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Romance can be a little complicated when you get sucked into a wormhole. Just ask high school English teacher June Flint. One little solar flare happens and suddenly you find yourself 85 years in the future. Eighty-five years from your dream job. Your ailing mother whose only companion in this world is you. Your favorite stuffed-crust pizza from DeLucia’s on Sunday nights. But when June’s cell phone inexplicably picks up a signal, she’s able to call back to the present—more specifically, four weeks before she accidentally time traveled.

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.

If I Had Your Face is a riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, South Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania. Together, their stories tell a gripping tale at once unfamiliar and unmistakably universal, in which their tentative friendships may turn out to be the thing that ultimately saves them.

Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit, and all sasshole. As the King's ward, she has spent the past ninety years running errands, dodging the taunts of the spiteful hulijing courtiers, and trying to control her explosive temper—with varying levels of success. So when Jing overhears the courtiers plotting to steal a priceless dragon pearl from the King, she seizes her chance to expose them, once and for all.

Meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations, from vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity and loss against the epic backdrop of a country in turmoil.

While the author was engaged in writing her book, The Christ Within, she was amazed one morning upon awakening to see, suspended in the air above her head, the words “in his name.” Clear, brilliant, dazzling they were.

Amanda and Charlie are spending their first weekend away in months. They’ve rented a luxurious vacation house on Lost Valley Lake. Swimming, bicycling, and romance are the order of the day, and all is good. That is, until someone - or something - appears on the shore across the lake, just as the sky turns gray and the water chill and choppy. When the apparition, or whatever it might be, grows closer and closer, it soon becomes clear that there are certain types of evil that you can’t protect yourself from with locked doors and windows.

Women Talking: An Evening of Wild Female Imagination features three new works from playwrights Sandra Delgado, ruth tang, and Brittany Allen. Inspired by the film and its themes, the playwrights explored the choice the women need to make as a community: Do nothing. Stay and fight. Leave.

Vous sentez-vous épuisé sans raison apparente, sans motivation et vidé ? Manquez-vous de joie de vivre et d'énergie et ni les médecins, ni les super hobbies, ni le nouveau travail ne parviennent à vous faire voir la vie du côté positif ? Sentez-vous de plus en plus clairement qu'il vous manque quelque chose de plus important pour que votre corps soit à nouveau rempli de vitalité ? Alors, vous trouverez enfin dans ce guide la voie royale vers un bien-être global qui vient du plus profond de vous : de vos chakras.

Sara, la chava de la que se enamora Omar, un obsesionado fan de Bob Dylan de 19 años. Sara, la Diosa Trágica que coincidentemente tiene el mismo nombre que la primer esposa de su ídolo. Sara, el ideal dela pureza y la sordidez que lleva a Omar a un viaje a través de la obsesión y la orfandad. Sara, la encarnación de todas las historias que el protagonista quiere vivir para tener "una vida de verdad", llena de mierda y alegría, virtud y dolor, amor y hambre; una vida afuera de su mente, lejos de su existencia clase mediera.

The Maverick Leadership Party Flourishes: A Third Parties Short Story blends the accomplishments of third parties with the aspirations of third parties to create a pathway that, God willing, shall enable third parties to succeed, excel, and flourish.

When I was in high school, I was under the naïve impression that going to a top college meant that everything in life would somehow magically work itself out for you. Boy, was I wrong. After spending countless hours cramming for the SAT and loading up on extra AP and IB classes, I was admitted to the University of Chicago and entered as a first-year student in fall 2010.

From the slightly fantastical to the utterly real, light, and sweet romance to tales tinged with horror and thrills, Game On is an anthology that spans genre and style. But beneath each story is a loving ode to competition and games perfect for anyone who has ever played a sport or a board game, picked up a video game controller, or rolled a twenty-sided die.

For most people an afternoon trip to the dentist is the very definition of hell. When Deb's routine dentist appointment turns out to be a meeting with Lucifer himself, she bargains her way back to living with a promise to secure a certain number of souls. Naturally she begins her scavenger hunt in the corporate sector - the Disney Corporation, to be exact! Sharp and refreshing, Keith Reddin's Synergy is an uproarious and wry look at life on the corporate ladder.

After Jessica discovers her sister Jayne has shrunk several inches, she decides she wants in on the action.

After agreeing to take no more shrinking serum, Jayne settles into her new size. But she just can’t help herself.

After borrowing some of the potion from Jayne, she decides to try some in the privacy of her apartment with her boyfriend, Dave. Now, she’s shrinking smaller and having the time of her life!

Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a nihilistic sugar baby in New York, living from whim to whim and using her charms to make ends meet. But they share a secret: once, they were snakes, basking under a full moon in Tang dynasty China. A thousand years later, their mysterious history is the only thing still binding them together.

In a fast-paced, result-oriented, and competitive world, more and more young people are suffering from depression, anxiety, and other forms of mental health disorders that severely impact the family unit. This book is written out of a deep concern for the wellbeing of young people. In particular, this audiobook is aimed at Muslim children living in the West.