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Alexia Vaughn—or Lexi to her few friends—is the scariest mage anyone could meet. As a transcended mage, her specialties mean she can travel through dimensions, read thoughts, and get visions. Do people care that she does not know how to do any of these things? Nope. They just avoid her or ignore her, and sometimes they even run away screaming. Now she's been marked by the Vampyres and has to travel to Night City. Will she be able to complete the tasks her new masters have set forth, or will she be enslaved for the rest of her life?

The Seafaring Life is Bob’s third book of insights into what the cruising lifestyle is all about. What makes people get aboard a boat–about the same size as a jail cell–and sail out onto the most inhospitable place on Earth, the ocean? Where there are things that want to eat you, and you are surrounded by water you can’t drink!

You'll learn how to shake the "tyranny of time" so you can tap into productive rhythms and bring a more natural pace to your life. You'll learn to relax, concentrate, and more fully realize yourself and the tasks you face. You'll become more efficient, more attentive and more productive. And before you know it, you'll find yourself putting on the brakes—and surging ahead!

New York, September 1949. When Dennis Collins arrives at Madison Square Garden for the Friday night fights, he is on top of the world. His career as the man-about-town columnist of the New York Sentinel is on the upswing; his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers are contending for the pennant; and a lover who had jilted him years ago has unexpectedly agreed to drinks and dinner at the Stork Club. Collins is sure that his luck has turned for the better.

Benjamin Joel was a fatherless eleven-year-old boy when he found his mother dead of a heroin overdose in a run-down Kansas trailer home. Doing his best to shutter away her memory and his own violent past, Ben is now an attorney trying to make a life for himself and his family.

What happens when a couple of dumb bikers buy an old bus, load it with every drug imaginable, and head to South Dakota for the biker event known as Sturgis? The answer lies within.

Recharge the optimism that made you an educator in the first place! Choosing optimism—even in the face of tough challenges—helps restore the healthy interactions and positive relationships necessary for enacting real school change. This inspiring, humorous book is filled with research-based strategies, practical examples, and thought-provoking scenarios.

Experience a hurricane in Cabo San Lucas, where 27 boats went up on the beach. Then sail across the pacific with nothing but a sextant, make an 800 mile error, and then end up arriving as a volcano is erupting!

Out in the sun-bleached sands of the Mojave Desert, a group of masterminds comes together to transform the way we drive. But can progress be made when a mercilessly tough engineer, a reckless mechanic, and a methodical programmer continuously clash over how to approach the solution? In Faster, explore the world of autonomous cars through this lens of conflict: Yin versus yang. Speed versus caution. Software versus hardware. Silicon Valley versus Detroit.

Some people need killing, but Derwood Flynn is retired and doesn't do that sort of thing anymore. He wants a quiet life, rebuilding the broken relationship with his teenage daughter. When a hurricane ravages the landscape and washes a murder victim from the failing dam of a local lake, Derwood teams with vivacious DA Maggie Kidd to uncover a decades-old conspiracy of death and deception.

Mistakes can kill you. Captain Ethan Evans has been running from his for two years. Europe is a big place. He and his outlaw army of ex-soldiers are good at surviving, but commandeering a crumbling Dutch fort in the Netherlands might be just another mistake.

Who says a coming-of-age saga can’t extend well into your 30s? In these 12 humor-laced personal essays, Kadzi Mutizwa (a Midwestern New Yorker) reflects on her trajectory as a high(ish)-functioning outlier. Themes taken up include mounting self-awareness, facing your foibles and failures, not giving up while becoming more measured about giving in, sucking at yoga, and gradually rising into your full authenticity. All this from a woman who, among other things, refuses to wear makeup. Living of Natural Causes is about recognizing how complex each of us are and should be.

The Old Testament is a most valuable book of scripture. It teaches the mercy and willingness of Jehovah, the premortal Jesus Christ, to forgive. It teaches and illustrates time and again what kinds of thinking and actions we need to avoid if we desire to remain firmly on the covenant path. And it teaches how to repent and return to Christ, whose arms of mercy are extended all the day long (Isaiah 65:2), inviting us to repent. In this third edition, noted teacher and gospel scholar David J. Ridges brings the Old Testament to life with his well-known teaching skills.

Esther and Sophie want to stay in their small town by the sea and volunteer in Oceanside High's historic library forever, but it's time to grow up, apply for college, and protect the library from demolition. While the adults argue about the library's future, the girls investigate the intriguing invitation, but they're the only ones who believe The End may be someone's final event. Every student at Oceanside High has marked themselves as going to the dance party slated to be held at a Stonehenge replica high on a cliff over the ocean.

It's time to leave this guilt and fear behind. It's time to take action to manage your debts and get them under control so you can live your life again. Nick Sturgeon has been on both sides of debt. Being an entrepreneur and property owner, he lost almost everything and was forced to rebuild his life while clearing historical debt. To do this, he created a step-by-step approach for getting control of debt. He has since used this approach and method in his role as a money-advice worker to help people achieve greater financial control and freedom from money worry.

Speak, Coach, Train! joins a tradition of inspirational and training books about finding one’s voice, recalling life lessons learned, and indulging in their marvelous outcomes. Are you struggling with speaking in public? Have trouble knowing how to introduce yourself at networking events, or a fear of standing in frightened by speaking in front of large audiences? This book is for you! You will also discover what drives you, what you're truly passionate about, and why working in your purpose helps you enjoy your life to the fullest.

When Esther has her first actual date, she can't find a single book in the school's historic library that will help her. After Romeo and Juliette depressed her, Mr. Darcy infuriated her, and Eliza Doolittle abandoned her authentic self, Sophie dived into contemporary literature to ensure the masked ball will be a success for these two BFFs. The school's Victorian-era library is the perfect setting for a masquerade. When the girls add the dance committee to their list of responsibilities as library aids, a threat is made, and a close friend is the target.

Morgan Clyde, former New York City peacekeeper and Union army veteran, is a man of righteous words and a gunfighter of uncanny skill. With deadly aim he has ended the reign of every badman to walk the dirt-packed streets of Indian Terriotry’s notorious Ironhead Station. But now he faces those who wear the badge.

Many faithful children of our Heavenly Parents find it difficult to stay in the Church, not because of doctrine or a lack of desire to keep the commandments, but because of Latter-day Saint culture. The good news is that we need not wait to be more welcoming and inclusive. We can all be part of the solution.

There are many situations where you feel that you are in depression. But have you wondered about it? Have you thought that is it really depression or something else? Life happens, but sometimes it can be worst than what we could expect. This audiobook will take you through examples and journey through a world where you could find out whether you are really in depression. You would question me with this "what if you are really in depression?", and my answer would be simple.