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A time of peace shaken by acts of violence. A world on the cusp of war. The eternal battle of good versus evil. Can it really be that simple? The world of Galamud, once embroiled in war between the factions of Light and Dark, has experienced a millennium of peace. Recent events have shaken that peace, threatening to bring the horrors of war to its inhabitants once again. Join our hero as he is thrown into the turmoil of war before venturing out for the answers to bring stability and harmony back to Galamud and all of its people. Can the answers be found in the teachings of the Goddess?

Gossip queen ALEX longs to be seen. Cheerleader TULSI is sick of cutting people on her sharp heart. New kid CLEMENTINE can't escape the violence inside. And wallflower SUNJU is tired of keeping quiet. When a twist of fate brings this unlikely quartet together, sparks and punches fly. They call it "Girls Night," an underground fight club that's girls only. Soon every girl at Sterling High is showing up to class with bruised knuckles and split lips.

On the last night of his life, Hyrum Smith folded down the corner of a page in the Book of Mormon and marked one verse: “I prayed unto the Lord that he would give unto the Gentiles grace, that they might have charity” (Ether 12:36). What does grace have to do with charity? How does receiving one lead to gaining the other? Scripture tells us that charity is a love that causes us to lay down our lives for someone. A greater love. A love that we must pray to be filled with. The pure love of Christ. What if charity is the outward expression of our inward understanding of grace?

Nora is well and truly fed up. After more painfully bad dates than she can count, she’s had enough of leaving it to fate to find her perfect match – but she's not quite ready to give up on her love life just yet. As a statistician, Nora trusts numbers more than her gut, so when she finds a formula that could help her conquer the dating game, she has to give it a go.

Peggy the pug is ready to be the teacher's pet! It's the end of the summer holidays and the children are heading back to school. But Peggy's best friend, Chloe, is nervous about joining a new class this year. Peggy wishes she could help reassure Chloe. If only she could find a way to go to school too, but dogs aren't allowed. Can Peggy teach them all a lesson?

In the third book in Bella Swift's adorable Sausage Dog series, Stanley is about to experience his first Halloween. Stanley the sausage dog is so excited when he finds out his family are planning a big Halloween party! But Cleo the cat is terrified of all things spooky and doesn't want to celebrate. Can Stanley help this scaredy-cat face her fears so that the party can go ahead?

Peggy the pug's family are going on a camping holiday to Dino Cove. Peggy's best friend, Chloe, is determined to find dinosaur fossils, and Peggy would do anything to help her. So Peggy sets off on a dinosaur hunt of her own - but what if she can't find one before they go home? Get ready for a roarsome dinosaur adventure with Peggy the Pug in this adorable story featuring fun black and white illustrations throughout.

Derrick Bell is perhaps best known for the principled stand he took at Harvard in 1990 when he quit his tenured position on the law-school faculty to protest the school's failure to grant tenure to a black woman. Now a visiting professor at New York Law School, Bell is still deeply interested in issues of race relations and has chosen to explore the subject fictionally in "Afrolantica Legacies." In a nutshell, the story goes like this: a mysterious land mass suddenly appears in the Atlantic Ocean, a fabulous island on which only black people can survive.

Unerwartet Erbin zu werden, hätte alle meine Probleme beseitigen sollen, aber stattdessen habe ich drei neue, riesige: zwei riesige Schildkröten und einen schlanken, gemeinen, zweihundert Pfund schweren Hockeyspieler namens Mason. Er ist ebenso heiß wie unausstehlich und hätte einen guten Wikinger abgegeben, wenn er nicht im falschen Jahrhundert geboren worden wäre. Er will mein Hockeyteam kaufen, akzeptiert kein Nein als Antwort und ist bereit, alles zu tun, um seinen Willen durchzusetzen – egal, wie schmutzig er spielen muss.

Lilian Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life, caught between the oppressive walls of her father's bookshop and the limitations of being a woman in a man's profession. But when a burned book comes into her possession, she finds hidden beneath the binding a fifty-year-old letter speaking of love, fortune and murder. Lily is drawn into the mystery, which hints at a forbidden romance between young lovers, and learns there are other books which conceal more of the story.

Lilian ("Lily") Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life. She is trapped between the oppressiveness of her father’s failing bookshop and still being an apprentice in a man’s profession. But when she’s given a burned book during a visit to a collector, she finds, hidden beneath the binding, a fifty-year-old letter speaking of love, fortune, and murder. Lily is pulled into the mystery of the young lovers, a story of forbidden love, and discovers there are more books and more hidden pages telling their story.

When a brutal crime lord kidnaps a wallflower... He didn't earn the nickname Devil for nothing. He'd fought and murdered his way to be leader of the gang that runs London's docks. No one should be shocked when he adds kidnapping to his long list of crimes. He'd known from the moment he'd seen the angelic debutante in his dark and dirty alleyways that she was his. And the fact that taking her would be payback against his rivals, well... that made his booty all the more precious. He knows they'll come for her. She's too pure and sweet and good to be his forever.

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Falling for the grumpy, single dad next door wasn’t on my summer to-do list. Did I mention he’s also a football god? A really hot one? Because he is. Becoming said baller’s new nanny? Yeah, I definitely didn’t see that one coming. But nothing about Maverick Beneventi was ever what I expected. He’s the embodiment of every broody book boyfriend I’ve ever loved, wrapped in deliciously sexy muscles and covered in beautiful black ink. All scowls and sharp edges, I was sure he hated me.

When 27-year-old Jen is released from prison, she returns to her childhood home, hoping to rebuild her life before next year’s Samhain summoning. But things aren’t quite as she left them. Her home—once her safe haven—has been turned into a novelty vacation rental and is currently occupied by a maddeningly gorgeous incubus who refuses to leave. To make matters worse, an old police file has surfaced, hinting that there’s more to her parents’ deaths than the crime she barely remembers committing.

In the second book in Bella Swift's Sausage Dog series, Stanley the sausage dog is off on holiday to the seaside! But Stanley soon finds himself jealous of the cool surfer dogs at the beach. Can Stanley learn to surf and be the coolest dog around, or will he learn that the best dog to be . . . is himself!

In Coyote Canyon, in Southern California, near the Arizona border, Lile Foster owns and operates a diner. He lives on the premises with his daughter, Karina, and his cook, Cecilia Hall. During an unrelenting monsoon, these three people and several others—a worldly old sports agent and his promising client, a personal assistant returning from a short holiday spent with a secret lover, a young hoodlum from New York wanted by the police, and a family of four making their way to San Diego to enjoy the fantastic beaches there—must do their best to survive the elements, and each other.

The Establishment wants Earth. Earth isn't ready to defend itself. So Nelson Newman takes matters into his own hands. Determined to disrupt Oleander's plans, Nelson travels back to Wenua. With SELF alongside him, they have one mission: to buy humanity the time they need to prepare against invasion. Nelson’s life is on the line. SELF knows sacrifices must be made. Earth’s freedom is the prize. Is Nelson willing to pay the price?

Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, Salvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African Americans. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of Martin Luther King, Jr., James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou, the liberation movements of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, or hip hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets us know what love’s got to do with it.

Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help, and reveals how women of all ages can bring love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives.