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Stuart Ridge has a problem. When his bigoted father discovers he's gay, he tries to kill him. Thankfully, his mom steps in and helps him get away, but what's a 17-year-old boy supposed to do when all he's ever known is home? Eden Raleigh's got nothing left, just a guitar and a backpack with some clothes. After his parents died, it left him and his sister to fend for themselves. Now they're about to lose the family home and be on the streets. There's nothing left to do but get out while he can. However, everything changes when he meets Stuart at a bus station in the middle of nowhere.

The greatest threat to humanity remains humanity. If worrying about aliens, bigfoot, reptilians, dog men, shadow people wasn't enough, we now have to go and start messing with human-made robots. It's not going to be up to us at some point on whether or not robots are going to be good or bad for humanity - after the singularity, they will decide. Once the robots have AI (artificial intelligence), self-awareness, and free will, it will be game over.

As thievery and deceit befall the continent, a new generation of Maca leaders will rise. Daniel, the new Maca of Ishner on Thalia, struggles to right the wrongs imposed on his people for nearly 200 years. Determined to uncover the depths of the Sisterhood’s treachery, Daniel and the other young Maca of Thalia face danger, as new threats lead to a battle to save their land and people.

Don’t you have free time during the day? Do you want improve your life and be more productive? If you answered yes, this book is for you! Now I want to tell you how to remedy that. When you finish listening to this book, I can assure you that your mind will change. What do I teach you? I will help you transform any aspect of your life much faster than you can imagine; five best tips for study to have an unlimited memory; and more.

Amur grew up among the Nosi, a matriarchal society where decisions are enforced through violence, until he was chosen by Dorone and taken to live among the elderim, beings of immense power. Stripped of family, increasingly at odds with his own drug-altered body and mind, Amur now lives by the sea, where he hones his fighting skills and contemplates revenge against his former lover.

King Arthur wanted to search for the holy grail because it gave immortality. We will never know if King Arthur existed, but, in a way, he did achieve immortality. We are still talking about him after all these years. Arthur is a historic sacred figure to many British, embodying all their aspirations of nobility, honor, and goodness. The stories of the past are connected to each other. Everything that has ever happened since the beginning of time - the stars, the constellations - have been witnessing everything.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz proposed that the universe is composed of simple monads, each individually reflecting the entirety of time and space through the unsurpassable wisdom of God. This book, meanwhile, is composed of quatrains which reflect the brevity and fragility of mere human existence and reflect the all-too ineluctable skepticism of the author.

Michael Maw collects action figures, not dolls. He doesn’t have a single doll in his collection, that is until his 15th birthday. One of Michael’s friends gives him a doll as a joke, but Michael is not going to accept a doll for his birthday. How do you get rid of a doll no one wants, with hideous skin, ugly, sharp teeth and that also seems to always follow you, no matter where you go?

Kyle has been with his aunt for days, and not a single person has been at the park. The park seems empty, but the truth is tons of people go there - during the night, when most people are sleeping. But Kyle will soon learn the truth of why everyone doesn't go to the park. Because, no one can see them!

Sound interesting? The author thinks so, too! Listen to Mermaid Melody and experience the world of underwater fantasy. This is a great story for kids.

Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen, reimagined and transformed to bring us news of America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The two strands in this brilliant story collection—speculative history and tender, painful depictions of Black life in urban America—are joined by African notions of circular time in which past, present, and future exist all at once.

The online game Yamada Kenichi had been playing religiously is shutting down its servers, leaving him with a void in his heart. He looks for a new game to fill it, but everything he finds is way too easy. The kind of game he likes—the kind punishing enough to make players want to spend thousands of hours on it—just isn't around anymore.

I thought Peter Pan was a myth and Neverland a fairy tale. A story spun by my mother who had lost her mind a long time ago. But there was no denying the overwhelming shadow cast by Peter Pan when he was standing in my house.

This book is about the life of the author. It focuses on her faith, her hope, and her endurance during the years of her illness. In this true story, you will learn the how and why about the effects that changed her family’s life—the author’s Crohn’s disease, the 14 blood clots, toxic gut syndrome, colitis, tumors, ulcers, vertigo, weight gain and loss, pregnancies, the many surgeries, and how her body would not wake up after some of her surgeries.

In this updated edition, The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and expands on the movement's relevancy. This edition includes a new introduction that explores how the movement's core ideas have been challenged, re-affirmed, and re-imagined during the white nationalism of the Trump years, as well as a new chapter that examines the ideas and importance of Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka as significant participants in the Black Power Movement and Black Arts Movement, respectively.

In The Johnson Place, visit the story of a tract of land, the site of a tragic hunting accident, the sexual enslavement of a 17-year-old girl, the murder of a farmer's wife, the trial and hanging of the guilty party, an opportunistic purchase of the land, a family conflict over inheritance, the loss of the final vestiges of a great land holding, and the shattered dreams of many men trying to create a ski resort on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge.

On the face of it, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a story about a lone superhero. However, saving the world is a team effort, embodied in Team Avatar, aka the Gaang. Aang needs help from his friends and tutors, even from non-human animals. Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy brings to the fore the Eastern, Western, and Indigenous philosophies that are implicit in the show. This volume features contributions by experts on Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, and Indigenous schools of thought, next to focusing on Western classical authors.

Who else wants their dream book written today? If you can speak out loud, then you have what it takes to become a lightning-fast, best-selling author. Most people dream of writing a book, but those manuscripts end up shoved away in dusty drawers, half-finished and abandoned to be eaten by moths. Many of them are great writers, many of them have great ideas. Yet so many people come to the conclusion that they'll never finish their books.

The United States is dogged by racism and racial disparities in income, wealth, health, education, and criminal justice. Philosophers disagree on what kind of politics is needed to address this problem. Do we pursue race-specific remedies to undo racism or do we assume the permanence of racism and opt for non-race-specific remedies in pursuit of a more egalitarian society? Paradoxically, the way to make racial progress in racist America is to downplay race.

In Data-Driven DEI: The Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure, Analyze, and Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Dr. Randal Pinkett, a renowned diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) thought leader, delivers a practical and evidence-based blueprint to achieving lasting impact with your DEI initiatives. Dr. Pinkett has created a simple, step-by-step process to assess the current state of your DEI, analyze that data to create a personal and organizational action plan, and implement data-driven, science-based, and technology-enabled interventions for greater diversity, equity, and inclusion.