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When Christmas is in jeopardy, it isn't the packages she needs. It's the delivery boy. Adia Bell’s family doesn’t just want to buck tradition. They plan to chuck it out altogether. This is a problem since Adia has had a rough first semester at Avery University, and she’s expecting homemade pie and Christmas preparations to fix everything. Miller is a UPS package handler who hopes the season will be over soon. He wants to keep a low profile and avoid notice. But when his merry new co-worker Adia befriends him, he finds it harder and harder to avoid holiday-related things.

Cut through the hype and learn the fundamentals of crypto to make solid investment decisions, based on facts and not emotions. There have been many ups and downs since the writer began trading in the crypto universe in 2014, and countless lessons learned that will now benefit the listener. Education is rarely cheap, and what you don't know can cost you - in mistakes and missed opportunities.

Everyone has a hero! Some people have one, two, two different, or two of the same! Each and every hero has a special power, but the power of unconditional love and support is for everyone. Parents and guardians play a special role in one's life. And they will always be known as the heroes of our world!

A near-death experience in a car with her Mother; running from tear gas at a Vietnam War rally hand-in-hand with her Pop; a year in India learning side-by-side the country's 'untouchables;' the highs and lows of living on a rural Pennsylvania commune…and all before Fiona Sprechelbach's 13th birthday. Set during one of the most politically divisive eras in American history, Thread for Pearls is a coming-of-age tale that takes us on a young heroine's journey to faith and freedom amidst a turbulent family dynamic.

Essie Brightsday is blind. But that hasn't kept her from curses, dragons, or rock basilisks in the past. Now her family lives in the bustling capital of Plen, a far cry from their small farm tucked against the Valley of Fire. Little does she know that a secretive cult is growing in the city, guaranteeing this adventure will be just as eventful as the last....

Ellen can see the past with a touch of her hand. Every past but her own. Exiled to a controlled city after the death of her parents, she dreams of a place where she isn't monitored. A time when she isn't hunted. But once the Republic finds her, that hope dies as quickly as her protector. Betrayed by her friends and her past, Ellen is transported to a place she once couldn't wait to see. Europa. It isn't the sanctuary she seeks. The Republic hasn't just lost its hold on her, but on the colony they believe to be theirs.

It's been a summer of changes for July Carter, who has left the high stakes racing season at Saratoga with not only a young filly to call her own, but also an unexpected boyfriend. Change, it appears, is good. But as the thoroughbreds return to Belmont Park for fall races, July is caught up in all of those summer changes.

Lauren's senior year is going exactly as planned. Her craft blog is getting more visitors every day, and she knows what she's going to do with her life after graduation: get her associate's degree, marry someone fabulous, and live happily ever after.Sure, she doesn't know what she's going to get that degree in, .and there's no Prince Charming on the horizon yet. But, still that's the plan.

High above the beach, a drone fitted with a long-range lens and camera lofted over the Estrella resort. It had a mission, but that would only be known by its owner. If it was taken down, there would be no trail, no identity. It was programmed to identify a specific set of facial features, and once identified, the drone would fly out over the Gulf of Mexico and self-destruct, having sent the images it sought by satellite to home base. Perhaps the most unique feature of the drone was that it wore a disguise.

Essie Brightsday has never heard a rock basilisk scream. She has never worn magical armor, stood up to a queen, or run from dragons. Instead, Essie, her sarcastic cat Tigrabum, (just call him "Tig"), and her secretive family struggle to survive on their small farm nestled against the forbidding cliffs of the Valley of Fire.

Magical tracking expert Riley Hollis is on a mission to save five teenagers lost inside a mountain. But nothing is what it seems, and soon Riley finds herself bruised, bloodied, and embroiled in a battle to bring down a sadistic criminal dealing in human souls and the darkest of magic. Her only hope may be to swallow her pride and ask for help from her not-quite-ex-boyfriend and his notorious brother - Tyet criminal boss, Gregg Touray.

The first book in the series Harder than Diamonds, Heat, Light, Microwaves, Magic explores everything from odd lights in the sky to a transformed Earth in the future to a strange fantasy realm where things do not appear as they are to a techno-thriller that questions the nature of reality and the role of fate in the shaping of events.

Sleep is the last thing on the minds of this sister and brother who are about to meet some strange, beautiful, and quite questionable characters! Follow them and the clues as they look for Annie the Amazing Angelfish while weathering winds, summoning superpowers, forging friendships, and fending off foes fathoms below the foamy surface of the surging seas.

The human instinct for survival is strong, especially when the circumstances are dire. When five women and two men return to Earth as part of a disjointed and meager population, with the intent of completing a barely conceivable mission of reestablishing themselves on the surface and repopulating the planet, dire is an understatement.

Randy Tagget and Keisha Miller return to the Augusta from their self-imposed exile, with orbital nomad Pierre Martin in tow. The environment has changed in their absence and the experiment in human survival is preparing to move into phase III. Yet even as they close in on their goal of returning to the surface of the planet to re-establish a human presence on earth, the risks inherent with achieving that goal become increasingly clear and intimidatingly unavoidable.

Randy Tagget and Keisha Miller have escaped the Augusta and the increasingly unbalanced and dictatorial Governor Fuentes, but where to go? Their options are limited and bleak. Find another lifeboat to dock with, or die. And what of their former home? Can Tagget and Miller find the help they'll need to wrest the Augusta from Governor Fuentes' control? The future of their fellow survivors hangs in the balance, and the clock is ticking.

When seven-year-old Éclair goes geocaching for the first time, she finds a treasure that isn't the one she imagined. Young listeners will discover what geocaching is all about through Éclair's journey as her eccentric grandma takes her through the woods and past the giant to find the cache.

The Earth is wrapped in a thick blanket of dense, dirt-infused cloud cover. It is the aftereffect of a massive slab of space debris slamming into the planet - potentially exterminating all animal life on the surface. Randy Tagget and several hundred survivors populate the Lifeboat Augusta, one of three orbiting space platforms intended to preserve human life. Tagget and his counterpart, Keisha Miller, launched into space with every intention of returning to earth as soon as it was safe.

Eccentric Grandma Stella is taking in boarders. Not the kind that talk but the kind that neigh: horses. When seven-year-old Éclair meets the first boarder and its owner, a girl Éclair's age, the girl says her horse can read minds and will cast a spell on Éclair. Does the horse really have magic? If so, maybe the horse could make Éclair's secret wish come true.

Randy Tagget is afraid, and he has every reason to be. The entire human race is on the verge of being wiped out, except for a small number of scientists, engineers, and technology experts who have a slim chance at survival in space. If they can overcome the failings of their species, they may earn an opportunity to repopulate the earth - provided they can stay alive to do it.