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American Indian Stories is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fictions, and essays written by the Sioux author Zitkala-Ša. The collection includes legends and stories from Sioux oral tradition, along with an essay titled "America's Indian Problem", which advocates rights for Native Americans and calls for a greater understanding of Native American cultures.

Join the brave friends Patch, Wren and Barver for another adventure of magic and music! Thrill as they meet the Pirates of the Eastern Seas! Marvel as they venture to the only city where dragons and humans live side by side! Gasp as they journey high into the snowy peaks, where the greatest secret of the griffins lies hidden! And tremble as they come face-to-face once more with the increasingly powerful and evil Hamelyn Piper....

Through financial smarts, the internal power gained from cultivating wealth, and a heaping of raw cunning, Peter has found his way from lowly Gold clan slave to master of the Bo clan's fiscal empire and a beautiful collection of lovers and wives. But his true purpose in this strange realm of magic and martial arts remains unknown. Until now. As the tendrils of darkness begin to strangle the country, Peter will find out the truth. To survive the dangers ahead, he will need to break through to the next level of cultivation, all while weaving through the minefield of Imperial politics.

The magical world calls to me but I want nothing more than to heal. Working in the ER gives me a chance to help people while hiding from the magical world. It’s a place where few magical folk ever visit, and never by choice. When a patient comes into the ER with a magical injury, I’m forced to use my magic to heal, but doing so draws the wrong kind of attention to me. This time, I doubt Aron can help, especially since I know my type of magic isn’t dark magic at all. It’s worse. Much worse.

Depuis qu'elle a découvert des milliers de nouvelles planètes, l'humanité s'est lancée dans la plus grande ruée vers les terres de son histoire. Des vaisseaux colons disparaissent mystérieusement sans laisser la moindre trace. Des armées privées se forment en secret. Le dernier échantillon existant de la protomolécule est volé. Des attaques terroristes inimaginables auparavant mettent à genoux les planètes intérieures.

Raphael Roberts is back in this final installment of the Good Cop, Bad Cop series. Raphael dodges yet another bullet when he's recruited by the feds. He's unleashed on the city of Atlanta's booming drug market. He's so deep undercover the lines begin to blur. He soon loses track and can't recall if he's an undercover cop pretending to be a dope boy or dope boy pretending to be a cop. His old comrade from the police force joins him but officer Johnson has secrets of her own. Not even Superman can dodge all bullets and unlike Superman Raphael isn't bulletproof. Turn the page and see if he'll ...

Arrax and Rajeem are brothers of the same mother, but that's all they had in common. Arrax was the son of kings and raised to carry on his royal lineage. Rajeem was the son of an evil man who passed on his evil traits through his DNA. It is only their mother's love that keeps them together. Arrax swore to keep his brother safe against the wishes of their people.

¿De qué forma podemos convertir el mero conocimiento en verdadera sabiduría aplicada a nuestras relaciones interpersonales? ¿Cuál es el valor de la espiritualidad en la búsqueda de respuestas a estas y otras preguntas que urge responder? Yo Soy Dios es una guía que nos lleva de la mano a conocer no sólo las extraordinarias potencialidades dormidas en nuestro interior, sino además nos muestra que la espiritualidad es la pieza que falta para lograr un desarrollo armónico familiar, social, político y económico en nuestra sociedad.

Pendant des générations, le système solaire - Mars, la Lune, la ceinture d'astéroïdes - fut la grande frontière de l'humanité. Jusqu'à maintenant. Un objet non identifié opérant sous les nuages de Vénus est apparu dans l'orbite d'Uranus, où il a construit une porte massive qui mène à un hyperespace désolé.

Robin Martine has destroyed witches all across the country, but since her confrontation with the demon Andras, Robin has had to deal with her toughest adversary yet: herself. While coming to grips with new abilities, she and her boyfriend Kenway make their way to the deserts of rural Texas, where new opportunities await. Something lurks in this isolated town of Keystone Hills: a dangerous gang ruled by a husband who wields an iron fist over his wife and daughter. Robin vows to protect these Latina women from harm, but may be underestimating how powerful Santiago Valenzuela is....

Estamos en Venecia y corren los años en que Napoleón arrasa Europa con sus ejércitos. Henri, un joven cocinero al servicio del general, se enamora perdidamente de Villanelle, una hermosísima criatura de pelo rojizo y pies deformes que conoce como nadie los secretos de las góndolas y de las salas de juego donde los nobles del lugar apuestan su fortuna entre sonrisas y frases galantes....

New album, new tour, new relationships. With their new album done a tour on the horizon, Thirteen Shades of Red has one last thing to do before it all starts: film their new music video. Their record company pulls out all the stops for this one, including hiring on rising starlet Misery Chastain. And she's single, a fact that has not escaped Shade's guitarist Tosh Tillman.

The one thing Syrus Alcot, the God of Death Osiris in the Egyptian Pantheon, wants in all the worlds is the woman he loved and lost returned to him. When he gave up his powers, and freedom for a life of service, he was promised her return. That was over 1,000 years ago. A member of a team of dark gods charged with keeping humanity safe, he leads a loveless existence in New York City, searching for the one thing that could bring his wife back to him: a lapis scarab that was lost to him ages before.

When Penny O’Dwyer is snatched from the quiet streets of Cahirsiveen, a small town in the west of Ireland, her family is distraught. Bright, beautiful, career-driven, she had the world at her feet. Local police scour the muddy hills surrounding the town, but, finding no leads, they turn to criminal behaviourist Jessie Boyle.

About 40 percent of the general population reports some fear of flying. For Nicole Jensen, this is more than just a statistic. It's a reality she lives with daily. So when Nicole is thrust into planning a convention out of state, she soon realizes that she might have to face that fear head-on.

Ride along with rapper D-Lite on his journey from the mean streets of the South Bronx to the bright city lights of HotLanta! Childhood friends Desean and Shelby are along for the ride as faithful sidekicks. However, life at the top of the charts is more than they bargained for. Success transforms David into the image created for him by his label. The lines between art and life blur as envy turns to jealousy and jealousy turns to murder.

After Peter's explosive battle against the head of the Bo clan, he, his cadre of lovers, and his loyal allies are on the move as the dark forces from the ancient past rise up throughout the Empire. While things seem bleak, Peter has one thing that no one else in this strange land has . . . He knows the truth. The truth of the Empire's hidden past, a thread of knowledge that leads him on the trail of the ancient evil that threatens his new family and his new home.

Presque trente ans après la fin de la guerre et l'anéantissement de la Flotte libre, l'humanité a retrouvé un semblant d'ordre et de stabilité. La Terre et Mars ont reformé leur coalition et se relèvent progressivement, tant sur le plan économique que militaire. L'Union des transports, l'organisme ceinturien chargé de réguler les échanges commerciaux entre les différents systèmes, tient un rôle essentiel au sein de l'Univers connu. Dans ce contexte, Holden, capitaine fraîchement retraité, s'imaginait bientôt couler des jours paisibles sur Titan.

When single father Joe Keenan and his young son, Finbar, make camp for the night in the ancient forest of Leitrim, little do they imagine their rural escape is about to turn into a nightmare. For deep in the woods they find a corpse.... As the remains of dozens more victims are uncovered by police, it becomes clear this is the burial site of a serial killer who has obviously been active, unnoticed, for years.

It’s an uncertain time in the Fertile Plains. Sixty cycles have passed since Alönia won the Protectorate War, but time and conflict have eroded the security gained through that great struggle. As Alönia wades through internal squabbling, David rises above his tragic childhood and earns a place as an aide to a powerful politician.