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"Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her...
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Fusion cooking broke the rules first––now Gower's breaking fusion's rules with The Breakway Cook. Despite the explosion of farmers' markets, ethnic grocers, and creative restaurants in America, lots of home cooks remain puzzled by the bewildering array of choices, and don't have the confidence to break away from tradition. Eric helps home cooks everywhere approach unfamiliar ingredients from different global regions and combine them for some amazing...
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The interstellar civil war between the breakaway System States Union and the Federation of Planetary States continues to escalate with the help of sophisticated planning computers on both sides. This is military SF that includes space battles, ground battles, political maneuvering, strategic deception, personal triumphs and personal tragedies. Watch as the necessities of war force protagonists on both sides to compromise their honor. This series concludes...
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In the Texas Revolution of 1836, fighters and those fleeing after the Alamo and Goliad brace for a last clash. Born in Mexico's San Antonio, Captain Juan Seguin risks all in championing the breakaway republic. Private James Trezevant, one of few Georgia Battalion survivors, makes his way toward the attack at San Jacinto. The Harper women scramble for the safety of the American border. Yarico and anyone else identified as a slave stay wary, during...
5) Last Call
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For many, the wages of interplanetary peace will be as deadly as the wages of war. The Grand Galactic Alliance, bled white by nearly three years of civil war, has collapsed into dysfunction and fascism. The breakaway Union of Free Stars eyes them uneasily across newly-established borders. The chatter across the space lanes is of treaties and armistice. But no one trusts it yet. The Hell's Jesters have become a liability for all. They know too much...
6) Cry Havoc
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Bitterly divided, the galaxy hurtles for civil war. On one side, the wounded but still mighty Grand Galactic Alliance gathers its massive resources for a conflict it believes inevitable-and easily won. On the other, the breakaway worlds of the Union of Free Stars struggle to assemble star fleets or even a functional government. Both sides fear the Hell's Jesters. The Alliance cringes in anticipation of another of their partisan raids, which elude...
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Froome, Wiggins, Mercks-we know the winners of the Tour de France, but Lanterne Rouge tells the forgotten, often inspirational and occasionally absurd stories of the last-placed rider. We learn of stage winners and former yellow jerseys who tasted life at the other end of the bunch; the breakaway leader who stopped for a bottle of wine and then took a wrong turn; the doper whose drug cocktail accidentally slowed him down and the rider who was recognized...
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In a North America where the Roman Empire survived until 900 A.D., the independent colony of Manhatos and the Lenape tribes struggle to survive...
Ceti, Manhatos' chief engineer, built a hang-glider to prove that man could fly. On his first test flight, he soars high but crash lands into a tree near a Lenape settlement. Sky, heir to the Wolf Clan of the Lenape tribe, is fascinated by the man who literally falls at her feet. She views his arrival...
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Five Minutes to a Happier, More Productive Workday! Is your workday filled with chaos, stress and, at times, and inability to focus? Do you have mountains of projects ahead of you but no motivation to tackle them? In less time than you would spend on a coffee break, you can fill your workday with calm, balance, and serenity. Five Good Minutes® at Work, the third in the breakaway Five Good Minutes™ series, can help you transform your workday from...
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In this deeply personal and insightful biography, author and music industry insider Jeff Apter provides a rare glimpse inside Farnsies world. Thanks to the support of those close to John its unlike any other book about the man. A family man at heart and the most loyal of friends, John was sometimes uncomfortable with the spotlight and for many years struggled to make his music career as successful as those close to him, including Glenn Wheatley and...
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A NEW NATION – Aulus Septimus Quintorius has welded the disparate peoples of Zanturia together, uniting this fractious land of exiles under the banner of one Republic. His New Order stands on its own, strong for the first time. But its prosperity and success make it a threat to all who would rule by tyranny.
AN OLD ENEMY – the Namorians, who once held the whole of Zanturia pinned under the hobnails of their legions, have not forgiven, or forgotten....
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At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion in 1865. Drawing on an array of textual and visual sources as well as a wide range of modern scholarship on Civil War memory, Robert J. Cook charts...
13) Printed People
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Come face to face with the breakaway science that spreads humanity throughout the solar system in record time, from its humble beginnings as a means to rescue one man from locked-in syndrome, so he could pursue his lady love. The Printed People technology rapidly finds many other applications, all alarming. But none so much as the birth of a solar system empire and war machine-as much the greatest purveyor of peace and enlightenment ever, as of wanton...
14) Zrada
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Two priceless paintings. Two million euros. A civil war. What could go wrong?
The DeWitt Agency assigned disgraced ex-cop Carson a simple job: carry two briefcases of cash to swap for two artworks stolen from a German museum. Except nothing's simple in the Donbass, the breakaway Ukrainian region overrun by militias, warlords, and bandits.
After a brutal zrada — betrayal — Carson finds herself alone and hunted forty miles behind the front lines...
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Be aware that the first 50,000 words of this novel are also in The Merlin Gambit. This is now the re-edited and revised 2nd edition of my sequel to H. Beam Piper's Cosmic Computer. You do not have to read Cosmic Computer to understand and enjoy this sequel. For those of you who are new to Piper's brand of mid-20th century science fiction, you can read a copy of Cosmic Computer at the end of my story. You can find my other books on my website (dwehrSFwriter...
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Greater Exploits 14 (1-3) is a continuation of Greater Exploits 13 with more details, focusing on MYSTERIOUS SECRETS and Strategies OF THE Dark KINGDOM on Seven (7) Continents with Deployable Countermeasures in the Place of Prayer and Prophetic Actions by Rony Chaves, Dr. C. Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, John D. Robb, Ana Mendez-Ferrell, J.P. TIMMONS and Amb. Monday O. Ogbe, these Servants of the Lord have been used mightily in these times across the...
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After initial revelations of previously suspected but not well-understood circumstances of Julie and Ted's lifelong contactee experiences in The Star Table Trance Missions-they discovered they are Pleiadian/Earthuman hybrids with ET fathers from Planet Erra in the Taygeta (pron. "Tai-jeta") System-they now move beyond the second volume adventures of Star Family Excursions, towards aspects of Earthly humankind's genesis from the region of Andromeda...
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The incredible true story of the trailblazing men who risked everything to pass through the Iron Curtain and become NHL superstars, Breakaway is a thrilling look at the stories that changed hockey forever. From midnight meetings in secluded forests, to evading capture by military and police forces, this is the story of the brave players whose passion of the game trumped all.
Featuring exclusive interviews with the legends of the ice who put everything...
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Nineteen-year-old hockey phenom Alexander Price is the youngest-ever captain in the NHL. With a polarizing social media presence and a predilection for dirty play, he typifies the stereotype of young, out-of-control athlete. But away from the cameras, Alex is a kid with an anxiety disorder and the expectations of an expansion franchise on his shoulders. And maybe he tries too hard to fit the part of asshole playboy, but it's better than the alternative;...
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