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If you want to excite, encourage, and empower adolescent girls and young ladies, this book is an excellent resource to build their spiritual and personal character. Karen Powell was inspired to write this book to bless youth with knowledge that can be applied to their lives to strengthen their faith in God, commitment to prayer, and declare God's Word for their lives so they can purposefully flow in the favor of God.

"Unul dintre noi minte" e povestea a ceea ce se întâmplă când cinci străini ajung în clasa de detenție a școlii, iar numai patru ies de acolo în viață. Fiecare este suspect, fiecare are ceva de ascuns. Fii atent la toate detaliile și poate vei fi tu cel care va rezolva enigma: Într-o după-amiază de luni, cinci elevi de la Liceul Bayview intră în camera de detenție. Bronwyn, tocilara, va merge la Yale și niciodată nu încalcă vreo regulă. Addy, prințesa, este frumoasa populară a liceului. Nate, delincventul, este deja eliberat condiționat după ce a fost prins vânzând droguri.

Karena ibunya masuk rehabilitasi, Ellery harus tinggal bersama sang nenek di Echo Ridge. Kota kelahiran ibunya. Tempat saudara kembar ibunya menghilang pada usia tujuh belas tahun. Tempat seorang ratu homecoming ditemukan tewas setelah beberapa hari menghilang, lima tahun lalu. Ellery datang tepat saat Echo Ridge tengah menyambut tahun ajaran baru. Tepat ketika seseorang menjanjikan pesta homecoming akan berbahaya bagi ketiga kandidat ratu mereka. Seakan tidak cukup menegangkan, salah satu kandidat benar-benar menghilang tidak lama kemudian.

The Secret Clock Society has infiltrated every aspect of the government. You can't hide from them, you can't out run them - the only choice is to surrender or die fighting. Well, Summer's found her voice and her confidence. She'll fight if necessary, but for now she's on the run. And the only place that can offer her refuge is the one city that's been devastated with disease and death. Full of savages, Forsaken Harbor holds her life on the edge of a knife. Is there still hope to be found here after all? Or will survival mean savagery?

Ursula K. Le Guins weltberühmter Erdsee-Zyklus gehört zu den erfolgreichsten Werken der phantastischen Literatur. In diesem Band spinnt die Autorin ihr Epos mit fünf faszinierenden Erzählungen weiter, die in die Vergangenheit und Zukunft ihrer Welt führen: Welches Geheimnis barg die finstere und unruhige Epoche, dreihundert Jahre vor der Zeit der "Erdsee"-Romane? Was geschah in den Jahren, als Ged Erzmagier an der Zauberschule von Rok war? Und welches Schicksal wird die Drachentochter ereilen?

Ivy, Mateo und Cal waren einmal befreundet, jetzt haben sie nichts mehr miteinander zu tun. Aber als Cal zu spät zur Schule kommt und dort auf Ivy und Mateo trifft, ist das die Gelegenheit, eine alte Tradition wiederaufleben zu lassen: einen Tag blau machen. Bei ihrem spontanen Ausflug in die Stadt sichten sie zufällig einen vierten Schüler auf Abwegen und folgen ihm - mitten hinein in einen Tatort. Ivy, Cal und Mateo kennen den Toten, der vor ihnen liegt - und eigentlich sollten sie jetzt die Polizei rufen. Doch sie alle haben eine Verbindung zum Opfer. Und etwas zu verbergen.

So says Mona Dean—playwright, actress and daughter to a man famous for one great novel, and in fruitless pursuit of the next, whose needs and insecurities exert an inescapable pull and exact an immeasurable toll on the women of his family: Mona, her sister, her half-sister, their mothers. His infidelity destroyed Mona's childhood, setting her in opposition to a cold, cruel stepmother who, though equally damaged, disdains her for being broken. Then, just as Mona is settling into her life as an adult and fledgling artist, he begins a new affair and takes her into his confidence.

Karin Müller of the German Democratic Republic's People's Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered - bound and trapped as a fire burned nearby, slowly suffocating him. Could his murderer simply be someone with a grudge against the factory's nationalisation, as Müller's Stasi colleagues insist? Why too is her deputy Werner Tilsner behaving so strangely? As more victims surface, it becomes clear that there is a cold-blooded killer out there taking their revenge.

Award-winning Great Plains writer Marilyn Coffey recounts her family’s intricate dance with the Teamsters, beginning with her dad’s tiny trucking company spawned on a front porch in 1929, in a David-and-Goliath encounter that spanned decades. In 1956, Tom Coffey knuckled under Jimmy Hoffa’s six-month-long Teamsters strike. He sold his 27-year-old truckline, Coffey’s Transfer Company, rather than sign Hoffa’s contract.

Doctors Quentin Young and Marcia Angell of Physicians for a National Health Care Program and economist Karen Davis on this edition of Fresh Air. Quentin Young and Marcia Angell advocate a single-payer health insurance plan, in which the government finances health care, but choice of provider remains mostly private.

Sold into slavery to pirates at the young age of four, Summer learns to survive the rough seas of subterfuge and thieves through silence. When the boat she's lived on most of her life is destroyed, Summer finds herself washed up on the shore of a new world, a phantom universe full of the bizarre and extraordinary. She meets Gage, the one boy who understands the girl with no speech. But when their lives are put on the line, will Summer finally call out? Or will all be lost in the fathomless depth of silence?

Der zweite Teil der epischen Fantasy-Saga von Ursula K. Le Guin als ungekürztes Hörbuch. Tenars Leben ist schon seit frühester Kindheit den Namenlosen Göttern geweiht. Als Wiedergeburt der Hohepriesterin Arha obliegt ihr die Aufgabe, über die Gräber von Atuan zu herrschen. In den dunklen Gängen des riesigen Labyrinths, das sich unter der Grabstätte befindet, stößt sie eines Tages auf den Magier Ged, der einen legendären Ring stehlen will. Für diesen Frevel müsste ihn Tenar eigentlich qualvoll verenden lassen, aber Ged weckt Zweifel in ihr.

Ihr ganzes Leben lang waren es nur Kat und ihre Mutter Jamie – mit Ausnahme der achtundvierzig Stunden, in denen Jamie verheiratet war und Kat einen Stiefbruder hatte, Liam. Doch dieses kurze Abenteuer endete mit einer epischen Trennung. Kat und Liam haben sich seitdem weder gesehen noch miteinander gesprochen. Jahre später ist Jamie eine Juwelendiebin und hat einen Auftrag, der sie auf die Geburtstagsfeier des Milliardärs Ross Sutherland führt.

Een crimineel moeder-dochterduo van thrillerkoningin Karen M. McManus. Kat en haar moeder Jamie zijn altijd met hun tweetjes geweest – behalve tijdens het achtenveertig uur durende huwelijk van Jamie, toen Kat een stiefbroer had: Liam. Sinds de dramatische scheiding heeft Kat Liam niet meer gezien. Als Jamie, een juwelendief die op het rechte pad probeert te komen, voor haar laatste klus de miljardair Ross Sutherland op zijn verjaardagsfeest gaat beroven, gaat Kat zoals altijd met haar mee.

Tru’s hometown is a secret hotbed of rebel supernaturals, and the most powerful supernatural in the world is coming after her with every weapon in his arsenal. Tru and her friends scramble to understand why. Maybe it has something to do with the prophecy that suggests she’s the savior the rebels have been waiting. Her biological mother has answers about the prophecy. But Tru refuses to talk to her...because that would be disloyal to her mom, right? And then there’s her love life. Tru and Zander share a rare bond that will kill them if they stay apart too long...

Tru’s emerging abilities plunge her into a hidden supernatural world. No one can know about her powers, especially her boyfriend’s father. Dreams point to her mother’s killer. Healing her friends exposes her secrets. And her ability to sense the truth uncovers centuries of lies. Blood-suckers who aren’t vampires? Rare true mates? Secret experiments? Disappearing hybrids? Sirens? Fueled by the need to solve these mysteries, as well as her mother’s murder, Tru discovers that everything is connected in a way that just might shatter her world.

Asian-American Life Stories is a very important audiobook for the study of Asian-Americans in the United States of America. This audiobook contains autobiographical writings by 11 young Asian-American leaders, who represent various segments of the Asian immigrant population in the United States. Many of the autobiographies, therefore, contain very valuable historical and sociological date for understanding the Asian experience in the United States.

Something sleeps within her. Starting over in your hometown is like getting a tattoo removed. There’s a cost, there’s pain, and there’s a scar. Who knew moving forward after your mother’s murder would mean rewriting your past? Tru Parker traded one kind of crazy for another. Werewolves and vampires? Real. No kidding. But no magic and no virus like in the movies. And they have different names - Usemi and Akharu. It’s almost too much, but she can’t stick her head in the sand any more because she’s changing into something else. Not sure what yet.

The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Müller, newly appointed Major of the People's Police, is called to investigate. But her power will stretch only so far, when every move she makes is under the watchful eye of the Stasi. Then, when the son of Müller's team member goes missing, it quickly becomes clear that there is a terrifying conspiracy at the heart of this case.

Efter at have reddet Tamlin fra en ond elverdronning vender Feyre tilbage til Forårsriget med kræfter fra alle Storfyrsterne. Men hun kan ikke slippe den forfærdelige gerning, som hun måtte udføre for at redde Tamlins folk - eller den aftale hun indgik med Rhysand, den frygtede Storfyrste af Natriget. Feyre drages dybere og dybere ind i Rhysands spind af politik og kærlighed, mens Krigen ulmer og en ond kraft truer med at udslette alt det, hun har kæmpet for.