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Bilingual Kids takes your child through the 250 essential words and phrases that one must first master when learning a new language. As the words and phrases introduced here are the foundations of conversational communication, the series can also be used as your go-to for travel learning. Learning a second language not only has the practical benefit of being able to communicate in another language.

Accursed items. Some people believe in them, some people don’t. With a truly cursed item, belief doesn’t matter. It’s gonna get you anyway. You might survive. Or you might not. Maybe you'll be compelled to do things you never would without its influence. Maybe it helped you at the casino. Did you think that was free? There’s always a price to pay, and one you can’t afford. That little lucky charm in your pocket may be doing more damage than good

Have you ever wanted to be able to change your life in some way? Be it taking out the things that you don't like or adding in certain things that will make you more successful, this book will show you how to do it. You will find everything you need to know in order to leverage habits for your own purposes.

Discover the inner workings of what makes or breaks any relationship. Have you ever wondered why your relationships start strongly, passionately, and lovingly but always end up in disaster? Have you ever been in a relationship where your partner felt so needy and insecure about your love that they left you with no other choice but to break up with them? Have you ever been in a position where you thought you'd found the love of your life but who, after a while, started becoming distant, avoidant, and uncaring?

After vanquishing the last dragon with the power of her voice, all Kaiya wants is a quiet life of anonymity. Instead, the emperor sends her to negotiate peace with the aggressive Teleri Empire. The critical mission reunites her with her childhood friend, Tian, now an assassin-spy who loathes killing. He is no longer the adorable, gullible boy from her memories, any more than she is the adventurous, sweet girl from his. Instead of rekindling nostalgia for a youthful innocence they both yearn for, their reunion ignites a mutual hatred.

Cutting-edge technology company Hot Bot-y Robotics has created the perfect AI sexbot named ROB (Robot with Organic Body). But when its creator learns that the military wants to reprogram the robot into a state-of-the-art killing machine, he sends ROB out into the world to hide. As fortune would have it, ROB finds sanctuary in an old gym’s steam room where catches the eye of a swoll stud named Chase. Can Chase and his steam-room bros save ROB’s titanium tush from a war-hungry general? Will the amorous android find love and friendship with a sexy stud and his new ro-bros?

On a mission to Afghanistan to gather information about the opium trade, Rex Dalton stumbles across spine-chilling deceit and corruption reaching the highest hallways of power in Afghanistan, America, and Europe. His requests to his superiors to wipe out the drug stores, labs, and drug lords, fall on deaf ears.

Darrin Clark is an impoverished young man, madly in love with his long-time friend Janie. He is desperate for a job and any way to win Janie’s affections. Then, a Hollywood studio promises to make him a movie star - if he will submit to a face-modifying procedure they are developing. Darrin’s love overcomes his fear, and he allows the movie studio to alter his face. Soon, his dreams come true. Yet, changing faces doesn’t seem enough, and the studio wants him to sacrifice more of his identity than just his appearance.

The Dragon Singers of old summoned typhoons and routed armies, liberating mankind from the orcs before fading into legend. Now, with the world again facing a new cataclysm, the power of music stirs in Kaiya, an a naïve misfit with the perfect voice. Without a master to guide her, she must rely on Hardeep, a disgraced foreign paladin, to help awaken her latent magic. His motives might not be entirely noble. When he leads her to the fabled Dragon Scale Lute, which only a Dragon Singer can wield, it is up to Black Lotus Clan to intervene.

In a medium-sized laboratory based in Prague's outskirts, large amounts of vaccine are being produced. The group of scientists working day and night to ensure the entire world gets the much-needed vaccine. The orders keep coming in with some countries requiring vast amounts of it. They make sure the right formula is used for all the vaccines and work in silence, so keen are they to accomplish the mission for the sake of the human race. Only the firm's founder producing the vaccines has the secret of the vaccine's composition and does not disclose it to anyone else.

He is a ghost. A man who travels the globe selling his bomb-making skills to the highest bidder and one of the last holdouts from the Irish Troubles of the 1990s. Danny McCaffrey offers his talents to Iran that has developed a new bioweapon. Their long-term goal: to disrupt the governments of Western Europe, Israel, and the United States.

Two years have passed since Kaiya rediscovered the lost magic of Dragon Songs, yet the power of her voice is untrained. Potential suitors see her as a stepping stone. One ruthless cousin would rather step on her gravestone. Not one to get walked over or buried, Kaiya is holding out for the exiled foreign prince who inspired her to sing. The only one who appreciates her abilities more is the world’s last dragon, Avarax, and it’s not because he enjoys a good song.

As a naturally caring and empathetic person, it can be hard to understand where your boundaries need to be set in order to maintain your own wellbeing. Doing so doesn’t mean you have to cut other people out of your life, but it does mean that a more heightened focus may be necessary. You can free yourself of all this worrisome burden and ensure that your next relationship is one of mutual support and admiration.

Attending the funeral, Tori confronts a past that still haunts her and questions the text messages haunting her now. Her investigation leads to a fact she suspected all along: Her old friend didn’t commit suicide, but was murdered. There’s no shortage of suspects either. Tori knows one of them has Brooke’s cellphone and is texting her from it. Others are convinced it’s Brooke reaching out from the great beyond. Either way, someone from her past is playing a deadly game of Hangman.

March 11, 2004. The Madrid train bombings kill 193 innocent civilians. What the terrorists didn’t know was on that fateful day they also succeeded in creating their worst nightmare. No one knew who he was, what he looked like, where he came from, nor who he worked for. He was a sniper who could take a target out from 800 yards to a mile. He could kill with a long gun, short gun, or no gun. He was lethal with edged weapons, explosives, poisons, or no weapon at all. Targets could be executed from afar or die with his breath in their faces.

When a shipment of magic Dragon Art commissioned by the Emperor goes missing, it's up to the Black Lotus Clan to track it down and punish the thieves.

Jie’s superior senses have made her the perfect lookout. Now, as the adopted daughter of the Black Lotus Clanmaster, she wants to prove her pointed ears aren’t a liability when she’s tasked to infiltrate a rebel lord’s castle. In this prequel novelette to Songs of Insurrection, Jie must decide between her duty to the emperor and her sense of compassion toward the downtrodden. No matter her choice, it will have explosive consequences for her, the realm, and the upcoming war.

Let There Be Us is a modern guide to the total understanding of yourself and the next step in your evolution. After understanding you, comprehension of life and others follows. The book is designed for the pragmatic Western mind. It features creative allegories and practical day-to-day examples to help you create your best reality.

Life rarely stands still when you surround yourself with old folk with more energy than a sugar-fueled toddler, and for Jack Tate, well, he wouldn’t have it any other way. The Lonely Heart Attack Club was going from strength to strength, and the gang were eager to sink their (false) teeth into their next challenge. After seeing first-hand the benefits that internet access has brought to a couple of simpletons like Ray and Grandad, the team set their sights on providing tablet computers to those in the community that would benefit from them the most.

Efenians - The Book of Life describes the life path one must follow in order to achieve success, health, and happiness (i.e., Efenian's way). The search for happiness is one of our most basic rights and most agree with the fact it is the one thing we are all pursuing. In spite of this, very few people get to live in constant state happiness (i.e., state of joy, flow). Modern humans spend most of their life in a reactive mode responding to all their daily demands, social pressures, and the pull and push of mundane existence.