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Kids have been picking on 14-year-old Harold ever since he can remember. They stare at him and call him "maggot" or "ghost boy" because he's an albino. Even his mother seems angry and withdrawn when he's around.One day the circus comes to town, and Harold runs away to join it. When Fossil Man and Princess Minikin accept him into their family, he feels that he has at long last come home.

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, read by the actor Kevin T. Collins with Eve Bianco and featuring original music by Michele McGonigle. Is falling in love the beginning . . . Or the end? In Ethan Wate’s hometown there lies the darkest of secrets. There is a girl. Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes. There is a curse.

Many today long for a closer walk with God - a more personal relationship. Amazingly, God desires a personal relationship with every believer. The Holy Spirit of God makes this relationship personal and real. In Friendship with the Holy Spirit: The Revival Relationship, John Van Gelderen shows (from the Scriptures) how to develop a vibrant and personal relationship with the Spirit of Christ.

From Bestselling Author Emma J Bowen comes a heartwarming opposites-attract romance that will strike all the right chords. Continuing the Iron Serenade Series with Sophie's Serenade. A dedicated nurse. A disillusioned rockstar. Can reality TV spark true love?Sophie is an overworked pediatric nurse, juggling her demanding job and caring for her special needs brother. She never imagined falling for a celebrity. But when she meets Mario on a dating show, unexpected sparks fly. Mario, the famous bassist of Iron Serenade, is tired of shallow relationships. He’s captivated by Sophie’s genuine...

August is a misfit with a pyro streak, and Jack is a golden boy on the varsity rugby team - but their intense friendship goes way back. Jack begins to see increasingly vivid hallucinations that take the form of an elaborate fantasy kingdom creeping into the edges of the real world. With their parents' unreliable behavior, August decides to help Jack the way he always has - on his own. He accepts the visions as reality, even when Jack leads them on a quest to fulfill a dark prophecy.

Her secret was her shame. His cruelty was her cage. Their bond was their salvation. At Westview University, survival for Omega Hazel Rogers means staying invisible, hiding her shameful secret—a body that betrays her with milk for a life that doesn’t exist. But when Theo Bernard, the campus’s ruthless Alpha prince, discovers her in a humiliating moment, her carefully guarded world crumbles. Theo, a master of control and cruelty, sees Hazel’s secret as the perfect leverage to solve his own problem: a high-stakes gala requiring a compliant Omega on his arm. Blackmailed into playing his...

Do you have a Third Place? Your first place is home, your second place is work, and your third place is where you go to socialize. As more of our lives are spent online and in digital spaces, these often overlooked "Third Places" play a crucial role in keeping our communities vibrant.

The Art of Friendship walks with you into a greater understanding of how God has equipped you to be a friend and to have meaningful friendships. With step-by-step guidance, you will begin to strategize how to fulfill your divine calling as a friend. And through God's Word, as you come to understand the depth and width and breadth of God as Friend, you will discover that the spiritual discipline of friendship is both life-changing and life-giving.

Unlock the secrets to lasting connections with "How to Make Friends: A Practical Guide to Building Meaningful Relationships, Overcoming Social Anxiety, and Expanding Your Social Circle." This engaging, fun, and insightful book dives into the art of forming friendships that endure. Whether you're wondering how to make friends that last, seeking tips for kids on making friends in preschool, or even looking for advice on how to make friends without trying, this guide covers it all with flair and wit.

Seven Sexy Sins. One Mr. Sinful. Faith Hillman is in trouble. She’s writing an article on ways to spice up your love life for her popular blog, but she’s hit a major snag—she hasn’t experienced any of the Seven Sexy Sins on her list. Luckily, her brother’s best friend, Rusty Thorne, offers to help with her research. Having had a crush on him since the age of twelve, Faith agrees, on the proviso that he signs a contract keeping their short-term relationship a secret. Her brother once decked him for kissing her on her eighteenth birthday, so Rusty’s happy to concur. While they ...

Sixteen-year-old Sayers Wayte has everything. Popularity, good looks, perfect grades—there's nothing Sayers' family money can't buy. Until he's kidnapped by a man who tells him the privileged life he's been living is based on a lie. Trapped in a windowless room, without knowing why he's been taken or how long the man plans to keep him shut away, Sayers faces a terrifying new reality. To survive, he must forget the world he once knew, and play the part his abductor has created for him.

If you were penniless and lonely, and you’d lost all hope, would you let Santa, the Billionaire grant you a wish? I fell in love with Nick Prince the day I started work as his PA, but I knew it would never work for two reasons: a) He was married, and b) his wife was my best friend. Boy, do I know how to pick ’em. So I ignored my feelings, and I got on with my life as best as I could. Then Olivia died, leaving us both devastated. Two years later, he’s still grieving. I don’t think he’s ever going to get over losing her. He doesn’t feel the same way I do, and he’s never going to...

¿Por qué tengo que aparentar cosas con mis amigos y en el salón de clases para ser algo o alguien? Nada de lo que hacía antes me gusta: ni mis amigos, ni ver al Vampiro, ni platicar con Sofía. Desde que llegó la pandilla, no hay nada fuera de ella. Todos somos alguien dentro. Y ahora que estoy sentado a horcajadas sobre el pecho de Luis y sostengo en la mano una piedra, sí... una piedra que me quema como un carbón encendido, me chamusca la piel, mas no puedo detenerme: soy esta piedra y soy una Lechuza.

It’s been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship and just a few months since Abby and Leah’s unforgettable night at senior prom. Now the Creekwood High crew are first-years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began - on email.

Tomorrow, the Wildcat varsity field hockey squad will play the first game of their new season. But at tonight’s team sleepover, the girls are all about forging the bonds of trust, loyalty, and friendship necessary to win. Everything hinges on the midnight initiation ceremony - a beloved tradition and the only facet of being a Wildcat that the girls control. Until now. Coach - a handsome former college player revered and feared in equal measure - changes the plan and spins his team on a new adventure.

Proven, teen-tested, and verified must-have social skill strategies to ramp up confidence, overcome anxiety, fear, stress, make real long-lasting friendships, create healthy boundaries, and much more!

Someone—or something—is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii's coast, and Max and her flock find themselves sucked into the Navy's top-secret investigation of the catastrophe. Their objective: Rescue Max's activist mom from a wicked subterranean enemy. The hitch: They must dive deep into dark waters, where gruesome evil dwells . . . and for high-flying Maximum Ride, could there be anything more terrifying than being trapped in the great abyss?

Discover the unexpected ways friends influence our personalities, choices, emotions, and even physical health in this fun and compelling examination of friendship, based on the latest scientific research and ever-relatable anecdotes. Why is dinner with friends often more laughter-filled and less fraught than a meal with family? Although some say it's because we choose our friends, it's also because we expect less of them than we do of relatives.

Nell Collins grew up in the small seaside town of Bride's Bay on the south coast of England. After living and working for two years in a nearby city, Nell has been offered a job close to her home town. The house she grew up in, still owned by her aunt, is now empty, so when Beth suggests Nell moves back into it, she is delighted. But her pleasure at returning to her old home is short-lived. When she hears noises in the empty house next door, she suspects someone is living there. Her unease increases when she is followed home then receives anonymous phone calls and unwanted deliveries. ...

Best friends, big fans, a mysterious webcomic, and a longlost girl collide in this riveting novel, perfect for fans of both Cory Doctorow and Sarah Dessen