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Snakes are one of the most fascinating creatures on the planet. With their unique anatomy and behavior, they have captured the imagination of people for centuries. In this book, you will explore the world of snakes and learn some interesting facts and myths about this amazing creature.

It’s June 2012. The magical and slightly cultish River Run swim club is alive with the spirit of fun competition when a perfect storm brews between team moms and best friends Gillian Cloud and Kristy Weinstein. The ghost of family addiction has turned up, looming over their carefully planned pasta parties, tie-dye nights, and pep rallies, forcing them to face their unresolved childhood trauma. Gillian responds by trying to control everyone around her while Kristy relapses into her dangerous addiction to love.

6 -teilige Agenten Reihe mit dem heißesten Agenten des MI6, mit der Lizenz zum Vögeln. Nach seiner schweren Verwundung muss Jack Saunders alles auf eine Karte setzen. Er lässt sich auf einen haarsträubenden Plan ein, der nicht nur ihn selbst, sondern auch die verführerische Tierärztin Elisabeth in höchste Gefahr bringt.

Phase III of DNA Consultants' Cherokee DNA Studies adds more than 50 new participants to what has become a classic project. They'd all been told there was no way they could be Indian given their DNA haplotype or mother's direct line.

Many B2B CEOs carry a dark secret: their marketing is broken—and they don't know how to fix it. Pete Steege's groundbreaking book, On Purpose, offers an unexpected solution: Focus first on why you are marketing, and the results will follow. He reframes B2B marketing around a purposeful mindset that helps business leaders rightsize their campaigns, align their teams, and have more impact with less angst and effort.

Milmon is a flying rabbit. To him that isn’t strange. After being orphaned in a flood, he found himself in Morse Grove, a community full of flying creatures. In Morse Grove, his dreams of flying were nurtured and encouraged by his friends.

The entire mission objective is only one line long: search and destroy. A team of elite soldiers are sent back in time through a tech-enhanced rift to arrive 100 million years in Earth’s past–the Cretaceous. The time of dinosaurs. Their goal is to hunt down and eradicate a swarm of genetically modified super-predators codenamed Goliath. Unfortunately, they suffer numerous casualties due to an unexpected menace.

Cat is a wannabe merchant who specializes in procuring in-game valuables to sell for real money. He's a cunning trickster who wriggles his way out of trouble thanks to his quick wit and his trading talents, and his credo is “Anyone can be bought provided the price is right." He starts from scratch, using every opportunity to advance his plans. The first book in the Rogue Merchant series, The Starlight Sword is the story of this common trader’s rise to becoming the world’s newest legend, the most famous merchant in the entire Sphere of the Worlds

John Wolfe's second case is far more dangerous than Room 23 at the Mountainview Motel. When heavy rain is forecast, the residents of a small Tennessee town fear who could be next. The Mount Placid Police Department has recovered nine decomposed bodies from the banks near the amphitheater in four and a half years.

Dr. Sartor wrote an inspiring first-person account of how he treated more than 1,000 patients—and by his reckoning, lost only five—which lay forgotten in a lockbox of family artifacts until it was discovered decades later by his granddaughter, Beth Obermeyer, a journalist and author of three previous books. Beth knew her grandfather through her teenage years and grew up absorbing family stories. Based upon Dr. Sartor’s memoir and her years of research, she vividly reconstructs his life from childhood in Luxembourg to medical school in Chicago, courtship and marriage.

I learned very early on that every life matters—no life is insignificant, most especially not my own mother’s, whose life was cruelly slain. I vowed to do what I can so that no one has to feel as if they’re nothing at all when they lose their loved ones. So when I’m forced into a marriage with Dominic Luca—the man next in line to be the head of the biggest crime family in all of New York—the ring he puts on my finger is a gun to my head with his finger on the trigger.

A Personal Brand Story follows Steve Guest on his journey from a successful, unassuming, and procedure-led recruitment consultant to a global business influencer. In this audiobook, Steve talks about nervously posting his first social media video, becoming a best-selling author in over 40 countries, and seeing his acclaimed The Guest List Podcast with Steve Guest listed in the world's top 80 business podcasts.

Sometimes the past won’t be laid to rest. Music professor Gus LeGarde has been happily married to his second wife, Camille, years after his first wife, Elsbeth, leapt to her death from the Letchworth Gorge cliffs. But when he starts seeing a woman around town who looks exactly like Elsbeth, his marriage and sanity are thrown into chaos.

Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the wonders, and limits, of the mind? Ulf Danielsson, an acclaimed theoretical physicist who has dedicated his career to probing the deepest mysteries of nature, thinks not. As he dismantles the arguments of esteemed mathematicians and scientists, who would substitute their mathematical models for reality and equate the mind to a computer, he makes a lucid and passionate case that it is nature, full of beauty and meaning, which must compel us.

In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird Hunt uses fiction as an inspiration, a tool, even an obsession, employing its methods to get to the heart of experience. The “sizzling” work of Jane Bowles colors his wanderings through Palermo while a London museum trip provokes a consideration of taxidermy’s storytelling potential and fairytales blend with echoes of W. G. Sebald, Willa Cather, and László Krasznahorkai.

Leading the Way to Victory is the official history of the 60th Troop Carrier Group, featuring unpublished first-person accounts by participating veterans and expertly written by retired USAF Colonel Mark C. Vlahos, combat veteran and former Vice Wing Commander of 314th Airlift Wing at the Little Rock Air Force Base.

With authentic characters, well-paced storytelling, and raw insights into the mind of a young adult convinced of a single path to success, this book is an enjoyable and helpful listen. For young adult listeners, it’s relatable. The dream, the relationships, the successes and failures… it’s all there.

Shrouded forces are pulling Gravity City and reality to the brink of extinction. In the wake of the deadly Seagazer attack, Countess Maia Reed is out to even the score and reclaim her city from Dickey Jets with the help of hired guns, while her son, Victor, looms in the shadows and seeks to carve out his prominence in the criminal underworld and beyond.

It’s been ten years since the Confederation defeated the Nimic fleet and Zefir-Five has been destroyed, but the fight for peace in the galaxy is far from over. Lt. Commander Johnny Rangers undertakes a special assignment in Gravity City, the galaxy’s capital, as an equalizer for the Gravity City Police Force, and finds himself fighting a new war against criminal elements, mutinous robots, and thugs led by the elusive criminal mastermind known as Dickey Jets.

Flint Larsen has 41 days, 9 hours, and 42 minutes to live. He's known exactly when he's going to die since he was eight years old and half-lifed, a small twinge that tells a person when they've lived half their life. From that moment, Flint's done everything he can to make his death more bearable. Cutting off all his friends, refusing to eat his favorite foods, reading only the most depressing literature by long-dead writers. He plans to spend his final days back in his hometown with his parents, quietly waiting to die.