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Timepieces have long accompanied us on our travels, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, the ice of the arctic to the sands of the deserts, outer space to the surface of the moon. The watch has sculpted the social and economic development of modern society; it is an object that, when disassembled, can give us new insights both into the motivations of inventors and craftsmen of the past, and, into the lives of the people who treasured them.

In the wake of Hilary Mantel’s brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Sharp and funny, these drawn-from-life stories begin in the 1950s in an insular northern village “scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.” For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out.

In this treasure of a book, Anna Quindlen, the best-selling novelist and columnist, reflects on what it takes to “get a life” - to live deeply every day and from your own unique self, rather than merely to exist through your days. “Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us,” Quindlen writes, “because unless you know the clock is ticking, it is so easy to waste our days, our lives.”

Think in Systems is a concise information book offering high-level, strategic problem-solving methods for personal and global issues. The book presents the main features of systems thinking in an understandable everyday manner, helping you to develop the skill top analysts and world leaders use.

’n Groep vriende kom die eerste keer in vyf-en-twintig jaar bymekaar om Adriaan se verjaardag te vier. Een vir een maak die gaste hul opwagting by Adriaan en Yvette se strandhuis aan die Weskus. Sommige bring hul kinders en die uitbundige gelag van kleinkinders saam. Sedert hulle mekaar laas gesien het, moes party van lewensmaats en drome afskeid neem; ander het nuwe liefde en betekenis gevind. En dan is daar Yvette wat haarself nie sover kan kry om vir almal van háár reis te vertel nie.

This Awaken Your Inner Goddess hypnosis audiobook was designed to assist listeners in getting in touch with their divine feminine nature, increasing confidence, releasing stereotypes and common female-related shame, and getting in touch with their own unique goddess energy. This program consists of four chapters, including an introduction, guided self-hypnosis, meditation (partly guided, with ancient Solfeggio frequencies), and affirmations.

This Integrated Mind self-hypnosis program was designed to assist the listener in identifying, working with, and reclaiming unconscious shadow parts, projections, and repressed aspects of the self in order to release unwanted patterns, behaviors and beliefs, and to reclaim the whole self.

This 963 Hz Solfeggio Meditation program was designed to assist the listener in experiencing a sense of unconditional love, divine consciousness, healing, and that eternal sense of oneness with all that is. This program is the ninth of a nine-part series. Each album combines ancient Solfeggio frequencies with a deeply relaxing meditation, followed by affirmations designed and narrated by Anna Thompson to enhance the healing, cleansing, and energy-expanding properties of the specific Solfeggio frequency.

Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest postwar writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and social satire. These are complemented by readings of selected correspondence and an interview with Amis himself.

Living in the big city was a big dream of mine, but it didn't turn out the way I planned. Instead of fame, wealth and security, I have been scraping together for the bare minimum for the past three years. But tonight, my luck is changing. What I need to do for it can be easily forgotten after, I hope. Nothing I wouldn't already do for free anyway, so why not get paid for it, right? The deal is to accompany a rich guy to a fancy party and be eye-candy. Simple and easy.

In England's Regency era, manners and elegance reign in public life - but behind closed doors treason and deception thrive. Nicholas Langdon is no stranger to reserved civility or bloody barbarity. After suffering a battlefield injury, the wealthy, well-connected British officer returns home to heal - and to fulfill a dying soldier's last wish by delivering his coded diary.

This Animal Attraction sleep learning program was designed to assist the listener in gaining self-thoughts related to powerful confidence, magnetism, sex appeal, and charisma, being in the body, and being "in the now".

Astral Projection Guided Meditation was designed to assist the listener in gaining a deeply relaxed, meditative state and enhancing the experience of astral projection by combining sound wave therapy (binaural beats) with relaxing music and sounds of nature. In this hectic world we call modern society, it's become more and more important to find effective ways to relax and restore and find balance within ourselves!

The acknowledged ‘queen of Regency romance’, best-selling author Georgette Heyer, also penned a dozen delightful mystery novels. Included here are dramatisations of four of her finest stories from both genres, full of her characteristic wit, charm and period detail.

Das Schicksal der damals 14-jährigen, drogenabhängigen Prostituierten Christiane F. aus "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" ging um die Welt. Generationen sind mit der Geschichte und dem Mythos "Christiane F." aufgewachsen. Aber wie ging es weiter? 35 Jahre später erzählt Christiane Felscherinow ihr ganzes Leben.

Eliza has a full house! When her three children grew up and moved out, she downsized to a smaller property...but now they're all back. Every room in the house is taken and Eliza finds herself sharing her bed with her eldest daughter and her daughter's pug. Combined with the online course she's trying to finish, plus her job to fit in, there just isn't the peace and quiet that Eliza needs.

This charming book recounts the remarkable journey of the bagel from the tables of 17th-century Poland to the freezers of middle America today. The story is one of surprising connections between an unassuming ring-shaped roll and centuries of Polish, Jewish, and American history.

En Historia Viva, Hillary Rodham Clinton describe con franqueza, humor, pasión sobre su formación como mujer durante una agitada época de cambios sociales y políticos en los Estados Unidos y sobre sus años en la Casa Blanca. Cuenta la historia de su aventura de treinta años en el amor y la política junto a Bill Clinton, en la que logró sobrevivir a traiciones personales, investigaciones partidistas si tregua y el escrutinio constante del público.

A secret I pushed to the back of my mind is now threatening to ruin my future. A mysterious phone call, an anonymous tip, and my trip from paradise turns into a living hell. Alec won't talk to me, yet he claims every bit I have left. Piece by piece, my world is shattered, along with my confidence. If I could only figure out a way for him to believe that I didn't have a choice... If I could only make him see the real me.

Like the tanning of a leathered corpse, the inaugural release of Grimoire seeks to stretch the fleshy bounds of dark fiction and horror. Included within these unhallowed book are tales of medieval horror and cacophony, Lovecraftian delights and wretched Kaiju, accursed djinn and pestilential priests, all brought together for the very first time in one horrific collection. Engaging and provocative, these tales of the damned stalk the graveyards at night, crawl up from the empty and wet places of this world, and haunt the dreams of all who hear them.