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Rowan Sterling should be worrying about normal teenage things like attending college and whether her best friend Lucas is maybe more than a friend. . . . Instead, she's having terrifying visions of blood and violence. As the premonitions increase in number and intensity, Rowan seeks her father's help, but instead finds herself drugged, kidnapped, and sent to a mysterious facility called Rosewood. It isn't long before Rowan discovers Rosewood isn't...
22) Corner
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Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"In this (almost wordless) picture book, the sole character, a crow, finds themselves in a new and completely empty space. With nothing to do, boredom sets in, and the crow decides to take matters into their own hands. The crow starts to decorate, adding a bed, a bookshelf, a lamp, and even a potted plant. Everything is placed neatly in the corner of the room, and slowly the corner begins to reflect the life and personality of its occupant. These...
23) The dark fable
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Dark fable volume 1
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Bloomsbury YA
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Eighteen-year-old orphan Evie Wilder catches the attention of the Dark Fable, a legendary group of thieves impressed by her unique ability to turn invisible, which leads her into a newfound family, but as she delves deeper she uncovers dark secrets that may hold the key to her own mysterious past
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Faire un tri dans l'héritage familial ».... Pourquoi ? Dominique LAMARI ne nous invite pas ici à un inventaire notarié mais à une exploration du moi intime, en tant que psychologue, effectué lors d'une expérience collective dans un cadre invitant, sinon au farniente, du moins à une détente nécessitée par l'expérience.
Pour nous, lecteurs non spécialistes, un tel ouvrage ne sera-t-il pas obscur, voire abscons ? Eh bien non! Dans un style...
25) Stormy Roads
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Stormy Roads is a book about a girl who finds herself on many different roads and has to choose the right one. It is a compilation of many different ideas, thoughts, and journeys written in short form. Not some long story.
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«Le problème avec la course de rats est que, même si vous gagnez, vous êtes toujours un rat » ~ Lily Tomlin ~ Il fut un temps, dans un passé pas si lointain, o les familles devaient tout abandonner pour atteindre la sécurité financière dont elles rêvaient. Vous vous souvenez peut-être de ces décennies, peut-être êtes-vous trop jeune pour vous souvenir de ces temps. C'était l'époque o gravir les échelons de l'entreprise était une...
27) Contrarian
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The grand illusion volume 3
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Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"In Contrarian, protests against unemployment and poor harvests have become armed riots as the people sink deeper into poverty. They look to a government struggling to emerge from corruption and conspiracy. Recently elected to the Council of Sixty-Six, Steffan Dekkard is the first Councilor who is an Isolate, a man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and emotional surveillance of empaths--but not the recent bombing of the Council Office Building...
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2024
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"Getting an MBA takes time and money, making it inaccessible to many people who want to take charge in the business world. Now "The 12-Week MBA" offers an alternative way to learn business essentials, focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as a manager and business leader. "The 12-Week MBA"'s unique premise is that there is a core set of business skills that entrepreneurs and future leaders of organizations can learn and will need...
29) Midnight showing
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Malice compendium volume 2
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Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"Book 2 in The Malice Compendium series by New York Times bestselling author Megan Shepherd, featuring dark magic and family secrets with a contemporary horror tone"--
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Eighteen-year-old Jerusalem, a fearless Saint with demigod powers, joins the Union Army seeking revenge against the vampire who enslaved her family, but in order to find success, she finds herself reluctantly teaming up with Alexei, a handsome Union vampire she can't help but fall for
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Stupendous Switcheroo volume 1
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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What would happen if you woke up every single day with a different, surprise SUPERPOWER?! Find out in this zany, hilarious illustrated novel from Mary Winn Heider and Chad Sell. The morning of his mom's business trip, Switcheroo wakes up to discover he has telekinesis. Which is super convenient when he has to give his babysitter-robot the slip to fight crime all day. But it's less convenient when he's recruited to fight crime again the next day, only...
32) Curious tides
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Drowned gods duology volume 1
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Teen mage Emory must unravel the truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates' deaths
Emory might be a student at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, but her healing abilities have always been mediocre at best--until a treacherous night in the Dovermere sea caves leaves a group of her classmates dead and her as the only survivor. Now Emory is plagued by strange, impossible powers that no healer should...
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"The Art of Creative Thinking: Unleash Your Imagination and Make Your Mark" Are you tired of facing challenges that seem insurmountable? Do you yearn to stand out in a world saturated with information? The answer lies within the pages of "The Art of Creative Thinking." This transformative guide is your key to unlocking the hidden potential of your mind, enabling you to generate extraordinary ideas on demand, conquer difficult tasks with grace, and...
35) Mind Over Matter
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In today's fast-paced world, stress and anxiety can take a toll on our mental and physical health. But what if you could take control of your thoughts and harness their power to create a happier and more fulfilling life? That's precisely what 'Mind Over Matter by Derek Goneke teaches you to do. This book offers a practical, step-by-step guide to transforming your life using your thoughts' power. With easy-to-follow techniques and tools, you can identify...
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In this book, the author tries to make it as much as possible easy for readers, who need help, to help themselves. The author focuses on the attempt to accomplish life's goals starting from stillness. He explains how anyone can move and make a change in his own life apart from a difficult past. The book encourages the readers to start their way in life in finding what is in themselves for a better life. It contains an introduction and five chapters...
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Hello everyone, this book is going to be teaching you a few tips on how to increase your concentration levels through proven methods. I personally use all of them and seeing how the lockdown is affecting all of us around the world, I thought of releasing this book to help counter the negative effects low concentration can have on our personal as well as work life.
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This book is the Concise Guide to Boosting Creativity: A step-by-step guide for levelling up your creativity. The ability to think creatively is one of the things that truly distinguishes humans from other species. What are your long-term and short-term ambitions, as well as your work and hobbies? Do you know what part creation plays in this? In the creative process, do you know that there are two distinct types of imagination? How difficult... or...
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Creativity begins with you.
Through a series of 20 practical and effective exercises, all using a unique visual approach, Michael Atavar challenges you to open your mind, shift your perspective and ignite your creativity. Whatever your passion, craft or aims, this book will expertly guide you from bright idea, through the tricky stages of development, to making your concepts a reality.
We often treat creativity as if it was something separate from...
40) Zhara
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Guardians of Dawn volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Forbidden from practicing magic and burdened by her responsibilities, Jin Zhara's life takes an unexpected turn when she becomes involved with the Guardians of Dawn, a group dedicated to fighting a demonic plague that is corrupting magicians
Magic is forbidden throughout the Morning Realms. Magicians are called abomination, and blamed for the plague of monsters that razed the land twenty years before. Jin Zhara already had enough to worry about--appease...
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