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After the adventures of the Blue Solace, the Crellic System is forever changed. Can a diverse and eccentric group of survivors bring back the extinct Crell species and carve out a home of their own in the colony of Dragon's Hollow?

I've never been the kind of girl to take the easy way out. Happy endings never came to people like me. The tarnished ones. I'm surrounded by a group that knows sadness too well. We know what it's like to lose and be tossed away like last night's trash. We are easy to blame for all the wrongs, because when others look at us, they see our scars. Most of our stories are told in the ink we bear, but we wear those tales proudly.

Vanessa “Vanity” Kirkland is no stranger to drama. Her largely-agreed-upon title as the “Baddest Chick” in hip-hop practically demands it. But if she wants to catapult to megastar status, she’s going to have to break out of the box her raunchy lyrics have built around her and take on a new role.

Descubre el extraordinario poder sanador de las hormonas Este libro explica la función de las endorfinas, los neurotransmisores que nos ayudan a sentirnos relajados y felices. Los llamados "analgésicos naturales del cuerpo" son los responsables de regular nuestra sensación de dolor; gracias a ellos eres capaz de bloquear esa molestia y, a la vez, estimular el placer. A través de estas páginas comprenderás qué órganos están involucrados en estas funciones; cómo estimular la producción de estos neurotransmisores, e identificar cuando algo no anda bien.

Seventeen-year-old EMMA CONNER knows no other world than Taylorville, a town in Appalachian country. It is a world she and her friend JOLENE yearn to escape. Jolene’s ticket out of town is a scholarship to Boston to pursue her dream, marine biology, and she enrolls in a program on board a schooner, SeaQuest. The tragedy of a family caught up in dark secrets shatters Jolene’s dream before she embarks. The challenge of having Jolene’s goals ripped away is more than Emma can withstand.

Seit über 188 Tagen - mehr als einem halben Jahr - sind sich Maron und Gideon nicht mehr begegnet. Durch eine Intrige, die viel zu spät aufgedeckt wird, hat sich das Paar getrennt. Maron will wieder als Escortdame arbeiten, während sich Gideon mit Arbeit, Alkohol und flüchtigen Frauenbekanntschaften ablenkt. Wäre da nicht Dorians und Janes Hochzeit. Beide treffen aufeinander und was folgt, ist ein unerwartetes Spiel der Sinne. Werden beide wieder zueinanderfinden? Oder doch getrennte Wege gehen?

Find something safe to do. Caution is a paranormal novella.

Descubre el extraordinario poder sanador de las hormonas. En este libro hablaremos sobre la dopamina, un neurotransmisor que se ocupa de regular las funciones vinculadas al placer y la motivación. Pero no solo eso, también es la encargada de la coordinación de los movimientos musculares, la memoria y la atención. Además, nos ayuda a alcanzar nuestras metas, pues nuestro cerebro está entrenado para saber que hay una recompensa esperándonos.

The whole plan is well-intentioned: to give Chris a chance to experiment with his identity. But when Rohan sneaks over for a peek, he’s not expecting to see a gorgeous babe in that storage room—and he’s not expecting to develop so many strong feelings for the secret sissy.

Some things nest where the light can’t reach. When a meteorite crashes into the woods outside Hollow’s Edge, no one in Black Veil County expects what comes next. People vanish. Others change. And the red fog rolls in thicker every night. At the heart of it all walks Ma Barnett, barefoot and smiling, her gray shawl stitched with silk and secrets. As Hollow’s Edge falls quiet, and the ground pulses with new life, one truth becomes clear: They're hungry...

The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen—one of the leading experts on the philosophy of games and the philosophy of data—takes us deep into the heart of games, and into the depths of bureaucracy, to see how scoring systems shape what we care about. Games are the most important art form of our era. They embody the spirit of free play. They show us the subtle beauty of action everywhere in life—in video games, sports, and boardgames—but also cooking, gardening, fly fishing, and moving. They remind us that it isn’t always about outcomes, but about how glorious it feels to be doing the thing.

Murderous ghosts, crazy cultists, and a sexy cop looking to lock him up. Darius Kane got more than he bargained for when he became the Gold Coast's first paranormal investigator. Hired to solve the murder of a local mechanic, Darius soon discovers the victim is just one in a series of suspicious deaths, but is there really a ghost at the heart of the case?

Innsbruck, 1485. Helena Scheuberin should be doing what every other young wife is doing: keeping house, supporting her husband, and bearing his children, but as an outspoken, strong woman, she sometimes has difficulty fitting in. Then she draws the unwanted attention of a malign priest who is just starting his campaign to root out “witches” from among the women of her town, and when her husband’s footman dies, she finds herself accused not only of murder but of witchcraft.

En el país de Ingary, donde existen cosas como las botas de siete leguas o las capas de invisibilidad, que una bruja te maldiga no es algo inusual. Cuando la Bruja del Páramo convierte a Sophie Hatter en una anciana, la joven abandona la sombrerería familiar para pedir ayuda en el único lugar mágico que se le ocurre: el castillo ambulante que atemoriza a los habitantes de Market Chipping. Pues dentro no sólo se halla un demonio del fuego, sino también el perverso mago Howl, tan diestro en realizar hechizos como en robar los corazones de las damas.

Your flip is on the market, yet no offers? This book instructs you on corrections, marketing, and how to keep most of your profits.

Deep in the snowy forests of Northeast Asia roams the majestic and revered Amur tigers, more popularly known as ‘The Siberian Tiger’. But in the final years of the Cold War, only a few hundred of these graceful animals remained in their home of the Amur River basin. As the Soviet Union fell, catastrophe arrived, with poaching and logging taking a fast, astonishing toll on an already vulnerable species.

A mission for stolen art turns dire when one of Freya and Aunt Carole’s team members, Bella, disappears into the shadows of the frozen, snow-tipped and mysterious Scottish hills. Until the discovery of ancient Scottish silverware, linked to a laird’s murder with their colleague as the prime suspect, deepens the intrigue. Surrounded by snow and secrecy, they must unravel a cunning plot and find their friend before isolation – or the killer – claims them all.

A marriage of blood. A passion of fire. A love that could break them. Isla Marino was never meant to survive her marriage. The Los Angeles mafia princess was supposed to be a pawn, bound to Matteo DeLuca—Rome’s most feared enforcer—until her usefulness ran out. But no one accounted for Isla’s defiance… or Matteo’s obsession. Cold. Merciless. Possessive. Matteo makes one thing clear—she belongs to him now. But Isla refuses to bow. Fierce and determined, she fights against the chains of her unwanted vows, even as Matteo’s touch ignites a desire she can’t control.

Cursed to love and lose, Boone loathes his existence. He is immortal, and his wife is destined to be reborn over and over again, which means he is destined to lose her over and over again. But no matter his agony at her death, he can’t help but to love her each time she’s born. But this time, the seventh rebirth, she begins to remember him. Could this mean something is changing? Could his curse finally be coming to an end? With the possibility of change, of ending his agony, he becomes torn—what if she continues to be reborn and he’s no longer there to love her?

In this latest book in Beacon’s award-winning ReVisioning History series, Professors C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost unearth the often overlooked history of the Black queer community in the United States. Arguing that both gender and sexual expression have been an intimate and intricate part of Black freedom struggle, Snorton and Bost present historical contributions of Black queer, trans, and gender non-conforming Americans from slavery to the present day to highlight how the fight against racial injustice has always been linked to that of sexual and gender justice.