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Throughout my life, I have had the privilege of crossing paths with various successful individuals who have excelled in their respective fields. These individuals come from diverse backgrounds, have faced unique challenges, and have had varying circumstances. From CEOs, business owners, doctors, and lawyers, to athletes, coaches, teachers, and immigrants, to my own family and friends, I have closely studied their journeys and the journeys of successful public figures in an attempt to decipher what led each person to achieve their level of success and happiness.

Penny has caught some unlucky breaks in life, which is why she is driving an Uber instead of running her own restaurant. However, her luck changes when a mysterious stranger gifts her an antique coin and then quickly kills himself right in front of her. Before she can process the trauma, Penny learns this coin is her ticket into Pendulum, an organization that controls all of the life-altering luck in the world. But to earn their unique good luck, Penny needs to choose someone and cause their bad luck. To help herself, she needs to hurt someone she knows, over and over again.

With the mountains behind them and Illredus on the horizon, they thought the hardest part of the journey over. They were wrong. Outlawed and on the run, Lyss struggles to control her new and volatile magic. A magic that will destroy her. Her only hope: Find the last remaining witch to tame it. Her only clue: Buried in Illredus. City of mancers. Capital of the Empire.

The Manual is a roadmap for teachers on how to create a classroom culture of caring, creativity, learning and emotional health. Increasingly progressive educators are focusing on play-based learning and social-emotional development, but The Happiest Preschool: A Manual for Teachers is unique in providing a comprehensive and thorough discussion of this focus and illustrating all precepts with teachable examples.

In the summer, Waldameer is like Seth and Julia's second home. The amusement park provides an unexpected thrill when new construction unearths an old locket near the carousel. Armed with only the locket's faded black-and-white photo of a young girl, Seth and Julia must track down its owner. Their investigation leads to new friends and new enemies. Like the greedy pickpockets eyeing the locket like hungry sharks.

Commander Finch believes he has finally, and safely, returned his crew home. But a jump through the Androski wormhole takes the Omni and her crew to 1993. Fifty years before their original mission. Now Finch and the crew must navigate a past that is still behind in technology until they can safely jump again. They must do so without interfering with the past...and without getting caught. Time is running out and the Androski will soon close. They face not only a leap of time, but faith in where they end up.

Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love Story unveils a vivid new view of a tumultuous era and one of its most important figures. In the early decades of the twentieth century, three highly ambitious women found their way to the West Coast, where each was destined to collide with J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist whose work in creating the atomic bomb would forever impact modern history.

Philadelphia. Marsha O’Shea is eager to reclaim her mojo. So when the dedicated FBI agent receives intel on a Russian gangster consolidating power throughout the city, she digs deep into covert plans threatening to fill the streets with bullet-ridden terror. But she’s devastated when her investigation leads to the torturous death of a crime-beat reporter with evidence.