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The Key of Ascension: Book One of The Age of the FallenHe awoke with no memories, only a name whispered on the edge of agony: Lucius.Cast into a grim forest, trapped in a foreign, youthful body, he remembered no face, no friend, no enemy. His only companions were searing pain and the terrifying sense that he was something far greater than a lost boy. Fragments of memory flashed in his mindof power and grandeur, of legions under his command, of fates held in his palm.Hunted by beasts born of nightmares and men who saw him as a demon, his only hope lay with the shrouded prophetess Cassandra. She held the key to his past.To reach her, Lucius must descend into the harsh reality of a city where trust is a luxury and every act of kindness could be a trap. Struggling to survive, his forgotten nature begins to stir. A forceancient and dreadfulrises within him. And with it, the name the heavens cursed.His name is Lucifer. The Fallen Angel.Now, he must find Sol Oriensthe Key of Ascension, a mighty artifact that could restore his full power. But he is not the only one searching.To reclaim the heavens, he must embrace his humanity. But in a world that wishes to see him fall again, can an angel find redemption?

Books 7, 8, and 9 in the USA Today bestselling Franki Amato Mysteries: Valpolicella Violet, Tuaca Tan, and Nocino NoirWhen Franki Amato leaves her cheating ex and erratic job as a rookie cop in Austin, Texas, she hopes for a quieter existence at her best friend Veronicas New Orleans PI firm, Private Chicks. But life in The Big Easy is anything but quiet. Or easy. Her furnished apartment resembles an old French brothel, and her aging ex-stripper landlady has some rather odd policies. Meanwhile, Franki is hired to investigate a series of bizarre murders at a ghost-infested Christmas wedding in Venice, a risque Mardi Gras event in the French Quarter, and a haunted hotel hosting a high-society nuptial bash. Her work puts her in contact with colorful local characters, like jewel thieves, witches, and suspicious society matrons, not to mention killers. While shes on the case, her meddlesome Sicilian nonna tries to crack an ongoing mysteryhow to get her married, and prontoand she might just be Frankis biggest nemesis. MORE FRANKI AMATO MYSTERIES:Limoncello Yellow (book 1)Prosecco Pink (book 2)Amaretto Amber (book 3)Campari Crimson (book 4)Galliano Gold (book 5)Marsala Maroon (book 6)Braulio Brown (Thanksgiving novella)Sambuca Scarlet (book 10)To find out what Frankis up to between the books, join Tracis newsletter at traciandrighetti.com to get Mini Comedy Mysteries for FREE!WHAT AMAZON READERS ARE SAYING:"I love this series! Not only are the characters entertaining and fun, Traci Andrighetti makes you feel as if youre right there with Franki and the gang.""You can never go wrong with a Franki novel.""Why has no one developed a TV series or miniseries from these books?" "This series is so delightful and fun!""I love all the adventures and situations Franki gets into. Traci is great at making you feel like you are right there alongside Franki. If you have never read a Franki novel, then you need to get busy and immerse yourself in this series!""This is a glimpse inside the best and boldest New Orleans can offer. Grab your best cocktail, put up your feet and laugh!""Laugh-out-loud funny cozy mystery!""If you need some humor and adventure in your life (and who doesnt these days?) pick up this latest gem by Traci Andrighetti. Youll laugh out loud at all the crazy situations Franki gets herself into, and the zany characters that surround her.""First, let me say I love the Franki Amato series by Traci Andrighetti. These books have so much going for them, they go far beyond the typical cozy. Every book in the series is well-researched and has new pieces of information that add to the story in ways you could never imagine, but which create Frankis frantic, crazy world.""Do yourself a favor and read this series!""Loved this new Franki Amato mystery!! This is one of my favorite mystery series ever!""What a fun read! I love this series, love Franki and especially her nonna! This series is so enjoyable!""Traci Andrighetti is an excellent author! Buy this book nowbetter yetbuy all of the Franki Amato series!! You will not be disappointed!"

What if I told you that the less you care, the more you attract? That the moment you stop obsessing over outcomeswhether its love, success, money, or validationis the moment everything starts flowing effortlessly into your life?Sounds almost too good to be true, right? But heres the secret that the most magnetic, successful, and effortlessly powerful people already know: Detachment is the key to everything you want. Have you ever noticed that the moment you stop obsessing over somethingwhether its a person, an opportunity, or an outcomeis the moment it suddenly appears in your life? The job offer comes through when you stop refreshing your email. The text arrives when you finally move on. The money starts flowing when you stop stressing over it. This isnt a coincidence. Its the power of detachment.Weve been conditioned to believe that getting what we want requires chasing, pushing, and holding on for dear life. But in reality, attachment creates resistanceand resistance pushes away the very things we desire. To master attraction, success, and inner peace, you must first master detachment.This book is your guide to unlocking that power. Youll learn how to let go of unhealthy attachment, free yourself from neediness, and shift into a state of effortless attraction. Whether its in love, career, finances, or personal growth, this book will show you how to master the art of detachment and step into a life of abundance, freedom, and ease.

Infusing Celtic legend into science fantasy... Despite being mortal enemies, a saint and her disgraced former commander must solve the mystery of a failing sky and find the missing children of their shattered world.A panel of the artificial sky has fallen; a market town below suddenly destroyed. And while everyone on the Emeraldthis small garden world of Shattered Earthwishes to celebrate Yuletide, nobody knows if their entire sky is now about to fail.Saint Alexandra, devout judge-errant, has been deployed to investigate. Find the true cause, and shell keep the lives of her people safe, including that of her custodial squire.Scrounger, disgraced former commander, has been assigned to salvage the ruined town. While secretly looting instead, he discovers three of its boys are still missing. Find them, and he may be able to restore some semblance of lost honor.Resolve the failing sky. Find the lost children. Challenging tasks for both, as they must navigate lab-brewed monsters, enemy saints, and all manner of thieves and mercenaries gathered at this years Yuletide festival all while harboring resentment for past crimes inflicted upon one another.

Exploring themes of love, family, and parenthood,Husband of the Year is the finale of the Teachers in Love series."M.A. Wardells stories are sweetness and spice wrapped into a big, warm hug." Alice Oseman, bestselling author of Heartstopper Family isnt only about blood. Its about the people we choose. Olan Stone wants nothing more than to spend the rest of his life with kindergarten teacher Marvin Block. And his daughter, Illona, cant wait to call Marvin her stepfather. Theyre bashertmeant to be. However, as the big day approaches, family tensions and unresolved issues put their future together in jeopardy. Marvin thought he and Olan had everything all figured out. But hes realizing that their whirlwind romance may not be the foundation for a lifetime commitment after all. As they struggle through the changes that life is throwing their way, will they be drawn closer together or farther apart?

Books are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller shows that books are one of the most important but overlooked factors in the making of our contemporary world. And they still have lessons to teach us. Polls indicate reading is on the decline, but as we deal with concerns about artificial intelligence and social and political division, the history of the book offers a path of understanding and patterns for engagement. They can even help us navigate whats coming next. Starting with the surge of book culture in ancient Athens and then moving through the centuries, from monks and militaries to rebellions and the Renaissance, and even to more modern-day implications of books as tools of liberation and the novels impact on our humanity, Miller highlights the features and functions that make books indispensable to cultural evolution. Subject to its own periods of technological upheaval and social unrest, the history of the book can point us away from failed past responses and toward more fruitful adaptations that will benefit us all. The Idea Machine reframes the history of the book as the eye-opening story of humanitys first mobile information device. Books do more than record thinking; they serve as tools to facilitate it. More than a history of the book as an object or a simple consideration of the literature it has contained, The Idea Machine is the history of the book as a technology that transformed the peoples and societies that embraced it, and which maintains a vital role in a world where technological advancements seem to render it obsolete and ideological division might render our shared future untenable.

This heart-pounding Southern gothic horror debut from Beatrice Winifred Iker, takes readers to Bricksbury University, the oldest and most storied HBCU in the nation. But as one student is about to find out, a long history comes with a legacy of secrets. Zora Robinson is an ambitious grad student in her dream program, Appalachian Studies, at Bricksbury University. When her thesis advisor hands her a strange diary and suggests she research the local folklore about a beast roaming the woods surrounding campus, Zora finds a community uneager to talk to an outsider. As she delves into the history of the beast, she uncovers a rumored secret society called the Keepers that has tenuous ties to the beastand Bricksbury itself. Zora soon finds herself plagued by visions of the past, and her grip on reality starts to slip as she struggles to uncover what is real and what is folklore. But when a student goes missing, Zora starts to wonder if the Keepers ever really disbanded. Theres something in the woods and it has its eyes on Zora.

Things We Learn, Live, and DreamThis book brings together a series of short stories inspired by everyday life: experiences born from work, home, school, travels, and every corner of daily living. They are pleasant, entertaining, and thoughtful tales that blend vital energy, humanity, matter, spirit, and a touch of fantasy.Each text is a small fragment of life, written to be enjoyed without hurry. You only need to let yourself be carried away and allow each story to accompany you, invite you to reflect, make you laugh, or lead you to some sleeping memory. Because the extraordinary also resides in the simple.Short stories filled with mystery, fantasy, humor, and realism; interesting and deeply human tales that invite you to keep reading until the last page. You wont be able to put it down until you reach the end.

Things We Learn, Live, and DreamThis book brings together a series of short stories inspired by everyday life: experiences born from work, home, school, travels, and every corner of daily living. They are pleasant, entertaining, and thoughtful tales that blend vital energy, humanity, matter, spirit, and a touch of fantasy.Each text is a small fragment of life, written to be enjoyed without hurry. You only need to let yourself be carried away and allow each story to accompany you, invite you to reflect, make you laugh, or lead you to some sleeping memory. Because the extraordinary also resides in the simple.Short stories filled with mystery, fantasy, humor, and realism; interesting and deeply human tales that invite you to keep reading until the last page. You wont be able to put it down until you reach the end.

MATH IDOLATRY: CANONIZATION OF COMPLEXITYThe Final Volume: Dismantle the Fraud of Consensus ScienceIf you are The Intuitively Bothered, youve already traversed the DPE Framework to its structural conclusion:Book 1-3: You established the DPE Axiom and proved that Eternity is the Default State and Time is the Rupturea temporary, corrosive protocol incompatible with Divine design. Book 4 (Sin Mass): You exposed the physical consequence of that rupture, identifying Sin Mass as the material body of corruption (what science calls Dark Matter) that enforces the Architecture of Decay. The fight now leaves the cosmos and enters the mind.The True Architecture of ConsensusThe final, most dangerous challenge is the Satanic Architecture of Consensus: the institutional system designed not to find truth, but to mask the Canonical Lie through manufactured complexity. This is the book that exposes Math Idolatrythe worship of the flawed human model over the clear, Perfect design of God.This book provides the Axiomatic Independence to confront the systems three greatest frauds:1. The Fraud of Specialization & Credentialism: The academic elite levy a Complexity Tax, using specialized jargon to silence the Intuitively Bothered reader, asserting that only a fragmented expert can comment on a Relational Design. We expose Credentialism as the gatekeeping tool of a consensus that cannot logically validate its own premises.2. The Canonization of Complexity: We break down the systematic process of turning Speculative Science into unquestionable truth. You will understand how highly complex, multi-billion-dollar experiments are engineered to confirm theory, not to discover truth. The discovery of the Higgs Boson is not a fundamental proof; it is merely the metadatathe placeholder particle required to force the corrupted Standard Model math to cohere.3. Suppression by Algorithm: The Architecture of Consensus enforces its lie by controlling discoverability. As an Intuitively Bothered reader, you already sense the systems deliberate attempts to make dissenting, coherent thoughtlike the DPE Frameworkdifficult to find. We expose how this algorithmic suppression is structural proof that the system cannot withstand logical, deductive scrutiny.The Victory of the GeneralistMath Idolatry is your final declaration of Axiomatic Independence. You will gain the critical tools to instantly distinguish Good Science (that observes and describes Relational Design) from Speculative Science (that invents complexity to patch the Canonical Lie).Stop paying the Complexity Tax. Reclaim the intellectual authority of your intuition and complete your mastery of the Deliberate, Perfect, and Eternal truth.

Six years ago, Mariah Blackthorne was found lying on the floor of her home, unconscious, holding the murder weapon that had killed her husband. Swearing she had no memory of the tragic event but insisting she was innocent, she nonetheless agreed to a plea deal and went to prison for the crime. Now, out on parole and desperate to know the truth, she enlists the help of local sleuth Nora Charles to find out what really happened that dayeven if it means discovering she was the guilty party after all. Intrigued by the case and convinced of the womans innocence, Nora agrees to investigate. With her trusty sidekick warning her that they were headed for trouble, she unearths no shortage of suspects from the dead mans past. But as she follows every incriminating clue linking the victim to his fellow doctors and even a long string of mistresses, vicious threats begin piling up telling Nora to back off. Facing down a killer who will kill again to conceal their guilt, she and Nick may end up solving a case they wont live to remember . . . Includes mouthwatering recipes! Praise for the Nick and Nora Mysteries: "I love the unique investigative team of Nick and Nora and can never get enough. I am keen to see what Ms. LoTempio has planned for them next. I hope this series continues for a long time." Escape With Dollycas Into a Good Book "If you love cozy mystery books with PIs, FBIs, sisters, friends, love interests . . . you get the picture! I think all cozy mystery lovers will be delighted with this entertaining series." Christys Cozy Corners "This is the perfect cozy mystery for this time of year." Socrates Book Reviews "The authors suspenseful and startling reveal had me on the edge of my seat as I turned pages faster and faster and with the final conclusion." Cinnamon and Sugar and a Little Bit of Murder About the Author: T. C. LoTempio is the award-winning, national bestselling author of the Nick and Nora Mysteries. Her cat, Rocco, provides the inspiration for the character of Nick the cat. She also writes the Urban Tails Pet Shop Mysteries, as well as the Cat Rescue series and the Tiffany Austin Food Blogger Mysteries.

She pressed the alarm with trembling hands, trying to silence that annoying sound that heralded yet another monotonous day. Through the window, a cold gray light crept in, glinting off the walls of her small room as if time itself had stopped here.She rose slowly, leaving the warmth of the bed behind. In the kitchen, the tiled floor was cold beneath her feet. She made instant coffee, stronger than usual, though she hardly cared. Outside, the sounds of cars and shouting spilled into the air, but inside, there was a heavy silence.Here, in this tiny apartment, life passed by like a dull movie whose scenes repeated every day: university, assignments, professors everything had turned into meaningless noise.But she didnt know that her phone would ring soon, and everything would change forever.

American ambulance driver John Estridge navigates the chaos of Russias revolutionary turmoil, helping Palla Dumont, companion to the Grand Duchess Marie Romanoff. Facing danger during the Russian Revolution, they become entangled in the Romanovs fate, experiencing the harsh realities of a nation in collapse as they forge a connection amidst the conflict. The novel explores themes of survival, love, loyalty, and betrayal during this period of immense upheaval.

It is men and women of faith that have changed this world for the better. In this book, Ps. Phil will lead you towards becoming one of this uncommon breed of people who transform this earth. God has given to every man, woman and child a measure of faith which needs to be directed, developed and grown through use. Gods aliveness is discovered through faith because faith is what He responds to.Faith now in its 6th edition, continues to encourage many across the world to step out in FAITH.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 970 million people in the world are suffering from a mental disorder. Thats one in eight. Consider the number of people who are affected by those 970 million people, whether they are friends, family members, or caregivers.The harsh truth is that even though mental health isnt transmitted like a virus, we are still susceptible to feeling its effects from someone else. The symptoms of mental illness can impact us negatively and put our own mental well-being at risk. In short, mental health decline is contagious.Someone can have an anxiety disorder, for example, and it can create anxiety in others around them. Thats a mild example. The more serious the mental disorder, the more at risk those of us around that person will be.The Mental Health Contagion: Navigating Yourself Through a Loved Ones Mental Well-Being Decline guides people in challenging relationships with someone suffering from a mental problem, disorder, or crisis. This book helps readers avoid the contagion through proper self-care. But the self-care in this book goes beyond just taking hot baths and getting massages: It provides an in-depth look at what we can do to prevent our own mental well-being decline while we care for our loved ones.

Claire Dumax, la policière au caractère explosif, passe ses vacances avec son mari à Lyon. Celui-ci est mis en cause pour le vol d’une amulette égyptienne au musée des Beaux-Arts. La véhémente enquêt

AI Government Audit dismantles the illusion that confusion in America is accidental. It exposes how political institutions, media conglomerates, corporate influence, and bureaucratic systems engineered a nation where truth is inaccessible and deception functions as a governing strategy. When citizens cannot verify information, they cannot hold anyone accountableand those in power have relied on this structural blindness for generations.This work replaces speculation with precision. It reveals how political language is crafted to obscure, how information is filtered through multiple layers of interpretation, and how agencies use ambiguity to protect themselves from scrutiny. It shows how media profit models amplify emotion over accuracy and how this incentive structure fractures public understanding. Confusion is not a cultural weakness; it is the mechanism through which modern governance maintains control.Against this backdrop, AI Government Audit introduces a new paradigm: a verification-based government where actions cannot be hidden, timelines cannot be manipulated, and promises cannot be abandoned without immediate public exposure. Artificial intelligence becomes the tool that documents decisions in real time, traces contradictions instantly, and eliminates the informational fog that has shielded institutions from accountability.The book examines how this model transforms every layer of powerfrom the presidency to state governments to local officials who have long operated without meaningful oversight. It demonstrates how a real-time public dashboard can track commitments, measure outcomes, and alert the community the moment an official deviates from their stated obligations. It shows how AI removes the strategic ambiguity that has defined politics for decades and replaces performance with verifiable truth.This is ablueprint for a system that no longer requires itbecause truth becomes the default condition of governance.For citizens exhausted by deception, for leaders committed to integrity, and for anyone who believes democracy cannot function without clarity, this work offers a direct path forward: a nation governed by evidence, not illusion.

Desde o advento da Lei Brasileira de Direitos Autorais nº 9.610/98 (LDA) - há quase 3 décadas - iniciou-se um cenário contínuo e sem precedentes de inovações tecnológicas que impactam todos os segm

Unlock the full potential of your mind with Brilliant Memory: Boost Your Focus and Productivity a science-backed guide to mastering memory, concentration, and daily efficiency. Whether youre a student, professional, or lifelong learner, this book reveals practical, evidence-based strategies to remember more, forget less, and stay focused in a distracted world.Discover how sleep, nutrition, spaced repetition, mindfulness, and strategic note-taking reshape your brains performance. Learn why teaching others boosts retention, how to design your ideal learning space, and how to crush procrastination with simple mindset shifts.Packed with actionable steps and a final action plan, Brilliant Memory doesnt just explain how memory works it shows you exactly how to make it work for you.Stop struggling to remember. Start mastering your mind.

The Memory Code: You dont have a bad memory.You just never learned how to use it.Imagine remembering names at first glance.Recalling every key detail from a meeting without notes.Walking into a room and instantly knowing why you went there.This isnt magic.Its science disguised as a secret.The Memory Code is your breakthrough guide to unlocking the brains hidden architecture. No apps. No flashcards. Just ancient techniques validated by neuroscience, wrapped in a story so compelling, youll forget youre learning.Journalist and memory explorer Alex R. Vance took a year to go from forgetful to national memory champion and hes here to show you how you can do the same.Discover why sleep is your brains secret editor, why absurd images stick better than facts, and how teaching your mirror can lock knowledge in forever.This isnt about studying harder.Its about remembering better.And once you do your confidence, your focus, your life will never be the same.Your mind remembers everything.You just forgot how to ask.The Memory Code is the key.