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For Lance, the incursion of monsters and a magical shop isn't as much of an apocalypse as an inconvenience. Coming back from archery practice, Lance and his club are in the right place and right time to deal some mayhem for the spawning monsters. But just killing them as they come out of the portals isn't enough. They're going to have to go in and finish the job.

A grandmotherly necromancer seeking resolution for her past with the help of her loyal entourage: an undead cat and a spectral knight. A girl on the run from the Eternal Empire for the mysterious power she possesses. When a chance encounter pulls them together, Gam Gam will do what it takes to protect Mina from the rogue sergeant hounding her–including raising the dead. As long as they're dressed for the occasion.

The captivating book fearless, expertly, and comprehensibly explains to parents and coaches how the brain and the minds of athletes work. Using specific examples, the author analyzes the impact of feedback on thinking, perception, attention, and even the quality of a player's coordination. Parents often do not realize how their influence shapes the neural network of their child. The book takes you into the depths of neuroscience, sports psychology, and provides you with knowledge and skills to be a better coach for your child.

Our society is obsessed with achievement. Young people are pushed toward the next test or the "best" grammar school, high school, or college they can get into. Adults push themselves toward the highest-paying, most prestigious jobs, seeking promotions and public recognition. As Adam Gopnik points out, the result is not so much a rat race as a rat maze, with no way out. Except one: to choose accomplishment over achievement.

When it comes to the challenge of being a man, Adam Farrer always seems to find a way to fall short. In his second collection of candid personal essays, he vividly recounts his struggles to live up to masculine expectations. This is a book about growing up, trying to define yourself as a man but somehow always missing the mark.

Close to Adam Nicolson’s home in Sussex, there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles. It is the haunt of deer and many birds – nightingales, the occasional cuckoo, ravens, robins, owls and in summer the sweet-singing warblers that come north from Africa to breed in English woods. This gorgeous book charts his attempt to encounter birds, to engage with a marvellous layer of life he had previously almost ignored. He wanted to look and listen, to return to ‘bird school’ and see what it might teach him.

When a scathing review by a prominent food critic threatens to ruin the career of local celebrity chef Anton Parsley, he turns to Cooper and her Bible study group for help. Cooper's boyfriend was once mentored by the beloved chef, and Cooper will do anything she can to support his struggling restaurant. But before she can figure out how to restore the chef's good reputation, the food critic is found murdered in his restaurant. Suddenly, Cooper and the gang must go from propping up the chef to tracking down a killer.

Something draws you back to this shared universe of terrifying tales, which this time around are longer, darker, bloodier, and more disturbing than before. Learn the beginnings of previous characters, meet new creatures, and face some of your worst fears. Last time, you left the the light on... this time, you're plunged into the dark.

When a husband killed his wife he was charged with committing murder, and if found guilty he was hanged. When a wife killed her husband she was charged with petty treason, a crime that was analogous with high treason, and if found guilty she was burned at the stake. Unlike murder, petty treason was indefensible and there could be no plea for manslaughter or self-defence.

Hi. My name's Lea, like the field. I'm sixteen and I live on a farm that's too far away from the public schools so I'm home-schooled, but not, like, Christian home-schooled. My parents pulled me out of that a few years ago. My younger brother and I read a lot of books and learn what we want to learn. All that knowledge gets me in trouble though, because I mouth off to my dumb neighbors when they stick God and guns in my face. And I stick up for the people that they hate-the outsiders, the freaks, the people who live different lifestyles than them.

Kyra Bishop sits in a jail cell, facing the consequences of her refusal to betray her principles. The in-game murder of her arch-enemy by a new ally has landed her in peril. To secure her freedom, Kyra is forced to swallow her pride and make a deal with the one she loathes most, so she begrudgingly allows him to join her crew. But when she returns to Retribution, her powerful new ally, Admiral Grieves, introduces a mysterious passenger whose revelations about the demigoddess haunting Kyra's existence send shockwaves through her reality.

Measles, once seemingly defeated, is resurgent around the globe. Why, at a time when biomedical science is so advanced, do parents turn away from vaccination, endangering their own children and the health of the wider population? Using a combination of patient narrative, historical analysis, and scientific research, Dr. Adam Ratner, pediatrician and infectious disease specialist, argues that the reawakening of measles and the subsequent coronavirus pandemic are bellwethers of forgotten knowledge—indicators of decaying trust in science and an underfunded public health infrastructure.

They arrived without warning... There was no time to fight back. Many lives were lost. Many loved ones turned. On her deathbed, Julia has one last thought. Blood. With an insatiable hunger. An unnatural strength. Can she deny the creature inside of her? With a vampire army ravaging the streets of London, no place is safe anymore. Turning to strangers, they must trust that they can band together and defeat the army before it leaves London.

As the self-appointed world expert on the subject, Adam Hurrey sets off to define the definitive rules of the language of football. Have we let the football lexicon spiral out of control? In finding out, this book will be exactly as gloriously pedantic as it sounds.

Did you know that ghosts love coffee? They’re not trying to be scary. They’re just deprived of an appropriate amount of caffeine! They also bump into things by accident, are occasionally nosy, and get a little nervous when they’re seen by the living. Elwood McGee knows these ghost facts because he’s one of those rare people with the gift of ghost-sight. And it turns out ghosts are everywhere! Especially in the small Tennessee town where Elwood and his family had to move following the death of his big brother Noah, which Elwood thinks was his fault.

Using case studies, success stories, and the latest research in the field of SFBT, listeners are given the tools, knowledge, and confidence to apply SFBT principles that will shift their perspective, retrain their brain, and change their relationship to their future.

Alle deine Straßen enden hier... Vor drei Monaten fuhr Cambry siebzig Meilen zu einer abgelegenen Brücke und stürzte sich in den Tod. Das behauptet zumindest der Polizist, der sie gefunden hat. Cambrys Zwillingsschwester Lena hat da ihre Zweifel. Was verschweigt der Beamte? Soll es tatsächlich nur Zufall sein, dass er Cambry noch kurz vor ihrem Tod angehalten hat? Mit dem Auto ihrer toten Schwester macht sich Lena auf den Weg zur Brücke, um die Wahrheit herauszufinden. Die Reise wird für sie zum Kampf um ihr eigenes Überleben.

The principle of integrity is universal in nature and scope. Whether consciously or subconsciously, it is the value that we all seek in the people we interact with, and the companies we do business with. This is especially true when it comes to choosing a financial advisory firm. In the wealth management industry, recognizing integrity isn't always as easy as it is in other professions.

Est-il jamais trop tard pour sortir de la friend zone ? — Sérieux, tu ne vois pas le problème ? Cette amitié n’a rien de normal ! Et tu sais quoi ? J’en ai marre d’essayer de rivaliser avec... ça ! Il est grand temps que tu choisisses. Non, Kelsey, ne fais pas ça ! — C’est elle ou moi. Bree Camden et Nathan Donelson, le nouveau quarterback vedette d’une célèbre équipe de football américain, sont inséparables depuis des années. Amis, juste amis... Vraiment ? Lorsqu’une soirée un peu trop arrosée les contraint à prétendre jusqu’au prochain Super Bowl qu’ils sont en couple, ils s’aventurent sur un terrain glissant.

Budapest, autumn 1943. After four years of war, Hungary was firmly allied with Nazi Germany. Budapest swirled with intrigue and betrayal, home to spies and agents of every kind. But the city remained an oasis in the midst of conflict where Allied POWs and Polish and Jewish refugees found sanctuary. All that came to an end in March 1944 when the Nazis invaded. By the summer Allied bombers were pounding Budapest’s grand boulevards and historic squares.