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Through her fiercely independent, yet childlike eyes, Tera allows us to enter the recesses of her guarded world. Her Aussie sister, Beth, walks with us, compassionately guiding and explaining. Tera’s life? A world of secrets. A place of shame. A lifetime of expanding mental illness. Tera moves from collector to hoarder, progressively tipped by the compulsion into a perilous world of rats and disease. As Tera repeatedly expressed through words, actions and even rage, she did not live like other people. And yet, living an ordinary life of home and family was her greatest desire.

Das Smartphone zählt unsere Schritte, die Smartwatch misst unsere Herzfrequenz, und das Smart Home detektiert Zigarettenrauch und Schimpfwörter. Endlich gibt es all diese klugen kleinen Helfer, die uns liebevoll behüten und umsorgen, unser Leben erleichtern. Falsch! Adrian Lobe zeigt, wie uns die Digitaltechnik geradewegs in ein Datengefängnis führt, das wir selbst gebaut haben und so bald nicht wieder verlassen werden.

Tales of the Apt is a companion series to the best-selling decalogy Shadows of the Apt (Tor UK), gathering together short stories from disparate places and supplementing them with a wealth of new tales written especially for the series. Together, they combine to provide a different perspective, an alternative history that parallels and unfolds alongside the familiar one, filling in the gaps and revealing intriguing backstories for many established characters. A must listen for any fan of the Shadows of the Apt books, where epic fantasy meets steampunk and so much more.

Chi è la giovanissima ragazza ebrea proveniente da un piccolo paese della Galilea che divenne la madre di Gesù? Oggetto di culto e devozione senza pari, la figura di Maria di Nazaret nel corso dei secoli è stata al centro di interpretazioni spesso lontane da quanto raccontano le esili tracce presenti su di lei nei vangeli canonici. Ha attraversato il mondo cattolico, ortodosso, come pure - sorprendentemente - quello islamico, e ha influenzato l'arte e la spiritualità di tutti i tempi.

Spade, the galaxy’s most feared assassin, has been contracted to kill a woman who will bring him face-to-face with demons he foolishly hoped he would never have to deal with again. As his mission progresses, Spade soon realizes that he will have to use his special skills set to not only save this woman, but to save the entire universe.

Procrastination is a problem that almost everybody in the world faces at one point or another. Some people learn how to overcome it by forming good habits, and others suffer for years by constantly putting things off. This program was created to walk you through the steps necessary to break free from the shackles of procrastination and skyrocket your accomplishments to levels you never thought possible.

Do you want to significantly improve the quality of your thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors? Do you want to be able to understand the world better and become better respected? This book will help you do exactly that! Many of us take in and process complex information throughout the day, whether it is at work or elsewhere. The ability to break that complex structure down and present it in a simplified version is often crucial to our success but is something that many of us lack. That has now changed!

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Carrot Principle and All In deliver a breakthrough, groundbreaking guide for building today’s most collaborative teams—so any organization can operate at peak performance. A massive shift is taking place in the business world. In today’s...

Welcome to Fountains Parish - a cesspit of trade and crime, where ambition curls up to die and desperation grows on its cobbled streets like mold on week-old bread. Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist. But she has something other thieves don't...tiny puppet-like companions: some made of wood, some of metal. They don't entirely trust her, and she doesn't entirely understand them, but their partnership mostly works.

Bis zum Schluss spannend: packender Jugendroman über ein Mädchen mit einer Persönlichkeitsstörung. Hannah ist 15. Als sie sich in einer Telefonzelle mit der Telefonnummer eines Mädchenhauses in der Hand wiederfindet, hält sie sich für völlig durchgeknallt. Was macht sie hier? Es ist nicht Hannahs erster Filmriss. Sie tut oft Dinge, die sie nicht versteht und hat dunkle Ahnungen, die durch nichts begründet scheinen. Fast scheint es so, als würde sie ab und zu in eine andere Rolle schlüpfen. Und wer sind diese Anderen, die behaupten, zu ihr zu gehören?

The Gibson Boys Collection is a feel-good, small-town series featuring blue-collar alpha males and smart, capable heroines. Sweet and steamy, the Gibson Boys enjoys favorite tropes such as second-chance romance, blue collar vs. silver spoon, enemies to lovers, and more. Fall madly in love with this relatable, unforgettable family by USA Today best-selling author Adriana Locke. This set includes four full-length novels and one novella.

From his youthful perspective, Adrian C. Walker II, who is the eldest of 13 siblings and now author, instantaneously and subconsciously discovered that growing up sooner than later was his determining factor. In retrospect, leading a sheltered way of living was inevitable but normal, up until his vibrancy became unexpectedly shifted at the age of 12. The plague of bad news surfaced when he and his parents got a diagnosis - Mr. Walker had a bone tumor which was expected by the doctors to end Walker’s life or living his life as a leg amputee.

Leidenschaft, Versuchung und Gefahr in der High Society Manhattans! Als Gabriel Noble schwer verletzt an Körper und Seele aus Afghanistan zurückkehrte, war der Milliardär Nick Baine der Einzige, der ihm eine neue Chance gab. In seinem Auftrag soll er das ehemalige Supermodel Evelyn Beckham beschützen. Doch die Mission wird zur größten Herausforderung seines Lebens, denn zum einen soll Evelyn nichts davon wissen und zum anderen verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Pflicht und Leidenschaft, je mehr Zeit er mit der faszinierenden jungen Frau verbringt. Spin-Off zur "100"-Trilogie.

The majority of people who listen to this book to the end will likely have learned a lot about ethanol, such as the history of ethanol, how to produce ethanol at home, uses of ethanol, application of ethanol, and so on. Ethanol has a long history, certainly as a beverage but also as a fuel which only comes to use in the 19th century for lighting. The path of ethanol from a light source to fuel, an additive for pure air testing and bridging technology enable us to move into an oil-free era which is exciting.

We are all familiar with Angels. In churches, we see them in stained-glass windows, sculpted as statues and painted on altarpieces. We find them on greeting cards, on the tops of Christmas trees and we even dress up children to look like them. Indeed, in our imagination they look positively human with the exception that, unlike us, they have wings. Is any of this true and if it is, might "Angel" simply be a name for an extraterrestrial?

In the early years of the 20th century, Carl Jung (at one time Sigmund Freud's favorite pupil) developed his own system of depth psychology. He was particularly interested in dream analysis and the light they threw upon what was happening in the subconscious levels of his patients' minds. Jung invented the phrase 'archetype of the collective unconscious' to describe his findings, and saw parallels between his work on the psyche and alchemy. In this program, we explore his fascinating discoveries.

You are, no doubt, a busy student with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to read your textbooks to prepare for the GRE exam. However, the truth is that the GRE exam is a challenging test and a significant part of your graduate school application. Thorough preparation cannot be overlooked, therefore. That is why the author Adrian Harris developed this GRE audio study guide! This is a vocabulary edition. It covers over 1500 common GRE vocabulary words, including synonyms, definitions, and more.

Love is crazy. Peck Ward, the sweet, small-town mechanic, isn't sure it's for everyone. Least of all him. His life is chaotic enough without adding the pressure of a relationship. Besides, unrequited love is a real thing, and he's kind of over it. This works out perfectly until a certain someone throws a wrench - pun intended - into his plans. As they go from adversaries to friends to possibly something more, things get complicated. After all, they know how this story ends. It's not with them together.

The increasing need for cleaner and sustainable energies provoked by the contamination emitted to the atmosphere made by petrol sources had made biodiesel an option to reduce those emissions by using a renewable, clean product as vegetable to impulse diesel engines. In this book we will try to expose the chemistry behind the processing of vegetable oil (waste or clean), the equipment, safety measures, and setup for the area to process a batch of biodiesel at home.

Seit der Hunter Cain seine Freiheit wiedererlangte, verdingt er sich als Söldner. Doch als ein Job in Las Vegas außer Kontrolle gerät, stößt er an die Grenzen seines Ehrenkodex’ und verlässt die Stadt, um in Miami ganz neu anzufangen. Dort rettet er durch Zufall die junge Marina vor einem Attentat und findet sich mitten in einem Gangsterkrieg wieder. Cain setzt alles daran, die Stammesgefährtin zu beschützen. Und obwohl Marina nicht sonderlich begeistert davon ist, dass Cain dadurch ihre Mission gefährdet, kann sie sich der Anziehungskraft nicht entziehen, die der düstere Krieger in ihr auslöst.