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Spell-slinger. Vampire-slayer. Magical albino ferret-rescuer. Meet Jacqueline Denna Knight, the best wizard detective in the city. Jax turns vampires to ash and pain into magic. She also has a knack for finding things. So, when a distraught - and obscenely wealthy - elf calls Jax at midnight to hire her for an intriguing job, she grabs the opportunity with both hands.

Lawrence Chaney is a testament to the strength that comes from drag. Lawrence (Drag) Queen of Scots celebrates the little boy learning to sew at age seven and his journey to taking the UK by storm. From growing up as the gay class clown and being bullied to finding an outlet in performance and drag, celebrating both his outer curves and inner beauty. The book will showcase valuable life lessons and tricks of the trade, all told in Chaney's trademark charming style and will resonate with anyone who holds dreams and aspirations that are bigger than the town they grew up in.

Werewolves are on the prowl—or so says the evidence—and it's up to Asha to solve the problem before war spills across the veil. When the first missing girl turns up dead, DNA evidence points to a brutal werewolf attack, and the people of the Realm begin to turn against werewolves. As Dusty's parents sue for custody, the young girl demonstrates frightening new magical powers, further complicating an already tense standoff between Directress Copperfield and the neglectful mother and father.

The classic that has taught millions how to live in continual fellowship with God — now rebuilt for modern listeners, fully expanded, and enriched with modern vernacular, in-depth history, and context. Practicing the Presence of God is one of the most enduring Christian guides to spiritual intimacy. Brother Lawrence, a humble Carmelite lay brother in 17th-century Paris, learned to experience God not through visions or ecstatic prayer, but by remaining with God in the ordinary moments of daily life. His words became a guide for believers seeking peace, stillness, and confidence in God’s love.

Five and a half decades of adventure travel, mostly by motorcycle, often alone or with his son. "Tales From The Road" captures interesting and unusual vignettes from the author's adventure travels, starting, perhaps, when he was 6 years old (a solo, unauthorised 3-mile journey by tricycle). Then two epic journeys with his father and brother: walking 375 miles from Durban to Lourenco Marques when he was 12, and then, two years later, a 1,200-mile bicycle ride to Beira (now Maputo) in Mozambique.

Terrible Lizards is a podcast about Dinosaurs with Dr David Hone and Iszi Lawrence.

Lawrence explores love, sex, passion, and marriage through the eyes of two sisters, Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen. Intelligent, incisive, and observant, the two very different sisters pursue thrilling, torrid affairs with their lovers, Rupert and Gerald, while searching for more mature emotional relationships. Against a haunting World War I backdrop of coal mines, factories, and a beleaguered working class, Gudrun and Ursula's temperamental differences spark an ongoing debate regarding their society and their inner lives.

Five and a half decades of adventure travel, mostly by motorcycle, often alone or with his son. Now in his 70's, Tales from the Road: Volume 3 captures interesting and unusual vignettes from the author's adventure travels, starting, perhaps, when he was six-years-old (a solo, unauthorised three-mile journey by tricycle). Then, two epic journeys with his father and brother: walking 375 miles from Durban to Lourenco Marques when he was 12-years-old, and then, two years later, a 1,200-mile bicycle ride to Beira in Mocambique.

Who better to narrate today's best science-fiction stories than today's favorite science-fiction stars? This exciting collection features many.

The story of the physical relationship between the aristocratic protagonist Constance Chatterley and gamekeeper Oliver Mellors - which occurs right under the nose of her wheelchair-bound husband, Clifford. In exploring the class system of the early 20th century, the novel also touches upon the declining coal-mining industry, its effect on the workers, and the politics which surrounded it. Yet possibly the most important theme is the individual’s need for physical as well as intellectual satisfaction.

This book will introduce you to the fundamentals, innovative techniques, and proven strategies that will unleash your inner creativity and elevate you to become a master of creative problem-solving. The scope of creative problem-solving is broad, covering everything from financial and technological challenges in business to personal health and well-being issues.

Communication Skills—Eight manuscripts in one book, including: Body Language: 7 Easy Steps to Master Nonverbal Communication, Reading People, Microexpressions & Improve Your Charisma; Assertiveness: 7 Easy Steps to Master Assertive Social Confidence, Self-Esteem, Self-Awareness & Social Dynamics; Conversation Skills: 7 Easy Steps to Master Listening Skills, Interpersonal Feedback, Difficult Conversations & Voice Training; Make People Laugh: 7 Easy Steps to Master Being Funny, Conversational Humor, Improv Stand-Up Comedy & Joke Writing; and more.

Join Deepak Chopra and 12 other brilliant minds in answering the universe’s most confounding questions. Among Kuhn’s interviewees are Templeton Prize-winning physicist and cosmologist George Ellis, coauthor with Stephen Hawking of The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time; renowned physician, author, and alternative medicine practitioner Deepak Chopra; and Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek, a theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his research in particle physics, astrophysics, and condensed matter physics.

The hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again--that's where Matthew Scudder comes in.

Ever since The Burglar on the Prowl climbed the best seller lists in 2004, fans have been clamoring for a new book featuring the lighthearted and light-fingered Bernie Rhodenbarr. Now everybody's favorite burglar returns in an 11th adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, and a remarkable array of buttons. And, wouldn't you know it, there's a dead body, all stretched out on a Trent Barling carpet....

Learn how to quickly be able to handle any situation, always know what to say, be assertive and charismatic, and build the life you have always wanted. By addressing every conceivable situation in which you may lack confidence, these books will start to create the building blocks of lasting assertiveness and self-assurance throughout the various areas of your life. As women, we have a responsibility to ourselves and the women of the future to take back our power, own our space in the world, and start building our self-confidence.

Army Air Force nurse Matilda MacElroy interviewed the pilot of the UFO that crashed at Roswell, NM, in 1947, who revealed that 3,000 members of "The Domain" were attacked and captured by forces of the Old Empire in 5965 BCE. They were given amnesia and sent to Earth to live as humans. The Domain Force deployed a mission to contact and recover these lost personnel from Earth. Amnesia/thought-control mechanisms are installed around Earth to ensure that it remains a secret prison planet under the control of the Brothers of The Serpent.

Playful, seductive, irresistible - this best-selling masterwork of fatal passion and greed introduces Lawrence Sanders's most wickedly charming sleuth. Meet Archy McNally, a freewheeling playboy who specializes is "discreet inquires" for the rich and not-so-discreet. Beneath the glaring sun of Palm Beach - and behind the lowest crimes of high society - McNally is paid to keep family skeletons in the closet. But when it comes to sex and scandal, McNally has a few secrets of his own....

Arlian seeks his final vengeance: death to all of dragonkind. But as he begins to destroy the evil beasts, wild magic seeps into the Lands of Men, sowing chaos and destruction in its wake. Will Arlian's all-consuming quest for justice consume humanity as well? The answer may lie within his ancient foe's most lethal weapon: Dragon Venom.

War has arrived, and with it the only chance for peace may be gone forever if Asha can't get her rear end in gear. Barely recovered from the trauma she's suffered at the hands of the elven sister, she's on a mission to save the kidnapped girls - but success is far, far from guaranteed.