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"In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening. When a disease affects how reality is perceived, it's hard to be certain of anything. Spence is one of the "cured" living at the Ironside rehabilitation facility. Haunted by guilt, he refuses to face the changed world until a new inmate challenges him...
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"It's a Battlefield is both a suspense story and a serious novel, tense and probing. The keynote is set in a quotation from Kinglake at the beginning of the volume: 'In so far as the battlefield presented itself to the bare eyesight of men, it...was made up of nothing except small numberless circlets...each separate gathering...went on fighting it's own little battle in a happy and advantageous ignorance of the general state of the action....' these...
3) Fractured
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Zreyas Rittak is second in line to be Emperor of the Janquar Nation. He harbors a weakness for his brother, and he will do anything to ascend to the throne in order to protect him.
But his universe crumbles and all his plans are derailed when an anomaly helps the Dark One escape from his once-hidden dimensional prison.
Chaos ensues when fractures crack the skies. Zreyas takes extreme measures to protect his brother and ends up being hunted by his...
4) Nagodara
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After saving Ayya in their first challenge instated multiverse-wide by the Dark One, Zreyas Rittak and the Visages celebrate their success. Celebrations are short-lived when Zreyas and Rhom find out about some visage deceptions causing a clash of wills.
Zreyas strikes out on his own with no means of transportation to Earth, many Universes away with no modern technology, away from what little technology has learned and still doesn't understand, and...
5) Deliverance
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After having a literal heart clearing experience, Zreyas decides it's time to bring Ayya, her mother, and Ayya's best friend's scientific family up to date on what was really happening to the multiverse. In challenge forms, Rhom, Rtu, and Zreyas set up the meeting. The plan seems to go well... until it fragments. They find the Dark One has them in a trap they never dreamed could happen. The Charred swarm in and surround them and they neutralize the...
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What do you know about taxi drivers? Not enough?
Find out more here.
Discover what The Ten Commandments of St Fiacre and the 10 Commandments of Road Safety are all about. Discover the lives of taxi drivers: hidden in plain sight, here, there, and everywhere - sometimes, invisible! Learn the history that created taxis, Hackney carriages and all. Consider their urban setting with case studies and interviews from Milton Keynes. And, taxi drivers: who...
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A plastic box with a lightbulb attached may seem like an odd birthday present. But for ecologist Tim Blackburn, a moth trap is a captivating window into the world beyond the roof terrace of his London flat. Whether gaudy or drab, rare or common, each moth ensnared by the trap is a treasure with a story to tell. In The Jewel Box, Blackburn introduces these mysterious visitors, revealing how the moths he catches reflect hidden patterns governing the...
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'The Art of Lean: Production Systems and Marketing Strategies in the Modern Era' explores a range of production and operations management systems, including the Toyota Production System, The Speedy System, The Henry Ford Assembly Line, and Zara Just In Time, as well as the marketing and branding strategies of The Golden Circle and the Mad Men scene "Lucky Strike - It's toasted".
By examining the use of Kanban at McDonald's and Disney World, the book...
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Are you someone who is looking to build your own music business? Do you want to get your hands on a highly informative, practical, and constructive book that will ensure that you create the music legacy you've been dreaming of? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, then this is the book for you!
Studies show that today, the line between being a musician, a businessperson, and a salesperson have become largely blurred. Not only is this a...
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An exploration of how the Cryogenian Period, when our planet was covered in ice for millions of years, created today's remarkable biodiversity.
More than half a billion years ago, our world was completely covered by glaciers, a "Snowball Earth" that persisted for millions of years. Incredibly, this unimaginable cold led to the remarkable diversification of life on earth known as the Cambrian explosion. With a geologist's eye and a knack for storytelling,...
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Anyone who's been there and done it will tell you that managing a team remotely brings a different set of challenges to managing a team in an office. From creating a sense of structure to boosting team morale, keeping your team working productively when none of you are in the same room can be tricky.
That's where author Hari Singh can help. Whether you're used to managing your team remotely or you've been forced into it by circumstances beyond your...
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How would you like to work so productively from home that what used to take you 8 hours in an office could take you just 4 hours remotely?
With this book, you'll discover the secrets to not just getting things done when you're working from home, but getting them done FAST.
Whether you've always wanted to work remotely or you've been forced into it by events beyond your control, this book will transform you into a powerhouse of productivity. Whatever...
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Children are kids and adults are kids too. The Flatulent Pumpkin's Gone With the Wind let's children and adults feel this in the sweetest and most exhilarating way. It's a lot of fun and may be the most important book a child reads for years to come.
The town's children knew something was horribly wrong when the teacher didn't come back from lunch break. They dashed out of school and discovered all of the adults were gone! The children didn't think...
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The Wars of the Roses were a tumultuous period in English history, with family fighting family over the greatest prize in the kingdom-the throne of England. But what gave the eventual victor of these brutal and complex wars, Henry Tudor, the right to claim the crown? What made his Beaufort mother the great heiress of medieval England, and how exactly did an illegitimate line come to challenge the English monarchy?
While the Houses of York and Lancaster...
15) If I Didn't Care
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Rue Brennan's name means "regret" and "sorrow." And, by golly, she's determined to live up to that name. Living in a tiny studio apartment in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and piecing together odd jobs as a freelance journalist and part-time figure model, her boyfriend, Spencer, thinks she can do better. Spencer Hargrove is all about appearances and is about to unveil a new product created by his up-and-coming startup, SpencerTech at the height...
16) Overthinking?
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We all overthink!
That's who we are and that's what we do. The brain process to think is always on. And without notice or warning we begin to overthink. But is overthinking bad? Can it be harmful? Or, because we do it all the time is it possible that overthinking can be helpful?
This book is meant to be a guide and a resource to help you find relief from the daily stress, anxiety and needless worry you may encounter from overthinking. ...
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Gone With the Wind is a heartwarming mystery. You'll laugh, smile and be forever changed from the determination of a ten-year old girl which helps the entire town learn the single most important thing about life.
Children are kids and adults are kids too. The Flatulent Pumpkin's Gone With the Wind let's children and adults feel this in the sweetest and most exhilarating way. It's a lot of fun and may be the most important book a child reads for years...
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Since he was a child in the 1950s watching Vampires and Meteors operating from RAF Turnhouse, Jim Walls wanted to fly aircraft, he just never envisaged that his flying career would be spent in the back seat as opposed to the front. Jim guides listeners through his forty-year RAF career that started as a Boy Entrant at RAF Cosford, then as an air radar tradesman, before specializing as an air electronics operator (AEOp) in the Nimrod MR1, and later...
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The first full reappraisal of one of Britain's great fighter aces, this book examines the truth behind Tuck's 1956 biography, Fly for Your Life. It looks at the evidence behind the myths, checks out some of the exaggerated stories and reveals the real Stanford Tuck. In January 1942 Bob Tuck was the top-scoring British fighter ace with an official score of twenty-nine enemy aircraft destroyed. During the Battle of Britain his legendary prowess grew,...
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Noisy neighbours. Distracting kids. The sense of isolation. The blurring line between work and home. For all the great things there are about working remotely - no commuting, more time with family, better lunches, to name but a few - it's fair to say that it has a few downsides as well.
Whether you've always wanted to work from home or you've been forced to work remotely by circumstances beyond your control, navigating the ups and downs of 'WFH'...