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Terrible Lizards is a podcast about Dinosaurs with Dr David Hone and Iszi Lawrence.

You can’t control what players are going to do. That’s half the fun. But you can control where they do it. That’s a whole other half! The Kobold Guide to Dungeons gives both new and experienced Game Masters insight and ideas into making dungeons great. In-depth essays from industry luminaries teach you to think outside your own boxes, and into a larger realm of challenge, discovery, and good old monster bashing.

Dr. Brian Miller, a physicist, is investigating what might be a buried ship along with the military and NASA. During the investigation, he accidentally triggers a time-travel mechanism designed for ultra-long-distance communications. He discovers he's landed in his 18-year-old body, but the original occupant is still present.

This book is intended for the clinical researcher who is interested in designing a clinical trial and developing a protocol. It is also of value to researchers and practitioners who must critically evaluate the literature of published clinical trials and assess the merits of each trial and the implications for the care and treatment of patients. The authors use numerous examples of published clinical trials to illustrate the fundamentals.

Luke Morley is a draper's son struggling to accept his sexuality. He has withdrawn into a world of fantasy, but with the arrival of Mr. Thronton this private world is shattered. Grantham's most eligible bachelor is everything Luke has ever dreamed of. After months of silent admiration, he determines to introduce himself. Reenter Clarence, who arrives to win back his old lover. When Daniel rejects him again, he is not about to take it lying down. A blackmail note appears—a demand that Daniel marry one of Luke's sisters.

From an old family trunk comes a manuscript which never saw the light of day. Its pages tell of the life, times, and blackmail of a young queer aristocrat stepping into 1768 Society. A time of wig powder and heeled slippers. Duels and social climbers, when the most popular member of the government is declared an outlaw. Hugh Entwistle enters this world wealthy, witty, and well-connected. Everything to be a success—everything, except that thing stuck to the bottom of his heeled slipper.

Strong female protagonists grace this collection of passionate stories dedicated to mothers, daughters, wives, and lovers. A woman splurges on an irresistible coat that becomes her; a feisty teenager who has grown up as her activist mother¿s poster-child realizes the strength of her own convictions; and a young peasant woman saved from drowning is suddenly drawn to her rescuer and hopeful about her life.

Are you ready for a spooky story? Grab your torch and join us for a collection of 6 spooky stories that will have your little one believing in ghosts, bats and spooky houses. These stories have been handpicked to entertain your little ones without giving them any nightmares.

Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children's textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy, and relevance to our lives today. Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We've put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations.

Contents: - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer - James Joyce. Araby - Ivan Turgenev. First Love.

En este cautivador relato corto, seguimos a un hombre que, obsesionado con la idea de encontrar la paz lejos del bullicio de la sociedad moderna, se embarca en un viaje hacia una isla remota. El autor, con su característica maestría en la profundidad psicológica, despliega un escenario en el que el protagonista se enfrenta no solo a los retos del entorno natural, sino también a los enigmas de su propia alma. Este relato es una mezcla embriagadora de aventura, introspección y revelaciones dramáticas que cautiva y conmueve, manteniendo al lector en vilo hasta la última página.

David Aguilar was born missing part of one arm, a small detail that seemed to define his life and limit people’s ideas of who he was and who he could be. But in this funny and heartfelt memoir, David proves that he can throw out the rulebook and people’s expectations and maybe even make a difference in the world—and all with a sense of humor.

With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe’s stock exchanges. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. But one person, who works for their bank as a computer expert, spots the worm embedded deep in its network. Cassy Levin invents a program to destroy the cyber-intruder. Angered by Cassy’s discovery, her bosses order her kidnapping.

Sons and Lovers initially incited allegations of obscenity. It is today regarded as a masterpiece and is often regarded as Lawrence's finest achievement.

The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen Venables, Alfred Lansing and others, Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world’s most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions!

MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block presents 23 stories, all of them on the dark side, and all of them set in the city that never sleeps.

A single father, Jason, and his son, Colin, find themselves trapped in a storm/bomb shelter, only to be rescued into a world that is very different from the one they left. As a result of a rapidly moving and very deadly plague during their entombment, they are rescued into a very different world.

J.R. Ferguson is a retired farmer. His acreage has been leased to a young couple he once rescued from the muddy access road that runs through his cornfield. As a result, he examines the road after every heavy rain both for stranded lovers and to examine the road's condition. One day, he finds trash in the form of various kinds of medication bottles strewn on the side of the road. With his boots sinking in the soft mud, he collects the litter and returns with the bottles some of which are labeled "Low Dose Aspirin", something he takes daily since his heart attack.

The story of Ronnie, a young boy who is raised in the wild by a pit bull he calls "Killer". Years after Killer takes Ronnie to his lair, Ronnie has grown, and Killer has grown old. Eventually Ronnie must find his way home after many years of living with Killer in the wild.

Officer Paul Lee has been on the Waverly police force his entire working life. Now, nearing retirement, he finds he’s lived a lonely life filled with regrets. Having seen the worst that humanity has to offer, he lives in fear and distrust, not liking the man he’s become. In the course of a murder investigation, he learns of an experimental drug that reverses aging. The possibility of living a new life, the life he wants, looms in front of him.