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Are My Kids on Track? helps you identify and measure twelve key emotional, social, and spiritual milestones in your children's lives. Moreover, you will discover practical ways to guide your kids through any stumbling blocks they might encounter and help them reach the appropriate landmarks. Along the way the authors pinpoint the different ways boys and girls develop, so you can help your child flourish in his or her own way.

Codename Kathmandu, better known as Kat, loves logic and order, has a favorite eight-digit number, and can spot a pattern from a mile away. So when a series of cyberattacks hits key locations in London while the spies are testing security for the British Museum, it’s clear that Kat’s skill for finding reason in what seems like randomness makes her the perfect candidate to lead the job. And while the team follows the deciphered messages to Egypt and the ancient City of the Dead to discover who is behind the attacks and why, Kat realizes that there’s another layer to the mystery.

The continuing adventures of Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot, characters first introduced on television in Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977), who have become Infernal Investigators, solving mysteries involving paranormal or alien phenomena in 1880s London.

Stephen Satlow is an eight-year-old boy living in Brooklyn, New York, which means he only cares about one thing - the Dodgers. Steve and his father spend hours reading the sports pages and listening to games on the radio. Aside from an occasional run-in with his teacher, life is pretty simple for Steve. But then Steve hears a rumor that an African-American family is moving to his all-Jewish neighborhood. It's 1948 and some of his neighbors are against it. Steve knows this is wrong. His hero, Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier in baseball the year before.

After a betrayal at work costs Song Kuan her job, she retreats to her friend Lucy’s idyllic family cabin on a lake in Minnesota to lick her wounds. She devotes herself to recording Ice Cold Cases, a true-crime podcast that she and Lucy cohost with the gleeful energy of obsessed fans—until an anonymous tip about a missing-person case disrupts their equilibrium. Then Lucy disappears, leaving Song alone in an unfriendly and unfamiliar town where locals don’t take kindly to strangers asking questions.

On January 6, 2021, insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol, an act of domestic terror without parallel in American history, designed to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. In a resolution six months later, the House of Representatives called it "one of the darkest days of our democracy," and established a special committee to investigate how and why the attack happened. Celadon Books, in collaboration with The New Yorker, presents the committee's final report, the definitive account of January 6th and what led up to it.

Felicia Caldwell has a great job, a healthy bank account, and stunning good looks. But she longs for a husband and family to go along with them. So when charismatic superstar pastor Nya Hempstead declares that partnership is on its way, Felicia is elated - until her life becomes filled with more curses than blessings. Five years later, someone has to pay - and that someone is Nya. Soon Felicia moves to Dallas and joins the church led by Nya and her copastor husband, Gregory.

As the privileged and pampered heir of the McMillian empire, Sage McMillian always had what her heart desired. One night of spontaneous fun lands her inside of Official Ink, a tattoo parlor owned by the sexy, savage, and former street king, Dom "Ink" Richardson. The moment she sees him, it's love at first sight. Yet, it's Ink's indifference to her beauty and charm that grabs Sage's attention. He's numb to her advances and uninterested in small talk. She later finds out he's a married man, which should be the ultimate deterrent, but Sage welcomes the challenge he poses.

Provocative and controversial, socially conscious and politically charged, wildly imaginative yet deeply grounded, the thirty-two never-before-published stories, essays, and poems in The Last Dangerous Visions stand as a testament to Ellison’s lifelong pursuit of art, uniting a diverse range of science fiction writers both famous and newly minted, including Max Brooks, Edward Bryant, Cecil Castellucci, James S. A. Corey, Howard Fast, Patricia Hodgell, Dan Simmons, Robert Sheckley, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mildred Downey Broxon, and Cory Doctorow, among others.

Detective Jemima Huxley gets a frantic call from a man. His wife is missing. She went for drinks with a friend and neither of them made it home. The husband tells her, “You don't know me, but you know my wife, Violet Watkins.” It's a name Jemima had done her best to forget.

Sein Leben ist die Bühne, seine Sehnsucht das Rampenlicht, doch sein Herz ist kalt – bis sein Blick auf Eliza fällt... Stell dir vor, du bist ohne Hoffnung aufgewachsen. Ohne Eltern. Ohne Freunde. Stell dir vor, du bist am Tiefpunkt angelangt, und jemand bietet dir eine zweite Chance. Du ergreifst diese Chance und kommst nach Seattle, in die Stadt des endlosen Regens. Du trittst in einer Bar auf. Weil du nichts anderes hast als die Musik. Und dann, als alles zu eskalieren droht, da taucht sie auf. Wenn da nur ein Herz wäre, das du verschenken könntest.

Was tust du, wenn du nach einer durchzechten Nacht neben einem One-Night-Stand aufwachst und panisch feststellst, dass du ausgerechnet an deinem ersten Arbeitstag zu spät kommst? Als wäre das noch nicht genug, übersieht ein Kerl die rote Ampel und fährt dir direkt ins Auto. Mit Müh und Not schaffst du es noch ins Büro, und vor dir stehen deine neuen Chefs, die dir sehr bekannt vorkommen: rechts Mr Autounfall, der Rot von Grün nicht unterscheiden kann, und links Mr One-Night-Stand, dessen Name dir einfach nicht einfallen will ... MANCHMAL HAT MAN EBEN DIE QUAL DER WAHL!

Eine romantische Kurzgeschichte von der Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin der "Romantic Escapes"-Reihe. Kurz vor Weihnachten reist die Londoner PR-Expertin Alice nach Prag, um endlich Marek zu treffen. Seit Monaten arbeiten die beiden an einem gemeinsamen Projekt, und nun wollen sie sich endlich persönlich kennenlernen. Alice ist sehr aufgeregt, denn es knistert bereits zwischen ihnen.

Ausgerechnet mit deinem Feind passiert dir ein Missgeschick! Ein nervenaufreibender Vorfall zwingt Maria zu einer Auszeit, deswegen bucht sie sich eine Hütte mitten im Nirgendwo. Als sie dort ankommt, erwartet sie der nächste Schock: Es gab versehentlich eine Doppelbuchung, und so ist noch jemand angereist, um in der Hütte zu übernachten. Aber nicht irgendjemand, sondern ausgerechnet Mr. Daniel Black, der Unternehmer, der Maria urlaubsreif gemacht hat und gegen den sie gerade eine Klage vorbereiten lässt!

Sex Addiction: A Guide for Couples and Those Who Help Them is a practical book that provides empathic support, guidance, information and pragmatic strategies for couples who want to survive sex and porn addiction—whether that’s together, or apart. Sex and porn addiction devastates couple relationships, and unlike the impact of infidelity, there is no "before" to get back to and no "after".

The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for Black motorists.

We've all heard the mind-boggling statistics about technology and social media use. The numbers don't lie; our obsession with smartphones and social media is slowly eroding the very essence of our homes and families. We see it. We feel it. We know it. So what do we do about it? Spoiler alert: Forget parental control apps, time limits, or reward charts. This revolutionary path takes us into the heart of the beast itself: the social media algorithm.

Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father's inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty - until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. When an ill-advised boast draws the attention of the king of the Staryk - grim fey creatures who seem more ice than flesh - Miryem's fate, and that of two kingdoms, will be forever altered.

The love/hate relationship between Diane and Kendra Williams takes mother-daughter drama to entirely different level. Diane is a single mother who prides herself on being a master manipulator. She has no problem using anything or anyone to get what she wants. Whether it’s treating her sister, Celia, as her personal ATM or seducing unlikely, unsuspecting men, she will do whatever it takes to get ahead.

What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen—of Out of Africa fame—lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades.