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Joseph Kelley has returned. Everything Rose McKenzie has been working towards has been destroyed, and her beloved Nora is in ruins. Worse yet, Joseph isn’t finished. He won’t stop until the Golden Isles are completely and totally under his control and the talisman’s power is his to wield.

1942. When Helda Dahlstrøm flees her abusive husband and Nazi-occupied Norway with her eight-year-old son she doesn't know if they'll make it out alive. In her desperate journey to safety she'll find safety on the rocky shores of the Shetland Islands, rescued by Canadian Flight Sergeant Bill Gauthier. As WWII's destruction rages at their doorsteps, can love find its way through the rubble?

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now armed with his father's mysterious and deadly atheme, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay. Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage.

With practical, proven techniques, actionable steps, and relatable stories, you will feel empowered as your perfectionist habits are replaced with healthy coping strategies and a more positive future.

In a culture where female empowerment is used to sell everything from sex toys to soap, most sex education continues to bypass pleasure. The results are stark - we’ve grown accustomed to slut- and prude-shaming and allowed others to dictate how a “good girl” is meant to feel, act, and look. In Girl Boner: The Good Girl’s Guide to Sexual Empowerment, August McLaughlin offers an unfiltered blend of personal narrative and practical tips on relationships, solo play, journaling, gender issues, and more.

Geldmangel? Liebeskummer? Frustriert? Ihnen kann geholfen werden. An sechs typischen Krisen aus dem täglichen Leben führt Alain de Botton geistreich und amüsant vor, wie jedermann Trost, Rat und Ansporn in der Philosophie findet. In essayistischen Porträts geht er auf eine Reise durch 2400 Jahre abendländische Philosophiegeschichte und zeigt anhand der Leben und Werke von Sokrates, Epikur, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer und Nietzsche wie ein etwas anderer - nämlich philosophischer - Blick auf die Welt das Leben erträglicher machen kann.

Not Less Than Everything: One Man’s Quest for Spiritual Enlightenment is the inspirational true story of how author, August Turak overcame depression and meaningless despair through a daring quest for life’s ultimate meaning and purpose.

From the hilarious, oft-irresponsible travel enthusiast Auguste Gravel comes the first installment of travel stories that will make you shoot milk out of your nose and then shock you back into your seat with the next paragraph. On the Lam is about leaving your comfort zone and stepping into a world of travel and the unknown. It's a funny audiobook that provides advice for new or experienced travelers of any age.

Beatrice is a battalion leader in the Cetean Military and absolutely mean with a bident. Any nasty creations those Necros can throw at her will fall with ease. So she most definitely doesn’t need the scribe her father, the General, saddles her with… Except he is the most beautiful male she’s ever seen. It is a relief when she finally gets a bit of leave, but the short vacation comes with unexpected company. When all Hell breaks loose, she has to make a series of hard decisions, which put her race at risk as well as her heart.

Life is good… It’s been a year since that fateful night that left Rose McKenzie to pick up the pieces of her life once again. A year since Will Kelley left and took a piece of her heart with her. After months of therapy, she’s finally content. She has friends, hobbies, and even a new budding romance with a devastatingly handsome selkie who sets her aflame with a look alone. … Until it’s not. But what happened that night in the cave had a price, and now the bill has come due.

Rose McKenzie is no stranger to running. After the death of her father threatens to bring her back under her mother’s control permanently, Rose flees again. This time it’s to the only sanctuary she’s ever known: a tiny island called Nora. A shadow looms over her childhood haven. The longer she stays in Nora, the more Rose realizes the island she knew has changed. Families are leaving in droves, and strangers are taking their places, strangers that don’t seem… human.

Cecilia Friedman is a rising tech star who has no time for relationships, let alone a wife, so she isn’t sure what to think when her grandmother tells her that she has found a spouse for her. Ingrid Gordon, one of Toronto’s most eligible bachelorettes and influencers, is known for being a flighty player and she'd rather everyone think of her that way than the vulnerable woman she really is. When Cecilia's and Ingrid’s families suggest that they get married, each woman agrees to the arrangement for their own reasons.

In The Drugstore, stories of ordinary people's strife in the 1950s come to life—like the fire at Miss Pansy's dime store and the quest of 14-year-old Becky Bartlett, whose father runs the corner drugstore. Everyone in the neighborhood is caught in a whirlpool of crime when holdups and a murder overtake the mom-and-pop business on Park Avenue. Then the holdup man begins to stalk Becky Bartlett, but he had no idea about her possible strength of character...which could lead to his demise.

His somewhat eccentric and secretive father has disappeared. KT has been forced to move from his hometown to live with an aunt and uncle he barely knows. And as the story opens, he is waking up in a hospital room from a three-day coma, with his left arm and leg paralyzed after a catastrophic bicycle accident.

Human traffickers have kidnapped 10-year-old Zarah to an alien desert. Frightened for her safety and disgusted by her captors’ plans for terrorist attacks on a nearby city, Zarah escapes in the dead of night and begins a dangerous trek across the wilderness. On her flight she encounters predators and helpers, smugglers and saints, threats and kindness. Meanwhile, friends of her murdered father go all out to find her and save her.

Hvad er det, der gør os til dem; vi er? Er det lige dele biologisk arv og det miljø, vi vokser op i? Eller handler det om, hvordan vi forholder os til den bagage, vi har med os? I "ALT DET VI BÆRER PÅ" vil en række kendte danskere fortælle om den arv, som de bærer rundt på i livet. I denne episode af "ALT DET VI BÆRER PÅ" kan du møde manuskriptforfatter Adam August, der som søn af instruktøren Bille August voksede op i et hjem, der flød med manuskripter.

Man schrieb das Jahr 1300 vor Christus. Die Stadt Theben bot im strahlenden Licht der Augustsonne einen malerischen Anblick. Hier stand der prachtvolle Palast des Arnenophis, des Zweiten. Als Pharao war er der absolute Herrscher über Ägypten, dieses goldene Land an den Ufern des Nils, der ihm Reichtum und Fruchtbarkeit bescherte. Mehr als zweitausend Jahre später führt eine Expedition in das Land am Nil.

Es waren dreizehn Stufen bis zum Galgen. Burt Silva ging diesen Weg mit schlotternden Knien. Man schrieb das Jahr 1773. Es sollte eine öffentliche Hinrichtung stattfinden. Die Hinrichtung eines Massenmörders. Eines Mannes, der dreiundzwanzig Frauen auf grausame, bestialische Art ermordet hatte. Ganz London war zu diesem Schreckensschauspiel gekommen. Ganz London wollte den Mann, der in der Stadt unter den Frauen Angst und Schrecken verbreitet hatte, hängen sehen. "Weiter!" brüllte ein fettes Weib, das sich einen Platz in der vordersten Reihe erkämpft hatte.

This is a very real and bloody look at the journey I made from 19 to 29. I will walk you through the icy halls of drug addiction and dealing, college in Santa Barbara (specifically Isla Vista), depression, suicide, and overdoses. The second part of the book I could only write just recently, as I was, by the Grace of God, able to live the life I knew I always should. Please come with me through the very real and honest look at what it was like to be a young man in the 2010s and how through a million close calls, I finally found life.

Lainey, a 17-year-old small-town girl, has no idea she's about to be involved in a grisly murder investigation. After young Arline is murdered, Lainey's suspicions arise. Why did everyone seem to hate this girl? Digging for clues and trying to understand her friends' attitude toward Arline, she finds herself in the middle of a cover-up. Clues lead to several people, including Lainey's friend, Wendy. With Sheriff Weeks' help, Lainey tries to figure out who had the most to gain by killing Arline.