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One day, a sweet little mermaid discovers frosty glass pieces in her underwater cove. Their range of pretty colorscotton candy blue! caramel brown! juicy lime!inspires her to dub them "Mermaid Candy," but she realizes that they do not belong in the ocean. Despite their beautiful appearance, these treasures are actually remnants of trash that is polluting the ocean and endangering underwater creatures. The mermaid rallies her merbunny friends to pull off a creative solution that protects the ocean and its marine life, while enchanting beachcombers on the shore.
Key Features:

- Adorable, kawaii-influenced illustrations blend watercolor painting with photographs of real sea glass.
- The multifaceted tale incorporates themes of history, nature, ocean preservation, and mythical beings.
- A delightful cast of characters includes a mermaid, merbunnies, marine life, and rascally squirrels.
- The story's environmental lesson teaches young readers what sea glass is and how picking it up helps the health and happiness of the ocean.
- Educational back matter shares fun facts about sea glass and how to find it.
Children and beachcombers of all ages will adore this imaginative adventure into the world of sea glass.

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Midwest Home is a richly photographed tribute to the quiet confidence and enduring charm of Midwestern interior design. Featuring 20 homes ranging from lakeside retreats to sleek city lofts, the book captures the full spectrum of style across America's heartland and celebrates how architecture responds to place, climate, and culture. Far from being derivative of coastal trends, these homes speak their own language: one of sustainability, practicality, and beauty born of restraint.


Key Features:

- Tells an often-overlooked story of regional design: This book brings attention to the quiet innovation and deep-rooted beauty in Midwestern residential design.
- Features intentional curation: The selected residences include chic urban apartments, a Craftsman-style home, a European-style villa, an updated farmhouse, and lakeside retreatsawith each project reflecting a broader story about Midwestern living.
- Provides rare, insider access: Hainey has lived and worked in the region for over a decade, and some of the region's top designers have granted him access to spaces the public rarely sees.
- Showcases sustainability: The spotlighted homes display the region's commitment to craftsmanship, local materials, and sustainable design practices.
With a foreword by Carl Dellatore, Midwest Home will captivate architects, designers, and lovers of regional architecture and American style as it celebrates the soulful, sustainable, and story-rich interiors from across America's heartland.

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When Grant Hayes invites his introverted roommate and best friend Ryan Kane to join him for spring break, he has no idea Ryan will become the victim of a cruel prank. Feeling guilty for what is happening, Grant becomes Ryan's self-imposed protector for the duration of the trip.
Ryan Kane should know that when football quarterback Jake Francis shows an interest in him after four years, something is up. Ryan has a crush on Jake since their freshman year, so when Jake asks him out on a date, naturally he accepts, even though he has a feeling that something isn't right. He should follow his first instinct and turn him down, because now he is the victim of a heinous prank that could cost him everything.

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Michael's boyfriend Tyler moved away for a job opportunity, leaving Michael not really sure if he's single or not. Distracted and confused, he manages to break his leg and wind up in the emergency room, where he meets Julian. Sexy and flirtatious, Michael is torn between his feelings for his ex/not-ex and his new interest.
Julian jumps in with both feet to help Michael navigate the challenges of life in a leg cast and their friendship blossoms. But Julian isn't without his own baggage. He recently ended an engagement with a college girlfriend, but she doesn't think their relationship is over.
Forced to decide whether his ex/not-ex will be in his future, Michael picks up the phone to tackle the issue head on. Likewise, Julian works to clear things up with his former fiancee. All appears to be settling down when Tyler comes to town and makes a startling revelation. It's a curveball no one saw coming. Can he steal Michael back from Julian?

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Prince Francis of Sachs-Stormburg has two objectives. One: join the long line of suitors vying to become King Omar's next gentleman consort. Two: find out anything he can about the natural energy powering his kingdom, especially the fabled solar power which has him called the Solar Sultan across Europe.
Francis arrives at King Omar's palace in Istanbul, and discovers much to his horror that all suitors must compete in a tournament of skills to win the king's favour. King Omar, meanwhile, is nowhere to be seen.
When Francis takes refuge from the competition in the palace gardens, he meets a handsome man tending to the palace cats. Francis and the stranger strike up a friendship, which quickly develops into something more. He senses his new companion is hiding something, but Francis himself has not divulged who he truly is, either.
As their romance unfolds, Francis has to choose between his royal duty and abandoning it entirely to explore this new relationship. But perhaps not all is lost, when it is revealed who the stranger really is ...

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Troy "SuperTroy" Ashton loves his sister Lizzie. And his sister loves hockey. Other than getting the puck into the other team's net to score a point, Troy knows nothing about the game. But when the local team's arch-rival comes to town on Lizzie's birthday, it seems like the perfect gift. And even though he can't shake a niggling worry that something isn't quite right at home, he's determined to see that Lizzie enjoys herself.
As the big night out unfolds, Troy learns all about his sister's obsession. What's high sticking? He learns. What's a hat trick? He learns. Who's Lizzie's favorite player? Oh, he definitely learns. But Lizzie and everyone else in the arena learn first-hand what Troy's all about, too, when an emergency arises mid-game and he flies into action.
Can SuperTroy give his sister a super birthday to remember or will things back at home with his omega, Beck, eclipse everything else?

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When Erin Greene, owner of Greene Dragon Deliveries, is asked to deliver a package she has no idea she will become involved in something well beyond the normal. The package contains a mystical, sentient dagger, created to eliminate extremely evil people -- and she is its guardian.
As the truth is revealed, she meets Mr. Flournois who knows the secret behind the dagger, and Marcus, a blind artist who is the only person other than Erin who can safely touch the unsheathed weapon.
When she's threatened by someone interested in the dagger, a third man, Jonathan, becomes her bodyguard. In the process of saving her from her nemesis both Marcus and Jonathan begin to have strong feelings for her. Feelings she reciprocates.
The dagger leads her, and the two men, onto other adventures as it seeks the destruction of more evil. In the process she must decide which man she truly loves.

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The Holy Mountain meets Ratatouille in this X-rated fable by French provocateur Copi

Life isnt easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Raka, hes got a small business selling worms to pigeons, a cozy bachelor nest at the local florist, anas spring blooms in the City of Lightsa budding love interest. But after a double date goes horribly wrong, Gouri and Raka, along with the royal Rat Courtthe princesses Iris and Catarina, and their hilariously unpredictable mother, the Queen of Ratsfind themselves adrift on the Seine, accessories after the fact to a double homicide, using their new ally, a small human child, as a life raft. From there, the hijinks metastasize. French police collar the gang along with Mimile, a sadistic murderer who never remembers his crimes. But having escaped lock-up (from the cell they'd been tossed into with their arch-enemies, a snake and a terrier), they pay a visit to the God of Man (a homeless recluse hiding out in the Sainte-Chapelle), but then the giant Rat Devil makes his appearance, full of fiery flatulence and threatening cataclysm...

Told in a series of letters purportedly written in rat language and posted from Gouri to his former master, City of Rats is the second novel by French-Argentine exile, novelist, cartoonist, playwright, actor, and queer provocateur Copi to be translated into English and perhaps his most madcap work, an X-rated fable where his high-velocity prose smashes through societal taboosmoral, sexual, or otherwiselike a bullet train hitting a glass house. Whimsical, smutty, and surprisingly profound, City of Rats will leave no reader unscathed, and every reader awestruck.

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Magic, Myth, and Wisdom from Root to Bough

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Explore the vast and wondrous legends behind 35 of the worlds tree species and enjoy a new approach to naturebased spirituality.

In this nature connection and spiritual wellness tool, Dawn Nelson offers a new way of connecting with treesand in turn the landscape and nature around usthrough stories, lore, and sacred symbolism. Tales drawn from around the world (including North America, Africa, Oceana, Asia, South America, and Europe) reveal how these iconic trees have become so significant in human culture. Featuring Native American stories about the famous California redwoods, Norse myths about the mighty oak tree, Incan tales about palo santo, and Middle Eastern folklore about frankincense, Tree Lore covers many continents and cultures. Stunning illustrations capture each trees unique properties, and an affirmation following each trees story encourages readers to pause and consider its message, and can be used as a daily meditation tool to find strength in the trees and their ancient wisdom.

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A collection of short fictional pieces by Mariella Mehr, the renowned Swiss-German Yenish writer, which are both transcendent and devastating

Nightmare of the Embryos is a stunning collection of short fictional works by the Swiss writer Mariella Mehr (19472022), one of the most groundbreaking German writers of her time and simultaneously one of the most neglected. Mehr, a Yenish author, was subjected to the Swiss government-funded assimilationist campaign targeting nomadic or Gypsy populations. Her experiences drove her to use her writing to explore systems of violence, power, and abuse. Over the course of her career, she drew from a dark interior space, inventing new ways to depict pain and write the body. These magnificent, short pieces are drawn from published and unpublished works (many have never even appeared in German) and reveal Mehr as a master stylist. The title story surreally traces Mehrs emergence into adulthood after growing up in Swiss orphanages (I woke up on a mountain of rubble that should have been called childhood); another, Island Body, is a love story gone sour, narrated on a beach island by sea grass and sand dunes; Did You Hear describes the writer, who, with her questioning, longing, and fear, visits St. Lawrences chapel in the Rhine valley where for someone like me, brought up Catholic, mortal sin has remained the secret par excellence. As if in a psychic panopticon, these pieces open up swift stunning views into the Yenish community, nighttime bars, imagined landscapes and dreams, and the Holocaust. Translated brilliantly and with an introduction by Caroline Froh, Nightmare of the Embryos is a rich, imagistic, and linguistically inventive collection of works, by an author who has been described as the Joan of Arc of the Yenish people.

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The Message of Jude for the African Church

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Christianity has rapidly increased across Africa, with much of this expansion taking place in Pentecostal expressions of the faith. With the growth of autonomous Pentecostal churches in Ghana, there is also the concern of leaders valuing material success over discipleship and spiritual formation. What can the epistle of Jude, which admonishes against the churchs departure from biblical Christianity because of false teachings, offer to the concerns of Ghanaian Christianity?

Weaving together biblical exegesis, social science, and field research, Dr. Emmanuel Kwasi Amoafo explores the theology and practices of the five leading autonomous Ghanian Pentecostal-Charismatic churches. Through an exegetical study of Jude, Dr. Amoafo identifies seven principles of biblical Christianity that can act as guidelines for a contextualized biblical Christianity in order that churches may be spiritually strengthened and more truly reflect the gospel. Judes call to contend for the faith by upholding, preserving, and persevering in the seven principles remains incredibly relevant for the church today. This innovative work is an essential read for theologians and scholars interested in the Spirit-filled growth and development of African Christianity and its leaders.

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A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.  Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent and inscrutable. In this incisive study, Benjamin A. Saltzman reveals how the kaleidoscopic appearance of these gestures in art, poetry, and philosophy has turned them into an essential language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world, challenging us to reflect on the ways we fundamentally relate to others.  Into the horizon of contemporary discourse, Turning Away sets out from five influential scenes in which figures avert their gaze: Timanthess Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Platos Republic, Augustines Confessions, Christs Crucifixion, and the Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve. The gestures of aversion in these scenes refract across visual media, through philosophy and politics, into modernity and the present day, having been reimagined along the way by thinkers like Hannah Arendt, artists like Marc Chagall and Salvador Dali, poets like Langston Hughes, and many others. Saltzman offers a timely critique of the privilege of turning away and of the too-easy condemnation of our tendencies to do so.

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Political Agitation, Mass Mobilization, and Everyday Life, 19481953

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How do political parties integrate propaganda into ordinary citizens' lives? After coming into power in 1948, the communist Hungarian Workers' Party (MDP) drew on tried-and-true Soviet methods of political outreach, mobilizing a network of agitators to circulate communist ideology and report their observations back to party leadership. These agitators produced maps, searched homes, and taught "petty bourgeois" self-criticism and "party-conform" love and hate.

Making the Hungarian Communist studies communist propaganda through the everyday actions of these rank-and-file agitators, offering a nuanced portrait of mass mobilization. Through extensive archival research and personal interviews, Helena Huhak traces the formation of the agitators' network, the training they received, and the often-gendered language they used to connect communist ideology to people's lived experiences. As the dialogue between the state and ordinary citizens developed through these interactions, the boundaries between political issues and private family life began to blur for both citizens and agitators: far from the state's initial vision of one-way political influence, homes also became a space for advocacy, complaint, and bargaining. Communist Hungary was thus shaped not only by propaganda, but also by the experiences and interests of agitators and even "agitated people."

By focusing on the negotiations between local party functionaries and ordinary people, Making the Hungarian Communist reveals how the practices of agitation and propaganda mutually shaped Hungarian society and politics.

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Shocking events so traumatised an eleven-year-old boy that they remained in his memory for the rest of his life.

As a child, Michal shared a home with his father and a housekeeper whom he adored.

The father, Timon, was a highly successful science fiction author who, during the 1970s, used the genre to express his concerns about the environment at a time when it wasn't fashionable to do so.

Timon was an introvert and emotionally detached from Michal and the world around him.

He writes three particular books which become hugely successful, but in doing so, he makes enemies.

The three books become known as Solomon's Trilogy, Solomon being the pseudonym used by Timon. The last of the three books results in the death of Timon.

Michal, who has inherited his father's imagination and has a tendency to analyse people, suddenly finds himself a ward of the state. He is sent to a residential school, where he is called upon to use his imagination to resolve a very worrying problem.

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Once again the acclaimed Jonathan Evan Hudson forges a legendary tale of action and adventure spiced full of fast-burning romance and dipped deep in epic fantasy.

Enter the heroic swordsman-in-training Miles Mayhem. Rich in friends and even richer in enemies. A fat boy badass in the making.

A sinisterly familiar smell of bacon and eggs smothered in spiced razor-hot cheddar warns of trouble ahead. Trouble like that mysterious and shockingly gorgeous succubus sitting right there cross-legged on his nightstand. Time for another challenge.

A challenge of life and worse than death.

Savor this perfect genre-expanding epic fantasy novel. For fans of sexy action and fabulous adventure. Go read the page-turning Slash Me This now!

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The acclaimed Jonathan Evan Hudson weaves an unforgettable tale of thrilling action and adventure spiced with fast-burning romance and doused deep in epic fantasy.

Enter Miles Mayhem. Rich in friends and enemies. And a fat boy badass in the sword.

A seriously delicious smell of bacon and eggs smothered in spiced razor-hot cheddar signals celebration-and serious trouble ahead.

Trouble beyond anything Miles ever expected.

The perfect epic fantasy novel. A genre-enlarging feast for fans of sexy action and fabulous adventure. Read Succubus Slash now!

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The story begins with Max, an ancient vampire living in a penthouse high above a modern city. His immortality seen not as a gift, but as a "sentence passed" in a "gilded cage". He spends his time sorting the agony of time and avoiding human connections to spare himself the pain of outliving people. He is haunted by memories of past lovers: Elara, Isabelle, Anya, and Marcus. Struggling daily with a predatory hunger he realizes his isolation is slowly extinguishing him, a decision to venture into the unknown is made, leaving his cage behind forever.

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ROHKEA (WAGEMUT) MEINE  TAPFERE  FRAU  ARJA

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Zwei Monate zu fruh geboren in einem vom Krieg gezeichneten Finnland

beginnt Arjas Leben mit Entschlossenheit.

Doch schon fruh zeigt sich, was sie ihr Leben lang tragen wird :

Aufgewachsen in Turku zwischen familiarer Geborgenheit

und den Herausforderungen einer schwierigen Zeit

entwickelt Arja eine stille Starke,

die nicht laut auftritt, aber alles tragt.

Eine besondere Begegnung fuhrt sie dann hinaus in die Welt.

Aus einer vorsichtigen Annaherung wachst dann eine groe Liebe.

Gemeinsam fuhrt ihr Weg mit der Familie uber 4 Kontinente,

durch Europa, Afrika, Sudamerika und schlielich nach Australien.

Neue Lander, neue Sprachen, neue Prufungen

und immer wieder der Mut weiter zu gehen.

Dies ist die wahre Geschichte einer Frau,

die nicht im Mittelpunkt stehen wollte

und gerade deshalb unvergessen bleibt.

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Explore the nuances of passion, joy, and longing through verses that resonate with raw emotion. Each poem is a glimpse into the complexities of love, creating a captivating journey through the landscape of the masculine heart.

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Jayiah starts life out as a normal young girl growing up in a single family home. She is the middle child of three kids and is quite content with life until her mother meets a special guy. That's when things changed forever. At the age of ten she has to learn to grow up quickly while helping with her younger sister. After the honeymoon stage was over Reggie exposed her family to a world of drugs and prostitution. In one year things had taken a turn and she finds her self helping her mother not only take care of her younger sister, but also a new born baby boy while fighting a drug case. They hope for the best thinking that court appearances will soon be over until one day her mother never comes home. She now finds her self lost with the responsiblity, at a young age, of figuring out how to keep her small family together.

Unfortunately, her sibilings and her split apart and have to spend years fighting to stay as close as they can with Jayiah fighting anyone in her path. Jayiah goes from a innocent young carefree child to a worrisome teen. She battles family members and the sterotypes placed upon her while remaining closesly linked to her mother through letters and visits. She saves face to ensure that her mother feels like everthing is ok, but with each year that passes she dies a little inside.

After being bounced from family memer to family member, she finally graduates and makes the choice to joint the military to provide for her mother once she is released from prison. She still faces depression and hards times in the mist of her young adulthood, but gathered strength from the hopes of her mother's release. Jaiyah knows that life will be hard regardless, but she is well aware that this life is her life. She makes a promise to her self, siblings and mother to bring them through the dark times.

In the mist of the jounery she meets several people along the way. Those that add to her life and those that mean her no good. One of those people being her father. Can Jayiah survive the odds? Maybe she can or maybe it might break her for life.