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A religious cult, militia conspirators, and an FBI standoff. Can a nine-year-old girl survive them all? Sophia’s mom has been promised Zion after meeting and marrying a fanatic religious cult member. Sophia is left to protect her younger sister while facing severe punishments, strange rules, and meetings meant to indoctrinate them.

In 2010, the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in West Virginia killed 29 men and tore a hole in the lives of countless others. Now you can hear the first-person accounts from survivors and family members. In this riveting, emotionally stunning new work, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, award-winning writers of The Exonerated, and three-time Grammy Award-winning country/folk legend Steve Earle dig deep into the repercussions of the most deadly mining disaster in recent US history.

Christine Garrett is investigating an unusual malaria outbreak on the south coast of England. As she threads the connections between the dead, she discovers links to her son and the charismatic leader he follows. In finding the source of the spreading plague, she is forced to decide between her old faith and the reason that has brought her to a lightless place.

An important medical breakthrough has a shameful history. In 1840s Alabama, a slave-owning doctor performs medical experiments on involuntary subjects - enslaved women - in an effort to solve the problem of fistulas, a post-childbirth anomaly. As the experiments proceed, and he gets close to a solution, the women try to survive and even find dignity in the face of inhuman treatment.

Imagine the satisfaction of nurturing a garden from seed to harvest. With the right guidance, that dream can become a reality. Introducing Gardening 101: The Complete Gardening Guide for Beginners, your ultimate guide, which offers essential gardening techniques and easy-to-follow instructions for starting and maintaining a thriving garden, even if you've never planted a seed before.

From the brilliant author of the Fox Family saga: a spinoff novel, following Bertie's journey to become a pilot as she takes to the skies in Cornwall. Set against the dramatic Cornish coastline, this absorbing tale of friends and secrets will delight fans of Rosie Goodwin and Evie Grace.

Raised in the grandeur of Muntham Court, young Millicent has always felt like the black sheep of her family. Between a vindictive mother and a conceited older sister, her only ally is her doting father, Charles. Brought up in the traveller community and always on the move, Lena’s life has never been settled, but it has always been happy thanks to the support of her loving mother. When it is revealed that Lena is Charles’s illegitimate daughter, Milly finally has a chance at true sisterhood.

These affirmations are great as part of your personal mindfulness practice, to listen to before bed, first thing in the morning, on a break, at the park, beach, in the garden, or any time you need a daily dose of inspiration! To increase the power of this reprogramming process, check out this, audiobook, so you can listen to these affirmations whenever you need!

When Evie is invited to the wedding of the guy she’d fancied throughout her teens, it’s the final straw. What’s wrong with her, and why can’t she keep a man? In between consoling herself with ice cream and chocolate and sobbing her heart out to her cousin Chamaine, Evie has a brainwave - and it all centres around her 'little black book' (well, more floral patterned notebook really), which contains the details of every man she’s ever kissed or dated. Perhaps the cure for her disastrous love life has been nestled within its pages all along....

Thrive is the road map of how to grow your business and drive sales in highly shifting, constantly changing economic times. It is the story of those leaders and organizations that have seen consistent growth through several economic crisis - companies that were founded in the late 1700s to early 1900s, and they are still in business thriving today.

This guide will teach you how to analyse arguments, speeches, and newspaper articles. It will help you discern faults in reasoning from sound arguments. It looks at the structure of language in order to demonstrate rules by which you can identify good analytical thinking, and will help you to formulate clear, defensible arguments. With real life newspaper extracts, a glossary, exercises and answers, and a guide to essay writing, this is an invaluable tool for both students and general readers.

This radio dramatization of the classic movie, featuring the original stars, aired on June 17, 1940.

Paris, 1942. When thirteen-year-old Amelie Dreyfus goes into her mother's wardrobe to hide, it's a game. When she comes out, it's a matter of life and death. For Amelie is Jewish, and her parents and brother have been taken by the authorities. With her apartment too dangerous to remain in, Amelie must survive alone on the streets of Paris. Determined to avenge her family and defend her country, she joins the French Resistance. But Amelie will discover that in war, everyone becomes a new person, and some seem to shed their old skin entirely. Even your friends may betray you.

Nat Turner, enslaved preacher and prophet, marshaled dozens of his followers for a violent revolt that left fifty-five white people dead in Southampton County, Virginia. As the myth of the contented slave dissolved, the South panicked. Captured, tried, and convicted, Turner dictated his confessions to a local lawyer. Though some questions endure around the reliability of the narrative, as well as the place that such a complex figure should occupy in our historical consciousness, what is inarguable is that this 1831 rebellion marked an inflection point in America’s racial conflict.

This audiobook reveals the psychology and child development theory that underpins every activity and shows you how to apply those principles to almost everything you do with your baby - nappy time, bath time, to calm and soothe, in the park, at the cafe, and on the bus. Bringing discovery, exploration, songs and stories to your daily activities with your young baby sounds simple, but is in fact transformative for your baby's developing cognitive function, language and communication skills, motor skills, emotional and social development and more.

In February 1944, the girls of the Air Transport Auxiliary Mystery Club face the devastating personal loss of one of their own in a tragic crash. At the same time, another member is blackmailed, whilst honeymoon plans of a third are threatened by a puzzling mystery. As they share each other's joys and troubles, the friends find the comfort and strength to go on with their vital work and dangerous investigations in wartime England, even when few situations are what they seem to be.

In the financial district of New York City, where the towering buildings witness the hustle and bustle of Wall Street, Graydon and Sophie forge their way, bound together by their purist dreams and resolute strength, to succeed in the business world. As they celebrate their 10th anniversary and prepare to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, little do they know that their world is about to be turned upside down. What begins as a joyous occasion soon spirals into a web of deceit and betrayal when a powerful banker steps in to crush their dreams.

Bathsheba Everdene flees her abusive husband and spends the night by a stagnant and spooky swamp. When light begins to break over her hiding-place, she sees strong parallels between her surroundings and the nature of her own experiences of relationships.

Set amidst Utah's infamous Skinwalker Ranch, this book interweaves shocking eyewitness accounts from scientists, ranchers, and skeptics who have dared to confront its mysteries. Each chapter reveals a new layer of the mystery, presenting tales that will test your skepticism and make you question the true nature of reality.

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz, so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Finding work as a bus conductress instead, a chance encounter revives her hopes once more, and soon she is singing for the troops alongside new friend Ivy. When agent Gordon Gold approaches them, Ivy jumps to sign with him and sets off for the bright lights of London. But Pearl is wary of the charming man and decides to stay, watching her friend go with a heavy heart. A year later, while Pearl is struck mute by an illness, Ivy returns - and is quick to seize the chance to fill Pearl's place.