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Demigod. Dragon Rider. Kick-Ass Warrior. 15-year-old Zoey knows a bad hand when it’s dealt and survival is slim. With only two days until her boyfriend dies from a wound inflicted by Loki, The God of Trickery, her only option is to betray her father Thor’s trust and commit treason against Asgard. Stealing Mjolnir, she leaves the land open to attack from giants and dark elves. With hammer in hand and honed martial arts skills, she lays her life on the line to fight a fierce and brutal dragon guarding the only magical artifact powerful enough to heal the boy she loves. Defenders of Asgard...

"Shadows of the Covenant" is a gripping supernatural thriller that follows Levi Cohen, an eighteen-year-old outsider in the small town of Goldenville. When Levi uncovers dark secrets about his family's past, he finds himself at the center of an ancient magical covenant with sinister intentions. Guided by the mysterious Kabul, Levi must confront the truth about his heritage and make a choice that will determine not only his future but the fate of powers beyond his understanding. As he grapples with newfound abilities and faces otherworldly threats, Levi is forced to question everything he ...

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash.

This novella sized book details the amazing things that happened to a physician camping alone at the North End of Pitt Lake. Was he abducted by aliens, or did something unexplainable happen to him?

In 1966 Canada had an incident like Roswell New Mexico yet very few had ever heard about this. The author talks to those who were there to piece together what really happened. Hear in their own words what they saw, what they learned, and what really happened.

The HAARP project is a secret hidden in plain sight. Officially it is not a secret at all. But does that mean the uses of it are legitimate? This is the account of when science goes wrong, very wrong. Cleaning up the mess is a priority all the while hiding the more nefarious uses of the machinery.

Part Zombie. Part Dragon. Kick-Ass Demigod. Fifteen-year-old Dash knows a bad hand when it’s dealt and survival is slim. He can spark Ragnarok as Loki’s second-in-command, or betray his family to prevent it. Either way, he's in mortal danger. As he leads a team of demigods deeper into Helheim to locate the soul of a powerful necromancer, Dash can’t help thinking he’s made the wrong decision. Despite his dark magic and other life-draining skills, Death will likely reap their souls and resurrect them as zombies in Ginnungagap. Defenders of Asgard: Shadow Walker is the first book in a ...

"... mein Mythos (radikalisiert) im Grunde nur die Idee des Zimzum, diesen kosmogonischen Zentralbegriff, der Lurianischen Kabbala. Zimzum bedeutet Kontraktion, Rückzug, Selbsteinschränkung. Um Raum zu machen für die Welt, mußte der En-Ssof des Anfangs, der Unendliche, sich in sich selbst zusammenziehen und so außer sich die Leere, das Nichts entstehen lassen, in dem und aus dem er die Welt schaffen konnte. (…) Nachdem er sich ganz in die werdende Welt hineingab, hat Gott nichts mehr zu geben: jetzt ist es am Menschen, ihm zu geben.

"Wir sind Erben in dem, was wir sind, und im Entdecken des Vergangenen entdeckt sich verborgenes unser selbst. Und dabei geht es nun mal subjektivierend zu, das Persönliche mischt sich ein und damit die Zeitgebundenheit, die eigene Geschichtlichkeit des deutenden Subjekts. Das heißt auch, daß seine Sicht niemals das letzte Wort haben kann, wie sie ja auch in der Regel nicht das erste war." (Hans Jonas)"Es mag paradox erscheinen, daß der Philosoph der Möglichkeit des Glaubens mehr zugestanden hat als der vom Ansehen der Wissenschaft überwältigte Theologe.

Contrary to what schools taught, it was the Spanish who first arrived at Canada's West Coast. They found gold near present day Hedley and made off to the coast. The gold was buried present day University of British Columbia, where it has yet to be found. This is the story of how it got there, and the attempts to locate it over the years.

Allan Karlsson hat keine Lust auf seine Geburtstagsfeier im Altenheim. Obwohl der Bürgermeister und die Presse auf den 100jährigen Jubilar warten, steigt Allan kurzerhand aus dem Fenster und verduftet. Bald schon sucht ganz Schweden nach dem kauzigen Alten, doch der ist es gewohnt, das Weltgeschehen durcheinander zu bringen und sich immer wieder aus dem Staub zu machen.

To some, having the attention of four princes might be a dream come true, but for Corina, it means four times the trouble. Escaping burning buildings, living off scraps, being hunted by vamps - those are storms she knows how to weather. It's having the entire world observe as she and the Dynasty's golden boys engage in a blood bond that has her shaken. For all she knows, it won't even produce a cure for the mysterious blood sickness like they're hoping, which could mean she'll be put to death anyway.

In this no-nonsense guide for men, psychologist Jonas Horwitz presents straightforward, jargon-free strategies to help you identify and overcome depression, once and for all. With this unique guide, you'll learn why it's so important to take your severe depression seriously - just as you would if you had cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or any other life-threatening illness. In addition, by viewing your depression into a separate entity - The Beast - you'll discover how it tries to trick you when you are most stressed to do things that leave you feeling much more depressed.

Steve Jobs tried to stop this moment from ever happening. Google and Microsoft made bids to preempt it. The music industry blocked it time and again. Yet, on a summer's eve in 2011, the whiz-kid CEO of a Swedish start-up celebrated his company's US launch. In the midst of the Apple-Android tech war and a music-label crusade against piracy and illegal downloading, Spotify redrew the battle lines, sent shock waves through Silicon Valley, and got the hardline executives at Universal, Sony, and Warner to sign with its "free-mium" platform.

Based on research in five languages and in archives across the globe, Habsburgs on the Rio Grande fundamentally revises narratives of global history. Far more than a footnote, the Second Mexican Empire was at the center of world-historic great-power struggles—a point of inflection in a contest for supremacy that set the terms of twentieth-century rivalry.

In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at 10, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just 15, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her possession. Then things take a turn for the worse....

The first three books in the Jonathan Shade series. Includes Modern Sorcery: Death by dark magic. As soon as I get over my ex, her father hacks her mother apart with a sword. She hires me to prove dark magic was involved. Hey, it's what I do as a paranormal investigator, so I get why she thinks I can help. But my secretary, Esther, a ghost from the 1920s flapper era, and Kelly Chan, my magically engineered protector, are dead-set against me getting involved. With all the deadly magic flying around, they may have a point.

The beloved author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominates our time and holds lessons about what’s truly important in life.

Everyone knows not to cross the campus d-bags. On or off the ice. You don’t sneak into their house, thinking no one’s watching. You don’t ransack their bedrooms, tripping over hockey gear as you rummage through their things. And you definitely don’t get caught with your head under one’s bed and your size-16 backside pointed right at their camera.

West Golden - football star. Playboy. Dead to me. Nothing puts the final bullet in a girl’s rep like a leaked sex tape. Especially one starring her and the cocky quarterback who’s had it out for her since day one. Yep, you guessed it. That girl is me. At Cypress Prep, West is king, but all I see when I look at him is the wicked prick who gets off on trying to break me.