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1) Initiates
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A graphic novel that explores the nature of one's vocation, this book offers a look at the daily devotion to craft in two dissimilar professions. Étienne Davodeau is a comic artist-he doesn't know much about the world of winemaking. Richard Leroy is a winemaker-he's rarely even read comics. But filled with good will and curiosity, the two men exchange professions, and Étienne goes to work in Richard's vineyards and cellar, while Richard, in return,...
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Initial insult volume 2
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In this conclusion to her book The initial insult, the author provides Edgar Allan Poe-inspired chills and shocking twists.
Tress Montor murdered Felicity Turnado--but she might not have to live with the guilt for long. With an infected arm held together by duct tape, the panther who clawed her open on the loose, and the whole town on the hunt for the lost homecoming queen, the odds are stacked against Tress. As her mind slides deeper into delirium,...
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Initial insult volume 1
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Ostracized by the elite community of Amontillado, Ohio, after the disappearance of her parents, Tress organizes a Halloween costume party at an abandoned house, where she launches a macabre plan to force a popular former friend to confess what she knows.
Tress Montor's parents disappeared seven years ago while driving her best friend home. The entire town shuns her now that she lives with her drunken, one-eyed grandfather at what locals refer to...
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Initiation volume 1
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After his mother is exiled from New America, sixteen-year-old Drayden enters the Initiation, a series of tests and trials in which the winners are rewarded with a better life and the losers are exiled.
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Having survived the Initiation and expedition, one battle remains: the fight for the heart and soul of New America. Drayden and his friends, enlisting the help of Professor Worth, must find a way back to New America before the Guardians imperil their return. But for these teens, their problems are only beginning. The Bureau, which never expected them to survive the expedition, will do everything in their power to prevent New America's darkest secrets...
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Riche de son histoire, la pratique d'organisation communautaire dans le réseau de la santé et des services sociaux public québécois existe depuis maintenant près de 50 ans. En intervenant en amont des problèmes de santé, les organisatrices et les organisateurs communautaires (OC) apportent une contribution singulière aux établissements de santé et de services sociaux. Enracinés dans un ou des territoires d'appartenance, les OC sont à même...
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"Drayden and his friends thought nothing could be harder than the Initiation. Little did they know it had only been a warmup for the challenge that lay ahead. With New America's situation dire, Drayden and the pledges venture out into the unexplored world outside the walls, escorted by a team of elite Guardians. The group seeks to contact another civilization in what remains of Boston, but Drayden has secret goals of his own. Dangers abound in the...
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Initiate Brother volume 1
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Plague and warfare have swept across the Orient, ravaging the ancient kingdom of Wa, devastating the royal line, and leaving a new dynasty on the throne—a new emperor, Akantsu, filled with fear of all who might seek to wrest the empire from his grasp.
Among those out of favor with the new liege is the Order of the Botahist Monks, whose mystical powers have enabled them to hold positions as spiritual advisors to the imperial court for
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The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii is famous for its cycle of Dionysian Ritual Frescoes.
This book is the fictional story of a real person, the Domina of the Villa, Rufilla Istacidia, who lived in Pompeii First Century BCE. Rufilla is born to parents in the servant class. Still, when her mother dies, her father renounces the baby, and her miraculous rescue by a wealthy Pompeiian family fatefully transforms her destiny.
Rufilla's epilepsy...
11) First Charge
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Meredith knows she likes girls, but is reluctant to get close to anyone, knowing that she will have to move on and leave them. Theo likes girls too, but doesn't let anyone get close enough to know the real him. They could be normal siblings, but they're not. They are descended from various mythical creatures. Meredith and Theo were separated from their parents as young children, like all protectors and guardians before them. Since then, they have...
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The journey of Grace Forrester and Ralph White began in THE INTERVIEW, with Grace searching for the dream job and Ralph interviewing for a new live-in submissive. The story is a slow burn from the start of their lives together and sets the background of the series to follow. This is where their journey continues… Grace ForresterLife is full of curveballs. I just wish they'd bypass me on the odd occasion. Throwing me a lifeline just to yank it back...
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In the third and final book in The Destiny Initiative series, Meredith and her friends try to change the future. Not everyone shares her goals though, and some will do anything to stop her.
With only a vague prophecy to go on, Meredith has to make her own judgement on how the world should be.
Can she succeed, or does destiny have other plans?
14) Fallout
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The software has been released, the world now knows the truth, and the world is awakened to a new direction. There is a dark force resisting this awakening, one that will work to wipe out the Sect of the Healed who yearn to share the truth with the world. Come with us on a worldwide journey of intrigue, mystery, and miracles as Professor Lindey Batchelor and the SOTH family share their archaeological treasures with the world. You will see what artifacts...
15) The Takeover
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The second book in the three-part Destiny Initiative series. As Meredith and Theo team up with new and old faces to try to stop The Destiny Initiative and The Destroyers, Meredith struggles with her powers. While discovering how powerful she is, and at the same time, how unprepared she is for leading an alternative Destiny Initiative, Meredith is forced to make some tough choices. Can she achieve everything she set out to do, or will she lose herself...
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Halo Initiation volume 1
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Halo® - one of the most iconic video game franchises in history - comes to Dark Horse! Before she was a supersolider defending humanity as part of the Spartan-IV program, Sarah Palmer was an ODST-Orbital Drop Shock Trooper-carrying out the most dangerous missions behind enemy lines! Join her on her dramatic journey from the ranks of humanity's toughest leathernecks to the highest echelon of elite warriors in the galaxy.
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It is the season of war. As the plum blossom winds herald spring in the Empire of Wa, Initiate Brother Shuyun, spiritual advisor to Lord Shonto, the military governor of the northernmost province of Seh, receives a shocking message from the barbarian lands. The massive army of the Golden Khan is poised at their border. Forced to retreat south, Lord Shonto is caught between the pursuing barbarian hordes and his own hostile emperor's Imperial Army....
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We stand on the edge of an opportunity unlike any in history. Every moment we hesitate, the distance between irrelevance and influence grows exponentially. Our time is now.
Today's culture is, defined by four exponential growth trends: the population boom, the technology tsunami, the rising economy gap and the increasing polarization of worldviews. Rising like tides, these trends are leading us toward a crushing break.
Rising Tides is a wake-up call...
19) Stones of Power
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Award-winning and bestselling authors Kat Bastion and Stone Bastion join forces once again in an exciting new short-story adventure series... THE TRAVELER: Initiate Years. Meet Isobel Brodie...Recent thirteenth-century Scottish transplant-from twenty-first-century Southern California. New wife to a fearsome Highland laird. Future mom to immortal twins. Rookie warrior drafted by magick to save the unraveling fabric of time.
The dark angel who mentors...
20) Panther Rising
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Award-winning and bestselling authors Kat Bastion and Stone Bastion join forces once again in an exciting new short-story adventure series... THE TRAVELER: Initiate Years.
Meet Isobel Brodie...Recent thirteenth-century Scottish transplant-from twenty-first-century Southern California. New wife to a fearsome Highland laird. Future mom to immortal twins. Rookie warrior drafted by magick to save the unraveling fabric of time.
The dark angel who mentors...
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