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When Robert Engelbart inherits his Aunt Edith's cottage in the picturesque village of Dapple Dyke, he is both amazed and confused in equal measure. Truth is he had only ever been to the village once before as a 10-year-old and that had been to stay with his aunt, whilst London was being blitzed.

Max is just an ordinary, slightly scruffy boy, until he burps, and that’s when he turns into a huge monster, with teeth like swords, who can jump over buildings, roar loudly and eat whole dustbins. It's great being a monster whose aim is to 'protect and do good stuff' until Max sneezes...and when he does, he turns back into a boy again, often far from home and dressed only in his pants. But his arch enemy, Peregrine, a boy his age has invented a POOP (Portable Operating Omni Prison) machine to catch Monster Max and put him in a zoo.

From terraformed outposts to magical realms, journey to worlds where deadly plants, rampant biodiversity, or failed colonies have created irresistible opportunities for those brave enough to seize them. New worlds, found family, mystical secrets, and deadly science weave together in this lesbian-centric anthology focusing on a very different kind of first time - a first encounter with a world, or being, entirely unlike our own.

Der schüchterne Hans entschließt sich nach langem Zögern, über eine Dating-Plattform Kontakt zu Frauen herzustellen. Er kann sein Glück kaum fassen, als die attraktive Nadine sich mit ihm treffen möchte und ihm im Gespräch auch großes Interesse entgegenzubringen scheint. Hans gerät so sehr in ihren Bann, dass er bereit ist, ihr alles zu geben, ohne zu ahnen, in welche Gefahr er sich begibt, denn bei ihr ist nichts wie es scheint.

Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq to become 'the Oskar Schindler of Asia' - with an updated introduction. With enormous power and insight, The People Smuggler tells a story of daily heroism, bringing to life the forces that drive so many people to put their lives in unscrupulous hands. At once a nonfiction thriller and a moral maze, this is one man's epic story of trying to find a safe place in the world.

Motivating Adolescents introduces the emerging process, which draws on the wisdom of philosophers and social reformers, such as Rudolf Steiner, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Campbell, Goethe, and Plato, to help parents set their adolescent up for a successful future with confidence, mindfulness, and passion. Throughout Motivating Adolescents, 20-year veteran Waldorf teacher and international speaker, Robin Theiss helps parents and their teens:

Judging ourselves and others by external standards can feel empowering, as if we are sorting out the world and escaping whatever fails to measure up - whether we are looking at people, situations, or activities. But judgment can hold us hostage and leave us dissatisfied with life. The Art of Choosing You: Tools to Radically Shift Your Life argues that judgment is a trap, putting us on a hamster wheel as we repeatedly strive to meet inauthentic expectations rather than finding freedom and peace through a practice the author calls "living in allowance" of ourselves and others.

For high school senior Parker Rabinowitz, anything less than success is a failure. A dropped extracurricular, a C on a calc quiz, a non-Jewish shiksa girlfriend - one misstep, and his meticulously constructed life splinters and collapses. The countdown to HYP (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) has begun, and he will stay focused. That's why he has to keep it a secret. The pocketful of breath mints. The weird smell in the bathroom. He can't tell his achievement-obsessed father. He can't tell his hired college consultant. And he certainly can't tell Julianne.

Un bateau vogue vers les Rivages Maudits avec, à son bord, des hommes et des femmes condamnés à l'exil sur des terres lointaines pour avoir trahi le Gouverneur Esclépius. Leur destination : le désert des Pluies - un pays à la végétation monstrueuse, aux eaux corrosives et aux sols fangeux. A peine débarqués, les passagers tentent d'organiser leur survie. Bientôt, la découverte d'une ville souterraine, peuplée d'apparitions extraordinaires et de sons envoûtants, les plonge dans un monde inconnu et pourtant étrangement familier...

Following her father's death and her own attempted suicide, pampered socialite Karen Butler reluctantly seeks refuge at the home of Sophia Taylor, the grandmother she has never known. Determined to escape Sophia's broken-down ranch as soon as she can, Karen resists connecting with its inhabitants - especially Dusty Stoddard, the driven director of the Golden T's summer camp for at-risk youth. Karen is not the only one who has been wounded; Sophia, Dusty, and the boys have all suffered tremendous pain and loss. But by the time Karen discovers this, it is too late to escape.

Sie versprachen, die Drachen zu schützen - doch sie brachen ihr Wort! Unverzichtbar für echte Fantasy-Fans: das berühmte Spin-off der Weitseher-Saga! Die große Drachin Tintaglia rettete einst die Händler von Bingstadt. Dafür schworen ihr diese, ihre Brut zu beschützen. Doch als sich die Drachenbrut als missgestaltet und schwach erwies, zogen die Händler ihren Schutz zurück. Nun benötigen die jungen Drachen eine neue Heimat. Ihre verbliebenen menschlichen Freunde sehen nur eine Möglichkeit: Kelsingra, die verlorene Stadt der Drachen inmitten der Regenwildnis.

The year is 1996—a time before cell phones, status updates, and location tags—when you could still travel to a remote corner of the world and disappear. This is where we meet Gina and Duncan, a young couple madly in love, traveling around Europe on a romantic adventure. It’s a time both thrilling and dizzying for Gina, whose memories are hazy following a head injury—and the growing sense that the man at her side is keeping secrets from her.

Look, 2020 was a dang nightmare. A nightmare times two for single folks because how the heck are we supposed to meet someone and fall in love if we’re not allowed to leave the house? Sure, online dating is great and all, but meeting someone face-to-face is kind of important to the whole “love” thing.

Robin Coste Lewis’ electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. The central panel is the title poem, “Voyage of the Sable Venus”, a riveting narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present - titles that feature or in some way comment on the Black female figure in Western art.

Surfer Zane Hollander has always been lucky with the ladies. But if he’s to land a new sponsor, Zane needs to clean up his act, and fast. He might not have anything in common with brainy event planner Sophie Birch, but she’s sweet and respectable — exactly what he needs. Sophie’s never set foot on a beach, let alone left her hometown…until now. What does a sex-on-a-surfboard celebrity like Zane see in a klutzy bookworm like her? Oh, right. Nothing. Their relationship is purely fictional. And Zane is supposed to be on his best behavior. Sigh.

As a prima ballerina, Rayne finally has all of her dreams laid at her feet until someone’s carelessness takes it all away from her. As the part owner of a microbrewery, Walt sees beautiful women all the time. As a fairly well-known attorney, he can pretty much have any woman he wants. So why is it that the only woman he can think about is the one who believes she has lost all reason to live? And can he find a way to give her one?

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As kids, Mark and his cousin, Talia, spent many happy summers together at the family cottage in Ontario, Canada, but a fight between their parents put an end to the annual event. Living on opposite coasts - Mark in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Talia in Victoria, British Columbia - they haven’t seen each other in years. When their grandfather dies unexpectedly, Mark and Talia find themselves reunited at the cottage again, cleaning it out while the family decides what to do with it.

Most of our stories have bumps and bruises that leave us at the fork in the road as to where to go next, feeling alone on the journey of life. Reshaping Reality will encourage you to shake your spirit awake from anything that is limiting you from your potential, propelling you into a life of purpose and meaning, giving you the support needed to grow, evolve, and empower your life. Today, you stop existing, and start L-I-V-I-N-G.

Following in the footsteps of such chroniclers of American lunacy as Cormac McCarthy, Joy Williams, and Charles Portis, Robin McLean’s Pity the Beast is a mind-melting feminist Western that pins a tale of sexual violence and vengeance to a canvas stretching back to prehistory.