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What if the hardest part of parenting isn’t what you do—but what you think about nonstop? What if guilt, doubt, and the fear of failing are quietly stealing the connection you truly want with your children? This audiobook is for the parents who care deeply, but feel like they’re never doing enough. Who lie awake questioning every moment, wondering if they’re getting it wrong.

I know a couple things about Fred: He’s tall, handsome, and has a big secret. It’s not exactly the one you’re thinking of—dirty minds, right?—but rather that he’s spy for the Werewolf Intelligence Agency a.k.a. the WIA. He’s got a dangerous knack infiltrating anti-werewolf establishments. Taking down humans here and there. Bringing justice wherever he can find it. And God, I support him through and through. Werewolves have been dying more frequently, though. My hometown of Dallas, Texas, has become a stomping ground for radical anti-werewolf humans.

The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick W. Taylor introduces the concept of applying scientific methods to manage labor and operations within industries. Taylor, known as the father of scientific management, argues for efficiency and productivity through the optimization of work processes and a scientific approach to labor management. His work laid the foundation for modern organizational theory and management practices, emphasizing task standardization, time management, and worker training to increase productivity and economic efficiency.

The Mystic Christ is an ancient tale of mystic union, salvation, and enlightenment. It is the careful uncovering of a lost treasure of immeasurable value, long buried in the suffocating darkness of conventional orthodoxy on one side, and blind fundamentalist extremism on the other.

A window is but a piece of glass through which we view the world outside. It is not meant to distort. It is not intended to do anything but show us things as they are. At Oxford, though, there is a very particular window that reveals a very particular view. It is a view that defies all laws of nature and science. And when a detective is called in to investigate, he is startled to find that view opens a window into his own life–and a mystery he has never been able to solve.

Time never fades.... After months of recovery, Merk is moving from mission to mission, happily back in his active life again. But when his ex-wife sends out a panicked call for help, he rushes to meet her - only to see her snatched away in front of him. Katina has only one person in mind when she finds herself in trouble. Merk. They haven’t spoken for ten years, but time hasn’t changed some things. The attraction between she and Merk is as deep and strong as it was back then. Even more so. But with her life on the line, she can’t focus on him...and can’t get her mind of him.

Helping a friend in need is never a wrong move. And Saul knows the value of his friends. When he’s called to find Benji’s missing brother, Daniel - he’s on it. Only Daniel might be involved in something a lot darker than avoiding his brother’s phone calls. At least according to Rebel, who’s been haunting Daniel’s apartment, looking for her missing girlfriend. When the bodies start showing up, Rebel is terrified her friend will be next....

Logan heads to Boston on an intel mission. His investigation plunges him and his partner into the deep dark world of human trafficking. The last thing Alina remembers is having coffee at the cafe in the hospital where she works. She awakes tied up in a strange apartment...Now they're on the run together. Time is against them. There's a quota to be made, and the traffickers aren't going to let Alina go if they can help it.

Kahlil Gibran wrote prolifically and passionately in Arabic as well as English. First published in 1965 with nine works of poetry translated by Joseph Sheban, Mirrors of the Soul includes writings by Gibran that are as poignant today as when first written, such as “The New Frontier” and “The Sea.” These poems illuminate the dual nature of Gibran, who lived in the shadows both of New York skyscrapers and the cedars of his childhood Lebanon.

A child is fascinated by the archer or dart thrower who consecutively delivers missiles to the bullseye. Even as adults, we observe seemingly impossible tasks with awe. We feel either inspired or inferior. Is there Zen in it?

Let's share our big life changes that have affected us, and we'll mine the gold and learnings as a group.

That is what vampire Count Konstantin “the Wolf” Volk declares to his Vampire House, and even to his Sire, the ancient, dangerous vampire known only as the Nomad. His Sire wants Lucas dead. His closest advisers want Lucas enslaved. Because Lucas is no ordinary human. Lucas finds himself eager to start work at Club Dyavol, even though his memories of his time there are hazy.

Lucas Daniels must be protected! Lucas Daniel starts his job at Club Dyavol, but, immediately, he wonders what he’s gotten himself into. Count Konstantin “the Wolf” Volk believes that Lucas’ blood can cure his curse...But he needs to keep the young man secret, because drinking the blood of a witch could start a war between vampires and witches once more. Yet when the leader of the Vampire Council arrives at Dyavol’s doors on Lucas’ first night of work, Konstantin must let him in, and somehow keep Lucas’ true identity hidden.

These ex-military shifters are about to meet their fated mates. They'll need to fight to keep them though.

Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Richard Wright. Written at the height of his creative powers, it would see publication in Wright's lifetime only in drastically condensed and truncated form, and ultimately be included in the posthumous short story collection Eight Men.

When demigod Hazeus returns home to a parallel magical realm called Rootworld, his parents, Father Time and Mother Earth, give him a collection of adult-rated MVDs that put him on the fast track to becoming the all-powerful God of the Globe if he can learn to take responsibility. While watching, he interacts with and befriends a young King Arthur, Lancelot, and Merddin, all trying to establish their kingdom. Merddin is always cranky because of the reverse flow of time and Mother Mott just wants a vacation on the Isle of Avalon.

Do you feel at home right now? Or do you sense a hovering anxiety or uncertainty, an underlying unease that makes you feel just a bit uncomfortable, a bit distracted and disconnected from those around you? In The Road Home, Ethan Nichtern, a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, investigates the journey each of us takes to find where we belong.

If you are a woman with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you've probably known—all your life—that you're different. As girls, we learn which behaviors, thinking, learning, and working styles are preferred, accepted, tolerated, and frowned upon. These preferences are communicated in innumerable ways-from media and books to our first-grade classroom to conversations with our classmates and parents.

Lucas Daniels senses secrets all around him. Lucas left home for good and believes he is safe at Club Dyavol. His whole world is now Konstantin’s world. But though he trusts Konstantin completely, the more time he spends in the club, the more questions he has about those that call it home. Count Konstantin “The Wolf” Volk believes that now that Lucas is under his full protection at the club that Lucas is safe. Except he could not be more wrong. By being completely within Konstantin’s world, Lucas becomes the focus of every friend and foe Konstantin has.

Visiting Beijing in January 2020 to see his dying grandfather, the Canadian journalist Ethan Lou unknowingly walks into a state under siege. In his journey out of China and - unwittingly - into other hot zones in Asia and Europe, he finds himself witnessing the very earliest stages of a virus that will forever change the world as we know it.