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For the last year, my brother and I have been on the run hiding from whoever killed our parents. The details are spotty, but Lucas thinks our father stole money from the mob and the day our parents were killed is the same day they came to collect.

All across the planet, entrepreneurs and innovators are actively working to solve humanity’s toughest problems. If you are an inventor, trailblazer, or game-changer who dreams of making the world a better place through crazy ideas with extraordinary results, this book is for you. Super-Entrepreneurship Decoded will show you how to make that dream a reality, from tackling an insurmountable problem to creating the kind of breakthrough business that can fix it. You will be able to materialize your dreams, build your own future, and achieve anything you want in life.

Brandt Wills tried to prevent a final cataclysmic war between Terra and Luna. He failed, but he was able to escape Singularity’s clutches, fleeing with the genetic experiment known as Psyche in an alien ship. They’re going to Mars - to where everything started - to finish Singularity once and for all. The War Planet is where Singularity uncovered an alien mothership, and the technology they unearthed is at the dark heart of the evil corporation. And, even though the war between Terra and Luna may be over, the fighting’s just begun for dominance in the Solar System.

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It was first published in monthly installments as a serial in 1915 in The Forerunner, a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916, with its sequel, With Her in Ourland beginning immediately thereafter in the January 1916 issue.

Brandt Wills tried to prevent a final cataclysmic war between Terra and Luna. He failed. Now he’s falling back to the totalitarian world of his birth, but he’s not alone. With advanced cybernetics, the AI computer ghost of Sharron, and a partly-tamed alien symbiont, he might even have a chance. All he has to do is land behind enemy lines, fight his way into the fortress-towers of the State of Terra, and find the location of the hidden laboratories of Singularity before the final war wipes all life from two worlds.

Professor Darkk joins the final flight of Apollo 17 as he makes his way to the moon for a mission of his own. Skeptical of this so-called "professor", the astronauts question his presence and try to follow him. But it will become apparent to Eugene Cernan, commander of the Apollo 17 mission, that something else has joined them on the moon.

Orphaned and alone, Aladdin travels from the streets of his Arab homeland to a strange, faraway place. Growing up in an orphanage, he meets young Lady Kirstyn, whose father is the powerful Duke of Hagenheim. Despite the difference in their stations, Aladdin quickly becomes Kirstyn’s favorite companion, and their childhood friendship grows into a bond that time and opposition cannot break.

Desperate to flee a political marriage to her cousin, King Richard II's closest advisor, Lord Shiveley - a man twice her age, with shadowy motives - Evangeline runs away and joins a small band of servants journeying back to Glynval, their home village. Pretending to be mute, she gets to know Westley le Wyse, their handsome young leader, who is intrigued by the beautiful servant girl.

Brooke Stewart, a realtor in New York, is sure of one thing: She should never fully trust someone who has secrets. Especially when said bad boy is the sexiest man walking on Earth. She is running away and has no intention of ever returning to him. But when a friend is killed and the one man she thought she would never meet again is accused of murder, she knows that the story doesn't add up.

Iris Drasa, an aspiring Mage, wishes to train at the Royal Acadamy of the Arcane Arts. Too bad that's controlled by the fearsome Vampire dynasty: The Caeds, and any magic beyond the school's tutelage is Forbidden Magic. So, when her father bets away everything the family owns, a contract is laid before her—all of their debts wiped if Iris only goes to the Academy. What is there to lose?

The final book that ends the saga of an entire empire and the demise of the men and women who made it possible. It's been fun but now it's time to let go.

Jaxsen Wild has landed himself in hot water with the NBA. After letting his temper get the best of him during a game, he’s slapped on the wrist with a warning—get your act together, or your career and the championship with the Miami Blaze is on the line. He wasn’t looking for love, and he certainly never saw Emmy coming when she crashes into him at the airport. Jaxsen is used to women using him for his money and the media dragging his name through the mud. The last thing he needs is another scandal with his name plastered in the headlines.

Mazelina of Wexcombe has always dreamed of traveling with her father to lands beyond the confining walls of their castle. But his sudden death deprives her of the future she imagined. Abandoned by her eldest brother, Mazy is soon forced to seek help from her beloved brother Sir John at the great estate of Strachleigh. Her visit leads to a friendship with the dashing and noble Sir Berenger of Dericott. He has notions of rescuing a damsel in distress. But Mazy is brave enough to defend herself—and has proven that her skills in archery and knife throwing rival that of a knight’s.

In this exciting retelling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood fairytale, Melanie Dickerson sweeps listeners away into a thrilling adventure and a charming romance.

The Marauders of the Inferno have not heard the call to crush spirit and will for 80 millennia. We, the Blisserack, have waited, stoking the heat of our rage until we could once again immolate and break the foul corruption named creation. But our liege has manipulated the weakness and vices of the living world. They have given rise to Crayaht’En, our chosen one, our messiah of annihilation. He has already called a Devourer of the Siege from the bloody seas of the realm of malice and it glutted itself on hundreds of humans.

England, 1388: All her life, Louisa has dreamed of finding the rumored “Giant’s Treasure,” a collection of ancient, lost riches said to be hidden on a mountaintop in Scotland, guarded by a fierce monster. It’s a story her father used to tell her, and when he dies and she and her younger sister have to go live with their shiftless, greedy uncle, Louisa is determined to find that treasure. It’s the hope that has kept her defying her uncle’s efforts to marry her off to the highest bidder.

This practical and entertaining book shows teachers how they can specifically bring more humor into students' lives, both live and in virtual settings because when they are laughing, they are learning. In Jamie Mason Cohen's super, easy-to-listen and entertaining style he applies the stories from his time at Saturday Night Live to his decade-long award-winning teaching career. It is a book that inspires yet is grounded in actionable strategies.

Honey McCarthy is a dancer with a penchant for bad boys. When her summer job teaching ballroom classes at a family resort in the Catskills turns into a matchmaking gig for smoking hot fugitive aliens she's not sure who she can trust - the friends who have had her back all summer, or the handsome stranger who visits her dreams.

Amid all the printer's ink and historical speculation, the antebellum period (approx. 1820-1860) has largely been ignored until recently. The antebellum period often gets lost between the better-documented Federalist and Victorian eras.

Since 1959, Chicago's The Second City improvisational comedy troupe has played a critical role in developing some of the most successful comedians in the United States and Canada. Comedians such as Alan Arkin, Joan Rivers, James Belushi, Bill Murray, Mike Myers, and Richard Kind, to name a few, have all performed with The Second City.