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Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team - a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves.

Two novels: The Assassin's Coin, by John Linwood Grant, and The Prostitute's Price by Alan M. Clark. Intertwined here, they share a single timeline and a single purpose - to lead you to 13 Miller's Court, the room made infamous during the Autumn of Terror.

Zwischen Kämpfen mit den höllischen Kreaturen, die Dämonenjägerin Lily Marks tot sehen wollen, und heißen Wortgefechten mit dem begehrenswerten gefallenen Engel Julian, sehnt sich Lily nach ein paar ruhigen Minuten. Doch schon wegen der Tatsache, dass Julian und sie miteinander flirten, wird Lily gefeuert. Und dann beschuldigt man sie auch noch, eine Verräterin zu sein. Während Lilys Leben immer komplizierter wird und sie sich fragt, wie sie den nächsten Tag - und die Nacht - überstehen soll, müssen sie und Julian den wahren Verräter unter den Dämonenjägern finden.

I’ve dealt with difficult ghosts before, but this guy! Trashed my room, and he wasn’t even the one I summoned. That was a woman ghost haunting my friend Molly. We were just trying to help this poor lady spirit move on. Instead, I end up driving Molly out to Cedar Key on Florida’s Nature Coast, near where the lady and her angry companion lived until a hurricane destroyed the place in 1896. We find some clues along the way, but in the end there’s no escaping it: We have to rent kayaks and paddle out to Prosper Key.

Dall’invecchiamento della popolazione ai cambiamenti climatici, dall’istruzione di massa all’impatto dei social network, le storie immaginate da Liu Cixin, Xia Jia, Chen Qiufan e Wu Yan mostrano una Cina lontana dall’Occidente per costume e sensibilità, ma simile nelle realtà economico-sociali e così tecnologicamente avanzata da restituire uno sguardo sul futuro che attende il mondo intero. Una selezione di alcune delle voci più importanti della fantascienza cinese contemporanea che di certo delizieranno i lettori di tutto il mondo.

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This unique book of affirmations for kids relates to their world, and the skills they develop at a young age. For example, “I am capable. I can do things by myself” and “I am imaginative. I can pretend.”

Im Prinzip ist alles vom Hüter der Welt vorbestimmt. Lili muss nur noch den Rat der Drei besiegen und dann wird alles gut. Nur hat der besagte Hüter einen klitzekleinen Faktor übersehen. Die liebe Liebe. Die macht ihm einen Strich durch die Rechnung, und plötzlich läuft nichts mehr so wie vorherbestimmt. Oder etwa doch? Lili begibt sich auf eine gefährliche Mission, von der sie nicht mehr nach Hause zurückkehren kann. Ihre Schwestern kämpfen ohne sie weiter.

Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails.

Are you tired of endlessly seeking an elusive success? Learn why achieving it goes beyond working hard, setting goals, or having a positive attitude. Through her new book, Stop Fearing Failure: Let Positive Flow Into Everything You Do, Tessa Distor will help you find the missing ingredient to achieve the long-lasting success and happiness you have always wanted.

Eleanor Freemont owed her brother more than she could ever repay. He'd raised her after their parents were killed, but it was past time for her to grow up and be out on her own. Her painfully shy nature and her brother's over-protectiveness had kept her locked away for too long. Going out with Dustin Bass, a motorcycle riding stranger she'd dared make a date with at a stoplight, might just be her first step to independence. If only she can keep that date.

On their annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas, Nevada, to stay with relatives on the Fourth of July, an unsuspecting family is hit by lightning. In the aftermath, father Jess finds that he can see future tragedy in the eyes of others. The gift - or curse - causes much anxiety, and at the suggestion of his seven-year-old girl, Jade, he goes to the Stratosphere in search of a two-dollar blackjack table, where Jade promises he'll get lucky. What he finds is a lucky table - not only in terms of money but also love.

The local vampires are very upset with Aro for falling for Zafina, a human, who knows of their existence and their identity, so they decide to take her and Aro out before he can turn her. Find out what happens when the other vampires turn on Aro and Zafina. Will they kill her or will Aro make her his forever?

Yfrey is lost, alone in a world where her kind is persecuted. She has one hope: to find the Roghnaithe, one who is destined to help save her world from destruction by a tyrannical ruler.

Precognitions hints at past lives and common experiences, as it draws subtle connections between people on their personal quests for adventure, love, and family. A schoolteacher in Revolutionary France lives a life full of mystery and regrets. A teenager in New York is struggling with her ambitions as an athlete, school and daily life. Is it possible that an apprentice medicine-man in 15th century Africa and an ancient sword hold the answers to a question which transcends time itself?

Lilly liebt ihren Vater über alles. Als sie erfährt, dass er schwer krank ist, will sie nur noch eins: ihm seinen größten Wunsch erfüllen, seine jüngste Tochter zum Altar zu führen. Dummerweise hat Lilly ihren Fast-Verlobten Florian gerade erst durch einen blöden Fehler vergrault und er befindet sich nun auf einem Selbstfindungstrip in Thailand. Was läge da näher, als sich auf die Suche nach ihm zu begeben und um ihr gemeinsames Glück zu kämpfen? Doch es gibt jemanden, der diese Idee überhaupt nicht gut findet: Patrick, ihr "Fehler".

I can now say I am strong, because I have recovered. I am better for the obstacles. I am stronger from the pain, and I am richer for the wisdom. I now know that real strength is quiet and peaceful. I now know that strong people don't have to fight. They can just stand and look to a power that is greater than them.

Why does everything always go wrong at the same time? Danielle and Patricia's idyllic walk in the countryside comes to an abrupt end, when they find a corpse hanging from a chestnut tree. Danielle’s investigation uncovers related suspicious deaths and disappearances. There’s little respite at home, as their best friend Marjorie is distraught. The town’s immersed in gossip at her husband, the mayor's overt relationship with a young assistant. What can Danielle do to restore the balance?

In John 10:10, Jesus tells us that, "The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." Do you ever wonder why life seems to reflect the first half of this verse more than the second? Why is it that Jesus came to give us abundant life, yet so many Christians are living lives full of hopelessness, fear, and depression? In Look Up and Live Free!, Alicia V. Sharpe addresses how our minds and thoughts are some of the main factors behind it all.

Im Prinzip ist Lili eine waschechte Königin. Leider ist ihr nicht nur ihr Königreich abhandengekommen, sondern auch ein paar ihrer Schwestern. Lilis Leben ist in der Tat ein wenig kompliziert. Selbst wenn man außer Acht lässt, dass sie ganz aus Versehen den geheimnisvollen Gunnarson geheiratet hat, ihre Verbündeten ein fettes Kopfgeld auf sie ausgesetzt haben und sie zudem noch mit dem Fenriswolf verschwägert ist.