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Katarina Jones’ sensible exterior and strong practical streak often masks her real feelings. Ben Carruthers is terrified to ask Kat out, but when he buys a piece of land, and enlists Kat’s help with his vision, it gives him the opportunity to spend some time with her. When Ben has a load of landscaping stones delivered, Kat seemingly has a sixth sense about some of the stones. Will danger draw them together or pull them apart especially when Kat has trouble acknowledging that she has a sixth sense?

Adraa and Jatin are heirs to the thrones of neighboring kindoms and each extraordinarily talented in the nine colors of magic. Their arranged marriage will unite much of Wickery's fractured world but, after years of rivalry from afar, they only agree on one thing: their reunion will be anything but sweet. Except destiny has other plans and with the criminal underbelly of Belwar making a move for control, their paths cross...and neither realizes who the other is, each of them having adopted a secret identity.

Noodles and Leila are best friends and desk buddies at school. They like each other’s company so much that they play and do homework together, even after school. When Leila visits this time, neither of them is in the mood for homework. “I have an idea!” Noodles says after they have some sweet treats her mom made. They will play dress-up!

Noodles has always loved animals. She has the biggest fish tank in the neighborhood, a pet rabbit, a pet hamster, and her favorite pet, a poodle with fluffy white fur called Tiny! Her family had two dogs before Tiny, but when their last dog Brandy fell ill, mom got Noodles Tiny to cheer her up. Noodles loves taking her to the dog park, and Tiny is so good at climbing ramps that it almost seems like she’s showing off.

Noodles can’t wait to go to the countryside! She never gets bored there. There’s plenty of space, and she can play with her poodle, Tiny, all day long. This time, it’s snowed, and all she wants to do is make snow angels and build a snowman with her dad. As soon as she opens the car door, Tiny rushes out like lightning.

Noodles spent the day playing outside with her friends. Her hands are dirty, but who could have fun and keep their hands clean at the same time? When she gets home, her poodle Tiny welcomes her by jumping on her and licking her face. Her mom sees her clothes and filthy hands and rolls her eyes. She asks Noodles to wash her hands before eating.

There are three days to go until Saturday, when Noodles and her family will move to California, or as Noodles calls it, the beach! She is all packed and ready to go, and the first thing she wants to do when they get there is visit the beach. In the end, it takes a few days for them to settle in and unpack all their belongings.

Noodles is one of the first to show up at Leila’s birthday party. She loves to dance, so she immediately steps on the dance floor. Her friends begin to cheer as she busts her fancy moves, and her body follows the rhythm of the song flawlessly. When everyone praises her, Noodles says, “I get it from my momma!” On the way home, her mom says she’s gotten her something.

It’s the end of the school year, which only means two things for Noodles: vacation and student pictures! Student pictures are a big deal for the senior class, as they are included in the yearbook. Noodles knows this, but is not concerned about it. She just wants to have fun!

We all want to be able to exercise control of our own lives so that we can live to the best of our ability and have all the things we want. By being in control, we stand a much better chance of success, and it all starts with a set of principles that change the way we think and act. Inside this audiobook, Mentalism: The Ultimate Guide to Learn The Basic Principles to Control Your Thoughts and Life, we examine these principles in detail.

Reimagining Adoption examines beliefs, practices, and scripture to attune to the needs of vulnerable children and their families and align with Christian values. It examines the historical adoption practices, reviews current practices, and proposes revisions. More importantly, it lifts up the words and lived experience of adult adoptees - the true experts on adoption - and braids them with the insights of adoptive families to craft a new adoption paradigm.

As a teenage zoo-owner and the head of an eco-team that’s been tasked to overcome global warming and protect endangered species, Zak Bates is as busy as ever. Despite much help from a truly stellar multi-species coterie, his life, in a word, is wild, and it seems that things are about to get hairier. When the eco-team receives word from the Council of Animals of the Spiritual Frontier about a curious disturbance amongst New York’s animal population, it soon becomes clear that something truly sinister is afoot - or apaw - and, worse, the plague is prodigious.

This boxset includes Ra-Kit's Initiation (A Prequel), Dominion Over All, Endangered, Ghost Elephant, and Junkyard Dogs.

Edinburgh, 1820s. On one side is the Old Town; ancient, crumbling, and full of poverty. On the other is the New Town - elegant, refined, and prosperous. When newly qualified Doctor Martin Elliot arrives, he discovers that the duality goes deeper. There is more darkness in the streets than he could have imagined. Ghosts of the long-dead haunt the houses, and nightmares soon fill Martin’s head.

When Corby Santana receives an unexpected inheritance from her great-uncle, whom she doesn't really remember, she learns that he has left her a house, along with a very unique turquoise and silver pendant. For Corby, it seems like a piece of good news, but she's not sure, especially when the will states she needs to wear the pendant when she visits the house.

Gulliver's Travels is an adventure story (in reality, a misadventure story) involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies, but who, after each adventure, is somehow able to return to his home in England where he recovers from these unusual experiences and then sets out again on a new voyage.

Despite running his own zoo, Zak Bates considers himself pretty normal for a 13-year-old. Visited by Ra-Kit, a scruffy feline with some serious catnip issues, he’s ill-prepared for the life-or-death assignment that follows. With the weight of the world on his shoulders, Zak must represent the animal kingdom at a United Nations Conference on Global Warming, convince world government to stop poisoning the planet, broker interspecies peace, and diffuse an impending, bloody rebellion - just a bit harder than algebra!

In Zanesville, Ohio, a dangerous menagerie has escaped from a private preserve, and the situation threatens to spiral out of control. Francis, a spirit bear from British Columbia, is being held captive, and, to free him, the eco-adventurers will need to align with Chatters, a white squirrel. Though fraught with peril, the breakout might be a chance to mend the globe.

Nia Gaines is the newest member of Zak Bates' Eco-Adventure task force - only, she doesn’t know it yet. When Nia’s parents drag her along on a business trip to China, the source of their affluence soon becomes clear: ivory, prized since ancient times for its beauty and never before so rare. In Beijing’s back alley curio shops, the prices are great...but what’s the cost? The answer will change Nia’s world.

In 19th-century Isle of Wight, Sarah Bembridge sets on a journey of adventure and misadventure. With Napoleon Bonaparte just across the Channel, poised to invade, Sarah has other things on her mind. First, she rescues a shipwrecked sailor, whom she suspects to be French. Soon afterward, she gets engaged with a handsome officer. And when the mysterious Mr. Howard calls at her inn, Sarah’s life becomes even more complicated.