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Quinn Byrne is rare, even among fire elementals, with her powers hard-wired into her arousal. She can't touch herself without setting the sheets ablaze. With an incendiary sex drive, Quinn's dating life is dryer than the desert that surrounds her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. She'd give anything to have a normal romantic relationship. But she knows one thing for sure: human men are out of the question. No exceptions. Not even if the guy is trying to woo her with delicious ice cream.

The book, Lean Startup: How to Apply the Lean Startup Methodology to Innovate, Accelerate, and Create Successful Businesses, aims to help entrepreneurs build a profitable business. Failure may be inevitable, especially for startup businesses, but truth is, most of these failures could be preventable. This book introduces a new approach with the hopes of changing the way businesses are built and new products and/or services are introduced.

On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive...

In the heart of the South Pacific lies Point Nemo, the most desolate and remote place on Earth. At its core is a dead zone, devoid of life, where government agencies crash their obsolete satellites and space stations, confident they won't harm a soul. When the International Space Station suffers a catastrophic failure and plummets through the atmosphere, it's here that Mission Specialist Julie Rohr, an astrobiologist studying living space dust called xylem, finds herself marooned. Julie's only hope for rescue lies in the hands of her estranged father, Dr. Finn Maddern, a renowned mycologist. 

In a near-future world where emotions are the most valuable currency, Dr. Aris Thorne's groundbreaking algorithm doesn't just read feelings—it predicts future regrets with startling precision. What starts as a revolutionary personal growth tool, 'Regret Mapping', quickly spirals into a nightmare as Aris discovers his own algorithm has been co-opted by sinister forces hell-bent on manipulating human emotions for their gain. Racing against time, he faces a conspiracy that stretches to the heights of power, leading him to question the very nature of free will and the fabric of society itself.

What happens when you take a battered Dacia Duster, one determined couple, and point them toward the edge of the world? A Dirty Duster to Iceland: Circumnavigating Fire and Ice is not your typical guidebook—and not quite a travel diary either. It sits somewhere in between. Part road trip, part reflection, and part survival-by-sandwiches, this is a fourteen-day, 2,300-kilometre journey around Iceland’s Ring Road—across volcanic plains, glacial lagoons, windswept fjords, and vast stretches of beautiful, bewildering nothingness.

Die blutige Reise der drei Freunde nähert sich ihrem tödlichen Ende.

You sit down to work. You know what needs to get done. But instead of starting, you scroll, overthink, reorganize, procrastinate, and wait for motivation to appear. It never does. If you constantly feel stuck before beginning important tasks, this book was written for you. How to Work When You Can’t Start is not another productivity book filled with unrealistic routines, hustle culture, or motivational clichés. It is a practical system designed to help overwhelmed people start working even when they feel tired, anxious, distracted, or mentally frozen.

Reconstruction begins where, for most Americans, the story of the Civil War ends: The North is victorious and slavery is abolished. But what happened next was one of the most important decades in American history, a moment when our country grappled with its original sin and imagined — and briefly enacted — a more perfect union.

Life in Stories is a deeply human collection of fiction, lyrics, and novel excerpts that traces the arc of life—moving through youth and age, humor and tragedy, love and loss. From the beaches of Rio to the soccer fields of New Jersey, from the Roman conquest at Alesia to the American West of the 18th century, these stories explore athletes chasing vanished glory, lovers trying to find their way back to each other, ordinary people facing extraordinary moral choices, and moments of quiet reflection that define who we become.

Vaasa hat Reids Leben gerettet – doch zu einem hohen Preis: Als Gefangene des dunklen Magiers Ozik wurde sie von ihrem Hexenzirkel, ihrer Magie und ihrer großen Liebe Reid getrennt und soll nun als Oziks Marionette auf dem Thron von Asteria sitzen. Während Ozik seine Intrigen spinnt, muss Vaasa mit allen Mitteln kämpfen, um ihre Magie, ihr Herz und ihre Freiheit zurückzugewinnen. Reid setzt derweil Himmel und Hölle in Bewegung, um Vaasa zu retten, und führt Krieg gegen Asteria. Doch als ihm die Verbündeten wegbrechen, muss er sich allein hinter die feindlichen Linien schleichen.

After serving in the Civil War as a Confederate officer and then achieving business success in the North, Colonel Henry French returns to his hometown of Clarendon, North Carolina, and dreams of building a better future. In his absence, Clarendon has endured as a deeply prejudiced place—still permeated by systems of racist oppression even after the Civil War—but Henry believes he has what it takes to make a difference.

My name makes their hearts beat with desire and their skin tickle with sweet fear. They call me The Puppetmaster. And when I’m on the hunt, they come running - willing to serve at my feet, because no one makes my puppets dance like I do. But my heart almost stops when I see her name on the list. Alena Prey, you wreak havoc with a plan I’ve had for years, but it won’t stop me from reaching my goal - a goal that you’re destined to be a part of. But this is not how it was supposed to happen. Not now. Not like this. And yet, it will....

Conventional wisdom suggests there is a sharp distinction between emotion and reason. Emotions are seen as inferior, disruptive, primitive, and even bestial forces. These 24 remarkable lectures suggest otherwise-that emotions have intelligence and provide personal strategies that are vitally important to our everyday lives of perceiving, evaluating, appraising, understanding, and acting in the world.

One Tier-1 Naval Special Warfare Operator, trained at the highest levels of any military, with 20-plus years of operational experience. One ex-cop civilian survivalist, who lived through two years of post-apocalyptic hell, unlike seven billion of her fellow humans. And an entire continent heaving with 400 million dead guys. To save the lives of his children, and rejoin Alpha team and the fight to save humanity, Homer must journey across a thousand miles of undead North America with Sarah Cameron, battling heavily armed bands of marauders who shoot first and ask questions never.

Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery. In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Asmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, 'Powers of Darkness'), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker's preface to the book.

Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over 35 years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book, an intellectual and psychological portrait, confronts candidly the central puzzles of her life.

Love, in all its forms, is both a revelation and a puzzle. It is the one human experience that defies simple definitions yet exists within every language. Across centuries, poets, philosophers, and lovers alike have tried to unwrap its mystery—each discovering that love cannot be defined, only seen and felt deep.

She'll be my captive, my bride, my perfect possession. From the moment I saw her, I knew she'd be mine. She looks so sweet and innocent, just my type. Her father owes Fraternitas a debt, and she's the one who will pay. But when she poisons me, I realize… this won't be so easy.

This audiobook explores whether the Christian God intervenes in warfare and examines reasons for such intervention or its absence. It evaluates Augustinian just war theory, including jus ad bellum (justice of war) and jus in bello (justice in war), and contrasts it with Christian pacifism, highlighting the tension between the two.