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Ruth McClintock is obsessed with Annie Oakley. For nearly a decade, she has been studying the legendary sharpshooter, convinced that a scarring childhood event was the impetus for her crusade to arm every woman in America. This search has cost Ruth her doctorate, a book deal, and her fiance - but finally it has borne fruit. She has managed to hunt down what may be a journal of Oakley's midlife struggles, including secret visits to a psychoanalyst and the desire for vengeance against the "Wolves", or those who have wronged her.

Smart Is the New Rich: Money Guide for Millennials is an interactive, step-by-step guide to all things money. From credit, student debt, savings, investing, taxes, and mortgages, CNN's chief business correspondent Christine Romans shows this newest generation of earners how to build wealth. You'll learn the old-fashioned approach that leads to a healthier financial lifestyle, and open the door on a straightforward conversation about earning, saving, spending, growing, and protecting your money.

If you have a supernatural problem that won't go away, you need Buck Carlsbad: private eye, exorcist, and last resort. Buck's got a way with spirits that no one else can match. He was normal, once. Until Something Horrible killed his parents and left him for dead. Buck has spent years using his gift to trace his family. It's his only hope of finding out what happened to them-and what made him the way he is. Now the voices say that something big is coming. Buck already knows what it is - a super high-tech bullet train....

Roman Mars and co-author Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs. With deeply researched entries and beautiful line drawings throughout, The 99% Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone curious about design, urban environments and the unsung marvels of the world around them. You are about to see stories everywhere, you beautiful nerd. Now get out there.

Little Bamboo Seed happily floats through the sky, dreaming of his exciting new life. But suddenly - slam! He finds himself buried in the dirt, lonely and forgotten. As he grows into a sprout and beyond, Bamboo must learn that the Master has bigger plans for him than he could ever imagine. This rollicking story takes us from the sky, underground, and up again, reminding listeners that through our up-and-down seasons of growing and waiting, God is always working wonders.

99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs.

When Grandpa Stinson dies, he expects nothing more than to keep his grandsons together, running the family's multibillion-dollar business. But he's got just one unfaltering rule: They have to get married and have a baby first. The brothers disagree...wholeheartedly. But it's set in stone. Follow the rule, or you're the one grandson out of luck.... Stubborn, rugged, but oh-so-sexy Roark Stinson, the oldest brother, refuses to give in to his grandfather's manipulations. After all, women are the root of all evil, and he's never witnessed a relationship that actually works.

Discover World War 2's hidden heroes and villains. Spies, Code Breakers, and Secret Agents explores the intriguing world of spycraft and shows you what goes on behind the scenes in war. From spy schools and ciphers to sneaky tools and secret armies, this guide takes you on a declassified tour of the undercover operations that helped decide the outcome of World War 2. There's also more than a dozen short spy-ographies that cover some of the most famous (and infamous!) agents that were active during the war.

On a flight to Washington D.C., the past 12 years of Michael Warren’s life begin to unravel. An environmental lobbyist, Michael is on his way to testify before a Senate Committee, and destroy the plans for a housing development built on land tainted with the same toxic waste that killed his six-year-old daughter, Dominique. A cassette handed to Michael by a stranger on the plane changes everything.

David’s trial by fire awaits. The unwitting hero and captain of the mystical sailing ship, Moon Singer, has yet to learn that his deafness is his greatest gift. This "disability", along with his possession of three sacred artifacts: The Singer Crystal, The Rose Crystal, and The Wind Rose Compass, bestow David the power to save the lives of everyone he loves. Yet he feels that all the miracles he brought home on the Moon Singer have dissipated. He's just as deaf as before, his sister's paralysis has returned, and his anguish over his mother's death is stronger than ever.

On the seventh day of Christmas, I and my buddy David Eckstrom finally got around to holding that shindig we've been talking about for so long. Only, we weren't the only bodies looking for a good time on New Year's Eve. There were monsters afoot on the lake, and the remedy for 'em was something I didn't expect at all.

If David Nickerson, whose deafness still eludes treatment, cannot hear it, will he be able to tap into music's power to save the planet from catastrophe? Only if he is able to reunite the three sacred artifacts: the Singer crystal, the Rose Crystal pendant, and the Wind Rose compass. Their Triune energy is critical if David is to reharmonize the destructive discordant music created by a vengeful music master bent on manipulating weather systems to bring about climate disasters.

Depuis neuf ans, Claire, Abby, Morgan et Sasha partagent un grand loft à New York. Une colocation de copines devenue une famille de cœur. Elles se disent tout : les doutes de Claire qui étouffe dans un travail loin de ses aspirations, le rythme fou de Sasha qui se spécialise en obstétrique et ne vit plus qu'à l'hôpital, la relation toxique qu'Abby a nouée avec Ivan et qui l'empêche de continuer à écrire, les interrogations de Morgan sur son patron qu'elle adule.

Pour tous les amateurs d'Outlander ou de Game of Thrones ! Ragnvald de Møre règne désormais sur le comté de Sogn. Les batailles menées au nom du roi Harald de Norvège l'éloignent cependant la plupart du temps de ses terres, ce dont profitent certains de ses proches pour tenter d'affaiblir son pouvoir. Svanhild, sa soeur, mène quant à elle la vie aventureuse dont elle rêvait aux côtés de Solvi, ennemi juré de Ragnvald. Mais cette liberté à un prix.

Even in death, a mother guides her son through triumph and tragedy to his true destiny. Billie Nickerson must accept her own mortality as the only way her son will receive the intuitive gifts he was born to inherit, to save her family - and perhaps the world - from a disastrous fate. But learning that she has died too soon creates a Karmic crisis, as Billie tries to escape the afterlife and return to her loved ones.

У каждой истории есть своё начало и свой конец. И у истории Кота тоже. Семь Братьев и Семь Ключей найдены. Мир, созданный для развлечения, пробудился. Ускользающая власть, мнимое богатство, иллюзия бессмертия больше не имеют значения.

Фантастический роман Романа Прокофьева, шестая книга цикла "Игра Кота", жанр боевое фэнтези, героическая фантастика, LitRPG. Говорят, у "Сферы Миров" нет границ. Игроки шагнули во вселенную, полную тайн. И она готовится защитить себя. Тот, кто ввязался в эту игру, уже не может остановиться.

Everyone wants to be noticed, but most don't want to put in the work to get there. This audiobook offers proven tactics from my life to get the most out of life, when you are right in the middle of it. Most look for the easy way out and that normally means feeling external pleasures. I take a different approach and dive deep into myself and uncover a broken internal structure. I decide to rebuild, but first, I must get off of my medications and get my mind and body right.

Where do light bulbs go when they burn out? Do they stay dead forever? Or can they be regenerated to live a brand-new life with a brand-new purpose? If they’re lucky, they go to Star Factory 13 to become glorious stars in the sky, after they pass a rigorous test of their personality given by Carelia the light goddess, that is. But how in the world did 10-year-old Alicia get to Star Factory 13?

Фантастический роман Романа Прокофьева, пятая книга цикла "Игра Кота", жанр боевое фэнтези, героическая фантастика, LitRPG. Сфера Миров.... Она велика, почти безгранична. Тысячи геймеров в поисках славы, сокровищ и денег исследуют неизведанные тропы сотен миров.