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Wyatt has been riding out the zombie apocalypse on his crew’s cobbled-together train for what feels like forever. It’s a hopeless journey, the train running a loop that covers thousands of miles across the western U.S. But when a mysterious girl arrives with stories of a so-called Nirvana and a potential cure for the zombie parasite, Wyatt must decide between searching for the cure and protecting those entrusted in his care.

Captain Joe Storn, shanghaied in Luna, promoted to admiral, and ordered back to space, cannot refuse. Mother Earth is dying. All her creatures need a lifeline. Joe must take a fleet of seven vast freeze-ships halfway across the Galaxy to the Magnus System, where three Earth-like planets promise hope. His ships carry the basic material to recreate every living thing from Earth, including humans, in deep stasis to withstand the 1,000-year voyage. An unforeseen magnetic anomaly inexorably drags the fleet to the wrong planet, which has some decidedly unfriendly denizens.

"Die Familie ist das Fundament unserer Gesellschaft", schreibt Stephen R. Covey in seinem Vorwort zu diesem Buch. Doch allzu häufig werden heute familiäre Bedürfnisse zurückgestellt, weil anderes vermeintlich Priorität hat: der Job, die Schule, Freunde, Sport, soziale Medien, Hobbys etc. Die Liste ließe sich noch lange weiterführen. Und tatsächlich gibt es viele Dinge, die wir tun müssen und die Zeit beanspruchen. Doch letztlich haben wir es selbst in der Hand, welches Gewicht wir den Beziehungen zu den Menschen in unserem engsten Umkreis geben wollen.

Workplace Discipleship 101 contains encouragement and practical advice for Christians who are serious about living out their faith in their daily work lives. This book is packed with simple, practical suggestions organized in an intuitive format with straightforward language.

If you are a teenager in today’s world of finance, you have an advantage over every generation prior to yours. The resources you have access to, your incredible talents with technology, and your drive to create wealth in new ways is unparalleled. I am excited to get you started with the basics of personal finance to help launch you into a life of financial security. I will teach you about basic concepts of saving, budgeting, income, and everything else you will need to get started building your personal wealth today.

Saving the souls of the damned has been my job for several years now. I’ve gotten chased by demonic creatures, fallen in love with a not-so-angelic Guardian Angel, and I’ve even danced with the devil. Yes. You heard that right. I’ve literally danced with the devil, which only stirred up more drama I didn’t need.

Mage Kermon struggles to stay loyal to Mielitta, the Queen of the Warrior Bees, in the ongoing war between the oppressive Citadel and the vibrant Forest. His secret dual role in the Citadel is threatened when his students trespass into the mysterious world beyond the walls and, in the back-stabbing climate of Citadel politics, he’s the sacrifice everyone is prepared to make. Little do those around him know that the future of both Forest and Citadel depends on his survival.

Bee-shifter, bear-shifter, Forest spy and woman-lover; what's second nature to four unlikely friends is a death sentence in the Citadel. Take a wild flight with Mielitta into the forbidden Forest in this highly original epic eco-fantasy series. As she grows from despised servant to Queen of the Warrior Bees, Mielitta discovers that evil can wear a friend's face and an unlikely alliance is her best chance of healing the rift between sterile Citadel and vibrant Forest.

Rebecca’s family members were murdered during the Holocaust. Soon after she starts work at a dream job, her life changes forever when she meets a charming, wealthy widower. He becomes her lover and takes her to his exclusive club and on vacations to exotic locations. She discovers he works for a company that conducted business with the Nazi government. What decision does she make?

Anyone, whatever their age, gender, culture, or abilities, can find themselves separate and disconnected from others and feeling lonely. If you feel lonely, you are lonely. And it's not nice. But your situation can change for the better! In Lonely Less, best-selling author Gill Hasson delivers practical strategies you can implement immediately to counter loneliness and connect with other people.

Wie weit muss eine Mutter gehen, um ihr Kind zu schützen? 1939: Die jüdische Pianistin Eva sucht in Prag verzweifelt nach einem Weg, ihre Tochter Miriam vor den heranrückenden Deutschen in Sicherheit zu bringen. Als letzter Ausweg bleibt ihr, sie mit einem Kindertransport nach London zu schicken. Doch wie wird ihr Kind die Reise ins Ungewisse überstehen? In England bemüht sich die Britin Pamela, der kleinen Miriam ein Zuhause zu geben, muss aber gleichzeitig um ihre eigene Familie fürchten.

What you teach your child stays with them for life. The skills, values, and beliefs that you instill upon a child are some of the most influential things that you will provide as a parent - this is a huge responsibility to take on and an intimidating one most of the time. As a dad, you want what is best for your child. You always want to be there for them and guide them, but you might not know exactly how. This audiobook is going to be your navigational tool. It is going to teach you proven and effective parenting strategies that really work.

Written and performed by Peter Gill, this made for radio audio recording of the play Meet Tommy Atkins takes the audience not just through Tommy's war, but also his life back home in Britain post war. We learn of his experiences in the trenches - fighting on the Somme, at Passchendaele and Loos; and also of the boredom, the loss, and indeed the comradeship. Returning to Britain, Tommy shows us how a generation of returning men were maltreated but how ultimately it was his generation that forced through the foundations of the Welfare State.

Mielitta, a despised servant of dubious parentage, yearns to be an adult and fit into Citadel society but the all-powerful mages won’t even consider her for the Maturity Test. As they fight amongst themselves, Mielitta overhears their secrets and plans to escape. Bastien and Jannlou, the boys who terrorised her as a child, have grown into their status as Mages, and she cannot escape them forever. In desperation, she flees to the forbidden forest and its dangerous attractions. Her scent angers thousands of bees and, although she survives their attack, she has changed.

Exiled in the Forest, Mielitta, queen of the Warrior Bees, could be happy but for her responsibilities to the very people who think her a freak and a traitor. Her hopes for change in the Perfect society of the Citadel rest on one man. Trapped in a society he loathes and fears, Mage Smith Kermon's mission becomes a test of survival. Can he remain loyal to Mielitta in the double life he leads as her spy in the Citadel? He is quickly embroiled in deceit and subterfuge, forcing him into actions that make him doubt himself and everything he values.

365 days and nights - one full Earth year - of total dark and killing cold? No human, ever, can live through it. None has tried since humans arrived on Storn. Tended by servos, they enter ancient cryostasis in tubes they know are beginning to fail. Until, that is, in the 357th year, desperate people known as The Group refuse to freeze in tubes. Instead, they will risk freezing on Storn's brutal surface because there are children who, if not taken to safety, will be the last of the new evolution. The last of the first true humans on Storn.

Six-year-old Connie Stuart-Anderson has recently moved to a town in upstate New York from New York City. Although she is going to miss her grandparents terribly, her mom has promised her a dog now that they have moved into a house with a big backyard. As she makes friends with Pam, a girl next door who is the very same age, Connie can hardly wait for her dream to come true.

The reader will learn how to build on the fifty powers of happiness to gain a more joyful and successful life. The book relies on the most recent academic studies on how to find and maintain a happy life for you and those around you.

The quest for the work and a career that's right for you - that's fulfilling and that you enjoy - is a process of discovery. It involves learning about yourself and finding out about the wide range of work and careers available. And it involves finding out how best to access the work or career you're interested in. Whether you have no idea what work or career you want to do or there's too many options and you can't decide, Career Finder will help you discover what's right for you and how to go about achieving it.

Since its inception, higher education in the US has claimed to develop leaders. This bold claim appears in college mission statements and mottos, and it is reinforced in recruiting materials and ad campaigns. But is this claim justified? Leadership Reckoning takes to task American colleges and universities for their haphazard, incoherent, evidence-free approaches to developing students as leaders and offers a principle-driven, outcome-oriented blueprint for how effective leader development can occur.