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Here is your map to guide you in this new life phase. You can use the powerful practices and insights - enhanced with online tools and exercises at AARP’s Life Reimagined.org website - to help you uncover your own special gifts, connect with people who can support you, and explore new directions.You’ll be inspired by meeting ordinary people who have reimagined their lives in extraordinary ways.

I don’t wish to frighten you, reads the anonymous note introverted and bullied eight-year-old Leo Cruz finds in his backpack. All the sender asks is that he avoid a certain spot on a certain day, or he’ll die. Leo has reason to be afraid. The warning hearkens back to nearly a decade ago - to the same site, where a murder has become local folklore and a favorite campfire tale reinvented year after year by the kids of Arenas, a small Spanish town.

Classic fables take on new meaning as five of today’s most original bestselling authors serve up some deliciously modern twists. New reflections on evil queens, charmless princes, and star-crossed lovers branch out in provocative and enchanting directions. Follow the path and see where it leads...

An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian Jessica Pryde. Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of...

An alternative school newspaper published by Zander and his crew is alive and well. And now there's plenty to report on when LaShonda steps into the spotlight with her costume designs for an upcoming play. LaShonda's designs get rave reviews, but she soon learns that show business is filled with challenges and choices. LaShonda is forced to consider what's more important—fame, or loyalty to her autistic brother. Whether she gets a standing ovation or the curtain pulled down on her is up to LaShonda.

Eigentlich war das Journalistenpaar Baptiste und Gabrielle Robin nur unterwegs, um den zurückgezogenen Horror-Autor Roduit zu interviewen. Eine Übernachtung in einem kleinen Hotel verwickelt sie in einen Mordfall und bald sehen sie sich mit einem Grauen konfrontiert, das ihre Vorstellungskraft überschreitet. Denn sie geraten in den Bann uralter Geheimbünde, gewissenloser Wissenschaft und des Vaters aller Monster – des gefallenen Engels Baphomet!

A wild adventure on horseback, beyond the Mississippi River into America's far west of 1832. Washington Irving, author of the “The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle,” joins a group of inexperienced rangers, hunters and an assortment of colorful characters on a trip into the unsettled prairies. Their goal: meeting Native Americans, hunting buffalo and getting in trouble.

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force for good in the world, regardless of slavery, the genocide of indigenous people, and the more than a century’s worth of imperialist war that the U.S. has wrought on the planet. Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong detail just what Captain America’s shield tells us about the pretensions of U.S. foreign policy, how Angelina Jolie and Bill Gates engage in humanitarian imperialism, and more.

In this rowdy cyber-romance originally written in the 1990s, two people meet online and fall in love in every guise they can manage. As Scratch and Winc go from anonymous lovers to accidental heroes and gender outlaws, they expose the shadowy Web stretched between technology and capitalist greed, nearly becoming roadkill on the internet superhighway. With a little help from their friends including a brave teenager and a mysterious hacker, these darling rebels fight government intervention and find chosen family in this eerily prescient tale.

Welcome to DRIVEN2090 the series, where the line between survival and destruction is razor-thin, and every race could be your last. Street racing in Velo-City isn’t just a thrill—it’s an escape, a rebellion, a fight to outrun the past. Casey, Martin and Lily, navigate a city of shadows, each haunted by their demons, facing choices that could either save or shatter them. In a world where betrayal burns as hot as the engines, every race is a gamble, every alliance a fragile truce. Are you ready to face the chaos?

“You’re not from here? Where are you from?” “Your future. I know you, Jude. And I know you want control over the time traveling. I can fix it.” College freshman Silas Turner is a scientific anomaly. Thrown back in time uncontrollably, he’s forced into his pre-transition body for...

Resiliência é a capacidade de lidar da melhor forma possível com adversidades e sofrimentos inevitáveis. Desde lidar com o trânsito engarrafado até uma dor crônica ou a morte, este audiolivro é um guia prático para aumentar a resiliência e entender que não adianta preocupar-se com acontecimentos que estão além da sua capacidade. Não sofra com aquilo que não pode mudar. Foque no que depende de você e aja como um verdadeiro imperador romano.

Arrebatador, emocionante e inspirador, Parem os relógios nos mostra que o amor sempre dá um jeito de proporcionar alegria, até quando nós menos esperamos. Joshua e Lauren são um casal perfeito. Jovens, recém-casados e loucamente apaixonados, eles acreditam que não poderiam ser mais felizes. Mas então Lauren é diagnosticada com fibrose pulmonar idiopática, uma doença incurável e terminal. Conforme o quadro dela progride, Joshua tenta aproveitar ao máximo o tempo que lhes resta e aceitar seu futuro.

En este libro se realiza, mediante la filosofia de la historia, la tan necesaria “sospecha de la sospecha”, y que el gran error posmoderno sea finalmente expuesto. Error, la cual va a mas alla de la simple contradiccion logica formal. Y cuya revelación; al mismo tiempo le da su nascimiento a la nueva filosofía metamoderna. Esta nueva filosofía no solo busca destruir, sino también construir verdades. Verdades más allá de la superficialidad de la izquierda y derecha hegelianas.

Zwei Jahre nach den schockierenden Ereignissen in Washington, D.C wartet General Terence Sanderson, der ehemalige Delta-Force-Kommandeur, im Schatten auf den richtigen Moment. Er will beweisen, dass das wiederauferstandene Black-Flag-Programm dringend notwendig ist. Dieser Moment könnte früher als erwartet eintreffen. Bei der CIA macht Karl Berg eine erschreckende Entdeckung. Die Nachrichtendienste der Russischen Föderation suchen insgeheim ganz Europa nach Anatoly Reznikov ab, einem abtrünnigen russischen Wissenschaftler, der ganz oben auf der Warnliste für Massenvernichtungswaffen steht.

Growing up in small-town Texas, Jason Felts dreamed of being in Hollywood. He made his way to California, started his own production company at twenty-three, was named to Variety's "Top 10 to Watch" list, rubbed elbows with famous faces daily, and rose quickly to build and lead a multi-million dollar entertainment company for Virgin, one of the world's most respected brands—so why did he walk away at such a young age?

Winner of the William C. Morris Debut YA Book Award Three starred reviews! A Black, autistic teen tries to figure out what happened the night his older brother was unjustly arrested in this “propulsive” (Jas Hammonds, award-winning author of We Deserve Monuments), moving story about...

O Brasil, que já foi o país do futebol, hoje é o país dos influenciadores. Alguns se chamam até de Coach, ainda que não tenham nenhum tipo de curso ou certificação para isso. Ainda assim, é verdade que eles podem mesmo influenciar o consumo e até o comportamento das pessoas. No Método Exposto vamos examinar, questionar e refletir sobre ideias muito difundidas por eles sobre desenvolvimento profissional, pessoal e financeiro. Conceitos aparentemente simples, que supostamente servem pra todo mundo, mas que podem não funcionar pra você. E o pior… podem até te prejudicar.

In this entertaining, informative, and thoroughly unconventional wine guide, award-winning sommelier, winemaker, and wine educator André Hueston Mack presents listeners with the 99 bottles that have most impacted his life. Instead of just pairing wines with foods, Mack pairs practical information with personal stories, offering up recommendations alongside reflections on being one of the only African Americans to ever work at the top level of the American wine industry.

Beim Hüten ihrer Schafe folgt Nel einer magischen Melodie und lernt den Moorgeist Agil kennen. Er schwärmt für ihr Flötenspiel, krönt sie mit einem Blätterkranz und lädt sie zu einer opulenten Gesellschaft ins nahegelegene Moor ein. Doch was wie ein neckisches Spiel anmutet, entwickelt sich bald zu einem grotesken Gelage. Denn dieser geisterhafte Witzbold plant für das Fest ein aufwendiges Bankett – bei dem Nel als Hauptgericht auf der Speisekarte steht ...