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Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime - they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against.

Once again I bang on the connecting door to my dorm room, trying to be heard over the blaring music coming from the other side. My bestie should be living in that room, but no, she transferred to be with her boyfriend and now I'm stuck sharing a wall with stupidly hot track star, Cal Chase. My friends say I'm lucky, but his mere presence annoys me, along with his late-night music and the constant gaggle of giggly girls who visit. I'm the only one who can see right through that patented Cal Charm. He's just another player and I'm not game.

June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic - and each other - and now their country is on the brink of a new peaceful existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government's elite circles while Day has been assigned a high level military position. But when a plague outbreak, deadlier than any other, causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities, the two are thrown back together. June is the only one who knows the key to her country's defence.

In the new Republic of Texas, guns are the law and nothing is forgiven. Bluebonnet Andrews is on the run across the Republic of Texas. An accident with a gun killed her best friend, but everyone in the town of Blessing thinks it was murder. Even her father - the town’s drunken deputy - believes she did it. Now, she has no choice but to run. In Texas, murder is punishable by death. There’s no one to help her. Her father is incapable, and her mother left the state on the last flight to America before the secession.

With her estranged husband still pestering her, Doreen is looking for a new case to keep her interest and to help her dodge Mack and his brother’s scoldings. So she decides to delve deeper into the Bob Small case, especially since it pertains to Nan’s now-deceased friend.

Bad things don’t happen in Cason Glen. The locals make sure of it. So, when the residents of the town’s most exclusive subdivision discover one of their own is missing, it sends a wave of panic and discord throughout the neighborhood. They are supposed to be safe. But they quickly realize not everything is as it once seemed in their idyllic world.

Rowan Sinclair has trained for a life in the shadows. As a member of the Guild, she's vowed to mercilessly hunt werewolves or die trying. But when one approaches her, claiming to know her missing father's fate, she decides to do the unthinkable - work with one of the very monsters she's sworn to destroy. Dean Mason is a man living with a curse, doing whatever he can to keep the beast inside from sating its bloodlust under the light of the full moon. When a chance meeting offers a tantalizing glimpse of a potential cure, he'll do anything to end the nightmare.

Allie Cashel has suffered from chronic Lyme disease for 16 years - but much of the medical community refuses to recognize her symptoms as the result of infectious disease. In Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial, Cashel paints a living portrait of what is often called post-treatment Lyme syndrome, featuring the stories of chronic Lyme patients from around the world and their struggle for recognition and treatment.

Most people in the Netherlands ride bicycles to get to work, enjoy the landscape, and for sport. They look forward to spring when they can pedal past world-famous tulip fields in full bloom. This introduction to the Netherlands will get young listeners' wheels turning by giving them a glimpse of this small relaxed European country.

Dr. Antoinette Day - a young, successful pathologist known to her friends and colleagues as Toni - has no idea what awaits her when Dr. Sally Shore arrives at Perrine Memorial Hospital in Twin Falls, Idaho, to fill in for a colleague recovering from a heart attack. Toni’s life is about to become a living hell.

In this life-changing and entertaining book, Ann Kaplan offers 13 witty, wry, and inspiring chapters full of personal stories, no-nonsense advice, and self-empowerment exercises that will help anyone understand how to get out of their own way. If you want to find a new life and if you want to be successful, Ann Kaplan has the answer. Straightforward, hilarious, and unapologetic she provides the tools and advice that will help you move those self-imposed roadblocks, find wealth greater than you ever imagined, and, yes, how to step on a path toward a life of true success.

Ken Olson's world is shattered by a corporate crime which his company must cover up at any cost. Stripped of everything but his passion for justice, Olson discovers the dark and dangerous world behind the corporate jets, the hired killers who secretly do the corporation's dirtiest work, the clandestine offshore bank accounts, and the greedy machinations of the lucky few at the top.

Strap on scuba gear and feast your eyes on the intricate and stunning world under the ocean. Identify bumps on a humpback whale or count the number of arms on an octopus. Compare speeds of sea horses and great white sharks or find out what eats sea stars and crabs. Young listeners will learn about specific animals and all that makes them unique in this informative series!

A candidate for US president ahead in the polls and about to win the election suddenly commits suicide, and no one knows why. A mysterious woman the media has dubbed “the Invisible Woman” may hold the key. An American bystander is killed during a botched jewel heist in the French Riviera. This triggers a worldwide hunt by global intelligence agencies for something the dead American left behind - a secret so explosive they will let nothing get in their way.

Du kannst das Kind begraben - aber die Wahrheit lebt weiter. Es ist nur eine winzige Nachricht in der Abendzeitung: "Überreste eines Babys auf Baustelle gefunden", unscheinbar und kaum der Rede wert. Aber drei Frauen lässt die Notiz keine Ruhe: Die eine erinnert sich an das schlimmste Erlebnis ihres Lebens. Die andere hat Angst, dass ihr dunkelstes Geheimnis enthüllt wird. Und die dritte begibt sich auf die Jagd nach der Wahrheit. Sie wird die Geschichte des Kindes erzählen.

This audiobook describes the experiences of two Jewish brothers and Holocaust survivors who fled the approaching Nazi army and eventually joined up and fought with the resistance movement and ultimately helped defeat the Nazi army.

How do you know what you know - or what you think you know? Have you ever wondered why you believe in God, why some people don’t believe in God, or what it means to be religious? How do you answer the question, “Who are you?” Norman Orr provides new ways to think about these questions and many more in this book that promotes the idea of embracing biological humanism.

Als Sara in die blauen Augen von Dante Craven blickt, ist ihr Schicksal besiegelt. Sie verfällt ihrem charmanten Mitschüler, ohne zu ahnen, welches Geheimnis er hütet. Auch wenn er gegen jede Regel verstösst, die der Rat aufgestellt hat, Dante kann Sara nicht fern bleiben. Er besucht sie Nacht für Nacht, bis das nicht mehr reicht. Ein Wächter der Unterwelt darf keine Sterbliche lieben und doch tut er es. Mitreissende Romantasy-Reihe mit Suchtfaktor.

Emily Haven and her friends have been given the seemingly impossible task of uniting the worlds - a mission they failed once before, in another lifetime. But Emily made a promise, and she intends to keep it. A small boy risked his life to save hers, and while Michael sets out to rejoin the Dragon’s Brood, she heads east with Celine and Corbbmacc to rescue Daniel from a band of desert slavers.

In 1945, both the U.S. State Department and U.S. Intelligence saw Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe and as a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. Washington believed that the political scene in Prague was the best available indicator of whether the United States would be able to coexist with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.