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When her daddy is tortured and murdered by two women with no discernible motivation, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in inexplicable events that exile them to Pensacola Beach. There, another woman awaits their presence, a woman who knows what Calley is and who seeks to control her. For Calley is no ordinary little girl.

Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy Alabama small town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. Now they are about to endure another: 14-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law. But something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror.

Seducing a proper Bostonian was easy. Making him die of a heart attack a week after the wedding was hardly any trouble at all. Now she has money, social status, everything she has cunningly schemed to get since she was a poor little girl. Everything except the Brookline mansion and the multi-million dollar trust fund left to the three children. But what wicked stepmother couldn't get rid of three children?

Blackwater is the saga of a small town, Perdido, Alabama, and Elinor Dammert, the stranger who arrives there under mysterious circumstances on Easter Sunday, 1919. On the surface, Elinor is gracious, charming, anxious to belong in Perdido, and eager to marry Oscar Caskey, the eldest son of Perdido’s first family. But her beautiful exterior hides a shocking secret. Beneath the waters of the Perdido River, she turns into something terrifying, a creature whispered about in stories that have chilled the residents of Perdido for generations.

Faced with an alarming image of Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha, Chewbacca takes on an urgent mission. Meanwhile, Leia calls upon the Senate to take a stand and eliminate the Yevetha threat. As a former Imperial governor takes his battle to the runaway Qella spaceship, Luke's continuing search for his mother brings him dangerously close to Nil Spaar's deadly forces. And as the Yevetha close in on the forces of the New Republic, Luke takes a desperate gamble with an invisible weapon.

When Philo Drax receives a letter from her wealthy grandfather saying he fears for his life at the hands of the vicious Slape family, she rushes to the rescue. But too late! Katie Slape, a monstrous girl with psychic powers and a penchant for smashing skulls with her hammer, has already finished him off and gotten hold of his cash.

When a rifle range accident leaves Dean Howell disfigured and in a vegetative state, his wife Sarah finds her dreary life in Pine Cone, Alabama made even worse. After long and tedious days on the assembly line, she returns home to care for her corpselike husband while enduring her loathsome and hateful mother-in-law, Jo. Jo blames the entire town for her son’s mishap, and when she gives a strange piece of jewelry to the man she believes most responsible, a series of gruesome deaths is set in motion.

Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunken sailors, gaudy hookers, and back room abortions. The queen of this unsavory neighborhood is Black Lena Shanks, whose family leads a ring of female criminals-women skilled in the art of cruelty. Only a few blocks away, amidst the elegant mansions and lily-white reputations of Gramercy Park and Washington Square, lives Judge James Stallworth.

It is a time of tranquility for the New Republic. But the peace is short-lived. Luke must journey to his mother's homeworld in a desperate and dangerous quest to find her people. An adventurous Lando must seize a mysterious spacecraft that has weapons of enormous destructive power. And Leia, a living symbol of the New Republic's triumph, must face down a ruthless leader of the Duskhan League, an arrogant Yevetha who seems bent on a genocidal war.

As Leia must deal with a new threat to the fragile alliance that binds the New Republic, Lando becomes a prisoner aboard a runaway spacecraft of unknown origin. The ship is following an unstoppable path to its homeworld, destroyed by Imperial forces. Luke continues his quest to learn more about his mother among the Fallanassi, where his every belief about the use of the Force is about to be challenged.

After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty.

Alabama, 1946. Os Caskeys já enfrentaram diversas provações, alianças inesperadas se formaram, conflitos amargos se instalaram. Miriam agora está à frente dos negócios da família, sempre buscando aumentar a riqueza deles, até que faz uma descoberta surpreendente, que vai lhes dar ainda mais dinheiro. Mas essa fortuna repentina será suficiente para conter os fantasmas do passado? E quanto tempo eles terão até a natureza cobrar seu preço?

Alabama, 1958. A família Caskey, mais rica e poderosa do que jamais imaginou, vive cercada por festas luxuosas e recepções elegantes. Mas o passado não foi esquecido e uma presença sombria ameaça a cidade de Perdido. Neste eletrizante desfecho da saga, os Caskeys pagarão o preço de suas escolhas e uma profecia finalmente se cumprirá.

Ainda se recuperando da enchente devastadora, a cidade de Perdido se mobiliza para construir um dique que evite novas catástrofes. Porém, quando as obras começam, ocorrem eventos misteriosos, como um desaparecimento. Agora parte da família Caskey, Elinor é contra a construção e entra em choque com a sogra, Mary-Love. Entre alianças, intrigas e sacrifícios, nada está proibido nessa disputa.

Uma nova era se inicia para os Caskeys. Com sua determinação inabalável, Elinor começa a ver os frutos de anos de luta. A família nunca esteve tão unida, mesmo com os ventos da guerra se aproximando. O conflito na Europa transforma Perdido, trazendo sangue novo para a cidade. Enquanto alguns encontram o amor, outros descobrem segredos obscuros dentro de si mesmos...

The Black Berets learned their lethal skills on the secret battlefields of Vietnam. In the first volume of this classic series of wartime adventure, once the Black Berets start fighting for themselves, what will it take to be able to stop them? This set includes Deadly Reunion, Cold Vengeance, and The Black Palm.

Bienvenidos al Triángulo Negro de la ciudad de Nueva York, el decadente reino de los fumaderos de opio, la lucha libre femenina, los garitos ruinosos, los coloridos burdeles, los abortos clandestinos, el crimen y la miseria. La emperatriz de este desapacible lugar es la temible Black Lena...

"But come back soon", the sign said. Obviously it was a lie. The people in the grocery store just wanted to make sure he couldn't buy the spice he needed to make the recipe he'd selected for that night (recipes must be followed exactly). Obviously they wanted him to eat out...to meet the waitress, Marta, to see her horrible, unspeakable, unbearable ugliness. It was obvious to him: her maimed, twisted face was the living desire to be dead. He had to help Marta be dead.

The Project Habit provides small doable shifts for busy teachers looking to enhance and innovate their practices. It aims to ensure students develop substantial growth in establishing agency in their own learning, developing rigorous academic content knowledge, and contributing that knowledge and skills to solve real-world problems. The book offers easy-to-implement practices in inquiry-based learning that any teacher can pick and be assured that whether they are done one at a time or all together, they are backed by sound research in teaching and learning.

In un unico cofanetto tutti e sei i romanzi della saga di Blackwater. 1919. Le acque nere e minacciose del fiume sommergono la cittadina di Perdido, nel sud dell'Alabama. I ricchissimi Caskey devono fronteggiare il disastro. Ma il clan, capeggiato dalla potente matriarca Mary-Love e dal figlio Oscar, dovrà fare i conti anche con un'apparizione sconvolgente: dalle viscere della citta sommersa compare Elinor Dammert, con un passato misterioso e un oscuro disegno.