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Leah Goodwell wakes up the day after her grandmother’s funeral to find that she is the latest in nine generations of time travelers, who work with the help of a key, a book, and Benjamin Franklin, who still exists in his print shop where it is always 1752. Leah doesn’t believe in time travel until she finds a key in her grandmother’s attic and accidentally jumps to Franklin’s shop. There she learns that Franklin and his close friend, Peter Collinson, created a secret institution to study time travel. It's called the Academy for Fluid Time.

Religious traditions in the United States are characterized by ongoing tension between assimilation to the broader culture and defiant rejection of cultural incursions. However, legal theorist and Catholic theologian Cathleen Kaveny contends there is a third possibility - a culture of engagement - that accommodates and respects tradition. It also recognizes the need to interact with culture to remain relevant and to offer critiques of social, political, legal, and economic practices.

Join Brigid, Sheriff Mike, and Deputy Lindsay as they try to protect Mike and save themselves from being victims.

All Morgan Davidson wants is a chance to reconnect with her 15-year-old niece - sans digital dependency. She books a cabin for Christmas week in rural southern Indiana, but contracting a case of the warm fuzzies for a handsome ranger isn’t part of the plan. Carter Poole, single dad and park ranger, has simple tastes. He’s not on Facebook, doesn’t let his five-year-old son play video games and spends a lot of time outdoors. When he’s sent to investigate mysterious tracks, he meets Morgan, and a spark ignites between them. He invites her to share the holiday with him and his son.

In No Useless Mouth, Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. By describing three interrelated behaviors - food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare - the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay.

So much is wondered about how and when to self-disclose to others when you are autistic. Travis shares how he chooses the how and when to self-disclose his Asperger Syndrome to others he meets. Travis says the decision is context driven and changes from person to person. Travis weighs the pros and cons of self-disclosure between each friendship and professional relationship he enters in his life. Travis also makes the choice to self-disclose to potential employers because he feels it makes the overall employment experience easier and more enjoyable.

In the second novel of a new treasure-hunting series, Phoe, an amateur archaeologist and collectibles shop owner, is hired by her wealthy client to find her own brother, who went missing years ago when he was on a quest for the Spear of Destiny. Find her brother and thus, find the Spear?

Caralynne Hayman is angry and bitter over the abuse and death of her eleven-year-old daughter at the hands of a radical religious cult - The Children of Righteous Cain. So when her husband, a founding member of the cult, suffers a massive heart attack, Caralynne allows her husband to die. Caralynne's secret seems safe until Dayne MacFarland returns, determined to learn the truth about the cult. His investigation and his rekindled love for Caralynne lead the pair toward a confrontation with the group's elders.

Love her or hate her, Jo Shaw doesn’t much care. She’s a newly minted farmer on a mission for local foods and environmental sustainability, and the junk-food-loving veterinarian next door isn’t impressed. But when Zach Nemesek discovers the sweet beneath Jo’s tart, romance blooms in this enemies-to-lovers Christian contemporary romance.

Lucy Farnsworth is running for her life...and for the lives of her babies, too. When the neighbor in the apartment below hers reports her for disturbing the peace, Lucy is terrified of the attention she's getting, of what the good folks at Pemberton Manor might learn about her past. But on the night of the first fool moon of the new year, every wall she's worked so hard to build comes crashing down around her, and Lucy finds sanctuary in the most unlikely of places, and help from the most unlikely of people.

Picture yourself escaping the relentless exhaustion, finding solace in a deep, restorative sleep, and leaving behind the daily struggles and limitations that have defined your life for far too long. This transformative audio book is expertly designed to guide you into a state of profound relaxation, helping you rewire your mind and body to break free from the grip of chronic fatigue syndrome. Through powerful hypnosis and transformative meditations, you'll embark on a journey of self-discovery and renewed energy.

Are you looking to optimize your health, lower stress, and lose weight? Have you been exploring various diet plans but haven't found one that suits your lifestyle? What if you could achieve your health goals through a simple, flexible eating pattern rather than a restrictive diet? The solution you've been searching for might be intermittent fasting.

Being 16 can be hell, and life at Liberty High is not doing Sarah Daniels any favors. Bullies, boys, an abusive mother, and now this: an old journal left to Sarah in her aunt's will. With each passing entry, she grows closer to transforming the skeletons in her mom's closet into proven facts. Everyone has a story. For Sarah, one boy's journey across Great Depression America will set her free.

A forensic surgeon in the New Orleans Coroner’s Office - and part of her dad’s baker’s dozen - Hannah Baker thought she knew where to dig, how and what to slice, and when to walk away. But when her big brother gets her involved in the exhumation of a couple of old coffins, she realizes the past can’t be ignored. Not when it’s been simmering up a big pile of trouble for longer than Hannah’s born days.

Four days before Christmas in Elk Park, Colorado, genealogist Anna Denning discovers a client's body. When she starts asking questions no one wants answered, she becomes the killer's next target.

This collection of 29 short stories, poems, and essays will take your breath away, break your heart, and even inspire transformation in your life. Because there’s no time like the present to break out of your shell, spread your wings, and embrace your own metamorphosis.

You have a story you want to tell. You’ve organized time to do it and have come a long way in finding your writer’s voice. Now you need to decide whose story you’re going to write, and how make them so interesting that the reader is compelled to follow their journey to the end. In this third volume of the Write This Way series, Dr. Amanda Apthorpe guides you in bringing your characters to life on the page using the successful strategies she has shared with hundreds of writing students. This easy-to-follow guide is the third step in your writing journey.

God could have made us all exactly the same, but he didn’t. And our differences are good! As his children, those called by God to belong to his family, we can actually use our differences to help each other. Here’s some more great news: There are no rules about how we look or sound to be in His family. We have a delightfully different family on purpose.

US WAVES Lieutenant Livvy Delacourt doesn't know just what to expect, but she knows to expect trouble. Finally free to use her clairvoyant powers, she jumps in with both feet when Uncle Sam recruits her to hunt down Nazi spies. But will a trail of trouble land her into the arms of the Grim Reaper?

When zombie exterminator Neeta Lyffe gets sued because a zombie she set afire stumbles onto a lawyer's back porch, she needs money, fast. So she agrees to train apprentice exterminators in a reality TV show that makes Survivor look like a game of tag. But that's nothing compared to having to deal with crazy directors, bickering contestants and paparazzi. Can she keep her ratings up, her bills paid and her apprentices alive and still keep her sanity?