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When the security director of the powerful corporation Nebulaco dies under mysterious circumstances, courier Sai Collins has one last top-secret delivery to make on his behalf. Sai has come a long way from her street-kid childhood, but she has her secrets - namely that she’s a cyber-psi, a computer telepath who can connect to the grid without hardware. A talent she’s going to desperately need.

On Earth, desperate survivors flock to the portal, hoping for a better life on Lumera. As passage is denied, the situation threatens to escalate. A team of humans and Kidj'Dan sets out to recover more portals to restore peace, but they find a deadly threat that can be turned into a fearsome weapon. The powder keg threatens to explode. How far does the trust in the counterpart reach? Who will press the red button first?

An addictive novel about contemporary parenthood and modern family life. A grandfather returns home from abroad to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather, the proud patriarch, is perfect - at least, according to himself. Over the course of 10 intense days, the relationships of this chaotic and entirely normal family unfold and painful memories resurface. Something has to give. But the son is duty-bound to his father through an arrangement they call ‘the father clause’.

Nearly all Holes were way up high. Well, the entrance point, anyway. The exit could be anywhere. There's the famous one at the top of the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It held the record for being the lowest recorded Hole until they found that freaky one at the bottom of that coal mine in the Central Atlantic Administrative Zone. They poured a block of concrete three meters thick around the one at the Memorial; it came out at three thousand meters over Manhattan and people were ducking into it with or without parachutes as the notion struck them. No one knows where the one in the coal mine...

Listening to From 50 to 500 enables you to become a more capable leader, someone who positively impacts the full range of results defining organizational success. We address the challenges small business leaders face as their companies grow from 50 employees to 100 and beyond.

Inteligência humilhada é fruto de uma cuidadosa reflexão sobre como se relacionam o conhecimento de Deus e os limites da razão humana. Além disso, é o resgate de uma tradição do pensamento cristão que sempre se recusou a reduzir o debate entre fé e razão nos termos do racionalismo ou do fideísmo. A finalidade do conceito de “inteligência humilhada” é despertar o interesse por uma razão que ora e uma fé que pensa.

A desperate distress call from Earth reaches the new colony on Lumera. Now, the fate of all life in the universe as we know it is at stake. An enemy believed dead threatens the peace between humans and Kidj'Dan: Dr. Elias Fox, the unscrupulous politician, has mutated into a walking superweapon thanks to his hyperbots, and has only one goal: revenge.

The gentle, off-beat narrator of The Circus is perfectly content with his quiet life. By day, he works in a bakery, and by night, he obsessively organizes and reorganizes his record collection: It’s all just the way he likes it. But when his childhood friend, Magnus, comes calling out of the blue, the contours of our narrator’s familiar world begin to shift. On a visit to the circus together, Magnus volunteers to participate in the magician’s disappearing act, and midway through the routine, he vanishes. Is this part of the act? What’s happened to Magnus?

A husband armed with a sword hacks apart his wife in a Denver grocery store. There are dozens of witnesses, and the crime is captured on the security cameras. To the police, it's an open-and-shut case. To Naomi, the daughter of the couple, it's evidence of dark magic. She hires her ex-lover, a private investigator named Jonathan Shade to prove her father is innocent.

The Earth is dying. For centuries, the continents have been sinking into the oceans. What is left of them has turned into a burning desert. In the 24th century, the last humans live in tightly-packed domes. Outside, agonizing heat death awaits. But, there is a glimmer of hope: Lumera. The humans have founded a colony in another solar system and made a fragile peace with the Kidj'Dan, an alien race living there. But terraforming, which the telepathic aliens hope will help Earth's inhabitants, takes more time than Earth has.

With more than 20 years of experience in the rental industry as a renter, landlord, property manager, and now founder of Dwellsy, the largest US rental marketplace, Jonas Bordo has compiled a comprehensive and practical guide to help you.

Whether you want to reset your career, strike out on your own, or just ignite more joy in what you do, this Illuminating book shows you how to create a working life that reveals meaning while rewriting our collective future. When we connect with something larger than ourselves, we enjoy the fruits of our labour as well as the journey - the sweat and the struggle. It's the unyielding commitment to a purpose that gives shapers their shimmer. The benefits of this shine are plentiful: enhanced well-being, more community engagement, a healthier economy, and better work for all.

Ein liebenswertes Trio und ein grandioser Plan: Bevor die Welt untergeht, soll sie noch ein wenig gerechter gemacht werden! Drei liebenswerte Außenseiter, von einem kuriosen Zufall zusammengeführt, brechen 2011 mit einem bunt angestrichenen Wohnmobil auf, um die Welt ein bisschen gerechter zu machen. Dabei lassen sie sich weder von arroganten Diplomaten-Brüdern noch von einem eigenwilligen Herrscher auf einer Insel im Indischen Ozean aufhalten.

Efter ett restaurangbesök en grådaskig marskväll i Uppsala svänger psykiatriker Nathalie Svensson och kommissarie Johan Axberg förbi sjukhuset, där Nathalies mamma är inlagd. Utanför entrén blir de vittnen till hur transplantationskirurg Isabella Falk kallblodigt skjuts till döds av en person i rånarluva. För en kort sekund möter Johan den maskerade skyttens hatiska blick och medan Nathalie försöker rädda kollegans liv tar Johan upp jakten på skytten.

The world is sinking. Slowly, day by day, the continents are vanishing under the waves. In a city by the sea, a priest admits to himself that he has lost his faith. Lost and alone, he sets out to find his brothers. Did they keep the faith? Perhaps their stories will help him figure out his own. Gospels of the Flood is an audio drama starring Peter Wingfield (Highlander: The Series, Holby City, Sanctuary). Written and directed by Jonas Kyratzes (The Talos Principle, The Eternal Cylinder). Music and sound design by Chris Christodoulou (Risk of Rain, The Sea Will Claim Everything).

En este audiolibro no solo aprenderás todo lo importante en relación con el deseo de concebir, el embarazo, el nacimiento y el primer año de vida con tu bebé, sino que además obtendrás información detallada acerca de los temas de trabajo, autonomía, relación de pareja y la vida sexual durante y después del embarazo. Además, se tratará el tema de las relaciones con familiares y amigos.

1960, Hugh and Dee sell Rothmorton Hall, near Boston, and move to a small beach community outside San Francisco to start fresh. Hugh needs to prove himself with his new business but spends too much time at the office causing tension at home. Ellen turns thirteen and unhappy she's uprooted from the only home she's ever known and worries she won't fit in at the public high school, make friends, or meet boys. Dee is bored and desperate to find her place in the community and may put her trust in the wrong person... yet again.

When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me. And so we meet our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose husband, a charismatic professor at the same small liberal arts college, is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extramarital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life has become far less comfortable for them both.

Stephen Noble, a board member of Dragon Gate Industries (DGI), is decapitated. DGI, a front company for wizards, decides to provide executive protection services for Noble's son, Graham, and daughter, Rayna. But Graham doesn't trust wizards and refuses their offer, so DGI hires Jonathan Shade and his team to keep the Noble family safe.

När Jerker Gudmundsson på Nationella Operativa Avdelningen (NOA) får i uppdrag att lösa mordet på tre kommunalråd börjar en resa in i beställningsmordens värld på dark web, men leder snart till en kamp mot terrorism. Jerker Gudmudsson är en medelålders polis, alltför glad i mat och dryck, men det hindrar honom inte från att, tillsammans medsina kollegor, ta sig an fallet och dessutom möta kärleken i den unga filippinska bartendern Marilyn.