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Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook explores the practice of legend tripping, wherein individuals or groups travel to a site where a legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is a common, informal practice, depicted in epics, stories, novels, and film, throughout both contemporary and historical vernacular culture. In this collection, contributors show how legend trips can express humanity’s interest in the frontier between life and death, and the fascination with the possibility of personal contact with the supernatural, or spiritual.

Help your child become a master at multiplication and division! Take a trip with our favorite heroes in our adventure theme version. Discover a gigantic collection of adventure-related riddles with race car drivers, pirates, astronauts, aliens, and more! With fun, action-packed scenarios and twists, these riddles will have your child practicing math for hours!

It was that kind of era. Royalty did not mean much if one was at the bottom rung. Except, maybe as a prize to purchase. But then came the sea voyage, the destruction and the brand new life for a repressed, pampered young royal. And she came alive, finding ways to survive, finding a love she would never have expected, and a family made up of wonderful people. Would she ever get off of Snaggletooth Island? Maybe, but at what cost? A kind love story with the adventure needed to bring it all together. Enjoy! #TheStoryteller

Virginia Foster finds herself a retired empty nester in her hometown of Abundance, a small city in Upstate South Carolina. She and her husband are affluent members of the community, but she is concerned about its future and spearheads a festival to bring attention and jobs back to Abundance. As she and her team of fellow retirees work to build a successful festival—based around biscuits because the town got its name from Abundance Mills Flour Company--they face opposition from a local preacher, the art community, and the town’s maven of baby beauty pageants. However, Virginia has ...

Is victory worthwhile if it comes at the expense of everything you love? To avoid seeing the River Cities destroyed in their efforts to defeat Irella, Acharsis and his friends set forth on a quest that will take them from the darkest depths of hell to the perilous heights of the Gods' Mountain.

Los demonios hemos ascendido del Infierno a la tierra. Hemos tomado el control y dividido el mundo en sectores. El mío, es el más importante de todos. Soy Azan, un demonio de lujuria. Yo soy el dueño de esta ciudad. Todo y todos me pertenecen. Obediencia absoluta. Pero a ella no la vi venir. No estaba en mi radar. Bajé la guardia porque era una simple humana. Permití que Willow fuera nadie cuando debió serlo todo y me disparó. —¿Qué tenemos aquí? Una gatita con garras. Es una asesina de demonios y yo debería pararla. Entonces, ¿qué es lo que siento cada vez que la veo? ...

Technology has more benefits than we can possibly list. As Christians, however, we have to look at its negative effects, especially on children. The data is as convincing as it is alarming. Technology is directly responsible for increased teenage anxiety and depression, exposure to pornography, sex trafficking and online predators, screen addiction, and more.

This is an intermediate reader is for students studying French. Each chapter highlights a different grammar concept. The stories are meant to be read and enjoyed without the need to consult a dictionary.

The "modern" education system. It hasn't changed much since it started back in 1837. The problem here is, many kids find it hard to learn using this old model. According to The National Academy of Sciences, traditional lecturing increases the failure rates by as much as 55 percent. On top of that, it can result in thousands of dollars in private tutoring and extra resources. In Fun Math for Kids, you'll be given techniques that benefit all four primary types of learners: visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic.

These are stories for adult students learning French. The stories begin with easy vocabulary and grammar, and increase in difficulty. There are questions and answers at the end of each story to verify comprehension.

In this book you’ll learn everything you need to know to start your beekeeping journey. You’ll learn about bees, how they work, how honey is made, what you need to get started, and even how to keep your bees healthy. This book takes you through frequently asked questions, the most common beekeeping mistakes, and even the most common illnesses that could affect your colony and some preventative measures you can take to keep them at bay. Beekeeping doesn’t have to difficult, and it can be quite rewarding.

My personal memoir, Everybody Kneeling Ain’t Praying, reveals how even in my freedom, I didn't know I was free – my walk reflected bondage, until I saw the truth. My story demonstrates the transformational power of the love of God. Change is possible! Don’t let anyone hold you hostage because of your past. There is freedom in Jesus Christ, and my story is living proof.

The is a novel about a boy growing up with a closeted gay father. It details the good times and the bad times of living with a parent who never wanted to live up to who and what he was.

The Hard Bargain describes in vivid detail and elegant prose the clash of wills between a famous father and his hard-driving middle son. Richard Tucker, the American superstar tenor from the golden age of the Metropolitan Opera, demanded that his son become a surgeon. Rejecting his fathers wishes, David wanted to follow his father onto the opera stage.

This audiobook tells the story of how Philo Farnsworth came up with the idea for electronic television at age 14, and later developed his idea into the technology for television that is still used today.

Hear the dramatic story of the rescue of the Apollo 13 astronauts.

Robbie Garcia isn't your ordinary high school student. He can teleport. And in King City, if you've got a superpower, that means you can sign up to be a sidekick, so he does just that. Wanting to become a sidekick (and hopefully a fully-fledged superhero one day) was all Robbie dreamed about. But, like they always say, be careful what you wish for. No sooner than his first day of high school, does the balancing act commence. Making time for his best friend? Finally getting to go out with his crush? Training with his superhero mentor? Not to mention, there's a psychotic villain on the loose ...

Are you tired of all White Americans being painted as racists, when the vast majority of White Americans are not racist? Well fear not, good White people! I've created an audiobook to prove to the world that White people are very very good people. Just buy this audiobook and tell all of your White friends and family members to buy this audiobook and we will and racism forever!

A study in the Book of Daniel about Daniel's leadership principles lived out in a pagan empire as a model for Christians who lead in secular, public, and business organizations. In 15 short chapters the author, a higher educational professional with 40 years teaching, ministry, and leadership experience, examines the facets of Daniel's and his companions' lives in Babylon after being imprisoned as conquered Jewish young men. The book addresses the demands of leadership, the call to leadership, the daily needs of leaders, and the ethical bases for leaders. Chapters include "A leader learns,"...

Blended learning allows a partnership that gives teachers more time and energy to innovate and personalize learning while providing students the opportunity to be active agents driving their own growth. Balance With Blended Learning provides teachers with strategies to actively engage students in setting goals, monitoring development, reflecting on growth, using feedback, assessing work quality, and communicating their progress with parents.