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In a world of vicious beasts, if you are not a predator, you are prey. Aurelia Aquinas is a discarded girl. Forced to live a life of isolation, she is forbidden to speak of her powers and forbidden to find her soul-bound mates . She awaits the day she can escape to a human college and live a life free and away from her father and the beasts that might come But when she is called to heal an injured beast, locked away in a dungeon, he's not the only monster caged there and the course of her life changes forever.

With my life going down in literal flames I ran from everything: From my father, from a forced marriage, from my mates. Now, charged with a crime I didn’t commit, they’re all hunting me. And they’re all furious. The dangerous deputy headmaster of Animus Academy manages to catch me and along with three of my five mates (two are still a mystery) we’re taken back to the prison-school they use to teach feral beasts how to live alongside humans. Now I’m locked up with the very men I’ve been trying to avoid all my life. No one can know who my mates are.

When Summer Preston’s professor issues her with an ultimatum, she finds herself on an unexpected collision course with hockey captain, Aiden Crawford. Summer hates everything about hockey, for good reason, but she isn’t going to let that stand in the way of her becoming a sports psychologist. Aiden loves being the hockey captain, except when his team’s reckless mistakes risk jeopardizing their entire season. When coach puts him forward for a research paper as punishment, he has no choice but to accept. Summer can't stand his blasé approach to life, and Aiden doesn't understand her uptight one.

Elias Westbrook, a newly drafted hockey player for the Toronto Thunder, is facing the challenges of fame and media scrutiny. The tabloids are reporting on his every move, including which woman he was last seen with, but all he wants to do is escape the spotlight. Enter from stage left Sage Beaumont, an aspiring ballerina whose lack of popularity online has put her at a major disadvantage for securing the roles she dreams of. When Sage finds herself with the chance to change her luck by fake-dating Elias, she takes her shot.

Captured by a demon king, Drake, with his memories returned, and Saraya must now come to terms with a surprising truth: Drake is not only Saraya's true mate but is also the son of a monstrous deity who bound his powers at the age of thirteen. But now the demon king wants Drake's true powers to be unbound for his own nefarious purposes. Forced to marry one another, Drake and Saraya must now gain the trust of the Court of the Demon King in order to escape. But there are even bigger forces at play here.

What are you supposed to do when your father reveals that he made a binding agreement to marry you off to the Dark Fae Prince across the mountains? He'd done it to save our kingdom; that was fair. What's not fair is that I have to leave everything I ever knew to marry a monster. Under the cover of night, I escape the palace to use my secret magic and be a midwife to the city's women, and now I have to leave them all behind.

What is it about killers, cults and cannibals that capture our imaginations even as they terrify and disturb us? How do we carefully consume these cases, and what can they teach us about what makes victims and their murderers our collective responsibility? Redhanded rejects the outdated narrative of killers as monsters and that a victim 'was just in the wrong place at the wrong time'. Instead, it dissects the stories of killers in a way that challenges perceptions and asks the hard questions about society, gender, poverty, culture and even our politics.

Lack of knowledge is no longer an excuse - there's no time like the present for becoming a crypto investor. What if we told you that one book could contain an entire education in crypto investing topics? Whether you're an uninitiated newbie or an established veteran, this book exists to help you get a profitable start as a new crypto investor. The committed reader will go on an educational journey that starts in the world of conventional finance before crossing the crypto bridge to go deep on crypto assets, decentralized finance, NFTs, and security token offerings.

Sierra Romanova was an Olympic figure skater before a life-altering accident left her with panic attacks every time she enters the rink. Now, back for her final year at Dalton University, she’s ready to reclaim the spotlight. Kicked off his hockey team for reckless behaviour, Dylan Donovan has little to no chance of making it to the National Hockey League draft. But Dylan’s whole world revolves around the ice so, if hockey is forbidden, at least there’s figure skating.

श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता हिन्दू धर्म ग्रन्थों में आत्म विद्या के गूढ़ तत्वों को स्पष्ट रीति से समझाने वाला ऐसा अद्भुत ग्रन्थ है, जिसकी तुलना का दूसरा कोई ग्रन्थ संसार भर में नहीं मिल सकता । अर्जुन की कर्तव्य मूढ़ता की दूर करने के लिए श्रीकृष्ण ने जो उपदेश दिया था, उसी के आधार पर व्यासजी ने उस रहस्य का प्रतिपादन श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता में किया है और उसी का अनुवाद एवं टीका श्री बालगंगाधर तिलक ने अपनी मण्डाले जेलयात्रा के दौरान श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता रहस्य अथवा कर्मयोग शास्त्र नाम से की, पुस्तक के अन्त में श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता के मूल श्लोक के हिन्दी अनुवाद भी है दिये गये हैं, ताकि श्रोता गीता के श्लोक भी समझ सकें।

Reeling after the battle of Black Court, Saraya must come to terms with the decision she has made. The Green Reaper is still out there with all his cunning and will stop at nothing to destroy everything she holds dear. All Saraya has is her mother's frantic instructions and her own sheer strength of will. She must win Lobrathia back at all costs, or the entire human realm will fall. But at what cost?

Bali Padda is the operations maverick behind LEGO's remarkable turnaround from a business basket-case, struggling to deliver on its orders, to the biggest toy brand in the world. As Chief Operations Officer at LEGO, Bali overhauled the toy company by shaking up its operations and instilling essential business fundamentals. In Deliver What You Promise, Bali distils his methodology at LEGO into ten essential, fundamental lessons.

Thoughts are the most powerful investments we have. As a New Millionaire, your measurement of success is impact, not money. We positively impact one million lives, starting with our own. Our actions are in concert with a Conscious Thought Revolution, where health is wealth and financial abundance flows as we live our purpose.

Do you regularly experience chronic pain, anxiety, fatigue, gut issues, or other symptoms of chronic stress? The Mind-Body Cure will teach you how to manage your stress hormones and eliminate chronic stress in seven simple steps.

Welcome to Mahabharata: The Epic Tale. Join us as we delve into the rich tapestry of one of the world's greatest epics, the Mahabharata.

Helena Dea Bala was an exhausted and isolated DC lobbyist, suffocating under the weight of her student loan debt, when she decided to split her lunch with a man who often panhandled near her office. They chatted effortlessly as they ate; there were no half-truths, no fear of judgment. Helena felt connected and unburdened in a way she hadn’t in years. Inspired, she posted an ad on Craigslist promising to listen, anonymously and for free, to whatever the speaker felt he or she couldn’t tell anyone else. Emails from people desperate to connect flooded her inbox, and she listened.

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By the winner of The Journey Prize, and inspired by a real incident, The Boat People is a gripping and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada - only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land.

Un duo d'enquêteurs s'attellent à une affaire glaçante croisant fanatisme et quêtes identitaires. Février 2024. " L'Ange noir " a encore frappé. Chaque fois, sa victime est enterrée vivante et meurt étouffée. À la sous-direction de l'antiterrorisme, Sofia Giordano cherche à mettre la main sur ce tueur qui s'en prend à des notables partout en France. Elle est bientôt rejointe par le lieutenant Gabriel Geller qui, de son côté, enquête sur l'assassinat, à Paris, de réfugiés aux corps affreusement lacérés. Deux affaires en apparence distinctes. En apparence, seulement.

"Elias Westbrook è appena entrato a far parte dei Toronto Thunder, una delle squadre di Hockey migliori del paese. Con una fan base sempre più grande e tante, troppe aspettative sulle spalle, è costretto ad affrontare le sfide che derivano dalla notorietà, il tutto mentre cerca disperatamente di raggiungere il suo primo obiettivo in carriera. E mentre i tabloid riportano ogni sua mossa, inclusa ogni singola ragazza con cui viene visto, l'unica cosa che vorrebbe fare è sparire.