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Meg Clark has turned out to be everything her father and the people of her little North Country town of Gouverneur, NY, have been saying her whole life: nothin’ but a piece of white trash. To hide her past, she spent her inheritance on the perfect little house with a white picket fence. Then something terrible happened and Meg got sent to county lockup so her fiancé, Jim, wouldn’t have to. And then everyone started waking up…dead.

Intercepted by the Warden after a narrow escape, Noah, Ben, and the rest of Head Cases crew are forced into their most impossible task yet: Kill the only man to ever slip the Wardens all-seeing gaze—the leader of a vast criminal syndicate who may be the only true threat to the mad god's grip on the galaxy. But getting close to him wont be easy, and even if they do.

The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances—sudden or expected, still in office or decades later—is always a moment of reckoning and reflection. Mourning the Presidents brings together renowned and emerging scholars to examine how different generations and communities of Americans have eulogized and remembered United States presidents since George Washington's death in 1799. Over twelve individually illuminating chapters, this volume offers a unique approach to understanding American culture and politics by uncovering parallels between different generations of mourners.

From the court of Imperial Russia to Foxley Manor in Herefordshire, the story begins with the First World War. Part One takes the listener through the Russian Revolution to the formation of the Second Polish Republic and the Polish-Bolshevik war. Part Two begins at the outset to World War Two with the German invasion on September 1st, 1939, and the subsequent invasion by the Soviet Union on the 17th of the same month. The listener is taken through the early months of soviet occupation and then on to the first wave of Polish deportations to Siberia.

A time has come when the Dragon Queen must destroy Cimeren in order to create something new. The Dragon Queen of Murgare barrels toward the lone outpost of Nevergrace, riding her infamous shadow dragon and destroyer of kingdoms. She seeks retribution for her murdered king.

On an Earth decimated by war, a lone gunslinger delivers justice, protecting the innocent and righting the wrongs of a broken world. Some call him lawman. Some call him madman. Some call him vigilante. Some call him killer. Some call him legend.

Trapped on the other side of the galaxy, Ben, Noah, and their companions are dragged into the midst of war by the mysterious Warden. Relentlessly hunted, they must choose the best of bad options and learn the ultimate lesson to prevail.

It was the hardest job she ever worked, but Mariah loves it, even if she has to tolerate the highly obnoxious, totally superficial secretary, Rebecca, and all the unrealistic standards of the fashion industry. But she isn’t the company gopher for long after an accidental run-in with the gorgeous and mysterious Dorian. It doesn’t take long for Mariah to realize there is something different about him. Dorian isn’t like the other men at the company, or frankly any of the men she’s ever met. He’s sweet, kind, and considerate.

Kasspian and Cara have left their past behind, seeking to forge a new path in a foreign land. In Hong Kong, they join a powerful sect and earn a new path to cultivate - the Path of Wolf and Flame. With the help of an advanced artificial intelligence system, they delve deeper into the realms of cultivation and unlock new powers that they never thought possible.

Decades of research demonstrate how important the relationships with peers and professors are for students academically, personally, and professionally. Yet many students lack the strategies to develop educationally purposeful relationships in college. Connections Are Everything shows students the simple steps they can take to make their own college experience meaningful and transformational.

There are many consequences of gravity. While our feet are firmly planted on terra, our hearts break, our souls seek homage from higher beings, our desire to learn creates intelligent animations landscapes change, demons posses, we dream of escaping to Mars and other planets. A collection of short stories set on Earth, space, and distant planets. This collection features the shorty story Glitch and the first publication of the poetry collection Consequence of Gravity.

In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of racism today. They invited a multiracial team of fourteen scholars to join in, thus launching the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project.

Der größte Goldschatz der Menschheit. Eine internationale Intrige. Eine grausame Offenbarung. Als Sondereinheit für Blue Shield ist Tom Wagner mit seinem Team auf der Suche nach dem legendären El Dorado. Aber wie so oft läuft es nicht wie geplant. Das Team wird getrennt und sie müssen buchstäblich auf mehreren Fronten kämpfen: Hellen und Cloutard machen Entdeckungen, die die anerkannte Geschichtsschreibung über das Gold von El Dorado über den Haufen werfen. Tom ist inzwischen im Auftrag des US-Präsidenten unterwegs, um zu verhindern, dass eine gefährliche Substanz in die Hände von Terroristen fällt.

The horrors have only just begun... When Lady Violet Thorn's unbearable Aunt Igitha unexpectedly arrives at her doorstep and disrupts her peaceful existence, it sets off unsettling events eerily reminiscent of the infamous Montford Maniac’s reign. Violet must unravel the connection between her unwelcome guest and the brutal incidents – from savage beasts at her doorstep to horrifying public executions.

After her mother passes away and her father retreats into his grief, 11-year-old Anne Applebaum is afraid the only happy endings she’ll ever have are in The World to Come, a collection of fairy tales about the flying forest of Bei Ilai. In its pages, children outsmart demons, girls train as knights, and songs come to life. But even these stories can’t stop Anne from feeling alone. So when a raven tells her that she has a long-lost twin brother named Rainer, she sets out to find him. Anne soon learns that Bei Ilai is a real place—and she must step through the door into this magical realm.

When Noah sees an advertisement offering him a chance to rent a starship, he’s convinced it has to be a trick. Already having the worst day of his life, he’s willing to do anything for a distraction, including following a random stranger’s directions to the middle of nowhere to see a ship he doubts exists. Except there is no trick. The starship is real. And Noah’s life will never be the same.

On an Earth decimated by war, a lone gunslinger delivers justice, protecting the innocent and righting the wrongs of a broken world. Some call him lawman. Some call him madman. Some call him vigilante. Some call him killer. Some call him legend.

When the Creator’s precious daughter is killed during the Saltpan War, he takes his vengeance on the children of the old Gods. Now they are destined to be reborn for eons. Eternally searching for unyielding answers. But history is embedded in the gemstones scattered throughout the Land of Man and strange magic returns to the Watchtower servants. All the while, the Goldlands distract from the lore of the old Gods in a desperate attempt to cover ancient battle scars.

Der erste Geheimbund der Menschheit. Artefakte unschätzbarer Macht. Ein Wettlauf, den man nicht gewinnen kann. Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich: Tom Wagner wird vermisst. François Cloutard ist auf geheimer Mission, Hellen de Meys Vater Edward ist aufgetaucht und eine heiße Spur wartet auf das Team von Blue Shield: Die sagenumwobene Chronik der Tafelrunde.

Captured and sentenced to spend the rest of his life mining asteroids, Caleb’s odds of stopping the Legion and finding his way home appear slim. After being transferred to the most dangerous and deadly assignment in the Belt, there’s a good chance his punishment may be completed sooner than he imagined.