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Gabriela never imagined her promises to a dying Adriana would entangle her with the state security service. But working at CubaTur she knew the ordinary could mask the extraordinary and the ordinary could go awry. She would soon learn more-after meeting Tomas, who thought his mother Adriana had died years earlier. The two become entangled with Tomas's two uncles, elite party members whose hatred for one another soon 'baptizes' Gabi and Tomas in their effort to keep alive.Neither had heard of Advent houses. However, they learn a Bavarian Advent house holds secrets to a Bible network's survival. Along the way other secrets surface, not least that Tomas's true father is alive and to be put on trial by state security. Whether Tomas and Gabi can 'satisfy' or escape state security becomes their life-or-death Advent question.

The phoenix is a mythical creature, as are werewolves, vampires and witches. Or are they real?It's not difficult to imagine these are real creatures, living amongst us on Earth.What happens when a phoenix, believed to be the only one in existence, has to return to Earth to carry out an ancient promise for a witch? Can she get close to and work for an extremely powerful werewolf, a lycanthrope? How will he react when he meets her for the first time? What if they are meant to be together? Will they become the world's most powerful couple?How will other so-called mythical creatures react to the presence on Earth of an extremely powerful phoenix?Carnage ensues as the different creatures fight for supremacy. Who and what will survive?

Aubrey gives an intimate look at the world of Division I athletics and a woman's experience with trauma and mental health issues at the Division I level. Mariel Gates renders this harrowing and trying world in an honest and beautifully tragic narrative. The main protagonist, Aubrey, is a runner at an elite university. She is trying to maintain her place on the team, the right body shape for a distance runner, and at the same time she has to fight the system that lets her down. One night she encounters tragedy at the hands of a fellow student athlete, and instead of finding justice, Aubrey finds that she is alone in her struggle. Aubrey brings the reader inside the competitive and often damaging world of elite athletics. Aubrey's strength and resilience is a story that needs to be heard and needs to help change the culture of Division I sports for women.

The Williams family's attempt to relocate from Oklahoma to Colorado, leaves fourteen-year-old TYLER, six-year-old MICHAEL, and three-year-old GABBY homeless.The first night finds the family in Bum Park, a homeless community, under the control of the self-appointed, so-called Mayor of the Park. When Anna goes into labor, the father must decide whether to leave Tyler, Michael, and Gabby with the authorities at CPS or with the Mayor. His decision to leave the kids in Bum Park with ALEX, a street-savvy seven-teen-year-old, results in the fight of a lifetime for Tyler.He has one purpose and that's to keep his brother and sister safe and together at any cost while encountering druggies, drunks, CPS, and the insane life on the street. As the kids struggle to live, they learn just how much they love each other and how strong their bond is.

Poetry across the ages often emerges out of a deep and abiding attempt to communicate about the ways in which the timeless and eternal have chosen to call on our most personal and intimate inner revelations. It is in this spirit that j. l. lyons' The Rapture of a Winter Harvest is written. This collection of thirty-seven poems guides us along a veritable odyssey of sacred unfoldment, at times given form and expression through the author's ecstatic, adoring relationship with a powerful sacred (m)other/divine lover figure. Inspired and composed while traveling and living in Nepal, Colombia, California and Europe, these are poems that capture the universal impulses of love, hope, joy, desire, despair and redemption. They comprise a transformative tempest of human sentiments to which we all owe higher passage. Take your sweet time with these poems. Romance them. Let them touch your silence. Allow their seed to take root in the rapture fields of your heart.

David Walker disappeared in the summer of 1969 and was assumed dead.Imagine going to work one day, then waking up in 2019 without knowledge he had gone to sleep for fifty years in suspended animation.Would he be able to live successfully in the life he now faced, being the world's first cryonaut , and with a son who he last saw as a three-year-old, who was now an older man?It was difficult trying to cope with the latest technology, and he was sad that he had missed the birthdays, anniversaries, and deaths of those he loved - in particular his wife, Blossom.David continued to work with the Suspended Animation Program, with little knowledge that his pioneering work would be used to save his son from a cruel, debilitating disease. But, a sinister plan was afoot when his son was captured, facing certain death.

In the year 2060, a select few are chosen to live on Mars before life on Earth is annihilated from natural disasters.However, they are met with worse predicaments there: a cloning project gone wrong has created mindless killers and a Martian spirit watches them.It's up to Kari and her crew to survive Mars and prevent humanity from becoming extinct.But amid the battle for survival on the red planet, science and spirituality must find common ground before it's too late.

Secret rooms, hidden treasure...In the early nineteenth century, New Zealand was established as the most remote colony of the British Empire. Land was bought and sometimes stolen from resident Maori tribes to establish settlements. Wellington, later to become the capital city, was first settled by Europeans in 1840. During the remainder of the nineteenth century, the city grew rapidly onto the surrounding hills.Today, the inner suburbs still contain many wooden villas and cottages built during that Victorian era. Many of the builders and early owners are unknown and later owners doing repairs and renovations sometimes discover secrets from the past hidden within their homes.This story describes three generations of a Wellington family and the effect on their lives from some very surprising discoveries.

When the Chinese Air Force attempts to shoot down a heavily modified American B-52 surveillance aircraft over the South China Sea, the US military, and specifically the newly created Space Ops, begin developing the next space-based defense technology to thwart the threat of further attack.Particle accelerator technology becomes space-based, successfully disrupting the trajectories of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) tested from hardened silos in Alaska toward two major US cities, simulating a nuclear first strike from a foreign power.The Newton Project harnesses elusive creation particles, the dark matter energy powering our expanding universe.However, before the next test happens, the project unwittingly targets a commercial airliner with unimaginable results. Can Space Ops save the plane?

A sadistic and surgically precise serial killer is wreaking havoc on the streets of Philadelphia. After six murders lead detective, John Harley, is struggling to crack the case and bring the killer, nicknamed the ''Butcher'', to justice. As the body parts pile up, and the messages left at the crime scenes by the killer get more personal, Harley is stretched to breaking point. Rookie reporter, Ellen Turner, begins investigating the crime and inadvertently becomes the Butcher''s next target. She and Harley must work together in order to trap the murderer and put a stop to the bloodshed. Will they be able to overcome past traumas, personal prejudices, and their own complicated relationship before it''s too late?

In swimming terminology, a ready room is a small preparation area where swimmers gather just before competing in a race. Olympians have been known to call the ready room a psychological torture chamber. It is sometimes silent, sometimes hostile, yet always a place of personal growth. Time in a ready room can be used to gather your thoughts, center your purpose, and balance your being, while also confronting stress, nervousness, and fear.Ready Room tells a story through poetry that spans two decades, capturing joys such as raising children, being in love and enjoying nature's beauty, as well as diving into hardships such as mental illness, abuse, divorce, cancer and infertility. The collection is raw and emotional, taking the reader through the seasons of life, while offering others who share similar struggles a hand to hold. Ready Room bridges a gap between Eastern and Western thought and shares a healing path for those in need.

The girl was not born with a dark heart, although darkness may have been her destiny. Mistreated and labelled a changeling, she finds her own path, but her journey is paved with fate and revenge to corrupt her heart and challenge her morality. Burdened with regret, she navigates through hapless encounters that lead her to the bitter truths of identity, redemption, and the ultimate confrontation with a fated adversary.Like dodging an arrow only to impale yourself on your opponent's blade, destiny will find a way.