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Deep in the dark forest, in a cottage that spins on birds’ legs behind a fence topped with human skulls, lives the baba yaga. A guardian of the water of life, she lives with her sisters and takes to the skies in a giant mortar and pestle, creating tempests as she goes. Those who come across the baba yaga may find help, or hinderance, or horror. She is wild, she is woman, she is witch—and these are her tales.

Aveen is the perfect lady, placid and well-mannered, concealing her discontentment beneath false smiles and gentle nods. As the eldest, her duty has always been to her family legacy and her sister's happiness. But when she finds herself forced into betrothal to a man she loathes, she swears she'll do anything to escape. Even if it means bargaining with a wicked fae prince.

You're about to reveal a whole new specter of possibilities in your life.... Hoodoo magic often uses disregarded but high-potential materials that, when combined with the right ingredients, can be unstoppable. Hoodoo is a powerful practice rooted in West Africa that thrives today. It’s intricate, powerful, and complex—but nonetheless fascinating.

Talia’s just found out she’s not from here—her insane grandmother, Geneva, is still alive and she pretty much wants the family dead. And when she was three, her mother and grandfather washed her blood, separating her very being. While she lived with her grandfather on Earth, her other half was raised by her mother, dimensions away on the magical game planet of Conjuriam—and that’s not even the worst of it.

Best-selling author, self-investment speaker, and certified life and motivation coach Darryl Bumpass Sr cuts through the uncertainty of living during a global coronavirus pandemic. In How to Become Motivated in a Coronavirus Pandemic, Darryl provides listeners with the tools they need to be reminded that we didn’t come this far to fall into a space of depression. With each chapter of this book, you will discover tips for how to keep moving forward—regardless of what stressful events are happening in our lives.

Relationship marketing is a proven lead generation system intended to grow your business by leveraging your relationships. That’s right; instead of damaging relationships and burning bridges, relationship marketing encourages you to nurture and grow your relationships. In other words, you don’t ever have to be an “icky salesperson”! If you seek to build a business that allows you to work from your heart, that doesn’t compromise your personal core principles, and that encourages you to help and serve more people, relationship marketing may be for you.

If Treyan Ackerman wants to keep seeing his daughter on weekends, he needs to stay put, keep his nose clean, and not make waves. Thankfully, he has a decent, if somewhat tedious, job in his small town’s municipal office. If the mayor would let him tackle some of the graphics for the farmers market, it would help. But, no. Instead, she hires a vivacious city girl who turns Trey’s head. Unfortunately.

How different would your life be if you knew how to better navigate the season you are in? Dr. D'Ann V. Johnson initiates an intimate conversation by explaining the difference between stages and seasons that women experience. Written with the wisdom of a mother and the compassion of a friend, each chapter explores the significance and beauty of every season.

Trapped in the past, Casey Stevens hopes to discover a cure for the machine virus that has infected her. But when Area 51 is attacked by a mysterious threat, the long-dormant ship comes frighteningly back to life. Hunted by soldiers and inhuman creatures through an underground labyrinth, Casey must find a way to survive—by once again entering the ship. Combining the thrills of yesteryear creature features with today's modern scientific theories, author Doug Brode takes the listener down a winding rabbit hole of twists and turns, building to another shocking climax!

Xeal and friends continue their journey to the top of Eternal Dominion. However, as Xeal searches out potential leaders for his guild and bolsters its ranks, others are moving as well. Will he and his guild weather the storm, or will they lose their footing and be stopped before they can even really begin?

Fictional worlds are the perfect place to lose yourself, whether it be a fantastical dreamland or an alternate universe. But to captivate an audience, you need the right tools to set their imaginations free. And in Writing with Soft Worldbuilding, you will be given those tools to write amazing books using the easy, unique way of worldbuilding. If you want to create a story that will live inside your readers’ minds forever, then you need to get this book. Get your copy today and transform simple stories that are read into worlds that readers experience!

Author, artist, and retired Deputy Head Jo Johnson was born and brought up in Greenock in the West of Scotland. Educated at Greenock Academy until the age of 14, he experienced a profound culture shock when the family relocated to Kilwinning in Ayrshire where he found himself in a much rougher school environment. Born into a devoutly Christian family, Jo had to balance the competing demands of "church and state" at an early age. His story is peppered with entertaining, poignant, and occasionally unpleasant memories of growing up in 1960s Greenock and 1970s Ayrshire.

This second book in the Missing Semester series addresses the most overlooked subject in financial-literacy education-investing. Primarily addressing students and recent graduates, its lessons are not laden with jargon; its focus is topics and choices that apply to most young people, not just a few, and not those relevant only late in life. The Missing Second Semester presents a call to action: You're in charge. Understand the opportunity, and make the choices.

Isaline is desperate to keep her identity a secret. In the space of one night, her future as a City Watch has crumbled before her eyes. And now she’s on a train across Benemourne with two complete strangers—dangerous treasure hunters that she can’t trust with her real name.

Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. African American victims and survivors had to find a way to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching. Crabtree offers a theory of African American collective trauma and memory rooted in a strategy for “working through” trauma that has long existed within the African American cultural tradition: the ironic spirit of the blues sensibility—a spirit of misdirection and cunning that blends joy and pain.

I fell into the clutches of those hunting me. Now, I’m enslaved in chains and at their mercy. But I’m not the woman I used to be. My weaknesses have been stripped away, unveiling a strength and defiance I never knew myself capable of. And I’ll be damned if I’m going down without a fight. Because my mate is coming for me. With him by my side, we will be unstoppable, and I am a storm cloud of rage ready to be unleashed.

Ryan Hart is caught in the middle. She has an older brother and a new baby sister, and she’s in a friendship tug-of-war with two friends who both want to be her best best friend. How can Ryan think about being kind to a classmate who is relentless with his teasing? Or be her signature sunny self when her brother, Ray, pulls the ultimate prank? But even when it seems like nothing is going her way, Ryan still looks for a way to see the bright side of things, refusing to let anything steal her joy, and finding ways to share it with everyone she meets.

In the wake of 2020, we need today's young learners to be prepared to develop solutions to a host of entrenched and complex issues, including systemic racism, massive environmental problems, deep political divisions, and future pandemics that will severely test the effectiveness and equity of our health policies. What better place to start that preparation than with a social studies curriculum that enables elementary students to envision and build a better world?

Trying to outwit the market is a bad gamble. If you're serious about investing for the long run, you have to take a no-nonsense, businesslike approach to your portfolio. In addition to covering all the basics, this new edition of All About Asset Allocation includes timely advice on learning which investments work well together and why, selecting the right mutual funds and ETFs, creating an asset allocation that's right for your needs, knowing how and when to change an allocation, and understanding target-date mutual funds.

It’s been a long year for Sage and his friends, and all of Junction, California, and it’s not over yet. Freddy's school of magic is still a mystery, and figuring it out would be enough work, but the investigation leads them to the mysterious coded notes of Junction’s long-dead first magical artist, and then to the last place any of them ever expected to end up: the 19th century. Worse yet, when they get there, Fluke is missing, and Sage isn’t sure he can get back home without his best friend. If Sage has to leave him behind, is it worth returning to his own time at all?