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Ecosystems require balance to survive, and when that balance is compromised, as in the extinction of a resource or a species, disaster can fall onto the system as a whole. This vital management of resources can be seen in economic systems, as well. A healthy ecosystem is like a healthy economy, with competing mechanics inadvertently working in concert to sustain itself. In both of these worlds, we observe that when a healthy distribution of resources...
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For readers of Meghan O'Rourke's The Invisible Kingdom, Esmé Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias, and Melissa Febos's Girlhood, a powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays that sheds light on the silent epidemic of head trauma.
Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the...
Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the...
103) The Fear
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Two women quarantined together. A world falling into chaos. When a virus sweeps across the globe, Ash and Jack must each face their fears. Married and isolated in one small apartment, each woman grows restless, claustrophobic and paranoid. As the horror outside their door ramps up to apocalyptic levels, inside Jack is slowly unraveling. She shuts herself away and fears everything. Fears the virus has crawled its way inside, down her throat, into the...
104) In Plain View
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Daidai and her husband Hiroshi have what many of their friends believe is a perfect life. Daidai has recently left her job as curator of the Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo so that she and Hiroshi, a university professor, can try for a baby. Frustrated by their lack of success so far, and by their increasingly clinical love life, Daidai befriends Satsuki, one of Hiroshi's graduate students. Newly arrived from Japan, Satsuki...
105) Touched by Grace
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Ryn Tyler finally found her home-and demons are out to destroy it.
After a lifetime of searching for where she belongs, Ryn knows it's in Eagle Valley... but war threatens to take that all away. Attending an angels-only high school should help her master her magical abilities, but stopping the upcoming battle is more important.
Ryn trains in secret with the help of her mentor, Marek, a bad boy who can't decide between duty and love-and who's already...
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Castle meets Clue in this fun, fast-paced, fresh take on the cozy mystery.
Olivia's syndicated advice column is about solving problems...not murders. But when she returns to her hometown of Apple Station in Virginia to visit her dad, she has five days to expose a killer or fall prey as the next victim.
Olivia had planned for a week of rest and relaxation before her move to New York for a promotion and a chance to pursue her publishing dreams. Within...
107) Fatal Error
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Greed kills. Who will be the next victim?
Investigative Reporter Jess Kimball's impossible mission to find her kidnapped son and protect an elderly couple thrills in this new novel from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Diane Capri.
Fatal Error is the exciting follow up to Fatal Demand.
In Fatal Demand, Jess Kimball and FBI Special Agent Henry Morris worked furiously to stop a spree killer. But one last victim remains, held hostage...
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It's amazing how quickly your whole world can unravel... Thirty-six-year-old Olivia is an artist who's just been let go from her day job. Also, the presumed love of her life has suddenly decamped to another continent to avoid a lawsuit - but all of this pales when Olivia finds out that her beloved grandmother, the woman who raised her, has had a stroke. Olivia rushes back to her hometown of Stafford Falls to care for Nana Sutton only to find that...
109) Chosen by Grace
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She thought the demons were in her head... until the night they attacked. Ryn Tyler didn't intend to kill a demon when she moved to Eagle Valley-or to become the hero of a divine race of angels. She just wants to be a normal teenager, but fate has other plans. As she prepares to attend Galen High, a magical school for angels, Ryn navigates a complicated relationship with Marek, the guy who can't stop saving her life. But Marek knows more about Ryn's...
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Expectation conceals the truth.
Noblewoman and cultivator Li Yao is called to a small village to investigate a mysterious illness that has drained residents of their chi. Accompanying her are her suitors Xiang An and Shen Wei, both more trouble than they're worth in Li Yao's eyes.
Perhaps not all is as it seems. In the village and her suitors.
This is a short story set in the A Thousand Li universe. Does not need to be read to follow the main series....
111) Fatal Demand
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The sexy Italian seems too good to be true. Because he is.
When her Taboo Magazine assignment uncovers a modern Italian crime family operating scams and killing their victims inside the US, Jess Kimball joins forces with FBI Special Agent Henry Morris to stop the ruthless killers. This job may be her last. Jess rushes against time from Dallas to New Orleans to Florida and New York to find and stop Luigi Ficarra and save the elderly parents of the...
112) Fatal Distraction
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They stole her son. She wants him back.
Bestselling JESS KIMBALL THRILLER SERIES from award-winning New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI.
Jess Kimball is the relentless mother on a mission to find her son. Peter was stolen. She wants him back. While she searches, she's helping other families get justice.
Jess Kimball's son has been missing for ten long years. She spends every available moment looking for him. She'll never...
113) Awakened by Grace
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Ryn Tyler has finally fulfilled her destiny-but Eagle Valley is in more danger than ever.
After a victory that came at too high of a cost, Ryn's sacrifices have paid off. Ryn has awakened Grace, the Davina who's prophesied to save them all... but she's not what Ryn expected. From the start, Ryn knows Grace is keeping secrets. But it's worse than she originally feared, for Grace is hiding something that could mean the end of the world.
Ryn decides...
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Have you ever wondered how bridges don't fall down or how really old buildings stay standing up? Basic principles of architecture and engineering, including an introduction to bridges, locks, arches, columns, and skyscrapers, are explored in this newest engaging addition to the How Do series.
The How Do series is a great introduction to various STEM topics, each written in a format that encourages audiences to ask questions and guess the answers...
115) Hook: Dead to Rights
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Neverland is a wondrous isle of adventure.
Neverland is a cruel lie.
Children follow Peter Pan believing their dreams will come true-to never grow up.
Surprise, surprise... they never will. The children Peter Pan abducts are murdered or meet a grimmer fate.
I'm the child who escaped Peter's treachery. I've made it my life's calling to rescue the Lost Boys, even those who don't wish to be saved. Now Pan has a schooner he's using to steal even more...
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What do we have in this life besides moments with those we love?
Olivia Sutton has every reason to be happy – she's met the love of her life, her Nana has recovered from her stroke, and she's painting again. And yet… her best friend is leaving her cryptic messages, a rebellion is forming at the church luncheon committee and her recently deceased friend, Eddie Spaghetti, has started talking to her.
But even bigger problems are brewing in the idyllic...
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"Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a practicing clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher who created the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which allows us to decipher the brain's inner workings using light. In his first book, Projections, he combines his groundbreaking access to the brain's inner circuitry with a deep empathy for his patients to examine what mental illness can reveal about the mind...
118) Exes and o's
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"A romance novel-obsessed social media influencer revisits her exes on her hunt for true love in this romantic comedy. Romance book connoisseur Tara Chen has had her heart broken ten times by ten different men-all of whom dumped her because of her "stage-five clinger" tendencies. Nevertheless, Tara is determined to find The One. The only problem? Classic meet-cutes are dead, thanks to modern dating apps. So Tara decides to revisit her exes in hopes...
119) Here we go again
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"A queer rom-com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country"--