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Young Calvin McGregor watched people leave. His father left. And that beautiful girl is gone, too. So when his opportunity comes, Cal leaves as well, escaping to the city. He finds a craft to master, and friendships to explore. Maybe, this is what home is supposed to feel like: A good job, friends, a mentor. This feels secure, until it doesn't. More people leave. Now what? Is it time for him to leave again? Growth will require a drive to the past, and some special people to help him remember and forgive.

Head down, mouth shut - this is Askari’s new mantra. A pall still hangs over the Baratok community from the rarohan attack only a few months before, and all Askari wants is to stay out of trouble and help her grieving community heal. Until a stranger rides into camp. He offers her a chance to obtain something rare and valuable - monster blood with healing properties that could help prevent more of her people from dying. But when the mission goes wrong, she becomes the target of a relentless monster that won’t stop pursuing her until she and everyone around her are dead.

Thelma's marriage is unraveling as her oblivious husband Wally rediscovers his youthful obsession with Che Guevara. When Rosa, a young Cuban poet, joins his writing group, he unexpectedly books a trip to Cuba. Thelma decides to join him and discovers that he has inexplicably disappeared. As she searches for Wally, she converses with the ghost of her father, confronts her abandoned dreams, and relies on the help of odd strangers.

This book gives a complete insight into how data and privacy work in the modern world, and how automation can threaten your livelihood. With the development of more and more technology, we must be more cautious about how it influences our personal, social, and work lives.

After a new pilot joins Captain Lexi and her crew aboard the Auroris, a ship navigating through the Milky Way galaxy, things get rocky. Tarquin Vox is a sharp-witted and talented pilot with unnatural beauty. Lexi is a determined captain who has her suspicions. In a whirlwind of difficult maneuvers and secrets from the mysterious pilot, Lexi and her crew, including her friend and bodyguard Johno, find themselves in the Epsilon Eridani system. A wicked Alien Overlord is on the loose, and the United Galaxies are not helping.

Welcome to Barksdale, where all the dogs strive for perfection. Every shopkeeper claims to be the “best groomer” or sell the “best biscuits.” And at Barksdale Academy, the pressure is on for one pup to be named Best in Show. Duke’s cousin Coco, a French bulldog from Paris, is visiting for the K-2 loyalty exam. During this exam, the Underdogs and their classmates will participate in a field day event against a rival school.

Death in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected, composted, dissolved, or tanned. Your family can incorporate your remains into jewelry, shotgun shells, paperweights, and artwork. Cremations have more than doubled, and DIY home funerals and green burials are on the rise. American Afterlives is Shannon Lee Dawdy’s lyrical and compassionate account of changing death practices in America as people face their own mortality and search for a different kind of afterlife.

The Cipher has rewarded Cullen with XP to distribute across areas of Resurrection City, from military to defense, economy and more, but he'll need so much more than that to protect his people. And he must do it while negotiating treaties with invaluable allies and fighting off sorcerers, mobs, and the dungeon core growing up out of their backyard.

Pappy and his team join a large military coalition that will travel to Regime space to finally take the fight to the enemy. They have no idea what awaits them, and Pappy’s concerns multiply the closer they get to the Regime's Homeworld. Speaks-The-Truth feels lost and unbalanced. All of her traumas have led to growing feelings of disillusionment and doubt. She must find a way to regain what she’s lost, and has a pivotal role to play in the Resistance movement of her people.

Kelley Jo Burke embarks on a wild journey to understand many things, including the part where her grandfather sort of murdered her grandmother. Returning to a house filled with her first memories of childhood, she begins to explore the complex origins of her own anxiety. Along the way, she reflects on alienation and immigration, mental health and generational trauma, and the nature of memory itself. A memoir filled with raw honesty, comedy, tragedy, and grace.

Everyone has hopes and dreams but so often, they're unfocused and vague. You want that successful job, but you're unsure what to go for. You have an unfulfilled ambition, but you're uncertain if you can ever accomplish it. Many people, sadly, reach the end of their lives and wonder why they didn't gain what they truly wanted.

Whether you are planning to start your first business, or are growing an existing business, having a mentor who has been there and done it before is an invaluable tool.

Welcome to the town of Barksdale, where the canine residents strive for perfection. Every shopkeeper claims to be the "best groomer" or sell the "best biscuits". And at Barksdale Academy, the pressure is on every year for one pup to be named Best in Show. Nova, Duke, Harley, and Peanut have never won Best in Show...which is okay with them! But they have to work together to pass their Agility Exam, because either the whole pack passes or the whole pack fails.

This book is written for those people who want to achieve success in life and earn a lot of money so that they can lead a happy life. This book will help you achieve your goals very easily. So let's start reading this book to achieve your goals very easily!

John Wycliffe, the morning star of the Reformation, gave us the first English translation of the Bible. A noted scholar and teacher at Oxford, John's reliance on the Bible as the sole source of truth stood in stark contrast to the teachings of the Catholic church. His followers went out, teaching and preaching to the common man throughout England. Bowing himself to the authority of the Bible, John's great aim was to bring men to the word. He saw it as the one great authority, the law that exceeded all other laws.

Like most people on this planet, I had money problems; I have repeated negative affirmations about money. But, since I discovered the power of affirmations, my life has changed. I have no more fear, anxiety, or stress about money, and I can enjoy every step of my journey.

The galaxy is thrown into chaos as the wrath of The Regime gets unleashed. Newly-promoted Warrant Officer “Pappy” Gunther is tasked with training the next generation of UEAF officers as the galaxy-spanning Regime gains ground. When a commander from his past shows up and asks him to join a covert black-ops unit, Pappy has a crucial choice to make. Speaks-The-Truth has a chance to live a life of peace on a world far-removed from the conflict. Yet, she’s haunted by the demons of her past and feels compelled to join the greatest struggle in the history of her people.

In The Sleep Advantage, Devin Burke shows us how to optimize that precious time to win our days. But this book isn't just about sleep. It's a road map for generating effortless energy to live with more passion, power, and presence. In it, you'll find a clear step-by-step plan to maximize the most overlooked yet essential pillar of health and performance.

We humans can be quite indecisive and unstable when our emotions are involved. The human mind is continually racing and ravaged with different thoughts, and these can leave one confused on how to act, when to act, and how to make decisions. Hence the importance of understanding how our emotions work, where they come from, and how to express them.

A psychotic coal mine operator and cynical neighbors with an anti-mining agenda fight out a strip mine permit battle. Mike Jacobs, a 29-year-old environmental prosecutor with Pennsylvania's environmental agency DEP is caught between the warring factions, but is ordered to "babysit" the case. All Mike wants to do is to protect the environment and neighbors from certain harm as a result of the proposed mining.