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Stryker isn’t like most Shifters. He never went out looking for his fated mate. He never wants to find her. All he wants is to be left alone. Then Peyton starts working at Leader of the Pack Marketing and he knows that he’s screwed. The pull between them is so much stronger than he ever anticipated, but he didn’t get to be Alpha of his own company by giving into his urges. When the full moon comes, will this Billionaire Shifter Alpha be able to resist his true mate?

After a devastating attack, the lives of Dr. Amar and Major Shani become entwined in a complex web of grief, anger, and mystery. Dr. Amar's world shatters when he learns that his son, Hassan, was the suicide bomber responsible for the tragedy. For Major Shani, the blast claims the life of a childhood friend and ignites a burning desire for revenge. As Major Shani investigates the case, their paths cross with an undercurrent of mistrust and conflicting emotions.

You are being scammed by a system that promises quick fixes that fix nothing and sells you money-sucking programs that do nothing but fuel overeating. At each meal, 93 million overweight American adults and 14 million overweight children and adolescents risk their lives. More than 300,000 die unnecessarily every year from obesity-related diseases. Hazel Dixon-Cooper was a size-22 woman in a size-two world until she dumped the weight-loss industry, discovered how food companies lie, and learned that doctors rarely know more about nutrition than we do.

Kade is used to keeping himself in check. As a wolf shifter living so close to humans, he's needed to. Keeping his pack’s secret has never been a problem. Until she shows up. Ruby James.

That's the question that Thatcher has been asking himself for years. It's why he doesn't date, has never tried to find his fated mate, and rarely leaves his home. He knows what he is, and he can't bear to see the looks he gets whenever he goes out. He's content with his life of solitude. Until she shows up.

Birk and Heath have always been inseparable. Then Ivy moves to town. Now they’ve got bigger problems than graduating and finding their place in the pack. They need to figure out how to tell Ivy about shifters and wait until she comes of age so that they can see if she’s the fated mate to either of them. When Ivy and Heath go hiking one day and she falls and hurts herself, badly, he has a decision to make. Hope that she can survive the trip back to town, or bite her, forcing a mating but saving her life in the process.

Rylan Black prefers to be alone. Maybe it's because he's the only bear shifter in a pack of wolves. He spends most of his days by himself in his garden, only talking to his five friends in the pack when they come out to visit him. He hears that Finn found his mate and heads to congratulate his friend when a scent hits him.

Frisch befördert zum Captain der Vierten Kompanie der Ultramarines, führt Uriel Ventris seine Krieger zu der Welt Pavonis, auf der bösartige außerirdische Räuber Tod und Zerstörung bringen. Während Pavonis in politischen Unruhen versinkt, müssen Uriel und seine Krieger wegen der Entdeckung einer Verschwörung die Xenos bekämpfen, in der es um die Freilassung eines uralten Übels, tief vergraben unter der Oberfläche der Welt geht - dem mysteriösen und tödlichen Nachtjäger.

American poet Dorothy Parker lived a life of heartache and hardship, but her writing became her weapon to fight back. She refused to temper her strong opinions, even at the cost of her editorial position at Vanity Fair. Parker continued to write—unfiltered and unapologetic—and found solidarity in community with other writers. Enough Rope was Parker’s first volume of poetry, featuring poems originally published in Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.

I’m not supposed to be here. That’s what I keep telling everyone but no one will listen. I just wanted to see the castle nestled deep in the woods. Instead, I end up getting kidnapped.

From Afghanistan's Hindu Kush peaks and sunbaked Helmand Valley to Baghdad, Mosul and Ramadi in Iraq, American snipers have braved heart-pounding situations to hit their human targets dead-on. Few military feats stir the imagination like the image of a pair of riflemen waiting quietly in a building, a bomb crater, or a mountain pass for a Taliban or Al Qaeda fighter to walk into their crosshairs. Sniper presents real-life tales from the military's frontline snipers---their hits and their misses, the anguish of loss, and the anxiety of the first kill.

After having been burned by a woman in his past, fireman Jace Palmer avoided heartbreak at all costs and played the field as though it was his profession. One night, he accidentally called a hookup by the wrong name in the middle of . . . hooking up. He didn't have the space in his life for that kind of drama, so he decided to move on, even though he'd actually liked her. When he shows up for his best friend's wedding weekend a few months later, he discovers that life was delivering him a cruel twist of fate.

The night sky is an endless source of wonder and mystery. For thousands of years it has been at the heart of scientific and philosophical inquiry, from the first star catalogues etched into ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets to the metres-wide telescopes constructed in Chile's Atacama Desert today. On a clear night it is hard not to look up and pick out familiar constellations, and to think of the visionary minds who pioneered our understanding of what lies beyond.

In 8 Steps to Better Security: A Simple Cyber Resilience Guide for Business, cybersecurity researcher and writer Kim Crawley delivers a grounded and practical road map to cyber resilience in any organization. Offering you the lessons she learned while working for major tech companies like Sophos, AT&T, BlackBerry Cylance, Tripwire, and Venafi, Crawley condenses the essence of business cybersecurity into eight steps.

The practice of meditating has been around for many centuries. Where other exercise forms and fads have come and gone, meditation continues to stand the test of time, proving again and again how practicing it regularly provides numerous mental and physical benefits. Many of us, though, struggle to find the type of meditation that best suits our needs and lifestyle and don't even know where to begin. That is, until now.

In just three short years, Willie Geist has gone from behind-the-scenes producer at MSNBC to rising on-air star, as the host of Way Too Early with Willie Geist and cohost of Morning Joe. He's fast, he's funny---something of an early-morning Jon Stewart. Now, in his first book, Geist focuses on America's ongoing parade of giant pop culture personalities, beings inflated by the Internet and twenty-four-hour cable news and tethered only loosely to the ground.

Alani Baum, a nonbinary photographer and teacher, hasn’t seen their mother since they ran away with their girlfriend when they were 17 - almost 30 years ago. But when Alani gets a call from a doctor at the assisted-living facility where their mother has been for the last five years, they learn that their mother’s dementia has worsened and appears to have taken away her ability to speak. As a result, Alani suddenly find themselves running away again - only this time, they’re running back to their mother.

The explosive conclusion of the Toucan Trilogy. As Colony East scientists coldly implement their vision of a utopian society, Abby goes on a desperate journey to find her brother and sister, and save the lives of millions.

In “Witchcraft Unveiled,” you will find a treasure trove of insights, practices, and rituals designed to awaken the magic within you. Drawing from diverse traditions and perspectives, this book offers a comprehensive guide to the art and science of witchcraft, from its historical origins to its modern-day resurgence.

Sarah and Mia would have been better off leaving the horror show that passes for a carnival when they had the chance. But one falling out with a stabby rapist clown and now they’re in the back of a lorry on their way to who knows where? Murdertown, probably.