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Feeling that life is unfair when her father is killed in the front lines of France and she has to live with her relatives on a western farm, 12-year-old Susanna Stanson runs away to the city. She decides that all will be well when she reaches her old home, but a severe snowstorm interrupts her trip.

Klara Ivanski arrives from the Old Country with her Papa, Mama, and 10 brothers and sisters. "All vill be vell," Papa assures them, but Mama and several of her brothers and sisters must remain at their aunt and uncle's because of sickness. With barely enough money for food, Klara is quick to assure her papa that they only need Mama and the others to make Christmas special. But will the family be together for their first Christmas in America?

Billionaire Scott Hollister’s ambition is to become a senior partner at his law firm. His track record is good and he has seniority, but he doesn’t have the appropriate corporate image. He needs a house, an attitude adjustment, and most importantly, a wife. He finds a woman interested in dating him—not just in dating his wallet—but the woman he is falling in love with is a waitress at a local diner who has mistaken him for being a homeless man after a mishap jogging in the park. He pretends to be penniless while courting Caroline, all while fighting off corporate sharks.

Producing your own food is always a good idea. And beekeeping can become a wonderful and useful hobby! Making your own ethically sourced honey will definitely make you proud. Maybe you could even sell some honey. The first step? Learning all there is to know about beekeeping.

SELECTED AS A YALSA 2022 AMAZING AUDIO FOR YOUNG ADULTS! Four starred reviews! Dear Martin meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping, evocative novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down when he foresees his younger brother’s imminent...

In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family's roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana. The stifling, sticky heat inspired them to find creative ways to stay cool and out of trouble. When they were not doing their chores — handling a colorful cast of customers, scrubbing motel-room toilets, plucking chicken bones and used condoms from under the beds — they played canasta, an old ladies’ game that provided them with a refuge from the sun and helped them avoid their violent, troubled father.

Ein Artefakt am falschen Ort. Zwei Menschen in der falschen Zeit. Opfer in einem falschen Spiel. Max und Liz sind dem rätselhaften Zeitphänomen entkommen. Die Mars-Kolonie verspricht ihnen ein ganz neues, spannendes Leben. Aber sie haben jemanden zurückgelassen, der ihnen wichtig ist. Sollen sie eine Reise antreten, von der noch nie jemand zurückgekommen ist? Und warum scheint ihnen schon beim Versuch jeder Steine in den Weg zu legen?

A fast paced young adult story of Keith Johnson, a 13 year old boy and his older brother, who are hired to guide an eccentric old man search the mountains of the Four Corners area of the American Southwest for a legendary Spanish silver mine. The story gets complicated when Mr. Copley brings his granddaughter along. Interwoven with the modern story are the long ago tales of Yellow Feather, a Native American boy whose village developed the mine, and Benito, a Mestizo cook traveling with a party of Spanish conquistadores seeking to find and develop the mine.

This audiobook is your complete guide to a better memory. It will teach you how to develop accurate memory. Learn simple methods that allow you to nail down information easily and a mental technique for remembering names without anxiety. With this guide, you can become more powerful at work, at school. Follow the memory techniques and turn your mind into a superpowered computer.

Anne is a young 21st-century woman in the midst of a lifelong love affair with the 16th century and the enigmatic Anne Boleyn. Following on from the end of Volume I, having been taken ill during a visit to the British Library, for the second time, Anne is catapulted back 500 years and into the body of her heroine. From the zenith of Anne Boleyn's power and influence, to the dark days of her brutal downfall, the modern-day Anne experiences both triumph and tragedy, as well as uncovering the secret that lies behind her twenty-first century relationship with her lover, Daniel.

Land has a price. It's always been that way. When J.S. Stensrud and his wife Dotty buy a piece of land on the Oregon coast known as the Spit, they come to know that price. As Stensrud tries to build a legacy on his island amid the background of the Great Depression, he is visited by a Native American woman who helps him learn the bloody price of land in the most painful way possible.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Hampton Roads, Virginia. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. This guide book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead gives you knowledge that you may not find in other smaller print travel books.

Little Claudette lives in the magic kingdom of Motown, where all the happy children sing and dance in the streets. One day, an angry witch casts a spell, and the kingdom descends into dark silence. Unhappy and bored, Claudette finds a box of Miracles in her attic. Inside are four little fellows - Smokey, Bobby, Ronnie, and Pete - who sing music so sweet. Claudette and the Miracles begin to sing together, but will it be enough to bring light and laughter back to the kingdom of Motown?

2058. Elisabeth ist Professorin für Mathematik. Vieldimensionale Formen haben es ihr angetan, die in der Wirklichkeit keine Entsprechung haben. Doch dann schickt ihr Chef sie zum Fundort eines realen Artefakts, das ihren Theorien entsprungen sein könnte - oder der Technologie einer außerirdischen Zivilisation. 30 Jahre zuvor. Physiker Max will nichts geringeres, als Einstein zu verbessern. Seine neueste Theorie scheint fehlerfrei - allerdings sagt sie das Ende der Menschheit voraus. Verhindern ließe sich die Auslöschung der Erde nur, wenn Max ein vieldimensionales Objekt fände.

In the desolate mountains of Scotland, there is an abbey that time has forgotten. Its buildings have crumbled, and the monks that once lived there, guarding the abbey's secret, are long dead. When the journal of a crazed monk is discovered, so is the secret of Inchorgrath Abbey. There are tunnels underneath the abbey and in them resides a secret long forgotten. Together with a group of mercenaries, her would-be boyfriend, and her cutthroat professor, Lasha Arkeketa will travel across the world to uncover the secret of The Abbey.

It’s one of the most shocking unsolved missing-child cases in the world. Where is Kyron Horman? Why hasn’t the woman who police suspect is responsible for his 2010 disappearance - Kyron’s stepmother - been charged? That the seven-year-old disappeared from his grade school got the attention of parents around the world.

D'après l'histoire vraie de trois sœurs qui ont survécu à l'enfer des camps. "Je veux que vous me promettiez et que vous promettiez chacune à vos deux soœurs de toujours veiller les unes sur les autres. Que vous ne laisserez rien vous séparer. Compris ?" Slovaquie, 1942. Les années ont passé depuis que Livia, Cibi et Magda Meller ont fait cette promesse à leur père à l'ombre du laurier-rose du jardin. Mais les après-midi insouciants de l'enfance sont bien loin désormais.

Where life as we know it is impossible, the real adventure begins. Venus is a hostile planet, covered by active volcanoes, but NASA launches an expedition to search for life there anyway. Their specially developed airship cruises in the clouds of Venus to serve as a research platform for its four astronauts. When they discover dangerous activities on the glowing-hot surface, there can only be one explanation: A highly sophisticated life form must be at work.

"This powerful healing work is something that’s missing in the world of mental and physical health today and is a light for others to find themselves and create new references and meaningful experiences that can be channeled to overcome any obstacle and succeed beyond their wildest dreams."...

After the President of the United States is poisoned, Vampire COLONY agent Mason Warner steps in as the man's double. He manages the President's hectic schedule just fine until the political party sends in a public relations expert to clean up the President's image. She is the one woman from Mason's past whom he has never forgotten — the woman who is the measuring stick he compares all other women to — but he compelled her decades ago to forget their one night together.