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There’s trouble in Frontier Falls: dhampirs, livestock slayings, and zombies. Garrett Cross, the Arcane Lawmaker, will find the people responsible and make them pay. But the culprit is but a pawn of an old enemy. One that could threaten everything Cross has built in this little frontier town.

Published in the US for the first time, Fearless and Free is the memoir of the fabulous, rule-breaking, one-of-a-kind Josephine Baker, the iconic dancer, singer, spy, and Civil Rights activist. After stealing the spotlight as a teenaged Broadway performer during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Josephine then took Paris by storm, dazzling audiences across the Roaring Twenties. In her famous banana skirt, she enraptured royalty and countless fans—Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso among them.

It's bad enough that Imani had a slow start to her research project. But when disaster strikes the night before it's due, she's really in trouble. Will Imani be able to pick up the pieces in time to give her report?

It's Science Fair time! Imani wants to win, but she needs to find an idea that can beat the crowd-favorite volcano. Can Imani think outside of the box to take home the blue ribbon?

Raymond Civic is an ordinary teenager...until the day his senior class takes a field trip to a plastic factory. After a seemingly impossible incident takes place during a tour, Ray soon realizes that he can control plastic with his mind, but only plastic made at that factory. As he gradually discovers all of the things he can do with this power, Ray decides to use his gift for the common good and becomes Acrylic.

It's almost time for the big music recital! Imani wants to play the piano beautifully, but she keeps hitting the wrong notes. How will she be ready for her performance?

Imani's step team wants to enter the Glow Talent Show. But first they need money for the entry fee. How far will Imani go to help the Mighty Steppers earn their way?

Lily Johnson stepped out of her car, her heart pounding with a mix of excitement and apprehension. This was it. The start of a new chapter in her life. She looked around at the picturesque surroundings, taking in the beauty of Maplewood. Towering maple trees stretched overhead, their leaves casting dappled shadows on the cobblestone streets. Vibrant flowers bloomed in carefully manicured gardens, adding splashes of color to the scene.

When Imani gets to know her new classmate, she decides to do something nice for them. She's just not sure what. Can Imani figure out a way to make a difference for her new classmate?

Imani and her friends want to dress as superheroes for their school's Fall Festival. But she can't find a superhero that looks like her. Will she be able to find a costume in time?

On March 22, 2023, the Swedish Academy organized a conference on threats to democracy and freedom of expression featuring a slate of distinguished speakers including Arundhati Roy, Timothy Snyder, and Sofi Oksanen. Oksanen’s address—entitled “Putin's War on Women”—would go on to spark such interest that the acclaimed Finnish writer felt compelled to return to it as the basis for a larger, more in-depth look at Putin’s threat to women. The result is Same River, Twice, a devastating book-length essay that incisively builds on the themes and arguments first presented in her powerful speech.

Multiple times a day, in cities across the US and beyond, a simple yet powerful message is repeated by the well-meaning, the ignorant, and the bigoted: “don’t go”—avoid at all costs those Black and Brown disinvested neighborhoods that have become bywords for social disorder and urban decay. This book is a collection of intimate stories that uncover the hidden influence of both subtle and overt “don’t go” messages and the segregation they perpetuate in Chicago.

Awkward, hapless Marick is still struggling with the loss of his wife, his child and his faith when he is reluctantly thrust into the position of chaplain at a large public hospital. Shortly after arriving, he meets Hugo, a hospital scientist and a man almost as lost as Marick himself, who is working in a forgotten lab, deep in the subterranean realms of the hospital. Hugo is convinced that the bacteria he uses for protein production have—unbelievably—begun to produce gold. Is it alchemy, evolution, a hoax or even ... possibly ... a miracle?

I guess you could call my latest job interview a success. I got hired, and it's way beyond my wildest dreams. The pay isn't great. And the hours are pretty much 24/7. But there's magic. And a portal to a fantasy world. Those kind of outweigh the negatives. At first, I thought I was just testing the latest VR survival RPG, but I'm starting to think this might not be a game after all. The monsters are definitely life-like and capable of carving me apart on their worst days. But on their best days, I make them mine.

Life is hard, but love doesn't have to be. While becoming a superstar at relationships IS hard, everyone can benefit from making adjustments to suck less at love and relationships. This snarky self-help book provides inspirational advice about relationships from a woman’s perspective, but it also provides blunt this-is-how-it-is advice straight from the lips of a man’s man.

A vacation in Scotland sounded nice. Exactly the kind of thing where my girlfriend Jasmine and I could let off some steam after learning the supernatural existed and completing our first mission for a supernatural agency. But there really is no rest for the wicked. Along with Breeze, our friendly (and beautiful) warlock companion, Jasmine and I get tagged by a group calling themselves the Family.

Megastar Whitney “Sahara” Richardson is at the top of her game. With four Grammys, an Oscar nod, and a half billion-dollar clothing line to her name, her career is more than she could ever ask for. Even her dating life is looking up with a man newly arrived on the scene, but marriage and children are still years away for the thirty-year-old beauty. And it is going to come in that order. However, fate has something else in store for her. A mix-up at the fertility clinic where her frozen eggs are stored puts the cart before the horse, upending her life in ways she couldn’t have imagined.

Yuutan is the homeland of a living legend, a place that birthed Holvti. A nation on the coast of the great ocean where Tiberaasian smiths ply their trade, making master-crafted weapons, and whose guardsmen patrol in armor that gleamed like stained glass in the sun. For Duren it is the perfect place to get away, relax, repair Lisika's broken sword, and spend some time with his new wife.

What is Political Science? Within human society, it is customary to distinguish between the following spheres: economic, political, social, and spiritual. The political sphere is important in that it involves and determines the interactions of different political powers. This understanding lies at the foundation of any political analysis of public life. Politics as a specific sector within human society is as old as it is modern. Many famous statesmen and scientists are credited as the authors of laws and political systems.

In this book, Ronald Kinsella questions the validity of a number of alien, UFO and cryptid reports which range from the unusual, to the very bizarre, throughout the world. This interrogation is not based on their authenticity, rather, questioning a much darker aspect to their origins and of a seemingly fragmented phenomena.