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Exhausted, the warrior drops to the ground. The impact creates a small dust cloud which settles on the fallen body. Quickly, the warrior stands. The shield and spear lay on the sandy colored ground. Picking up only the spear, it gold tip is aim upwards. A loud stress sound can be heard coming from the force used to throw this spear. It flies high up into the sky. As it continues to soar, it makes a swoosh noise. It is not perfectly straight, but it maintains a straight course upward. The warrior watches it for a moment then turns, and starts to run again. Looking back from time to time, the warrior still feels the need to run even faster. Once more the warrior looks back, when the right foot becomes entangled in a fallen dry tree branch. Her eyes are bulging after seeing clearly what has been chasing her.
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As the Dagger, Alex Stone hunted down supernatural threats on covert ops team, Night Command. After the capture of a particularly bad-ass vampire, Tristan Ambrose, Alex gets out of the game. In the years following her departure, Alex started a hot new clothing line and moved on with her life. She was happy pretending the supernatural didn’t exist, but, with Tristan’s escape, she’s pulled back into the game. Alex is hired to continue guarding the very tempting body of Jason Stavros—up-and-coming vampire politico—alongside her new team, The Trackers. Stavros is scheduled to head to an international conference of the supernatural community in Bucharest, and Alex and her new team must keep him safe while investigating new threats, and ghosts from the past. When the conference is interrupted by betrayal and sabotage, Alex must pull her weakened team together to bring the saboteurs to justice—and get some well-deserved revenge. Suddenly, she’s not just back in the game, she’s all in. By Blood Sworn is the thrilling, psychological, and sexy sequel to In Her Blood, the first book in The Dagger Chronicles series by Janice Jones.
In this book, The COVETed Leader: 5 Pillars of Transformative Leadership, you can discover how you can often find your inner leader at just the right time and show up in the world where your actions are devoid of glory and greed. What gets in the way of showing up this way is either your ego or emotion; therefore you need to tame ego and manage emotions By embracing these 5 Pillars of Transformative Leadership and the underlying tenets and behavioral traits readers will find: · A burning desire and Courage to lead · The Optimism and motivation to succeed · The Vision to define and take responsibility of your dreams · The Excellence to become a sought after world-class performer · The au...
Parenting a teenager may be the toughest job you'll ever have, says Roger Cross. But it is also one of the most important. Research confirms that parents are still the biggest influence on their children. And the way you parent your teenager in turn influences how your teen handles issues like goals, balance, anger and failure. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of experience working with Youth For Christ and raising two teens of his own, Cross unpacks the essential characteristics of a good coach and introduces five principles that will transform your relationship with your teen. Cross shows you how to help your teenager develop goals, find balance in life, fail "forward" and cope with anger. Most importantly, he shows you how to come alongside your teenager to offer challenge, support and guidance in preparation for adult life.
Featuring every review Ebert wrote from January 2001 to mid-June 2003, this treasury also includes his essays, interviews, film festival reports, and In Memoriams, along with his famous star ratings.
"A tense, original thriller that perfectly blends the nail-biting suspense and shocks of Silence of the Lambs and Shutter Island." --John Marrs, bestselling author of When You Disappeared His victims are powerless. He is in control. This is his revenge--and he's only just begun. Three university scientists are found dead in a gruesome murder-suicide, and the only suspect in the case, Victor Lazar, is quickly captured. When the spate of violent suicides follows him to prison he is moved to solitary confinement, reserved for the highest-risk inmates. And then his assigned psychologist inexplicably takes his own life. Alex Madison, a former forensic psychologist turned private therapist, is bro...
Have an interest in words? From the meaning of prefixes and suffixes to word origins and trivia, this book can help you build your vocabulary Someone just called you captious. Should you be flattered? Considering your extreme lactose intolerance, is it a good idea to order veau au béchamel from a French menu? Calumny is to slander as obloquy is to a) flattery, b) sermon, or c) invective? You've just heard that your new boss is a real martinet. Should you be worried or excited about this new addition to your workplace? Your partner says you have no élan; does that mean you're all out of yogurt? Starting to wish you'd paid more attention in English class? Don't worry, it's never too late to ...
In a city where teenagers are born with the gifts of magic or superpowers (or both) comes a story about fourteen-year-old Emma who is on the edge of entering high school and trying desperately to figure out the gifts she was born with. High school and life are hard enough for teenagers who are born double gifted; but on Emma's first day of school, she is lucky enough to meet Jack, a fellow freshman who can help her navigate through it all. But both Emma and Jack need to be careful. There is a secret organization that is out to separate the double-gifted citizens from the rest of the city that both Emma's and Jack's families call home.