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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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Decades ago, a young rock and blues guitarist and junkie named Niko signed in blood on the dotted line and in return became the stuff of music legend. But when the love of his damned life grows mortally and mysteriously ill, he realizes he has lost more than he bargained for-and that was not part of the deal. So Niko sets out on a harrowing journey from the streets of Los Angeles through the downtown subway tunnels and across the red-lit plain of...
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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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Mortality and Faith is the second half of an autobiography of David Horowitz whose first installment, Radical Son, was published more than twenty years ago. It completes the account of his life from where the first book left off to his seventy-eighth year.
In contrast to Radical Son whose focus was his political odyssey, Mortality and Faith was conceived as a meditation on age, and on our common progress towards an end which is both final and opaque....
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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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""You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King...
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"For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by...
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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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14) MORTAL QUEENS
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They vanish without a trace, disappear into the night . . . Each year on the center island, one girl is chosen to be the next Mortal Queen of the idolized fae. The mortals praise these lucky girls, but their daughters are never seen again. The fae realm is eternal night, where disputes are settled by chess matches, power is acquired through the most devious kinds of trickery, and seven illusive kings roam. The fae hide their faces behind masks and...
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"She still has all the time in the world to be who she wants to be.... Doesn't she? Olivia Strauss is turning thirty-nine. No major milestone. She still considers herself young. At least young enough to assume she has decades (emphasis on the plural) to check the unchecked boxes of her life's to-do list. Ballerina? Too late. But not too late for poet. Or for reigniting the romantic spark in her marriage, spending more quality time with her son, switching...
16) Mortal mistakes
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"The people of the past lived in strange ways, and some died under equally odd circumstances. Learn about the bizarre mistakes that became moral for four unlucky individuals. This engaging hi-lo book draws in 4th and 5th grade readers with wild content while a 1st to 2nd grade reading level makes the information accessible. It's a roaring good time!"--
17) Secreto mortal
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No como niñera, sino como esposa.
Grace Templeton, cumpliendo la promesa que le había hecho a su prima en el lecho de muerte, dejó a un bebé en la puerta de los Dalton y, a continuación, se ofreció a trabajar como niñera para intentar descubrir cuál de los gemelos Dalton era el padre. La promesa incluía proteger al bebé, pero no enamorarse del hombre que al final resultó ser el padre de Molly.
Para Blake Dalton, convertido en padre soltero,...
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"Mortal Engines - Krieg der Städte" ist der Auftaktband zu Philip Reeves monumentaler Fantasyserie voller Luftschiffe und Piraten, Kopfgeldjäger und Aeronauten - und fahrender Städte. Niemand hatte mit einem Attentat gerechnet. Als das Mädchen mit dem Tuch vor dem Gesicht ein Messer zückt, um den Obersten Historiker Londons, Thaddeus Valentine, umzubringen, kann ihm der junge Gehilfe Tom in letzter Sekunde das Leben retten. Er verfolgt das Mädchen,...
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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.
20) 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...