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Mythical creatures are real, and the world is just finding out.Discovering that your neighbor was once an evil, blood-sucking fiend tends to bring property values down.Katrina Darling's only real friend has been murdered. And not just murdered-ritually sacrificed by a serial killer. Kat is sure more deaths will follow. She should know… she used to be the monster plunging the blade in.
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Book 1 in the Healf Saga. When Capt. 'Rod' Rodick crashes in the Eastern Fringe, he has no idea that his aircraft was the last viable craft left on the planet and that his crash signified the start of a terrible new era. On a planet with only one side that is habitable by man, it's imperative for the human race to maintain a constant westward progression in order to stay ahead of the rising sun, the heat of which turns the surface into a Hellish inferno,...
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In the GoneGod World, Order and Chaos aren't just concepts.The gang have officially joined the resistance, and Isa is using her skills to help unlock the one thing denied to Others when the gods left: immortality.Stuck in an unground bunker, Isa is working round the clock to unlock the secret of eternal life. But things are more complicated than that, because life itself grows in her belly. She is pregnant. And that shouldn't be possible.Humans tend...
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Because their lifespan is so much shorter than our own, a life with dogs involves repeated lessons in mortality. But there are lessons in love and tender care as well. With them, we have to learn to live in the moment "because a dog doesn't spill regret throughout the house, doesn't lurk in a life of guilt and second-guessing." Victoria reflects on the lives of five dogs and how their need for the outdoors helped to create opportunities to repeatedly...
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par·a·nor·maladj.Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.I was only nine years old when I had my first experience with the paranormal-definitely beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.I was only nine years old when I had my first experience with the paranormal-definitely beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.–Theresa Sneed When author Theresa Sneed finds herself in the...
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In his latest book, the prolific writer and thinker Alphonso Lingis brings interdisciplinarity and lyrical philosophizing to the weight of reality, the weight of things, and the weight of life itself. Drawing from philosophy, anthropology, psychology, religion, and science, Lingis seeks to uncover what in our reality escapes our attempts at measuring and categorizing. Writing as much from his own experiences and those of others as from his longstanding...
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Embark on a thought-provoking exploration with 'Understanding Mortality: Exploring the Most Common Causes of Death,' a comprehensive journey into the complex tapestry of life's inevitable conclusion. This enlightening book delves into the myriad aspects surrounding mortality, offering insights into the common causes of death, the evolving landscape of global health, and the profound implications on society.Through meticulous analysis and up-to-date...
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NCHS data brief volume no. 492
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
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2024.
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Japan is the land of the rising sun.Great place for a vampire.But that's exactly where I have to go to find my missing soul. A few weeks ago I was, briefly, turned back into a vampire, which meant that I lost my soul for a day.When I first lost my vampirity, my soul came back. For reasons I don't understand, this time it didn't.
10) Encantado Dreams
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Katrina Darling hasn't been back for the start of the semester, leaving a void in her seat and in her boyfriend's heart.Luckily for both, I'm a shapeshifter who specializes in pretending to be a long-lost lover. And Justin is just too yummy to not indulge in.But when you're a 500-year-old shapeshifter who's broken her fair share of happy homes, you tend to make enemies. And one of my mine just showed up, making things a bit more complicated than I'd...
11) Superhero Me!
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Superheroes, yuck …What's the expression again? "With great power comes a great pain in my ass." And in a world where just about everything but superheroes exists, the last thing I expected to see was one flying around the park behind my dorm.I mean, isn't it enough that this GoneGod world is filled with ghosts and demons, angels and valkyries, pixies and dragons? Do we really need souped-up humans, too? Come on!But that's just the thing: superheroes...
12) Run, Kat, Run
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Stalkers, souls and sacrifice …And to think, all Kat wanted was to curl up under her duvet and watch Legally Blonde.After killing three dead gods-again-you'd think I'd get a break. Some time off to lick my wounds in a very cat-like fashion. But my stalker has other plans.And after discovering who my stalker is-or rather, was-I miss the good old days when my enemies were dead gods and world armies.My name is Katrina Darling, and my stalker just had...
13) Orphaned Follies
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Never meet your heroes.But that's exactly what my fae roommate Deirdre wanted to do: meet her hero, the human Professor Oighrig End. Turns out the professor was speaking at some exclusive event, and me being a sucker, I went with her.It wasn't like I had anything better to do. I was fighting with my boyfriend, I hated my life and I was so severely depressed that all I really wanted to do was curl up in the fetal position and cry. Getting out would...
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Boyfriends suck.But then again, I wasn't exactly the ideal girlfriend, either.When Kat came home after almost dying - twice - to find her boyfriend in the arms of another woman … well, it hurt. Hurt more than getting her head bashed in by an ex-angel.Hurt more than getting stabbed by a dead god.Kat is a big girl, and she'll get over it. Right after she messes with Justin and his new girl.But when Kat discovers that Justin is being used by the World...
15) Three Dead Gods
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Even gods can die.Turns out, they can also come back.The gods should be gone. And with their departure, they should have taken their troubles with them.But it seems that when the gods left, they didn't take everything. Specifically, they didn't take their dead. Three dead gods remained behind and, because of something I did, they're going to resurrect themselves.I've seen the world with gods and I've seen the world without them. I can't really say...
16) Mortal Leap
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A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he is mistakenly identified as the missing Lt. Ben Davenant by Davenant's wife. In the moment, the man decides to go along, to take on Davenant's identity, to return with her to California and take on his...
17) Mortal Secrets
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A chronicle of Vienna's Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS's Vienna Blood series.
Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine every other city on the planet. Vienna was one such city and, at the beginning of the twentieth century, was the birthplace of the modern mind...
18) Acusación mortal
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El reverendo Barker había desaparecido hacía diecinueve años, y los habitantes de Stillwater estaban convencidos de que había sido asesinado por su hijastro, Clay Montgomery.
La inspectora de Chicago, Allie McCormick, experta en casos antiguos, había regresado a Stillwater para trabajar con la policía de allí. Así, cuando los poderosos enemigos de Clay unieron fuerzas para meterlo entre rejas, Allie sintió que su deber era descubrir la verdad....
19) Poema mortal
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En Nashville, una chica aparece muerta a manos de un sádico asesino en serie. La teniente de Homicidios Taylor Jackson y su amante, John Baldwin, experto en perfiles criminales del FBI, se encuentran unidos en la investigación y en la persecución del sanguinario asesino. El Estrangulador del Sur está abriéndose camino a golpe de asesinato por el sureste del país, y dejando un truculento recuerdo en cada uno de los escenarios de sus crímenes:...
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Ariadne is offered an incredible opportunity by her lover, Dionysus, the god of wine. He wants her to live with him at the home of the gods, Mount Olympus.The catch? She must stay under a disguise as an immortal satyr, since Zeus has forbidden mortals from stepping foot there. But Ariadne soon discovers that the real danger is to her heart. She may live with Dionysus, but it is not as herself or even his equal. They talk to each other, but not of...