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In 1992, at the dawn of the age of technology, disgraced ex-game show host Manny di Martini schemes for a comeback with a deep-sea television special in the South Pacific. He quickly finds himself in over his head, attracting the attention of a cosmic being who will lead Manny to a television broadcast event much bigger than the entire planet bargained for: evidence of a slumbering alien in a ruined city at the bottom of the ocean. One look at the monster on TV, and humans collectively freak out.

If bedtime feels like a battle in your home—endless stalling, racing thoughts, or kids who are “tired but wired”—this audiobook was created for you. Finally… peaceful bedtimes without the struggle. Each story is written with intention: soft language, comforting rhythms, and reassuring themes that make bedtime feel safe, predictable, and calm.

For the first time in generations, the complete sacred canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the oldest and most complete Bible in Christian history, is available in English with reverence, accuracy, and unmatched depth.

The Idioms Collection: Business Edition brings together over ninety of the most widely used business idioms in the English language. Organized into seven practical chapters—from Progress & Performance to Teamwork & Support—each entry gives you everything you need: a clear meaning, a real-world example, guidance on tone and situation, related expressions, and an honest note on where people most commonly go wrong.

Celebrate Dad with a sweet, heartfelt picture book made for Father’s Day, bedtime reading, birthdays, and everyday moments between a father and daughter. The Best Part Is You, Dad is a warm rhyming keepsake story about a little girl sharing all the little reasons she loves her dad. From silly pancakes and big hugs to bedtime stories, brave moments, funny jokes, and quiet comfort, this book celebrates the everyday love that makes Dad so special. With tender rhymes and colorful storybook illustrations, this picture book is perfect for daughters who want to show Dad how much he means to them.

Eight hours. That's all Sergeant Miyuki Luna and her squad are given to hold an impossible line on an alien world while civilians run for the shuttles. When the planet's Guardian spirit answers her defiance with a dangerous blessing, Miyuki walks away with more than scars—she walks away able to steal seconds from the flow of time itself. Every time she slows the world to save someone, her own heart pays the price.

Conflict is not the problem. How we overcome it is. In organizations everywhere, unspoken tension, mistrust, and emotional residue shape outcomes more than strategy or skill. What if addressing those storms head-on was the real secret to stronger culture, better performance, and deeper human connection? In UNITY and Beyond: Five Simple Steps to Stop Letting Conflict Win, conflict-resolution expert Brandon Bigelow reveals a five-step framework that turns traditional thinking upside down.

He was no longer a man. No longer a monster. He was something far worse: a legend. East London, 1888. In the choking fog of Whitechapel, prostitutes are being found mutilated in alleys and basements, their bodies left behind with unsettling precision. Panic spreads as rumors outpace the police, and a name begins to take shape in the shadows. A name the city will not forget. Jack. When the killings draw the attention of investigators John Doyle and Thomas Braham, the hunt begins for a murderer whose violence is deliberate, chilling, and ritualistic.

The Solarian League's navy counts its superdreadnoughts by the thousands. Not even its own government knows how enormous its economy truly is. And for hundreds of years, the League has borne the banner of human civilization, been the ideal to which humanity aspires in its diaspora across the galaxy. But the bureaucrats known as the "Mandarins," who rule today's League, are not the men and women who founded it so long ago. They are corrupt, venal, accountable to no one...and they've decided the upstart Star Kingdom of Manticore must be destroyed.

Brought to you by Penguin. ND-5 and Jaylen Vrax embark on their descent into the galaxy’s underworld in search of answers and opportunity, in this essential prequel to Star Wars Outlaws. Jaylen Barsha, heir to his family’s immense power and wealth, had his life charted out for him neatly and...

A cursed ring. A silent demon girl. A town where the shadows are starting to move. Azrael only wanted an ordinary life in the frozen town of Iblis Valley. But when he wakes up with an unremovable purple ring fused to his finger, everything begins to change.

Despite political foes, professional jealousies, and the scandal which drove her into exile, Capt. Honor Harrington has been offered a chance to reclaim her career as an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy. But there's a catch. She must assume command of a "squadron" of jury-rigged armed merchantmen with crew drawn from the dregs of her service and somehow stop the pirates who have taken advantage of the Havenite War to plunder the Star Kingdom's commerce.

It's hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards conquest as the only option and a sneak attack as the best means to that end. That's why the Kingdom of Manticore needs allies against the Republic of Haven, and the planet Grayson is strategically situated to make a very good ally indeed. But Her Majesty’s Foreign Office overlooked a “minor cultural difference” when they chose Honor Harrington to carry the flag: women on the planet of Grayson are without rank or rights and Honor’s mere presence is an intolerable affront to every male on the planet.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'A really entertaining thriller [that] like Michael Crichton . . . keeps ratcheting up the suspense' Booklist ____________________________ Two sisters have always stood together. Now, they're the only ones left. In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific Northwest...

For most of the last 2,000 years, questions about the figure of Jesus have begun with the Gospels, but the Gospels themselves raise puzzling questions about both Jesus and the religious movement within which these narratives were produced. Is it possible to shape a single picture from the various accounts of his life given us by these Gospels?

The decision has been made. Jessie has taken the magic, and all the weird that goes with it. Including wings. There's only one problem - she can't figure out how to access them. Through a series of terrible decisions, Jessie realizes she must ask for help. Gargoyle help. But she could've never predicted who answers her call - he's an excellent flier, incredibly patient, and a good trainer. He's also incredibly handsome. And interested. Maybe flying isn't the only thing she needs help with. Maybe she needs help getting back on that saddle, too, emerging into the dating pool.

In this sweeping, threaded narrative of the global phenomenon known as the Vampire Wars, mankind is unwittingly infected by a millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Now, in some rare cases, a person’s so-called junk DNA becomes activated. Depending on their racial and ethnic heritage, they begin to manifest one of the many diverse forms of the "others" that are the true basis for the legends of supernatural creatures. These aren’t your usual vampires and werewolves - it goes much deeper than that.

From bestselling author Danielle L. Jensen comes a thrilling novel in the Dark Shores world, a series that Sarah J. Maas called "everything I look for in a fantasy novel." THEIR BATTLES ENDED IN VICTORY Lydia returns to Mudaire to enter training at the healing temple. But instead of fighting to...

Do you struggle to get your little guy to settle down for bed? Is he a fan of roaring trucks, mighty tanks, fearless ninjas, and unstoppable superheroes? Bedtime Stories for Awesome Boys is the perfect solution!

There are two sides to any quarrel... unless there are more. Queen Elizabeth of Manticore's first cousin and Honor Harrington's best friend Michelle Henke has just handed the "invincible" Solarian League Navy the most humiliating, one-sided defeat in its entire almost thousand-year history in defense of the people of the Star Empire's Talbott Quadrant. But the League is the most powerful star nation in the history of humanity. Its navy is going to be back – and this time with thousands of superdreadnoughts.