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Fantasy icon Jane Yolen is adored by generations of readers and listeners of all ages. Now she triumphantly returns with this inspired gathering of fractured fairy tales and legends. Yolen breaks open the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets: a philosophical bridge that misses its troll, a spinner of straw as a falsely accused moneylender, the villainous wolf adjusting poorly to retirement. Each of these offerings features a new author note and original poem, illuminating tales that are old, new, and brilliantly refined.

This book has helpful and insightful information on how to excel in life by unleashing the full power of motivation and courage. The circumstances surrounding my dropping out from college were such that I had no immediate control over. Ten years after I dropped out from college, there was a void in me which nothing seemed to fill until I went back to pick up my academic pursuits from where I left off. All I wanted at first was to go back and complete my college education, but once I found myself back on my feet, reunited with my books, I could not stop until I got a degree. Going back to school after such a long time and going all the way to get a master's degree wasn't all that easy, but I found the right motivation to keep pushing until all my academic dreams had come true.

When the US learns of a planned genocidal attack by Middle East terrorists, Bravo Platoon is called in. They must fight their way through to a besieged Syrian town to bring out the Israeli agent who first flagged the threat. Leaving behind a long, bloody trail of Syrian bodies, they battle their way out to carry the data back for analysis by NSA. The recovered decrypts show a rogue element of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, is building a dirty bomb, to be used on Israel and the US. Bravo Platoon is sent back into action, this time to Iran.

Life is short and justice a rare commodity in the harsh wastelands of Afghanistan. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Rafe Stoner is about to encounter this cruel truth the hard way. An operation goes tragically wrong, and a Taliban sniper team ambushes a UNHCR ambulance. One of the dead is the woman with whom he intended to start a new life. Stoner turns his back on civilization, and begins a new career as a gun-for-hire in the bitter land ruled by the bomb and the bullet.

Elizabeth Meyer stumbled upon a career in the midst of planning her own father's funeral, which she turned into an upbeat party with Rolling Stones music, thousands of dollars worth of her mother's favorite flowers, and a personalized eulogy. Starting out as a receptionist, Meyer quickly found she had a knack for helping people cope with their grief as well as creating fitting send-offs for some of the city's most high-powered residents.

She always told herself she would someday find a man as wonderful as her father, if that man existed at all, but his suicide on her 14th birthday left her disillusioned and alone. Thirteen years later, estranged from her mother who blames her for his death, Heather longs for understanding. In hopes of finding it, she escapes the city and settles in a small South Carolina town to write his story. There, she meets Matt, a young man struggling to come to grips with his own father's legacy.

Joyce Meyer succinctly points out how the Bible contains wonderful promises for peace and accord. Listeners will learn how to identify the telltale signs of trouble in a relationship, heal troubled relationships, and keep conflict out of their lives.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer teaches readers how to transform their lives by tapping into the power of hope. One of the most powerful forces in the universe is hope -- the happy and confident anticipation that something good is going to happen. Regardless of where one is in...

Interpreting people by understanding the verbal and non-verbal cues they give us can provide something beyond a superficial reading of their behavior. Adding psychology to a sociological analysis of human behavior provides a broader, deeper pool of information, especially when seen through the lens of communication. When we're able to interpret people where they stand, it's possible to exploit the information they freely offer and steer them toward our desired outcome.

The true story of a failed actor who - still tantalized by the promise of Los Angeles - reinvents himself as a nightclub bouncer. Working both downtown and on the Sunset Strip, he is thrust into the bloodstream of L.A.

Sarah Valentine is so over seeing drama about her city's superheroes on every newspaper and TV broadcast. Besides, she has her own problems to worry about: her career isn't going anywhere, she doesn't have a boyfriend (or any prospects), and most of her weekends are spent escaping into video games that are way more thrilling than anything that will ever happen to her.

Ayer. Hoy. Mañana. Dios te ama perfectamente, todo el tiempo. Pero si a veces te sientes indigno, desconfías de ti mismo o crees que Él está enojado contigo, Joyce Meyer, la autora de éxitos de ventas número 1 del New York Times, quiere ayudarte a entender la verdad poderosa de que Dios te...

Since Cassandra Graystone was a child and her family perished in a fire she knows and sees things other people don't… when someone will die or that a demon lurks beneath a human skin. She sees phantoms. Yet she craves a simple life singing out with her musician brother, Johnny, and caring for her elderly aunt and uncle; to be with her friends, Sarah, a psychic, and Walter, a clown in a carnival circuit.

Most business schools continue to prepare managers to be effective in stable and predictable environments, conditions that, if they ever existed at all, are long gone. The Agility Shift shows business leaders exactly how to make the radical mind-set and strategy shift necessary to create an agile, entrepreneurial organization that can innovate and thrive in complex, ever-changing contexts. As author Pamela Meyer explains, there is much more involved than a reconfiguration of the org chart and job descriptions.

Milla, mère de famille qui plaque son foyer et rejoint l'Agence de Renseignement Présidentielle au moment où un groupuscule islamiste s'agite de manière préoccupante. L'aventurier Lemmer qui protège le transfert à la frontière du Zimbabwe de deux inestimables rhinos noirs. Lukas Becker, l'archéologue aux prises avec les gangs de la plaine du Cap. L'ex-flic Mat Joubert, devenu détective privé, chargé d'enquêter sur la disparition d'un cadre de l'Atlantic Bus Company.

Welcome to Paradise. Sandy beaches. Crystalline waters. An all-inclusive resort with virtually everything you can think of. A true idyllic paradise. An event is taking place at Paradise Club that wasn’t on the brochure: a dangerous game pitting the hotel’s guests against a gang of bloodthirsty maniacs. Elliot Harper—family man and FBI agent—is about to find out how fast heaven can become hell when every single vacationer is forced to become a ruthless killer in order to survive. A team of killers have been unleashed, and they won't stop until every single guest is dead.

Descubre los principios radicales que han contribuido al éxito de Netflix. Reed Hastings, el cofundador, presidente y CEO de Netflix, desvela por primera vez la sorprendente y poco ortodoxa cultura de una de las compañías más creativas y de mayor éxito en la historia de Silicon Valley. Nunca antes ha existido una empresa como Netflix. Esta es la fascinante historia de una compañía singular y de su extraordinaria expansión por el mundo entero.

Many women want their Mr. Right - now! And many men want their Ms. Tonight! There are a lot of books that explain how to play these fast-fix dating games; however, there are none that explain how to bring back the good old days when love had to be earned by both sexes. The Red Flag Rulebook is a tool to help women weed out the men who are not worthy by putting them through a carefully outlined test.

Véritable force de la nature, "P'tit" Mpayipheli s'est refait une vie honorable après sa mise au chômage par les services secrets sud-africains lorsque la fille d'un vieux camarade de lutte lui demande son aide : son père a été enlevé et ses ravisseurs menacent de le tuer si elle ne leur livre pas la rançon bien particulière qu'ils exigent. Que faire ? Renouer avec un passé de meurtres et de corruption qu'il a eu du mal à mettre derrière lui pour sauver son ami ou le laisser tomber pour protéger sa nouvelle existence? Il n'hésite pas et les ennuis commencent : derrière le kidnapping, c'est en effet tout autre chose qui se joue et l'oblige à jouer son va-tout.

This program is read by Downton Abbey actor David Robb, and includes footnotes read by the author. In Nicholas Meyer's The Return of the Pharaoh, Sherlock Holmes returns in an adventure that takes him to Egypt in search of a missing nobleman, a previously undiscovered pharaoh's tomb, and a...