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Learn about the 12 Olympian Gods: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes, and Dionysus. Discover their roles as a god, their personality, family history, birth story, and some of the most famous tales in Greek mythology!

LIVING UR SONATA reveals the transcendent truth of Kurt Schwitters' 1920s epic of nonsense. With urgency and humor, Andrew Laties brings tales of Kurt Schwitters' dramatic life into resonance with stories of Laties' own forty years performing.

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The Sacred History of Braulio Cantero is a raunchy, exuberant novel filled with images that will haunt and have you laughing simultaneously.

Mellara Gold offers herself as both a spiritual companion and mentor as she shares her deep understanding of the human experience in Living in Awareness. This book is full of insights into how to better connect with the underlying spiritual rhythms required for a life of freedom and peace. Mellara's warmth, compassion, and humility shine throughout her writing as she courageously shares her own personal struggles for the benefit of others. She provides examples of how a holistic way of living, including practices like prayer, ritual, and meditation, has helped her heal and transform, and how you can too.In our world today, which relies too heavily on the intellect, Mellara presents a beautiful invitation to learn to live with a more open heart, full of love and grace. Living in Awareness teaches how to live a more embodied life, and how to learn to listen to the messages from the body, emotions, and heart, while also integrating the powers of the mind. This book is a practical guide for recognizing and connecting with the tools we all have within in order to live a deeply satisfying and peaceful life.-------------------"A brilliant, wise, and compassionate guide for living in these deeply tumultuous times. This book left me refreshed, peaceful, and in awe. A must-read!" -Carson Beckemeyer"A transformative read that left me feeling more whole in myself and at peace." -Naomi Boshari

Every page in Study for Success is designed to help you. You will become confident as you work with new subjects, homework, exams, schedules and projects. Based on scientific research and successfully used with middle and high school students, you can learn the tools that you need for mastery, success and with less stress. Learning how to study teaches life-long skills. This book fits perfectly with the maxim "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." You can take Study for Success with you for high school, college, graduate school, and into your career because you will know how to master new materials. Our society and therefore, our children, expect immediate results. They are told they are brilliant and gifted. So, what IS IT that happens as they begin to mature? Why doesn't learning come easily, quickly verifying that the child is a genius? The answer lies in how a student studies. The term "toddler" means just that...a young child is learning how to walk. The number of times they fall is without number, yet they themselves get back up, determined to continue on. The same can be said about riding the first bicycle and learning how to swim-the child would never stop, the challenge is too much fun! The student wanting to succeed in a class can have the same approach, a "can do attitude," instead of the fear of failure. Working for mastery is NOT an impossible task; it is actually enjoyable and rewarding when the student follows the steps within Study for Success. Years after graduation students still return to Mrs. Lotz to say "thank you" for teaching them how to study. Margaret Lotz has been a teacher for over 40 years, and she remains as passionate about her work now as when she first began. Graduating from California State University with honors, she was initiated into the honorary history society, Phi Alpha Theta. She then joined a masters program at the University of Wisconsin after which she began her teaching career. Margaret has been an administrator, designed award-winning curriculum, and taught in both public and private schools in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Jersey, southern California, and in the Monterey Bay area. She credits Dr. Roger Taylor's work Curriculum Design for Excellence with much of her creativity in interdisciplinary teaching. Widely traveled and with an insatiable universe of interests, Margaret considers herself blessed beyond measure to be a teacher, mother and grandmother. ______________ OMNI Learning Center Educational Guides: Guide to Study for Success, Guide to Manners & Etiquette, Guide to Theater in the Classroom, Guide to Reading Comprehension Strategies.

The monastery at Siani was famous throughout the academic world for its library. The monks of medieval days routinely obtained ancient, crumbling manuscripts and recopied them. Among them, hidden in a wall in the cellar, the following parchment was found and faithfully recopied in the practiced hand of the Sianian monks several centuries after its original writing: "According to the official Catalogue of Popes, after the Holy Father Leo IV died in the Year of Our Lord, Eight hundred fifty five, he was succeeded by Pope Benedict III. I, Martin Paschal, swear upon my eternal soul that the Catalogue lies. Leo died on the twentieth day of June, eight hundred fifty-four, and to him succeeded John, who was a woman, who sat on the Papal Throne for two years, five months, and four days..." This is not the first time that the sensational enigma of the legendary female Pope has been explored, but this version is different from all others in that it treats its characters with the seriousness and depth they deserve, while telling an epic story of Europe in the throes of birth in the darkest of the Dark Ages. This epic saga was the first of Hugo N. Gerstl's international best-sellers, attaining number two on the Portuguese best-seller list. It has been translated and published in the Czech Republic and Israel, and continues to be popular in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Novels: Scribe (International Best Seller) - The Motherland Saga in three volumes: Legacy, Emergence, and Coming of Age. The Motherland Saga is also available in an Anthology Edition: Legacy - The Birth of Modern Turkey - The Deathmaster - ChildFinders - Oldies But Goodies Show - Amazing Grace (International Best Seller) - Billy Jenkins - Against All Odds (International Best Seller) - Assassin (International Best Seller) - Arcade - The Wrecking Crew (International Best Seller) - Skorzeny - Dancing With the Devil - Stalemate. - Coming Soon: >______________

1943: The tide of the War has turned against Hitler. Mussolini is deposed, imprisoned, and hidden. A single commando leads gliders to the top of the highest peak in the Apennines to rescue the Duce. October 1944: Hungary's Admiral Horthy is about to defect to the Soviets. Hitler's man kidnaps Horthy's son, and advises him it's time to "retire" if he ever wants to see his son again . December 1944: The Battle of the Bulge. Hitler's favorite soldier, using 2,000 stolen American Army uniforms, leads a group of English-speaking Germans behind enemy lines and wreaks havoc throughout the front. That same man helps former SS members get to South America; becomes Juan Péron's security chief and Eva Péron's secret lover; trains Arab forces and Yasser Arafat for the next Israeli war; sells arms to both sides of wars throughout Africa; and ultimately, as a Mossad agent, "takes out" the very group of nuclear scientists Egypt recruited to destroy Israel! The same man, Otto Skorzeny, did all these things and more. Unrepentant Nazi, this ultimate predator, the most dangerous man in the world, lived more lives than a dozen James Bonds. International best-selling author Hugo N. Gerstl, brings the life of this amazing hero/villain, now almost forgotten, back onto the world's stage where, during the time he lived, he made the world a much more exciting - and scary - place. Novels: Scribe (International Best Seller) - The Motherland Saga in three volumes: Legacy, Emergence, and Coming of Age. The Motherland Saga is also available in an Anthology Edition: Legacy - The Birth of Modern Turkey - The Deathmaster - ChildFinders - Oldies But Goodies Show - Amazing Grace (International Best Seller) - Billy Jenkins - Against All Odds (International Best Seller) - Assassin (International Best Seller) - Arcade - The Wrecking Crew (International Best Seller) - Skorzeny - Dancing With the Devil - Stalemate. - Coming Soon: >______________

In this monumental historical novel of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, Lev Arkady survives the murder of his entire family in the closing days of World War II. Rescued by the ultimate showman and huckster, Old Amos, a character as memorable as Falstaff, Lev survives by becoming the ultimate chameleon. Penny Fullerton lives the good life of a 1950s Los Angeles teenager, experiencing the early death of her parents, sexual awakenings, and young heartbreak. She and Lev meet for one glorious evening in Vienna. They will not see each other again for twenty-seven years. In the interim, Lev befriends Karol Wojtyla, who will eventually succeed to the Papal throne. He succeeds as an international showman. When his life is endangered due to his involvement with anti-communist forces, he is catapulted to England, where he becomes an "American" star of 1960s pirate radio. Later, he participates at the dawn of revolutions that will topple Communism. Meanwhile, Penny achieves unexpected success, rising to the top of a small startup company-FedEx. When they finally meet again, Penny is a widow. Lev has never married. The magic between them ignites anew. They share a dramatic, life-threatening adventure in the Caucasus and, ultimately, a highly satisfying climax when they realize that the meaning of life is getting over fear and making the world a better place for having lived in it. This is Hugo Gerstl, author of ten novels, at his very best. Arcade is guaranteed to cement and increase his worldwide reputation! Novels: Scribe (International Best Seller) - The Motherland Saga in three volumes: Legacy, Emergence, and Coming of Age. The Motherland Saga is also available in an Anthology Edition: Legacy - The Birth of Modern Turkey - The Deathmaster - ChildFinders - Oldies But Goodies Show - Amazing Grace (International Best Seller) - Billy Jenkins - Against All Odds (International Best Seller) - Assassin (International Best Seller) - Arcade - The Wrecking Crew (International Best Seller) - Skorzeny - Dancing With the Devil - Stalemate. - Coming Soon: >______________

A WOMAN THAT HATH IMPUDENTLY PASSED THE PART OF WOMANHOOD AND BEEN A GREAT SPOILER AND CHIEF COMMANDER AND DIRECTOR OF THIEVES AND MURDERERS AT SEA ... SHE HATH BEEN THE MOTHER OF ALL REBELLIONS FOR FORTY YEARS ... GRACE O'MALLEY, the "Pirate Queen of Connaught," was thus vilified by those English authorities who tried to bring stubborn, recalcitrant Ireland to its knees in the Sixteenth Century. Twice married, twice widowed, a passionate lover, gambler, pirate, sea captain, politician, mother of heroes, and, above all, a symbol of the indomitable human spirit and Irish independence. She was a force to be reckoned with by anyone - man, woman, even the sovereign of England, who tried to cross her path. AMAZING GRACE swaggered boldly across the world stage for more than seventy years. These were turbulent times of Henry VIII and "Bloody Mary" Tudor, and Queen Elizabeth - the age of discovery when the remnants of the Middle Ages were dying - except in the provinces of Ireland - and the Renaissance was in full flower - the days of the "discovery" of America by Spaniards, the exploration of Africa and India by Portugal, the launching of the Invincible Armada, and the great schism of two contending forces of western Christianity. Armed with courage and daring to match that of any man, AMAZING GRACE lived a life "larger than legend." More sinner than saint, she is remembered throughout western Ireland more than four hundred years after her death, celebrated in story and song. In a time when women were very much "second class citizens," GRACE O'MALLEY did not need a women's rights organization - she was her own force, and if you tried to cross her, you'd best beware. Sir Henry Sidney, the English Lord Deputy of Ireland, said it best: "There came to me a most feminine sea captain called Grace O'Malley, with three galleys and 200 fighting men. She brought a husband with her, and she was, by sea and by land, well more than Mrs. Mate with him. This was a notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland." Hugo N. Gerstl, nationally famous American trial lawyer, world traveler, whose books have been translated into Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Hebrew, and German, and author of international bestsellers Scribe, Against All Odds, Assassin, and The Wrecking Crew, lives in Carmel, California with his wife Lorraine, a writer and teacher. Together they have raised five grown children. Novels: Scribe (International Best Seller) - The Motherland Saga in three volumes: Legacy, Emergence, and Coming of Age. The Motherland Saga is also available in an Anthology Edition: Legacy - The Birth of Modern Turkey - The Deathmaster - ChildFinders - Oldies But Goodies Show - Amazing Grace (International Best Seller) - Billy Jenkins - Against All Odds (International Best Seller) - Assassin (International Best Seller) - Arcade - The Wrecking Crew (International Best Seller) - Skorzeny - Dancing With the Devil - Stalemate. - Coming Soon: >______________

Double the name and double the magic, mystery, and mayhemOnce upon a time, a fairy tale name generator issued a challenge to a group of authors. Volume Two of these quirky stories brings double trouble.In this clean YA anthology, spy on thieves discovering their princely identities, accompany villains seeking redemption along with accident-prone geese, and rejoice in the reunion of siblings separated at birth. Side with twins split between good and evil, giggle over mistaken identities, and discover the secrets of royal doppelgängers. When fates are intertwined by a namesake, mayhem and mischief are sure to follow.Venture into this collection of adventurous stories by award-winning and up-and-coming authors and see if what happens once . . . happens twice!Pssst...some characters from Once Upon A Name might make a comeback, but the two sets and all stories in them can be read as standalones.O TIME, UNTANGLE THIS by Susan Stradiotto and Sky SommersSIREN SONG by Meadoe HoraTHE LIES OF LADY ROSEBERRY by Alice IvinyaPOISON QUEEN by R. S. WilliamsTO WALK IN ROYAL SHOES by Marie ReedBORN TO PROVE by Dani HootsHIPPOLYTA GOES HUNTING by Alex StubblefieldTHE TWIN AMBERS by Elena ShelestFOR OSIAN by Sarina LangerTO FIND A QUEEN by Sky SommersA FEAST OF WILLS by Bekah BergeSTAR DANCER by Astrid V.J.HAUNTING KING EZRA by Susan StradiottoBLOODY MARY'S DAY OFF by Sophia-Rose JohnsonIN THE FIERCE SHADOWS by Jo HollowayA POLITE THIEF by D.M. TaylorTHE HUMMINGBIRD by CC SullivanTERROR & TWILIGHT by N.D.T. CasaleGAMES EGYPTIANS PLAY by Donna WhiteALLIE AND THE FOX by Eurelia WintersCURSED DESTINY by MS WeaverAll proceeds donated to charity in support of reading and literacy.

When the novelty and initial shock of the pandemic have worn off, what's left for the forgotten "heroes" working the front lines of our essential stores? Understaffed and underpaid, the crew at Dream Grocers simply survive day by day, and Daniel starts to feel the numbness stemming from an underappreciated life. Working hard and climbing the ranks feel meaningless without any recognition, and the slow grind of retail life begins to take its toll.The Patron Saints of Grocery picks up after the events of Life on the Grocery Line, and checks back in on Daniel while he navigates a year in the life of a grocery-store employee amid the confusion of COVID-19. New pressures from climbing the corporate ladder, protocols and regulations from the government, and the increasingly restless public will all impose their wills on his dreams. Will he finally get the push he needs to prioritize a secret alternative life moonlighting as a panda for social media, or will he just fade away into the retail abyss?

It's Wash Day! But Elise doesn't want to wash her hair. Will a visit from her favorite Auntie CC and a gift from the ancestors change her mind? Features textile renderings created by 467 hours of hand-sewing by artist Crystal C. Mercer.

Stopping traffickers is only half of the job; finding the victims is RAPTOR's specialty.He's a special operative with a bleeding heart for the innocent.She's a desperate kidnapper determined to save her family.They're both fighting the desire that explodes between them, even as he chases her down to bring her in.Retraining as an operative in RAPTOR, Diego Josephs is determined to prove himself as a RAPTOR--ready to take down a ruthless kidnapper on the run. But when he encounters the woman who took two children after murdering their mother, everything changes. Nothing is as it seems.Hellbent on saving her niece and nephew, Shelby Davidson will stop at nothing to reveal the truth about her sinister brother-in-law. She knows in her gut that he had everything to do with her sister's disappearance. But convincing the rugged and irresistible special operative may be harder than she realized. Once Diego relents and realizes she's telling the truth, he knows one thing is certain: he must protect the children while saving Shelby.***Entire series complete!USA Today bestselling author PJ Fiala brings you the full and complete Lynyrd Station Protectors - Trafficking series-heroes willing to sacrifice everything in service to their country, and for the women they love. Full length novel with no cliffhanger, no cheating, and a happily-ever-after guaranteed.

Throughout your life, you experience milestones worth commemorating. This Book of Days is a place to record landmark achievements, meaningful events, and special memories to Cherish.Use this Book of Days to inspire new adventures, track current successes, and memorialize what you do forYourselfYour loved onesYour LegacyDon't count the days, make every day count!

"Each time Mom cried, the Lancaster family knew what would happen next: a move to somewhere new. By the time Sherrie was ten, roaming with Mom had led to seventeen moves--until the day Mom cried as she walked away and abandoned her children. Sherrie's wandering then began and continued through eighteen more moves until her high-school graduation. Her one saving grace was the couple who came to her rescue and saved her over and over. As Sherrie tried to find what she'd lost, the convoluted path of her life was filled with bus stations, country-western music, soul-killing indifference, and the unlikeliest of characters--vividly complex, daring, and with deeply flawed personalities. At twenty-two, Sherrie revisited what should have been the Lancasters' forever home. It looked just as she remembered, except for a crack in the fireplace wall. That crack added character to the wall, yet she knew the crack caused by moving and abandonment had destroyed her family. It was up to her to rebuild her life."--Publisher description.

Botanical Art: An Image Archive for Artists & Designers by Vault Editions is a captivating visual resource for creative minds seeking inspiration from the world of botany. Delve into a vast collection of curated botanical subjects, ranging from delicate roses and vibrant chrysanthemums to beautiful orchids, elegant irises, and radiant sunflowers. This excellent book goes beyond traditional flora, embracing the allure of lush tropical plants that will transport you to paradisiacal realms. Immerse yourself in the beauty of monstera leaves, the exotic charm of bird of paradise blooms, the captivating vibrancy of hibiscus flowers, and the lavish fronds of sword ferns and snake plants. With an extensive array of fungi, succulents, and majestic trees, this archive captures the essence of nature's diversity.Features: Each book contains a download link providing you access to 477 high-resolution images that you can use in art and design projects.This book is a must-have for fine artists, designers, tattoo artists, printmakers, collage artists, and anyone seeking botanical inspiration. Own Botanical Art: An Image Archive for Artists & Designers by Vault Editions and unlock the gateway to botanical inspiration. With its extensive collection of stunning imagery and the bonus of high-resolution digital files, this book is a valuable asset for artists and designers alike. Immerse yourself in the intricate beauty of nature, unleash your creativity, and elevate your artistry. Purchase your copy today and let the captivating world of botanical art become an essential part of your creative journey.

'Making the best balloon dog in the world is not an easy task! With twists, turns (and pops) aplenty, join in and discover that persisting (and twisting) is the key to success!'A Fun Balloon Dog Picture Book for kids and children. Kids picture book for ages 3+. Use your imagination and perseverance to make your very own balloon dog!Children's Graphic Novel including balloon modelling instructions for beginners_________________________From the Mind of Magic Gareth - British magician, Balloosionist and entertainer from Scotland with over 50k TikTok followers. Author of 3 books and full time funny guy!����'Written and illustrated by me, 'The Best Balloon Dog in the World' is a cute, colourful and informative picture book for ages 3-8 with an underlying message: the importance of perseverance!'Perseverance' is something all children and young people need to know - try, try and try again.Inside the book here are interactive elements, bold colourful images and twists and turns all over the place!'_________________________The book is 34 pages of colourful, interactive fun for ages 3 and upWhen you finish reading, there is a TOP SECRET QR code which takes you to bespoke instructions to making your very own Balloon Dog!