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1) Powerless
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Powerless trilogy volume 1
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English
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In a kingdom divided by extraordinary powers and a strict caste system, Paedyn Gray, a young girl with no abilities, must hide her ordinary nature as she navigates a forbidden romance with a powerful prince and must participate in the perilous Purging Trials that could reveal her true identity.
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Atlas volume 3
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English
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"Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive. An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment. Old alliances quickly fracture as the initiates take opposing strategies as to how to deal with the deadly bargain they have so far failed to uphold. Those who remain with the archives wrestle with the ethics of their astronomical abilities, while elsewhere, an unlikely pair...
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The idea of imaginary friends (creative companions) is pretty standard in the realm of child psychology. However, we never really see anything substantial about the notion of these companions in adolescents and adults, let alone the purpose or effects of those companions on those individuals. Adolescents and adults tend to face more negative stigmas than that of children, yet also use their companions in a way that is more complex yet similarly to...
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Saranormal volume 6
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Sara is preoccupied dealing with a brand-new ability that's just surfaced: the power to read minds.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Effective creative work is not a nice-to-have, it's a necessity - it’s the only way you’ll stand out in a fiercely competitive marketplace. Whether you're in digital, direct or advertising, the CEO of an agency or just starting out, How to do better creative work has been written for you.
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Forgotten five volume 4
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The Forgotten Five work to stop President Fuerte from using his supernatural army to sabotage Magdalia Palacio's campaign"--
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[2023]
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English
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"Imbued with a deep sensitivity for its subjects, and a light touch of memoir that contends with Deming's own struggles with loneliness, THIS EXQUISITE LONELINESS is a singular meditation on the ways that loneliness pervades the human condition, as well as an assertion of the ways in which we might allow our own loneliness to fuel our creative fires. Loneliness is not a feeling to which we readily admit. It is stigmatized, freighted with shame and...
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[2018]
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English
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Achor posits that "our potential is not limited by what we on our own can achieve; rather, our success is amplified by the successes of those around us. He offers five strategies for exponentially raising our achievement and performance by helping others--colleagues, teams, and employees--be better"--
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2023.
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English
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"1977: Beatrice Bird is a Ph.D. psychologist who has fled her home, her partner, and her practice in San Francisco for a remote and sparsely populated island. She sees as few people as she possibly can, not by choice but from necessity. Normally, Beatrice is plagued by ghosts, manifestations of the emotional baggage people carry with them, but on the island, she's free from their grief and sadness. Then she meets Anne Iredale, a thirty-two-year-old...
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Last bloodcarver duology volume 1
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Nhika is a bloodcarver. A coldhearted, ruthless being who can alter human biology with just a touch. In the industrial city of Theumas, Nhika is seen not as a healer, but a monster that kills for pleasure. And in the city's criminal underbelly, the rarest of monsters are traded for gold. When Nhika is finally caught by the infamous Butchers, she's forced to heal the last witness to a high-profile murder. As Nhika delves into the investigation, all...
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Français
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Dans le vaste royaume du langage, les mots ne sont pas de simples éléments syntaxiques, mais des créateurs d'émotions, des sculpteurs de l'âme humaine. Ils transcendent le simple acte de communication pour devenir les architectes de nos expériences les plus intimes. Certains de ces mots, tels des artisans de la pluie, ont le pouvoir de déclencher des larmes, d'insuffler une mélancolie qui se répand comme une brume émotionnelle. D'autres,...
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Discover a more mindful, resilient, and adaptive perspective of the world with "Shifting Paradigms: Uncover the Secrets of a Growth Mindset". This comprehensive guide aims to provide readers with an in-depth understanding of what it means to have a growth mindset, its origin, and how it differs from a fixed mindset.Delve into the science behind the concept, exploring insights from psychology and neuroscience. The book further explains how the cultivation...
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2023.
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English
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"Sometimes people act like having a disability means you're from another planet, even though over a billion people in the world have disabilities. So how do you talk about disability? How do you talk to people with disabilities? This book helps kids and grownups approach disability as a normal part of the human experience."--Back cover.
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2023.
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English
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The Maker movement has been an excellent opportunity for people to become producers rather than just consumers, and schools are recognizing the value of offering students the tools, materials, and skills necessary to design sophisticated and meaningful projects. But teaching technical skills should not be the end goal: At its best, a Maker education teaches students to think and act in creative ways that can be applied to difficult challenges in all...
16) Contrarian
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The grand illusion volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In Contrarian, protests against unemployment and poor harvests have become armed riots as the people sink deeper into poverty. They look to a government struggling to emerge from corruption and conspiracy. Recently elected to the Council of Sixty-Six, Steffan Dekkard is the first Councilor who is an Isolate, a man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and emotional surveillance of empaths--but not the recent bombing of the Council Office Building...
17) Rebel undercover
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Forgotten five volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A group of supernatural kids faces off against a corrupt politician and the supernatural adults he has recruited to aid him in his misdeeds."--
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Lola Dutch volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Lola Dutch loves all of her animal friends, so when three of them are having a bad day she sets out to help them feel better.
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Français
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Faire un tri dans l'héritage familial ».... Pourquoi ? Dominique LAMARI ne nous invite pas ici à un inventaire notarié mais à une exploration du moi intime, en tant que psychologue, effectué lors d'une expérience collective dans un cadre invitant, sinon au farniente, du moins à une détente nécessitée par l'expérience.
Pour nous, lecteurs non spécialistes, un tel ouvrage ne sera-t-il pas obscur, voire abscons ? Eh bien non! Dans un style...
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David W. Galenson is a professor in the Department of Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the author of several books, including Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art.
When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation,...
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