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The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies - humans with extraordinary abilities - who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone...except the villains they once overthrew. Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance. As she gets closer to her target, she meets Adrian, a Renegade boy who believes in justice - and in Nova. But Nova's allegiance is to a villain who has the power to end them both.

A man’s body washes up on a beach on the North Yorkshire coast with a single gunshot wound to the chest. The only clue to the victim’s identity is a ring engraved with two names. DCI Tom Raven is back in his hometown of Scarborough for the first time in over 30 years. When offered the chance to lead the murder investigation, he takes it. Raven quickly discovers that the prime suspect is his once-teenage friend, now a wealthy but shady businessman. He finds an ally in Detective Sergeant Becca Shawcross, but not everyone in the team is on his side.

It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's 40, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalising' memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious—that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes. But not everyone.

It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures - they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need.

Totalitarianism is not a coincidence and does not form in a vacuum. It arises from a collective psychosis that has followed a predictable script throughout history. In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow this collective psychosis to take hold. By looking at our current situation and identifying the phenomenon of “mass formation”—a type of collective hypnosis—he clearly illustrates how close we are to surrendering to totalitarian regimes.

I asked for his criteria for bed buddies - that's the PG version. He swore at me and said he didn’t do groupies. And just like that, our friendship was off to a great start. Reese Forster was the starting point guard for the Seattle Thunder. Gorgeous. Cocky. Loved by the nation. He’s also attending preseason basketball training camp where I used to work.

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max: Fury Road—with more than 130 new interviews with key members of the cast and crew, including Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, and director George Miller, from the pop culture reporter for The New York Times, Kyle Buchanan.

Hundreds of years after a race of magical beings called dindeary have taken over most of the world Corporal Clark Jameson is graduating from the Human Empire’s military academy after four years of grueling work.

Darcy Gray leads a charmed life. A wildly successful blogger and influencer, she has spent twenty happy years with her husband, Charlie Gray, the equally high-powered head of a fashion retail empire. Together with their twin daughters, who are both studying abroad for college, they form one of New York's most successful families. But when a shocking betrayal leaves Darcy reeling, she flees to Paris, devastated and nursing a broken heart.

Samuel sees me in an embarrassing moment! I’m ticked off and not paying attention to where I’m going, which is why I end up falling into a mountain stream. I’ve been visiting this mountain forever, so I wouldn’t care ordinarily. I’ve had a crush on this mountain man forever, though. Well, I’m soaking wet but he helps me to his cabin so I can dry off.

Don’t ask me how I end up locking myself out behind the coin laundry without a stich of clothing on my body. I don’t know what the heck to do, and it gets even worse when a tall, handsome, and muscular mountain man drives to the back parking lot. Talk about humiliating! Who wants to meet the perfect man under circumstances like these, right? Well, this curvy girl is stuck, and there’s nothing she can do. Except the man is so nice!

In other words, How to Pray Always is one of those rare books that actually fulfills the promise of its title. It helps us become better Christians by showing us how to know, to love, and to serve God, and to live prayerfully and constantly in His loving presence.

Even thinking about what I want to do with Brock is a forbidden thing. I can’t help it, though. He’s tall and sexy and so strong and powerful. He’s the best kind of mountain man. He’s also been a very close friend all my life. Any affair with him would be forbidden. I can’t help myself, though. I want him and he’s always around to tempt me more. I finally can’t help myself. Naturally, this morally upright older man tries to resist but I’m very persuasive. The night of passion is perfect but now what?

I’m thrilled when I get a ride from the very sexy mountain man. After all, I’m on the run, and anything that keeps me moving is wonderful. Then, I have a scare about the police finally catching me, and before I know it, I’m throwing myself at the mountain man so I’ll have a place to hide. He doesn’t know my motives. He just…he just cares for me. The problem is I’m starting to care for him, too!

I’m just sneaking down to the bed and breakfast kitchen to get a drink when a tall, sexy mountain man kisses me! Out of nowhere! See, it’s dark, and he thinks he’s giving his ex-girlfriend one final kiss goodbye. Instead, he’s kissing me. What a crazy situation, huh? Well, when I run into him the next day, it’s a crazy situation then, too. And when I take back to the bed and breakfast, I can promise you that this curvy girl wants more than just a kiss. But now what’s going to happen? How can I keep from being just another ex-girlfriend?

Devin Donahue's thrill-seeking brother Ricky has ventured out in to the Black Hills, the infamous location where three documentary film makers vanished without a trace ten years prior. Now, weeks later, Ricky still hasn't returned home, and it's up to Devin to venture in to the Black Hills to find him. Will Devin find his brother? Or will something find Devin first?

Hannah erlebt eine echte Gefühlsachterbahn: Erst sorgt das Spiel „2 Wahrheiten – 1 Lüge" für Aufregung, dann bringt ein mysteriöser Liebesbrief ihre Welt durcheinander. Und als ihr erstes Date mit Linus auch noch auf der Café-Toilette endet, ist das Chaos perfekt!

In diesen Schulgeschichten von Familie Vogel steht Hannah im Mittelpunkt: Ob neue Mitschülerin, peinliche Toiletten-Botschaft oder ein heimlicher Shopping-Ausflug statt Unterricht – es wird aufregend, witzig und lehrreich. Denn eins ist sicher: In der Schule lernt man manchmal mehr über Freundschaft und Ehrlichkeit als aus jedem Lehrbuch.

The faithful have had a growing sense that something is not quite right in the life of the Catholic Church. Confusion abounds as doctrinal rebellion spreads with impunity. The proponents of this rebellion have foisted their errors upon others by deceptively twisting certain friendly communications strategies of the recent Magisterium. The rebels have even caught unsuspecting believers in the undertow. Hence the confusion: Has the Catholic Faith changed? In this masterful book, Christopher Malloy identifies more than a dozen heresies and errors of this new modernism.

January 1939. Two months after Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass), sisters Elsie (7) and Rose (5) are torn from their mother’s arms and placed on the Kinder transport to London—a promise of safety that becomes a journey of unimaginable loss.