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Two boys fall in love in a deadly world, but it's the secrets they keep that might kill them.Seventeen-year-old Zach was visiting his uncle in a small Montana town when a mysterious illness ripped through the world. Most died, but those who survived the Infection became mindless killers, spreading the disease with a single scratch. Now, a year later, civilization lies in ruins, and Zach is the town's sole survivor. Desperately lonely, he longs to return to his family in Seattle, bu...

A young nurse fleeing a toxic past reads a 19th-century journal to a dying John Doe, only to realize the immortal, suffocating romance in its pages isn't just history—it's a trap, and she is holding the final piece."Being good at a thing has nothing to do with it. Being able to live with a thing is everything."Morgana de la Motte has been bored by every man who has ever tried to own her. When she joins her obsessive father and a young fir...

"In Japan, broken pottery is mended with gold so the damage becomes the most beautiful part of the object. This is a novel about a woman who lived that way."In 1862, a Swedish farmer in Michigan sells his ten-year-old daughter to a Detroit textile mill for ten dollars. Her name is Linnea Karlsson, and the mill is only the beginning of what her life will ask her to survive.Broken Objects follows Linnea across forty years — from the factory ...

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Angel Abariel: Philology, Grimoiric Traditions, and Esoteric CosmologyIn the labyrinthine world of Western esotericism, one name carries a profoundly dualistic power: Abariel. Translated from the Hebrew as "The Passing of God," this celestial entity defies simple categorization, simultaneously appearing across centuries of occult literature as both a holy Angel of the Moon and a subjugated aerial spirit. This exhaust...

Design system solutions using modern architectural patterns and practices. This book discusses methods to keep a system responsive, even when it is being constantly updated, extending a system's functionality without changing the core code, methods of maintaining data history, and designing a distributed transactional system.This book will guide you in understanding how a software solution is designed using different architectural processes and scenarios. Each scenario explains if ...

Get up to speed with using C\# 8 and .NET Core 3.0 features to build real-world .NET Core applicationsKey FeaturesLearn the core concepts of web applications, serverless computing, and microservicesCreate an ASP.NET Core MVC application using controllers, routing, middleware and authenticationBuild modern applications using cutting-edge services from Microsoft AzureBook Description.NET Core is a general-purpose, modular, cros...

Two boys fall in love in a deadly world, but it's the secrets they keep that might kill them.Seventeen-year-old Zach was visiting his uncle in a small Montana town when a mysterious illness ripped through the world. Most died, but those who survived the Infection became mindless killers, spreading the disease with a single scratch. Now, a year later, civilization lies in ruins, and Zach is the town's sole survivor. Desperately lonely, he longs to return to his family in Seattle, bu...

What is it really like to serve aboard a nuclear submarine? This is your chance to find out! No Hollywood-style undersea battles or espionage, just the day to day life experienced by the officers and men of one of these vessels.Set in the 1980's, toward the end of the Cold War, aboard USS Surgeonfish, a fictional Sturgeon-class fast attack submarine, this is the story of a young officer's first year at sea from the points of view of himself and many of his fellow officers. Included...

Meet Millicent Gearwright, an ingenious young clockmaker from the world of Gearturn, where time is literally falling apart. Days blur into nights, seasons clash, and history unravels in disarray. To save her home and the universe, Millicent must find the cause of these time malfunctions and fix the Time Core before it's too late.Joined by her trusty robot Quark, her poetic friend Orin, and the daring time-stealing pirate Barnaby Blackwater, Millicent embarks on a thrilling adventur...

How do you save someone you love when they have become the most dangerous person in the galaxy?Captain Barnaby Blackwater was a friend, a pirate, and a hero. Now he commands the Crocodile Cult, the most powerful crime family in the Clockwork Constellation, wielding an ancient cursed relic that bends even an immortal queen to his will. Nobody knows what broke him. Nobody knows if he can be brought back.Clockmaker Mi...

Enemies at war. Lovers by contract.When Jennifer Walker infiltrates the empire of ruthless CEO Franklin Cain seeking justice, a dangerous game begins. One mistake—and one unexpected marriage contract—forces them into each other’s orbit, where hate turns to heat, secrets unravel, and power plays cut deeper than love. A gripping enemies-to-lovers corporate romance about revenge, ambition, and the thin line between destruction and desire.

When young Oliver receives a mysterious, enchanted compass from an ancient, long-forgotten traveler, he is thrust into a world of magic and adventure he never could have imagined. The compass, however, is not just an ordinary trinket—it is a powerful artifact tied to the very fate of the world. With its guidance, Oliver embarks on a perilous journey to heal the Veil, a magical barrier that has long protected the land but now lies shattered and corrupted by dark forces.As Oliver ven...