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Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts. Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a...

This gripping personal account of life as a young World War Two submariner on two famous Royal Navy submarines, Thrasher and Trenchant gives vivid detail of depth charging, gun actions and other operations including sinking the Japanese cruiser Ashigara, the largest enemy warship sunk by a British submarine during the war, sinking the German U-boat U-859 with its secret cargo, towing a midget submarine to attack the German battleship Tirpitz in the Norwegian Fjords, and taking a group of SBS soldiers to carry out a daring raid in Sumatra.

Intimacy is so much more than sex. Connecting intimately is what we were created for. It can be our greatest joy, and our deepest longing. And yet, we fail at it so often.

This meticulously researched book tells the story of Midwestern agriculture during a period of epochal change in farm technology, farm management, and farm life. The hard work, tight communities, and values that had characterized the family farm were replaced by large corporate enterprises with massive acreages, high-tech methods, and global outlooks. While many decry this change as loss, Nordin and Scott find a net gain. This is their richly detailed account of one of the great transformations in American life.

Eric Ward has a new client: Dieter Barschell. He’s an ex-professional footballer charged with dealing drugs at a Newcastle racecourse. Eric secures bail for his client. He also precipitates a murder investigation. While defending Barschell, Eric antagonizes one of the prosecution witnesses, DCI Charlie Spate. Can the two men work together to try to resolve this mess?

It's been four months since the events of Sight Unseen, and Kendra Michaels is obsessed with trying to track down serial killer Eric Colby. Despite his apparent execution at San Quentin, Kendra is convinced that Colby is still alive. The trouble is, she can't prove it. Even her razor-sharp powers of observation, honed while blind during the first twenty years of her life, have gotten her nowhere. So no one believes her.

A counter-terrorist organization stops the murder of a French politician in the Pyrenees. The would-be assassin is killed at the scene. He has a disturbing tattoo on his arm. Eric Ward meets Ben Shaw at a bankers’ dinner. Ben hires him to look into his old rival and Eric’s ex-wife’s probable new lover, Jason Sullivan. Jason’s disappeared and so has the money for a project he was working on.

Coming home from the war in Iraq, US Army private Roy Scranton thought he'd left the world of strife behind. Then he watched as new calamities struck America, heralding a threat far more dangerous than ISIS or al-Qaeda: Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, megadrought - the shock and awe of global warming. Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Conflict, famine, plagues, and riots menace from every quarter.

Pediatrics, which focuses on the medical care of children from birth through adolescence, is one of the most fascinating areas of modern medicine. To step into the shoes of a trained pediatrician is to better understand how these medical heroes diagnose common and uncommon illnesses in their young patients, helping each child grow into his or her greatest potential. In these 24 lectures, don the doctor's white coat for an accessible journey into the world of pediatric medicine to solve medical mysteries.

Join Flora and her friends in these short story audiobooks for kids. Your little ones will love learning how Flora and her quirky group of animal friends work together to face challenges and learn together....

A collection of previously published and new short stories by author Martin Roy Hill. In the title story, "Duty," a Cold War soldier faces the prospect of starting WWIII. In "Something Far Away," a former Coastguardsman must face his ghosts from the past.

Wizard of Ads books have become known for their unique blend of principle, practicality, and lore. Now here's the third book in the series, with yet more sage guidance and dozens of fascinating true stories. Drawing on the teachings of his renowned Academy, the Wizard shares his unique perspectives on the roles neuroscience, chaos theory, poetry, and art play in the field of human persuasion.

Learn the history and legends of ancient Rome!

This book clearly describes ways of understanding some original Hebrew and Greek techniques and discovering the true meanings of many of the words of Jesus. This book will be an important addition to your personal or group Bible study time.

Bienvenue dans le monde merveilleux de la maternité, un livre nécessaire et décomplexant qui aborde sans fard des sujets restés trop longtemps tabous.

Vous arrivez au boulot un matin, complètement groggy. Votre premier réflexe: mettre l'eau à chauffer et attraper une tasse. Mais alors que la bouilloire siffle, votre main hésite: chicorée, ou café noir? Le substitut ou l'original? Rester prudent ou booster votre énergie... Voilà votre choix.

One day, the life of middle-aged Japanese businessman Ryoma Takebayashi came to a rather sudden and disappointing end. Ryoma had never had a blessed life, but after his death, three great gods sought his cooperation and reincarnated him as a child in another world with swords and magic!

Ready to move forward with your life and make meaningful changes, but you are regularly held back by mental health and/or trauma from your past? Unresolved trauma can cause a number of mental health conditions, but this doesn’t have to be the way life defines you forever. You deserve better!

"Mon intuition me chuchote que tout ça ne sent pas bon, mais la vilaine fille égoïste tapie en moi n'a pas envie de chercher plus loin... ni de rentrer à la maison." Depuis la disparition de la Horde, Evann et Connor profitent de l'accalmie et de leur lune de miel à l'autre bout du monde. Le repos est néanmoins de courte durée, car un coup de fil inattendu les force à quitter le Japon via l'aéroport régional d'Akita, où un jet privé de l'EAS les attend pour les ramener aux États-Unis.

"La France. Où tout a commencé. Où mon destin a été scellé par d'autres, dix-sept ans plus tôt. Le mien, mais aussi celui d'Evann, mon Gardien. Et voilà que nous y retournons. Ensemble. La boucle est bouclée." Depuis l'attaque de la Horde, plus question pour Connor d'échapper à la surveillance de son Gardien. Et ce, pour son plus grand plaisir... Le plan? Quitter de toute urgence Eden Lake et gagner Paris où l'attend une place à l'EAS, l'Agence de Sécurité des Els qui forme les Volontaires, dirigée d'une main de fer par sa grand-mère.