sharp, and always with something to prove. Connor Vane is the league’s enforcer, a silent mountain of muscle with a bad temper and a worse past. They’re rivals. They’re opposites. And they can’t stop ending up in the same penalty box. What starts as tension and taunts turns into something hotter. Something heavier. A rivalry that burns too close to lust. Ezra doesn’t want to want him. Connor doesn’t know how to stop. But when the gloves come off, so do the masks. And nothing about this game stays clean. ...

The forces of the Warsaw Pact storm west over the Inner German Border and unleash devastation on the first days of the conflict. Among the NATO defenders of West Germany are Captain Kurt Mohr and his company of Leopard tanks. Outgunned and outnumbered, the men must conduct vital delaying operations until reinforcements can mobilize to stop the communists in their tracks.

Mother Trouble traces white maternal angst in popular culture across a span of more than fifty years, from the iconic Rosemary’s Baby to anti-vaxx mom memes and HGTV shows. The book narrows in on popular media to think about white maternal angst as a manifestation of feminism’s unrealized possibilities and continued omissions since the second wave. It interrogates intersecting systems of power which make mothers and their children the most impoverished people in the world and urges a greater appreciation in academic and popular thinking of the work that mothers do.

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a "social autopsy," examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been. 

Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war. It is about 1,700 airmen who set out to bomb the oil refineries surrounding the city of Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. Success, they thought, would be a force in ending the war. Success, instead, was extremely limited, and 500 airmen were killed, wounded, captured, or interned. Negligible damage resulted at the Ploesti refineries, and a few months later, they were operating at 100 percent capacity.

A deeply moving romance based on the Boxing Day tsunami of December 2004. From HarperCollins and Harlequin author Becky Wicks... At twelve-years-old, Isla and Ben are strangers until their family vacations in Thailand bring them together. In the days that follow, their rare connection blossoms into something magical, framed by the shimmering ocean. But on Boxing Day morning, a giant tsunami tears through their paradise, leaving them both missing, presumed dead. For over twenty years they’ve lived separate lives, haunted by the same disaster, never knowing the other survived. But when a ...

From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations.​ From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained...

In this collection, Vivian Gornick turns her attention to a large theme in literature: the struggle for the semblance of inner freedom. In the essays collected here, she explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth.

A Wild Vegas Wedding Turns into a Hockey Heatwave I walked away from him once. Now I’m waking up in his bed… with his ring on my finger. Jax Kingston was my biggest heartbreak and my deepest secret. Now he’s my husband—thanks to too much tequila, a Vegas chapel, and a tabloid explosion that’s gone viral. He says we need to fake this marriage to save his image. I say I need to protect my career. But neither of us expected the spark to still burn so hot. Living together. Sharing a bed. Faking forever. Until the fake starts to feel real again. Until the cameras fade, and his hands ...

An illuminating introduction to the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir and its relevance to modern life In an age of self-exposure, what does it mean to be authentic? “Authenticity” has become attenuated to the point of meaninglessness; everyone says to be yourself, but what that means is...

Nicole and her friends thought they had escaped the worst when they killed Brandon, the vampire who threatened their lives. But in the bleak aftermath of the apocalypse, they discover that some nightmares never end. As the undead rise again and danger lurks in every shadow, Nicole and her friends must fight not just for survival, but against a wrath that could destroy them all.

Aloha! Our Big Hawaiian Adventure A Kids' Story for Ages 6–10 When Amelia wakes up at 4 in the morning too excited to sleep, she knows today is the day everything changes. She and her little brother Noah are heading to Hawaii. From the moment their plane touches down and a friendly greeter places flower leis around their necks, Amelia and Noah are swept into the most amazing week of their lives. They boogie board through waves the size of school buses. They snorkel through a rainbow of tropical fish and come face to face with Honu, an ancient Hawaiian sea turtle who looks at them like he ...