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Japan Travel Guide: Things I Wish I Knew Before Going To Japan
Ken Fukuyama - 2019
After having their first child in 1986, they have decided to pursue their long-hidden dream of exploring the world. Inspired by their life-changing adventure throughout the world, they have decided to serve as a tour guide. This happy couple has been serving as a Japan local tour guide for more than 30 years now. In their effort to show the world what Japan truly is, they have decided to write a book about it. Download your copy today! Take action and experience Japan at its fullest potential now! Get this book for FREE with Kindle Unlimited!
Freeman's: The Future of New Writing
John Freeman - 2017
It is an aesthetic manifesto for our times and an exciting view of where writing is headed today.
The Witch & the Bounty Hunter (Federation of Magic Book 1)
Rachel Medhurst - 2020
until someone wanted me dead.Here I am, Lyla Ford, broke and starving, minding my own business, when twin sorcerers Tinniel and Nazeriah claim that I’m a witch from an ancient line. Not only that, they request an audience. Who do they think I am? Royalty?I would never entertain the idea of magic, let alone the request to become a tracker for the two paranormal bounty hunters who work for the Federation of Magic. That is, until the ridiculously handsome Tinniel tells me that my missing mother is the leader of the Federation. Who knew?When Tinniel gets kidnapped, a compulsion to find them both overtakes me, forcing me to work with the Federation. I have a feeling that if I don’t do as I’m told, the ancient line I descend from will die out. With my brutal, bloody murder.
Yumi
Renée Ahdieh - 2018
She’s tired of being a sheltered bird, protected in the Hanami. What Yumi really wants is to strike a blow against all the forces that control her life. The time has come.
Cognition
Jacques St-Malo - 2019
When research suggests how to harness brain evolution, a hunt ensues for a missing link―one that allows to design humans with skills that prodigies of old would have envied.As germline engineering and biological enhancement have become routine, ancient doubts have emerged under new guises: Who are we? Is there a purpose to life? Why is there so much suffering? When faith and science fail to answer these questions, personal greed and national interest quickly fill the void. But gene selection is expensive, and many are excluded from its benefits. The stage is set for tribalism and social discontent on a scale without precedent, and those caught in the fray, whether by choice or by chance, must play roles not always to their liking in the struggle of all creatures against the arbitrariness of existence.
A Good Samaritan
Jesse Jacobson - 2019
Her husband and his best friend have been ambushed by an old nemesis, and Lindsay's five-year-old son, Jackie, has been kidnapped. A day later she discovers John 'Jackson' Rainhorse has also been attacked in Yemen by professional mercenaries. The former Ranger is missing and presumed to be dead. Just when it looks like things couldn't get worse, the assailants decide they must kill Lindsay and force her mother to pay an enormous ransom within two days in order to save her grandson. The FBI is slow in their investigation, and find themselves hopelessly behind the clock. With Lindsay under attack, her husband in a coma, and time running out to save Jackie, things appear lost, until a good Samaritan emerges, teaming up with Joseph “Kujo” Kuntz and his best friend, a German Shepherd named Six, to find the kidnappers and make a stand against the deadly assailants. The conclusion is explosive and tragic. For those who enjoy Jesse Jacobson novels, try reading “Tranquility: a Cozy Murder Mystery,” available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality, #4)
Piers Anthony - 1993
Zane and Luna go on a date and discover some deeply hidden secrets about one another.
Marrow
Yan Lianke - 1998
In the story, a mother takes extreme measures to provide her four mentally disabled children with a normal life. She feeds them a medicinal soup made from the bones of her dead husband when she finds out that bones 'the closer from kin the better' can cure their illness. When she runs out of her husband's bones, she resorts to a measure that only a mother can take.
Planet Broker
Eric Vall - 2018
Colonize Them. Get Rich. When CT was fired from his job colonizing planets for the Terra-Nebula Corporation, they thought he would fade quietly into the night. They were wrong. With only his ship, his plucky catgirl sidekick, and an insane AI, CT plans to do the impossible: Colonize the most valuable and dangerous planets in the universe. Sure, he’ll have to brave a strange alien world, win over hostile natives, and court exotic women while taking on the biggest intergalactic corporation to ever exist, but CT is the best, and Terra-Nebula is about to learn that firsthand. Disclaimer: This book contains harem elements.
Her Snow Valley Fake New Year's Eve Boyfriend
Taylor Hart - 2019
A woman who needs a fake boyfriend. Will they find true love over a dance?
Jax Casey, hot shot Navy SEAL, only cared about his team and his job—saving lives. After growing up being a military brat himself, it hasn’t been hard to keep all relationships on a commitment free basis. With two weeks off, he plans to go to a beach with his buddies, until he discovers his grandpa has had a heart attack and needs his help.Tia Snow has always wanted to be a famous singer, until bad mojo from her ex boyfriend ruins everything. Now she’s focused on being a writer and helping her aunt and uncle out in the flower shop while they are away on vacation. When said ex boyfriend shows up at the store and insists he wants to get back together, she does the only thing she can think of—tell her ex that the gorgeous hunk who came in to the store to buy flowers is actually her date for the dance and her boyfriend. Good thing the gorgeous hunk agrees, too bad he demands dinner and a kiss every night in exchange.When complications arise they have to make a choice—trust in fate or walk away from the only real thing they’ve ever had.
The Last Witch: Volume Three
M.J. Lawrie - 2020
Hunters have declared all out war on those with magic in their blood and everyone has been caught in the crossfire.But Hunters, it would seem, are far from the world's biggest threat.A dark evil has been unleashed. One driven by wrath and an insatiable hunger for vengeance.And the fate of the world and all those in it rest in a single pair hands.The final spell has begun.The end draws near.And Lilly Hooper's fate has been sealed.Volume three brings the gripping, dark and intense Last Witch trilogy to its climax.Get ready. This is no fairy tale.
Saturday's Child
Ruth Hamilton - 2002
Magsy O’Gara, her husband killed in the war, plodded through her daily routine as a hospital cleaner, dedicating all her spare time to Beth, her genius daughter. Pursued by men who admired her great beauty, she was determined to remain a widow. Nothing was to divert her from her gruelling schedule. Her goal was simple: Beth would become a doctor.Beth, however, wanted a normal life – a brother, a sister, a stepfather who might make her wonderful mother happy. So Beth was delighted when a personable man began to court Magsy.Across, the road at number 1, Nellie Hulme, trapped in a world of silence, watched the other two Saturday girls. Deaf since infancy, Nellie had a secret so huge that it amused her. What would folk have thought had they known her true position in life? And why did she ‘hear’ in her dreams?
The PMP Exam: Quick Reference Guide
Andy Crowe - 2010
Presenting all 49 processes along with the key inputs, tools, and outputs, this helpful tool also depicts techniques, tables, and graphs to highlight the most important information at a glance. Common formulas are organized for rapid look-up, bringing relevant information for the PMP Exam together in one resource.
Savage in the Sheets: A Friends-to-Lovers Romance (Savage in Love Book 1)
Lark Anderson - 2020
Now I know why I never make it past date five.Jenna Savage here. Attorney. Reality TV watcher. Hopeless romantic. Forever alone…If only I could deprogram the aggressively bland bedroom habits I’ve adapted out of my system and become the savage I’m meant to be.Of course, in order to do that, I need help. And who better to be my mentor than Weston Singer, my best friend and a total stud.We lay out the rules, determined to maintain our friendship during my ‘training.’ But wouldn’t you know it, my heart has other plans.Now, I’m hopelessly in love with a man who has always been a love ’em and leave ’em type of guy. I should have seen this coming.Is it possible he could feel the same way?Or am I doomed to forever long for a man I can never have?Savage in the Sheets is a standalone romantic comedy novella that fits into the bigger Savage in Love world! If you LOVE to laugh! If you CRAVE a sexy SIZZLE! And if you HATE cliffhangers—this book is for you!