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When Albie Bramwell’s father died, he was left with two thousand hectares of mountain to farm, and little help to run it. Abandoned by all but two of his workers, the whole town of Alpine Falls called him too young to run the farm alone. Young, yes. At just nineteen, he was determined to prove them wrong. Even if it killed him. In search of a new life, Percy Collins found himself in a small mountain town where he ran into a man not much older than himself and scored a job at Echo Creek.

Inspector Fenella Sallow is haunted by her past and obsessive about the truth…no matter how painful. When a body is found on an isolated footbridge in the scenic village of St. Bees, Fenella must piece together the events that lead to the grizzly death. All evidence points to a murder by the escaped serial killer dubbed "Mr. Shred". As the investigation heats up, Fenella and her team discover a world darker than most can imagine. And it soon becomes clear the killer is determined to teach the police a lesson.

Blood spilled long ago between the Republic of Mareen and the armies of the Blood Emperor, ending all blood magic. Now there is peace in the Republic—but there is also a strict class system, misogyny and racism. Her world is not perfect, but Ikenna survived in it. With the murder of her grandfather, Ikenna spirals out of control. Though she is an initiate for the Republic’s deadly elite military force, Ikenna has a secret only her grandfather knew: she possesses the blood magic of the Republic’s enemies.

Some of the parchment pages were the color of cream, thick and substantial, made to last many, many lifetimes. Other pages were thin and desiccated, positively yellow from age, and crackled alarmingly as Van Richten turned them over. There were no ornate illuminations, no fussy borders, only lines of plain text in hard black ink. The flowing handwriting was a bit difficult to follow at first; the writer's style of calligraphy had not been in common use for 300 years. No table of contents, but from the dates it looked to be some kind of history.

In the wake of defeating Gornath of the Ontishog, above the streets of Manhattan, and saving Earth from a devastating plague, Wic and Phantom Team believe their work is done. But Major Insarka Kindesh has other plans for the heroes and invites them back to Karkin Four. Phantom Team cross through New York’s origin ring to find the Blood Guard orchestrating covert operations against an Androchidan Empire in the throes of war. But galactic battle is not this trip’s focus.

The classic guide to business communications...updated for a new generation of media-savvy leaders. 

From electric lights to automobiles to the appliances that make our lives easier at work and at home, we owe so much of our world to the Industrial Revolution. In this course, The Great Courses partners with the Smithsonian - one of the world's most storied and exceptional educational institutions - to examine the extraordinary events of this period and uncover the far-reaching impact of this incredible revolution.

Whether your classroom consists of 3 students or 300, it’s important to be as effective a teacher as possible, both for your students and for your own professional and personal growth. The Art of Teaching: Best Practices from a Master Educator is designed to help you achieve new levels of success as a teacher. These 24 lectures will help you develop and enhance your teaching style; provide you with invaluable methods, tools, and advice for handling all manner of teaching scenarios; and open your eyes to how other teachers think about and approach this life-changing profession.

In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. However, this act of kindness is to engulf Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. Oree's peculiar guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in mortal danger - but is it him the killers want, or Oree? 

The Mathesons have reunited and are now in search of help in a vast and dangerous galaxy. After surviving an attack, Thomas leads his family toward a faint signal on a remote planet and finds exactly what they had been hoping for: a surviving Arbitrator But nothing can ever be easy. The...

Power corrupts. Magic devours. In Hedge End, monsters aren't born—they're made. The city's cursed gems twist human flesh into nightmares, and no one knows how to stop them. After the gems claimed her parents, Clara Aldridge, niece to the mayor and heir to his power, swore to protect what's...

Keep Jesus in the center of your family's Easter celebrations with this beautiful Holy Week storybook from N.T. Wright, one of the world's most loved Bible scholars. With a holistic approach that readers worldwide have learned to trust, N.T. Wright weaves together the pieces of the biblical...

Vigga is flying to Iceland with her parents, and she’s excited to go riding and explore nature. As always, Vigga brings Luna and keeps her hidden, but one day, Luna goes missing! Where did she go? Vigga goes looking for Luna in the desolate landscape and learns that she and Luna are not the...

Olly is lonely. He wants to make a friend. But that is hard to do...

Dan, Tom, and Bob are playing with a ball. Suddenly, Tom’s arm falls off. What will they do now?...

Benjamin’s team is playing a match, but some of the other team’s players do not play fair, so Benjamin has to take action...

Walk the plank with Peter Patch and his cat Curly, the jolliest pirates on the seven seas! Peter and Curly sail to a small island in search of treasure. But not all islands are what they seem...

Penny has bought a bush. Now she has to dig a hole for it. Can she plant the bush in the hole?...

Ally has sworn to stay in The Underworld, but Ezrael won’t let her friends go back to Earth until she agrees to undergo a transformation that will awaken her demonic genes. Ally starts her new life among the demons, but some are less than thrilled to see her assume her new position as...

Dotty has the hiccups. How will she get rid of them?...