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Ocean and Pearl are identical twins. They couldn't be closer. Ocean dreams of being a famous artist and Pearl wants to write. But a cruel twist of fate changes everything. Can life be pulled back together or will the dreams they share be lost forever?

Dopo aver conquistato milioni di lettrici con "After" e la storia di Tessa e Hardin, Anna Todd aggiunge un secondo capitolo alla sua nuova serie, Stars, e torna a raccontare attraverso Karina e Kael come l'amore sia la stella più brillante che ci guida nel viaggio della vita. Come una stella cadente, l'amore tra Karina e Kael ha illuminato per un istante la vita di entrambi: così intenso da squarciare il buio delle loro solitudini; così breve da lasciare la nostalgia di un "per sempre".

Armed authorities watch from a military-grade surveillance tower as lines of people stream toward the security checkpoint, tickets in hand, anxious and excited to get through the gate. Few seem to notice or care that the US Border Patrol is monitoring the Super Bowl, as they have for years, one of the many ways that forces created to police the borders are now being used, in an increasingly militarized fashion, to survey and monitor the whole of American society. In fast-paced prose, Todd Miller sounds an alarm as he chronicles the changing landscape.

The darkest moon will guide your way. Die leidenschaftliche und bewegende Liebesgeschichte um Karina und Kael geht weiter. Band 2 der großen Serie The Brightest Stars. Karina fühlt sich betrogen und enttäuscht, seit sie weiß, dass Kael sie hintergangen hat, und sie bricht den Kontakt zu ihm ab. Aber die Gedanken an Kael lassen sie einfach nicht los. Zwischen den beiden scheint ein unsichtbares Band zu existieren, das sie wie magisch zu ihm hin zieht.

The darkest moon will guide your way. Die leidenschaftliche und bewegende Liebesgeschichte um Karina und Kael geht weiter. Band 2 der großen Serie The Brightest Stars. Karina fühlt sich betrogen und enttäuscht, seit sie weiß, dass Kael sie hintergangen hat, und sie bricht den Kontakt zu ihm ab. Aber die Gedanken an Kael lassen sie einfach nicht los. Zwischen den beiden scheint ein unsichtbares Band zu existieren, das sie wie magisch zu ihm hin zieht.

A PIDD is a Perpetual Involuntary Data Donor. Surveillance capitalists love PIDDs because PIDDs materially support the data extraction industry by unwittingly surrendering their personal information, paying for data transport and storage, and tolerating poor technology performance. Our Digital Civics Framework presents a guide to increasing the data literacy of billions of citizens. We outline the data knowledge that society needs and propose exercises that will help citizens interact productively within a data-driven society.

An anthology of short stories based upon/inspired by, and in loving homage to all of those great gore-fest movies and books of the 1980s (not necessarily based in that era, although some do ride that wave of nostalgia), the golden age when horror well and truly came kicking, screaming, and spraying blood, gore, and body parts out from the shadows.

Technical artists serving in the local church understand what it means to love Jesus but, somehow, hate Christmas. By the time Christmas (or any church event) is over, technical artists have poured hundreds of hours of their lives into thankless jobs - rolling cable, taping the stage, checking mics, and other invisible jobs. They’re the first to arrive and the last to leave. They work behind the scenes and dress in black.

The Everlasting King has been dealt a blow. The blow has only brought Huon and those he fights beside to the Everlasting King's attention. Though Huon has reached the rank of Low Celestial faster than he had anticipated while destroying one of the Everlasting King's stockpiles of stolen cores, he fears that his newfound strength won't be enough to protect his friends. As the Everlasting King's fleet prepares to sail for Taloniar, their only hope to prevent full-on war between the two continents is to find and destroy the other stockpiles of cores before the fleet reaches its destination.

Follow Takashi Hiraku and the Robot Commandos. An elite unit of augmented warriors that charge into battle supported by an army of robotic drones. A new enemy, Colonel Shona Morven, a cybernetic veteran of the war leads an elite force of rebel Black Shields commandos to Thanax. They travel with a small fleet of transports and a single battle carrier filled with fighter craft and dropships. In a stunning attack they sweep behind Union lines and overrun a mining colony and threaten to seize control of the remaining vital Mining stations in the Thanax Maelstrom.

Tessa hat die Wahrheit über Hardin erfahren, und es ist die größte Demütigung ihres Lebens. Jetzt muss sie sich diesen Mann aus dem Herzen reißen. Sie will ihr Leben zurück - Ihr Leben vor Hardin. Doch da ist die Erinnerung an seine leidenschaftliche Liebe, seine Berührungen, die hungrigen Küsse. Und sie weiß, dass er sie nicht einfach aufgeben wird. Aber kann er sich wirklich ändern? Können sie einander retten oder wird der Sturm sie in die Tiefe reißen?

Xeno City, a cross roads in a sprawling multi-species galaxy, is also a city brimming with greed, corruption and murder. Wading through this murky cesspool is J. Azize "Jazz" Singer. A private detective pursuing an honest, or not so honest, buck. When Jazz is told of the death of his childhood friend, Erta L’Hotzuma, a death the local law fails to investigate, he sets out to find out who is responsible and why. His investigation, however, soon meets strong and violent resistance and he begins to suspect he has stumbled onto something bigger than just the death of a friend.

A new warlord, Malik Khan, has appeared inside Afghanistan. A common bandit and a thief, but clever enough to cloak his rampage of murder and pillage under the mantel of Islam. He takes a hospital in a remote area as his base of operations, a former stone built military post perched on a hilltop and said to be impregnable. Safe behind his walls and with the medical staff held hostage, he is free to continue his campaign of robbery and murder unmolested.

PFC Eddie Hawkins, a Browning .50 gunner based in Afghanistan, has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight. His Humvee is commanded by Sergeant Dan Jones, the platoon leader. Leading a training mission into a dummy Afghan village, things go disastrously wrong after a foul-up by an intelligence major. As if it couldn’t be worse, the officer intends to make amends for his mistake and leads them back into the heart of the enemy.

What makes a start-up successful? This book, from award-winning business school professors and a tech serial entrepreneur, tells what makes start-ups successful. Instead of telling start-ups what to do, like most start-up books, they share what start-ups should avoid. Along the way, they share small-business start-up success stories gleaned from the How I Built This podcast and their firsthand experiences.

Displaced is Linda Schwab’s Holocaust memoir, a retelling of her experience surviving 18 months in a man-made cave, another year as an exile in Poland and Germany, and three years as a refugee in a displaced persons camp. Just six years old when a band of Nazi soldiers arrived in her tiny shtetl in Myadel, Poland, Linda observed atrocities no child ever needs to witness.

Superbly narrated with extensive sound design, Todd Schick brings over three decades of knowledge and experience in voiceover to the table. Weaving stories of the voiceover industry and its history, Todd reveals the raw truth of the business in what can only be described as an aural sculpture. With the release of The Madness of Voiceover—the first in a series of books—Todd Schick throws down the gauntlet using the power of his voice and pen.

Humans are social beings. We all have a drive inside of us to love and be loved. While we may think finding love is all about looks, wealth, or even personality, in reality, it all goes back to our state of mind. In this audiobook, you'll learn how to love yourself, love life, and find your perfect partner to share this beautiful adventure with.

Part two of Robot Commandos, a thrilling new series of short-listen adventures that follow Takashi Hiraku and the Robot Commandos. An elite unit of augmented warriors that charge into battle supported by an army of robotic drones. Takashi Hiraku may have survived the battle of Harmine, but he did not escape unscathed. Badly wounded he is offered the chance to join the elite unit of Robot Commandos. This special force makes use of high-tech combat armor known as Dragoon MK II Battle Armour.

Eddie Hawkins is the cupola gunner on a Humvee based in Afghanistan. He has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight, until things start to unravel. Ordered to accompany a combat engineer to give covering fire while he clears a dangerous highway of IEDs, a brutal, bullying master sergeant gives him the wrong route. The result is a debacle, American lives are lost, and they blame Hawkins. Held in contempt by his crew, the next operation offers him a chance to put things right. Except the same master sergeant has command of his platoon.