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Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries unfolded, however, Praetorian soldiers served not only as protectors and enforcers but also as powerful political players. Fiercely loyal to some emperors, they vied with others and ruthlessly toppled those who displeased them, including Caligula, Nero, Pertinax, and many more. Guy de la Bédoyère provides...
2) Unchained
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Part-time witch and full-time university librarian, Shawn Basilman, is not looking for love or trouble.But when they both come knocking, she can't turn them away. After banishing her gaslighting, demon-summoning ex, Shawn wants a break from men, but meeting Luke Panteran, a mesmerizing panther-shifter, has her ready to change her mind. As the walls around her emotions crumble, Shawn grapples with a question: can she entrust her fragile heart to a...
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The psychotherapist and author of Scripts People Live shows readers how to use their personal strengths to achieve what they want.
Claude M. Steiner (1935—2017) was a bestselling author and psychotherapist who pioneered the popular field of Transactional Analysis, which involves analysis of an individual's social interactions as a basis for understanding behavior. First published in 1981 and now back in print, The Other Side of Power is the sequel...
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An energy industry insider delivers hard truths about the reality of fracking.
Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. But has industry been honest? Cold, Hungry and in the Dark argues that declining productivity combined with increasing demand will trigger a crisis that will cause prices to skyrocket, damage the economy, and have a profound impact on the lives of nearly every North American.
Relying...
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2024.
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"Magic is fading from Wales--choked off by King Offa's Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared. And now an attack is imminent. Prince Taliesin would love to watch magic die. Prince Dafydd fears it, and the throne. But when their father promises the crown to whichever son can destroy the dyke and restore magic to Wales, the brothers are forced into an uneasy rivalry. Ffion works hedgewitch magic for...
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"The true story of José Andrés, an award-winning chef, food activist, and founder of World Central Kitchen, a disaster-relief organization that uses the power of food to nourish communities after catastrophe strikes. When a terrible earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, chef José Andrés knew he needed to help. Within a few hours of the disaster, he had gathered friends, they flew to the island, and they began cooking rice and beans for the hungry locals....
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In the City of Time volume 2
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"Now in possession of the most dangerous book ever scribed, Willa and Saudade settle into the nineteenth century and start planning how to avert the cataclysm that will soon break the laws of physics and render Earth uninhabitable. Faraz only wants his best friend, Leo, to have the time to come to terms with the death of his father―even if his father was a power-hungry villain who had to be stopped. But someone has stolen the editbook again, and...
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Filmhub, Inc
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2023.
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A feature-length documentary that raises urgent questions about one of the most powerful globalizing forces of our time: tourism. Spanning South America, Africa and Asia, the tourist pathway known as the GRINGO TRAIL has facilitated both life-altering adventures and the despoiling of many once virgin environments. The film follows stories along the trail to reveal the complex relationships between colliding cultures: host countries hungry for financial...
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Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
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[2024]
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English
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"A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety. Anyone who struggles with overeating knows what it's like to feel out of control-and to feel the guilt attached to it. While ordinary anxiety feels like something that happens to us, the siren song of food cravings feels like something we should be able to control. The result is a toxic cocktail of shame and self-loathing...
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Random House
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[2024]
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English
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"In this magisterial history of the continent, Kathleen DuVal traces the power of Native nations from the rise of ancient cities more than 1000 years ago to the present. She reframes North American history, noting significantly that Indigenous civilizations did not come to a halt when a few wandering explorers or hungry settlers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the...
11) King cheer
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Arden High volume 2
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Hyperion
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2023.
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"Waitlisted by her dream college and questioning her identity, Leah steps down as cheer captain to focus on her future, but when the competition for captaincy goes awry, power-hungry twins take command of the squad and immediately pit the cheerleaders against the basketball team"--
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Simon & Schuster
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2024.
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"For a certain class of American's, Donald McNeil was a comforting voice when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out. He was the regular reporter on the New York Times's popular Daily podcast, and he was telling folks to prepare for the worst. A generation of NYT readers went out and stocked up on food and PPE stuff because of his clear advice. He'd covered public health for the Times for 25 years and understood what he was seeing out of China. THE WISDOM...
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Nubeocho
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2023.
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English
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"Klaus the mouse is always hungry but nothing he eats seems to satisfy him. That is, until he stumbles across a bookstore and starts to nimble some pages of a book! For the first time he feels full... full of stories! The bookseller and the mouse make a pact: she will read him stories and he will help her in the bookstore. After hearing one particular tale, Klaus gets an idea that will fill the store with girls and boys and mice, all hungry for stories....
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Orpen novels volume 2
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Flatiron Books
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2023.
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English
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"Outside the walls of Phoenix City, where the plague has overrun Ireland, one bite from the savage skrake means death or infection. Inside, Orpen and the other survivors of the plague gather in meager numbers. They are protected from disease and death, but the city is by no means a refuge. Phoenix City is ruled with an oppressive hand, with even the best of the leadership power hungry and ruthless. Orpen and the banshees--a fierce, all-women force...
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Puck
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2023.
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Español
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"Solo se salvaron nueve ciudades. Separadas por vastas tierras salvajes repletas de monstruos y peligros inimaginables, cada ciudad está ahora gobernada por un guardián, miembro de una realeza que se alimenta de los placeres mortales. Poseedora de una intuición que nunca falla, Calista sabe que su talento es muy valioso para los que ansían el poder, así que vive escondida como cortesana del barón de Archwood. A cambio de su protección, ella...
16) Tatum comes home
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Kensington Publishing Corp
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[2023]
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"The late May air is filled with the rich scents of a Maine spring, and Tatum, a sweet, rust-colored rescue dog, is enjoying a trip to the hardware store with his dad when a heavy thunderstorm blows in. Frightened, Tatum scampers off to hide-and buries himself beneath a blanket on a nearby truck. When Tatum wakes, hungry and confused, he's hours from home. The truck's kind owner promises to get him back to his family, but that'll be no easy feat....
17) Crusader
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Mad Cave Studios, Inc
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2024.
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English
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"In the midst of the Third Crusade, an exceptionally brutal Templar Knight finds himself accidentally transported to a dangerous realm of magic and monsters. A nameless Templar Knight from the Third Crusade finds himself magically transported to a mysterious world filled with sorcery and monsters. In order to survive, the ferocious Crusader must reevaluate his penchant for violent righteousness and make peace with both himself and this ruthless world....
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Harper Horizon
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[2024]
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English
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"Dr. Michael Rich, dubbed the 'Mediatrician' thanks to his acclaimed work as a pediatrician, child health researcher, and children's media specialist, offers a science-backed approach to give parents the confidence they need to raise a child well (and to raise a well child) in the digital age." --
19) 1666: a novel
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Sibylline Press, an imprint of All Things Book LLC
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[2024]
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English
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"The survival story of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia has been remembered within the tribe for generations, but the massacre of Patawomeck men and the enslavement of women and children by land hungry colonists in 1666 has been mostly unknown outside of the tribe until now. Author Lora Chilton, a member of the tribe through the lineage of her father, has created this powerful fictional retelling. Told in first person point of view through the imagined...
20) Knight Owl
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Playaway Products, LLC
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2023.
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English
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After achieving his dream of becoming a knight, a small owl protects the castle from a hungry dragon.