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From stories of first love, unrequited love, love that surprises, love that’s been there all along, 10 of the brightest and award-winning authors writing YA have taken on some of your favorite romantic tropes, embracing them and turning them on their heads. Listeners will fall for this collection of stories that celebrate love at its most humorous, inclusive, heart-expanding, and serendipitous.

One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we’ve failed to ask exactly why we’re expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive - an aggregate lifeform.

From the author of Messy Grace, a former pastor raised by gay parents, comes a compassionate playbook to help Christians, church staff, and ministry leaders create a culture of belonging without sacrificing theological convictions.

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists—he a photographer, she a dancer—trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.

Unveil the extraordinary story of one of the world’s most unlikely and ingenious billionaires. Sir Richard Branson can never be accused of leading a dull life. Dropping out of school at 15 to pursue his magazine business, this unlikely young man would go on to become an incredible business tycoon and the owner of dozens of high-profile companies. His amazing climb to wealth and his down-to-earth personality have made him a well-known and well-respected billionaire throughout the world.

Are you looking for inspiration and want to learn only from the best? If so, listening to an Elon Musk biography might just do the trick! Elon Musk is the pioneer of our times and might be the first one to get us on Mars. His Tesla cars are revolutionizing the way we get around. Did you know he also founded PayPal? It seems like there’s nothing this man can’t do.

The only thing August Pfeiffer hates more than algebra is living in a vampire town. Located at a nexus of mystical energy fields, Fulton Heights is practically an electromagnet for supernatural drama. And when a mysterious (and annoyingly hot) vampire boy arrives with a cryptic warning, Auggie suddenly finds himself at the center of it. An ancient and terrible power is returning to the earthly realm, and somehow Auggie seems to be the only one who can stop it.

God is not boring. He is not dull, dry, nor bland. Yet many have failed to see this. What if the scriptures reveal a God who thinks and acts outside of the box? What if the God of the Bible does things that are odd to our finite human minds? This book explores the lesser known aspects of God's character that might offend your intellect while intriguing your spirit. Be invited to go on this journey of discovering The Wild, Weird and Wonderful Ways of Yahweh.

Content with the fun of sharing flirtatious glances with passing guys from her counter at the ice cream shop, Jill loves her job. Every day is light and fun. Even though she doesn't get to enjoy the ice cream, it offers her plenty of fun with her friends. Almost like a naughty dare, her friend Trish, nudges (or shoves) Jill into a new situation that literally opens her...to new possibilities.

How do we, as orthodox parents, keep our children in the church throughout their lives? It all begins with involving them in the life of the church from birth onward - in the parish and also at home. Blueprints for the Little Church provides practical ideas and encouragement - without judgment - for incorporating the primary practices of orthodox spirituality into your family life at every stage of its growth and throughout the church year.

Haddonwood isn't real. It can't be. Another world, another reality, hovers just beyond Chase Rey's reach. He can see it sometimes. In that world, things are in balance. The dead stay dead and the creature-feature remains safely on the screen. That world isn't a patchwork quilt of every scary book or movie he's seen. In that world, the nightmares generally end when you open your eyes and people don't glitch in and out of existence. Chase is determined to return to that world, although the only way out may be through the noose that seems to lurk around every corner.

Do you really know what your teen/tween living in your house is doing online? You might not realize it, but they are living a completely different life in the digital world. The moment you put a smart device in their hand, you have unknowingly given them access to an unfiltered world that will secretly control their consumer habits, self-esteem, sexuality, and life expectations. This audiobook was developed as a simple resource to discuss some of the governing principles you need to understand in raising your "technology-obsessed" teen/tweens.

Teenage socialite Margo Manning leads a dangerous double life. By day, she dodges the paparazzi while soaking up California sunshine. By night, however, she dodges security cameras and armed guards, pulling off high-stakes cat burglaries with a team of flamboyant young men. In and out of disguise, she’s in all the headlines. But then Margo’s personal life takes a sudden, dark turn, and a job to end all jobs lands her crew in deadly peril. Overnight, everything she’s ever counted on is put at risk.

These days, our peace of mind is more at risk than ever. Between the joblessness, political tensions, economic instability, and the overwhelming number of growing concerns in our world, there is no shortage of things to be upset by. While many of the problems we face are indeed large, a lot of them aren't as big as we think. We often magnify our problems and even create new problems when we become irrational. Almost more important than any problem we face is our method(s) for dealing with it. Our perspective of it and our ability to stay anchored while facing it.

Long ago, magic entered the world. Now, humans must bond with an angel or demon to live. After Kaiden bonds with a fallen angel, many believe he'll end the centuries-long war between angels and demons. Just as many want him dead. With the help of three amazing hot women, Kaiden attempts to do what most would think crazy. They take on the demon army. Go big, or die trying.

Noah Thomas is a scrawny seventh grader who is bullied to the brink in his new town. He's friendless, except for sassy tomboy Wendy Sherman, who seems to lend him the confidence he needs to stand up to his oppressors. Stumbling into a bookshop one afternoon while on the run from some teenaged tyrants, Noah is hurled into an unexplainable adventure. Noah learns that the bookshop leads to the Akashic Records - a place that holds all spirit lives recorded in tablets of light.

The search for Ramathule and Xirow involves a new cast of characters both bad and good. More fights take place on the planet Zarthala and even some in outer space. If they can't stop Ramathule from summoning Sulvaria, the universe itself will be destroyed.

[Contains explicit content] If you were looking for the eponymous Russian literature classic, you're in the wrong place. But, if you're looking great stand up comedy about our nation's criminal justice system, then please proceed. Eliza "Goody Two-Shoes" Skinner takes us to comedy clubs around the country.

[Contains explicit content] Who or what the heck designed this world we're living in? Because, from where we stand, whatever master plan might exist lacks a certain amount of ... intelligence? Saturday Night Live's Sasheer Zamata takes a skeptical look "Intelligent Design," divine or otherwise.

[Contains explicit content] This isn't a low carb, gluten-free version of Limelight. In fact, today's host, Ian Abramson insisted that we put some extra flour in this episode to ensure we're going against the grain of being against grains. Come to think of it, we should probably call the show Full Fat Lime this go 'round. Oh yes, we're taking this "Against the Grain" theme very seriously.