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America once a thriving and prosperous nation, now an empty decaying wasteland - everything changed in the blink of an eye. In Grid Down: Reality Bites, a high-altitude nuclear blast causing an EMP (electrical magnetic pulse) destroys the power grid, catapulting life as they knew it, back to the 1800's. The saga continues in Grid Down Perceptions of Reality (Volume 2, Part 1), as Amy, Preston, Michael, Joe, and Jane desperately struggle to survive the chaos that ensues.

Create your very first video game without any prior coding experience!! Would you like to get ahold of simple, effective, and compatible steps that will enable you to be an excellent problem solver while game programming? Do you want to start game coding without worrying if you’re smart enough to get it right? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, you’ve got to listen to this book!

Shiloh Oleson is running scared. Recovering from severe injury and with the police keen to interview her over a string of mysterious deaths, the high schooler has no choice but to lie low. But the fiercely loyal girl soon races into action when she learns a close friend has been kidnapped by her greatest enemy.

Kaley didn’t intend to fall in love, but what started out as innocent study dates with her favorite baseball player has turned into excuses to see each other as often as possible. They know they need to stay just friends, but they can't fight the pull toward one another.

Accompanied by her best friends and Beynac, her faithful golden retriever service dog, 16-year-old Virtue is about to attempt a daring escape from Aegis Academy and from its infestation of deadly, mostly naked, and occasionally cannibalistic Virulents. Of course, getting out of the academy means getting into the middle of the Purple War.

The 3:15 bell used to mean the end of class. Now, it means the end of everything. The Purple War is raging outside the protective walls of Aegis Academy. The infected, murderous Virulents are getting more aggressive on the inside.

What happens when the first day of school is the last day of the world? For 16-year-old Virtue, navigating 11th grade is hard enough. Throw in the mass carnage of the Purple War, the brain-mangling Lemming Plague, and the overnight, post-apocalyptic breakdown of civilization, and suddenly, arguing with her parents, being picked on by bullies, and tyrannized by her teachers doesn’t seem quite so devastating.

We are living in highly evolved times. However, all the progress we enjoy come at a high cost, especially when it comes to our children’s ability to engage with the world around them. According to the Child Mind Institute, the average American child “spends about 4 to 7 minutes a day playing outside and over 7 hours a day in front of a screen”. That, in itself, is a significant cause for alarm. Playing outdoors isn’t just a great past-time, it’s also necessary for kids’ overall happiness, focus, and mental health.

Seventeen-year-old Eden Shaw is at the end of her rope—literally. Since losing her boyfriend, Adam, in a school shooting the previous winter, Eden has tried everything—counselors, shrinks, even the local pastor—to free herself from the darkness that pervades every nook and cranny of her being. But after months of fighting a losing battle, she is convinced the only way out is by ending it all. With her mind made up, Eden climbs to the top of the high school football stadium, where she plans to jump. But before she takes flight, a young man named Logan James appears.

On her 16th birthday, Caitlyn Brady discovers an oak box containing proof of a secret world. A world of druids who possess magical abilities—and she is one of them. Sent to a school where she can master her own blessing, she finds herself thrown into the role of a savior, one of only two druids in existence with an extra blessing (or a curse). Caitlyn realizes that everything she once knew also contained an omission of truth. A truth she would have to learn on her own while searching for a way to protect the druids from the power-hungry rogues.

Millions of years ago, the deadly Megalodon shark - three times larger than our modern, Great White shark - roamed our seas, killing everything and anything in its path. Convinced it was extinct, scientists agreed the seas were safe from such a massive predator - until one surfaced off the coast of California, and our safety in, or on the water was no longer such a sure thing.

An enemy army rides north, bent on conquest and destruction, and the most evilly Talented man in recorded history leads them. The enemy can raise the dead and has been harvesting his army for years. Relke’s predictions haven’t yet missed the mark, so Nigel is forced to believe her when she advises he needs a woman - a very specific Talented woman who has so far declined the invitation to join High Castle.

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Eldin wants one thing - to go home. But High Castle is no longer the place of wonder and refuge it once was. After Onroc’s coup, Eldin and her companions fled from High Castle with little more than the clothes on their backs. As renegades against the new Father, they cannot rely on the power of the Vale, as using its power would tell Onroc right where to find them. They will need help if they want to save their loved ones at home. The only place they can turn, the only place where Onroc cannot reach them, is beyond the borders of their beloved Visgaerd.

When Christmas is in jeopardy, it isn't the packages she needs. It's the delivery boy. Adia Bell’s family doesn’t just want to buck tradition. They plan to chuck it out altogether. This is a problem since Adia has had a rough first semester at Avery University, and she’s expecting homemade pie and Christmas preparations to fix everything. Miller is a UPS package handler who hopes the season will be over soon. He wants to keep a low profile and avoid notice. But when his merry new co-worker Adia befriends him, he finds it harder and harder to avoid holiday-related things.

As an accomplished cutpurse, Eldin has used her Talents of escape often. She can compress herself under doors and jump from dizzying heights to land catlike on the ground. She can even render herself nearly invisible. But these abilities come at a steep price. Every Talent creates a ripple in the Vale, allowing the Brotherhood to feel her presence - to find her.

Cut through the hype and learn the fundamentals of crypto to make solid investment decisions, based on facts and not emotions. There have been many ups and downs since the writer began trading in the crypto universe in 2014, and countless lessons learned that will now benefit the listener. Education is rarely cheap, and what you don't know can cost you - in mistakes and missed opportunities.

Shiloh Oleson is still picking up the pieces. After using lethal force to dispatch a supernatural foe, the teen is plagued by nightmares and confusing feelings. And now she's horrified to learn the police want her for murder.

A near-death experience in a car with her Mother; running from tear gas at a Vietnam War rally hand-in-hand with her Pop; a year in India learning side-by-side the country's 'untouchables;' the highs and lows of living on a rural Pennsylvania commune…and all before Fiona Sprechelbach's 13th birthday. Set during one of the most politically divisive eras in American history, Thread for Pearls is a coming-of-age tale that takes us on a young heroine's journey to faith and freedom amidst a turbulent family dynamic.

Essie Brightsday is blind. But that hasn't kept her from curses, dragons, or rock basilisks in the past. Now her family lives in the bustling capital of Plen, a far cry from their small farm tucked against the Valley of Fire. Little does she know that a secretive cult is growing in the city, guaranteeing this adventure will be just as eventful as the last....