King James offers a fascinating, inside look at the early years of the king of the basketball court, Lebron James.LeBron is a six-foot-eight gift from the basketball heavens. In the early 2000's, at St. Vincent-St. Mary's, he was the undisputed finest high school player in America. The "Chosen One" NBA scouts drooled over, corporations dreamt of, event promoters begged for, and now NBA fans clamor after. With appearances on the cover of Sports Illustra...

A single moment rewrites the path of Lora's life. One winter night, Lora and Harper's lives collide unexpectedly and a friendship is born. With their own difficult pasts, they plan to keep it that way: just friends. Until it becomes a little more and Harper decides that Lora deserves better. Five years later, they meet again, and over a cup of coffee, flames are relit.A story of love, friendship, mental illness, and self-development, Lora and Harper go to show that people are more ...

This extraordinary graphic novel tells the true stories of six Jewish children and young people who survived the Holocaust.Between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were responsible for the persecution of millions of Jews across Europe. From suffering the horrors of Auschwitz, to hiding from Nazi soldiers in war-torn Paris, to sheltering from the Blitz in England, each true story is a powerful testament to the survivors' courage. These remarkable testi...

When you think about it, there’s not a definite measure of time for eventually.When Lainie’s twin brother Leslie dies, her world implodes and grief drowns her. She wonders what she’ll do without her brother, but when she’s able to still see him and is able to talk to him, her anxiety and grief subside. Leslie is stuck on Earth as a ghost because both twins need to learn to overcome their grief.When Greyson, a childhood friend, rekindles a friendship with Lainie, she realize...

If you're a male that can offer woman security, she will certainly give you her heart and more. You don't need to be extremely good-looking or have a large bank account to make a lady really feel safe with you.There's a perfect (as well as simple) means to seduce in a high-grade woman and also make her happy.And this is what you're likely to uncover inside The Art Of Seduction.In The Art Of Seduction you're going to learn:Exac...

The Handbook of Reading Theological German is the premier resource for equipping those interested in reading and translating original German source materials and preparing academics for German comprehension examination. The book is ideal for students in biblical studies, church history, Jewish studies, and theology.Coauthored by Katharina Hirt, a native German speaker and professional linguist, and Christopher Ryan Jones, a native English speaker and doctoral candidate in ...

An authoritative history on how Soviet whalers nearly destroyed endangered whale populations, while also contributing to scientific knowledge about them.The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans. In this account, based on formerly secret Sovi...

In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russians crossed and re-crossed the Bering Strait and the North Pacific Ocean, establishing colonies in Kamchatka and Alaska and exporting marine mammal furs to Europe and China. In the process they radically transformed the North Pacific, causing enviro...

A young man named Blaise lives in a crumbling city of violence and addiction, haunted by a light across the sea he cannot reach. As his world teeters toward war, he and two friends journey toward the forbidden towers, hoping to warn of an uprising--and perhaps, to discover what the Glow really means. Combining the grit of dystopian fiction with the symbolism of myth, this is a story about holding onto light in a world of shadows, and about the unseen strength of hope, friendship, and love....

Being in your 20s is like losing your parents at Disneyland, but for the rest of your life. Sure, its all fun and games because at least Mickey Mouse is there and cotton candy is flowing. Then you realize, Wait, what the heck am I supposed to do now? MOM, DAAAAAAD!?! ANYBODYYYY!?!Some people are lucky. They know exactly what they want out of life early on and are relentless in attaining it. Good for them they deserve it.Most of us, however, are forced to continuously alter ...

When his world is devastated by an unthinkable attack Bellamy Leone's journey unfolds-a gripping quest for truth that will captivate your heart and ignite your imagination. Forced to witness his mother's tragic demise, Bellamy flees his village, driven by an unyielding determination to unravel the secrets behind the devastating assault that shatters his world in an instant. As he is guided by a band of extraordinary companions: Raine Rollo, Na'naya Adina, Inara Novik, Draemond Ignis, and A...

The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today’s oceans. In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction...