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Louisa hates Ash Springs more than anything. She dreams of escaping the tiny village in the Nevada desert, of finding excitement and adventure. On a camping trip to Sequoia National Park with her four brothers, she meets the mysterious Brendan, and her life takes a dramatic turn... because for Brendan, it's not a chance encounter at all. He's been meticulously planning every step of Louisa's abduction. Brendan whisks her away to the Canadian wilderness, an endless expanse of spruce trees and blue sky, populated only by wolves and ermines. He tells her she's the light in his darkness. As her days of imprisonment turn to weeks, Louisa is forced to confront not only her own desperate terror, bu...
Ab initio quantum chemistry has emerged as an important tool in chemical research and is appliced to a wide variety of problems in chemistry and molecular physics. Recent developments of computational methods have enabled previously intractable chemical problems to be solved using rigorous quantum-mechanical methods. This is the first comprehensive, up-to-date and technical work to cover all the important aspects of modern molecular electronic-structure theory. Topics covered in the book include: * Second quantization with spin adaptation * Gaussian basis sets and molecular-integral evaluation * Hartree-Fock theory * Configuration-interaction and multi-configurational self-consistent theory ...
We call them the sleepers . . . At the elite Missing Persons bureau of the Federal Police, Mila Vasquez is tasked with finding the hundreds of lost people who vanished from their former lives. The longer they are gone, the more they are forgotten by the world. Now they are returning. Appearing at random and wielding devastation, they enact a horrifying pattern of murders, leaving Mila scrabbling to discover where they have come from and what they want. Yet the deeper into the case she gets, Mila begins to realise that her colleagues are hiding something from her - something which will jeopardise everything . . . Set in the world of Carrisi's record-breaking debut, The Whisperer, The Vanished Ones is intelligent, thrilling and incredibly compelling.
Inspired by true events and set against the backdrop of the World War II, A Jewish Girl in Paris is a powerful novel about forbidden love, adapted from a translation by Jamie Lee Searle. Paris, 1940: The City of Lights under German occupation. Judith, a young Jewish girl, meets Christian, the son of a wealthy banker and Nazi sympathizer whose family will never approve of the girl he has fallen in love with. As the Germans impose more and more restrictions on Jewish Parisians, the couple secretly plan to flee the country. But before they can make their escape, Judith disappears. Montreal, 1982. Shortly before his death, Lica Grunberg confesses to his daughter, Jacobina, that she has an older ...
For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than r...
"der selfpublisher" – Deutschlands 1. Selfpublishing-Magazin Selfpublisher sind immer auf der Suche. Nach neuen Lesern. Nach Infos, wie sie ihre Bücher noch attraktiver machen. Und nach Dienstleistern, die ihnen helfen, diese Ziele erfolgreich umzusetzen. Mit dem neuen Magazin "der selfpublisher" bringen wir zusammen, was zusammengehört: Selfpublisher und Dienstleister. Interviews, Analysen und Umfragen dienen der Orientierung. Gestaltete Anzeigen und Textanzeigen bieten Dienstleistern die Chance, sich fachgerecht und zielgenau zu präsentieren. 2020 erscheint "der selfpublisher" im 5. Jahrgang; Auflage dieser Ausgabe: 4.000 Exemplare. Erscheinungstermine: "der selfpublisher" erscheint a...
In this inclusive, illustrated history and guide to skin care and beauty, journalist and founder of Very Good Light David Yi teaches us that self-care, wellness, and feeling beautiful transcends time, boundaries, and binaries—and that pretty boys can change the world Chanel and Goop might have seemed ahead of the curve when they launched their men’s beauty and wellness lines, but pharaohs were exfoliating, moisturizing, and masking eons earlier. Thousands of years before Harry Styles strutted down the red carpet with multicolored fingernails, Babylonian army officials had their own personal manicure sets. And BTS might have become an international sensation for their smoky eyes and perfe...
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