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As the Stone Raiders have grown in power, they have started to attract the eyes of established powers. Gudalo has become a viper's nest of schemers as the Gudalo Kingdom's situation turns dire.
They might have fled the Selhi Capitol, but as Selhi is learning, one doesn't simply get away with acting out against the Stone Raiders.
Dave and Party Zero continue to grow in power; finally free from the battles helping the Aleph, Demons, and Beast Kin,...
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'My past came with sharp teeth, and I didn't enjoy letting it bite me.'
Gideon Black has just returned from a grueling visit to the Fae realm with a stronger grip on his abilities, both as a half-Fae and the DeathSpeaker. But none of that prepared him to be kidnapped and dragged into a fight against a god.
When the Duchenes's master, an ancient and powerful Other who's taken the name of the voodoo god Papa Legba, summons the family for attempting...
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I'm a pretty unique guy. I have golden blood flowing through my veins. There are only about thirty people like me in the entire world.
Yes, golden blood is a real thing. Google it if you don't believe me.
My blood has allowed me to join a group of test subjects, eventually becoming the proud owner of an AI neural chip best known as Alisa.
My blood has allowed me to be reborn after death: reborn to a new life in a world governed by magic, a world...
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As he looked at life...
...surrounded by the trappings of success...
Austin wondered, is there anything else?
He made it to the top. As CEO of an asteroid mining company, Austin has accomplished everything he ever wanted in business. Now, he needs more. To get away he turns to a fantasy video game.
Is virtual reality the answer?
Should he pick, elf, gnome, caster, or swordsman?
He just wants peace and quiet, play as a dwarf, build a house, do...
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Mighty Greyboar, the world's greatest professional strangler, is dissatisfied with his lot in life. The work is steady and the pay is good, but what, he wonders, is the point of it all.
But when he learns that there is a Supreme Philosophy of Life, Greyboar the Strangler is Born Again! Still, just how can a professional man in good standing pay the bills with all this philosophical exploration getting in the way.
That's what his hard-headed agent...
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The Event of Myths and Legends has started! The first spawn points have started to open, issuing forth creatures and people that were banished from Emerilia long ago.
Dave and the Pandora's Box group are advancing their plans and building projects as fast as possible. When an opportunity arises to take their projects to the next level they're going to have to use all of their tricks and crafting abilities in order to seize it.
The Stone Raiders...
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What's the worst thing that can happen on a hiking holiday? Getting lost? Blisters? Falling out with your partner? Try being abducted by aliens and crash-landing on a strange planet that wants you dead.
When avid gamer Brandon awakes surrounded by endless snow and countless monsters, he knows his survival odds look slim at best. Not that he's planning to go down without a fight. Being a self-confessed nerd doesn't mean he's going to roll over and...
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It has become axiomatic to contend that U.S. foreign policy must adapt to an era of renewed "great-power competition." The United States went on a quarter-century strategic detour after the Cold War, the argument goes, basking in triumphalism and getting bogged down in the Middle East. Now China and Russia are increasingly challenging its influence and undercutting the order it has led since 1945. How should it respond to these two formidable authoritarian...
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Opossums in the wild don't make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years. Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for several millennia. Meanwhile, human life expectancy tops out around the mid-eighties, with some outliers living past 100 or even 110. Is there anything humans can learn from the exceptional longevity of some animals in the wild? In Methusaleh's Zoo, Steven...
50) Crocs
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The trio of brave friends who make up Sharks, Inc—Luke, Maribel and Sabina—dive into a crocodile-filled adventure in Crocs, the third book in bestselling author Randy Wayne White’s Sharks Incorporated series.
Marine biologist Doc Ford has a new mission for Sharks Inc.: visit Sanibel Island’s remote Bone Field to find a wild orange tree that's survived a disease destroying Florida’s citrus. There, the members of Sharks Incorporate find oranges...
51) Rebirth Online 4
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Build Harem. Grind Hard. Level Fast.
Sam and his guild mates have been victorious, and now the land of Ozara awaits.
But winning a kingdom isn't all it's cracked up to be. Soon other players will be allowed into the new land, and Sam and his friends will have to defend what they have won if they plan on keeping
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The greatest scientific challenge of our age wasn't to enable time travel, it was to prevent it. The laws of physics had turned out to be idiotic, erecting no barriers to hopping time. In fact, they make it hard to avoid. I'm in the business of preserving the timeline - making sure the world sticks to the sacred rule of One Second Per Second, and that history unfolds according to plan. The problem is, there is no plan until I make it.
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A thoroughly updated introduction to the concepts, methods, and standards of critical thinking, A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking: Deciding What to Do and Believe, Second Edition is a unique presentation of the formal strategies used when thinking through reasons and arguments in many areas of expertise. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach to critical thinking, the book offers a broad conception of critical thinking and explores the practical...
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Every organization needs a strong security program. One recent study estimated that a hacker attack occurs somewhere every 37 seconds. Since security programs are only as effective as a team's willingness to follow their rules and protocols, it's increasingly necessary to have not just a widely accessible gold standard of security, but also a practical plan for rolling it out and getting others on board with following it. Security Awareness for Dummies...
55) Rebirth Online 5
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Build Harem. Grind Hard. Level Fast.
Sam has been deemed a dark lord by the Game Masters, and now everyone in Rebirth Online is gunning for him. To make matters worse, an overzealous NPC paladin has been resurrected to destroy Sam and his demon sons.
To win this one, Sam might have no choice but to embrace the power of the Dark Throne.
Contains mature themes.
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At some point, everyone living in the US has some type of interaction with the American judicial system. For most, this contact is relatively minor: contesting a traffic ticket, suing or being sued in civil court, being a witness in a civil or criminal trial, or serving on a jury. Others are caught up in the criminal justice system-as defendants, as victims, as witnesses, as jurors, or as relatives of a victim or a defendant. For still others, contact...
57) Rebirth Online 2
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Build Harem. Grind Hard. Level Fast. Sam and his girls have come out on top, and now it's time to grind. Life in Rebirth Online couldn't be better for Samson Sullivan. He's got four beautiful women by his side, a vault full of gold, and a new tower in the Beartooth Mountains. But when a glitch in the game begins dropping players to level zero upon death, Sam and his Harem are tossed into a chaotic battle against the denizens of darkness. With players...
58) Rebirth Online 6
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Build Harem.
Grind Hard.
Level Fast.
Sam always thought that if he was given ultimate power, he would rule as a benevolent dictator. But now that he has the power of the Dark Throne, he's learning things about himself that he doesn't like. With the Throne ever in his ear, Sam is slowly losing control. Soon he will have to choose between ultimate power, or the ultimate sacrifice, before he becomes that which he has always fought against.
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59) Rebirth Online 3
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Sam and his guild mates have been grinding hard to prepare for the first Guild Wars Tournament. Now, the time has come. Sixty-four guilds will enter, but only one will emerge victorious. The prize: A new kingdom in the latest Rebirth Online expansion, and all the riches that go with it. But competing as a seven player guild isn't going to be easy, and just when the guild begins to find a rhythm, the demon Megulla informs Sam that he's a demon baby...
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War presents the most degraded moral environment humanity creates. Individuality is subsumed in collective violence and humanity is obscured as a faceless, merciless enemy.
A barbaric logic has guided the conduct of war throughout history. Yet as Cathal Nolan reveals in this powerful book, even as war can obliterate hope and decency at the grand level it simultaneously produces conditions that permit astonishing exceptions of mercy and shared dignity....