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**A cautionary tale of a young, newly widowed art critic who goes to work for a mysterious billionaire determined to build a geodesic-domed paradise to shelter the rich.For fans of novels of Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection and Blake Butler’s Molly**On a remote island in the Aegean, Morel, a billionaire, is constructing a utopian community beneath a giant geodesic dome. The “Floating World” is advertised as a refuge for only the wealthiest people from the c...

This is an in-depth study of a vital and fascinating aspect of ancient Egyptian religion as preserved in the Pyramid Texts of the Fifth Dynasty. The creative and life-giving powers of the waters that sustain this world are also present in the Egyptian underworld and enable the dead king who has lived in Truth (Maat) to live again in the endless cycles of nature: the journeys of the sun and the stars and the birth and growth of vegetation. Concepts such as the Winding Waterway, the Great La...

Cast into the great ice prisons of Norderakk and Kalnerakk in the remote regions of the north and south, two immortals from ancient times are becoming free at last as their bonds of ice begin to melt. Long ago corrupted by power, they were locked away deep in the icy and remote regions of the world by the Twelve, and now they seek their revenge–or justice as they see it.Meanwhile, in the quiet coastal town of Cornburn, an obscure circle of stones—the Twelve—stands overlooking the s...

"All is dark in cold arms lieGaze to you an empty eyeFingers laced for our descendingBeckon you come share my endingNo, the heat comes not from shameYou must, my love, take faith in flames"The graveyard awaits in rising mists while swirling leaves whisper secrets to the dark. Eyes, unblink...

The senator relates the decades-long fight for justice after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing—including his prosecution of the last living bombers.On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical evidence, and pervasive racial prejudice the ...

Are you plagued with constantly running out of time? Do you repeatedly feel overwhelmed? Would you like to squeeze more time out of every day? Not to worry—now you can tap these ingenious strategies to launch your productivity to new heights. By the time you’ve finished this program, you’ll know just how to smash your deadlines and power through your most challenging tasks. This program teaches you the difference between settling for mediocre results and achieving resounding success by bec...

This book provides an overview of the design and development of learning games using examples from those created by the authors over last decade. It provides lessons learned about processes, successful approaches, and pitfalls that befall developers of learning games and educational transmedia experiences. The book includes stories from the authors’ lives that give context to why and how they built these products to help the reader understand whether or not building a learning game is righ...

This story is a daddy/daughter collaboration. It’s a story of friendship and nostalgia. My daughter has a funny way of expressing herself through words and art. With the help of the characters in the story, her words and art comes to life. With a bit of nostalgia from my childhood and the expressions and views of her childhood, the blend of old and new combines effortlessly in this story of friendship.

**A new classic from the world of Roald Dahl!NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX: Don’t miss the animated film The Twits, features the voices of Johnny Vegas, Margot Martindale, Emilia Clarke, and Natalie Portman and music by David Byrne and Hayley Williams!**When a moving van arrives next door to the Twits and Mr. and Mrs. Lovely get out, that’s bad enough. But it gets WORSE. . . Their two Lovely children, Ruff and Tumble, have moved in next door too. And the Twits HATE chil...

Before email,before the world wide web,before hackers,Before sexting,before always-on GPS,before titanium implants,before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,there was cyberpunk.And science fiction was never the same.Cyberpunk writers—serious, smart, and courageous in the face of change—exposed the naiveté of a society rushing headl...

THE TELL-TALE SIGNS OF ATTRACTIONAre you interested in a guy who isn’t showing signs he likes you back? Perhaps you're wondering whether he's genuinely disinterested or just shy. Knowing the signs to look out for will be a great help in telling you precisely what is going on in his head about you. Guys exhibit certain behaviours that are indicators that th...

A fascinating new volume of messages about fatherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections.In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to new ones, as well as letters from both frustrated and adoring offspring.Includes letters by:Anne Frank, W.E.B. Du Bois,Jawaharlal Neh...