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Enjoy this collection of stories about children exploring the world around them. The collection begins with "Nature's Treasures", a poem featuring a young girl who learns about the wonders of the natural world. After this poem, enjoy eight short stories of children looking closer at nature: "Hidden Wonders", "The Building Season", "Weeds and Worms and Things that Squirm"," "A Pond for Maddie", "Flowers that Fly", "The Wasp's Picnic", "Firefly Tag", and "While Alena Was Sleeping".

Overcoming Rejection “Triumphing Over Its Challenges” is a book for everyone to listen to. It describes in detail twenty specific challenges that Dr. Bradley Stuart has discovered through his battle with cerebral palsy. He talks openly and honestly about how these challenges broke him down. He also talks about the breakthroughs he gained over each one and how his breakthroughs enabled him to inspire others. In this book, he will take you through this process for yourself and for those you desire to help.

July 13, 1938: The renowned nuclear physicist Lise Meitner, approaching the age of 60, sits on the train that will take her to the German-Dutch border and then to the safety of exile in Sweden. After months of uncertainty and fear, as a Jew in Nazi Germany, she has abandoned everything: her friends, her career, and her beloved adopted home, the city of Berlin, where she had become a pioneer in the world of nuclear physics.

Knit me into a cocoon. Help me eat a burrito. Pretend to be a chair at my dinner party. Wrestle a Komodo dragon. Race me in a lobster suit. Author Kelly Mahon posts absurd gig ads online and shares the conversations she had with the brave souls who wanted the job.

The four stories narrate the struggles of the tiny island nation of Buron to resist the onslaught of its much bigger neighbor, Garsia, via any means necessary. “Green Monkey Syndrome” describes the disaster of a pathogenic weapon leaked among indigenous tribespeople; “The Gaoka Case” tracks through case files a pharmaceutical offensive designed to take advantage of the enemy’s patriarchal culture; “I Love Thee Winona” and “The Lost Bird” describe campaigns to manipulate disastrous weather patterns and deliver bioweapons through migrating birds.

Discover the balance between saving for the future and enjoying the present, crafted for the financially conscious young adult. Just when you're on your way to success and achieving your dreams, financial complexities hit hard.

This guide will go over back pain prevention techniques, back pain home remedies and back pain exercises you can use in order to live pain free and get back to doing the things you love to do on a daily basis.

A desperate cry has come out of Denton, requesting Sephron’s aid. War is brewing, and to put an end to a lord’s dangerous greed, Sephron must infiltrate a hostile, desert city and rescue an unlikely prisoner. Soon, he finds himself trapped inside the walls of Galtor surrounded by cruel and violent soldiers. But he is alone in this venture, and the entire fate of Rhayadera rests in his hands.

He is a body snatcher. He kills by taking over the bodies of his victims, leaving no blood or weapons at the scene of the crimes. Disillusioned by the loss of his Catholic faith, Rook seeks answers to his unique ability and finds that heaven and hell are not what he was taught to believe. Now, in their way, angels and demons seek to head off the calamity that Rook is quickly becoming because for each body he takes and each soul he breaks, he is becoming more and more Fractured.

The world is full of genius people after the fact. We can all blame government, scientist, politicians, organized religions but we fail to take responsibility for our own negligence. Imagine the future is now and we are forced to live in an environmental bubble all of our lives because we cannot live in our toxic world.

Beginning readers will love this collection of stories about kids discovering who they are. In "Someday", Ada dreams of becoming an inventor when she grows up. As she soon discovers, she is already looking for solutions to everyday problems. Also included are eight other stories of self-discovery: "Tall Enough", "Kojo's Shadow", "Sing Softer, Maggie", "If Henry Could Dance", "Wullus", "Shelby the Shy", Not Now, Natalie", and "Paint the Morning".

In Howard's fascinating novel, "2084," we journey into a future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of human life. The story follows Dr. Maya Wong, a brilliant AI researcher, and Zane Abdullah, a charismatic politician, as they deal with the complex and often troubled relationship between humanity and its most powerful creation. The book opens with a world teetering on the brink of chaos. Global crises, political turmoil, and environmental disasters set the stage for AI's emergence as a potential savior.

Forbidden love and fierce rivalry drive Jeff Hollister, a street-smart high school senior and gang leader of the Hurricanes, to the brink of disaster. Thinking he’s got the world in his back pocket, and the police at a safe distance, he and his scrappy gang of teenage delinquents come to discover they don’t always come out on top after all. A deadly vow by a member of the rival Tornadoes gang sets Jeff and his friends on a roller coaster of knife fray and gunplay, foot races and car chases, trust and betrayal, and murder.

Der Zirkel der Sieben hat, wie von Oscar Wilde vermutet, einen engen Vertrauten des Könighauses in seine Gewalt gebracht. Mithilfe einer von Aleister Crowley entwickelten Substanz wollen sie Lord Duncans Gehirn unter ihre Kontrolle stellen und auf diese Weise das englische Königshaus unterwandern. Als Oscar Wilde hinter den gefährlichen Plan des Zirkels kommt, sitzt er selbst in der Falle. Und während der Sonderermittler der Krone nach einem Weg sucht, sich aus dem finsteren Verlies zu befreien, nähern sich die Mitglieder des Zirkels zusammen mit Lord Duncan dem königlichen Palast.

Als Irene Adler aus ihrer Betäubung erwacht, findet sie sich allein in einem Dorf der Mapuche wieder. Sie wird von den Bewohnern des Dorfes gefangen genommen. Zu ihrem Entsetzten muss sie feststellen, dass sich Theodora Sachs und Aleister Crowley ebenfalls in dem Dorf aufhalten. Im Gegensatz zu ihr werden die beiden allerdings als Gäste behandelt. Währenddessen sorgt sich Mr. Wu in Temuco über das plötzliche Verschwinden von Irene Adler. Mithilfe von Dr. Duerte und Fernando Abad setzt er alle Hebel in Bewegung, um ein Lebenszeichen von der Sonderermittlerin der Krone zu erhalten.

Victor Frankenstein, Theodora Sachs und Aleister Crowley gelingt es, Bruder Ares und Bruder Elias in eine Art Heilschlaf zu versetzen. Als die beiden Wachmänner daraus erwachen, sind sie sich sicher, dass es sich bei Frankenstein tatsächlich um einen Nachfahren des Äskulaps handelt. Kurzerhand lassen sie die Gefangenen frei und zetteln einen Aufstand an, der Tote und Verletzte mit sich bringt. Frankenstein gelingt es unterdessen, unbemerkt in den Raum zu gelangen, in dem das Bild aufbewahrt wird.

In this elegant work of literary fantasy, a young, 19th century attorney receives a strange birthday gift from his friend, Edgar Allan Poe, which requires him to make an arduous journey to an old Puritan town to defend a family at trial. Unbeknownst to him, it’s a journey through time; one from which, even if he survives—he may never return!

Go on adventures, sometimes people die. It's a fact of life in Neverland. But when the magic of the island itself rebels and renders Peter missing in action, the Lost Boys find themselves scrambling for survival and turning to the eldest boy, Jim, for the next step.

In seinem Labor in den Schweizer Alpen kommt Victor Frankenstein seinem Ziel, dem Aufbau einer Armee der künstlichen Menschen, immer näher. Er braucht nur noch einen Ersatzstoff für das verbrauchte Menorium, der tatsächlich in einer verlassenen Silbermine in Italien zu finden sein soll. Gemeinsam mit Theodora Sachs begibt sich Frankenstein auf die Reise nach Italien. Währenddessen ist Mycroft Holmes nicht verborgen geblieben, dass sich in der Schweiz merkwürdige Dinge abspielen, die möglicherweise im Zusammenhang mit dem Zirkel der Sieben stehen...

Während Auguste Dupin und Edgar Allan Poe mithilfe des Entfesselungskünstlers Houdini hoffen Näheres über die neuen Pläne des "Zirkels der Sieben" zu erfahren, bereiten sich Draculas ausgewählte Kandidaten auf die ihnen gestellte Aufgabe vor. Ein unheimlicher Überfall bringt die Detektive aus dem Konzept. Steckt der Zirkel dahinter? Dupin und Poe sind gefordert wie nie und der Gentleman-Dieb Arsène Lupin beginnt damit, seinen so riskanten wie dreisten Plan in die Tat umzusetzen.