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Destiny Calls is the true story of Norman and Grace Barnes - an ordinary couple from East London who dreamed dreams that changed the lives of individuals, churches and even nations.

A short collection of children's stories keeping playfulness, innocence, wonder, and adventures that take place in and around an enchanted forest.

Most business leaders want to use social media to generate customer engagement to get more leads and sales. In order to do that, they need an effective social media plan. Unfortunately, business leaders often have a false impression about how much time and effort it takes to develop and execute a successful social media plan. They often think it's impossible, but it's not.

Haniel was born with a strange deformity. Radi is a very articulate, fluffy white dog. Together, they decide to enter the Invisible Forest, from which nobody is known to have ever returned. Haniel is determined to find the doctor who can make her normal. Take the walk with them in this modern-day fable, as reality and perception are turned inside out. Beliefs are challenged, transformation is unavoidable, and the unknown becomes the only thing they can surrender to, if they are to survive.

Tired of watching her friends become ruined by the scoundrels of the ton, Sidney Hartridge devises an experiment to reveal their antics. Her plan is to lure three gentlemen to kiss her and see how they would protect her honor. When her research leads her into her own inappropriate scandal, her father agrees to a wedding offer from one of her subjects. As her fiancé blackmails her into a marriage she doesn’t desire, her research becomes exposed. Can Sidney avoid her own scandal with the one she most desires to kiss?

Völlig unerwartet taucht eine Fremde auf der Seebestattung von Maries Vater auf, zu dem sie selbst in den letzten Jahren kaum noch Kontakt hatte. Niemand scheint sie zu kennen. Es gibt nur einen Hinweis zu dieser Frau, und der führt nach Norderney. Mit zwiespältigen Gefühlen, aber festentschlossen das Geheimnis zu lüften, das Marie hinter dem Erscheinen dieser Frau vermutet, fährt sie von Hooksiel aus auf die beschauliche Nordseeinsel. Und wirklich: Zwischen Dünen und Meer lernt Marie ihren Vater hier noch einmal neu kennen.

No one would call David Rose - or ‘Rosie’ as he’s known to one and all - a star, but he’s good at his job and proud of his work as a sportswriter for a national newspaper. He’s used to seeing flashier talents come and go - both on the field, and in the competitive world of the press. Football comes first in the way he spends his working life, but he’s happy to pitch in whatever the sport - from Formula 1 to Test cricket in the West Indies, the Olympics to a heavyweight championship bout in Japan.

Aimed at all those who want their work to be fun and fulfilling, and who feel they might have a unique gift or message to share with the world, this is an amazingly effective guide to making money doing what you love. It is the only book to take listeners through the whole process of creating an income from a passion, identifying which interest they could monetize, choosing a bespoke path, and learning how to become an expert in their chosen field.

Kentia, a beautiful hustler with a taste for the finer things in life, becomes a victim of someone else’s hustle for a change. Kirrah, a video vixen and gold-digger, learns a valuable lesson in playing the game. Sometimes you get burnt. Theori, working as a stripper to pay for college, discovers the high price of deception.

When Dr. Jane Lee, a recent graduate, takes her first position as a psychiatrist at Southern States Mental Institute in Memphis, she gets more than she had bargained for. The idyllic images she had created in her mind while in school of treating the mentally ill clash immediately and drastically with the reality of the practice in real life. From the filthy, creepy, neglected facility in which she now works and the attitude of those in the mental health industry itself to the haunting madness of her first-ever patient, Matilda Rose, nothing is as she had imagined it would be.

"Bring meine Kette zurück zu meiner großen Liebe, nach Juist!" Nur wenige Stunden vor ihrem Tod hat Caros Patientin ihr dieses Versprechen abgenommen. Nun steht Caro auf dem Klinikflur, der ihr alltäglicher Arbeitsplatz ist, und hält Elfriedes kunstvoll gearbeitete Perlenkette in den Händen.

Lithia’s father tells the story of Hoban Boson, a long-ago captain of a ship on Earth, and his defiance against those who would try to take their freedom. Hoban convinced his crew to go up against the Falcon, the ship that had landed in Buzzard Bay to lay claim to the town. Hoban’s crew and ship, the Success, was much smaller than the Falcon, but to him, that didn’t matter. What mattered was standing up to those who would subjugate and terrorize. Lithia is old enough to know that bad guys don’t win in the end, and young enough to be scared when all seems lost.

Hania Hawke is an irregular; a super-powered being in a society that hasn't quite accepted them as commonplace. In hopes of being an irregular who helps rather than harms, Hania decides to use his lightning powers to become a superhero using the name Raiden. But when he finds himself in a conflict of identity and his first super villain, he must ask him: Can a smart-mouthed young man with daddy issues save anyone? Does he have the right to?

In too many organizations, great ideas and unusual solutions can be suppressed, ignored, or attacked. Departments defend their turf, and people choose what is safe over what is better. Bad ideas move forward and good ideas die, which can lead to disastrous results - financial or otherwise. Luckily, there is a workable path out of this dysfunction. Kim Barnes’ process of constructive debate shows how to establish conditions that encourage the free exchange, discussion, and development of ideas and eliminate conditions that prevent potentially useful ideas from getting heard.

Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning. Because she couldn’t get a driver’s license or file taxes, Cinelle worked as a cleaning lady and a nanny and took other odd jobs - and learned to look over her shoulder, hoping she wouldn’t get caught.

Papegøjen i denne romans titel er en udstoppet fugl som den store franske forfatter Gustave Flaubert havde stående foran sig på sit skrivebord da han i 1870 erne skrev historien om en gammel tjenestepige. Hun lod sin højt elskede papegøje udstoppe da den var død og endte med at tro at den var Helligånden. Denne fugl spiller en afgørende rolle for romanens hovedperson. Geoffrey Braithwaite er pensioneret læge med et livsprojekt: Han vil vide alt om den store franske forfatter Gustave Flauberts liv.

Tony Webster og hans klike var tre. Adrian Finn blev den fjerde. Skolen var en ren drengeskole. Sultne efter sex og bøger styrede de gennem gymnasietiden sammen udvekslede følelser jokes sladder og viden. Måske var Adrian mere seriøs end de andre; han var helt sikkert klogere. Men de fire lovede hinanden venskab for livet og skiltes. Studierne kalder. Tony bliver kæreste med Veronica. Vi er i tresserne. Den seksuelle revolution har ingen rigtig oplevet. Som Tony konstaterer: De fleste mennesker oplevede først tresserne i halvfjerdserne.

When writer Simon Barnes heard a Cetti's warbler sing out as he turned up to look at a house for sale, he knew immediately that he had found his new home. The fact that his garden backed onto an area of marshy land only increased the possibilities, but there was always the fear that it might end up in the wrong hands and be lost to development or intensive farming.

Myka Williams has been forced out of Knight's Academy and is on the run, constantly moving to keep the vampires off her trail until Preston's venom is no longer coursing through her veins. But she isn’t alone. Brent Jacobson is her protector, training her and teaching her how to be the werewolf she’s destined to be. He's annoying, stubborn - and hot. But there’s something he isn't telling her. Myka has to come face-to-face with the truth of who she really is. Will she find safety, or will she always be hunted?

This wasn't what Lithia had in mind when she decided to run away from home. Her ship was not meant to carry a fugitive wanted in two galaxies or the stowaways running from a war that wasn't hers. She just wanted to live a quiet, peaceful life alongside her brother. But now she knows too much about The Helix, the secret hidden deep within it, and what it would mean for all humankind if she walked away.