Hard Child

What happens when a family constellation changes? In this story, the elder fairies Bridget and Fiona decide it is best they live in different trees. Small fairies Dubheasa and Fiadh feel like their whole world is changing for the worse. Through love, honesty and careful respect of everyone's feelings, they earn how life can be like a river. It goes through rocky phases but always moves forward to better places.

Believing in miracles can be hard work. Twelve-year-old Amelia Forrest has a lot to pray for: improving her bad grades, fixing her strained relationship with her mama, and most importantly, dealing with her guilt over the role she played in her daddy's death.

A general in the United States Army by the name of William Thornson once said, "There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion." I've come to believe the general was wrong. I say that because no enemy in his right mind would remain the enemy of a Marine...if...he truly understood the Marines. Of course, the universe is filled with crazy people and in my occupation I got to meet more than my fair share of them.

It’s been years since Burke has been home, years since he’s seen his “family” and worked in the underbelly of New York City. Although his appearance has changed, his reputation grown dusty, and his wallet thin, his skills and his crew remain razor sharp. So when he is contacted by a mob boss to investigate the murder of his illegitimate daughter, Vonni, Burke takes the job and begins searching for an unspeakably vicious killer.

Master criminal Christmas "Crazy-Eyes" Parker is trying to plan an impossible heist of a mysterious package she was contracted to steal, while also trying to track down and kill her government contact Horace Murchison, who double-crossed her and her men. Meanwhile, Detective Ben Weizmann attempts to track down Parker as part of a wider case against her boss, ruthless industrial magnate Atusa Navarro, whom Weizmann-correctly-suspects of being the lynchpin of a conspiracy between the government and organized crime.

Esme tells us about the night she and her mother became "egg vigilantes" against an illegally parked car; her freewheeling first school, where kids sat on sofas instead of at desks and could choose disco dancing instead of math; her dangerous neighborhood, which her father made seem friendly and wondrous; the Passover dinner when she stole a matzoh right out from under a rabbi; the awe-inspiring, life-threatening Chicago snowstorms; and lessons about love from tea-reading gypsies and Popeye cartoons.

Here's another fabulous book from number-one New York Times best-seller Jamie Lee Curtis. This time she tackles self-control and manages to make it fun.

This fast paced yet philosophically intriguing sci-fi audiobook reveals what genetic engineering has not figured out yet: How to turn a child into a genius! In 2025, the whole scientific world is chasing that elusive goal. The US, China and Peru are leading the way. Ace Peruvian scientist, Dr. Indira Rico, is a lifelong member of the EYPC cult "Engineer Your Perfect Child" (where children get trained from infancy for a specific career). She has nearly perfected a nanobot system to 'copy' genius neural networks from one person's brain into another.

Una apasionante selección del experto en literatura de ciencia ficción Mariano Villareal en torno al aniversario de la llegada del ser humano a la luna el 20 de julio de 1969. En estos relatos cortos se mezcla la solemnidad del paso más importante de la humanidad con la trascendencia, la imaginación, el análisis social y hasta el humor. Una antología tan emocionante como caminar sobre la luna por primera vez...

You’ve tried to eat healthy many times. You’ve probably found by now it is not the easiest thing to do. It can be challenging to get all the right nutrients to achieve good health. There is so much junk food around you all the time and the world doesn’t make it very easy on you. People your around always seem to influence your eating habits. The problem with this is most people don’t eat healthy foods. You're busy, it's expensive and time-consuming. Sound familiar? If it does, then the information inside this book will give you the answers you are looking for.

Hard work makes the world go round. Hard work produces life's great rewards. Hard work makes us happy. So now let us use our freedom of speech to honor hard work.

By any reasonable definition, this was a bad day. My parents and sister were on Mars when the planet died. I watched it happen and could do nothing. That type of thing changes a man.

"Ninety days has September, April, June, and November..." is an antiquated rhyme because for an unknown reason, the Earth is spinning faster and faster, and a day is far, far fewer than 24 hours and getting shorter. It's cataclysmic, but most importantly...humanity is persevering.

A civilization experiencing global cooling that will herald in a new ice, age follows in the path of denial that plagued a long extinct civilization.

Hello! Allow me to introduce myself... I'm Brian Brain. Welcome to volume four of my Great British Quiz: The Really Hard One! As with all Brian's quizzes, the Great British Quiz contains his unique formula: The questions always come in pairs--one for the Budding Brains (youngsters) and one for the Boffs (adults). It's this stroke of genius that allows the whole family to join in the fun! How well do you know the British Isles?

Jackson Bolger is a new kindergartner at Summit Park Elementary School. Having high-functioning autism is not easy for him. He is a germ freak, and he is sensitive to many other things. This short-chapter audiobook will get you through the life of a K-5 grade kid who has autism. This audiobook is based on the author, Zachary Weber. Some events in this audiobook are fictional.

Everything in New Braintree was efficient, comfortable, and convenient, but tightly controlled by PACE, a technology provider with dark ambitions of global dominance. And their proposed justice robot, MAX, is more of a politician than a judge, and lacks even simulated ethics. Railas, now fully operational, is the only alternative. He cannot be intimidated or bribed, and he was created to work against tyranny. His team has high hopes to restore justice and defeat PACE. But while Railas and his team investigate MAX and his motives, he finds something worse.

The remnants of human civilization create their own utopia on an alien planet. A brilliant robotic scientist breaks the rules in an attempt to make his impaired son whole. Meshing android and human minds is considered impossible, a societal taboo, and illegal. Can the sorrow of a father, the challenge of a feat never accomplished, and the promise of normalcy for a son who has never known it motivate a man beyond his ethical boundaries? What happens when it all goes wrong?

The remnants of humanity and newly awakened sentient androids of Novae Terrae have come to an uneasy truce. Robotics scientist Harley Harris has sorted out his relationship issues, leaving behind an angry former partner. Will the peace hold after the androids come to the artificial-intelligence-driven conclusion that humans are inferior and unnecessary?

Nate and his video gamer friends are given the chance of a lifetime, a six-month tour aboard the Alliance’s newest battleship, ANS Dreadnought. Two years at the Academy has tested Nate’s flying, combat, and technical skills to the limit. But nothing will come close to his greatest test. Captain Gaunt, one of the Alliance’s most decorated officers plans to use Dreadnought to start a war, one that will engulf the region and cost many lives.