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College is no longer the golden ticket to success, and students are starting to see through it. We are a generation that wants to make a life instead of just a living. We are choosing ourselves, dropping out, and living life on our own terms! Sounds like a dumb idea? An escapist fantasy? Only to those too mentally enslaved by the system to think outside the box! In DropOut, Rueben L. Carter guides renegades and tapped out students in making a rational decision to leave college in order to chase their true passions in life.

Kerry Smith is going to save lives—and so is her best friend, Tim Palmer. After years of working toward medical school, they are about to take their entrance exams. But on the eve of the new millennium, a classmate goes into cardiac arrest, changing everything. For nearly eighteen minutes, rising soccer star Joel Greenaway is dead. For nearly eighteen minutes, Kerry performs CPR on her longtime crush. And for nearly eighteen minutes, Tim is too shocked to help. Though they don’t yet know it, those eighteen minutes will change the next eighteen years of their lives.

'Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what's inside that room would be it.' That's what a LAPD Lieutenant tells Detectives Hunter and Garcia of the Ultra Violent Crimes Unit as they arrive at one of the most shocking crime scenes they have ever attended. In a completely unexpected turn of events, the detectives find themselves joining forces with the FBI to track down a serial killer whose hunting ground sees no borders, a psychopath who loves what he does.

In "Caleb Williams: The Inspiring Biography of Caleb Williams' Path To the NFL," delve into the life and career of one of football's most electrifying young talents. From his humble beginnings in Washington, D.C., to becoming a standout quarterback at the University of Southern California, Caleb Williams' journey is nothing short of inspiring. This comprehensive biography captures the essence of Caleb's meteoric rise in the football world. Explore his early days, where his passion for the game was ignited, and follow his path through high school, where he showcased his extraordinary skills ...

Simon Thorn has only recently discovered that he's an Animalgam, a member of a secret race of people who can shift into animals, and found a home where he truly belongs. But not everything is as good as it seems. Simon's evil grandfather, Orion, is bent on taking over the entire animal kingdom, and to do so, he'll need to gather the pieces of a terrible weapon - one that could shred the very foundations of the Animalgams' world...unless Simon can gather the pieces first.

"I see Gondwane as it shall be in the untold ages of dim futurity, near the time when the Earth shall be man's habitation no more, and the great night shall enfold all, and naught but the cold stars shall reign. The first sign of the end ye shall see in the heavens, for Lo! the moon is falling, falling. And there shall come a man into the lands, a man not like other men, but sent from Galendil."

Nationally syndicated newspaper columnist Tim Carter, founder of Ask the Builder, exposes why asphalt shingles are falling apart much faster than they should. Carter also reveals how to add copper to the top of all roofs to significantly slow down the degradation of asphalt shingles. Homeowners and businesses that depend on asphalt shingles can end up saving tens of thousands of dollars by following Carter's advice.

Shortly before her death Angela Carter was preparing this volume of short stories, one which does full justice to the glory of her imagination and the range of her talent. It is divided into distinct parts. The first comprises a group of stories inspired by America: Lizzie Borden visits a circus; a John Ford Western is spiced with the story of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore'; and there is a wonderful Gothic extravaganza set in Hollywood. The second section - Old World Wonders - draws on fairy tales.

Years after his wife dies in a mafia hit gone wrong, Garrison Gage finally pieces together a life for himself in the Oregon coastal town of Barnacle Bluffs. Some days the cranky private investigator with the bum knee and the caustic wit could even call himself content. Maybe even happy. But marrying again? Never. Yet not long after quirky Rita Rodriguez enters the scene, Gage can’t imagine life without her.

Women of Courage explores the lives of inspiring women from the Bible, through 31 daily bible chapters. In a quest to understand what a Godly woman looks like, Jennifer examines the often untold stories of 31 women in the Bible.

Each of these remarkable women has much to teach us. They led busy lives and experienced challenges, disappointments and triumphs. Yet each found fruitfulness, purpose and contentment.

New Yorker Jake Harrington loves a lot of things about living in London: his lucrative hedge fund job, the way British women melt at the sound of an American accent, being thousands of miles away from the girl who betrayed him. And, oh yes, his just-sex arrangement with his gorgeous roommate, Jess.

Ronan Truelove barely survived his first encounter with his father and the Bend Sinister. Now, he's determined to become one of the Blood Guard, a sword-wielding secret society sworn to protect thirty-six pure souls crucial to the world's survival. Eager to prove he's got what it takes to become a Guard, Ronan can't believe that the first mission he, Greta, and Sammy are sent on is to visit a weird-sounding school and take a series of tests called the Glass Gauntlet.

With a body made of wax, seaweed for hair and polished abalone shells for eyes, Corpse is bound to haunt the Witches' sea shack forever. She has no memory of the kid she was before she was snatched and ended up on the rock that doesn't exist. But the delivery of an unexpected message sets Corpse off on a surprising quest, searching for answers to the old and familiar questions that have filled her not-brain since the day she first woke up a ghost. Questions about her name. Questions about her family.

From a prize-winning journalist, Mary Carter Bishop, a moving and beautifully rendered memoir about the half-brother she didn’t know existed that hauntingly explores family, class, secrets, and fate. Applying for a passport as an adult, Mary Carter Bishop made a shocking discovery. She had a secret half-brother. Her mother, a farm manager’s wife on a country estate, told Mary Carter the abandoned boy was a youthful "mistake" from an encounter with a married man. There had been a home for unwed mothers; foster parents; an orphanage.

Against all odds, Calla is adjusting to her new life alongside the vampires who brought her into the supernatural world. As they work to bring longtime enemies together, to forge a better future for vampires and humans alike, they must find a way to mend the rifts created long before Calla even existed. But the rocky relationship between the vampires and those who hunt them isn’t the only threat. An ancient dynasty of vampires close to them is hellbent on destroying their peace and the life Calla has built with her mates.

Orphaned and forced to live under the cruel eye of her stepmother, Saskia spends her days and most of her nights sewing gowns for rich dragonesses to wear to balls she will never see. When a chance encounter brings her into contact with the handsome Callan, duke and cousin to the queen, she thinks nothing of it. After all, what royal duke would want a woman with a broken, mad dragon? But when the otherworldly intervenes, Saskia gets her chance to go to the ball.

Twenty years ago, an unspeakable tragedy rocked Rose Yates's small, affluent hometown...and only Rose and her family know the truth about what happened. Haunted by guilt, Rose escaped into a new life. Now she seems to have it all: a marriage, a son, a career. And then her husband is found dead. As far as Detective Colin Pearson is concerned, Rose is guilty. Her marriage wasn't as happy as she'd led everyone to believe, and worse, she's connected to a 20-year-old cold case.

I think we can all agree that having your finances in order can make living a happy life much easier. Make sure your young person doesn’t fall into the trap of asking “Where is all my money going?” or “Why didn’t they teach me this stuff in school?!” Author Stephen Carter is a high school teacher-turned-entrepreneur and had made it his mission to help young people manage their money better. Through a pause-resisting narrative, Stephen tells the story of a sophomore named Andrew Black, as he navigates the world of finance alongside his instructor, Mr. Sharp.

All Tiffany’s attempts to find love have ended in disaster and led to her being a sexually frustrated 19-year-old virgin omega sick of overbearing alphas. Her latest failure lands her in legal trouble, and the only way out is to sign a contract with a man she barely knows. While she doesn’t want to give up her freedom, a year of training at the hands of a handsome and dominant alpha is the best of her bad options.