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Lacy Shelton and her sister Hope couldn't be more different, despite being less than a year apart in age. Lacy is captain of the debate team, poised to be Valedictorian of the high school, and waiting for an admission letter from Yale any day. Hope is captain of the swim team, but will be happy if she gets into community college.

As head of the FBI’s Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Squad, Agent Lucy Guardino has a reputation for bringing the lowest of lowlifes to justice. But today is different. Because the man who has taken her prisoner has promised Lucy three things: that before this day is over, she will be dead; that someone in her family will also die; and that he always wins.

The Grandmothers call us to remember who we are. To step into the power of the Feminine Principle, and admit to the force for good that we are. They tirelessly teach and guide us, and now they ask us to pass this power onto others. We who work with them know that we are here at this time to help restore harmony to earth. To bring the masculine (yang) and the feminine (yin) energies back into balance. After spending years with the Grandmothers, laying the groundwork for the Mother’s return, we understand that the time they’ve foretold has come at last.

María del Pilar González de Ayala tiene 35 años cuando huye de la casa materna en el barrio de Salamanca, harta de una madre amargada, castradora y machista que la ha convertido en una «inválida» social, truncando sus relaciones amorosas y su aspiración de gestionar la clínica de su padre.

El accidente sufrido por éste junto a su nueva pareja y el asesinato de Gonzalo, el pretendiente que la abandonó en vísperas de su boda, son otra motivación para iniciar una vida propia bajo un nuevo nombre: María González...

Bianca Burke aparece en mi vida con un tobillo hinchado en medio de la nada y no tengo otra alternativa mas que cargarla hasta el hospital más cercano. En el camino descubro que la pelirroja es puro fuego, no solo me hace reír, sino que también es arisca y original. Todo muy bonito, solo hay un problema. Bianca está decidida a casarse con uno de los empresarios más reconocidos de Silicon Valley. Y no, no soy yo.

Just two months after the search for her parents almost cost her everything she holds close, Kim is presented with another opportunity to find them. She struggles with the choice of taking the chance again fearing the possible consequences, adding more stress on top of her normal daily woes.

Your ancestors want to help and guide you, and this book reveals effortless ways to communicate with them and to interpret their messages and symbols. You'll learn about your distant ancestors, including ancestors from past lives, as well as how to spiritually visit your ancestral homes and...

When the Reverend Elaine Metcalfe is inducted as the vicar of Pontvale, she hopes the job will have more to it than lending out spare sets of keys. She soon discovers there's plenty of challenges in her new home - not least the daily needs of her parishioners, which range from community theatre productions, arranging a wedding and a funeral for the same day, and local scandal over the vicar's culottes.

Drive follows the pandemic shut-down journey of Come from Away actress Sharon Wheatley and her family from Broadway's sudden closure to when the curtains finally go back up. Along the way, Wheatley thinks back on the humor and grit of her parents and draws strength from those memories in order to confront the challenges of shepherding her family (and pets) through this unprecedented time, while making hilarious memories along the way.

After months of spy training and several missions under her belt, she's sure of only two things. One, she has superpowers. And two, she and Alex need to figure out what they are and why before Earnestine can weaponize her. There are a lot of other things Violet is less than sure about. Like whether she's smart to trust the team she's started to call friends. Or how entwined Jeremy is with his father's current mysterious plot that the Peacemakers have been assigned to uncover evidence on. Or even that Alex sees her as just a friend.

This revolutionary treatise starts from one fundamental premise: that our phenomenal consciousness includes direct experience of value. For too long, ethical theorists have looked for value in external states of affairs or reduced value to a projection of the mind onto them. The result, unsurprisingly, is widespread antirealism about ethics. In this book, Sharon Hewitt Rawlette turns our metaethical gaze inward and dares us to consider that value, rather than being something “out there”, is a quality woven into the very fabric of our conscious experience, in a highly objective way.

Are you facing natural “impossibilities”? Are you waiting on God to break through for you? Do you sometimes have the sense that you were created for more than the temporal illusion surrounding you? This book, birthed in the counsel rooms of heaven, will provide a “you are here” on your spiritual map and will answer questions about your life and situation that you may have found perplexing. The wisdom of heaven paired with simple and practical action steps will bring you into alignment and will usher you into the dimension where miracles are your norm.

How can we care for ourselves during tumultuous times? When we’re under stress or experiencing anxiety, many of us try to “think” our way into feeling better. In reality, the answers we seek can’t be found in our minds—our true path to healing lies in the body. With Nourishing Your Nervous System, you’ll discover a wealth of accessible tools and practices for tending to your body at the most fundamental level—that of the nervous system—so you can tune in to a calm confidence no matter how stressful life becomes.

Diego is a brachiosaurus dinosaur. He lived 150 million years ago. He meets Daisy, another brachiosaurus, and they fall in love. But the Ice Age comes, and they are both frozen into the ice. Global warming eventually frees Diego, but he cannot find Daisy! The story is his search for her.

A child is asking his mother what it is like on Mars--what the people there look like, how they walk and talk.

When 16-year-old Paige is burdened with the discovery of a secret that threatens to destroy her family, she feels compelled to take action. Focused on revenge and fueled by anger and betrayal, she makes a series of destructive decisions with catastrophic consequences. People become tools to be used to further her agenda. But when she falls in love with one of those people, it complicates everything and puts her in an impossible position. If what she did ever comes to light, Paige will lose everyone she's ever loved.

Tras un grave accidente de coche, Alma, una joven de 17 años, sufre un shock postraumático y es ingresada en una clínica psiquiátrica ubicada en un antiguo edificio rehabilitado. Allí convive con otros internos y sus patologías y se cruza con unos niños a los que solo ella puede ver. Poco a poco, la historia del edificio y sus antiguos ocupantes se enreda con la realidad de Alma y la lleva a desentrañar oscuros secretos encerrados durante años entre las paredes de la enorme casona y en su propia mente.

A practicing psychiatrist from the planet Pharlem escapes to Earth when his planet is under siege by a hostile population of creatures who dwell deep underground and can only surface at night. Once here, he discovers that he has changed in two disturbing ways: His eyes are terribly sensitive to light, and he cannot tolerate any food or drink...only blood. He does not wish to kill anyone but runs into some difficulty controlling this compulsion.

Stories and animals have long travelled the same routes. Through our heritage of charming, quirky and profound tales, you will find yourself re-acquainted with Britain's wondrous fauna. Find out how hedgehog ended up with spines and what makes him scuttle so fast, discover how pigs saved a prince from leprosy and why the wealthy lord was so intent on capturing the black fox. Sharon Jacksties' wonderful book combines traditional stories, little-known zoological facts and true anecdotes to create a treasure trove of stories for animal lovers of every kind.

There are 15 interesting animal stories in the book in both English and Chinese. It is a ideal way for English-speaking kids to learn to speak Chinese or vice versa. There are hints in every story of what the story teaches, and how kids can learn from it to benefit in the long run.