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Imagine experiencing all the things that happen in dreams, but with one extraordinary difference: You are “lucid” - consciously and joyously in control. With lucid dreaming, you have the opportunity to decide whatever you want to dream, while being fully conscious and remembering it all after you wake up.

Join Anne and her friends as they gather to play their weekly D&D game and escape the everyday trials of being teenagers. Jump into the adventure, as their characters find themselves on the run from the wrong crowd, discover a hidden village, and go beyond the briar patch.

The average person spends nearly 25 years of their life sleeping. But you can get a lot more from sleeping than just a healthy night’s rest. Let’s face it: Dreams are weird, extremely weird. One time, you are in true bliss from dreaming you can soar and fly with the birds above, while another time, you feel awful after a horrifying nightmare, thinking you were being chased by a creepy person.

In The Girl Who Spoke to the Wind, Sheena fought against thoughts of fear and defeat - mind games used by the Murk to make her lose hope. She and her friends faced Luke Tobias and risked their lives to save Dingy and the missing children. But it's clear the fight against the Murk has just begun. Sheena sees the Murk everywhere - at her school dance and in her classroom. Only this time, someone else sees it, too.

You’ve felt the feeling before - the one where you feel lost in the world, where you believe that everyone else has a place but yourself. You often ask yourself, “What is my mission?” or “What is my purpose?” as you are wandering through your life. The truth is we all experience moments when we feel uncertain about the future and uncertain about ourselves.

Will love happen for them again, or does it only come once? Jane McCarthy made her way west after the tragic passing of her husband to yellow fever, throwing herself into her work to forget her sorrows. Jane swore love, at her late age, was not to ever happen again. Derek Bennett went into the wilds of America, making a living on trapping, and trying to hide his heart from ever loving someone again. Coming to Denver to resolve a long-standing issue with his son, he never expected to find a woman he wanted to call his wife.

To save the people she loves, Sheena must dare to look where she's most afraid and put her trust in angels. The mystery continues in this second installment of the Sheena Meyers series. Sheena learns her family has been hiding something from her. Something big. Ever since the day she first saw the being in the hospital, another world now exists for Sheena. A world where the Murk is carried with the wind, angels send text messages, and she is almost killed while witnessing a kidnapping.

Keira is convinced her guardian, Ezekiel, knows more than he shared about her biological parents, and she will do everything she can to find out who they were. She secretly meets the powerful witch Awan at a nightclub and is promised the answers she seeks on one condition: She retrieves the legendary Book of Enchantresses.

When the past haunts Mary, will she live long enough to make it right? Mary escaped the horrific clutches of Victor Del Avilasto, a man hell-bent on leaving no loose ends. Before Victor’s dead body is buried in the Denver cemetery, her past comes alive. What she thought well behind her in Kansas City, is now in front of her with revolvers and a hangman’s noose. Ross Montgomery was with Mary when they escaped Victor’s clutches. Mary saved his life. This rough around the edges woman captured his heart, but before he could strum up the courage to call on her, she’s taken.

This audio study guide for Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the spiritual elevation of money, rules of engagement in coded spaces, and communication and language barriers. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

No one is like you. You are a rare gem in a sea of rare gems and we all get to sparkle and shine like the Queens that we are. This audiobook is a guide to help you identify where you are weak when you want to be strong and the main reasons women feel that they cannot be their true selves. The audio includes some of the following topics for you to empower your true self and your voice: What the power of the self really is, the difference between good and bad self-esteem and how to rebuild it when it is low, and much more!

Mr. Anderson did something bad to one of our friends. Something despicable. So the five of us, high school seniors, tried to kill him. We failed. Now he’s back to finish the game we started ten years ago. It’s the class reunion from your worst nightmare....

John Fischer has always dreamed about owning his own carpentry business, but when an accident befalls him on the farm, his hopes are dashed and he falls into a coma. At the hospital, he is looked after by a beautiful Englischer nurse, Lisa Jones. Lisa who is a single mom to two children, finds herself increasingly attracted to John over the coming months as they continually seem to run into each other. The only problem is that she’s engaged to someone else. Why then, can she not get John out of her head?

Disappearing was never at the forefront of Audrey Whitman’s desires. However, she felt like she did not have a choice. Escaping what her aunt planned for her was necessary. Propriety, and society be damned! Audrey would, and could never go through with any of it. Happily forever after was far to the west, and far from St. Louis. As Audrey discovers the life she has dreamt about, will she be able to hold onto the fairy-tale whims and thrive on her own, or will society call her back?

Jonah Fischer has always loved Rebecca Weaver from afar, but knows that he can never act on his feelings as she is due to marry someone else. Jonah respects that God has a plan for everyone, but he can’t help feeling brokenhearted. Unfortunately, before Rebecca is married, tragedy strikes and she is involved in a grave accident, leaving her wheelchair bound. Unable to cope, her finance breaks off the engagement, leaving Rebecca to recover on her own. As she questions everything, including her faith, her only glimpses of happiness are the visits from Jonah Fischer.

As the eldest of three brothers, Levi Fischer’s only priority is to manage their corn farm since his father was taken ill last year. He started courting when he was 19 but stopped a year later when he realized none of the girls in the community warmed his heart the way they should. Hannah works as a cleaner and housekeeper for an Englischer and loves her job. Most people find it strange that she likes to clean, but she enjoys it and relishes the thought that one day she will have her own home to keep.

Eli Weaver has grand ideas and a plan for his life. Already breaking rules in his community, some of which he’s managed to keep secret, when he steps in a mole hole, Eli’s entire life begins to change. His chance meeting with a young Englischer girl, Holiday Drake, sends him into a downward spiral and he doesn’t know how he can get back on the right path. Eli learns that sometimes what we think we want isn’t what we might need. With Gott’s help, he realizes that life’s lessons can be bitter-sweet.

She’d planned to party away the summer with her friends—until her dorky stepbrother decided to tie the knot in Malegonia, a tiny, nearly un-Googleable Balkan country. Now, she’s stuck on a whirlwind trip with her quirky relatives, navigating everything from language mishaps to wedding day disasters. As chaos and confusion unfold, Wini quickly learns that surviving the Balkans—and her family—might just take more than a sense of humor.

You think you know what abusive relationships look like, until you see it for yourself. When Lucy and Meg’s mother is assaulted by her husband, stepfather Greg, his arrest seems to mark the end of a nightmare. But when their mother chooses to stay with him, the sisters are thrust into a disturbing moral dilemma. Desperate to protect her, they take a drastic step: secretly install hidden cameras to capture the truth for themselves—and the rest of the world. What unfolds isn’t what Lucy expected.

In the kingdom of Ascela, a caste system demands that every child, upon turning seventeen, demonstrate their magical abilities before the royal family. Aria Byrne has spent her entire life preparing for this Exhibition under the tutelage of her father, the village healer. However, there is one problem: Aria has no magic. Under the law, this is a death sentence, or worse—it could result in her enslavement to the royal Westfall line. With her Exhibition fast approaching, Aria's survival hinges on her ability to outwit the Westfalls and leverage her charm and knowledge to escape her fate.