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Since her father's sudden death, all Evie wants is comfort and security for her family, especially from dragon cagers. The two-tongued serpents are said to take the shape of a man, woo their ill-fated victims, and then devour them whole. But no one ever told Evie she could be kindred to the creatures. When Evie is framed and exiled, a cager called Lachlann discovers her roaming in the barren dragon country. Now, while being hunted by the same slayers seeking his magic-imbued heart, Evie must put her trust in Lachlann and seek out his clan for help.

Lexi is a regular girl trying to survive middle school and mind her own business, but someone is targeting her. She keeps finding nasty notes on her locker in between classes. The most likely culprit is the new kid in school, Alexander.

Valencia, invierno de 2017. A tan solo un mes de la jubilación del inspector Trull, la desaparición de una joven en extrañas circunstancias desencadena una investigación turbia y peligrosa.

Cada minuto es crucial para resolver el caso. Debido a la presión mediática, la jefatura de policía decide adelantar la incorporación de la inspectora Castro, mujer joven y competente que sustituirá a Trull tras su jubilación.

La llegada de Castro incomoda a Trull. Entre los dos inspectores surgen desencuentros, malentendidos y recelos, pero la perspicacia...

Rage through the centuries has shown that anger can be a catalyst for change; it can also be a tool employed in fear by those resisting reform or trying to quell protests or advancements by other people. Perhaps you too have experienced the rise of rage within yourself. You might be fed up with feeling angry and not having any way to express it. But counselor and psychotherapist Julie Christiansen says that if we take time to examine the belief systems that fuel our anger, we can free ourselves from the bondage that anger puts us in, learning how to make it work for us.

Sandra Lindsay immigrated to the United States from Jamaica with ambitions of becoming a nurse and living the American Dream. In December 2020, she became the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and was subsequently honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In First in Line Lindsay lays out her triumphs and setbacks as a single mother and working student who overcomes barriers. Her beginnings as a four-dollar-an-hour grocery store worker fortified her with the resilience to persevere over decades to become an executive at a globally recognized nationally known healthcare system.

Complete and unabridged version of Shakespeare's comedy performed by a full cast including Derek Godfrey, Prunella Scales, and Diana Rigg.

This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in clinics across the country and 268 interviews with participants and staff, it illustrates how decisions to take part in such studies are often influenced by poverty and lack of employment opportunities. It shows that healthy participants are typically recruited from African American and Latino/a communities, and that they are often serial participants, who obtain a significant portion of their income from these trials.

Stranded far from home, and unable to return, I am in bigger trouble than ever. I know I say that a lot, but this time it's really true. Not that there aren’t advantages to my particular predicament. If one must put up with a dangerous degree of magickal potency, one is duty-bound to…put it to use, no? Who knows what could happen?

Lara is so busy trying to get her fledgling software company off the ground that she’s up in Yorkshire, pitching for business, just before Christmas. When bad weather sees the trains cancelled, the only place she can find shelter is a small pub called the Trewton Arms. Thilini ("Tilly") loves that her art helps feed her travel addiction. She’s back in England for Christmas after two years away and can’t wait to be on the move again. When they meet, their attraction is hard to deny. But what happens when the trains are running again and they have to go their separate ways?

Diana dedicates herself to advancing people’s journeys from functional to fantastical through mindset pivot techniques. Dotting the “i” by choice, not by chance, became Diana’s mantra while breaking new ground toward the future of personal transformation. Diana’s innate creativity is well-reflected in her debut book, where she discloses a part of her soul in creating a manifesto on self-love. On the LookOUT: For the Better Half is an invitation for a mindful journey toward the authentic self through the lenses of romantic relationships.

Everyone in the small beach town of Matagorda, Texas, thought that Travis Lee and Savannah Walker were destined to be together. Travis had fallen in love with her beautiful turquoise eyes when he was eight years old, and for the next 10 years they planned every detail of their lives; he would become a lawyer and she would raise their three children in a beautiful beach house overlooking the ocean. Unfortunately, all those plans and dreams disappeared into the hot, humid Texas air when Savannah shattered his 18-year-old heart.

Imagine modern Britain without magick. No fae enclaves. No flying chairs. No magick wands. Giddy gods, no unicorns. Who wants to live in that world? Me neither. But with magick on the decline, that's the world we're ending up with. Meet the Society for Magickal Heritage. Our boss is a disembodied voice. Our headquarters is a sentient house. You could say we've a vested interest in keeping magick alive. Can a ragtag bunch of magicians, necromancers and fae prevail against inevitable ruin and decline? Hell yes. Try and stop us.

Der Himmel hat nahendes Unheil verkündet, und es hat sich bewahrheitet. Der Nordwind kommt. Jeden Tag kämpft Wren ums Überleben. Seit dem Tod ihrer Eltern versucht sie, ihre Schwester und sich durch den erbarmungslosen Winter zu bringen, der ihre Heimat Edgewood beherrscht. Nur ein magischer Schattenwall trennt Edgewood von den Dunkelgängern, die allen Menschen nach dem Leben trachten. Und nur eine Hochzeit zwischen einer sterblichen Frau und dem unsterblichen Frostkönig Boreas, dem Nordwind, kann diesen Schattenwall aufrechterhalten.

Antología, estudio, comparación, interpretación y simplificación de la historia de México Tenochtitlan. En esta segunda entrega Sofía Guadarrama Collado pone la lupa en el centro de Mesoamérica; antologa, estudia, compara, interpreta y simplifica las crónicas, relaciones, memoriales, códices e historias de Chalco, Cholula, Cuauhnáhuac, México Tenochtitlan, Michoacán, Tlaxcala, Texcoco y Toluca, escritas por sus descendientes y los primeros frailes.

Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may, or may not, have heard about – someone who has seen and done amazing things. This compilation features a selection of seven of the best interviews from the program.

Tracey is a tech millionaire. Burned out and fed up of people needing her all the time, she retreats to a rural English village. All she wants for Christmas is a of bit space. Dumped by the woman he was about to propose to, Vinnie is spending Christmas alone in a cozy cottage for two. All he wants is to hide away and lick his wounds. Alone. When Tracey gets caught in a blizzard, the only place she can take shelter is Vinnie’s cottage. Can two snowbound people stop being grumpy for long enough to feel their attraction to each other?

For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s grocery store and politely observes the traditional principle of nunchi (a combination of good manners, hierarchy, and obligation). Desperate for a new life, she’s thrilled to become the au pair for the Mazer-Farleys, two Brooklyn English professors and their adopted Chinese daughter.

Agnes has never thought much of herself or her troublesome ability to commune with divine spirits, which has plagued her life with randomly sprouting mushrooms. But now that Prince Claude has assured her of his love and acceptance, she's started to regain some of the confidence and self-esteem that she lost during her long, painful engagement to her ex-fiancé.

Im späten 15. Jahrhundert durchwandert der Puritaner Solomon Kane das junge Amerika. Ein finsterer Mann auf der göttlichen Aufgabe, das Böse zu bekämpfen; sei es menschlicher oder höllischer Natur. Als Kane hört, dass in der Nähe der kleinen Stadt Torkertown immer wieder Menschen verschwinden, beschließt er, dem nachzugehen. Auf dem Weg dorthin nächtigt er in einem kleinen Gasthaus – nicht wissend, dass sein Feind dort schon lauert... (Frei nach Robert E. Howard).

Un thriller intenso y emotivo que corta la respiración y nos obliga a suponer y deducir página tras página hasta el final. Después de la caída es Dennis Lehane en su mejor versión, una nueva vuelta de tuerca de uno de los grandes escritores del noir norteamericano....