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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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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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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.
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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...
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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...
10) 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...
11) 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...
13) 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...
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These three books--Body Rags, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, and The Past--are central to the life's work of one of the masters of contemporary poetry. Published here in one volume, they include many of Galway Kinnell's best loved and most anthologized poems. In a note, Galway Kinnell comments on the numerous revisions he has made to many of the poems for this edition.
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Felix Faber hat genug von Deutschland. Er wandert nach Gran Canaria aus und heuert bei einer aufstrebenden Zeitung in Las Palmas an. Sein Start verläuft vielversprechend. Als kurze Zeit später auf dem Roque Nublo, einem der höchsten Berge der Insel, eine Leiche gefunden wird, stellt Faber eigene Ermittlungen an. Dabei bekommt er es nicht nur mit der taffen Ermittlerin Ana Montero zu tun, sondern lernt auch die dunklen Seiten der Touristeninsel...
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The small, quiet village of Glistenwood that Phynnaes called home had always felt so far from the war that ravaged the continent of Cavariel. The calmness of the town contrasted with the confusion in his heart since his father disappeared while fighting the invading religious zealots known as the Concordat of the Fallen.
His family took in an elven refugee named Andann when the war broke out all those years ago. His presence felt stabilizing...
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Dele Sanchi, eine junge Guatemaltekin, kommt nach Köln und möchte nur eines: ihre Tochter Luz finden. Dele verdient ihren Lebensunterhalt zunächst als illegale Aushilfe beim Zirkus, doch während sie im Zirkuszelt Brezeln verkauft und in ihrer Freizeit nach ihrer Tochter sucht, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie in größter Gefahr schwebt. Als sie noch des Mordes verdächtigt wird, scheint ihre Situation ausweglos. Doch Florian Halstaff findet im Rahmen...
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Edion es el dios del cielo. La gente de Igowe cree en Edion, que él y sus deidades subordinadas gobiernan generosamente los asuntos de los humanos. Siempre dan sacrificios de alabanza y provisiones para agradecer a los dioses por protegerlos. Otras deidades lo respetan como el jefe de los dioses; todas las deidades lo llaman Señor Eterno. Todas las deidades se levantan cuando él se pone de pie y se sientan cuando él se levanta de su trono. Todas...
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Haven't you wondered about the purpose of human existence, the prevalence of evil or what makes people "tick"? Then settle in for an enthralling literary journey.Unearthed Tales of Destined Souls: Stories for Pondering Mortals Volume 1 is an engrossing collection of fifteen stories written in a variety of genres such as fantasy, romance, historical, Scripture-inspired and essay, about ordinary people summoning the forces inside themselves to meet...