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Tristan has never been what someone would call a social guy. Like the alligator he shares his spirit with, he prefers being alone. Now, after enduring decades of forced isolation as an animal attraction in a curiosity show, Tristan is even more reclusive than ever. He lives mainly in animal form, swimming in the large pond on the gargoyle’s estate. When he helps kidnap his abuser, Bud Wallice, Tristan decides interrogating the bastard is a great reason to finally interact with others....

From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love—and the basis for the podcast Alligator Candy.David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida suburbs. It was when kids still ran free, riding bikes and disappearing into the nearby woods for hours at a time. One morning in 1973, however, everything changed. David’s older brother Jon biked through the forest to the convenience sto...

Have you been trying to learn Dutch and simply can’t find the way to expand your vocabulary?Do your teachers recommend you boring textbooks and complicated stories that you don’t really understand?Are you looking for a way to learn the language quicker without taking shortcuts?If you answered “Yes!” to at least one of those previous questions, then this book is for you! We’ve compiled the 2000 Most ...

" The home front experience of the South in the final years of the American Civil War takes center stage . . . A very enjoyable, involving read."—Historical Novel SocietyOn a foggy spring morning in 1862, Sarah Browning watches a train leave Lake City, Florida, heading northeast and full of Confederate soldiers. On board is her husband, Alex, crowded into a boxcar with fellow recruits and imagining the terrors awaiting him in Mana...

Enforcer Rigel Patterson is known around Shifter Headquarters as a playboy, and he’s okay with that. After all, he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with enjoying himself while he waits for Fate to deliver his mate to him. While at a club, Rigel is thrilled when She finally delivers the other half of his soul to him—a handsome human named Tucker. Rigel quickly whisks his mate out of the club, enjoying a night of passion. Except, upon waking the next morning, he finds Tucker gone. Rigel ...

A novel that "does for Newfoundland what Empire Falls did for dying smalltown Maine and The Sportswriter did for suburban New Jersey" ( Publishers Weekly).Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and a Globe and Mail Book of the YearSt. John's, Newfoundland, is a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Its denizens jostle one another in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, and ambition...

Do you know what the hardest thing for a Dutch learner is?Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle…which is precisely the reason we’ve written this book!Teachers love giving out tough, expert-level literature to their students. Books that present many new problems to the reader and force them to search for words in a dictionary every five minutes — it’s not entertaining, useful or motivating for the student at all, and many soon give up...

“No, little beauty, I was not strapped to a table being tortured. You were. And I felt it.”-SteilAs the top fashion designer in her city and the most ruthless business owner in the clothing industry, Macy loves her life as an independent beta female. With plans to expand her business, she doesn’t mind making a few enemies, until three alphas sneak into her office and abduct her. When things go from bad to worse and she fin...

Is conversational Dutch turning a little too tricky for you? Do you have no idea how to order a meal or book a room at a hotel?If your answer to any of the previous questions was ‘Yes’, then this book is for you!If there’s even been something tougher than learning the grammar rules of a new language, it’s finding the way to speak with other people in that tongue. Any student knows this – we can try our best at practicing, ...

Hendrik Willem Van Loon's "The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators" is a captivating exploration of the Age of Exploration through the lens of the Dutch maritime endeavor. Written in a lively and engaging prose style, the book unveils the daring exploits and monumental contributions of Dutch navigators who boldly ventured into uncharted waters. Van Loon artfully blends historical narrative with vivid illustrations, making complex maritime undertakings accessible and enthralling while embed...

Dutch SS accounts are very rare, particularly ones such as this, covering recruitment, training, and front-line service first with 5th SS Panzer Division 'Wiking', then later with SS Regiment Besslein. He not only informs and illustrates the general politics of the time, but also explains how Dutch views of the Third Reich changed so radically, discusses the founding of the Waffen-SS, the recruitment of Dutch volunteers into it and why so many non-German Europeans volunteered to fight and ...

It was the year of our Lord 1579, and the eleventh of the glorious revolution of Holland against Spain. Brielle had been taken by a handful of hungry sea-beggars. Haarlem and Naarden had been murdered out by a horde of infuriated Spanish regulars. Alkmaar—little Alkmaar, hidden behind lakes, canals, open fields with low willows and marshes—had been besieged, had turned the welcome waters of the Zuyder Zee upon the enemy, and had driven the enemy away. Alva, the man of iron who was to destr...