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Gina is a mermaid—a siren—on her land cycle and she has found a human mate she loves. In fact, they're engaged, but to overcome a mysterious betrayal she isn't sure she should forgive, she needs some time at sea, ideally above it. So she stows away on a tall ship. Seth is a precocious fifteen-year-old working on a school project, researching Cobalt Girl, a modern sailing vessel.

Southern Shadow: Strange Tales of the Gothic South Some places don’t scare you. They simply stay with you. Southern Shadow is a collection of quiet, unsettling tales set in the Gothic South—stories where nothing dramatic happens, yet something never quite leaves. Houses that feel occupied long after they empty. Roads people still avoid without knowing why. Traditions that disappear without explanation. Silences that organize entire towns. These are not ghost stories in the usual sense. There are no jump scares, no villains, no tidy revelations. Instead, this book moves through the South...

Ramadan is more than abstaining from food and drink. It is a month of law, worship, discipline, and spiritual refinement. In this concise yet profound work, one of the most respected scholars of contemporary Islamic jurisprudence presents a clear, authoritative guide to three pillars of Ramadan worship: fasting, Tarawih prayer, and Zakat. Authored by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymeen (d. 1421 AH), this book distills classical Islamic rulings into a format that is precise, practical, and accessible, without sacrificing scholarly depth. 🔹 What This Book Covers ✔ The obligation, ...

When the Woods family start to renovate their house and knock down a wall, they find it stuffed with bodies. They’ve been living in this house, surrounded by murdered strangers. DCI Jon Pilgrim and his team are brought in to investigate this nightmare and find the killer. The victims were loners, the displaced and forgotten, who were lured to their deaths. Their investigation leads to a girl who's gone missing. Is she bricked up in a wall somewhere?

Prospecting? Presentations? Closing? Enrolling? These are the easy steps. Now the hard work begins. Our new team members know...nothing. They think, “What do I do first? I don’t have a business plan. I only have the skills from my old profession, but not the ones I need for this new network marketing profession. Where do I start?”

Puedes convertir cualquier prospecto, frío o tibio en un prospecto calificado, que quiere saber todo acerca de tu negocio. ¿Cómo? Aprendiendo a introducir tu negocio de manera efectiva dentro de una conversación social, con secuencias de algunas pocas palabras, fácilmente y libre de rechazo.

“This is the time. We won’t stop until we change the whole system of justice.” —Reverend Al Sharpton In the summer of 2020, Reverend Al Sharpton stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, preparing to give the...

Schools and systems face unprecedented challenges, such as falling attendance, recruitment, and retention issues; the validity of external monitoring of schools; and the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). In The Awkward Questions in Education, Al Kingsley tackles the tough, often-avoided...

A few decades from now, life is not all too different. People still lead regular lives, have regular jobs, do regular things. But there are many things that are changing, under the surface. The temperature on Earth has begun to soar, reaching highs that have never been experienced before. Poppy and her family are submerged into a terrifying climate disaster of global proportions, far greater than humans have ever had to endure.

Tying our shoes, brushing our teeth, and driving the same route every day - all are habits. So why can't we create three automatic habits that effortlessly move us to network marketing success? Well, we can. Every new distributor needs habits. Every experienced leader needs habits. When our team has habits that build consistently, we can push our business into momentum.

بهذا النص المشوق والغامض يأخذنا الكاتب علاء الأسواني في روايته نادي السيارات التي تكشف تفاصيلها عن نص مميز وسرد ممتع.

In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a surgical resident working in Baghdad when the military police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the team to mutilate army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed. Munjed's choices were stark - comply and breach the medical oath, refuse and face death or flee. That day, Munjed's life changed forever. He escaped to Indonesia and boarded a boat to Australia.

Medics and carers hold the lives of their patients in the balance. They see us at our most vulnerable, and we trust them utterly. Yet there are those who abuse this trust in the medical profession and take advantage of their position to commit the most hideous crimes.

A best-selling book when it appeared in Arabic, The Others is a literary tour de force, offering a window into one of the most repressive societies in the world. Seba al-Herz tells the story of a nameless teenager at a girls' school in the heavily Shi'ite Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Like her classmates, she has no contact with men outside her family. When the glamorous Dai tries to seduce her, her feelings of guilt are overcome by an overwhelming desire for sexual and emotional intimacy.

Before symptoms appear, before chemistry acts, the body speaks—this book listens. What if the body never forgot how to heal—only how to be heard? Modern medicine measures chemistry and genetics with extraordinary precision. Yet chronic fatigue, pain, inflammation, and dysregulation continue to rise. The Fifth Signal explores what may be missing from the conversation. Beneath molecules and genes lies a quieter organizing force: the body’s bioelectric communication—how cells coordinate energy, timing, repair, and response long before symptoms appear. This book is not anti-medicine. It...

Benefits from the Ten Principles on the Purification of the Soul and Rectification of the Heart. This was a Knowledge Based Seminar held in Fairfax Virginia on 21-23 of Rabi' Al-Awwal 1445 in accordance with oct. 6-8 2023. The original work: "Ten Principles on the Purification of the Soul" is by the Great Scholar Ash-Shaykh AbdurRazzaaq Al-Badr -حفظه الله-. The seminar was based on this work, but summarized with additional benefits suitable for the time allowed. May Allah accept from all those who participated or listen and make the knowledge a light and benefit for us and not a proof ...

Planning a trip to Jordan or looking to connect with Jordanian culture? This audiobook, Jordanian Arabic Made Simple, is your essential guide to mastering everyday conversations with confidence and cultural authenticity. Designed for absolute beginners, this comprehensive Arabic phrasebook breaks down the fundamentals of Jordanian dialect into easy-to-follow lessons, focusing on practical phrases you can immediately use.

Today coanchor Al Roker presents an entertaining guide to achieving a life of happiness and success through the power of "yes!" These days, the road to success can feel jampacked with scheduling, networking, nonstop hustle, and flat-out absurdity. And no one knows that better than Al...

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provided a new perspective on how evolution works, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of life's dynamics.

HansjÖrg Wyss grew up in a working-class family in Switzerland. As a college student in the 1950s, he traveled to the United States for a summer job in Colorado. It was there that he first experienced the majesty of the Grand Canyon and the American West, which forever changed him. As a business leader, Wyss pioneered a medical device company that transformed orthopedic surgery to the benefit of both doctors and patients. It was in business that Wyss developed a groundbreaking approach to problem-solving to create maximum impact.