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Encore sous le choc de la perte effroyable qu'elle vient d'endurer et la révélation d'une identité qu'elle peine à accepter, Casia n'a qu'une idée en tête. Tâcher de reprendre le contrôle. Comme sur l'étrange magie qui vient de s'éveiller en elle. Et pour la maîtriser, c'est dans un voyage périlleux que Casia va devoir s'embarquer avec ses amis. Elle devra traverser des terres maudites, affronter le regard des anciens dieux, et s'enfoncer au cœur d'un empire sudiste rempli d'ennemis mortels et d'alliés imprévus.

What happens when a demon-possessed soft drink machine tortures a group of authors during a book event?They write stories about it!Writers at a signing spent hour after agonizing hour listening to the same mind-numbing tune. The group was so traumatized, the only revenge they could wield was to plot the demise of offending mechanical creature.Their collaboration lead to this entertaining collection appropriately titled Death of the Demon Machine.Authors:Tricia AndersenStephen L. BraytonCraig HartBeth HudsonD. MoonfireKathryn SullivanDavid Taylor IIM.L. Williams

In a groundbreaking global exploration of the ideas that drove the American Revolution, a prize-winning historian shines a light on the defiance of marginalized peoples all over the world. In her powerful new history of the American Revolution, Sarah M. S. Pearsall argues that the American...

Educator and multimedia reporter Marian Burnbaum interviews one of the nation's leading thinkers in education and video gaming, James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literary Studies at Arizona State University. Professor Gee explains how "good" video games in any genre, including violent video games, can be examples of active, deep learning at almost any age.

Rewarding health secrets from the Bible will make a difference in your well-being! Get healthier with the glow and optimism of good news. Develop the willpower to say no to junk food and yes to nourishing food. What if you could eat more food and still lose weight? What if you could feel better every day by just moving more? Then start reading this book! In "7 Biblical Ways for Healthy Living," you will receive the therapy of God's love and wisdom as well as insights from medical research. You will see how relevant the guidance from God's word, the Bible is for your well-being. God’s ...

My mother in law, Joan, is a thorn in my side. I’m her son’s widow and mother of one. I want a relationship with a man I can trust. I need some sex as it has been a long, long, long time. I can’t find a man who wants me and who I want, leaving me deflated and sexually frustrated. Then I meet Hal. He’s everything you’d want, handsome, successful and most importantly, he knows how to push my buttons in and out of bed… there’s only one little problem… It’s a love triangle at an ever so warped angle but when you desperately need someone, anyone can be better than no-one, ...

The Long Route Podcast explores the real journeys behind growth and success. In a world chasing shortcuts, this podcast focuses on the slow, meaningful paths — the struggles, failures, mindset shifts, and lessons that rarely get shared. Through honest conversations with creators, travellers, and builders from different backgrounds, we talk about choosing patience over speed and consistency over comfort. If you’re feeling unsure about your path or learning to trust your own pace, this podcast is for you. 🎙 Hosted by Nischith 🛤 Growth takes time — choose the long route.

In the summer of 1977, thirteen-year-old Scott Bergman's life takes an unexpected turn when his summer vacation plan is obliterated, and is forced to spend the summer in Palo Alto, California with his mother and her new boyfriend. As he navigates a new world of friendship and intrigue, Scott discovers a startling secret behind his enigmatic neighbor, uncovering a long-buried past connected to the most fascinating prison escape in American history.

Perfection is my armor—that’s how I keep everyone happy. Straight A’s. No distractions. Med school, residency, the surgical dream. Then one day in the OR, the weight of it all comes crashing down. Every breath becomes a battle. So I leave the scrubs, the shame, and the panic behind for my brother-in-law’s empty cottage. Only, I’m not alone. Matthew Carruthers is here. Pro football player. A six-foot-three slice of fun-loving temptation I have no business wanting. But one smile, one touch, and I start to wonder what it would feel like to stop being perfect—and just be.

Looking to Travel to Phuket Thailand? This book was written to help make you stay more pleasurable and get the most out of your time spent there. The island of Phuket offers many things in the way of what to see, do and eat. This book presents a condensed and easy to read format of how to accomplish many of these things from an insider's perspective. You will be able to shortcut your time in trying to find the right places to eat and entertain yourself. Especially, if you are new to the island and don’t know where to start. Hopefully there are also some pointers for those who have been ...

Liam: After serving four years in the army, I’m back home in Texas, but it hasn’t taken me long to see that I don’t belong here anymore. Luckily, I heard that my cousin, Jake King, is now living in New York City, so I’ll join him there, hoping to put the past behind me. And, unlike most other twenty-two-year-old guys, the one thing I’m NOT looking for is romance. In fact, I’m planning on being celibate for the foreseeable future. Mila: I don’t need a bodyguard, and I certainly don’t want one, but my dad is sure that someone’s trying to hurt me. All I want is to focus on my...

Lighten your grief burden by changing how you view grief. Love Never Dies helps mourners, caregivers, and helping professionals understand that grief is the expression of love for the person who has died. Mourners do not need to be fixed, cured, diagnosed, pitied, or corrected.

Three months after the battle of Zabor, the five friends who came together to defeat her have been separated. Burdened with the Calamity Stone she acquired in Scion of the Fox, Roan has gone to Scotland to retrace her grandmother’s steps in an attempt to stop further evil from entering the world. Meanwhile, a wicked monster called Seela has risen from the ashy Bloodlands and is wreaking havoc on the world while children in Edinburgh are afflicted by a strange plague.

Aline Mercier walks out of her parents’ house the day after Thanksgiving - with no plan - only the certainty that her life has changed. Now, as she struggles to decide her future, a twist of fate changes everything again.

My blood can cure death, but it can also be the deadliest poison on Earth, and the gods will try to kill me just for existing. Hades wants me to join him. Zeus is still bitter about an age-old prophecy that the dark gods, the monsters of Tartarus, will rule Olympus. And Poseidon is the key to everything, maybe even my heart, but his son, Triton, rules Atlantis, and I accidentally killed his daughter, Coraline.

Unearthed is a fade-to-black urban fantasy romance set in an age of unprecedented magic. Magic people anticipate the return of the Xxyryn (Zy-ren), an all-powerful warlock who can use his gifts for good or evil, at his whim. Pureblooded magic people are at odds with the realmless, descendants of magic blood criminals who were cast out and forced to live among humans.

Trouble in Tinseltown is the continuation of the steamy romance between Riley Lawson, a Hollywood hunk, and Marisa Weinberg, a promising young actress on the verge of stardom. After a year of blissful romance, and a baby on the way, the couple's happily ever after is looking almost certain. But when an unexpected tragedy occurs, their relationship is put to the ultimate test. Can Riley and Marisa find the strength to stay together, or will life in Tinseltown tear them apart? With steamy scenes and a heartwarming ending, Trouble in Tinseltown will leave you with a perfectly satisfied glow. ...

Is this…rock bottom? Kicked out of the company I co-founded. Blacklisted across NYC. At odds with my mother. The only dopamine I’m getting is flashbacks to my steamy one-night stand. Only I had no idea who Eli really was. Or that the job I’ve grudgingly accepted makes me his dialect coach on the set of his next big movie… But Eli is not only a film star…he’s a dad. And despite our chemistry, commitment is the last thing I want. My career is always going to come first. The question is: can my heart handle that?

The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was provides a comprehensive historical, sociological, legal, financial, and managerial argument for the reclassification of profit-athletes as employees. Such a reclassification would permit profit-athletes to gain not only fair financial compensation but also equal access to educational benefits that have been promised but systematically denied. The authors trace how Power Five college sports have morphed into a hyper professionalized and commercialized sport-business enterprise.

Captain Andy Sykes just wants to keep his family in one piece. Once a combat pilot for the TSF, he gave it all up for love and a family. But two years ago, his wife disappeared, leaving him with two mouths to feed: eight-year-old Tim and 10-year-old Cara. Since then, he's managed to scrape a living hauling cargo between the Jovian Combine and InnerSol. When a cargo run to Cruithne Station meets with more than one catastrophe, Andy finds himself accepting an offer a less desperate man would refuse: delivering an illegal AI named Lyssa.