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Her boots slip with every step she takes along the snow-packed road. Frigid air burns her nose but does nothing to cool her anger. Her boyfriend just left her on the side of the road, all alone. When she fails to come home, her parents make a frantic call to the police. All they find are her footprints in the snow and her discarded purse in the ditch.

My world was rock solid. Until I saw her. Lara Kessler showed up as if heaven sent her to me, and suddenly my priorities changed. Love is funny like that. One minute you’re living the dream, then BAM! Half my soul shows up backstage wearing a purple shirt and sexy skin-tight jeans, making me realize what I’ve been missing all along. Loving her means exposing a life I’ve tried to bury. My heart had lost its beat. Until I saw him.

This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today.

Learning Python 3 will help you to stay current with new technology and newer, higher end Python databases. More importantly, it will make you more marketable when looking for software engineering jobs, since many companies have already made the move to Python 3. By learning Python 3, you will be light years ahead of your peers, especially older engineers who learned with older databases and libraries. By learning Python 3, you will be able to do more with Python than you ever thought possible.

Now more than ever, every Catholic needs to learn how to defend their mother, the blessed mother. Because now more than ever, the family is under attack and needs its mother. This audiobook will help you give a robust defense of the Catholic Church's Marian dogmas using scripture. This collection of essays will demonstrate through scripture how the Immaculate Conception of Mary was prophesied in Genesis and how the Virgin Mary is the new Eve, the new ark, and the new queen of Israel.

Since Jet Black discovered The Sorcerer’s Guide, a book with a mind of its own, he has uncovered elemental magic, clashed with mythological creatures, and obtained the first tablet piece of the Phoenix. Jet has only scratched the surface of the new magical world around him. War is on the horizon, but his promising development is about to come to a screeching halt. Plagued with roadblocks, dissension, and something far more sinister, he must achieve the impossible. Acquiring the second tablet piece is vital for their success, but can they beat Shane Fallon to the location?

Wolf-shifter Vanessa Burns has survived a life of brutality and neglect. Being kidnapped, drugged, and forced into an underground fighting ring is just the beginning of one man’s sick and twisted obsession. Travis Kameron, the alpha of the Crescent Ice pack, suffering a similar fate, wakes up to find his life is about to be irreparably changed by the fierce she-wolf in the next cage. Can they put aside old rivalries and the past and work together to not only survive and escape but also weather the storm of complications, revenge, and betrayals waiting for them on the outside?

On Sacred Ground offers an unexpectedly spiritual approach to the account of a controversial, officer-involved shooting as told by the retired, well-seasoned officer who pulled the trigger. Scott Haslar's memoir offers a look into race-related issues, the effects of posttraumatic stress, and the gritty realization that history in the United States has only been repeating itself. Get an inside, on-the-ground look from the eye of the hurricane as Haslar takes you through the tragic events that conspired in 1990.

Have you always wanted to learn Machine Learning principles and how to create bots and more with Python? Every day more and more of our technologies and processes are being automated and computing is no different. Besides being able to automate many simple coding operations and algorithms so that you can complete daily tasks and projects faster than before, Machine Learning makes you more employable down the line. This audiobook will teach you everything that you need to know to start creating simple shell scripts and bots today.

Don’t be scammed! The movement that brought Donald Trump to the White House is under attack by scam artists. Mainstream media, liberal elites and professors, and Antifa-led rioters are promoting a scam, notorious for its long history of failure and disasters. The S.C.A.M. is Socialism, Communism, and Marxism. Attorney and theologian Scott L. Smith, Jr. brings together the 20th century’s greatest defenders of truth to explain once and for all how to defeat scam.

Captain Scott's ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy - an epic tale of heroic endeavor which has inspired books and films over the generations. Despite the simple outline of the story, Scott and his fellow explorers emerge as richly varied characters, brought to life by the diarist's skill as a story-teller. Scott's journal reaches its moving and dramatic crescendo when the explorers reach the Pole, only to discover that the Norwegian, Amundsen, has beaten them to it by many weeks.

Chadwick’s Boarding school has changed over the last few months since Jet Black and his friends have discovered Elemental magic and how to use it. But things are about to transform like never before. Bringing in new teachers, new ideas, and an open campus willing to learn magic is breathtaking.

Fold space using the spice mélange and travel from “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” to the planet Krypton, from Trantor to Terminus, and back to the scorched skies of Earth. This audiobook covers a lot of territory. It spans galaxies and universes. Nevertheless, the great expanse of human imagination will forever be captivated by the events of the little town of Bethlehem. There is a reason that all of mankind’s stories overlap, coincide, correlate, and copy. Like it or not, all mankind bears the same indelible stamp, the mark of Christ.

Imagine: a fantasy world, but not one based on medieval/Dark Ages European culture and myth, but rather on the tropes of the spaghetti Western and Chinese Wuxia. Add steampunk elements. Mix well.

Beyond Integrity offers a balanced approach to a number of concrete ethical issues. Readings from a wide range of sources present competing perspectives on each issue, and real-life case studies further help the listener grapple with ethical dilemmas. The authors want to help the listener arrive at his or her own conclusions. To this end, they provide a decision-making model. They also present, in addition to several views on each topic, a distinctly Christian perspective on each issue under discussion.

Now, for the first time ever, you can enjoy the short stories of Thomas L. Scott in this convenient and exclusive bundled edition! Stories included in this bundle are: "Just Another Day", "The Catholics, The Chickens, And Me", "From The Ashes", and "Jack Bellows".

Python is one of the most used programming languages in the world. It's been used to make everything from phone apps to blockbuster video games, and the best part is that it’s one of the easier languages to learn. That’s right! Python was made so that it would be easier to learn and understand, compared to languages like C and C++.

Being a woman is not easy, but being a Black woman comes with its own set of challenges. Somewhere along the way, society decided that the Black woman was less than. But this could not be further from the truth. The Black woman is a force to be reckoned with, and it is time that all Black women realized their true beauty and power. This audiobook contains 300 positive affirmations to help encourage the Black woman to be who she was created to be. Bold. Powerful. Strong. Courageous. Beautiful.

Thirty years ago, Sergeant Samantha Jane Elliott had just found the love of her life when her team was attacked. Seven people, including Jay “Cowboy” Evans were ripped from her life in only moments. She’s dreamed of a time when she would see Cowboy again, holding on to the romantic notion of heaven and a happily ever after. As Sam lies dying, the last thing she sees is Cowboy, looking just as he did the night of the attack. But when she awakes, Sam discovers there is no white light or angel wings - there are vampires in uniform and horrifying visions of Cowboy being ripped out of her life again.

Finding the next piece of the missing artifact, the Phoenix, is paramount for Jet Black and his friends as they try to prevent a future war. But there is growing pressure from the other boarding schools, the Brotherhood, and even the Runics to discover the other missing magical books. The first visit to Dillon Lake has all the promises of discovering new alliances and uncovering the backstory of some of the most important players. The fallout from their trip is life-altering for some of the Echoes and even the Elementals.