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The Kiss of Life
When Phoebe's best friend Adam takes a bullet for her, it proves everyone right - Adam is in love with her. And now that he's come back to life, Phoebe's presence may be more important than ever. They say that a zombie can come back from death faster if they're loved... and kissed - which means Phoebe has to say goodbye to Tommy Williams, the other zombie in her life. While coaxing Adam back to reality and fending off Tommy's advances, Phoebe continues to carry on as if everything's normal. But normal has been different since American teenagers started rising from their graves. Although some try to bridge the gap between the living and the differently biotic, there are scores of people who want nothing more than to send all of the undead back to their graves. And the dead kids in Phoebe's school don't like that one bit...
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Ghost Stories (Hardy Boys)
Join Fank And Joe... On a deserted country road, where, a fiendish scarecrow walks and talks and stalks its victims! On a stromy night at sea, where the Hardys' only hope of rescue is an l8th-century whaling ship piloted by a ghostly, crew! In the dank, dark dungeon of a Scottish castle haunted by its first lord, a cruel and notorious pirate! WHEREVER DANGER LEADS... THE GHOST-HUNTING HARDY BOYS ARE SURE TO FOLLOW! Don't be alarmed, there is no such thing as a ghost -- or is there? Who knows what unseen powers lurk in the darkness? Frank and Joe are about to find out as they face some of their most challenging cases ever -- six startling journeys into the heart of mystery and fear...
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Without Merit
New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us and November 9 comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love and the power of the truth. “Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.” The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there’s Merit. Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her—until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable. Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines, when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix. Fed up with the lies, Merit decides to shatter the happy family illusion that she’s never been a part of before leaving them behind for good. When her escape plan fails, Merit is forced to deal with the staggering consequences of telling the truth and losing the one boy she loves. Poignant and powerful, Without Merit explores the layers of lies that tie a family together and the power of love and truth.
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The Spanish Love Deception
Winner Of The Goodreads Choice Awards Debut Novel Of The Year. The Rom-Com Of 2021. A Booktok Sensation. A Wedding In Spain. The Most Infuriating Man. Three Days To Convince Your Family You'Re Actually In Love. . . Catalina Martín Desperately Needs A Date To Her Sister'S Wedding. Especially When Her Little White Lie About Her American Boyfriend Has Spiralled Out Of Control. Now Everyone She Knows – Including Her Ex-Boyfriend And His Fiancée – Will Be There. She Only Has Four Weeks To Find Someone Willing To Cross The Atlantic For Her And Aid In Her Deception. Nyc To Spain Is No Short Flight And Her Family Won'T Be Easy To Fool. . . But Even Then, When Aaron Blackford – The 6'4", Blue-Eyed Pain In The Arse – Offers To Step In, She'S Not Tempted Even For A Second. Never Has There Been A More Aggravating, Blood-Boiling And Insufferable Man. But Catalina Is Desperate And As The Wedding Gets Closer The More Desirable An Option Aaron Blackford Becomes. . . The Spanish Love Deception Is An Enemies-To-Lovers, Fake-Dating Romance. Perfect For Those Looking For A Steamy Slow-Burn With The Promise Of A Sweet Happy-Ever-After. "Everything You Could Want In A Romance Is Right Here." Helen Hoang, Author Of The Kiss Quotient
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Critical Mass
In 1990, the world's first war between atomic-armed powers, Pakistan and India, was narrowly averted. Pakistan's and India's quests for the great equalizer, and dozens of similar quests, are recounted in this hair-raising reality check on the status of nuclear proliferation. Burrows and Windrem combine Western intelligence with their own sources to profile the careers of a number of wanna-be J. Robert Oppenheimers. You don't have to be as brilliant as Oppenheimer, you simply have to be resourceful in collecting the 50-year-old "secrets" of producing plutonium and building ballistic missiles. Either stolen or bought from countries such as Germany, the technology flows in a thousand rivulets through porous export controls. As Burrows and Windrem patch together their stories--such as their tale of Greenpeace's attempted purchase (as a PR stunt) of the ultimate loose cannon, a rogue ex-Soviet bomb, and details about the joint Israeli-South African detonation in 1979--they remind us that too many nations have too many rationales to nuclearize their political and military strategies. Updates and expands upon Timmerman's Death Lobby (1991), a study of Iraq's successful exploitation of the world arms bazaar. Gilbert Taylor
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I Have Become The Tide
Githa Hariharan has written novels, short fiction and essays over the last three decades. Her highly acclaimed work includes the Thousand Faces of Night which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in 1993, the short story collection the Art of Dying, the novels the Ghosts of Vasu Master, When Dreams Travel, in Times of Siege and Fugitive Histories and the collection of essays Almost Home: Cities and Other Places. She has also written children’s stories and edited a collection of translated short fiction, A Southern Harvest and the essay collection from India to Palestine: Essays in Solidarity. For more on this Delhi-based author and her work.
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Camp Creepy Nancy Drew and the Clue
In Camp Creepy, the girls take a school trip to Taos, New Mexico! A classmate’s uncle has opened a new camp and the kids of River Heights Elementary are invited to come test it out. But when a series of mysterious incidents ruin Nancy’s art project, Nancy thinks something eerie is at work. Could she have upset the Taos Indian spirits?
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The Secret to Love Health and Money
Apply the knowledge of The Secret to three key areas of your life with this 3-in-1 masterclass guide to attracting fulfilling relationships, the best health and more money from #1 bestselling author Rhonda Byrne. In THE SECRET TO LOVE, HEALTH AND MONEY, Rhonda Byrne presents many inspiring examples of real-life cases from people who have used The Secret to achieve personal happiness, wellbeing and success. Subjects covered in Part I include the power of positive thoughts and feelings, gratitude in relationships, imagining the perfect partner, and the creative process for attracting new and better relationships. Part 2 features a series of focused and intensive lessons about topics including health and wellbeing, self-healing, overcoming chronic and incurable diseases, weight loss, the subconscious mind and the immune system and the placebo of positive thinking. Throughout the lessons, Rhonda explains in detail how the law of attraction applies specifically to health, as she offers vital tips and powerful processes such as visualization, affirmations, gratitude, and The Secret’s famous creative process―ask, believe and receive. The Secret to Health Masterclass also features real-life stories of people who have used The Secret to overcome health crises such as tuberculosis, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, cancer, autoimmune disease, chronic pain, depression and anxiety. Part 3 explains how the law of attraction applies specifically to wealth and your relationship with money. By applying the knowledge in The Secret, you can stop money from slipping through your fingers, and eliminate forever the perpetual state of “not having enough money.” You will discover the power you have to bring money to you and to live a life of abundance, where you can be, do or have anything you want. Subjects covered by Rhonda include personal finance, eradicating a poverty mindset and adopting a wealth mindset, job hunting, career advancement, creating a successful business, and giving and sharing wealth. Rhonda also presents many inspirational real-life stories of people who have used The Secret to attract wealth, build a company, pay off debts, acquire a home and secure a high paying job. Using these powerful processes, you will experience first-hand the transformation that can happen across all areas of your life―in your relationships, health, finances, personal goals and dreams, and in your level of joy and happiness.
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Fly Away Home
Sometimes all you can do is fly away home . . . When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician’s wife—her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her husband, the senator. Lizzie, the Woodruffs’ younger daughter, is at twenty-four a recovering addict, whose mantra HALT (Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired?) helps her keep her life under control. Still, trouble always seems to find her. Her older sister, Diana, an emergency room physician, has everything Lizzie failed to achieve—a husband, a young son, the perfect home—and yet she’s trapped in a loveless marriage. With temptation waiting in one of the ER’s exam rooms, she finds herself craving more. After Richard’s extramarital affair makes headlines, the three women are drawn into the painful glare of the national spotlight. Once the press conference is over, each is forced to reconsider her life, who she is and who she is meant to be. Written with an irresistible blend of heartbreak and hilarity, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who after a lifetime of distance finally learn to find refuge in one another.
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The Hardy Boys-Casefiles Collection-Survival Tacti
Three complete casefiles from the popular Hardy Boys series: "Thick as Thieves", in which the boys' old enemy Charity turns up in Bayport; "The Deadliest Dare", when Bayport is hit by a rash of vicious pranks; and "Without a Trace", where the boys search New Mexico for a missing cowboy.
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The Hardy Boys Adventures: The Ghost At Skeleton R
Franklin W. Dixon is a pen name used by a variety of authors writing for the classic series, The Hardy Boys. The first and most well-known "Franklin W. Dixon" was Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian author who contributed 19 of the first 25 books in the series. Other writers who have adopted the pseudonym include Christopher Lampton, John Button, Amy McFarlane, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
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Simon & Schusters Guide To Gems And Precious Stone
Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones provides both the connoisseur and the casual collector with a compact, easy-to-use volume describing more than 100 rare varieties of minerals whose beauty and mystery have possessed our imaginations from time immemorial. More than 450 brilliant photographs accompany profiles of each gem, covering such aspects as appearance, physical properties -- density, hardness, refraction -- occurrence, and how to judge quality and value. Additional sections describe the process of cutting gemstones and the techniques professional gemologists use to evaluate a stone's weight and optical properties. Detailed and comprehensive, this book is essential for anyone interested in the study of gems and precious stones.
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No Laughing Matter
An uproarious and frank memoir of illness and recovery, No Laughing Matter is a story of friendship and recuperation from the author of the classic Catch-22. It all began one typical day in the life of Joe Heller. He was jogging four miles at a clip these days, working on his novel God Knows, coping with the complications of an unpleasant divorce, and pigging out once or twice a week on Chinese food with cronies like Mel Brooks, Mario Puzo, and his buddy of more than twenty years, Speed Vogel. He was feeling perfectly fine that day—but within twenty-four hours he would be in intensive care at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He would remain hospitalized for nearly six months and leave in a wheelchair. Joseph Heller had Guillain-Barré syndrome, a debilitating, sometimes fatal condition that can leave its victims paralyzed from head to toe. The clan gathered immediately. Speed—sometime artist, sometime businessman, sometime herring taster, and now a coauthor—moved into Joe's apartment as messenger, servant, and shaman. Mel Brooks, arch-hypochondriac of the Western world, knew as much about Heller's condition as the doctors. Mario Puzo, author of the preeminent gangster novel of our time, proved to be the most reluctant man ever to be dragged along on a hospital visit. These and lots of others rallied around the sickbed in a show of loyalty and friendship that not only built a wild and spirited camaraderie but helped bring Joe Heller, writer and buddy extraordinaire, through his greatest crisis. This book is an inspiring, hilarious memoir of a calamitous illness and the rocky road to recuperation—as only the author of Catch-22 and the friend who helped him back to health could tell it. No Laughing Matter is as wacky, terrifying, and greathearted as any fiction Joseph Heller ever wrote.
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Principle Centered Leadership
A guidebook to personal fulfilment and professional success through "principle-centered leadership" based on timeless principles - showing how goals of excellence and total quality express an innate human need for progress in personal and organizational life. Ineffective people try to manage their time around priorities, says Stephen R. Covey, whereas effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships according to principles - natural laws and governing values that are universally valid. Leadership is the ability to apply these principles to problems, resulting in quality, productivity, profitability and win-win relationships. By the author of "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People".
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What It Takes Lessons In The Pursuit Of Excellence
From Blackstone Chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen a. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from schwarzman's life to show readers how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, philanthropist, executive, or simply someone looking for ways to maximise your potential, the same lessons apply. People know who Stephen schwarzman is-att least they think they do. He's the man who took 400 dollars, 000 and co-founded Blackstone, the investment firm that manages over $500 billion (as of January 2019). he's the CEO whose views are sought by heads of state. He's the billionaire philanthropist who founded schwarzman scholars, this century's version of the Rhodes scholarship, in China. But behind these achievements is a man who has spent his life learning and reflecting on what it takes to achieve excellence, make an impact, and live a life of consequence. Folding handkerchiefs in his father's linen shop, schwarzman dreamed of a larger life, filled with purpose and adventure. His grades and athleticism got him into Yale. After starting his career in finance with a short stint at a financial firm called dlj, schwarzman began working at Lehman brothers where he ascended to run the mergers and acquisitions practice. He eventually partnered with his mentor and friend Pete Peterson to found Blackstone, vowing to create a new and different kind of financial institution. Building Blackstone into the leading global financial institution it is today didn't come easy. Schwarzman focused intensely on culture, hiring great talent, and establishing processes that allow the firm to systematically analyze and evaluate risk. Schwarzman's simple mantra "don't lose money" Has helped Blackstone become a leading private equity and real estate investor, and manager of alternative assets for institutional investors globally. Both he and the firm are known for the rigor of their investment process, their innovative approach to deal making, the diversification of their business lines, and a conviction to be the best at everything they do. Schwarzman is also an active philanthropist, having given away more than a billion dollars. In philanthropy, as in business, he is drawn to situations where his capital and energy can be applied to drive transformative solutions and change paradigms, notably in education. He uses the skills learned over a lifetime in finance to design, establish, and support impactful and innovative organizations and initiatives. His gifts have ranged from creating a new college of computing at MIT for the study of artificial intelligence, to establishing a first-of-its-kind student and performing arts center at Yale, to enabling the renovation of the iconic new York public library, to founding the schwarzman scholars Fellowship program at tsinghua University in beijing-thee single largest philanthropic effort in China's history from international donors. Schwarzman's story is an empowering, entertaining, and informative guide for anyone striving for greater personal impact. From deal making to investing, leadership to entrepreneurship, philanthropy to diplomacy, schwarzman has lessons for how to think about ambition and scale, risk and opportunities, and how to achieve success through the relentless pursuit of excellence. Schwarzman not only offers readers a thoughtful reflection on all his own experiences, but in doing so provides a practical blueprint for success.