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Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a really long time—a whole month! She has solved many important cases like The Mystery of the Cranky Mom, The Mystery of the Missing Ice Cream, and The Mystery of the Smelly Feet. Her record is nearly 100 percent, with only The Mystery of the Cereal in My Underpants remaining unsolved to this day. Aven asks all the right questions, wields her detective kit carefully, and follows up on every clue. Then her teacher’s lunch bag, with her lunch still in it, is taken, and Aven’s great-grandma’s beloved dog goes missing.

Early in her career, Katie Pryal learned that being a professor isn’t easy if your brain isn’t quite right. “I was a junior in college when I finally realized that I was different in a way that my medically inclined parents would call ‘clinical.’” In these deeply personal, fiery essays, Pryal tells her story of transformation that began the moment she chose to publicly disclose her own mental illness and leave her career in higher education to begin fighting for a better world for people with psychiatric disabilities.

Devon Connor has always known life as a normal 12-year-old girl at St. Frances Institute for Heirs and Orphans. That is, until a supernatural shadow walker arrives to assassinate her. Unbeknownst to Devon, she wears the enchanted and legendary Crown of Guilledon as a trinket, and the shadow walker will stop at nothing to get it. With this attempt on her life, Devon is forced into the journey of discovering her true power and her forgotten past. But the timing couldn’t be worse. This mysteriously cursed crown has led her right to the brink of a dark and dangerous war.

Life has always been a banquet for Sappho, one to be savored to the fullest. Following a magnificent destiny, her strange and sensual odyssey has carried her to the far corners of the ancient world, from Delphi to Egypt, to the Land of the Amazons, and the realm of Hades. For Sappho, it was always about love—love that seduced her into a plot to depose a dictator, and love that made her trade an unwanted marriage bed of a despised and drunken husband for a seemingly endless series of lovers, both male and female.

It Is Time is a series of powerful writings that is a calling for the examination of oneself, one's life, and one's entire existence. It Is Time questions if we are promoting growth or destruction, projecting life or projecting death, bringing forth hope or discouragement to not only those we encounter but to our loved ones, whom we claim to so very much cherish. It compels the listener to question are they living, or merely existing in this world?

Maria e Nicola sono una coppia rodata, lui pilota di aerei, cuoco e genero perfetto (per quanto esprima la sua ansia in dolori notturni che gli stringono il corpo), lei un po' meno perfetta, una di quelle donne che in borsa non trovano mai nulla e che, soprattutto, molti anni prima ha ucciso Estate, sua sorella. La famiglia di origine si è strutturata intorno a questo lutto, il padre ha smesso di andare in ufficio, la madre si è sforzata di avere rapporti con lei, la figlia rimasta.

In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers listeners transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone—runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium, Masih’s characters are diverse in identity and circumstance, defying the burden of erasure by disappearing into or emerging from physical and emotional landscapes.

What would you do if your country was counting on you to deliver an important message? That’s the story of 16-year-old Sybil Ludington’s famous midnight ride. In 1777, Sybil and her family believe the American colonies should be free from British control, and Sybil’s father leads a regiment of New York militiamen. Using spy tactics and codes, the Ludingtons gather intelligence, hoping to stay one step ahead of their enemies. When British troops raid nearby Danbury, Connecticut, Sybil gallops through the night to call out her father’s men.

Over a year has passed, but the time spent in jail has done nothing to soften the hatred in Jayla’s heart. After Jasmine’s betrayal, it’s only a matter of time before Jayla can give her a taste of her own medicine. The opportunity arises when Sheila Weston, the senator’s wife, intervenes, offering Jayla an assignment that she can’t refuse. Little does she know how much this assignment will change her life forever. Betrayal is at every turn, and no one can be trusted. As new secrets are revealed, Jayla finds herself tangled in a web so twisted it brings her past full circle.

Eden Water's life has always been far from ordinary. After a close call with a murdering psychopath, all Eden wants to do is go home and rest. But, that can't happen, at least not yet. Eden has received a call from Nathaniel, the alpha of the Eastern shifters. The alpha's community has been attacked, and the young shifter, Tommy, has been taken. Now, Eden must race against the clock as she searches for clues of who took the little boy and why.

On the run after a disastrous affair, artist Leah Mason plans to reinvent herself in a small Cornish village where nothing ever happens. But life is in St. Jofra is far from quiet, and soon Leah befriends her next-door neighbour Nat, and crosses paths with the handsome doctor Joshua Gray. When an old friend tracks her down with vengeance in mind, Leah is forced to confront all the things she had hoped to forget. But can she find love?

Allison Swanson felt her life was arranged the way it was supposed to be. She was a professional woman in her early 50s who accepted the daily routine of life: working and coming home to her two beloved cats. After one failed marriage and a bittersweet romance, she felt "safe" with her existence. That all changed when she met Daniel Kelley, a hero, an irritant, and, eventually, her love. Daniel brought with him a ready-made family, which included his six-year-old grandson, Elliott. Allison began a personal evolution that changed her perception about everything.

Elaina’s been tasked with a peculiar job, finding her childhood friend’s missing heiress sister. The search leads her to a crumbling hotel in the heart of Los Angeles, a place filled with drug addicts, prostitutes, and pimps. Has the trail gone cold, or is this just the beginning?

Do you feel overwhelmed by the demands of your job? Are you facing a sundry of distractions at home? Do you find it hard to achieve balance between your personal life and your work? The strategies provided in this guide will allow you to have quality time and energy left to enjoy precious moments with your loved ones and the other things that truly matter to you.

Many have claimed they would die for what they want - but would they kill? Hollywood, California, and far away from anything and everyone who knows her name is the strikingly beautiful Monica Tyler, living life incognito and on her terms. That's until Justin enters her world and shakes it to the core. He's the perfect find, but there's one condition - he wants an heir to the Shields' throne. Just when Monica thought her scandalous days were behind her, she whips out her old bag of tricks. How far will she go to prove her love, again?

Placed on the Virus Response Team together, Andy and Jasper must find a way not to overcome their differences, but to use those differences as a driving force to find a cure to the deadly Horvitz virus. However, their egos and stubbornness are getting in the way, and as a result, people are dying. In their highly divided worlds, it’s going to take more than some fragile common ground to stop the Horvitz virus. It will take damn close to a miracle in bravery, vulnerability, determination, unity, empathy, compassion, and the realization that together we heal, and divided we perish.

How to Procreate a Healthy Family is a book of literature based on almost 30 years of experience in raising a healthy family. In it, the listener will find the formula on how to have a beautiful family. This book is an easy to follow and in language that is easy to understand. It teaches how to conquer the obstacles there are in life to procreate the desired healthy family.

On the fast track at a Philadelphia consulting firm, Abigail McKenna has put her personal life on hold, content to focus on her professional success. But when she’s suddenly laid off, Abby finds herself with a dwindling savings account and no promising job prospects. So when a letter arrives holding the solution to all her financial problems, Abby is relieved but saddened: her dear Aunt Leila has passed away, naming Abby the sole beneficiary of her majestic Victorian estate in North Carolina. But Abby is in for a few surprises.

After 15 years of marriage and seven children, British singer-songwriter J. D. Borders and his American wife, Maggie, were an idyllic superstar couple. They were destined to be together, forever…until the morning Maggie walked into their London hotel suite and found J. D. with another woman. Now as they face one last public interview, J. D. must risk exposing their darkest secrets - on national television - in order to win Maggie back.

Nursing wealthy businessman Chicago DuBois back to health is the least Loretta Lovelace figures she can do. After all, it was her bet that made his wife, Madison, the target of a crazed stalker who put Chicago at death's door. With their marriage on the rocks, Loretta can't resist looking after Chicago - and reigniting his passion for life.