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Enjoy this collection of stories about children exploring the world around them. The collection begins with "Nature's Treasures", a poem featuring a young girl who learns about the wonders of the natural world. After this poem, enjoy eight short stories of children looking closer at nature: "Hidden Wonders", "The Building Season", "Weeds and Worms and Things that Squirm"," "A Pond for Maddie", "Flowers that Fly", "The Wasp's Picnic", "Firefly Tag", and "While Alena Was Sleeping".

School can be a tough place, filled with cliques and bullies. In this collection, discover how schoolkids learn to fit in - and discover who they are in the process. In "My Name's Not Chuck", Steve's classmates give him the nickname Chuck, but he doesn't like this at all. Find out how he can use his talking pet parrot to get them to stop calling him Chuck. Also included are six other stories about fitting in at school: "Ava the Big", "Blushing Blake", "The Tanner Mystery", "Super Tulip", "Hobby Friday", and "The Mystery of Sound."

Success in the field of graphic design, especially as a sole proprietor or hobby-based graphic designer, can be tricky. It requires a set of talents that - oftentimes - creative persons do not have naturally. Therefore, the designer who is looking for success in her or his own terms must invest in learning these skills and adapt their way of thinking to something more linear.

This guide will go over back pain prevention techniques, back pain home remedies and back pain exercises you can use in order to live pain free and get back to doing the things you love to do on a daily basis.

Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, O. Henry Award and Edgar Awards, the 19 writers in this 2005 edition are not just considered some of the best Southern writers, but among the best American writers period. With works by such writers as Dennis Lehane, Moira Crone, Robert Olen Butler, Cary Holladay, Tom Franklin, and Rebecca Soppe, this collection provides an electrifying current of deep, dark subjects set in the brutal, but charming south.

It's difficult being young and in love when your Dad is a high ranking official in Ceausescu's communist machine, your mother weeps all the time and your brother is trying to kill you. This wild and sideways look at life behind the Iron Curtain during Ceausescu's regime is a first play by a...

July 13, 1938: The renowned nuclear physicist Lise Meitner, approaching the age of 60, sits on the train that will take her to the German-Dutch border and then to the safety of exile in Sweden. After months of uncertainty and fear, as a Jew in Nazi Germany, she has abandoned everything: her friends, her career, and her beloved adopted home, the city of Berlin, where she had become a pioneer in the world of nuclear physics.

Arthur Pendragon, the once and future king, has pursued his political career all the way to the White House. Then tragedy strikes, in the form of an assassination attempt that leaves his wife Gwen at death's door. To save her, Arthur must once again seek the Holy Grail, the Cup whose magical powers can heal her body and soul.... And as Arthur knows from experience, grail-hunting can be a very dangerous occupation.

In seinem Labor in den Schweizer Alpen kommt Victor Frankenstein seinem Ziel, dem Aufbau einer Armee der künstlichen Menschen, immer näher. Er braucht nur noch einen Ersatzstoff für das verbrauchte Menorium, der tatsächlich in einer verlassenen Silbermine in Italien zu finden sein soll. Gemeinsam mit Theodora Sachs begibt sich Frankenstein auf die Reise nach Italien. Währenddessen ist Mycroft Holmes nicht verborgen geblieben, dass sich in der Schweiz merkwürdige Dinge abspielen, die möglicherweise im Zusammenhang mit dem Zirkel der Sieben stehen...

Knit me into a cocoon. Help me eat a burrito. Pretend to be a chair at my dinner party. Wrestle a Komodo dragon. Race me in a lobster suit. Author Kelly Mahon posts absurd gig ads online and shares the conversations she had with the brave souls who wanted the job.

There are whispers of a monster that should not exist. It lurks in the dark and waits for the order to kill. Brought in from the wilderness, Sephron enters civilization with no memory of his past. He joins an academy befriending a mischievous bookworm, a girl with a tail, and a young chef with big dreams. However, his abilities to see and manipulate energy set him apart from the rest. When Sephron learns of the existence of this monster, he and Ian set out to find the truth; they soon discover more than they could have ever imagined.

In Howard's fascinating novel, "2084," we journey into a future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of human life. The story follows Dr. Maya Wong, a brilliant AI researcher, and Zane Abdullah, a charismatic politician, as they deal with the complex and often troubled relationship between humanity and its most powerful creation. The book opens with a world teetering on the brink of chaos. Global crises, political turmoil, and environmental disasters set the stage for AI's emergence as a potential savior.

Victor Frankenstein, Theodora Sachs und Aleister Crowley gelingt es, Bruder Ares und Bruder Elias in eine Art Heilschlaf zu versetzen. Als die beiden Wachmänner daraus erwachen, sind sie sich sicher, dass es sich bei Frankenstein tatsächlich um einen Nachfahren des Äskulaps handelt. Kurzerhand lassen sie die Gefangenen frei und zetteln einen Aufstand an, der Tote und Verletzte mit sich bringt. Frankenstein gelingt es unterdessen, unbemerkt in den Raum zu gelangen, in dem das Bild aufbewahrt wird.

He is a body snatcher. He kills by taking over the bodies of his victims, leaving no blood or weapons at the scene of the crimes. Disillusioned by the loss of his Catholic faith, Rook seeks answers to his unique ability and finds that heaven and hell are not what he was taught to believe. Now, in their way, angels and demons seek to head off the calamity that Rook is quickly becoming because for each body he takes and each soul he breaks, he is becoming more and more Fractured.

Der Goldvulkan ist erneut ausgebrochen. Irene Adler und ihre Freunde müssen um ihr Überleben kämpfen. Derweil findet in London ein geheimes Treffen von Aktienmillionären statt, unter die sich Rasputin mithilfe einer falschen Identität gemischt hat. Ziel der Geheimgesellschaft ist es, demjenigen, der ihnen durch den sinkenden Goldpreis die Geschäfte verdirbt, dauerhaft das Handwerk zu legen. Dabei sind sie bereit, auch bis zum Äußersten zu gehen, um ihren Wohlstand nicht zu verlieren. Ein Umstand, den Rasputin sich zunutze macht, um seine gefährlichen Pläne in die Tat umzusetzen.

Endlich ist sie da: die große exklusive Ausstellungseröffnung im Louvre! An diesem Abend entscheidet sich, welcher der Kandidaten Draculas dem "Zirkel der Sieben" beitreten wird. Wem von ihnen gelingt es, den sagenumwobenen Saphir an sich zu bringen? Schon bald überstürzen sich die Ereignisse und aus Dieben werden Bestohlene.

Auf dem Petticoat Lane Market ist es Irene Adler endlich gelungen, hinter das Geheimnis der vier Stammesfiguren zu kommen. Mithilfe der Statuen und eines Rituals ist es möglich, die vier Elemente Erde, Luft, Wasser und Feuer zu beherrschen! Da sich Aleister Crowley bereits im Besitz von mindestens drei Figuren befindet, muss Irene Adler nun schnell handeln, um eine weltweite Katastrophe zu verhindern. Doch diesmal sieht es so aus, als wären der Sonderermittlerin der Krone ihre Feinde immer einen Schritt voraus und die Katastrophe unvermeidbar.

Discover the balance between saving for the future and enjoying the present, crafted for the financially conscious young adult. Just when you're on your way to success and achieving your dreams, financial complexities hit hard.

Irene Adler wird an Bord des Schiffes von zwei Besatzungsmitgliedern gefangen gehalten. Die beiden verfolgen einen Plan, der nicht nur die Sonderermittlerin der Krone in Lebensgefahr bringt. In London ist es Rasputin fast gelungen, die Geheimgesellschaft davon zu überzeugen, dass das britische Königshaus hinter der plötzlichen Vermehrung der Goldmenge steckt. Er trifft sich mit einem Mitglied des Oberhauses, um auch das Parlament für seinen zerstörerischen Kampf gegen die Krone zu gewinnen.

In this elegant work of literary fantasy, a young, 19th century attorney receives a strange birthday gift from his friend, Edgar Allan Poe, which requires him to make an arduous journey to an old Puritan town to defend a family at trial. Unbeknownst to him, it’s a journey through time; one from which, even if he survives—he may never return!