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This is a story about a family coming of age at the same time as smartphones and social media; a multiracial family coming into its own as windows into social injustice opened up before our very screens; and a multi-parent multi-professional family with children living differently depending on which house and which combination of family members happen to be home. While it is a story about a family, it is really the story of technological and global changes unfolding on our doorsteps.

Colby Watts has struggled to find his place in civilian life. The ex-Army Ranger is relieved when he's offered work as a small-town deputy sheriff, with guns and rules he knows far too well. But Biggs barely has time to ease into the job before he's tasked with catching the man who paralyzed one deputy and killed the other....

Der krönende Abschluss der historischen Abenteuer-Saga über den König der Diebe Robin Hood von Mac P. Lorne im Hörbuch: So sehr er sich auch nach Frieden sehnt, noch sind die Tage des Kämpfens für Robin Hood nicht vorüber. 1230 beginnt der junge König Heinrich III. erneut einen Krieg gegen Frankreich, und auch in England steht es nicht zum Besten. Machthungrige Höflinge machen sich die Unerfahrenheit und den chronischen Geldmangel Heinrichs zu Nutze, unter anderem auch Robins alter Feind, der Earl of Chester, der es auf Loxley und Huntingdon abgesehen hat.

Der große historische Abenteuer-Roman über den legendären Freibeuter Sir Francis Drake. Er war ein Abenteurer, Weltumsegler, Raubritter der Meere - und Spaniens größter Alptraum: Francis Drake, Pirat Ihrer Majestät Königin Elisabeth I., 1581 zum Ritter geschlagen. Mac P. Lorne lässt neben dem Mythos auch den Menschen Francis Drake lebendig werden: den engagierten Bürgermeister und betrogenen Ehemann, der Frauen gegenüber eher schüchtern gewesen sein soll.

In the year A.D. 9, three Roman Legions under Quintilius Varus were betrayed by the Germanic war chief, Arminius, and destroyed in the forest known as Teutoburger Wald. Six years later Rome is finally ready to unleash her vengeance on the barbarians. The Emperor Tiberius has sent his adopted son, Germanicus Caesar, into Germania with an army of forty-thousand legionaries. The come not on a mission of conquest, but one of annihilation. With them is a young legionary named Artorius.

The video store where the VHS cases keep the monsters at bay. The late-night craving for a hot dog that unravels into a tale of gunplay, espionage, and microfiche. The discovery that the only thing capable of saving us from robot annihilation is poor penmanship.

Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot and Elizabeth Anscombe were philosophy students at Oxford during the Second World War when most male undergraduates (and many tutors) were conscripted. Taught by refugee scholars, women and conscientious objectors, the four friends developed a philosophy that could respond to the war's darkest revelations.

Six Award-Winning Authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Spring Vacation Collection. Readers will love this collection of six sweet contemporary romance novellas, centered on a Spring Vacation, all with one thing in common: Romance.

The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations.

Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion in essays, poems, and stories through which he sought to bring Argentina forward on the world stage, and to do for Buenos Aires what James Joyce did for Dublin.

This is the poignant and uplifting story of Maeve, who is dealing with anxiety while falling in love with a girl who is not afraid of anything. Think positive. Don't worry; be happy. Keep calm and carry on. Maeve has heard it all before. She's been struggling with severe anxiety for a long time, and as much as she wishes it was something she could just talk herself out of, it's not.

Étretat, ses falaises, ses lecteurs d'Arsène Lupin, sa mer aux couleurs du temps et ses couples romantiques enlacés sous la bruine. Attention à ne pas vous approcher trop près du bord, ce thriller glaçant risque de vous donner le vertige. Derrière la carte postale de la petite station balnéaire, belle endormie de la Côte d'Albâtre réveillée chaque week-end par des nuées de touristes, se cache un monde de passions, de secrets et de dangers. Car le Mal rôde, satisfait d'avoir pu y commettre, depuis des décennies, des crimes parfaits.

The area around greater San Francisco was suffering through a killing spree, but not your “run-of-the-mill” killing spree, this perp was different. He didn’t just rape and kill, he actually “staged” his victims in public venues like they were works of art. The people around San Francisco were freaking out, and wanted answers. Everyone’s favorite billionaire, Mr. Araby Triplehorn, stepped up to find a solution. That solution? A quirky private investigator from Arizona, who had received national attention from success on other major cases, Blake Moran.

Wir waren's nicht! Miles Murphy ist berühmt, und zwar für eins: Streichespielen. Er ist der beste Streichespieler, den seine Schule je erlebt hat. Als er plötzlich in das langweilige Kuh-Kaff Yawnee Valley umziehen muss, ist für Miles eines klar: Auch an seiner neuen Schule wird er der beste Streichespieler aller Zeiten. Nur gibt's da ein Problem: Die Schule hat schon einen!

My Great Aunt Edna is a leadership platform that stands for "excellence, doing things the right way, no shortcuts, and accountability." Mac McNeil discusses metaphorical and anecdotal stories from his own leadership and life journey, with organizations such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Synchrony, and The Community Reinvestment Fund, USA, as well as the inclusion of wisdom nugget contributions from several other top leaders!

This book is prayerfully and purposely designed to give you practical, tangible steps to find and fulfill God’s purpose and destiny for your life. At the end of every chapter, I have included specific questions that will assist you on your journey as you discover your gifts and how to use them successfully for the Kingdom of God. This book serves as a road map that has helped countless others build lives of significance and it will do the same for you.

Does your workplace have too few Black people in top jobs? It’s racist. Does the advanced math and science high school in your city have too many Asians? It’s racist. Does your local museum employ too many White women? It’s racist, too. After the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, prestigious American institutions, from the medical profession to the fine arts, pleaded guilty to “systemic racism”.

Discover 23 tales of terror, flavors of fear. Here for your twisted culinary delight, we present some of the best horror fiction of 2018. We sincerely hope you survive it.

Funny Business is based around the theme of - what else - humor, and if you’re familiar with Jon and Guys Read, you already know what you’re in store for: an hilarious story.

Thou shalt in no way use this sacred science to offend the great God, and to work ill unto thy neighbor; thou shalt communicate it unto no living person whom dost not thoroughly know by long practice and conversation, examining well whether such a person really intendeth to work for the good or for the evil. And if thou shalt wish to grant it unto him, thou shalt well observe and punctually, the same fashion and manner, which I have made use of with thee, and if thou doest otherwise, he who shall receive it shall draw no fruit therefrom.