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Daughters are the Ang family’s curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after her sisters. Headstrong Di, who is just a year younger, learns to hide in plain sight, and their mother—abused by the family for failing to birth a boy—finds her own small acts of rebellion in the kitchen.

Who Owns Your Mind: Accurate Thinking Revealed by Clarence N M Coggins is a thought-provoking guide to developing accurate thinking and mental ownership in a world filled with information overload and constant distractions. The book emphasizes the importance of proactive engagement with the world, expanding knowledge, and broadening perspectives through education. Through accurate thinking and mentally ownership, listeners can cultivate self-awareness, resilience, and a growth mindset, ultimately unlocking their full potential and enhancing their relationships with others.

An unexpected ruler will rise in the kingdom of Azulyria. The selection process is a test of worthiness and is quite painful. Ivyssa searches for help and accidentally interrupts a sacred ritual. Because of her interference, an innocent loses their life. A building desire for revenge takes an unprecedented turn as a spell goes horribly wrong, taking all of Azulyria with it. Decades later, it is now up to an ex-FBI agent and a Stone Walker to reverse the tragic fate that had befallen a land full of elemental powers and intrigue.

The notion that everyone wants sex—and that we all have to have it—is false. It’s intertwined with our ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. And it impacts the most marginalized among us. For asexual folks, it means that ace and A-spec identity is often defined by a queerness that’s not queer enough, seen through a lens of perceived lack: lack of pleasure, connection, joy, maturity, and even humanity. In this exploration of what it means to be Black and asexual in America today, Sherronda J. Brown offers new perspectives on asexuality.

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I'm Kira Fairwood, rogue kitsune and couch-surfer extraordinaire. Three months after disowning my pack, I'm still trying to find a way home. Then a way home finds me. All I have to do is follow the advice of a murderer, trespass on an enemy alpha's territory, and nab a stranger who shares my fox heritage. Thom thinks it's a terrible idea, but he puts his not-quite-pack on the line to help anyway. Now, if I fail, I'll drag my new friends down with me. What could possibly go wrong?

After a disastrous fling with a frat brother, Samantha Barnes leaves for a semester abroad in Japan in hopes of an international adventure. But when she meets a charming Scottish rugby player who feels like her soulmate, she allows her former mistakes to keep him at arm's length. Taking the time to find herself while studying in Kyoto, Samantha grows closer to the sexy university athlete and starts to fall for him. Hard. But when tragedy strikes back at home, will unresolved trauma from the past prevent her from chasing the happiness she deserves?

This bundle encompasses really interesting facts about space and the planets in the galaxy that will not only blow your mind but also provide some great knowledge. The books were designed to be straightforward and easy to consume, with some context around each fact and explanations that make some hard to believe facts understandable and most of all fun!

Throughout the series, Dr. Whitney accomplishes her duty as a renowned psychiatrist in nurturing broken members of Liberty Church to find stability and peace. All the while, we watch her life slowly unravel dark issues the good doctor hides deep down. With one visit from Whitney's ghost of the past, all the demons she thought she had overcome are back and ready to destroy her, personally and professionally. When her secrets are exposed, will she be able to overcome? When true love knocks at her door, will she be able to answer?

Learn to love Mondays because you love what you do, where you do it, and who you do it with. Managers everywhere know the feelings of being overwhelmed, overworked, and underappreciated - like sinking in quicksand. If you find yourself saying “it’s just the way it is”, we’ll show you how to change it. We wrote this story to share a novel approach. Accomplishing more, making a difference, and creating an amazing team culture is possible for you, regardless of where you are in your company’s hierarchy, by changing the way you work, live, and play with those around you.

Get your picky eaters demanding more broccoli! Does your child hate eating vegetables? Are mealtimes a constant struggle to get nutritious food into your fussy family? Do you have to beg or bribe to get your picky eater to take even one bite of anything green? This book is filled with fun, easy, and practical ways to get your fussy child, and the whole family, to eat lots more vegetables every day - and love it.

Riddles are a fun way to engage children around this age, while also getting them to learn about different topics and encourage their imagination. With riddles, not only will they improve their listening comprehension, phonetics, and pronunciation, they’ll also gain confidence to answer aloud, without the fear of being wrong.

West Lake, later Ming dynasty, a handsome man from a rich official family, yes, official already for three or four generations, lived a happy life. He drinks water, just like others, he tastes water, he knows the difference between waters; he can identify water from the Mian river or Zi river, just like the chef Exchange Teeth. He tastes local spring water in temple, so too many people came and carried water from the temple. The monks were so tired and bothered, they just destroyed the spring.

There is nothing better than being able to laugh uncontrollably at the silliest things. This book is jam packed with loads of silly puns and "dad jokes" for all ages that will have even the most serious person smiling and giggling. These jokes are based on the wonderful mysteries of space, and make the unknown galaxy a bit more relatable through simple humour that will leave every listener feeling the need to re-tell everything they have heard to the nearest person. With a mixture of puns, jokes, and dry humour, there is a variety of humour for everyone to enjoy!

In this easy listen, the writer takes the listener on a journey with other women who were considered underdogs in their time. The moral of these stories is vivid and relatable. It gives insight on how to turn failures into success opportunities. By avoiding the failure pitfalls from these biblical examples, the listener is empowered to shun mediocrity and defy the world's limiting standards to achieve the impossible!

When a young girl's life is torn apart by the terror and fear of a new communist government, she has to learn to survive within its harsh confines. As she grows, so does her understanding and her hatred of the political situation, and she becomes determined to escape its confines. Can Suk Hing survive the arduous journey that is fraught with danger, or will she be captured and have to suffer the consequences of being branded a traitor? This is a novelization of a true story of one young woman's struggle, an epic journey - the story of the Freedom Swimmers.

Released from hospital following a suicide attempt, heartbroken 16-year-old Ingrid finds herself forced to self-isolate due to the coronavirus pandemic - but when she starts developing feelings for a mysterious female friend, will she take another chance on love before it's too late? Flunk: Social Distancing explores first loves, friendships and mental health during the coronavirus pandemic. Has there ever been a worse time to get your heart broken?

Planets in our solar system have so many cool facts about them that scientists have made very complicated to understand. This book has taken some of the most amazing facts and repackaged them in a way that makes it easy for kids to understand. From the most basic facts right through to some of the most amazing and not well know ones, this book covers everything a child would love to know.

Blame it on Hawaii’s rainbows, sparkling beaches, fruity cocktails, and sensuous breezes. For Heather Diamond, there for a summer course on China, a sea change began when romance bloomed with Fred, an ethnomusicologist from Hong Kong. One night under a full moon, Fred tells Heather the story of Chang’e, the moon goddess. He points out how the shadows form a rabbit pounding an elixir of immortality, but all Heather sees in the moon is a man’s face. Returning to her teaching job in Texas, Heather wonders if the whirlwind affair was a moment of madness.

Space is such an amazing part of our worlds existence, but it can seem complicated to explain to adults, let alone kids! This book will trigger the natural curiosity within young children with amazing facts about the mysteries of space. From the very basics of what the galaxy is, right through to the name of the first man on the moon, this book relays the complexity of space into really easy and understandable explanations.