After the tragic death of her adoptive father Willow De Beers receives an unexpected gift: a family diary that unlocks all the secrets of her world
- & shatters the life shes known in glitzy Palm Beach Florida. At last Willow learns the identity of her real father & unearths his secret love affair with her real mother. She discovers the reasons for her adoptive mothers cruelty.. .and the truth about the mysterious woman who couldnt keep her but would love her forever. This volume also contains the original e-book prequel to the De Beers series DARK SEED in print here for the first time.
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Of all the animals caught in the crosshairs of environmental dilemmas the wolf is the most challenging. Many people have strong feelings in part because of the kinship of wolves with dogs clearly visible in the array of photographs in this book. Jim & Jamie Dutcher have spent years getting to know these animals gaining the trust of a small pack with whom they shared a 25-acre enclosed compound in wilderness Idaho. Their photographs stories observations & evaluations come from living intimately with the wolves & challenge many deeply held misconceptions about this animal so maligned in legend yet so closely related to man's best friend. The result is a unique heartfelt & clear-sighted vision of wolves & a passionate plea for new respect & understanding of the wolf's role in nature. ...

Start the family fun before you even pack your bags! The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World Planner is more than just a place to keep your important phone numbers & schedules. This all-the-fun-in-one journal is a celebration of the happiest place on earth-and a peek inside its magic! With the help of this planner you'll make exciting discoveries like where in Epcot to find Mickey-shaped tomatoes & the blink-&-you'll-miss-it eerie surprise on the Tower of Terror. In addition to these never-before-revealed secrets you'll also discover: The best places to stay & eat for every budget Scheduling strategies to cut your waiting time in long lines Prime viewing spots for parades & hundreds more money- & time-saving (and fun-maximizing) tips Complete with journal pages to record your memories fold-out maps to help you find your way & pockets to hold your keepsakes The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World Planner helps you step into your own Once Upon a Time" & make your Disney dreams come true!" ...

One hot summer night two-year-old Audrey Cutler was snatched from her bedroom & never seen again. Twenty-six years later her brother Sammy fatefully crosses paths with the man the police failed to convict for her abduction & murder. A few weeks later that man is murdered. Attorney Jason Kolarich Sammy's childhood friend is engaged to defend him. But can he trust the people who hired him? Why are they paying for Sammy's defence & why do they want the case heard so quickly leaving Kolarich no time to prepare? Why when Kolarich's investigations lead the police to a buried cache of children's bodies do they kidnap his brother & threaten his life? As the clock ticks for both his brother & his childhood friend Jason must discover the shocking truth in order to save them & finally to save himself. ...

The Hidden Mathematics of Sport takes a novel & intriguing look at sport by exploring the mathematics behind the action. Discover the best tactics for taking a penalty the pros & cons of being a consistent golfer the surprising link between boxing & figure skating the unusual location of Englands earliest football game (in a parish church) & the formula for always winning a game of tennis. Whatever your sporting interests you will find plenty to absorb & amuse you in this entertaining & unique book
- & maybe you will even find some new strategies for beating the odds.
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Egypt 2153 BC eighty priests set out under cover of darkness into the western desert taking with them a mysterious object swathed in cloth. Four weeks later having reached their destination they calmly slit each other's throats... Albania 1986 A plane takes off from a remote airfield bound for the Sudan. On board a cargo that will forever change the Middle East. Somewhere over the Sahara the plane disappears... The western desert the present day A group of Bedouin discover a mummified corpse half-buried in the dunes. With it are a roll of camera film & a miniature clay obelisk inscribed with a curious hieroglyphic sign... Three unconnected events Or so it seems until Freya Hannen arrives in Egypt for the funeral of her sister a desert explorer who has inexplicably taken her own life... For Freya it is the start of a terrifying life-or-death adventure
- one that will lead her & Egyptologist Flin Brodie deep into the forbidding wastes of the Sahara. Their goal: one of archaeology's greatest mysteries & the astonishing secret at its heart.
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When the authors stumbled across the Naadi palm-leaf readers of India they were in India for a wedding. While there they found their destiny & made the shocking discovery that our lives have been determined & mapped out centuries before. This book covers the authors revelatory journey to the Naadis to be told the precise details of their past present & predictions of their future which had been recorded in Sanskrit on palm leaves millennia ago passed down by initiates to await long-destined appointments with those who come to find them. How does it feel to find out your souls true mission has been documented in detail on an ancient leaf that relates to you alone & then to learn your future? Angela Donovan found it a deeply uplifting experience but for her husband Andrew it was a life-changing moment that left him reeling his lifelong skepticism challenged & destroyed. The book speaks to both the spiritually minded & the skeptical. This book gives an inspiring look into one of the greatest mystical secrets of India
- the hidden oracle. It tells readers how to find the Naadis for themselves.
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This definitive resource on using Adobe Photoshop blend modes features dozens of hands-on examples to give you an edge in technical personal & commercial projects Blend modes are an essential if somewhat mysterious tool for photographers & digital artists. They can be used to for a wide range of imaging effects & challenges such as noise reduction working with high dynamic range (HDR) images compositing graphic design & digital painting. Although blend modes can be easy to use they arent always easy to underst&. Scott Valentine translates the technical elements into every day language & demonstrates techniques using real-world examples. Whether youre a professional or hobbyist theres something here for you. Beginning & intermediate users of Photoshop will learn how blend modes work & get up to speed on the most common techniques. The book will also feature power tips & blend mode techniques from industry experts including Katrin Eismann Matt Kloskowski & RC Concepcion. Advanced & technical users will find indispensable references along with powerful enhancements & corrections. More than just a collection of effects & recipes The Hidden Power of Blend Modes explains why the techniques work & how to tune them for your own specific needs. ...

Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes & the Deep Laws of the Cosmos" explores our most current scientific understanding of the universe the 'string theory' that might hold the key to unifying nature's laws & our continuing quest to know more. There was a time when 'universe' meant all there is. Everything. Yet as physicist Brian Greene's extraordinary book shows ours may be just one universe among many like endless reflections in a mirror. He takes us on a captivating exploration of parallel worlds
- from a multiverse where an infinite number of your doppelgangers are reading this sentence to vast oceans of bubble universes & even multiverses made from mathematics
- showing just how much of reality's true nature may be hidden within them. " If extraterrestrials land tomorrow & demand to know what the human mind is capable of accomplishing.. .hand them a copy of this book" (The New York Times Book Review). "A writer of exceptional clarity & charm.. .every chapter opens level after level of previously unimaginable mind-expanding realities". (Oliver Sacks). " The book serves well as an introduction to the multiverse & will open up many people's eyes". (John Gribbin). Brian Greene is well known to many fans as a populariser of theoretical physics. He is the author of the bestselling books about string theory " The Elegant Universe" which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction " The Fabric of the Cosmos" & " The Hidden Reality". Educated at Harvard & Oxford he has taught at both Harvard & Cornell & has been Professor of Physics & Mathematics at Columbia University since 1996."

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Wayne Herschel in a culmination of 15 years of research on archaeo-astronomy has unravelled an extraordinary secret. It identifies the origins of Leonardo Da Vincis Vitruvian man human blueprint code with Stonehenge & the pyramid sites around the world. Herschel stumbled on Da Vincis secret geometry at Giza in Egypt & realised that all 50 of the pyramids of Lower Egypt appear to represent the brightest stars forming constellations along the length of the Milky Way. But more importantly there is the proverbial x that marks the spot & that claims cryptically that human lineage is associated with what appears to be another Sun-like star. The author also proves that Stonehenge has the same cosmic solution & that the pyramid layouts of the Maya the Incas the Khmer & many others around the world all repeat the same star map theme. They all exhibit the same obsession with one nearby Sun-like star in Taurus a star that the ancients passionately refer to as the star of their gods. This full-colour glossy book takes the reader on a riveting journey from one clue to the next presenting numerous forgotten ancient texts & artefacts. The Hidden Records" presents the strongest evidence to date that humans have never ever been alone in this vast universe." ...