The sweltering summer of 1911. Half the country is on strike; the other half seems to be in flames. And in his most perplexing case to date, railway detective Jim Stringer has 48 hours to solve a murder not yet committed.

One Friday evening, a special train rolls into York station. It carries a young aristocrat lately found guilty of murdering his father. Briefly entrusted into Jim's custody, he warns of yet another murder about to happen...Jim and his strong-willed wife take the train along the near-deserted branch line. They seek out the intended victim, who, despite their attempted warnings, stubbornly refuses to leave. Jim has one weekend to stop a murder and unravel a conspiracy of international dimensions.

Florida is full of predators, from the animals who thrive in its heat to the humans who stalk the malls, and they all give Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a forensics specialist, the opportunity and the means to do what she does best: persuading the dead to speak to her.

And suddenly I stood up because I knew what it was. It was a model galleon, buried in the sand... My heart was in my mouth. I just knew that no matter if I lived to be a hundred I would never find anything so wonderful again.’ With growing excitement, Tim and his Uncle Geoff realize the significance of their discovery. For the model ship yields up a secret that sets them on a journey into the past, to solve a mystery and salvage a story of danger and romance buried in the sands.

A gripping and intriguing tale from best-selling author Robert Westall.

The Gropes are an old English family based in Northumberland, separated from the rest of society and as eccentric as they come. It is a line dominated by strong-willed and oversexed women, determined to produce more female heirs regardless of whether their desired partners are willing....

At the dawn of the new millennium, timid and gormless teenager Esmond is abducted and lured to Grope Hall by a descendant of the Gropes. Young Esmond is powerless to escape, and his kidnap sets in motion a stream of farcical events.

In The Europa Conspiracy, Tim LaHaye once again shows how his thrill-a-minute storytelling and deep understanding of the Bible have combined to make him one of today's most popular and influential fiction authors.

Curious as usual, Tony goes to the fire site with his bomb-sniffing giant schnauzer, Panzer. McCallum suspects the Environmental Defense League, a radical group responsible for everything from setting fire to SUV lots to releasing animals from fur farms. But this is their first murder. When Tony suspects his Navy buddy might be involved, he is conflicted on how to proceed. As more EDL incidents occur across the Puget Sound, Tony has no choice but to ratchet up his investigation. And now his own life is in danger.

When Hank the Cowdog hears suspicious sounds coming from near Sally May's clothesline, it leads to a midnight investigation of the ranch. Before he knows it, Hank finds himself caught up with his old friend Eddy the Rac - and face-to-face with one of a dog's greatest enemies: the dreaded Laundry Monster!

Could this mean the end of everyone's favorite Head of Ranch Security? Or is it just Eddy the Rac up to his old tricks? One thing's for sure, Hank will keep readers laughing out loud in this latest hilarious adventure.

Hear a rooster crow up the sun in ""Thus Spake J.T. Cluck"", and Hank sings, ""Trudy, Trudy, What a Beauty!"

This edition is available only to listeners residing in the UK or European Union.

""I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. 'Shoot,' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. 'No!' Edward roared ... Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm - and into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.""

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Cecily and Ada Owen's shop is very successful. Their reliable deliveries and service is valued by cafés, tea stalls, and shops on the Pleasure Beach during the summer months. However, things turn sour when Ada's husband, Phil Spencer, comes out of prison a very strange and dangerous man. And Myfanwy, Cecily's daughter, denied for too long, is planning a cruel revenge. Unaware, Cecily and Ada hand over most of their business to Myfanwy during the difficult years of World War II.

Is it too late for the Owen sisters to survive? Or can they celebrate the end of the war with hope in their hearts?

Godset Stepantjikovo er Dostojevskijs første større roman efter hjemkomsten fra Sibirien. Centralt i bogen står snylteren og hykleren Foma Fomitsj Opiskin, der i mange år har ageret tjener og herregårdsnar for en kynisk general, der ydmygede og nedværdigede ham. Da generalen dør, flytter Foma, sammen med generalens enke og en række andre snyltere, ind på godset Stepantjikovo, der ejes af generalindens søn: den godmodige oberst Jegor Iljitsj Rostanjev.

Med sin tilsyneladende høje intellektuelle dannelse og veltalenhed lykkes det hurtigt Foma at forblinde godsets beboere og gøre dets ejer til sin marionetdukke. Fomas årelange forkuelse har gjort ham hævngerrig, magtsyg og ondskabsfuld, og som hustyran på Stepantjikovo ydmyger og nedgør han dets beboere, præcis som han selv blev ydmyget og nedgjort.

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Another sumptuous novel set in the heart and heat of colonial India, Bhargava's heroine comes to a full knowledge of herself against the backdrop of India 's route to independence.

It is 1941. Princess Malvika, or Mili, and her friend Vicky have gained entrance to one of the best schools in all of India. But the times are turbulent, and the girls will not escape the changes stemming from the independence movement growing in strength around the country.

But as the country finds its voice and footing as an India free from colonial rule, what place is there for Prof. Raven, the English man who comes to see Mili as more than his student?

Little Molly Messenger is kidnapped on a sunny June morning. Three days later she's returned, apparently unharmed. Molly's mother, Chris, is so grateful to have her daughter back that she's willing to overlook the odd circumstances.

A few days later, the brakes go out on Chris' car. An accident? Maybe. Except that it turns out that Chris, the IT manager at a large Chicago bank, may have misappropriated three million dollars. Not convinced that his daughter is safe, Molly's father hires PI Georgia Davis to follow the money and investigate Chris's death.

Doubleback, the sequel to the acclaimed Easy Innocence, reunites PI Georgia Davis with video producer Ellie Foreman (An Eye For Murder, A Picture Of Guilt, An Image Of Death, A Shot To Die For). The two women track leads from Northern Wisconsin to an Arizona border town where illegal immigrants, smuggled drugs, and an independent contractor called Delton Security come into play. Georgia and Ellie go to great lengths to find the truth, and Georgia discovers that you can cross a line, but sometimes you have to double back.

But when members of the People's Republic swarm in from the cities to bring modernity and productivity to the grasslands, the peace of Chen's solitary existence is shattered, and the delicate balance between humans and wolves is disrupted. Only time will tell whether the grasslands' environment and culture will ever recover.

Wolf Totem has been a sensation ever since it shot to the top of the Chinese best-seller charts in 2004. A beautiful and moving portrayal of a land and culture that no longer exists, it is also a powerful portrait of modern China and a fascinating insight into the country's own view of itself, its history and its people.

For many years, Warren Bennis has persuasively argued that leaders are not born - they are made. And for countless readers, On Becoming a Leader has served as a beacon of insight, delving into the qualities that define leadership, the people who exemplify it, and the strategies that anyone can apply to achieve it. In a world increasingly defined by turbulence and uncertainty, the call to leadership is more urgent than ever.

Featuring a provocative new epilogue on the challenges and opportunities facing leaders today, this new edition will inspire the next generation and guide us into the future.

When Nancy is invited over to Bree's house for a special tea party, she has only one thing to say: oui! The girls enjoy a few charming cups of tea before a disaster occurs that sets the two at odds. Will Nancy and Bree be able to save their friendship?

In this issue:

COMMENT
""Electoral Dissonance"", by Hendrik Hertzberg: The new order in Washington, D.C.

LETTER FROM INDIA
""A Deadly Misdiagnosis"", by Michael Specter: Is it possible to save the millions of people who die from TB?

THE MUSIC SCENE
""Long Time Coming"", by Alec Wilkinson: Singer Bettye LaVette gets her due.

BOOKS
""The Cleopatriad"", by Judith Thurman: A review of 3 new books about the last queen of Egypt.

ON TELEVISION
""Mush!"", by Nancy Franklin: Sarah Palin takes us for a ride – in TLC’s new reality show.

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Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa’s moral crusade nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion people, the world’s largest reserves of arable land, and 8.5 percent of global oil, is busily transforming its political and economic landscape.

This book argues that rather than failing the test, Latin America’s efforts to build fairer and more prosperous societies make it one of the world’s most vigorous laboratories for capitalist democracy. In many countries—including Brazil, Chile, and Mexico—democratic leaders are laying the foundations for faster economic growth and more inclusive politics, as well as tackling deep-rooted problems of poverty, inequality, and social injustice. They face a new challenge from Hugo Chávez’s oil-fuelled populism, and much is at stake. Failure will increase the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants to the United States and Europe, jeopardize stability in a region rich in oil and other strategic commodities, and threaten some of the world’s most majestic natural environments.

Drawing on Michael Reid’s many years of reporting from inside Latin America’s cities, presidential palaces, and shantytowns, this book provides a vivid, immediate, and informed account of a dynamic continent and its struggle to compete in a globalized world.

Critically-acclaimed novelist and naturalist Peter Matthiessen deftly weaves together the fortunes and tragedies of Florida Everglades folk in this foreboding thriller.

Haunted by the legacy of his father's violent reputation and brutal death, historian Lucius Watson seeks to understand the man behind the legend. In 1910, an enraged mob of neighbors gunned down murder suspect E.J. Watson - each claiming it was self-defense. Over four decades later, his son Lucius returns to Lost Man's River to discover the truth behind that horrible day. Was his father really a cold-blooded murderer, feared by all? Or was he a man of progress and vision, killed by those who envied him? Alternately threatened and shunned, Lucius relentlessly digs for answers, even while he fears the truth.

In this dazzling sequel to Killing Mr. Watson, Peter Matthiessen presents the story of a family riddled with scandal through colorful recollections of renegades and their descendants. Veteran narrator George Guidall brings the rich oral history dramatically to life.

Sigsbee Manderson was an unpopular millionaire - so when his body was discovered in the grounds of his mansion, not many people were heart-broken by his death. His widow, butler, business assistant and personal assistant become immediate suspects.

Trent, who wrote for The Record, was summoned by his editor, with an eye for a good story, to investigate. Through many twists and red-herrings, and one of the most amazing literary double twists in the final minutes, the listener is kept enthralled and guessing to the end.

Dedicated to his friend G K Chesterton, E C Bentley, a journalist first with the Daily News and then with The Daily Telegraph, intended the book to be a gentle parody of the detective genre, only for it to be quickly hailed as a classic.

COMMENT
""Human Nature"" by Elizabeth Kolbert: Rachel Carson's legacy.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE
""Feature Presentation"" by James Surowiecki: Why feature creep is making devices harder, not easier, to use.

DEPT. OF TECHNOLOGY
""Remember This?"" by Alec Wilkinson: Gordon Bell, virtual pack rat.

SHOUTS & MURMURS
""My Undoing"" by George Meyer: One man's love of conferences.

A CRITIC AT LARGE
""A Boy's World"" by Anthony Lane: The Tintin century.

FICTION
""Puppy"" by George Saunders: Two mothers meet over the sale of a puppy.

THE CURRENT CINEMA
""Not Kids' Stuff"" by David Denby: Everyone's favorite green ogre returns in Shrek the Third; the Japanese anime film Paprika."

The Pimsleur® Method is scientifically proven to be your fastest route to near-native fluency. Speak and understand Cantonese Chinese in just 30 minutes a day. Cantonese Chinese Phase 1, Unit 28 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Cantonese Chinese.

In The Green Pearl, King Aillas of Troicinet defends the peace of the Elder Isles against both the Ska marauders who once enslaved him and the wicked King Casmir. While organizing the unruly barons in the frontiers of his land, Aillas goes out of his way to capture the lovely Ska noblewoman who once stung him with her disregard. When he gets separated from his men, his dream of forcing the lady's recognition becomes the toil of dragging a defiant captive across lands governed by Casmir's henchmen. Meanwhile, the world of magic has gone on the move. The concentrated malice of the witch Desmëi has manifested as a green pearl, breeding lust and envy and death; and a sorcerer in Casmir's employ abducts the princess Glyneth, in a bid to draw Aillas and friends on a hopeless rescue mission across a bizarre and deadly alternate world.

A masterpiece of romantic, picaresque adventure, The Green Pearl extends the epic founded with Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden and concluded in the World Fantasy Award-winning Madouc

Lidie grows increasingly important to you as you follow her travels and adventures on the feverish eve of the War Between the States. With its crackling portrayal of a totally individual and wonderfully articulate woman, its storytelling drive, and its powerful recapturing of an almost forgotten part of the American story, Jane Smiley is at her enthralling and enriching best.

Twistleton is a village untouched by time. Daisy, Jean, Freddie, and their friends Aurelia and Laura are devoted to the place, so that when war breaks out, Twistleton becomes the embodiment of everything for which they are fighting.

For the previous generation, the new conflict causes private despair, increased when Twistleton is requisitioned by the Army. Turfed out of their houses, the villagers take refuge at the Hall. It is here that evacuees from the East End, butler and countryman, weld together to fight common enemies. With death haunting their every moment, love is their one all-too-fleeting consolation - and also their final triumph.

Volume seven of the Tom Swift series, ""Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers"" brings our hero, Tom Swift, to Phantom Mountain, somewhere in Colorado, in search of a band of rascals who use the power generated in a flash of lightning to create diamonds. Tom Swift encounters Barcoe Jenks, an eccentric character we met in the previous volume, who enlists Tom's aid to get the secret of making perfect diamonds from the sinister gang of Diamond Makers.

Once again our hero, Tom Swift, saves his companions from many a disaster. Each of the 25 chapters of this book is an exciting cliffhanger and you will be reluctant to pause as John W. Michaels narrates this exciting adventure of Tom Swift.

When sixteen-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast, she is terrified by what lies ahead of her. All she knows are the sights and sounds of London's East End - but Sally swallows her tears as they leave the familiar landmarks behind, knowing that she has to be a Grown-Up Girl and play mother to her six-year-old brother Ernie. Playing mother is nothing new for Sally - their real mother Florrie, a good-time girl, hasn't even come to the station to wave them off and Ernie, crippled at an early age by polio, is used to depending on his older sister.

When they arrive in Cliffehaven, they're taken to live at the Beach View Boarding House where they're welcomed by the open-hearted Reilly family headed up by warm, loving Peggy, and life begins to improve. Sally gets a job in a uniforms factory to help pay her way - and to pay for Ernie's expensive medicines - but then Florrie arrives in Cliffehaven, bringing disaster with her. And Sally is forced to work out where her true loyalties lie....

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.

And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.

He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, and occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment. They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. But not quite all....

Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall is an Edwardian history book for younger listeners (age six to 12) that tells the story of England, concluding with the reign of Queen Victoria. Antonia Fraser and many other current historians declare that it was this book that opened the delights of history for them. It fell from fashion in the 1960s, but its recent re-release in hardback has seen it become a publishing surprise in the UK, with sales of some 75,000 copies in a few months. Now, Naxos AudioBooks releases it unabridged in three volumes, divided into three clear periods of history. Though slightly edited to take account of historical changes and attitudes, it is presented unabridged.

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Following in the footsteps of the New York Times best-selling graphic novels and the record-breaking new television show, this debut novel in a trilogy of original Walking Dead books chronicles the back story of the comic book series' greatest villain, The Governor.

In the Walking Dead universe, there is no greater villain than The Governor. The despot who runs the walled-off town of Woodbury, he has his own sick sense of justice: whether it’s forcing prisoners to battle zombies in an arena for the townspeople’s amusement, or chopping off the appendages of those who cross him. The Governor was voted “Villain of the Year” by Wizard magazine the year he debuted, and his story arc was the most controversial arc in the history of The Walking Dead comic book series. Now, for the first time, fans of The Walking Dead will discover how The Governor became the man he is, and what drove him to such extremes.

Long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. In this candid, eloquent, sharply observed book, Melissa Holbrook Pierson introduces us to this strange endeavor and the men and women who live to ride impossibly long distances, eating up road, almost without cease. And who find it nothing but fun.

Perhaps the most determined of them is John Ryan, a magnetic, enigmatic man who loves nothing better than breaking records of amazing distance - at no small risk to himself and his health. But why? Pierson, who rediscovered the joys of motorcycling in the midst of a personal crisis, puts on her helmet and joins Ryan in his element in order to understand his singular desire and discipline, his passion and his obsession.

The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing offers an intimate glimpse of an unusually independent yet supportive community as well as a revealing, unforgettable portrait of its most daring member. In electric, pitch-perfect prose, Pierson gives us rare insights into not only a subculture but also the deeply human craving for something more that drives it.

Il Vascello dei Topi è la settima novella che Papà Catrame racconta all'equipaggio. Il racconto inizia con la spiegazione scientifica che il Capitano fornisce in merito al precedente episodio, e prosegue con un racconto di una nave infestata da topi, con i quali Papà Catrame finirà con il fare amicizia....

Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.

Master Spanish with Learn Spanish - Word Power 101. This audiobook is a completely new way to learn Spanish vocabulary fast - and for free! Start speaking Spanish in minutes with the powerful learning methods you will master in this book.

The vocabulary words you'll find in Learn Spanish - Word Power 101 were hand selected by our Spanish language teachers as the top 101 most frequently used words in the Spanish language. Follow along with the the complimentary downloadable PDF, where you'll see the word and a vibrant image to help remember the meaning. Hear the word to master the pronunciation. Then you'll see how the word is actually used in everyday speech with sample sentences and phrases. Learning Spanish vocabulary has never been easier!

In this audiobook, you'll get:

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Experience one of television's greatest science-fiction series: The Twilight Zone - fully dramatized for audio! Featuring a full cast, music and sound effects, and today's biggest celebrities in modern radio dramatizations.

Knowing he is about to die, a rich old man summons his greedy heirs to his mansion and gives them each the inheritance they so richly deserve.

When the Bergamots move from a comfortable upstate college town to New York City, they're not quite sure how they'll adapt--or what to make of the strange new world of well-to-do Manhattan. Soon, though, Richard is consumed by his executive role at a large New York university, and Liz, who has traded in her academic career to oversee the lives of their children, is hectically ferrying young Coco around town.

Fifteen-year-old Jake is gratefully taken into the fold by a group of friends at Wildwood, an elite private school.

But the upper-class cocoon in which they have enveloped themselves is ripped apart when Jake wakes up one morning after an unchaperoned party and finds an email in his in-box from an eighth-grade admirer. Attached is a sexually explicit video she has made for him. Shocked, stunned, maybe a little proud, and scared--a jumble of adolescent emotion--he forwards the video to a friend, who then forwards it to a friend. Within hours, it's gone viral, all over the school, the city, the world.

The ensuing scandal threatens to shatter the Bergamots' sense of security and identity, and, ultimately, their happiness. They are a good family faced with bad choices, and how they choose to react, individually and at one another's behest, places everything they hold dear in jeopardy.This Beautiful Life is a devastating exploration of the blurring boundaries of privacy and the fragility of self, a clear-eyed portrait of modern life that will have readers debating their assumptions about family, morality, and the sacrifices and choices we make in the name of love.

Australia - isn’t that where everyone walks around upside down, drinking beer while kangaroos jump up and down on them? And there aren’t any vampires there, are there? Vlad can’t think of anywhere worse and so he’s horrified when he finds himself on his way to Australia with Paul and Judy’s family, instead of going back to Romania. But Vlad finds new fans in Australia and begins to enjoy himself much more than he had expected to. Another hilarious adventure with the pint-sized vampire, from bestselling author Ann Jungman.

The Pimsleur® Method: the easiest, fastest way to learn a new language. Completely portable, easily downloadable, and lots of fun. You'll be speaking and understanding in no time flat! Greek Phase 1, Unit 18 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Greek.

Surprise your friends! Astonish your family! With Pimsleur, you’ll be speaking and understanding like a native in no time. 30 minutes a day is all it takes. English for Brazilian Portuguese Speakers Phase 1, Unit 8 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak English.

The Apostle Paul has shaped the course of Christian ethics for centuries and is widely regarded as the most influential theologian in the Christian tradition. In this authoritative introduction, Morna D. Hooker offers a female perspective on a figure usually portrayed as a conservative misogynist. Looking behind the epistles to reconstruct the real man and his beliefs, she places the scriptures in their original context and suggests a consistent and coherent Pauline theology. Original and thought-provoking, this concise study is essential for all who seek to learn more about the most controversial figure in Christianity.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Val McDermid's best-selling Kate Brannigan mystery Clean Break, starring Charlotte Coleman.

Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan is not amused when thieves steal a Monet from a stately home where she had arranged the security. She sets off on a chase that takes her across Europe bringing her head to head with organised crime.

Italian-American immigrant life in the 1950s textures this searing drama of love and revenge. Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife, Beatrice, and to his niece, Catherine. When Beatrice's impoverished Sicilian cousins enter the U.S. illegally in the hope of finding work, Eddie gives them a helping hand. But when Catherine and one of her cousins fall in love, Eddie's affection for his niece turns into obsession.

Please note: This title is in Swedish.

In fact, it is the life that mystics have chosen throughout history, and only one thing is required: the willingness to completely surrender to divine instruction. Now Caroline Myss and Dr. Estes - two of the country's leading intuitives and bestselling authors - are together for the first time on audio with Intuition and the Mystical Life.

Allow two hours to undertake this tour, which is 2.4 miles (3.8 km) long.

Stories from student nurses recall why they entered the profession; stories from seasoned nurses reveal why they stay; and some stories reflect on the ""good old days"". Most important, as every fan of the series knows, each story shares hope for the future.

Regardless of age or area of practice, health-care workers the world over will find their own hearts and souls in these stories as they discover the universality of what they do, and the power of their skillful hands and devoted hearts."

Who hasn't been hot for a jock, or, for that matter, an entire team? Those sweat-drenched Lotharios induce lust in the heart of all and finally receive their due in Hot Jocks, erotic short stories with an athletic theme. Trophy-winning master editor Richard Labonte has gathered a collection featuring tales of inter-athlete lust, the skinny nerd's hots for a jock, and about unavoidable links between sports and sex. Wrestlers, quarterbacks, surfers, swimmers, boxers, soccer players, bowlers, divers, and martial artists: abound. We also venture outside the stereotypical jock box: cross-country runners, MMA fighters, badminton players, speed skaters, weightlifters, archers, rowers - even cricket players can be very sexy.

Glorious was recorded in London during Eddie's compass tour of the capital, which followed the now legendary Paris 'in French' dates. Eddie went on to perform on Broadway, a show that became Dress To Kill.

Series 2 of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald McLeary, set in a Glasgow corner shop.

More shop-based shenanigans and over-the-counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. This second series sees guest appearances from Nina Wadia and Hardeep Singh Kohli. Gerard Kelly also reprises his role as Father Henderson. Ramesh Mahju has built his shop up over the course of 30 years, and it is a firmly entrenched feature of the local area. He is ably assisted by his sidekick Dave, a forty-something underachiever who shares Ramesh's love of the art of shopkeeping, even if he is treated like a slave.

Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both surly and not particularly keen on the old-school approach to shopkeeping. However, they are the natural successors to the business, and Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom on to them - whether they like it or not...

""The Abominable Dr. Phibes"": the deadly comedy, based on a story by Adriano. The disfigured criminal genius Dr Phibes rises from the dead once again to torment his arch-enemy, Scotland Yard Inspector Harry Trout, with another macabre murder. Phibes has murdered a famous stage actor in a bizarre and grisly fashion, but this is only the first stage of his twisted plan to rid himself of his enemies and achieve his black heart's deepest desire - immortality for himself and his late wife, Victoria.

""Welcome to the Family of the Night"": based on a story by Chad Helder. Children are kidnapped and taken to a secluded compound where they are given new names and then wait to be ""adopted"" by parents who are vampires. A very scary episode of Vincent Price Presents!

""Rue the Day"": based on a story by Chad Helder. A high school English class studies Edgar Allan Poe's macabre masterpiece ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"". Inspired by the horrific tale of a razor-blade-wielding orangutan, the brightest and most insane student in the class uses his secret psychic power to carry out a hideous and unimaginable revenge against his classmates.

""The Tell-Tale Tape"": based on a story by Brent Schoonover. Popular radio-show couple Benny and Betty have hit a snag in their off-air relationship. Low ratings and a new romantic interest threaten to put Benny out of a job for good. With the stress building, Benny's inner turmoil finally surfaces in a horrific fashion. Will this be enough to silence the voices in Benny's head for good?

After being denied admission to a Masonic lodge in Batavia, William Morgan secured a sizable advance from a local newspaper publisher for this work. That publisher, David Cade Miller, released this book after Morgan's death, presumably at the hands of the Masons. Because of the notoriety of the previous events, The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge became an instant best seller and an American classic.

With the help of the robin, Mary finds the door to a secret garden, neglected and hidden for years. When she decides to restore the garden in secret, the story becomes a charming journey into the places of the heart, where faith restores health, flowers refresh the spirit, and the magic of the garden, coming to life anew, brings health to Colin - and to Mary, happiness.

Unconventional Strategies to Reach More Clients, Land Profitable Work, and Maintain Your Sanity

In recent years, professional services providers have had to rethink their sales methods and adapt to profound changes in the way clients buy services. In response, Winning the Professional Services Sale argues for fundamental changes in the seller's mindset and sales strategies.

Rather than pressing the sale, salespeople must help clients buy - the way that works best for each client. This new approach gives buyers what they now want in a services seller: a consultative problem solver, change agent, and solution integrator, all rolled into one. Author Michael McLaughlin presents a strategy for winning new business with a holistic approach to each client relationship. Only by fully understanding a sale from every angle, including its impact on the client's business and career, can salespeople thrive in the new era of the service economy.

In Greek myth, Alcestis is known as the ideal good wife; she loved her husband so much that she died to save his life and was sent to the underworld in his place. In this poetic and vividly-imagined debut, Katharine Beutner gives voice to the woman behind the ideal, bringing to life the world of Mycenaean Greece, a world peopled by capricious gods, where royal women are confined to the palace grounds and passed as possessions from father to husband. Alcestis tells of a childhood spent with her sisters in the bedchamber where her mother died giving birth to her and of her marriage at the age of 15 to Admetus, the young king of Pherae, a man she barely knows, who is kind but whose heart belongs to a god. She also tells the part of the story that's never been told: What happened to Alcestis in the three days she spent in the underworld before being rescued by Heracles? In the realm of the dead, Alcestis falls in love with the goddess Persephone and discovers the true horror and beauty of death.

The mysterious object ripped across the landscape, tearing a spiral path of devastation along its route. After it crashed, military intelligence took it to Hatch Air Force Base and began a series of top-secret tests, trying to uncover the workings of the craft. When the ship was opened, they found an extraordinarily instrumented capsule - and the body of a humanoid pilot.

As the military was investigating the ship, it was accidentally dispatched again. It reappeared - this time with a new navigator - and destroyed a small French village.

This strange craft held the solution to many intriguing problems - including the secret of time travel!

What a scoundrel wants, a scoundrel gets...

A decade ago, the Marquess of Bourne was cast from society with nothing but his title. Now a partner in London's most exclusive gaming hell, the cold, ruthless Bourne will do whatever it takes to regain his inheritance - including marrying perfect, proper Lady Penelope Marbury.

A broken engagement and years of disappointing courtships have left Penelope with little interest in a quiet, comfortable marriage, and a longing for something more. How lucky that her new husband has access to an unexplored world of pleasures.

Bourne may be a prince of London's illicit underworld, but he vows to keep Penelope untouched by its wickedness - a challenge indeed as the lady discovers her own desires, and her willingness to wager anything for them... even her heart.

Now that Linda ""Pidge"" Lewellen is grown up, she tells Travis McGee, once her girlhood idol, that either she's going crazy or Howie, her affable ex-jock of a husband, is trying to kill her. McGee checks things out, and gives Pidge the all clear. But when Pidge and Howie sail away to kiss and make up, McGee has second thoughts. If only he can get to Pidge before he has time for any more thinking.

Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the help of his gallant Knights of the Round Table.

There was Sir Lancelot the Great, Sir Kay the Loyal, Sir Bedivere the Just, and others, including young Givret, who was known for being...well, short. Poor Givret: His size makes him so easy to overlook. But there’s more to knighthood than height, and before long, Givret’s quick thinking lands him a place at the famous Round Table!

As everyone knows, a new knight of any size must prove himself with a quest - even if he privately thinks his quest is silly. And so beginneth the exciting and comical adventures of Sir Givret the Short, the Brilliant, and the Marvelous, as only the acclaimed Arthurian author Gerald Morris can tell them.

Young Jimmie Curry's father is killed unjustly by an enraged mob, and the boy barely escapes the same fate. He shoots two pursuers and assumes they are dead, and in desperation becomes a most unusual outlaw, the Red Devil. He never kills, takes only ill-gained money, secretly returns it to the rightful owners and escapes every pursuit on his remarkable horse Meg. Spoiled Charlie Mark has left home to seek thrills and easy money. He vows to find the Red Devil and discover why he is so merciful and so particular about his victims. Charlie trails Meg's hoof prints to the hideout and forces Jimmie to switch roles - but the new Red Devil becomes addicted to the excitement of robbing and killing. When will retribution catch up with Charlie? Can anyone save him? And where is Jimmie Curry?

Blue Isle, scene of a violent clash between its human native and the magical Fey, has now become the center of attention of the Fey king, Rugad. He is returning to finish the Fey invasion begun years ago but thwarted by the discovery that Blue Islander holy water was fatal to the aggressors. That stalemate has produced a wary coexistence, even intermarriage between royal families of the two races, but Rugad wants only one thing: total domination - and he will stop at nothing to get it.

Zombie Tag is a game Wil and his friends made up.

It involves running around in the dark with spatulas, pretending to be zombies.

But when Wil's brother dies, suddenly Zombie Tag becomes the thing that convinces Wil that he actually has the power to bring his brother back.

The only problem is, what if Wil's brother comes back and is a total zombie? What happens then?

In her first novel for younger readers, Hannah Moskowitz offers a funny and heartfelt look at how one boy deals with change, loss, and the complicated relationship between brothers

*Einstein-Lieblingsmusik: Die vorgewählte Mozart-Musik helfen Sie räumliche Vorstellungsvermögen verbessern für ein positiv Gedächtniseffekt (nach Ansicht einiger Wissenschaftler) - Goldduo Sorokina/Bakhchiev - VistaVera) - Sonata D-Dur.

Please note: This audiobook is in German.

""Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"" From 1930-1954, the wealthy Lamont Cranston was one of the best-known characters on radio, using his mystical powers to fight crime. The only person who knew The Shadow's true identity was his ""friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane"". Through the years, The Shadow was portrayed by Frank Readick, Orson Welles, Bill Johnstone, Bret Morrison, and others. As listeners were reminded at the end of every episode, ""The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay! The Shadow knows!"

Pimsleur® equals success. Just one 30-minute lesson a day gets you speaking and understanding like no other program. English for Korean Speakers Phase 1, Unit 27 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak English.

The Pimsleur® Method: the easiest, fastest way to learn a new language. Completely portable, easily downloadable, and lots of fun. You'll be speaking and understanding in no time flat! Compact Danish Phase 1, Unit 6 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Danish. This unit contains a Reading Lesson designed to teach you to sound out words with correct pronunciation and accent. A Reading Booklet to be used with the audio lessons is also included in PDF format.

Fifteen years after the Painter case had been closed, someone wants the case re-examined, history changed, and Wexford proved wrong.

The De-Magowaning of Ramesh. Corner shop owner Ramesh has toothache, and Sanjay embraces retail.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Poe's only full novel, is one of his most unusual works. A riveting story, told in the first person, it tells of a disastrous sea voyage involving storms, mutiny, starvation, thirst - and a mysterious conclusion. Jorge Luis Borges and Baudelaire were among those who rated it highly. This recording was timed to mark the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers: The first in a nail-biting new series featuring Kick Lannigan, a young woman whose complicated past has given her a very special skill set.

Famously kidnapped at age six, Kick captured America’s hearts when she was rescued five years later. Now, twenty-one, she finds herself unexpectedly entangled in a missing child case that will put her talents to the test.

Trained as a marksman, lock picker, escape artist and bomb maker by her abductor, Kick could not return to the life of the average young girl after her release. So, in lieu of therapy, she mastered martial arts, boxing, and knife throwing; learned how to escape from the trunk of a car, jimmy a pair of handcuffs, and walk without making a sound - all before she was thirteen.

Kick has trained herself to be safe. But then two children go missing in three weeks, and an enigmatic and wealthy former weapons dealer approaches her with a proposition. John Bishop uses his fortune and contacts to track down missing children. Not only is he convinced Kick can help recover the two children - he won’t take no for an answer.

With lives hanging in the balance, Kick is set to be the crusader she has always imagined herself. Little does she know that the answers she and Bishop seek are hidden in one of the few places she doesn’t want to navigate - the dark corners of her own mind.

Mole's underground home is bought by the Weasels from wealthy landowner Mr.Toad, and Mole is thrown out. He and Rat start to fight to get his home back from the evil Weasels.

The classic tale The Wind in the Willows has been read and loved by children for generations. Start a new tradition by listening to this timeless tale today!

Take a fascinating journey from the mists of prehistory to the fall of the Roman empire. Be introduced to the most notable men and minds of the ancient world. Explore the great currents of philosophy, art, science and economics that have shaped our world.

In this story, Buster and his family return from vacation. Buster learns the value of doing what he is told. After all the hard work, Buster's mom has a special surprise for him, but there's an even bigger surprise waiting for Buster at Bugville General Hospital.

This wonderfully-crafted story is paired with playful examples that help children discover the world around them.

To be fair (isn't He always?), God sends down 18 legendary opponents to play against Elliott and hopefully teach him a few tricks along the way. From Leonardo da Vinci (nice clubs) to Marilyn Monroe (nice...everything), Babe Ruth (pass the hot dogs), Abraham Lincoln (cheater!), and 14 other luminaries, including Moses, John Lennon, Joan of Arc, Picasso, W.C. Fields, Socrates, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Beethoven, Gandhi, and Shakespeare, Elliott squares off against some of the most extraordinary people who've ever lived. As shots are analyzed, balls enter bunkers, and Freud drives the cart (control freak), Elliott has a chance to examine his life and his form, to see what he can correct or improve before facing his ultimate adversary.

Bighearted and delightfully original, Bob Mitchell's Match Made in Heaven is a grand celebration of golf and a profound parable of traveling our own personal fairways in a game where no effort is wasted, and every failure is just another chance to try again.

Against this rich historical backdrop lives Louisa Barrett, the attractive, articulate headmistress of the Macaulay School for Girls. Protected by its powerful all-male board, ""Miss Barrett"" is treated as an equal by the men who control the life of the city. Lulled by her unique relationship with these titans of business, Louisa feels secure in her position, until a mysterious death at the power plant triggers a sequence of events that forces her to return to a past she has struggled to conceal, and to question everything and everyone she holds dear.

Both observer and participant, Louisa Barrett guides us through the culture and conflicts of a time and place where immigrant factory workers and nature conservationists protest violently against industrialists, where presidents broker politics, where wealthy ""Negroes"" fight for recognition and equality, and where women struggle to thrive in a system that allows them little freedom."

A chilling thriller from Sunday Times best-selling author Karen Rose.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Who'll be next? No one knows....

When forensic pathologist Lucy Trask stumbles across a mutilated body with its face so badly damaged it is unrecognisable by the chess tables in her local Baltimore park, her sole concern is that it might be her old school teacher Mr Pugh. When the corpse is identified, Lucy is shocked to discover that the victim is actually another man from her past. Who killed him and why his skin is burnt with the number '1' is unclear, but it's evident that someone is demanding Lucy's attention.

The discovery of a second branded body raises worrying questions: How many more lives may be at risk before the killer's final message is revealed? And can Lucy solve the killer's gruesome puzzle before their thirst for revenge is complete?

In The Guermantes Way, Part 1, the third volume of Marcel Proust's monumental, seven volume Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel penetrates the inner sanctum of Paris high society and falls in love with the fascinating Duchesse de Guermantes. With his unmatched powers of observation Proust vividly describes the struggles for political, social, and sexual supremacy played out beneath a veneer of elegant manners.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

Dragon Soul begins in a small village of the Palmir people. A quiet, productive, and peaceful clan with an almost forgotten violent history. The Plague from the North - an attack of powerful, evil creatures - virtually annihilated them generations ago. They defeated the Plague, with the help of mystics and dragons - but at great cost.

Hosting of Dragon Souls is not the only special calling of the Palmir people. Some are called to be Healers, a blending of practical and mystical powers. A rare few are Prophets. One Prophet has a vision that takes shape in a physical form and warns the Palmir people of an ominous event. Was it a just a reminder of the hellish past, or a harbinger of things to come?

What if the Plague returns? There are so few Dragon Souls. Could they defeat the monsters again? And what of real dragons? Will they ever again exist in their own form?

The co-hosts of The Way of the Master TV series and radio program, Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort offer this simple and flexible curriculum for churches and small groups who want to obey the Bible’s command to tell others about Jesus. Kirk and Ray guide participants step-by-step through their straightforward method of evangelism, made popular through their award-winning show. Those who complete the course will have every tool they need to overcome their fear and talk about their faith with friends, neighbors, coworkers, and even strangers!

A story about Blanco Polo, the great-nephew of Marco Polo, and his journey from Venice to Spain to build flying machines with the villainous Count Maleficio. Along the way he meets Eva, also bound for Spain - for an arranged marriage.

The Gospel of John: Tony Britton reads St John's account of the life and teachings of Jesus. Specially composed music is included. The readings were part of BBC Radio 4's series of 341 daily episodes of the Bible, broadcast in 1991 and 1992. Abridged by Penny Leicester.

The New Testament: These abridged readings of the New Testament are taken from the 1989 Revised English Bible, which was translated directly from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek into modern English to produce a Bible that was at once accessible and authoritative.

With a tempo range of 132-140 beats per minute, the featured songs include ""Better Times"", ""People Get Up"", and ""Um-Lotty-Da!"

Are you ready to hear all about his adventures at the zoo, with the parrots and giraffes?

Seems like every time Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack turns over a rock a Black Valley Rider jumps out. So when two bounty hunters arrive in Minton Hill trailing the same outlaws, Sam agrees to ride with them. Trouble is, only a drunken gambler knows where the gang is holed up.

A man who terrifies women for fun, a would-be mystery writer stalking his unscrupulous editors, an old man fantasizing about shooting his neighbor, Brittany Spears revenging her kidnapping, a wannabe writer actually killing people to work out his plots, madness uniting painters and critics together in a bloodbath, a magical ring revealing a hidden killer, a vampire disguised as the syringe of an old junkie, young communists developing lucid dreaming as an antidote to the class struggle....

The stranger the crime, the stranger the punishment, in this happy marriage of crime writing, horror, and surrealism. We live in a weirder and weirder world, no doubt about it - and Don Webb is the writer riding the crest of that wave. Cutting-edge tales from inside the curl.

Be able to read new information quickly and understand it. Increase your reading pace naturally. Lean how to accurately skim text for important information. You can become great at speed-reading today!

This subliminal hypnosis program works for you on three different levels - positive affirmations will be spoken during your deepest state of open relaxation, low binaural beats that are almost imperceptible to the human ear work with your subconscious mind to anchor the positive affirmations to help you with speed-reading, and ancient solfeggio tones encourage healing and wholeness with powerful harmonic frequencies. Along with seven different soothing sounds of nature, these three elements combined together are the triad of positive change that will propel you toward a better future.

Speed-reading affirmations in this program are:

• I always absorb text fast
• I am a fast reader
• I understand new information quickly
• My mind is focused
• My eyes are relaxed
• I can glean information from skimming text
• Every day I become a faster reader
• I enjoy reading at a quick pace
• I comprehend everything I read

  Instructions: There are no relaxation suggestions in this subliminal hypnosis program, so you can listen at any time of the day or night. You may listen to the entire program as a whole or select only specific nature sounds that you enjoy most - the positive affirmations will still be effective for change.

Essential oils are a natural and safe way to improve your health, cure ailments, and soothe your body and mind. These versatile oils come from natural sources, and have been used for centuries for medicinal and cosmetic purposes.

Essential Oils for Beginners is the comprehensive guide to harnessing the power of these ancient remedies. Recent scientific research has proven that essential oils can truly prevent and heal disease, and they are far more affordable and safer than modern medical treatments.

Essential Oils for Beginners will show you how to create your own recipes to cure all of your ailments and improve your overall well-being. This book will show you how to expertly blend essential oils to create your own aromatherapy mixes to relieve stress, bolster energy, and more.

When Dana begins college and joins the school's cheerleading team, she finds herself a whole new group of friends. Before the team leaves for a series of on the road games, the boys decide to throw a party. Dana attends with her roommate and finds herself having sex for the first time with one of the stars of the team: Nate.

After leaving the school for the series of games, Dana finds herself alone with Nate again. This time, however, he has a more unusual proposition: Have sex with him and 3 other guys from the team to boost their morale. Will she be able to handle their offense, or will she be able to rise to the occasion?

This 4,100 word story includes explicit content, including: m/f sex, oral sex, lost virginity, anal sex and an all-star gang-bang.

In this issue:

""Rebooting YouTube"": Susan Wojcicki built google into a 5 billion dollar advertising giant. Now she’s running YouTube. Her job – do it again.

""The Multimillion Dollar Quest to Brew the Perfect Cup of Coffee"": Coffee crusaders, backed by caffeine-buzzed venture capitalists, are taking aim at Starbucks with a seven-dollar cup of joe.

""How Flashy Hotelier Sam Nazarian Is Shaking Up Las Vegas"": A nightclub impresario has teamed up with a series of big names in an effort to rethink the hospitality business.

""Back to Square One"": An update on a startup that promised to transform the credit and finance industry with a sweeping, digitized vision of the future.

It's another Mother's Day and Miranda is still not pregnant. Her unsuccessful attempts have left her defeated and despondent. Everyone, it seems, is a mother except her. As she prepares to spend another Mother's Day surrounded by family, Miranda must come to terms with how her infertility has affected her relationship with her husband, her sisters and her friends. But the ultimate challenge is learning to forgive her own body for its betrayal and recognizing when hope has changed from an ally to a foe.

Nissa Kealoha helps control Santa's image - his brand. An Image Specialist with Claus & Company, she helps promote his positive image and deflect anything negative. This year, Nissa finds herself counting the days until she can return to the Greater World to goose holiday donations and remind people about the good Santa represents. Until a man on a mission threatens her holiday plans.

Professor Ryan Palmer possesses the perfect voice in the perfect body. And he uses that perfection to launch an anti-obesity campaign against, of all people, Santa. Or as he sees it, Santa's image. Ryan thinks the mythology of Santa eating cookies and drinking eggnog contribute to the obesity epidemic - one he hopes to help reverse.

Nissa must stop Ryan from tarnishing Santa's image, but when they meet, sparks fly—the magical, person-of-your-dreams kind of sparks. Can Nissa keep her objectivity? Can Ryan let himself believe in the impossible? Can they find their own kind of Christmas magic together?

In the second half of the program, John points out that we protect ourselves in the physical world all the time (locking doors, wearing a seat belt, taking vitamins, etc.), but since there is more to us than our physical body, we need to protect ourselves from negative energy as well. Psychic self-defense allows us to maintain the energy in our own auric field, thereby preventing others from affecting or draining it.

This musical is dedicated to the Loch Ness monster, who started it all so long ago.

In My Friend Nessie, Wilver, a seven-year-old boy, is living with his eccentric grandmother near the sea. He hasn't spoken for two years, since the trauma of his parents' death. Wilver's first words are to Nessie, a sea monster. She comes to him simply because his need is so great.

Wilver's childhood adventure with his great green friend influences his adult life. As a young man planting persimmon trees he sings, ""First, here's one for Nessie...now, here's one for me.""

This story, throughout, embraces the beautiful meaning of ubuntu: ""I am because you are.""

From Scotland to Canada to Siberia to Sweden to the South Pacific, from Lake Champlain to the Chesapeake Bay, wherever an unexplained water-monster has been sighted, the whimsical word is Nessie. Is she our longing for wonder and surprise, the enigma we crave?

My Friend Nessie was first performed on stage in 1978 by the Sandwich Young Peoples' Theatre as a benefit for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Massachusetts Chapter.

This program includes:

Part 1

• Young Wilver & Grandma
• Nessie & the Persimmon
• Mr. Silversmith & the Medallions
• Underwater: Scatfish & Scallop
• Seahorses, Seaweed & Questions

Part 2

• Vicious-Fishus!
• Chippo & the Jazz Concert
• Back on the Shore
• Adult Wilver: Lifework
• Persimmon Pies for Nessie

Magical Adventures is a superb high quality meditation recording by Heather Bestel. Heather is a very experienced psychotherapist who has worked with children developing and building their self esteem and confidence since 1994.

This audio is a lovely and safe way for our 4-7 year old magical explorers to discover their inner resources as they venture. Helping them along the way to build their confidence and creativity. With the use of this audio, Children learn to find their inner calm and develop some wonderful resources to empower them whenever they need.

This recording includes four tracks:

• 1 Magical Undersea Adventure
• 2 Magical Space Adventure
• 3 The Magic Circus
• 4 Magic Carpet Ride

'Magical Adventures' is ideal for using at home: during chill out time, at bedtime, on long journeys, before exams or anytime children need to switch off and relax. For use in school: at the beginning or end of each class, in the chill out zone, and during circle time.

A groundbreaking and inspiring exploration of the unique relationship between dogs and humans, from the best-selling author of Dogs Never Lie About Love.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson has long been interested in the relationships between humans and animals, and he’s always been aware that there was something very special in our bond with dogs. No other animals love us in quite the same way as dogs love us. And it is mutual. Is it possible that we developed our capacity for love, sympathy, empathy, and compassion because of our long association with dogs?

In The Dog Who Couldn’t Stop Loving, Masson considers the far-reaching consequences of the coevolution of dogs and humans, drawing upon recent scientific research. Over the past forty thousand years a collective domestication has occurred that brings us to where we are today - humans have formed intense bonds with dogs, and the adoration is almost always reciprocal. Masson himself has experienced a profound bond with his new dog, Benjy, a failed guide dog for the blind, who possesses an abundance of uninhibited love. Masson knows that the love he feels for Benjy - the same feeling Benjy has for all the people and animals around him - is not unique, but exemplifies a love affair unmatched in the animal world.

With wisdom, insight, and a brilliant analysis of recent scientific findings, bestselling author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson delivers a provocative and compelling book that will change the way we think about love and our canine companions.

But these things find her when she accepts a last-minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the world's most celebrated writers - an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness.

To Hope's surprise, Finn O'Neill exudes warmth and a boyish charm. Enormously successful, he is a perfect counterpoint to Hope's quiet, steady grace - and he's taken instantly by her. He courts her as no one ever has before, whisking her away to his palatial, isolated Irish estate.

Hope finds it all, and him, irresistible. But soon cracks begin to appear in his stories: gaps in his history, lies and bouts of jealousy unnerve her. Suddenly Hope is both in love and suspicious, caring and deeply in doubt, and ultimately frightened of the man she loves.

Alone, thousands of miles from home, her mind is reeling. Is it possible that this adoring, attentive man - like the characters in his novels - is hiding something even worse? The spell cast by a brilliant sociopath has her trapped in his web, too confused and dazzled to escape, as he continues to tighten his grip on her.

This episode originally aired on May 6, 1956.

How do you fall back in love? This was the underlying problem of one in four couples seeking help from relationship therapist Andrew G. Marshall. They described their problem as: 'I love you but I'm not in love with you'. Noticing how widespread the phenomenon had become, he decided to look more closely. Why were these relationships becoming defined more by companionship than by passion, and why was companionship no longer enough? From his research Andrew has devised his own unique programme. By looking at how a couple communicate, argue, share love, take responsibility, give and learn he offers in seven steps a reassuring and empowering map for how two individuals can better understand themselves, strengthen their bond and recover that lost magic.

Then one day Roy asked his timid friend: ""You ever killed anything?"" And from that moment on, the two were bound together in a game too terrifying to imagine...and too irresistible to stop."

Within a few short months, Vanessa buried her husband and birthed his son. When serendipity brings a man into her life again, her heart flutters anew. But just as he plans to reveal his love, another woman stakes her claim on him - a claim his sense of honor can't easily shake off.

Amid his pots and pans, the author, Brother Lawrence, became so noted for his serenity and joy while he worked at the most menial kitchen tasks that cardinals and theologians came to see him to learn his secret. Even the pope of his day is said to have visited him."

Rosie O'Donnell looks back to her college days and her inability to express her love for a close girlfriend. Regis Philbin learned to trust his instincts when an early talk show got canceled. Irwin Redlener, the co-founder of The Children's Health Fund, examines a near-mistake: how he almost canceled a trip to see a grown son who soon after died in a skiing accident. Dr. Nicholas Perricone learns to shift his perspective after witnessing the bravery of a young girl during his internship. Senator Orrin Hatch discusses his mistaken vote against making Martin Luther King Day a national holiday. And Carol Burnett's hilarious essay explains why meeting Cary Grant turned out to be a big mistake."

Chopra uses Vedanta's ancient wisdom to define the soul and relationship, while Gawain's insights stem from her expertise in personal growth and consciousness. No topic is left untouched as these great minds explore everything from the origin of the soul to the ""shadow self"", from multiple personalities to life after death. Relationships don't just happen; they come to you for a reason, and what they offer can bring you new understandings about yourself and others."

Discover the scientific truth and psychological validity behind our own culture's unique and powerful form of shamanism. Experience the mystery and transformative power of Solomon's magick! Learn how the forgotten secrets of magick were re-discovered. Learn the truth about angels and demons.

CAUTION: This recording demonstrates interactive hypnotic sequences, not recommended for immature listeners.

Now, in a definitive book that addresses this growing problem, Sutton shows you how you can work with unsavory people without becoming one of them yourself."

THE FINANCIAL PAGE
""Bonds Unbound"", by James Surowiecki: On bond insurers and the market crisis.

FICTION
""Free Radicals"", by Alice Munro

PERSONAL HISTORY
""Call Me Loyd"", by David Owen: What's in a nickname?

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS
""Eerily Composed"", by Rebecca Mead: Nico Muhly, Generation Y maestro."

Revisit favorites from the 1850s through the present such as:

Animal by animal and cage by cage, Savage brandishes his irreverent wit to keep these beasts in check. Serving as resident biologist and zookeeper, Dr. Savage asks that you watch your step when approaching the widemouth copperhead Ted Turner (also known as Mouthus desouthus), do not feed the ego of stuffed turkey Alec Baldwin (Notalentus anti-americanus), and please keep your children with you at all times around wolf boy Bill Clinton (Fondlem undgropeum).""The world of politics is filled with uncivilized, snarling, rapacious beasts that, like untrained mutts, raise their legs and urinate on everything we hold dear,"" says Savage. And this sensational book is your guide for navigating the jungle of today's animal-political kingdom."

Slaughterhouse-Five is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is also as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch-22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it unique poignancy, and humor.

Il fu Mattia Pascal è un celebre romanzo di Luigi Pirandello che apparve dapprima a puntate sulla rivista ""Nuova Antologia"" nel 1904 e pubblicato, nello stesso anno, in volume. Fu il primo grande successo di Pirandello. Il libro è seguito da un commento dello stesso Pirandello, aggiunto in seguito.

Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.

Granna is ex-primary school teacher and grandmother Anna Gammond, who has been telling stories to countless numbers of children in her own warm distinctive style for more than 40 years.

Here she brings her personal touch to Beauty & The Beast as well as two other classic stories, The Emperor's New Clothes and Three Billy Goats Gruff

Meditasjon og ulike avspenningsteknikker passer for alle og er perfekt for deg som ønsker å redusere ditt stress og bli bedre kjent med deg selv. Meditasjon er ikke noe mystisk, men handler om å være tilstede i øyeblikket. Mindfullness er en enkel og konkret metode for å oppnå nettopp dette. Her får du en time med guidet meditasjon av ulik lengde tilpasset ulike situasjoner og behov.

Please note: This title is in Norwegian.

The Pimsleur® Method is scientifically proven to be your fastest route to near-native fluency. Speak and understand Russian in just 30 minutes a day. Russian Phase 2, Unit 28 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Russian.

Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell's best-known work, is a humorous account of a nineteenth-century English village dominated by a group of genteel but modestly circumstanced women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister, Miss Matty. But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster, imagined burglaries, tragic accidents, and the reappearance of long-lost relatives. By eschewing the conventional marriage plot with its nubile heroines and focusing instead on a group of middle-aged and elderly spinsters, Gaskell does something highly unusual within the novel genre. Through her masterful management of the novel's tone, she underscores the value and dignity of single women's lives even as she causes us to laugh at her characters' foibles. Charles Dickens was the first of many readers to extol its wit and charm, and it has consistently been Gaskell's most popular work.

Doris Lessing reads from her introduction to Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher. Ancient tradition suggests that this world-weary lament is the work of Solomon in old age. Casting its eye over the transient nature of life, the book questions the story for wisdom and the truth, choosing instead to espouse the value of living for the moment.

The introduction is preceded by a reading from the book by Richard Holloway, former Bishop of Edinburgh.

When 57-year-old Ethan Zachary is ravaged by mysterious ball lightning, he starts growing progressively younger. As the condition begins to take hold, he realizes the end result will eventually kill him, ruining his plans to run for Congress - as well as his marriage. He does find a few compensations: his new youth and vigor attract a Cuban refugee reporter and a young lady lawyer, and his libido has been magically restored. Then a reclusive billionaire snatches ""EZ"" to use him as a medical guinea pig. But EZ's internal clock is reverse-aging him inexorably, with the pace accelerating exponentially.

As he navigates through the maze of his personal problems and political intrigue, his biological timepiece keeps winding backwards, tick, tick, tick - until all he knows is that the hours are running out, any way you count them. There's just one more thing he can try!

Allen Klein, master of the right quote at the right moment, has gathered his favorite, most inspiring words of wisdom into this treasury of moving and meaningful sayings from around the world that will inspire listeners to live life to the fullest. Listeners can take this audiobook on the go to get a quick shot of inspiration at any time, or they can select one quote every day for in-depth thought and meditation. However listeners choose to use these uplifting and inspiring quotes, they all have the potential to be life-changing.

Rudyard Kipling once said that words are ""the most powerful drug used by mankind."" The words in this audiobook are the prescription listeners need to revise their lives. The audio features a foreword by Jack Canfield, co-creator of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

Please note: This audiobook is organized alphabetically, but the author has not used all letters of the alphabet to group the quotations. All of the quotes from the original print book are included in this audio edition.

In the new nail-shredding novel from New York Times best-seller Laura Lippman, Eliza Benedict’s past returns to haunt her when the serial killer she escaped from as a young girl walks back into her life.

Twenty-five years ago, he stole her innocence. Now he wants to get in touch. Eliza Benedict cherishes her quiet existence with her successful husband and children in the leafy suburbs of suburban Washington. But her tranquillity is shattered when she receives a letter from the last person she ever expects - or wants - to hear from: Walter Bowman. In the summer of 1985, when she was 15-years-old, Eliza was kidnapped by serial killer Walter Bowman, who targeted young girls like Eliza in a sexually motivated killing spree. Now facing lethal injection on death row, Walter is keen to make contact with Eliza, seemingly motivated by a desire to atone for his sins before he finally meets his maker.

Carefully, with some reluctance, she lets Walter enter her life, first by letter, then in person. Walter is keen to convince Eliza that he has changed, but it becomes clear that Walter has more of an agenda than he first revealed. Cunning and manipulative, Walter is never more dangerous than when he can't get what he wants, and he wants something very badly. Disturbingly, he seems to have an ally working in the outside, one who seems to know everything about Eliza's life - including where she lives.

As Walter once again manages to exert his malign influence, Eliza must draw on all of her reserves of wisdom and strength as the battle of predator and prey once more plays out and she must face the past head on if she is to survive.

A taut and mesmerizing novel by the highly-acclaimed author of Life Sentences and Every Secret Thing.

Joyce Carol Oates uses her award-winning talents to spin a masterful tale of Gothic horror for the second part of her mesmerizing trilogy. In The Devil's Half Acre, an eerie, supernatural setting and a host of eccentric characters combine to fill this spellbinding novel with tantalizing suspense.

After more than a decade, the handsome amateur detective Xavier Kilgarvan has returned to Winterthurn just in time to see the fifth young woman's body carried from Devil's Half Acre. A brutal fiend has left her mutilated body in this desolate plot of land filled with hulking boulders, quicksand, and twisted trees. Can detective Kilgarvan discover the forces motivating the mysterious ""Gentleman Suitor"" who has lured five innocent women to their deaths? To do so, he must confront demons from the past and the superstitions that surround the Devil's Half Acre.

Originally published in 1902, James Allen's classic book about personal development is considered the father of the self-help movement.

A Piece of String is one of his most famous stories and deals in a very touching way with perception versus reality.

The Headset Set is an audience sketch show set in the world of a call centre called Smile5, a company that sells anything and everything.

In the third novel in King's epic fantasy masterpiece, Roland, the Last Gunslinger, is moving ever closer to the Dark Tower, which haunts his dreams and nightmares. Pursued by the Ageless Stranger, he and his friends follow the perilous path to Lud, an urban wasteland. And crossing a desert of damnation in this macabre new world, revelations begin to unfold about who - and what - is driving him forward. A blend of riveting action and powerful drama, The Waste Lands leaves listeners breathlessly awaiting the next chapter.

This Captain Cram's Condensed Audio Course is the only audio program designed specifically for the American Literature CLEP test. This program provides you with all of the information you need to pass the test. We don't take any shortcuts. Some study guides are made up of just a list of suggested books to read. While that's a solid way to prepare, most students don't have years to invest in reading book after book. Other study guides are just a whole bunch of practice tests. These tests tell you that you have a lot to learn, but leave you wondering how you're going to learn it.

Captain Cram is unlike any other study guide available for the American Literature CLEP test. It's over six hours of material packed with rich American literature content and effective techniques to help you remember what you learn. Because it's an audio guide all you need to do is listen. It's that simple. We picked over 80 of the nation's most important authors and covered them and their work in detail. Then we tested the program by getting it in the hands of real test-takers - people who needed the credits from the test to graduate from college. Then we took a few years to perfect the program before releasing it for sale. The CLEP exam tests your general understanding of American literature. The Captain Cram program gives you that general understanding. You don't need to be an expert on the subject - you just need a basic understanding, and you need to be able to quickly recall the information that you learn. The Captain Cram program trains you to do that in a way that's fun and easy - with no reading or writing required. It's a 100% audio course - the only program of its kind on the market. No other study guide will assure your success like the Captain Cram program.

Don't walk into the test wondering if you know enough to pass. Save yourself that terrible anxiety and stress. Walk in knowing that you've mastered the material because youâ¿...

Chocolate-shop manager Lee McKinney has had enough of party planner Julie Singletree's cutesy e-mails. Then somebody actually kills the woman, putting everyone on her mailing list on edge. As their connections to the murder emerge, so do more attacks. Lee smells a rat - and it's not made of chocolate. And if she doesn't want to be permanently deleted, it's up to her to trap it.

Two nuclear wars. Three asteroids. Demonic madness that kills one third of the world's population. Into this, a savior will rise, cloned from Christ. It's not fiction. It's prophecy.

The Messiah of the new age. His coming is prophesied by more than a dozen major religions. Cloned from live cells of Jesus Christ found on the Shroud of Turin, Christopher Goodman was born into the most turbulent time in human history. Mentored by former UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Milner, Christopher rises in position and power, and displays remarkable wisdom and compassion. But through disjointed bits of dreams that sometimes haunt him, Christopher reveals significant troubling errors in the biblical record of Jesus' life.

The reason for Robert Milner's interest in Christopher becomes clear: the world is about to undergo a time of destruction and chaos darker than any in history, with impending nuclear war merely a faint precursor. Milner explains that without Christopher, humanity will not long survive. Under Christopher's leadership, however, mankind stands on the threshold of a final great evolutionary leap that will bestow on the human race god-like powers. This is the reason, Milner says, that Christopher was born.

In Israel, an unexpected threat to Christopher's ascension is growing: two men, possessed of incredible supernatural powers, one claiming to be the 2000-year-old Apostle John, the other an apostate Hasidic rabbi named Saul Cohen. Together, the men lead an outlawed cult of 144,000 followers, each branded with the names Yahweh and Yeshua on their foreheads.

Sisters in love. A family at war. A city in peril.

Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their grandmother, Grace Booth, and their mother, Mary Sylvester. When war is declared in 1939 they must face the hardships together and huge changes in their lives are inevitable. For Rose, there is the chance to fulfil her dream of becoming a clippie on Sheffield's trams like Peggy. But for Myrtle, the studious, clever one in the family, war may shatter her ambitions.

When the tram on which she is a conductress is caught in a bomb blast, Peggy bravely helps to rescue her passengers. One of them is a young soldier, Terry Price, and he and Peggy begin courting. They meet every time he can get leave, but eventually Terry is posted abroad and Peggy hears nothing from him. Worse still, Peggy must break the devastating news to her family that she is pregnant. The shock waves that ripple through the family will affect each and every one of them and life will never be the same again.

Independent and feisty thirty-seven year old Wren Poe, a self-made executive, doesn't take orders from anyone - especially men. Everything is on her terms in the boardroom and in the bedroom. Owning a successful marketing firm in Seattle has afforded her luxuries and independence. Though beautiful Wren may seem to have it all; success, money, power, and a quirky best friend, the one thing she doesn't have - is love. Wren isn't the type who wants to find love…not until the day she walks into Greenlee Athletics. Wren has spent almost an entire lifetime trying to forget a tragic past and recently an undeniable presence that has thrown Wren's life for a loop.

Talon Greenlee; thirty-nine years old, tall, dark and handsome…has secrets and pain from his past that have fueled his drive for success. As a result, his career is in high gear training professional athletes at his upscale sports training facility. Talon is rich, mysterious and hot as hell and despite his dark past, Talon is the perfect man. But he’s unavailable until he rids himself of his flaky girlfriend April. The attraction is unmistakable...but Wren is soon to find out, that attraction comes with a heavy price.

As he hires her to market Greenlee Athletics new facility in San Francisco, can they continue to deny the sexual charge that exists between them. Can they keep it professional? Do they give in to the fire that has ignited the passion that lies between them.

They quickly discover their lives have already intersected in the past, unbeknownst to them, they share a past that made it inevitable that their paths would eventually cross. With fate in the driver's seat, are either one ready to deal with the truths from their past and the long forgotten emotions and pain that they unwittingly share. Does this budding romance stand a chance? Torn between their past that drives them and their future that fuels their passion, join Wren and Talon on their journey in this three part...

Rusty Wilson¿s the kind of guy that if he sees you in town, he¿ll buy you lunch. But since Rusty¿s rarely in town, instead of buying you lunch, he¿d like to give you a huge bargain price on a few of his stories so you can sample the crazy and mysterious world of Bigfoot. These great stories were collected by Rusty from his flyfishing clients around the campfire - and they¿re stories you¿ll never forget - even if you¿d like to!

This little audiobook has three new tales and two bonus ones from Rusty¿s previous collections, plus a special sample from a cool Bigfoot mystery.

Listeners learn pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar of Mandarin Chinese without the need of a textbook. Level 3: Broadens vocaulary base, more advanced grammar skills, enriches conversational ability.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

Though she is just a teenager, she marries Hank and moves with him down from the high country to Gap Creek. There they discover that life grinds ever on without pause or concern for hard work. Scratching out an existence for themselves, always at risk of losing it all, Julie and Hank don't know what to fear the most - floods, or the flesh-and-blood grifters who insinuate themselves into their new lives. Their struggles with nature, with work, and with the disappointments and triumphs of marriage make this a powerful story."

The Pimsleur® Method is scientifically proven to be your fastest route to near-native fluency. Speak and understand Japanese in just 30 minutes a day. Japanese Phase 2, Unit 28 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Japanese.

Explicit Language Warning: You must be 18 years or older to purchase this program.

During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces attempted a three-pronged strategic advance into the North. The outcome of this offensive, the only coordinated Confederate attempt to carry the conflict to the enemy, was disastrous. The results at Antietam and in Kentucky are well known; the third offensive, the northern Mississippi campaign, led to the devastating and little-studied defeats at Iuka and Corinth, defeats that would open the way for Grant's attack on Vicksburg.

Peter Cozzens presents here the first book-length study of these two complex and vicious battles. Drawing on extensive primary research, he details the tactical stories of Iuka, where nearly one-third of those engaged fell, and Corinth, which was fought under brutally oppressive conditions, analyzing troop movements down to the regimental level.

He also provides compelling portraits of Generals Grant, Rosecrans, Van Dorn, and Price, exposing the ways in which their clashing ambitions and antipathies affected the outcome of the campaign. Finally, he draws out the larger, strategic implications of the battles of Iuka and Corinth, exploring their impact on the fate of the northern Mississippi campaign, and by extension, the fate of the Confederacy.

This book is published by University of North Carolina Press.

However, events took an unusual turn when Melody met Captain Adam Channing, an attractive but mysterious officer.

However, her novel The Awakening, published 1899, drew a storm of criticism for its ""shocking, morbid, and vulgar"" story and quickly went out of print. The novel was not resurrected until the 1950s, when participants in the growing women's movement recognized its importance. Today, The Awakening is among the most-read American novels in colleges and universities and is considered an early example of American realism."

Carlo Collodi, whose real name was Carlo Lorenzini, was a Florentine children's writer most famous for this world-renowned fairytale novel. The name ""Pinocchio"" is a Tuscan word meaning ""pine nut"". The story concerns a puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. The book has appeared in many adaptations including the famous 1940 Disney movie. The story is alluded to in a remarkable number of books, movies, and TV shows, including the latest Battlestar Galactica series and the movie Shrek.

1. Breath of Life, Breath of Love: This breath-centered meditation gently guides you through each part of your body, helping you establish contact with the life force within each cell and balance your body's energy.
2. Stretching and Relaxation: This series of simple meditative stretches and self-massage instructions is deeply restorative to body, mind, and spirit.

Can learning another language be as easy as speaking your own? Yes - with Pimsleur it's that easy. Learn on your own time, at your own pace, and wherever you choose. Mandarin Chinese Phase 3, Unit 17 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Mandarin Chinese.

Everyone has experienced life's classic dilemmas: Should I do this, or should I do that? Should I buy this, or should I buy that? Should I be here, or should I be there? We tend to resolve these questions by analysis and rationality, but when we look carefully we see that our choices usually aren't rational; more often they are a decision of the heart. It's essential that we cultivate the intuitive aspect of our consciousness so see beyond just two sides of a question. We separate the world into ourselves and everything outside ourselves, and this creates a false prison we don't know how to escape. By allowing ourselves to be spontaneous and intuitive, we can be present in the current moment, and this gives us the capacity to nourish the world around us.

Zen Buddhism emphasizes zazen, or seated meditation, as the means to study the self and understand who we truly are. Dharma talks are an essential aspect of Zen training and take place in the context of zazen. Said to be ""dark to the mind and radiant to the heart"", a dharma talk is one of the ways in which a teacher points directly to the heart of the teachings of the Buddha. In our meditation practice, it is easy to get lost in self-doubt, fantasy, numbness, and emotional agitation. Dharma talks help to ground our practice, providing inspiration and an essential recognition of exactly where we find ourselves, so that we can learn to face difficulties and obstacles with a free and flexible mind. This talk was given at Zen Mountain Monastery or the Zen Center of New York City of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism, founded in 1980 by the late American Zen Master John Daido Loori, Roshi (1931-2009).

From 1949 to 1957, Dragnet pioneered new levels of realism on radio. Every crime investigated by Sergeant Joe Friday was taken from the actual case files of the Los Angeles Police Department, with only ""the names changed to protect the innocent"". There were multi-layered sound effects; the actors used accurate police lingo, abbreviations, and penal codes; and the show didn't shy away from stories about heinous crimes or stories that had unhappy endings. Created and produced by Jack Webb, Dragnet was much more than ""just the facts""."

""Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"" From 1930-1954, the wealthy Lamont Cranston was one of the best-known characters on radio, using his mystical powers to fight crime. The only person who knew The Shadow's true identity was his ""friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane"". Through the years, The Shadow was portrayed by Frank Readick, Orson Welles, Bill Johnstone, Bret Morrison, and others. As listeners were reminded at the end of every episode, ""The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay! The Shadow knows!"

The great English novelist used as the basis for his picaresque novel Then and Now a popular play of Machiavelli's called The Mandrake. He created within the traditions of the art of the modern novel an ironic farce, where the old ones end up being defeated by young love."

So begins the greatest epic poem in the English language. In words remarkable for their richness of rhythm and imagery, Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall, and redemption, ""to justify the ways of God to men"". Here, unabridged, and told with exceptional sensitivity and power by Anton Lesser, is the plight of Adam and Eve, the ambition and vengefulness of Satan and his cohorts."

Lena: Immerses herself in her painting and an intoxicating summer fling, fearing that the moment she forgets about Kostos will be the moment she sees him again.

Carmen: Falls under the spell of a sophisticated college friend for whom a theatrical role means everything and the heritage of the Pants means nothing.

Bridget: Joins a dig for an ancient city on the coast of Turkey and discovers that her archaeology professor is available in every way except one.
Tibby: Leaves behind someone she loves, wrongly believing he will stay where she has left him.

Join Ann Brashares' beloved sisterhood once again in a dazzling, fearless novel. It's a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena, Carmen, Bee, and Tibby, here and now, past and future, together and apart.

English literature may very well be the greatest body of imaginative writing the world has yet seen. The human experience has been understood, interpreted, and conveyed by writers of genius in a tradition stretching through six or more centuries, from Chaucer to Philip Larkin, from Defoe to William Golding. Here, accompanied by a wealth of examples, is the story of a literature that has touched the hearts and stirred the minds of countless readers through the ages.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

It's 1970 - they're 18 years old - drafted and trained by the Army Infantry for five months - sent to Vietnam with others their age to fight in an unpopular war - dubbed ""Cherries"" by their more seasoned peers - nothing had prepared them for this nightmare - forced to become men overnight - working hard to learn the ropes and earn the acceptance and trust of fellow soldiers. Once they come under fire and witness death firsthand, a life-changing transition begins.

This eye-opening account offers readers an in-depth look into the everyday struggles of these young infantry soldiers. You'll feel their fear, awe, drama, and sorrow, witness the bravery and sometimes laugh at their humor.

In Vietnam, battles weren't just fought against NVA and VC soldiers - personal battles occurred daily as these teenagers had to fend off the many crawling, flying and scurrying insects, rats, snakes, spiders, and other creatures that lived in these dense jungles. Some were magnificent - most were deadly!

In her groundbreaking new book, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, Melanie Joy explores the invisible system that shapes our perception of the meat we eat, so that we love some animals and eat others without knowing why. She calls this system carnism.

Carnism is the belief system, or ideology, that allows us to selectively choose which animals become our meat, and it is sustained by complex psychological and social mechanisms. Like other ""isms"" (racism, ageism, etc.), carnism is most harmful when it is unrecognized and unacknowledged. Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows names and explains this phenomenon and offers it up for examination. Unlike the many books that explain why we shouldn't eat meat, Joy's book explains why we do eat meat - and thus how we can make more informed choices as citizens and consumers.

In this rich and memorable evocation of the fictional South Riding of Yorkshire are the lives, loves and sorrows of the central characters. There is Sarah Burton, fiery young headmistress; Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall, a councillor tormented by his own disastrous marriage; Jo Astell, a socialist fighting poverty and his own illness; and Mrs Beddows, the first woman Alderman of the district (like Winifred's own mother). They are the people who work together in the council chambers and backrooms of local politics. Alongside them, however, are the people affected by their decisions.

Online dating has moved from the fringe to the forefront, but many people still have no clue how to find their match in cyberspace. This powerful audio program presents a proven, easy, and fun method for finding love online, while steering clear of Internet dating hazards. Full of practical tips and techniques, this audio course will save you time and frustration by teaching a fool-proof strategy for succeeding at Internet dating.

A collection of three comic tales from BBC Radio 4.

‘The Greengrocer’s Apostrophe’ was inspired by those hand-written signs offering ‘Apple's and Banana's’, which can be found in every town in Britain. Originally broadcast in the Afternoon Reading slots from 28-30 September 2010.

‘Penny's from Heaven’, by Anneliese Mackintosh: James Anthony Pearson reads a quirky story about the apostrophe that ends a relationship. Produced by Eilidh McCreadie.

‘Alice, Hanging in There’, by Ronald Frame: When Alice's high-flying career stalls, she finds a novel way to occupy her time. Armed only with a balaclava and a pot of paint, she starts to vent her anger on sloppy punctuation. Read by Tracy Wiles. Produced by Eilidh McCreadie.

‘The Sweet Possessive´, by Diana Hendry: Distracted by an apostrophe obsession, a woman fails to notice that her lover is not all that he seems. Read by Monica Gibb. Produced by Eilidh McCreadie.

Almost everything we once believed about the origins of our civilization is about to be undermined in the revelation of a lifetime. Robert Bauval is a best-selling author of numerous books and has appeared on television and radio around the world. His discovery about the pyramid complex at Giza, called the Orion Correlation, made him headline news. Now, in this unique program, he brings to light startling new evidence regarding the very origins of civilization.

Tracing mankind's ancient roots back in time and across the landscape of Egypt and Africa, Bauval points to a remarkable site with definitive evidence that Egyptian civilization emerged from a very different origin than we are lead to believe. He points to amazing knowledge about precession and astronomy previously unrecognized.

This program explores these incredible discoveries in depth and brings us up to date with the links between the Orion Correlation, the dating of the Sphinx and this new evidence. Did civilization emerge around 10,500 BC in a place we've never heard of? You decide. This is an absolute must for all those interested in ancient mysteries, Egyptology, and exploring the origins of our modern civilization.

""A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.""

The freedom to defend oneself against all enemies, foreign and domestic, is the very definition of liberty. America’s Founding Fathers went to great lengths to ensure this right wasn’t infringed upon by future lawmakers. Still, to this day, politicians seem determined to undermine that freedom. Once that right is stripped away from the American People, freedom as we know it will cease to exist.

Stealing Second takes a look into future America, an unarmed America, where unmanned drones rule the skies and UN troops police the population. Across the country, detention camps spring up like weeds. Americans are given two weeks to turn in their firearms. But those who believe Americans will easily give up their arms have another thing coming. Washington only succeeds in angering the American People and the country plunges into a second revolutionary war. With the odds stacked heavily against them, Americans fight back to preserve their liberty.

Like many Americans, Gary Smith trusts the government to make his decisions for him. He lives in a world of self-imposed apathy, blissfully ignorant, and determined to remain so. Slowly, the blinders are removed from his eyes. Gary wakes up to find that the world he knows has suddenly changed. Too late, he realizes that he was part of the problem. Desperate to take back what has been stolen from him, Gary joins a group of likeminded individuals in a last-gasp effort to turn back the hands of time.

Powerfully written and uniquely entertaining, this timely tale is a story that begs to be read. However you feel about gun control, whatever side of the proverbial aisle you stand, Stealing Second is an important work of fiction. A plausible scenario that all Americans should consider before allowing our politicians to dismantle the Second Amen..."

Some of the questions addressed are:

• Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
• Who killed Jesus?
• Why did God have to die to save humans?

This book is excellent for Bible study leaders to use as a guide or as a textbook for Sunday school classes at church or group Bible study in the university or high school setting. As the book addresses many important issues relating to the foundation of the Christian faith, this book will prove to be very valuable for mature Christians and new Christians alike. This book aims to help Christians understand what they believe in a systematic and logical manner.

Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most.

It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband of nineteen years have just called it quits, leaving her with serious cash-flow problems and a looming divorce. More broke than ever, Link makes a seemingly impossible resolution: to hang on to her century-old farmhouse in northern Michigan and continue to raise her three boys on well water and wood chopping and dirt. Armed with an unfailing sense of humor and three resolute accomplices, Link confronts blizzards and foxes, learns about Zen divorce and the best way to butcher a hog, dominates a zucchini-growing contest and wins a year’s supply of local bread, masters the art of bargain cooking, wrangles rampaging poultry, and withstands any blow to her pride in order to preserve the life she wants.

With an infectious optimism that would put Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm to shame and a deep appreciation of the natural world, Link tells the story of how, over the course of one long year, she holds on to her sons, saves the farm from foreclosure, and finds her way back to a life of richness and meaning on the land she loves.

What does it take to win a major championship and reach the absolute pinnacle of golf? Through a season of the four tournaments - the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship - known collectively as the majors, John Feinstein takes us where the television cameras never go, both off the links and ""inside the ropes"", as he reveals the special challenges and rituals, the frustrations and exhilaration, that mark the lives and careers of the world's greatest golfers.

In the sequel to The Mariposa Club, devoted Maui, fabulous Trini, and Goth-boy Liberace discover that the miedo and drama of life as a senior in high school is never-ending. The cure: friendship. But the bonds between the trio are tested; Sebastián, the handsome son of a wealthy developer crushes on Maui’s eye - and the attraction is mutual but oh-so-complicated; Trini must go back to living with her parents, which means dressing as a girl is no longer allowed; and Lib has to decide his future after graduation, one that could take him far away from Caliente Valley High and friends he’s known for years.

But before caps and gowns can be donned a different, crucial event is fast coming. Prom. And this new Fierce Foursome wants to make a statement about acceptance and diversity. Which means one of our activists will be wearing a gown at prom. Chic Manifique! Maybe. Hopefully, he’ll still have a strong arm - and friends - to lean on when wearing matching heels.

Original, haunting and utterly gripping, Kiss Me First is The Talented Mr Ripley for the online age and the literary thriller that everyone will be talking about.

Leila has never met Tess, but she now knows more about Tess than anyone in the world. She’s read all of her emails, researched her past and asked Tess for every detail about her friends and family. Tess has never met Leila. But if she wants to slip away from the world unnoticed, she needs to trust Leila with her life.

At first, Leila finds it easy to assume Tess’s identity, and no one has any reason to distrust her. But as Leila is soon to discover, there is much more to a person than the facts and there are things about life you can learn only by living it…

For fans of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson and Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller, Lottie Moggach’s Kiss Me First is an electrifying and unputdownable debut from a phenomenally gifted storyteller.

But life wasn't always so kind to young Justin. The years stacking shelves at Bristol's Marks and Spencer weren't exactly a high point. Being told to 'walk faster' by his boss and being given a final warning...bad times.

But mere retail couldn't keep him down! This hilarious coming-of-age story follows his journey from collecting Star Wars toys as a small boy to schmoozing Carrie Fisher in her Hollywood home, and becoming one of the most loved and instantly recognised faces on British TV.

For each new twist his life has taken, he hasn't changed a bit. He's as bouncy, funny, shambolic, huggable, and of course, Bristolian, as he's ever been. This is the story of how it all happened - by accident.

But this is not just a routine celebrity autobiography/memoir - that would be boring. Especially for Justin himself, whose attention span is that of a small child at the best of times. Instead, this is JLC utilising his remarkable photographic memory to ponder the unfeasibly peculiar and funny moments that have defined his life, and desperately trying to make sense of it all. Rock on!

The fast and highly effective way to stop cravings, end addiction and recover energy and happiness without drugs.

This groundbreaking book from the UK's leading spokesman on nutrition looks at why millions of people have cravings for substances such as coffee, sugar and alcohol, as well to drugs such as sleeping pills, antidepressants, marijuana and cocaine. It uncovers how the brain becomes addicted and how it can be 'unaddicted' through a combination of diet, supplements and lifestyle factors.

The book is written in association with Dr David Miller, who has worked in the addiction field for 25 years and is an expert in relapse prevention. It looks at each of the most common substances that people become addicted to and offers specific advice on how to tackle that particular substance safely and effectively yourself.

In-depth yet practical and accessible, How to Quit Without Feeling S--t will allow you to understand why you feel the way you do, whether you have a dependency or have already given up but still feel lousy.

The Pimsleur® Method is scientifically proven to be your fastest route to near-native fluency. Speak and understand Japanese in just 30 minutes a day. Japanese Phase 2, Unit 10 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Japanese.

Brin forces her hot boyfriend, Luke, to ""play"" with her sexy little brother while her brother sleeps. Fighting to contain her lust as each night, she watches Luke go further than she ever imagined and struggles to hide the titillating secret that led to their wild nights.

Please note that this story contains very explicit descriptions of erotic and sexual situations that were written for extreme genital arousal, which will lead to self-pleasure. Mature readers only. Website: www.SoundsEroticPodcast.com.

The publication of The Woman's Bible in 1895 and 1898 represented the feminist pioneer's last strike at the roots of the ideology behind her gender's subordinate role in society. In keeping with her characteristic radical individualism, Stanton attacks religious orthodoxy on a political rather than scholarly basis. This clarion call to action consists of a book-by-book examination of the Bible, placing events in their historical context, interpreting passages as both allegory and fact, and comparing them with the myths of other cultures. It endures as an extraordinary document because of the questions it addresses, the topics it covers, and its still-resonant sincerity.

When English soldier Hal strikes up a conversation with German Lieutenant Wilhelm during the ceasefire in no-man's-land on Christmas Day 1914, he has no idea the impact this chance meeting will have. Wilhelm is in love with an English woman, Sam, and presses a photograph into Hal's hand - if he makes it home, Hal must promise to find Sam and give her this token of affection.

Hal does make it home, though the war rages on - but the moment he sees Sam, he is in trouble. With Wilhelm's shadow looming over their relationship, and his photograph never revealed, Hal begins to live a life that was meant for someone else.

""Instant Grandpa"": Take one widower grandfather, add two little grandkids, and widowed grandmother with a small granddaughter. Mix well. Stir in sun drenched beach days and moonlit nights. What have you got? A kite flying high with a new tail; an author writing a book to sort out emotions; a talented boy with his mother returned to claim the prize.

""Young at Heart"": Seventy-year-old Joyce Campbell expected her new left hip to heal at Helen Hayes Rehabilitation. What she didn't expect was to fall in love with the distinguished silver haired Collin Brody who wouldn't give her a second glance. Until Kizzy, the therapy dog comes into Collin's life...and into his heart. What happens next? The Beginning, not the End.

""Before the Final Curtain"": Once lovers, aging actors collide on stage as stars in a romantic comedy written and directed by a manipulative director. Add to the mix the talented assistant, a tough stage manager, one prominent costume designer, two young actors, secrets and gossip. Show business. There's no business like it.

Sex is everywhere. You can turn off the television, never buy another magazine, and keep your children home until they're grown, but we absolutely cannot keep them from learning about sexuality...and it would be wrong if we tried. Often people still grasping at some form of morality overreact to our sex-saturated society and stick their heads in the sand, letting people make God's gift to a man and his wife dirty. Our young people want to learn about this subject, and if their mentors zip their mouths and make it uncomfortable, they will go to other sources. The G.L.A.M. Girl's Guide To Sex is a book to teach young ladies that they need to prepare their hearts for purity so when they are faced with (and they will be at some point) the temptation to yield to the lust of the flesh, they will instead stand up for Christ.

Regret. Loneliness. Despair. Alina struggles with these feelings every night. Centuries ago, her kind was all but wiped out by a mysterious disease that left them unable to produce the venom needed to make new vampires. She's the last one - isolated in what feels like a never-ending nightmare.

But she discovers a homeless man named Terrence who's in the early stages of becoming a vampire. He doesn't remember how he got turned. That doesn't matter to Alina because if he feeds, he'll complete his transformation and have the power to save her race from extinction.

Alina offers to teach him vampire culture and history. Longing to find a place where he belongs, Terrence accepts. But he's appalled at the idea of living on human blood, so he refuses to feed. Alina resorts to manipulation and deceit to try and get what she wants.

Meanwhile, Alina's past closes in on both of them as an immortal named Lanier hunts her to avenge the murder of his brother. And he's been ordered by a mysterious figure named Duke to find a special book thought to be in Alina's possession. But what's in this book? Why is it so important?

If Alina can save her race, she'll find her redemption. But can she persuade Terrance to do the unthinkable...before it's too late?

Kompanija ""CDCOM"" predstavljaet novuju seriju audioknig - ""Shkol'naja hrestomatija"". ""Shkol'naja hrestomatija"" - unikal'nogo proekta, kotoryj razrabotan v pomoshh' uchashhimsja i soderzhit ukorochennye ozvuchennye versii literaturnyh proizvedenij shkol'noj programmy, chto pozvoljaet v kratchajshie sroki oznakomit'sja s tvorchestvom avtora i podgotovit'sja k jekzamenam. V proekte ""Shkol'naja hrestomatija. A.P. Chehov"" predstavleny zapisi znamenitye proizvedenij klassika, a takzhe stat'ja ""Mir Chehova-myslitelja"" i ozvuchennaja biografija pisatelja.

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Majestie is a shared biography: that of the first Stuart King of England (James I) and the Bible that goes by his name. It is part tabloid, part history lesson, part speculation; but it's all James. A biography of James Stuart is a study in paradox, one that entertains as much as it informs. James I waddles through history, sidewise and crablike. Intellectually astute, he can dazzle and charm with the polish of his rhetoric one minute, and speak with the vulgarity of a tavern bawd the next. James is an amusing mix of bombast and majesty, of sparkle and grime, of smut and brilliance, of visionary headship and foolishness. And only he, this all-too-human king, our flawed James, could have given us the great book he did.

Early in his reign, James fashioned himself as the ""new Solomon"", the pacifist prince entering the ""the land of promise"" - that is, the England inherited from his cousin Elizabeth. But the milk and honey he expected was a mirage. Still, in many respects he flirts with greatness. He is the first king of a united, or ""Great"" Britain. For all his foibles, all his bungling, James possesses an evolved sense of majesty, a type of faith in majesty itself, and wants nothing more than for his new Bible to reflect this majesty, to gild and elevate the reign, to be the great medicine that might heal the realm.

Colorful, witty, imperfect, sensuous, bawdy, intelligent, England has had no king like him, nor any book like the one he bequeathed us, before or since.

Moving home has not been much fun for Jimmy and his family, least of all for his fisherman father who had to leave the sea and his treasured boat behind. Then, out of the blue, Jimmy meets Major Gregory, an elderly gentleman and prize collector of koi carp.

Soon Jimmy is hooked and wants to learn everything there is to know about these gentle orange giants. But then he discovers something he'd rather not have known; thieves are planning to steal the Major's beloved army of giant goldfish, the whole pondful! Jimmy knows he's got to help, and before long he finds himself in deep, and very dangerous, water!

Please note: This title is in Spanish.

All about gold with John Hathaway, Peter Munk, & James Grant. Next, a conversation with David Einhorn, President of Greenlight Capital. [Broadcast Date: December 6, 2010]

Can learning another language be as easy as speaking your own? Yes - with Pimsleur it's that easy. Learn on your own time, at your own pace, and wherever you choose. English for Spanish Speakers Phase 1, Unit 23 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak English. This unit contains a Reading Lesson designed to teach you to sound out words with correct pronunciation and accent. A Reading Booklet to be used with the audio lessons is also included in PDF format.

Earth's ravaged environment is quickly making it unlivable, and colonizers want to begin terraforming these abandoned worlds for human habitation. Only interstellar archaeologist Richard Wald and starship pilot Priscilla Hutchins are convinced that uncovering the secrets of the monuments may hold the key to survival for the entire human race.

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Vocal coach Melissa Cross is otherwise known as the ""Scream Queen"" for her work teaching metal, punk, and hardcore performers how to use their voice without ruining their vocal chords. She teaches them how to growl, bark, bellow, and scream. Cross is classically trained. She has a new instructional DVD, The Zen of Screaming: Vocal Instruction for a New Breed. (Broadcast Date: December 8, 2005)"

Not knowing which faction to favor, Father Flynn listens to all those caught up in the conflict, and these are the voices we hear in the stories of Whitethorn Woods ¿ men and women deciding between the traditions of the past and the promises of the future, ordinary people brought vividly to life by Binchy's generosity and empathy, and in the vivacity and surprise of her storytelling.

Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike anything that has existed - a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realises that there is a connection between this haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.

Set in the turbulent 1920s, The Angel's Game takes us back to the gothic universe of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, the Sempere & Sons bookshop, and the winding streets of Barcelona's old quarter, in a masterful tale about the magic of books and the darkest corners of the human soul.

He alone holds the clue to a sinister plot that will bring bloodshed and carnage to his school - and his country. Forced to flee from Eton to Austria, James must leave behind everything he knows, with only a beautiful - and dangerous - girl by his side.

Soon he is trapped in a deadly war of secrets and lies, as a nightmare reunion with a bitter enemy plunges him once more into the face of death. Life for James Bond will never be the same again.

Nick Cave reads from his introduction to the earliest of the four Gospels, which portrays Jesus as an enigmatic figure, struggling with enemies, his inner and external demons, and with his devoted but disconnected disciples. Unlike other gospels, his parables are obscure, to be explained secretly to his followers. Cave's reading is preceded by Richard Holloway, former Bishop of Edinburgh, reading an extract from the gospel.

Just because Mel lives in New Whitby, a city founded by vampires, doesn't mean she knows any of the blood-drinking undead personally. They stay in their part of town; she says in hers. Until the day a vampire shows up at her high school. Worse yet, her best friend, Cathy, seems to be falling in love with him. It's up to Mel to save Cathy from a mistake she might regret for all eternity!

On top of trying to help Cathy (whether she wants it or not), Mel is investigating a mysterious disappearance for another friend and discovering the attractions of a certain vampire wannabe. Combine all this with a cranky vampire cop, a number of unlikely romantic entanglements, and the occasional zombie, and soon Mel is hip-deep in an adventure that is equal parts hilarious and touching.

Acclaimed authors Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan team up to create a witty and poignant story of cool vampires, warm friendships, and the changes that test the bonds of love.

A young man, born into a privileged New York family, loses them in a car accident. Young and wealthy, he needs to justify his existence during The Great Depression. Skilled in carpentry, he drives to the Gulf of Mexico, working on building projects all around the gulf with his peculiar friend and partner from Florida. Together, they travel, helping poor folks along the way, repairing their homes and their lives.

Eventually, he lands in Galveston, where he stays to help rebuild the island after their first Great Flood, building an inter-racial school for the island's orphans.

The chautauqua continues as an older and wiser man wends his way back to New York City.

A slugger struggles with an empty ballpark and a murdered teammate.

The Providence Jewels, an American League expansion team, have been taking a beating all season. Worse, relief pitcher Rudy Furth has just suffered a beating of a more lethal kind - and been left to die in the clubhouse whirlpool among whispers of mob corruption and violently lovesick fans.

When the police investigation stalls, veteran Providence center fielder Harvey Blissberg, who knew Furth as well as anyone, decides to play detective. While trying to keep his eye on the ball, and his head above water with the spunky, beautiful sports newscaster Mickey Slavin, Blissberg quietly stalks Furth’s killer through major-league locker rooms and the dark streets of Rhode Island’s capital city. Lots of ballplayers keep their batting averages above .300 - but how many have chased a murderer at the same time?

Charismatic, beautiful Sally Flynn was the center of her daughters' imaginations, particularly Laura's. Without warning, life as they knew it changed as paranoid schizophrenia overtook Sally. Whether it was accusing Laura’s father of trying to win her over to the side of Satan, or buying only certain products that were evil-free, glimmers of her mother’s future paranoia grew brighter as Laura’s early years passed. Once her husband left the family and filed for divorce, Sally’s symptoms bloomed in earnest, and the three girls united in flights of fancy of the sort their mother had taught them in order to deflect danger.

Set in 1970s San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is a searing, beautifully written memoir of a childhood under siege and three young girls determined to survive. In luminous prose, this memoir paints a most intimate portrait of what might have been a catastrophic childhood.

Mean streets, bad intentions, and designer dope describe Betrayal in Brooklyn, which is about a man who has become the hunted. Richie Bucceroni, son of a dead mobster, but now a PhD, is trying to rebuild his life after the murder of his wife and child when a cunning killer targets him. Betrayal in Brooklyn races to a violent conclusion with a Brooklyn trifecta - one fistfight, one shooting, and one bombing. In the process, Bucceroni knocks out two neo-Nazis, a promiscuous professor gets shot, thrice, in the caboose, and the bombing is a Bensonhurst solution. When in doubt, kill as many as you can.

Enjoy three of the best storytellers in the business as they prove that cricket is a funny game, even when rain stops play!

A fire at the Cathedral of Turin and the discovery of a strangely mutilated body attract the attention of Italy's special Art Crimes Department. The fire is only the latest in a troubling series of arsons and break-ins at the cathedral, which houses what millions believe to be the authentic burial shroud of Jesus Christ.

A cop as well as an art historian, department chief Marco Valoni leads a crack team of investigators in a race to solve a crime he's certain is about to shock the world. Someone is planning to steal the Holy Shroud, and Valoni's only suspect is currently serving out a sentence in a Turin prison. Following a trail from the earliest Christian communities to the highest councils of the Vatican and the boardrooms that rule the world, Valoni and his associates find themselves in the crossfire of an ancient conflict.

Translated by Andrew Hurley.

Pimsleur® equals success. Just one 30-minute lesson a day gets you speaking and understanding like no other program. Korean Phase 2, Unit 9 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Korean.

It's been a long time since criminal defence attorney David Cavanaugh has heard his childhood friend Chris Kincaid speak of Marilyn Maloney; for hers is a name from the past, from a time when David, Chris, and the third in the gang of three, Mike, vowed never to let a girl get in the way of their friendship. But now Chris is the ""successful, happily married US Senator for New Jersey"", and when he pleads with David to return home to help him locate the girl he ""used"" to love, David reluctantly agrees, leaving his wife and baby daughter behind in Boston.

What starts as a favour to a friend soon turns into a major murder investigation when a woman's bruised and battered body is hauled from the freezing waters of the Passaic. Marilyn is dead, Chris is charged with her murder, and David faces the harrowing responsibility of defending one childhood friend accused of killing another....

In The Adopted Son, Lazy Purdue refuses to work for longer than a fortnight at a time. His fortune changes when he returns to his home range and finds himself in the middle of a feud between the McLanes and the Conovers. In Billy Angel, Trouble Lover, Billy Angel is wounded and trying to elude a sheriff's posse. It is late when he seeks refuge in Sue Markham's railroad lunchroom. The last thing Sue wants or needs is a wounded outlaw, but Billy Angel doesn't intimidate her in the least. But how do you manage to hide a desperate man in a busy railroad lunchroom? Bad Man's Gulch is the powerful story of a reformed gunman, Pedro Emmanuel Melendez, who drifts into the lawless mining town of Slosson's Gulch. But can he drift on when he meets up with Louise Berenger and her father, who have discovered gold and fallen prey to the desperate and predatory miners of the gulch.

Although the great civilisations of the Aztecs and Incas did not survive their contact with the invaders from Europe, their myths and legends live on. Some are recorded in ancient writings; some are still popular, traditional stories in modern day Mexico and Peru. Here is a collection of the best and most entertaining tales. The Children of the Sun, The Star Girl, The Llama Boy and the Sun Maiden, Quetzalcoal, The Lost Bird, The Rabbit and the Jaguar, The Fifth Sun.

Ideas for leaders to engage directly with customers to shape their brand and marketplace success...

Since its debut E-commerce has been centered on the transaction, which represents less than one percent of the time we spend online. Now, we are entering the era of Pre-Commerce where customers make their own decision to buy or support a brand before the transaction.

Pre-Commerce explains how the exploding use of social media channels has fundamentally changed the way customers go about making their purchasing decisions, how they educate themselves and why they choose to support certain brands above others. It shows what executives must do to re-create the way their companies interact with and learn from their customers, employees and competitors. It includes exclusive interviews and anecdotes Pearson has conducted or experienced with numerous influential C-suite executives during his time as leader of Dells global social media team and as a consultant to Fortune 1000 companies, worldwide.

• Offers a step-by-step process for leaders to apply this knowledge to begin transforming their companies, right now
• Begins with a foreword from Mark Addicks, Chief Marketing Officer, General Mills
• Over 25 Fortune 500 executives interviewed, including special side-bar interviews with Michael Dell and Marc Benioff
• Explores the concept of ""Pre-commerce"" - the customer's decision making happens well before a transaction takes place and continues after the transaction, representing 99% of time spent online, often outside a company's reach today
• Shows how to build internal employee networks and how to take your first and most important steps to integrate social media throughout your company

• Pearson reveals that the best ideas are often free and the technology needed is rarely a cost-issue. Instead, it's a matter of the top executive deciding to adopt a new way of engaging directly with its customers.

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Punching Dixon had gotten Jake Spinner thrown in jail, but now that he’s out all he wants is a fresh start back on his farm. Suddenly Dixon is dead and Spinner is on the run, escaping town in the getaway car with Dixon’s assassin in the back seat! He knows the cops won’t believe his innocence. He knows his only chance is to keep the cold, clubfooted little killer known as Loma with him. Because Loma is his ticket to a new life. His respectable life shattered, Spinner figures the only ones who’ll take him in now are the guys who hired Loma. The choice is easy - until he meets Ann.

Meet the Gourmet Detective. A chef-turned-culinary sleuth, the Gourmet Detective tracks down obscure ingredients and unravels difficult recipes for rival restaurateurs - until a guest unexpectedly drops dead at the prestigious Circle of Careme dinner. Drawing upon his epicurean and investigative skills, the Gourmet Detective hunts the killer among omelettes Bourguignonne and vats of Madeira sauce.

Featuring many real recipes and actual cooking techniques, this delightful mystery is a charming romp through the kitchens of the finest gourmands.

Before the wights there were vampires....

Abner Marsh has finally realised his heart's desire, he has built the Fevre Dream, the finest steamship ever to sail the Mississippi river. Marsh hopes to race the boat some day and prove its supremacy, but his partner seems determined to prevent him from fulfilling this ambition. Joshua York funded the creation of the Fevre Dream, but now rumours are spreading about the unusual company he keeps, his odd eating habits and strange waking hours.

As the Dream crosses the great river, it leaves in its wake too many sinister stories. Eventually Abner is forced to confront the man who helped to make his dreams become reality - before his dream turns into a nightmare. Discover George R. R. Martin's Gothic masterpiece, Fevre Dream.

America confronts a jobs crisis that has two faces. The first is obvious when we read the newspapers or talk with our friends and neighbors: there are simply not enough jobs to go around. The second jobs crisis is more subtle but no less serious: far too many jobs fall below the standard that most Americans would consider decent work. A quarter of working adults are trapped in jobs that do not provide living wages, health insurance, or much hope of upward mobility. The problem spans all races and ethnic groups and includes both native-born Americans and immigrants. But Good Jobs America provides examples from industries ranging from food services and retail to manufacturing and hospitals to demonstrate that bad jobs can be made into good ones. Paul Osterman and Beth Shulman make a rigorous argument that by enacting policies to help employers improve job quality we can create better jobs, and futures, for all workers.

Good Jobs America dispels several myths about low-wage work and job quality. The book demonstrates that mobility out of the low-wage market is a chimera far too many adults remain trapped in poor-quality jobs. Osterman and Shulman show that while education and training are important, policies aimed at improving earnings equality are essential to lifting workers out of poverty. The book also demolishes the myth that such policies would slow economic growth. The experiences of countries such as France, Germany, and the Netherlands, show that it is possible to mandate higher job standards while remaining competitive in international markets. Good Jobs America shows that both government and the firms that hire low-wage workers have important roles to play in improving the quality of low-wage jobs. Enforcement agencies might bolster the effectiveness of existing regulations by exerting pressure on parent companies, enabling effects to trickle down to the subsidiaries and sub-contractors where low-wage jobs are located. State...

Can learning another language be as easy as speaking your own? Yes - with Pimsleur it's that easy. Learn on your own time, at your own pace, and wherever you choose. Japanese Phase 2, Unit 29 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Japanese.

American pathologist Nora Gavin fled to Ireland three years ago, hoping that distance from home would bring her peace. Though she threw herself into the study of bog bodies and the mysteries of their circumstances, she was ultimately led back to the one mystery she was unable to solve: the murder of her sister, Trona. Nora cant move forward until she goes backback to her home, to the scene of the crime, to the source of her nightmares and her deepest regrets.

Determined to put her sisters case to rest and anxious about her 11-year-old niece, Elizabeth, Nora returns to Saint Paul, Minnesota, to find that her brother-in-law, Peter Hallett, is about to remarry and has plans to leave the country with his new bride. Nora has long suspected Hallett in Tronas murder, though there has never been any proof of his involvement, and now she believes that his new wife and Elizabeth may both be in danger. Time is short, and as Nora begins reinvestigating her sisters death, missed clues and ever-more disturbing details come to light. What is the significance of the ""false mermaid"" seeds found on Trona's body? Why was her behavior so erratic in the days before her murder?

Is there a link between Tronas death and that of another young woman? Noras search for answers takes her from the banks of the Mississippi to the cliffs of Ireland, where the eerie story of a fisherman's wife who vanished more than a century ago offers up uncanny parallels. As painful secrets come to light, Nora is drawn deeper into a past that still threatens to engulf her and must determine how much she is prepared to sacrifice to put one tragedy to rest...and to make sure that history doesn't repeat itself.

Hoffmann's stories are imaginative, wise, and educational, just how children's stories are supposed to be. Some of his characters instill fear, while others overcome it and continue towards their goal in the surreal world of this great storyteller. Hoffmann's world will awaken the imagination of your child.

Set amidst the outsider worlds of present-day downtown New York, 1990s Los Angeles, and 1940s Mexico City, Like Son is the not-so-simple story of a father, a son, and the love-blindness shared between them.

Meet Frank Cruz: a post-punk, sardonic, 30-year-old who unwittingly inherits his dead father's legacy. Born a bouncing baby girl named Francisca to parents tangled in a doomed love affair, Frank grows up in both the poorest barrios and poshest hills of Southern California. A defiant loner, Frank leaves home at the age of eighteen for the big city, but instead is sucked back into helping his estranged and blind father navigate an untimely death.

On his deathbed, Frank's father gives him a mysterious crumbling photograph of a woman with a stunning gaze: Nahui Olin, a fierce member of the early-20th-century Mexican avant-garde who once brought tragedy upon the Cruz family.

Punctured to his core by Nahui, Frank takes her portrait and flees to New York City to start anew - this time for real. There he meets eccentric, gorgeous, and sharp-tongued Nathalie. The two fall in love, but after seven years of happy-go-lucky life together, in September 2001 the New York skyline tumbles, and Frank finds himself smack in the middle of his predestined fate.

It's all happy ever after in the School for Good and Evil…or is it? The second title in the New York Times best-selling fantasy adventure series - perfect for girls who prefer their fairy tales with a twist.

After saving themselves and their fellow students from a life pitched against one another, Sophie and Agatha are back home again, living happily ever after. But life isn't exactly a fairy tale.… When Agatha secretly wishes she'd chosen a different happy ending with Prince Tedros, the gates to the School for Good and Evil open once again. But everything has changed and a happy ending seems further away than ever.…

From an obscure country parsonage came the most extraordinary family of the nineteenth century. The Brontë sisters created a world in which we still live the intense, passionate world of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights; and the phenomenon of this strange explosion of genius remains as baffling now as it was to their Victorian contemporaries.

In this panoramic novel we see with new insight the members of a uniquely close-knit family whose tight bonds are the instruments of both triumph and tragedy.

Emily, the solitary who turns from the world to the greater temptations of the imagination: Anne, gentle and loyal; Branwell, the mercurial and self-destructive brother; and the brilliant, tormented Charlotte, longing for both love and independence, who establishes the family's name.

Dancing at the Rascal Fair by National Book Award nominee Ivan Doig, captures the passion and tenacity of turn-of-the-century immigrants struggling to build new lives amidst Montana's windswept Rockies. The tale unfolds into a contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill - kept apart by obligations - as they and their stormy kin vie to tame the brutal land.

In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he’s let his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin.

Meanwhile, his sister, alone in her modern bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life.

Into this closed world comes Anthony Verey, a wealthy but disillusioned antiques dealer from London. Anthony hopes to remake his life in France, and he begins looking at properties in the region. But, from the moment he arrives at the Mas Lunel, a frightening and unstoppable series of consequences is set in motion.

The course begins with an overview of war and terms and definitions as they will be used throughout the course. The detailed history covers the rise of the nation-state, the ancién regime of France and the French Revolution, the American Civil War and its economic and political consequences, World War I and the Russian Revolution, Mussolini and the fascists and Hitler and the Nazis, World War II: European & Pacific theaters, the building and dropping of the atomic bomb, and the holocaust of the Jews and American Indians.

Dr. Shermer then explores the proximate and ultimate causes of all wars, employing psychology, anthropology, and evolutionary theory to explore political and economic solutions to the prevention of war.

COMMENT
""Memory Lapse"", by Hendrik Hertzberg: Counting the votes, 2008 style.

THE POLITICAL SCENE
""The Dirty Trickster"", by Jeffrey Toobin: Campaign tips from the man who has done it all.

ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY
""Non-Lethal Force"", by Alec Wilkinson: The weapons of the future are here today.

SHOUTS & MURMURS
""Awake"", by Jenny Allen: Sleepless musings.

POP MUSIC
""Usher 2.0"", by Sasha Frere-Jones: One of the last big pop stars tries adulthood.

THE CURRENT CINEMA
""Indy Charts"", by David Denby: The return of Indiana Jones."

As secretary to the charismatic Kommandant Richwalder, Emma vows to use her unique position to gather intelligence for the Resistance - by any means necessary...

This is a book filled with enchantments, a pair of silver shoes, a fairy shadow, a prince transformed into a fox, that contrast with the heartbreaking loss and cruelty of Coriander's life in the real world. With its brilliantly realised setting of old London Bridge, and underpinned by the conflict between Royalists and Puritans, it is a terrific page turner, involving kidnapping, murder, and romance, and an abundance of vivid characters.

Coriander is a heroine to love, whose joys and sorrows we follow through huge adventures. Her story is utterly captivating and will establish Sally Gardner as a major children's writer, of boundless imagination and originality.

The extended bubble in the credit, housing, and financial markets created 25 years of artificial prosperity and wealth. The bubble has burst, and much of that inflated wealth is gone. The government has attempted to pump air back into the bubble in a financial experiment of unprecedented magnitude. The goal is to get markets up, save banks and corporations, and reduce unemployment. This has created another artificial world and will have unintended consequences - both bullish and bearish. One thing is certain, financial turbulence will be greatly increased.

In The Great Reflation, author Tony Boeckh, a 40-year market veteran, helps you understand this new world of money and how it will play out for investments and business.

Divided into three comprehensive parts - ""Financial Instability"", ""The Markets: Preparing for the New Investment Environment"", and ""The Future: Is a Return to Lasting Stability Possible?"" - The Great Reflation will help you come to grips with our volatile new world and acquire a framework for understanding and controlling risk as well as preserving and enhancing wealth. This audiobook:

• Arms you with practical insights that will allow you to evaluate different investment options and manage your money more effectively
• Explores the implications of the end of the private debt cycle, the rise of the government debt cycle, the new age of private thrift, and the threats to the U.S. dollar and global financial system
• Reveals proper portfolio diversifications strategies as well as how you can profit from the Great Reflation
• And much more!

The Great Reflation provides investors with the knowledge, insights, background, and tools for both building and protecting wealth, and allows you to find financial opportunities in the economic challenges that lie ahead.

Stop Smoking Permanently will help you break the chains of and gain complete freedom from smoking for life, quickly & easily! When you buy Stop Smoking Permanently, which includes the Stop Smoking Permanently self help book, you'll see, hear, feel, and experience all the great benefits of this highly effective self help program.

Dealing with Difficult People looks at individual behaviour, what drives it, and how to cope with it. It explains how to recognize and understand difficult people and their actions as a means to resolve problematic situations and awkward issues.

A practical, accessible book, it is essential reading for managers looking to improve performance, sales people looking to win more business, and for anyone who has to deal with difficult colleagues or the public.

Learn about Lobbying with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. In a perfect world, elected officials in democratic countries would make decisions in the public interest after considering issues objectively and impartially. This is how parliaments and other representative bodies are supposed to work. In reality, however, politicians around the world are subject to a range of influences and pressures that can distort the political process. One of the most persistent pressures is lobbying: the practice of seeking to influence legislation and other government decisions by those with an interest in the outcome.

Lobbying is an ancient art, because powerful people and groups have always had an incentive to manipulate official decisions in ways that are favorable to them. But the word itself dates back to the 19th century, although there is disagreement about its exact origin. By one account, the term derives from the hallways (or lobbies) of the British Parliament, where legislators would gather before entering the voting chamber.

Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

iMinds offers 12 main categories; become a Generalist by increasing your knowledge of Business, Politics, People, History, Pop Culture, Mystery, Crime, Culture, Religion, Concepts, Science and Sport. Clean and concise, crisp and engaging, discover what you never knew you were missing.

iMinds is the knowledge solution for the information age cutting through the white noise to give you quick, accurate knowledge .. Perfect your dinner party conversation, impress your boss - an excellent way to discover topics of interest for the future.

In 1935, the Nazis established a program called ""The Lebensborn"". Their agenda: to genetically engineer perfect Aryan children. These children were to be the new master race, once HItler had cleared all undesirable elements out of Europe. Within a year the first institution was built.

The year is 1943.... The forests of Munich are crawling with danger under the rule of ""The Third Reich"", but in order to save the life of her unborn child, Petra Jorgenson must escape from the Lebensborn Institute. Alone, seven months pregnant, and penniless, avoiding the watchful eyes of the armed guards in the overhead tower, she waits until the dead of night. Then, Petra climbs under the flesh-shredding barbed wire that surrounds the institute and at the risk of being captured and murdered she runs headlong into the terriying desolate woods.

Even during one of the darkest periods in the history of mankind, when horrific acts of cruelty became commonplace and Germany seemed to have gone crazy following the direction of a madman, unexpected heros came to light. And although there were those who would try to destroy it, true love would prevail. Here, in this lost land ruled by human monsters, Petra will learn that even when one faces what appears to be the end of the world if one looks hard enough one will find that there is always A Flicker of Light.

When the deathly horrors of the Black Plague decimate the audiences in London’s theatres, the acclaimed troupe of players called Lord Westfield’s Men take to the high road to seek out fresh audiences. But wherever they go, they are thwarted by misfortune, and are baffled by mysteries. Their scripts are stolen, their players abducted. A dead man walks, and a beautiful woman hears the voice of God. Only one man is clever enough to match swords with the troupe’s burgeoning troubles. Upon Nicholas Bracewell falls the burden that may cost him his life - as they head for an ancient inn called The Trip to Jerusalem, where the last act of a bloody drama is about to begin.…

The death of a nameless traveller on a flight to the volcanic Hedistic islands would seem to have been natural. But when his young friend starts her own murder investigation, she uncovers a plot which threatens the safety of the entire planet....

With Sylvester McCoy as ""The Dominie"", Sophie Aldred as ""Alice"", Caroline Burns-Cook as ""Jaquos"", John Cormack as ""Alistair Briggs"", Toby Eddington as ""President Maxington"", and Jo Young as ""Saul"".

Post-production and music Harvey Summers. Directed by Nigel Fairs. Assistant Producer John Ainsworth. Producer Bill Baggs.

A full-cast audio drama.

Since her divorce, Willa Hayes has thrown herself into her work as a nurse practitioner in the remote town of Stony Creek, Alaska. She's regained her self-confidence and her heart is almost healed. Then her newfound peace is shaken by the arrival of sexy flyboy Liam Reynolds. Willa can't deny she's instantly, intensely attracted to him - even if she's convinced he's yet another Mr. Wrong.

Liam has his own reasons for fleeing to the isolation of the north, and a relationship is the last thing he wants. He wasn't counting on being drawn to the pretty nurse who accompanies patients on his flights to southern hospitals.

Fortunately, the temptation - and the desire to avoid anything serious - is mutual. So the pair comes up with an arrangement: sensual, steamy, no-strings fun. But when things heat up on a cold Alaskan night, the rules of the game may change forever.

Grace has taken care of her widowed father her entire adult life and the ornery old goat has finally died. She has no job, no skills and very little money, and has heard her father's prediction that no decent man would ever want her so often she accepts it as fact.

But she does have a big old house on Lawyers Row in Peacock, Tennessee. She opens a rooming house and quickly gathers a motley crew of tenants: Promise, Grace's best friend since kindergarten, who's fighting cancer; Maxie, an aging soap opera actress who hasn't lost her flair for the dramatic; Jonah, a sweet, gullible old man with a crush on Maxie.

And Dillon, Grace's brother's best friend, who stood her up on the night of her senior prom and has regretted it ever since. Dillon rents Grace's guest house for the summer and hopes to make up for lost time and past hurts - but first, he'll have to convince Grace that she's worth loving....

It began in a women's club in London on a February afternoon. A discreet advertisement in The Times, addressed to ""Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine..."" lures four very different women away from the dismal British weather to San Salvatore, a castle high above a bay on the sunny Italian Riviera. There, the Mediterranean spirit stirs the souls of Mrs Arbuthnot, Mrs Wilkins, Lady Caroline Dester, and Mrs Fisher, and remarkable changes occur.

After her best friend, Annie, leaves for a fancy camp in New Hampshire, Ivy can’t imagine how she’s going to endure the long, hot Nevada summer with no one around but that pain-in-the-neck Billy Joe Butterworth next door and all those melancholy visitors to the Red Star Guest Ranch. Happily, an answer comes to Ivy in a flash of honey-colored topaz, and she cleverly hires herself out to take care of people’s farm animals or pets while they’re away.

So begins a summer of discovery for tenderhearted but sensible Ivy, who must win over the stubborn pony Chestnut, take on the challenge of training a puppy named Inca, and patiently court the trust of the magnificent but scarred racehorse Andromeda. All this while tending to her own private hurts and hopes and managing the hapless tagalong Billy Joe, who has a knack for trouble and accidents like nobody else!

Celebrated writer Rosemary Wells delivers a compassionately observed and exquisitely distilled novel set in the midcentury Southwest about a young heroine with an exceptional gift, a heart of gold, and a budding dream for her future.

On Day 56 of the pandemic called BluStar, 16-year-old Nadia's mother dies, leaving her responsible for her younger brother, Rabbit. They secretly received antivirus vaccines from their uncle, but most people weren't as lucky. Their deceased father taught them to adapt and survive whatever comes their way.

That's their plan as they trek from Seattle to their grandfather's survivalist compound in West Virginia. Using practical survival techniques, they make their way through a world of death and destruction until they encounter an injured dog; Zack, a street kid from Los Angeles; and other survivors who are seldom what they seem. Illness, infections, fatigue, and meager supplies have become a way of life. Still, it will be worth it once they arrive at the designated place on the map they have memorized. But what if no one is there to meet them?

On planet Eno, there stands a mountain that has never been summited. Many have tried. All have failed. This climbing season finds three teams making their bid up this murderous peak. And one man among them will discover these ugly truths: There are fates worse than death. There are fates worse than obscurity. To be remembered forever can be its own curse.

There was an emperor of Persia named Kosrouschah, who, when he first came to his crown, in order to obtain knowledge of affairs, took great pleasure in night excursions, attended by a trusty minister. He often walked in disguise through the city, and met with many adventures, one of the most remarkable of which happened to him upon his first ramble, which was not long after his accession to the throne of his father.

How do I give myself to God completely? What happens when I do?

This is a book for everyone who has ever asked these questions.

I Dared to Call Him Father is the fascinating true story of Bilquis Sheikh, a prominent Muslim woman in Pakistan who faced these questions at the crossroads of her life and found the astonishing answers. Her unusual journey to a personal relationship with God turned her world upside down - and put her life in danger - as a series of strange dreams launched her on a quest that would forever consume her heart, mind, and soul.

Originally published in 1978, the book has sold 300,000 copies and is a classic in Muslim evangelism.

Bilquis Sheikh came from a family in Pakistan that held government power for seven hundred years. She was also the wife of a high ranking government official in Pakistan. She gave her life to Jesus Christ in 1966. In 1972, sponsored by Samaritan's Purse, she resettled in the United States, where she spoke widely and shared her faith with many. Years later she returned to Pakistan, where she died in 1997. She was given a Christian funeral.

Thirteenth-century France: Bridget has grown up mastering the mystical gifts of her ancestor, Mary Magdalene, whose unbroken female lineage has kept a legacy of wisdom alive for a thousand years. But the all-powerful Catholic Church has sworn to destroy Bridget for using her healing talents and supernatural abilities. Her duty to continue the bloodline leads her into the arms of Raoul de Mountvallant - a Catholic. But when the Church's savage religious intolerance causes Raoul to turn rebel, a terrible vengeance is exacted. As war rages on, it is the children of these passionate souls, Magda and Dominic, who must strive to preserve the ancient knowledge for future generations....

Detective Inspector Lynley is approached by business magnate Bernard Fairclough for a confidential review - not a formal investigation - of the circumstances of his nephew's demise. The coroner's verdict is accidental death.

Still grieving for his murdered wife, Lynley has personal reasons for welcoming a spell away from London. He heads to the wild beauty of the Lake District, with Deborah and Simon St James to provide cover for his inquiries. Barbara Havers, back at base, makes her own unique contribution to the case, distracted only by Isabelle's ambitions to improve her Detective Sergeant's appearance.

When he comes to know the various members of the extended Fairclough dynasty, Lynley finds many possible motives for murder, and uncovers layers of deceit and betrayal that expose the lies at the heart of the Cumbrian community.

The Harvest is a short novel of future history. No, it's a bit more than just that - Alec Sand has created a detailed future in which his characters move. It is a future in which a substance called iridium - a substance from which power is derived - has changed things significantly. The Harvest is hard science fiction in which the ideas and concepts generously flow.

In this future, in which Gideon and his sister, Dara, reside, Dara has a disease that Gideon is convinced has a cure somewhere ""out there"". He takes her with him on a mining expedition to a new planet.

A unique aspect of this audiobook is its soundtrack. There are several songs that play at various times throughout the audiobook, usually as bridges between chapters or sections. A band called Silk84 provided the music, and the songs are included in full.

The consuming desire of all true Christians is to be like Christ Jesus. Without doubt, such holy ambition is inspired by the Holy Spirit. For it is God's eternal will that all who are called by Him are to be conformed to the image of His beloved Son. Yet how ironical it is that most Christians seem to undergo great frustration in failing to reach that goal. Does God plan it that way, or do we fail to know and appropriate the provision of God? Thank God, He never calls without providing. Therefore, it behooves us to enter into the secret of Christian living. Truth is always simple in nature.

After four trips to the Sahara and extensive historical research, David Ball crafted this sweeping adventure novel spanning two continents and 15 years. Set against a backdrop of the crumbling French Empire's attempts to colonize the Sahara Desert, Empires of Sand follows the lives of two cousins who are raised as brothers but destined to become enemies. It is 1870, and France is at war with Prussia. The son of a French count and a Saharan noblewoman, Moussa has been born to privilege. His cousin Paul will be an Army Officer like his father. For two young boys, the siege of Paris is merely another grand adventure. But as tensions rise, the French become more and more suspicious of ""outsiders."" When Moussa and his mother are forced to flee to her homeland, it will be 10 years before Moussa and Paul meet again - on opposite sides of a brutal battle for control of the Sahara. David Ball has created a swashbuckling tale with something for everyone. With his masterful narration, George Guidall perfectly captures the struggles of two men as their personal loyalties shift in a rapidly changing world.

Released to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth in January 1809, this selection of well-loved, chilling tales from the master of the supernatural is a perfect Christmas gift. The short stories include ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"", ""The Pit and the Pendulum"", ""The Tell-Tale Heart"", ""The Masque of the Red Death"", and ""The Fall of the House of Usher"". This release also features additional poetry by Poe and a new biography especially written for Naxos AudioBooks by Roy McMillan.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

In Deborah Zoe Laufer's End Days, a suburban family is undergoing a spiritual crisis following the September 11th attacks. Sylvia Stein has turned to Christianity to save her disaffected husband Arthur and her rebellious teenage daughter Rachel. But as Sylvia races around preparing for the Rapture, Rachel is learning that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in her philosophy.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:

Josh Clark as Jesus and Stephen Hawking

Shannon Cochran as Sylvia Stein

Dane DeHaan as Nelson Steinberg

Arye Gross as Arthur Stein

Kenneth Houston as the Bully

Kate Rylie as Rachel Stein

Directed by Michael Hacket. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in 2010.

End Days is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

But dangers abound. A violent and implacable group known as the Rulers has already killed many, and now they attack again. Riding deer and woolly mammoths and using powerful magic, the Rulers triumph and force the Raumsdalians to flee.

In the spring, another battle ends even more badly for Hamnet's side, but the Glacier is also retreating, so they are able to escape. Meeting a tribe whose desperate living conditions have led them to overcome the Raumsdalian taboo against eating fallen foes, they find unexpected allies. Now, returning to the capital city and its intrigues, Hamnet prepares to lead an army against the merciless Rulers. The world, once so bounded and comprehensible, will never be the same."

A conversation with Maajid Nawaz, and John Miller, of CBS News about Nawaz¿s book Radical: My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening.

Next, a conversation about the survival film All Is Lost, with director J. C. Chandor and actor Robert Redford. [Broadcast Date: October 24, 2013]

Brynn Harlow left town in disgrace, her only sin protecting the man she loved from the ultimate betrayal. Adam Good knew the meaning of heartache. He'd suffered through it for years after Brynn ripped his heart out and left him with only bitter memories and unanswered questions. Now, circumstances have brought Brynn home and she's assigned an arson case alongside Adam. The two must overcome their past to work together and find an arsonist who killed Adam's brother. But along with her son, Brynn has brought home a secret so powerful it could destroy both men she loves, and herself.

Whether you are aware of it or not, there is an underlying current in your life - a divine flow - that is continually guiding you toward the effortless fulfillment of your heart's desires. The challenge is learning how to recognize and cooperate with that flow. And that's what Row, Row, Row Your Boat will teach you how to do. In a refreshingly clear and memorable manner, you will find out how to stop blocking the experience of the divine flow in your life...and you will discover what you can do to experience the flow's miracles more freely and more frequently. In short, you will learn how to stop struggling with life and start living life as it is meant to be lived - effortlessly and joyfully!

This collection features 13 of the best radio performances by one of America's most beloved stars.

Contents:

• Lux Radio Theater - Destry Rides Again
• Lux Radio Theater - Madame X
• Lux Radio Theater - Magic Town
• Lux Radio Theater - No Highway In the Sky
• Lux Radio Theater - the Moon's Our Home
• Lux Radio Theater - the Stratton Story
• Screen Directors Playhouse - Call Northside 777
• Single CrossingSuspense - Consequence
• Suspense - Mission Accomplished
• Tailored By Toni/Theater Guild On the Air - the Silver Whistle

Hur många måste vara överens för att man ska vara säker på att någonting verkligen finns? Två eller tre? Kanske räcker det med en, om man är säker på sin sak? När det blir för mycket på jobbet brukar Björn smita in i ett litet rum, bredvid hissen, precis innan toaletterna. Det måste man ju få göra, eller? Jonas Karlssons lekfulla noveller avhandlar allt från hjärnspöken och gåtfullheter, till möten och missförstånd, manlig vänskap och andra pinsamheter. Bagatellartade hemskheter och livsavgörande orosmoln, positioner förskjuts, självbilder haltar. Med ett absolut gehör i dialogerna och en blick för de små detaljerna läser Jonas Karlsson skruvat, roligt, dråpligt, drivet. Ur novellsamlingen Den perfekte vännen.

Please note: This audiobook is in Swedish.

Gospozha BovariOna mechtala byt' ljubimoj, zhit' v okruzhenii krasoty i blestjashhego obshhestva. No vzamen sud'ba prepodnesla ej brak s sel'skim vrachom i prozjabanie v kroshechnom gorodishke sredi obyvatelej. Odnako nahoditsja chelovek, kotoryj kazhetsja Jemme Bovari voploshheniem ee byloj mechty. Kuda zhe privedet ee pogonja za prizrakom ljubvi: k schast'ju ili k mogile?

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Pimsleur® equals success. Just one 30-minute lesson a day gets you speaking and understanding like no other program. Polish Phase 1, Unit 3 builds on material taught in prior units. It includes 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, new vocabulary, and new structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in previous units. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Polish.

Being destined to become some kind of supernatural electrical outlet isn't exactly awesome - especially when Alexandria's ""other half"" is everywhere she goes. Seth's in her training room, outside her classes, and keeps showing up in her bedroom - so not cool. Their connection does have some benefits, like staving off her nightmares of the tragic showdown with her mother, but it has no effect on what Alex feels for the forbidden, pure-blooded Aiden. Or what he will do - and sacrifice - for her.

When daimons infiltrate the Covenants and attack students, the gods send furies - lesser gods determined to eradicate any threat to the Covenants and to the gods, and that includes the Apollyon…and Alex. And if that and hordes of aether-sucking monsters didn't blow bad enough, a mysterious threat seems willing to do anything to neutralize Seth, even if that means forcing Alex into servitude…or killing her. When the gods are involved, some decisions can never, ever be undone.

If you are a CMO, aspire to be one, or work with one, this book is for you. Today's CMO has an opportunity to play a more important role and make a real impact on revenue. A dramatically changing business and marketing landscape is creating unprecedented challenges to the traditional role of the CMO. CMOs have additional pressure to demonstrate a return on investment and drive pipeline and revenue growth. What can CMOs do to play a more important role and make a real impact on revenue? The answer lies in leveraging Big Data and Social Selling - from the marketing organization - to impact revenue. CMOs play an especially critical role given their access to crucial market and buyer information.

Marketers can collect petabytes of data about buyers - who they are, what they know, how they behave and how they perceive a brand and its offerings. By collecting the information most valuable to sales, and by getting that information to them in an easily-digestible form, CMOs can bridge the gap between marketing and sales. Bridging the two ultimately leads to greater revenue - something sure to please any CEO. Revenue and the CMO describes how this happened at one company. It gives you an in-depth look into the model and presents a step-by-step blueprint for how you can apply it to your organization and business situation. Stepping up to this role can make the difference between success and failure for you and your company. Revenue and the CMO will show you how to make an impact on revenue - and your career.

How can I get to sleep? That is the question that millions of people with insomnia ask themselves every night!

If you have you had trouble getting to sleep, staying asleep, or are experiencing sleeplessness on a regular basis you are in good company as 58% of adults in our country experience insomnia regularly.

Not sleeping can be a nightmare! Lying awake, tossing and turning, mental agitations and the exhaustion that follows are definitely not a lot of fun!

The side effects of insomnia and not be able to sleep can reduce your productivity, make you moody and irritable, and lead to numerous physical ailments including obesity, hypertension, lack of coordination, weight gain, etc.

In this insomnia book you'll:

• Discover what is really keeping you up at night; the answer might surprise you!
Get the best non-drug methods for getting to sleep naturally with our ¿Insomnia Tool Box.Create healthy sleeping habits so you sleep well night after night. How to get back to sleep when you wake up in the middle of the night. Reduce and eliminate tension and anxiety with powerful techniques that help quiet your mind, remove stress from your body, and slip easily into a good night's sleep. Quickly understand the connection between stress and insomnia and how to turn off stress. How to eat your way to a good night sleep: which foods actually help you fall asleep and which will keep you from falling asleep and make insomnia worse.Special section: Gentle yoga postures and breathing practices that are deeply relaxing, helping you get to sleep sooner and sleep longer. Instructions and photos included.

Don't spend another sleepless night tossing and turning when you can sleep well tonight. In this audiobook you'll find everything you need to say good night to insomnia, end sleeplessness and get the sleep help you need!

**Now includes ¿Deep Sleep¿ as a Bonus Track!

Find your Mr. Right, stay open to a new relationship, and attract true love your way with this guided meditation and relaxation program, from certified hypnotherapist, Joel Thielke.

It's as easy as turning on the tracks and falling asleep!

The Sleep Learning System is specially designed to work with your subconscious mind during your sleep cycle. The guided meditation and soothing background music will deeply relax your body and mind for the perfect night's sleep, while allowing you to access the deepest parts of your mind. With this program, you'll open your heart to love and put positive energy out into the world to attract Mr. Right your way.

Two inductions give you options for each session, or listen to the entire album. It's your choice!

You'll feel well rested and energized when you wake up, and with every time you listen, you will feel more confident and open to love.

Joel Thielke's guided mediation system gives you positive suggestions that will help you quiet your mind and melt away stress, leaving your body deeply relaxed for a great night's sleep. While you're sleeping, the program will remove self-doubt and negative beliefs about love and relationships, helping you create positive beliefs and a mindset that will open your eyes and heart to love, and help you find your Mr. Right.

The special inductions will gently guide you into your REM stage of sleep, working with your subconscious to make lasting change that you can see.

This Sleep Learning System album comes with two extended tracks that include the Sleep Induction and Garden Induction, guided meditation programs, and bonus music and positive subliminals, providing hours of relaxation for your listening experience.

Find Mr. Right today with The Sleep Learning System!

Barney Amling, president of Pacific Guaranty, disappears. So do a million of the company's dollars. Ostensibly, he has gone to Mexico City for a monetary conference, but he didn't arrive and wasn't expected. His wife calls in the lawyer Simon Drake (Helen Nielsen's usual and always brilliant detective). Neither she nor Simon, who knows Barney well, can believe that he's a thief; nor can Captain Reardon, chief of police, who is another old friend. But things don't look good.

Simon probes into Barney's dubious relationship with Pucci, property speculator and near-gangster, and with Verna, ex-brothel madame and nightclub owner. The trail leads to Buenos Aires, where Barney is seemingly killed in a spectacular car crash. But is he dead? The plot grows increasingly complex, the action quickens, the tension mounts...

Helen Nielsen writes as compellingly as ever; her ingenuity is matched by her readability. Her many fans have another treat in store this time.

In a neatly handled story with a fresh setting, Helen Nielsen introduces Larry Willis, star salesman for an American farm equipment company, who earned a trip to Copenhagen for a business convention. With four days free before its opening, he wandered about in a lonely and bewildered state until a stranger addressed him as “MacDonald” and handing him a package containing $300. From that moment on he was the busiest man in Copenhagen. He became the unwilling center of an intrigue that involved illegal smuggling of refugees from Russia, murder, and sundry other matters. In the end it netted him a whole new outlook on life, a girl, and a hero’s part in solving this fascinating puzzle.

The characterization, atmosphere, and suspense give Helen Nielsen fans a full measure of her skill as a storyteller and offer the new listener an unexpected pleasure.

Letters discovered in a tin box hidden in the foundation of a small cottage in Normandy reveal a terrible secret, a desperate whisper between the lines. Antoine's world was collapsing. His beautiful Marianne, his precious daughter Ariéle, missing. The lives of hundreds - perhaps thousands - of allied soldiers preparing to storm Juno Beach on D-Day literally are in his hands. The Gestapo hunt him as a traitor - the French resistance as a collaborator. As chaos erupts all around him, Antoine must choose - to find Marianne and Ariéle, or face Hell even if it means he could lose his family, his only friend, and his life.