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Dana Stabenow was born in Alaska before statehood, grew up on and around fishing boats, worked for an air taxi service, a cannery, and later, on the oilfields of the North Slope. Today, she's an Edgar Award-winning mystery writer with more than 25 Alaska-based novels to her credit. Stabenow knows Alaska. Writing for Alaska magazine, she revisits old haunts and explores new ones to capture the vital pioneering spirit of her home state.

It’s festival time in Athens, and Philocles is looking forward to the holiday. Visitors are coming from across the Hellenic world for eight days of sporting competitions, musical contests and sacred rites to honour Athena, the city’s patron goddess. Thousands will flock to the Pnyx to be enthralled by three-day performance of Homer’s Iliad, an entertainment unique to the Great Panathenaia. Taking part is the highest honour and greatest challenge for an epic poet.

In 1998, Weird Florida made the bold statement that Florida “is the home of more nuttiness per square mile than any place on earth - and we dare the world to prove us wrong”. A few tried. California comes to mind, but no one came close.

The first and original! In 1995, lifelong Florida resident and award-winning journalist Eliot Kleinberg was the first to produce a book-length chronicle of his home state's weirdness - and he's not making it up! "Any time you jam descendants of slaves, rednecks, Indians, con artists, carpetbaggers, drug smugglers, fugitives, UFO abductees, strippers, alligators, and political refugees into a flat peninsula surrounded by water but with hardly a drop to drink anymore, you get a pretty weird place. Weird Florida."

How to deal with a narcissist in a relationship, and how to have power over them and become the best version of you.

The Secrets of High Profit is a powerful guide to help you establish your business on firm footing. An invaluable treasure trove of knowledge, this audiobook can help you rocket your income and sales faster and includes powerful strategies and a proven formula to help you make money and upgrade your business. If you’d like to take your business to the next level, then come and learn The Secrets of High Profit, and become a successful entrepreneur.

Stop surviving. Start thriving. With down-to-earth language and inspiring real-life stories of business growth, Gavin shares his insights on how to navigate the voyage of growth using the strategy compass.

Zeke Torres was always picked on because he was a scared mouse shifter. When his mother married a hawk shifter, he had to suffer through his stepbrother’s cruelty on a daily basis. He fought hard for his independence and vowed to never be under the control of anyone else. Rangi Ku is an eagle shifter and director of communications for the Alliance’s northern territory. Working late one night, he is shocked when his computer is hacked (a feat that no one had ever done), with a message asking for help.

Phoebe thinks starting up a new hands-on carwash staffed entirely by her superbly stacked, gorgeous sorority sisters is a magnificent idea. Little does she know how that decision will change all their lives as, one after another, they meet and fall in love with the men of their wildest dreams...while trying to solve the mystery of a 20-year-old jewel heist!

Imagine seeing all the thought bubbles that float above real business leaders’ heads constantly. The thoughts that are rarely shared, usually censored, but are the raw truth about leading people. And then, consider learning solutions to some of the most infuriating frustrations or as we call them - stupid human tricks. That’s what this audiobook is about.

Kendall Shaw is in a rut. Sick of feeling like his dad's personal puppet. Sick of being set up on less than stellar dates by so-called friends and family. Just plain sick of everything. That is, until Joe enters the equation. Joe Butler has worked diligently to build his architecture business and reputation, which has just signed its biggest client to date. A law firm with endless connections in the greater Seattle area. Connections that could elevate his firms status.

The Alliance is stunned to see what the Psy have created in their attempt to defeat the Alliance. In order to defeat the were-creatures the Psy have sent to fight, the Alliance must kill them, but one manages to survive. Dr. Adam Pratt is sent to study this were-creature in hopes of saving any more they come across. What he didn’t expect was to find his mate and become willing to do anything to save him.

Maui Knight can’t believe he’s found his mate when he saves Ian Carmichael from the Psy labs. The need to keep his mate safe has Maui denying Ian’s request to go get his sister away from Ian’s father. Maui hadn’t counted on Ian’s determination to save his sister from their father’s dishonorable intentions.

The best things come in threes! Kayla has no choice but to return to the place she never really called home. Her ex-stepfather, Daniel, has news of her money-chasing mom. Parker, son of her mom's new husband, has come to demand that Kayla expose her mom for the lying, scheming woman she is. When Daniel reveals the real relationship he had with her mom, their secret desire for each other is a secret no more. But Kayla likes Parker too.... Part of a series of stand-alones about three roommates and their journeys to find love.

Siberian Tiger shifter, Aleksi Rykov, is amused to watch the enemy chasing one of their own, psy, Seth Tilton, until he realizes it's his mate. Rescuing his mate isn't difficult for the powerful Alpha but keeping his mate safe from the war raging between their races may be more difficult. Seth is taking a chance running to the one man he knows can keep him safe, Aleksi. Seth knows the psy's secrets and the psy will do anything to get him back but with Aleksi's help Seth can help turn the tide of the war and uncover the horrible truth.

An extraordinary tale of pre-Victorian England, telling the story of the determined young farm boy from Kent who saved Charles Dickens from becoming a factory worker, operated the notorious chess-playing mechanical Turk, took on the London underworld, played a crucial role in the invention of the steam engine and organized one of the most successful rebellions in British history. A roller-coaster ride through the beginnings of the modern era.

Nina and Muriel have been best friends forever. Why hasn’t she ever taken a serious look at Muriel’s older brother, Asher, and realized how incredibly sexy he is? And now that she has finally noticed, and can’t think about anything else, how can she cross the slippery line between friend and lover without destroying the deep bond they’ve always shared?

Jory has been a thorn in Elle’s side ever since he arrived to spend the entire summer with his twin brother. He has no scruples about using his raw male beauty to charm...and exploit. If only her pulse didn’t race with breathless excitement every time he turns those gorgeous chocolate-brown eyes in her direction!

Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, the youngest brother of King Charles II is a handsome man with sound principles. When the 20-year-old prince contracts smallpox in 1660, his life takes a decidedly sinister turn. Obsessed with Henry from afar, Contessa Griselda di Cuorenero -one of the Devil's concubines - turns him into a vampire and plunges him into the world of night. But Henry soon discovers that not all horrors are of the paranormal kind.

If this book has found its way into your hands, chances are your boards are lurking on the horizon and you want to do well. So how does one go about topping the boards - exams that can determine where your life's headed, your college, your first job...maybe even your first crush? Fortunately, the secret isn't to study till you're a sleep-deprived zombie. Unfortunately, it also isn't 'Mum fed me steroids/Dad taught me to cheat'. The secret recipe? Connecting the dots. You don't need to be a prodigy studying 24 hours a day to ace an exam - you just need to work smart.