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Growing up as the daughter of the beast himself, I saw the wicked truth after happily-ever-after ended. And I vowed to use the only skill I had, my ability to kill, to gain my freedom. But I failed.

Imprisoned for attempting to kill a dangerous vampire, I finally gained my freedom after years of suffering. Now, I’ve been sent to the Guild of Assassins where I must succeed or lose my freedom once more. But nothing is that easy.

Observing the observed is not as simple as the physics and geometry of billiard balls on a table. The synchronicity of causality is not so coincidental as random effects spanning an unknown amount of time. How much impact the observer has on determining the outcome of the observed is a journey for the quantum engineer.

iRise is manual for being human in this new age. An age where love, compassion, empathy, and kindness are the watchwords of society. Endeavoring to guide one on how to move as source of love in the world, this manual applies a framework of objectivity on using consciousness as a vehicle. A vehicle that transports one to the frame of being a discrete unit of unconditional love as an interwoven vector expression in the universe.

Mika Walters is a normal woman working in the not-so-normal world of New York fashion. As longtime assistant to uber-sexy photographer Alejandro Vega, she's tired of being the girl in the background. Just once she wants Alejandro to look at her with the same smoldering look he gives to his willowy models and now she has her chance. Stranded. After a travel mishap where the rest of the crew and the models can't make the remote island location shoot for another three days, Mika is taking her moment to catch Alejandro's eye and put herself in front of his camera.

"Jess Phoenix's work encompasses science and representation in such a delightful melding that it could only come from as spry and playful a soul as hers! Open this book and jump into the volcano!" —Patton Oswalt As a volcanologist, natural hazards expert, and founder of Blueprint Earth, Jess...

There is no magic pill to achieve the perfect relationship. All relationships take work, dedication, and commitment. By exploring the different cases presented here, maybe you can learn tips and strategies to improve the many different aspects of your relationships.

Sendung vom: 26 April 2014 auf GreatSounds.FM / Interview mit Simon Phoenix.

Original 1937 edition. You are currently reading one of the most influential books in the world. Within the pages of this book, you will find the tools, methods, and skills necessary to become a wealthy man. You will learn how to successfully influence the people and situations around you. You will learn about what helps a person propel his life forward, achieve happiness, and increase wealth while others can't seem to even get out of the starting block.

Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.

Paradiso (Italian: [paraˈdiːzo]; Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. It is an allegory telling of Dante's journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolises theology.

"New Atlantis" is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon. Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical Bensalem.

After Phoenix discovers that all of her friends are either engaged or already married, she’s convinced that love is in the air for everyone except her. Cupid’s bow and arrow skip over Phoenix by happenstance as she struggles to accept her chances of walking down the aisle next to the love of her life are officially screwed, no thanks to her best friend Xay and ex-boyfriend Asher, who is keeping a few secrets of his own.

Only on the bedrock of consent, does an erotic journey establish its trajectory for an adventure of discovering an unquantifiable, and as yet unknown, treasure. A treasure locked away, hidden beneath societal norms and customs. Only those who choose a willingness to endeavor beyond the mediocrity of cultural conditioning, are those deserving of the treasure. A perseverance and determination to navigate the ship of relating through the currents of consent are presumed as absolute. And only those wholly dedicated to this exploration will find the treasure.

Ashley Rice is broken. After being rescued from the clutches of a crazed shifter who kept her drugged and malleable for four years, she is recovering with the help of her family and a psychologist. Evan Harmon is the private investigator who rescued her. At the moment of escape, he knew she was his mate. Fighting his own instinctual need to take his Fated mate, he keeps that detail to himself to allow her time to heal.

After a whirlwind romance, Princess Kensi’s bright destiny is becoming a daunting reality. Not two months ago, she was earning her bacon as a private investigator, and now she wonders if her new werewolf-mate, Drake, even likes bacon. They constantly bicker, yet he’s mere days from being invested as the official co-heir to her father’s kingdom. When another contender for the throne emerges, the claimants go toe-to-toe in a race designed to put their skills and stamina to the test. But the competition is rigged - and one of them is marked for death.

As a young man is thrust into a journey of spiritual awakening, he is met with the inner demons that have tormented him since childhood. Wandering through the dark fantasies of his inner life, he's met with a life-changing decision in his outer life that will forever alter his direction. As he reaches the core of his darkness, he is met with the emotionally shattering reality of a childhood trauma that has haunted him his entire life.

Kiki Jenkins knows that opening her home to her best friend’s younger sister means giving up some solitude. What she doesn’t expect is for her new roommate to become temptation in the form of novelty panties and flirty innuendos. But Charley is off limits...for several reasons. Charley Graham wants to be seen as more than her brother’s little sister. And she wants Kiki to do the seeing. Her new internship provides the perfect opportunity. Plan in motion, she’s not going to let their close living quarters go to waste.

The audiobook is a story about two brothers, Kelvin “Kels” Johnson, Jr., and Malik “Lil Ghadi” Johnson. Each of them had eager desires to follow in their father’s legacy for success and power. They wanted to finish the goal their father, Kelvin “Ghadi” Johnson, Sr., started before his incarceration, as well as try to achieve the goal of getting out of the game without getting scarred like their father did. Kelvin “Ghadi” Johnson, Sr.’s name ran throughout the streets of the Eastson Neighborhood, but not even his name could stop what his sons were about to face.

Luka is back, but he's not the same. Something happened to him. Bringing him back from the dead did something to him that she doesn't know if she can fix. And keeping him there only seems to be doing more damage to him. Luna is holding Talon hostage, using his magic to her own nefarious purposes in bringing people back from the dead. But Ela can see the effects this is having on Luka. He doesn't belong in the land of the living and it's tearing him apart. Almost literally.