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When a schitzophrenic renegade accidentally crosses two millennia to arrive in a horrifying future, she doesn’t realize the key to her very survival is locked away in her own genetics. There are whispers of something cruel going on in the few remaining futuristic medical facilities. Though the population seems to be healthy and sickness is rumored to be a thing of the past, Amber knows if she is summoned by the “doctors” she has to get away. The voices screaming in her head tell her so.

Two young men learn the ropes as bullfighting rodeo clowns. Packed with rodeo bull-riding action, the brave clowns fight to save cowboys from rampaging bulls. Meanwhile, a young woman searches for her birth parents, dreaming they are celebrities and jet setting with the rich and famous. Her twisted goose-chase leads her to the professional bull-riding circuit. She discovers and unleashes family secrets about a rodeo princess and a legendary bullfighting clown. But some secrets are better left buried.

Jack Bell is a young college professor trying to figure out his place in the world. The Great War is over, but the world continues to rebuild in the years following the Armistice. Jack’s carefully constructed world begins to unravel when an old friend arrives with a mysterious proposition. Jack agrees to a private meeting where he is introduced to the Emperor of Japan and presented with a quest his wildest imagination could never conceive: track down and find a missing necklace for the emperor before an ancient curse is unleashed.

14 Milliarden Jahre in 2 Stunden und 24 Minuten - Kurz und knackig: Das Wichtigste über das Universum - für Leute, die wenig Zeit haben. Die junge Oxforder Astrophysikerin Becky Smethurst führt in zehn kurzen Kapiteln zügig durchs Weltall. Was existierte vor dem Big Bang, gibt es da draußen noch andere Lebewesen, was ist das Geheimnis Dunkler Materie und Schwarzer Löcher? Für alle, die große Fragen ans Universum haben, und diese gerne sowohl wissenschaftlich als auch humorvoll beantwortet hätten. Becky Smethursts Begeisterung für Astrophysik ist mitreißend.

Quando l'IA Lovelace si risveglia in un corpo artificiale - un kit persona che rinomina Sidra - il viaggio che la condurrà a Porto Coriol con gli amici Pepper e Blue diventa un'esplorazione del mondo che la circonda e di una nuova esistenza diametralmente opposta alla sua vita sulla Wayfarer. Alla ricerca di uno scopo che vada oltre ciò per cui è stata programmata, confusa dai limiti che paradossalmente la sua libertà le impone, tenterà di comprendere il proprio ruolo nell'universo e scoprirà quanto è difficile, ma anche entusiasmante, condividerlo con specie e razze diverse.

Anderson ist Kates bester Freund. Seit sie denken können, teilen die beiden einfach alles: die Leidenschaft für Musicals, die Höhen und Tiefen des Alltags und sogar ihre Schwärmereien. Doch als Matt Olsson in ihrem Theater-Kurs auftaucht, wird ihre Harmonie empfindlich gestört. Denn Matt ist nicht nur ausgesprochen talentiert und mehr als nur ein bisschen attraktiv - er ist auch haargenau Kates Typ. Die Sache hat allerdings einen gewaltigen Haken: Auch Anderson ist völlig hin und weg von Matt.

A business' current customer base needs to be considered among the company's most valuable assets. Discover the practical tools to preserve and grow this asset and boost your business by tapping into The Hidden Power of Your Customers. Existing customers are the key to ongoing business growth. They are the people who already know you and buy from you. Yet too many businesses allow their existing customers their least expensive, most easily acquired sales to slip away. Don't let this happen to you!

Though women hold a majority of the managerial and professional jobs in the workforce, they occupy a mere 14 percent of C-suite positions at Fortune 500 firms. To break through this stubborn glass ceiling, women must learn to take bold steps when career-defining moments arise. During her 33-year career at Southern Company, a Fortune 500 utility company, Becky Blalock became CIO in a traditionally male industry. Now she offers her own hard-won advice, as well as that of 28 top female executives, to show all aspiring women how to dare to reach high tier of leadership and C-suite roles.

Presenters Becky Ripley and Emily Knight mull over a multitude of bewildering and brain-teasing questions as they try to make sense of what we humans are all about - with a little help from some other species. What can the swirling patterns in a starling murmuration tell us about the way our ideas spread? Can ants teach us anything about avoiding a pandemic? And how could a brainless single-cell slime mould help to solve our trickiest problems?

Her entire life, everyone has just assumed that Nicole "Hawk" Hawkins was a pretty face without much substance. Now, to prove them all wrong, she’s taken on the toughest job she could find - as a Redwood Cove firefighter. She’s not on the job long before a deadly fire nearly takes her life, scarring and disfiguring her once gorgeous features in the process. The worst part of it all? What happened wasn’t an accident. Arnold "Snowball" Winters, a detective with Redwood Cove's police force, has loved Nicole since the day she first joined the station.

Beginning on the playground as a child, the love of football drove Bobby Burton through his life. Nobody expected 145-pound Bobby to play or survive college football, let alone be MVP. Follow Bobby’s adventures as a college football player, a pro recruit, an Air Force pilot, a Vietnam vet, a survivor of two plane crashes, and a father of six. A true sportsman at heart, Bobby’s humor and sports go hand-in-hand. If you like classic football or true military stories, you'll love this one.

Dad said, "Never work a day longer than you have to!" So, we retired in our fifties. People asked, "How'd ya do it?" We put all the answers in this quick and easy listen with step-by-step instructions and tons of real-world examples. It's packed with financial tools, gems of wisdom, and a plan to kick-start your retirement planning. We actually lived it, so we know these proven, practical, no-nonsense tactics and strategies will help you.

Eyes to See is the story of God's incredible grace and faithfulness to a missionary family as they journeyed with their son and brother into the world of blindness.

Peyton McIntyre's brother is missing. Local police claim they're looking into it, but hope dwindles as the days continue to pass without any answers. Worse still, her only chance of finding him may depend on a rookie officer who sends her temper flaring and her heart quivering. Kurt Collins is a fourth-generation police officer, but so far he hasn’t been able to live up to his family’s long legacy of service. When the infuriating and beautiful Peyton asks for his help, he wonders if she might hold the key to the recognition he craves.

A short humorous paranormal horror story in which Tamara has a few days off work so she grabs her keys, credit cards, and her little dog and hits the road for a spontaneous road trip. She tries to dismiss her growing paranoia, but it just keeps getting worse. It couldn't have anything to do with that weird little bone her her dog dug up out of the garden...could it?

On April 24, 1996, Becky Olson was diagnosed with breast cancer. Suddenly, the 43-year-old mother of five and highly successful businesswoman now stood at the crossroads between life and death. Surviving arduous treatments and physical, mental, and emotional turmoil, Becky used the only weapon she had - her hat - to win the battle against the uninvited and overwhelming foe.

Scotty Williams is the nerdiest 17-year-old at Havensdale College - and proud of it. However being a nerd can have its downsides, particularly when you're constantly being targeted by the school bully Taylor Raven and his cronies. As Scotty tries to navigate his final college years with the aid of his best friend Olive, he also finds himself on the radar of the mysterious and intimidating Vincent Hunter, toughest guy in the Sixth Form. Is Vincent really as bad as he seems? Will Scotty's darkest secret ever be revealed? Can he ever just finish his last few college years in peace? But most importantly...will any guy ever find the reasons to love a nerd like him?

A school project begins a journey for Sarafina Garcia that will change her life forever. In an attempt to gain a scholarship to a prestigious school, she is thrown headfirst into a labyrinth of family history that will confuse and deepen her search. Don't dig up old bones was the response Sarafina received from her mother when she asked for help. What was it in the family history that was so horrible that she wouldn't discuss it? Only by delving into historical records will she solve the lingering mystery of her parentage and mend the broken branches of her childhood one last time.

Mélanie and Gérard have a dream for themselves, their business, and for their town. Can everyone in Roche-St. Charles work together to turn this dream into reality?

En rørende og morsom kærlighedsroman. 17-årige Simon er ikke helt parat til at springe ud som bøsse, da en af hans emails falder i de forkerte hænder, og han risikerer, at bolden ikke længere er på hans banehalvdel: Enten hjælper han Martin, klassens klovn, med at få en date, eller også vil Martin afsløre ham.