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The annual fall party on Silent Ridge Road is supposed to be a celebration of community—an entire day of drinking cider, sharing laughs, and forgetting any tension that's been simmering beneath the surface all year. But beneath the festive décor, polite smiles, and pumpkin-spiced charm of this small-town block lies a tangled web of deceit, obsession, and death. The neighbors are hiding dangerous secrets.

Buchanan believed deeply that each individual is morally equal to every other individual. Because no person is superior, ethically speaking, to any other person, no person’s opinions or preferences should be given special advantage over those of other persons. He believed that this conclusion holds fast despite the undeniable fact that some individuals are smarter, better educated, wealthier, or higher-born than others.

Robert Nozick was a professor of philosophy at Harvard University who is most famous for his contributions to political philosophy. His 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia helped establish the classical liberal or libertarian perspective as a viable alternative to redistributive egalitarian liberalism and to socialism. Despite many philosophers’ disagreements with Nozick’s arguments, those arguments could not be ignored.

Thirteen years ago, he targeted them. Now, they are targeting him. Connor’s attack on Oakridge High was no ordinary school shooting. All of his victims—Emily, Lindsay, Brandon, Nick, and Mr. Golden—survived, but their lives are now ensnared in secrets darker than the violence that first brought them together. With Connor shockingly paroled, their buried rage ignites a deadly plot for revenge. As their plan spirals out of control, they come to a harrowing realization: the real danger may not be Connor after all—but each other.

Tiger is always fierce and strong, but not always nice. Will this ruin Tiger's birthday? Learn what it takes to be a friend in this story about kindness and cake.

Hannah is trying to break out of her emotionless shell, but meeting dangerous and compelling Rafe was more than she bargained for. As their paths keep crossing, their connection grows deeper…and she can’t help wondering if Rafe will be her savior—or her destruction.

My heart has been captured by a warrior boy, but a valkyrie has no time for love. Valhalla awaits the delivery of honored dead, and any delay will draw unwanted attention. Attention that will put the boy I love in danger, and my loyalty to Asgard in question.

Falling for a man like Rafe was just the beginning. As danger looms overhead and her secrets are revealed, Hannah will have to trust him now more than ever. But Rafe has his own past and, once uncovered, the truth may send her running for good...Or the consequences will plunge her into a series of choices from which there is no turning back from.

He thought he could make my life hell. But it already was. The one time Hannah Dewitt tries to live a little, she winds up in the crosshairs of a local thug who seems hellbent on terrorizing her. As it turns out, there is more to Rafe than meets the eye, and their connection stokes her creativity like nothing else. Drawn to him despite the inherent risks, she can’t resist feeding the flames of this unlikely attraction no matter how hot they burn. But Rafe isn’t the only monster in her life. Another looms in the background, and he won’t let her go so easily.

Veterinarian Piper is pragmatic enough to know her marriage wasn’t working, which is why she left Dylan a year ago and pretends it hasn’t hurt like hell every day since. Then Dylan calls out of the blue and tells her to come right away for an animal emergency. Piper arrives on the ranch that used to be her home to find her horse savagely killed. She can’t fathom what could have done it. One thing, however, is obvious. Piper still loves Dylan.

This collection of 29 science fiction vignettes are at turns touching, humorous, and thought-provoking. Each begin cradled in the comfort of the familiar, but take listeners along a winding path to the unexpected. Serving as poignant reminders of the ephemeral nature of life and death, these stories encapsulate what it means to be human and to be captivated by music, love, and life itself.

Anne and Daniel stare through the window in disbelief. Who is that eerie stranger that looks just like Daniel and appears wherever Daniel is supposed to be? Out of nowhere he has appeared, in the clothes of the snowman his friends have built for him. That's why they call him "the snowman". And now he is standing there, in the kitchen of Daniel's hall of residency, talking to his roommates and nobody even suspects that it isn't Daniel at all. Suddenly the door opens and the doubleganger leaves the building.

An autistic young man meets a beautiful and spirited girl with an affinity for the color pink. As their unusual relationship progresses, his misunderstanding of social expectations and personal challenges are creatively explored through unique visualizations. While balancing their growing feelings, he navigates the difficulties that autism can cause in both public and private life. When they stumble on a global technological threat, the two are thrown into a new world of secrets, spies, and danger.

We are in the middle of a historic swell of activism taking place throughout the world. Yet despite social engagement being at record highs, there is a divide between the activist community and the scientists—like Lisa Mueller, PhD—who study it. In The New Science of Social Change, Mueller highlights what really works when it comes to group advocacy, to place proven tools in the hands of activists on the ground—in the U.S. and abroad.