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As a musician at the popular college café Coed Joe's, high school senior Kai Manter is never lacking for male attention. Out, proud, free-spirited, and sexually aware, Kai sets his sights on his darkly Gothic and undeniably bad-tempered coworker, Jamie Arlotta, a freshman at the local arts university. Sporting long hair and alluring hippie style, Kai expects his interest will be reciprocated, with satisfying sex as the end goal. That's what usually happens. But Jamie's lessons in life have been harsher.

Carter Lynch was an outsider, an army brat transfer. He had what it took to be a star. He was focused, talented...violent. Carter didn’t join the football team to make friends or win championships. He didn’t care about anything but taking a starting spot, earning a scholarship, and leaving. Until he met Sara and Ben. Ben was desperate to fit in, desperate for the same starting spot, and desperate for the same girl. The uneasy friends were on a collision course that would change everything.

The wacky world of Minecraft is an open experience for players to build, play, and grow. With limitless possibilities and a simple circuit system for developing machines, this game will suck you in for hours. You'll explore vast caves, struggle to survive in the arctic tundra, and fight a horde of roving monsters. But there is no way to celebrate the kind of wacky adventures you'll have in this game better than a list of puns and jokes!

Mark believes he has finally shed his destructive past. Reunited with the brother he had believed to be dead for most of his life, Mark's life detours again when he learns of a younger sister also abandoned by their parents. Desperate to find her, Mark and Davey travel thousands of miles turning over the rocks of their past. Discovering the truth veiled behind layers of lies is daunting, but the Brewer brothers vow to leave no stone unturned.

The Blue Hole Radius, created by man, changed the human race forever...sending the world into a new paradigm. On May 19, 2023, scientists at Caltech were successful with not only simulating a black hole but creating a temporary black hole, which lasted exactly 60 seconds.

The Main World, the Nether, and the End That's right: Minecraft has not one, not two, but three different worlds for you to explore. The Main World is the one you start out in, and where you'll be spending most of your time. As the game progresses, however, you'll find ways into the Nether, which is a dark, mysterious place full of unique resources for you to use to improve your tools, equipment, and other creations and is accessed through Nether portals.

The reason why many players have grown to love playing Minecraft with cheats enabled is they want to unlock different achievements, which can be difficult to do. Minecraft can seem like a vast Lego land; it is also a place where your character can die. Your character can die in many ways - it can drown, fall to its death, catch on fire, or be attacked by different hostile mobs. Due to this the Minecraft world can be dangerous for your character.

Matt Moyer is an orphaned teen growing up on a primitive farm in the Pennsylvania coal region. He’s homeschooled by his eccentric and philosophical great-uncle, who’s a stickler for logic, reason, and intellectual honesty. Despite his uncle’s reverence for veracity, inconsistencies arise regarding the old man’s shady past and the teen’s parents. Through a harrowing sequence of events, Matt is forced to attend a public school. Faced with the possibility of expulsion, arrest, and ostracism, he must make a choice....

In "Natures" a man walks into a tavern naked and tells an amazing story. In "Reflections" an insurance adjuster pays a visit to the Highland Hotel at Wilkes-Barre, PA, and is never heard from again. In "Amish Abduction" a young Amish man gets abducted by giant green aliens. He finds new strength and learns something about himself.

Regardless of what platform you're playing on, the objectives of Minecraft are the same across the board. This gives every player access to the means to build the world around them as they see fit. That said, with Minecraft Pocket Edition being optimized for smartphones, the game mechanics are more limited and fewer in number than their PC or console counterparts. For example, the Pocket Edition doesn't have Redstone rail systems or minecarts.

Just like when you build your own house in real life, there are tons of materials you can choose from in Minecraft. Unlike with your real life house, you can choose materials that are more expensive than you could afford or way more daring then you would ever dream of actually doing. Still, there does need to be practicality involved. In Minecraft you can play with the relationship between style and functionality far more than you can in the real world.

A fantastical tale of improbable events, reminiscent of Lovecraft but not....

Almost a year ago, Annabeth Meyer died in front of Emmy and Matthew, Annabeth's husband. They didn't know what happened, and Emmy was thought of as one of the suspects herself until a man named Jimmy came forward and took the blame. But somehow things didn't seem right.

Over the past year, it has been almost impossible to go anywhere without hearing some type of reference to Minecraft. With more than 35 million registered players across the different platforms, as of 2012, it has truly taken on a life of its own. Players of all ages enter the word of Minecraft on a daily basis to give their imagination and creativity the opportunity to run wild.

Welcome to Sky Valley, Georgia - a scenic town set in the heart of Rabun County, full of lush trees, greeneries, mountains, and nice people. It is paradise on earth; a place that you'd aspire to come home to. But gasp some of the people really aren't every nice and this seemingly serene place has secrets hidden within.

This book is a collection of 10 short stories that deal with demons and the inspirational power of faith.

When the world first heard about the meteorites, it was already too late. Ten arduous years later, Mick and his small group of eight had adapted to the new way of things. With no clean running water, power, or forms of communication, the Earth went backward, taking with it almost everything they held dear. Survivors like Mick were forced to do the best they could with what they had. Because in the post-Impact world, alternatives were a luxury that no one could afford. Now a deadly virus threatens those who were unfortunate enough to survive.

Alliance Parenting sets the foundation for a collaborative journey to help guide and prepare your children to build their own lives of passion, fulfillment, and success. Written and lived by five parents with diverse backgrounds in professional sports, business, medicine, mentorship, and the creative arts, Alliance Parenting outlines four pillars of focus to help parents and children of any age discover their potential to triumph over adversity, find purpose, and live life fearlessly as they work towards their dreams.

When the sanctity of his secluded cabin is threatened, former Army grunt Jonah Browne brings his family and other survivors together for a desperate mission. With the Molter horde hunting them, members of the sparse convoy—facing limited fuel and supplies—must reach the north or die trying. The road will not be easy. Germany is a hot zone, with the bloodsucking creatures closing in on them from all sides. Only grit, gut-wrenching sacrifices, and unfaltering determination will keep them alive. Luckily Jonah spent years stockpiling ammo. They’re going to need every single bullet.

With seven million early deaths a year linked to air pollution, air quality is headline news around the world. But even though we breathe in and out every few seconds, few of us really know what’s in the air all around us. In Every Breath You Take, air-quality specialist - and full-time breather - Dr. Mark Broomfield connects the dots from the atmosphere on distant planets to the holes in the ozone layer to the particles in our lungs.