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When 17-year-old Calliope meets her new neighbor Max, their connection is instantaneous, but the revelation of her sperm donor’s identity changes everything. Calliope Silversmith has always had just two friends in her small Pennsylvania town, Ginger and Noah, and she's fine with that. She's never wanted anything more than her best friends, her moms, their house in the woods, and their family-run yoga studio - except maybe knowing who her sperm donor is. Her curiosity has been building for years, and she can finally find out this summer when she turns 18.

Miss Posterity's Academy for Practical Magic is the best kindling school in New York City - and wealthy 12-year-old Emma Harris is accustomed to the best. But when her father dies, leaving her penniless, Emma is reduced to working off her debts to Miss Posterity alongside Izzy, a daring servant girl who refuses to let her magic be snuffed out, even if society dictates she must. Emma and Izzy reluctantly form a pact: If Izzy teaches Emma how to survive as a servant, Emma will reveal to Izzy what she knows about magic.

Whenever something scandalous happens at Heller High, the Red Court is the name on everyone's lips. Its members deal out social ruin and favors in equal measure, their true identities known only by their leader: the Queen of Hearts. Ember Williams has seen firsthand the damage the Red Court can do. Now, she's determined to hold the organization accountable by taking it down from the inside. But will the cost of revenge be more than she's willing to sacrifice?

With the financial markets seemingly careening from one crisis to another, it's vital for today's investors and traders to have a historical perspective on market performance during times of great turmoil. In this audiobook Tim Knight provides an exhaustive analysis of financial market behavior prior, during, and following tumultuous events since 1600.

Presenters Becky Ripley and Emily Knight mull over a multitude of bewildering and brain-teasing questions as they try to make sense of what we humans are all about - with a little help from some other species. What can the swirling patterns in a starling murmuration tell us about the way our ideas spread? Can ants teach us anything about avoiding a pandemic? And how could a brainless single-cell slime mould help to solve our trickiest problems?

Originally published as a board book, The Great Big Lion's Roar is perfect for bedtime stories. This is an easy listen that combines art and educational play through patterns, counting and opposites, all wrapped in a cute "adventure time" for your little ones. If you have school children fascinated with nature and the animal kingdom and you are not keen on getting another lion king audiobook, The Great Big Lion is the best audiobook for children listeners.

Sayyida, variously known as a pirate queen, Queen of the Western Seas, or Queen of Tétouan, was a REAL and HISTORICAL figure, but not much is known of her. Sayyida married young, just 16, at the insistence of her father. Her first husband was 30 years older and a friend of her father’s. Al-Mandri sensed his bride’s intelligence and taught her about his business affairs and diplomacy. Together, the couple rebuilt Tétouan, which had been destroyed by the Reconquista, and when her husband died in 1515, she became the Governor or Queen of Tétouan in her own right.

Anyone dealing with immune, learning, sensory-processing, mood, and/or behavioral disorders may have multiple sensitivities that result from highly sensitized brain circuitry. Gifted Intelligence explores the brain-based mechanisms that predispose us to mood, sensory-processing, learning, behavioral, and autoimmune disorders. In this audiobook you will learn why all of these so-called diseases and disorders can and should be treated as learning opportunities.

What is it about dragons that almost every country in the world has their own version of this mythical creature? Why is it that countries that are on opposite sides of the world have dragons that have relatively the same features? Is this evidence that these mythical beasts did not just exist in the imagination of people from centuries past? All these questions and more will be answered in this audiobook. If you have always been fascinated with dragons, and you want to learn more about them, then this is the audiobook for you.

Worrywart father Tom Boyer has just found the perfect home for his family: a bigger house in a better neighborhood, with woods in the back for his daughter, Lilly, to play in. But the move has been tough on Lilly; the street had no kids with whom to play. So when she finds a fascinating friend in Mr. Bluestick - a mysterious man who wears a full tuxedo and carries a glowing blue stick while living in the woods, Tom is amused...until he awakes one night with the woods on fire and Lilly missing....

This Werebear will do anything to protect his mate. A runaway fiancé meets a protective werebear in this steamy, paranormal romance. Adam is a tall and strong grizzly bear shifter, attempting to leave his clan and his small-town life in Cold Creek, Montana, far behind him. When Zoe, a curvy amateur photographer, discovers something dark about her fiancé, Joey, she goes in hiding in fear for her life - and finds some peace staying in a rundown motel in the middle-of-nowhere, America.

Greater Than A Tourist: Yerevan, Armenia by Tatevik Hovsepyan offers the inside scoop on Yerevan. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. As a part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination.

Janine Ellison was a college girl who dreamed of meeting the man of her dreams and falling head over heels in love. It seemed as if all her dreams were coming true when she met the handsome Kip Ardelean - a stunningly beautiful man with rock-hard abs and a charming personality to match. But while Kip seemed perfect for her on the outside, there was a dark, furry secret lurking on the inside of him. The secret was that he was a shape-shifting werewolf, but that was nothing compared to the other secrets he had....

The world changed and I changed forever in 1968. It was like a tidal wave - I was swept up in a torrent of change. I left San Francisco State College to try and end the US war in Vietnam. When I got to Chicago I found the real anti-war forces outside the convention in the streets. I joined them briefly. As it became clear to me the war would continue, I headed for Canada, where I lived for the next six years. As an editor of Amex->Canada, I helped forge and lead the movement for universal, unconditional amnesty for all war resisters.

This audiobook talks about how you can make money through the stock market. Stock market investing is an excellent way to earn passive income.

When a secretary accidentally deletes an important report of her dominating boss, she fears she will lose her job. She has no choice but to own up, and when offered the choice of being fired or submitting to his desires, she decides she has no choice and lets the boss use her as a sex toy in his office.

Husband and wife Charlie and Grace’s love for the outdoors brought them to Mt. George in Dead Summit, but the scourge that awoke on the mountain tore them apart. Now, a team of people responsible for keeping one of the world’s deadliest secrets must silence and contain the undead - along with anyone who remains alive. Shelly Smith, a member of the containment team conflicted with her past choices, will need to decide whether to assist with maintaining the secret of the curse, or follow her heart and do what is right.

Effie has always loved the forest. She is just a typical young woman, with an ordinary job and an ordinary life. She lives in a small town surrounded by woods. These woods are where she finds inspiration for the art she creates. Dragons, elves, swords, and shields. A mighty war being waged, with only her imagination and a canvas to craft it. And she always seems to draw the same elf when she goes out to create; she doesn't know why. But a name has always stuck out to her, even when she has never heard it before in her life. Kirinti. In her paintings, this elf was the hero.

Learn the basics of social anxiety and shyness and make the distinction between the two.

Jacob doesn't want to become like his older brother. But deep down he does love him. He then meets Rutheo, a gang member, and through him he sees a chance to become someone. The only problem is Jacob must prove his worth through violent means....