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Rachel Marless is given months to live. After accepting the news, she makes a decision: She will spend her final days imparting wisdom, advice, and confessing a long list of misdeeds to her only niece, Linnea. Linnea is a freshman in college and can’t believe she’s losing her favorite aunt before they’ve had time to travel the world together. From the moment she receives the news of her aunt’s diagnosis, Linnea vows to spend each Tuesday afternoon with Rachel. Every week, she listens to her aunt’s stories and learns devastating secrets about the woman she thought she knew better than anyone.

Every self-respecting lich has a few hundred phylacteries at a minimum, and Harold wants to check in on a few thousand of his. Rumors reach him that the vicious Mantis Queen has one of them. Naturally, she's at the other end of the region. It's just a casual stroll across the deserted and inhospitable Flaming Steppes. Inhospitable for the living, that is!

The city of the gods. Elantris once stood as the symbol of all that is beautiful. A sprawling metropolis of unrivaled grandeur, it was a symbol of power and strength, built to be as imposing as it was magnificent. The only thing more glorious than the city itself was its inhabitants, Godlike beings, with silvery skin and hair of the purest flowing white. Able to create powerful magics with a mere wave of their hands, the Elantrians were able to heal mortal wounds and create any object they desired. But Elantris fell...10 years ago.

On the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the deaths of two men both of whom have the potential to become the fabled Deliverer, the man prophesied to reunite the scattered remnants of humanity in a final push to destroy the demon corelings once and for all. Arlen Bales was once an ordinary man, but now he has become something more - the Warded Man, tattooed with eldritch wards so powerful they make him a match for any demon. Arlen denies he is the Deliverer at every turn, but the more he tries to be one with the common folk, the more fervently they believe.

Looking for a beginner language course that fits into your busy lifestyle and gets you speaking a new language in a matter of weeks, not years? Michel Thomas's unique method is designed to overcome the frustrations usually faced by language learners.

London, 1942. OSS Agent Conor Thorn is desperate for a second chance. After a botched mission in Tangier, Thorn knows failure is not an option. When confidential directives for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa, go missing, the agent must recover the plans before the Nazis thwart the crucial mission. Thorn teams up with MI6 agent Emily Bright to seek out the traitor in their midst. Untangling the web of suspects leads them to Nazi sympathizers, double-crossing Soviet spies, and Vatican clergymen with motives of their own.

Angry. Wild. Loose cannon. As one of college hockey's most feared defensemen, I've been told I'm all those things and more. The ice is the only place where I can take my anger out on other people and get applauded for it. The rougher I play, the dirtier I am, the more praise I get. I suppose the same could be said about me in the bedroom. I'm not the dude you want your daughter bringing home to meet you. Because your angel? Well, I'll make sure her halo is crooked by the time I'm done with her. I've met my match.

A wildland firefighter stumbles into a romance with a secretive EMT in the smoking hot first book of the BookTok viral Sky Ridge Hotshots series. “I want us to be more than fun, Prescott. I wanna make you mine.” Fighting wildfires is the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do and I’m damn...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term...

The Zero to Finals Obstetrics and Gynaecology book is the third in the Zero to Finals series, aimed at providing key learning material for students. The books are designed to be studied in preparation for your exams. There is a focus on the key information that is tested in exams without the waffle. It contains the concepts, vocabulary, and latest guidelines you need, as well as helpful "Tom Tips", which are pearls of wisdom the author gained over more than a decade of sitting medical exams.

Looking for a beginner language course that fits into your busy lifestyle and gets you speaking a new language in a matter of weeks, not years? Michel Thomas's unique method is designed to overcome the frustrations usually faced by language learners.

Some women rise from their ashes, Aria tends to be the one making the ashes nowadays. Aria’s world is unraveling into utterly, beautiful chaos. Will she become the savior the Nine Realms need, or will she become the monster they’ve made? Are you brave enough to enter the Nine Realms? There’s a queen rising, and in chaos, she’ll reign.

In the distant past, a time of magic and swordplay, there lived Harold, the mightiest lich of all, a master of arcane sciences, and a challenger of gods. After reaching the pinnacle of his power and finding it surprisingly bland, Harold waged a cataclysmic war against the gods, aiming to shatter the very system that confined him. He took a nap, but he is awake once more.

Hockey comes first. Always has, always will. I've got a one-year contract, 365 days to prove to them I'm worth the investment—which is why I need to stay far away from the woman across the hall. We know each other quite well, but she thinks we're strangers. I need to keep it that way. The problem is she's everywhere. Across the hall, on my laptop, bartending where my team hangs out. Micky is like a loose thread that I can't stop tugging. Then, one night, she steps in to do me a favor, and all my defenses get shot to hell. Now, I'm showing her the real me, but it might not be enough for her.

When your partner betrays, what are the first steps to picking up the pieces of your shattered heart? Many unsuspecting people wake up every day to discover their loved one, the one person whom they are supposed to trust completely, has been living a life of lies and deceit, because they suffer from a disease: sex addiction. This is a disease shrouded in secrecy and shame. This is your go-to guide for what to do when you discover your partner is a sex addict.

Jaxon - I’m months away from the NFL draft, from everything I’ve ever wanted. Except none of it matters without her. Madison Blake has always been it for me—my best friend, my biggest what-if, the girl I’ve never stopped loving. One drunken voicemail. That’s all it took for me to drop everything and transfer to PCU. She doesn’t remember calling. But now that she knows the real reason I’m here? She’s running faster than ever.

With a brand new foreword by Mary Fulbrook, The Nazi Dictatorship covers all the major themes and debates relating to Nazism including the Holocaust, Hitler's authority and leadership, economics in the Nazi state, Nazi foreign policy, German resistance, and the aftermath. Regarded by many as the world's leading authority on Hitler and the Third Reich, Kershaw has redefined the way we look at this period of modern European history.

The Bookworm Box is proud to present Two More Days, our second anthology installment. Much like the first installment, Two More Days is an exciting and unique listening experience with contributions from several of our charity's featured authors. Each author was given the same first sentence. Where they took that sentence was completely up to them.

Ari Vega just wants her balcony garden, her independence, and one corner of Verdant Tower that isn’t run by HelioVert—the corporation behind the building’s “smart” planters, wellness monitors, and friendly-but-invasive GreenGrid system. Most residents have surrendered to the convenience. Ari hasn’t. So when her sharp-eyed neighbor Ms. Ko disappears after a routine wellness check, Ari knows something is wrong. And Verdant Tower’s polished reassurance isn’t fooling her.

Beim Umgraben von Pummelomis Süßgemüsegarten finden Pummel und Norbert einen riesigen alten Knochen. Professor Glockenkuh vom Glitzerweltmuseum glaubt, dass es ein uraltes Süßsaurier-Fossil ist – aber Genaueres könnte nur ihr Kollege Professor Dr. Dr. Dösbert sagen… Der ist jedoch seit seiner letzten Ausgrabung am Schokokan verschollen! Norbert und Pummel machen sich auf, um den verschwundenen Wissenschaftler zu finden, und stoßen dabei auf mehr als nur alte Knochen.