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On another planet, 200 years in the future, 21-year-old Isla Jane struggles helplessly to figure out who she is and what her world really means. Marked with a forbidden tattoo of the rising sun, she is a natural champion of humanity. She is also a gifted warrior in Heats - lavish battles fought in the conjoined minds of the participants for the morbid amusement of the masses.

For exobiologist Cassie Clearwater, the chance to explore the planet Obsidian is the opportunity of a lifetime. The austere black world has liquid water and a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere that might support life. She discovers a mysterious species of plant that emits copious quantities of complex chemicals. Her colleagues on the mission care only about the diamonds they've discovered, but Cassie wonders how these plants, and nothing else, thrive in such a dark and barren environment.

Psychiatric Tissues focuses on Arab on Radar, one of the most iconic and influential noise rock bands in underground music history. Tales of their interests in sex, drugs, and violence have swirled for years. In this memoir about playing guitar in the band, Jeff Schneider aka Mr. Clinical Depression candidly reveals the truth about life inside the band, stripping away the myths and revealing what life was like for musicians on top of the scene, enjoying artistic creation on a level that has yet to be understood.

In reality one, Dee goes to California. Her new beginning pushes aside the past and the trauma she escaped. In reality two, life in her home country lulls her into a feeling of safety as she embarks upon the most important task of her lifetime: taking care of her baby. As the two paths push Dee deeper into her survival journey, one path threatens suffocation, the other exhaustion. Which offers a chance of salvation?

Technology is the new drug.... When Maggie Stone straps on the Vertix H2, an innovative device that creates a social media and online experience unlike anything she’s ever known, she quickly becomes a fan. Able to control virtual reality with her mind, the rush is intoxicating. But soon the device begins to take over her life. Immersed in a colorful and explosive world of technology, she finds it impossible to disconnect. As her addiction grows, Maggie’s world spirals out of control, endangering and pushing away reality.

In 2018 poet Shannon Laws on the edge of a creative transition thought speaking her lines to music might help to explore reason and purpose. After asking a few friends if they knew an available stand-up bassist, she found Greg Sherman, a folk bassist and special education teacher from Mount Vernon. The two performed You Love Me, You Love Me Not live at neighborhood venues to receptive audiences. This collection of select poems is offered as a Kindle Book and an audiobook. Recorded at Alpenglow Sound Studios, located a few hours north of Seattle, Washington in 2019.

Depressed and abandoned after my father dies, I'm sent to a therapy center where I must decide between two doors. Behind one door awaits life in my home country where I will continue to scramble through a tangle of mistakes and a poisonous relationship, but old and new friendships alike may be my salvation. Escape lies behind the second door, where I can run away to an unknown country far away where demanding physical labor will push aside my inner demons. This door could be a fresh start.

Whether you just want to be frugal, you want to be healthy, or you just want to be creative, this Soap Making book will help you do just that. Know everything you need to easily make natural, beautiful, and healthy soaps at home. Say goodbye to always having to read the ingredients and back label of the soaps that you are buying from stores. With this book, in no time you’ll be creating soap according to your preferences, and of course without the ingredients that you don’t like.

Handle the most difficult girl in the galaxy, or everything blows up. When an alien princess arrives, a jaded celebrity handler has to keep her happy. But will he manage to get through her visit, when catering to her spoiled needs is the only way to prevent her from exploding the Earth, when rebels are trying to assassinate her, and when he starts to seriously fall in love with her?

Meet Chloe and Elizabeth Yetti: antisocial, semi-homicidal, 18-year-old twins casually surviving the AI apocalypse. Ten years ago, a powerful machine intelligence unleashed a nano-engineered superdrug on humanity. Having escaped and grown up in the forests of Northern California alongside their younger brother and brilliant scientist/survivalist mother, Clo and El stayed safe while society collapsed around them. But when a mysterious stranger and a demonic woodland creature appear and threaten their family, the twins are drawn back to a disintegrating, drug-addled San Francisco.

Many would woefully mourn the death of beloved Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But in this loaded political satire, politicians Nancy Pelosi and Chuck decide instead to celebrate her impassioned life. Ruthie is determined to cast her Supreme Court vote one final time: Dead or alive.

When Bo Lockwood and I completed our book Essence, I knew I wanted to add a workbook as soon as possible. This workbook has been designed as additional stepping-stones for those seekers who want some added direction on how to move forward in their own spiritual journey. There are no right or wrong answers to the spiritual questions in this workbook. We hope they are good mirrors as to how you can review your own life. Everyone will use them in very different ways. That is what we want. The questions will point out what stories you're telling yourself about your own life.

Do you want to eat what you want and still lose weight? Does that sound like it’s too good to be true? This audiobook will show you how it’s possible!

Robert Saville had been told that the king will soon be after him to wed. He is at the age when he should be siring an heir. He meets the perfect mate, Beatrice, at her brother’s wedding. His offer of marriage changes her future. He opens possibilities she hasn’t considered in eight years. But the promise of a future that could bring love and security is accompanied by expectations; expectations she can never meet. Beatrice has worried about this from the moment Sir Robert articulated them.

This audiobook focuses on a 30-day diet plan that is both easy and fun to follow. We have explained almost everything about what you should eat in the next four weeks. The audiobook also contains some delicious recipes that are easy to make. Each recipe contains a step-by-step explanation preparation process in detail.

In this second book of the Dark Souls series, fate curses the brothers, and they must navigate ancient deceits and potent forewarnings to save the ones they love. Can the two enemies become each other’s saviors? Or will the Circles fall and love fade?

The seasons of life inevitably come and go. The question is, "How will you handle these transitions?" Will you grow stronger? Become bitter and angry? Retreat when things do not work out the way you thought? Blame God when faced with unexpected tragedy? If you are looking for answers in a world full of unpredictable twists and turns, Shift is for you!

Becca Davis has always played it safe - denying her passion for fashion design in a dead-end job and letting her pragmatic boyfriend (mastermind of the "Kevin Bradley Ten-Year Plan") make the tough decisions in life. Stunned into saying yes when Mr. Predictable springs a surprise proposal on her, Becca realizes that she's running out of time to turn her life around. She's only got one more chance to chase her dreams and no one - not her control-freak fiancé, not her dramaholic sisters, not her overprotective parents - will talk her out of it.

When a woman is found murdered by hunting arrows in a woodland clearing, Detective Jane Harper is left to determine who is responsible. But when revelations about the victim's true identity surface, Harper soon realizes all is not as it seems - and that the killer's motivations are more complex than she could have imagined.

The Tigress of Gloucester: The End of Loneliness is a historical romance set in medieval England in 1075. King William refused to sanction the marriage of the Earl of East Anglia, Ralph de Guader. Ralph enjoined his brother-in-law, the second Earl of Hereford, Roger de Breteuil, and Waltheof, the Earl of Northumberland, and started a rebellion. Goeffrey de Grey is commissioned by the king to aid in the defeat of the Earl’s Rebellion. He is part of the superior force that engages Earl Ralph at Cambridge and routs them.