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Facing a Christmas without their dad, Marty and Julie send letters to Santa asking for his help to bring their dad home for the holidays. Prof. Brett Beenie, meanwhile, is in Alaska continuing his evil plot to steal the reindeer’s flight and keep Christmas from coming this year. Elf Eric is at the North Pole working hard at getting ready to present a jet as a backup plan to Santa, who still remains loyal to the reindeer.

How does a middle-aged wife, mother, and FBI agent pursue her dream of hiking 2,200 miles from Springer Mountain, Georgia, to Mount Katahdin, Maine? Sticks Harsha balances her trekking ambitions against the responsibilities of daily life by hiking the Appalachian Trail in sections, one piece at a time. Across a thirteen-year odyssey, Sticks discovers the best of America: the stunning beauty and diversity of nature, the quaintness of small towns, the quirkiness of fellow hikers, and, above all, the generosity of strangers.

Penny Doyle needs to get far away - and fast. If only she could remember why. Occasional flashes of déjà vu do nothing to help fill the elusive memory gaps of Penny’s New Year’s Eve date with football star, Brock Harper. Something happened that night, though. Her bruises prove it. When investigators seek to question her about the disappearance of a fellow college coed who also attended the party, she realizes her urge to return home may not stem from mere homesickness, but rather, something far more desperate.

In this step-by-step guide, you will discover how to watercolor paint the right way.

The United States is full of natural wonders, but few rival Yellowstone National Park, which is full of features that led Native Americans to believe the land was possessed by spirits and compelled people who heard accounts from white explorers to assume the explorers had suffered hallucinations. Today, of course, all Americans are instantly familiar with the name Old Faithful, and even among those who have never visited the park, Yellowstone is practically synonymous with its geysers.

It's been years since author Thom Mortenson has been back to Garrison, Colorado. As part of the committee who invited the best-selling writer to speak at the library fundraising benefit, Sadie Hoffmiller wants everything to be perfect - right down to the homemade devil's food cake she baked herself. Certainly, murder was not on the menu. When Thom's manager ends up dead on stage, Sadie immediately offers her guidance and expertise to investigators.

This Introduction audiobook explores emerging geological research and explains how new advances in the understanding of plate tectonics, seismology, and satellite imagery have enabled us to begin to see the Earth as it actually is: dynamic and ever-changing. 

En simulant un mariage d’amour pour toucher un héritage, Declan et Iris avaient établi des règles pour éviter toute complication, des règles qui n’auraient jamais dû être brisées, peu importe la tentation.

Would you like to be more confident? Do you get overwhelmed in social situations? Is giving a speech your worst nightmare? Are you tired of dealing with social anxiety or shyness? Do you wish meeting and talking to strangers was as easy for you as it is for everybody else? Then this book by Lisa Kimberly is here for you. This step-by-step guide will take you all the way from wondering if you have social anxiety to knowing how to overcome it.

Madison needs a husband fast - three months before her 30th birthday if she's to receive a $2-million inheritance that her grandfather left her. It has to be someone who can put on the performance of his life. Someone tall, dark... and temporary.

When the beautiful Liza Nichols knocks on Amanda Pepper’s front door early one Monday morning, she throws the schoolteacher’s comfortable routine wildly awry. When Amanda arrives home from school later that day, she discovers Liza’s lifeless body slumped on the floor. To make matters worse, Amanda is named the primary murder suspect. In a desperate effort to clear her name, Amanda joins forces with the handsome detective assigned to the case, giving him advice and doing some unofficial snooping of her town.

They’ve been murdered, their bodies bound to wooden crosses and left floating in a lake. They aren’t the only ones... After three female bodies are discovered in a Traverse, Michigan lake, FBI Special Agent Lexi Stone and her partner are called in to assist with the investigation. When another body surfaces, Lexi’s fiancé, Adam Quinn, a reporter with the Traverse Record becomes the prime suspect. Refusing to believe the man she plans to marry is a serial killer, Lexi is determined to prove it.

Hast du schon einmal etwas von Fabelonien gehört? Nein? Hast du den Mut, mit dem Eichhörnchen Jumpy, dem Hasen Hoppel und ihren fabelonischen Freunden spannende Abenteuer zu erleben? Beim Downhill-Rennen gerät Igel Ingo in Not und wird durch Hoppels heldenhaften Einsatz gerettet. Auf der Suche nach einem gestohlenen Juwelenschatz fällt Jumpy einer verräterischen List zum Opfer und wird eingekerkert.

Take an exciting journey with professional stuntwoman Diane Peterson into the amazing world of action stunts, adventure, joy, heartbreak, injury, death, and her uncanny desire to overcome her fears and follow her dreams.

Politicians, economists, and Wall Street would have us believe that limitless economic expansion is the Holy Grail, and that there is no conflict between growing the economy and protecting the environment. Supply Shock debunks these widely accepted myths and demonstrates that we are in fact navigating the end of the era of economic growth, and that the only sustainable alternative is the development of a steady state economy.

When Sadie Hoffmiller's new friend, Eric Burton, receives word that his missing daughter's body may have been found in Florida, he immediately packs his bags, but Sadie is determined to stay home and prove to everyone that she is not a busybody. But when she senses Eric is hiding something, Sadie is compelled to take action. Before she knows it, she's in the heart of Miami, trying to piece together a trail littered with broken relationships, mysterious strangers, and forged documents...

On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her. So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family. Decades later, the family is lured back to Cuba by the promise of untold riches.

This is Linda Worthy's journey when God allowed her to live following a failed sinus surgery in February 2011 that left her with an extremely rare medical condition called Bilateral Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain. She went out of state to be diagnosed by one of the top Neurosurgeons who created the facial pain classification system, and was a world-wide keynote speaker at many Neurosurgery conferences. He told Linda and her husband that if it were unilateral (one side), he would do brain surgery that day.

Stell dir vor, es gäbe keine Handys, keine Computer und nur drei Fernsehprogramme. Und trotzdem wäre es nie langweilig. So war es in den 1970er-Jahren: Kinder spielten draußen Verstecken, fuhren Kettcar oder suchten im Tante-Emma-Laden an der Ecke ihre Lieblingssüßigkeiten aus. Petra Bohn erzählt Geschichten von Freundschaft, Mut, kleinen Streichen und großen Gefühlen. Dieses Buch nimmt Kinder und Erwachsene mit auf eine Zeitreise, in ein Jahrzehnt, in dem Kinder ihre Nachmittage draußen verbrachten und Begegnungen im Laden an der Ecke oft mehr waren als ein kurzer Einkauf.

Wenn es um ein gesundes und glückliches Leben geht, wissen wir bereits, dass wir Sport machen sollten, wie wichtig Ernährung ist und dass Stress uns krank macht. Aber was ist mit unserer Seele? Wie können wir bewusst und gezielt unsere Gedanken und Gefühle einsetzen, um glücklich zu altern? Diane Hielscher enthüllt, wie wir unsere Annahmen über das Älterwerden hinterfragen und aktiv formen können. Mit einem ganzheitlichen Ansatz basierend auf Glücksforschung, Psychologie und Neurologie bietet dieses Buch konkrete Strategien, um das Älterwerden glücklich zu gestalten.