Audio Journeys explore Cornell Ornithology Lab, Ithaca New York. The Cornell Bird Lab is one of the largest nature research and conservation organizations in the world. This important non-profit organization protects, studies, and records the sounds of birds and other animals around the world. Part 1 of 2 part series.

As an undercover agent for Wells Fargo, Zac Cobb isn't the kind of man who goes out looking for trouble, but trouble seems to have a way of finding him. And he isn't the kind of man to run away from trouble, even if it means putting himself in harm's way.

When Zac foils an attempt to kidnap the family of the oldest daughter of General Sydney Roberts, the President of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, he then must lead the threatened family to safety in Colorado despite the pursuit of a small army of hired gunmen. Once, there, Zac finds himself ensnared in the ongoing deadly railroad war between the Chicago Pacific and the Denver and Rio Grande Railroads. But when Elizabeth Robert decides she's in love with Zac, his personal danger is compounded.

Powerful lords of the steam engine fight for control of the narrow passage through the Rockies. The railroads will pay any price and stop at nothing to win. It takes a man who can't be bought to restore right from wrong, and Zac Cobb is such a man.

""In the 1950s,"" Eve writes, girls were ""pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore girdles and waist-pinchers....In recent years good girls join the army. They climb the corporate ladder. They go to the gym....They wear painful pointy shoes. They don't eat too much. They....don't eat at all. They stay perfect. They stay thin. I could never be good.""

The Good Body starts with Eve's tortured relationship with her own ""post-forties"" stomach and her skirmishes with everything from Ab Rollers to fad diets and fascistic trainers in an attempt get the ""flabby badness"" out. As Eve hungrily seeks self-acceptance, she is joined by the voices of women from L.A. to Kabul, whose obsessions are also laid bare: A young Latina candidly critiques her humiliating ""spread"", a stubborn layer of fat that she calls ""a second pair of thighs"". The wife of a plastic surgeon recounts being systematically reconstructed, inch by inch, by her ""perfectionist"" husband. An aging magazine executive, still haunted by her mother's long-ago criticism, describes her desperate pursuit of youth as she relentlessly does sit-ups.

Along the way, Eve also introduces us to women who have found a hard-won peace with their bodies: an African mother who celebrates each individual body as signs of nature's diversity; an Indian woman who transcends ""treadmill mania"" and delights in her plump cheeks and curves; and a veiled Afghani woman who is willing to risk imprisonment for a taste of ice cream. These are just a few of the inspiring stories woven through Eve's global journey from obsession to enlightenment. Ultimately, these monologues become a personal wake-up call from Eve to love the ""good bodies"" we inhabit."

As the prince looks about for explanations, he uncovers a plot that could involve three nations in a dramatic scandal. In the end, only he and Liz can save Elissa.

Live analysis of the midterm elections with Al Hunt, John Harris, Frank Rich, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jack Welch, Walter Isaacson, Vin Weber, John Meacham, and Erica Williams. [Broadcast Date: November 2, 2010]

Please note: This title is in Danish.

When Lomax Harder accompanies John Franting to Gontle’s, purveyor of fine firearms, he finds himself in possession of a gun. This accidental acquisition leads to a situation that can have only one outcome....

This audiobook - entertaining for both adults and children - follows the fantastical adventures of a little girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a nonsensical world full of peculiar creatures.

Pimsleur® equals success. Just one 30-minute lesson a day gets you speaking and understanding like no other program. Japanese Phase 3, Units 11-15 build on material taught in prior units. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Each lesson contains practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Japanese.

Leadership and the Sexes presents brain science tools with which listeners can look into the brains of men and women to understand themselves and one another. Provided are five GenderTools, which can be used immediately in executive, management, design and marketing teams. The gender science presented here has been used successfully by such diverse corporations as IBM, Nissan, Proctor & Gamble, Deloitte & Touche, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Brooks Sports, and many others. This gender science helps leaders increase their organization's competitive edge, profits, and bottom line by:

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. German Phase 2, Unit 5 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 German.

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. Korean Phase 1, 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 Korean.

The Iliad, the first of Homer's epic poems, tells of the counsel of Nestor, Achilles's slaying of Hector, and the defeat of the Trojans by the Greeks.

In The Odyssey, in his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, Odysseus must pass through the land of the Cyclopes, encounter Circe the Enchantress, and face the terrible Charybdis and the six headed serpent Scylla.

Both epics are translated here by Samuel Butler.

His extraordinary skills have attracted the attention of university scientists researching psychic phenomena, as well as countless numbers of journalists and documentary producers. In this fascinating download, the UK's most accurate medium explains the role of the medium in healing people's grief.

This download also includes meditations to increase your ability to tune in to the Spirit world and send absent healing to anyone who is in need.

Gordon Smith is known as the psychic barber. One of Britain's most well known psychic mediums, the accuracy of his messages is astounding. He is invited around the world to demonstrate his abilities.

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. Spanish Phase 2, Unit 2 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. This lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit and in Unit 1. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Spanish.

Nell is content with her life until she falls in love. From the moment she sees Bottom Cottage, deep in a west country valley, she knows she has to have it. But things become more complicated when she meets its owner, Rob, and falls for him as well. All her dreams seem to have come true, but there are disturbing undercurrents beneath the surface. Rob has two young children and an almost-ex wife, and as Nell struggles with her new role as stepmother she finds herself trapped by conflicting interests and undermined by uncertainty. Does Rob really want her, or are all his feelings for his children and the cottage? Did she fall in love with Rob because of his house, or do they have a genuine future together?

Maggie Makepeace came to writing late in life, having begun her career as a zoologist. She had a number of jobs in scientific research and Wildlife Trusts, the most rewarding of which was a 3-year contract on a Scottish estuary studying the social behaviour of shelducks. For a brief time in the 70s she was a television presenter for Yorkshire TV and London Weekend, and gradually became more interested in the psychology of human behaviour, especially communication - or the lack of it - and in the way that some people attempt to control the lives of others.

Cross and Crescent continues the story of the Empire of Byzantium, once the center of the world. After centuries of power, the Imperial Throne is in danger. The citizens of that great nation must play a dangerous game to save their land, from infidel and barbarian Christian both - and the things done in God's name may condemn an entire generation.

Two California girls agree to a camping trip with a boy they met in a bar.

The boy has a special talent...and the girls' life expectancy has grown short.

This unsettling story by T. M. Bilderback asks¿What is the spooky secret of¿""Gold""?

The amazing true story of Australia's canine war hero.

Lost for 13 months in the wilds of Afghanistan, this is the dramatic, heart-warming and truly amazing story of Sarbi, the Army's most famous explosives detection dog - the miracle dog of Tarin Kot. Powerful, dramatic, heartwarming, this is the true story of Sarbi, the scruffy black Labrador-cross trained by the Australian Army as an explosives detection dog for the most dangerous combat mission imaginable. Thirteen months after Australia's most famous canine warrior went missing in action following an historic battle between the elite SAS and the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2008, she was found by an American Special Forces officer patrolling a village in a region known to be a Taliban stronghold. Against all odds, Sarbi had survived her injuries, the enemy's weapons, a bitter winter, one brutal summer and the harsh unforgiving landscape on her own. She was the miracle dog of Tarin Kot. Sarbi's story, and those of the other brave Australian Army dogs in Afghanistan, will resonate with anyone who has known the unconditional love of man's best friend, and understands the rewards of unbidden loyalty, trust and devotion. It will appeal to all those who appreciate the selflessness of serving your country and the inherent dangers of putting your life on the line for others in a war zone. And it will strike a chord with anyone who has experienced the magical connection with a dog.

When an immaculately dressed woman steps out of an iridescent bubble and asks you if you'd like to become a substitute princess, do you a) run, b) faint, c) say Yes! For Desi Bascomb, who's been longing for a bit of glamour in her Idaho life, the choice is a definite C - that is, once she can stop pinching herself.

As her new agent Meredith explains, Desi has a rare magical ability: when she applies the ancient Egyptian formula ""Royal Rouge,"" she can transform temporarily into the exact lookalike of any princess who needs her subbing services. Dream come true, right?

When the consolidation of the Euro fails to stabilize the local economy, the Council of 12 known announces the Blue Chip Credit to be the global cashless currency. Mining on the Moon and Mars destroys the value of precious metal as the economic standard undermining the value of the credit. Conversion to both the Blue Bank Credits and Basic Credit eliminates cash. Cash no longer exists. The government can track every small exchange. With taxes abolished, unused credits revert to the government coffers after one year. The people's own hours of labor become the standard for the new world currency. Can the Spencer family use the very oppression designed to financially enslave them and set them free? Watch for Crucible III as you keep this this amazing secret ending close to your vest.

In a snowbound village in the German mountains, a young woman discovers an extraordinary secret. Before she can reveal it, she disappears. All that survives is a picture of a mysterious medieval playing card that has perplexed scholars for centuries.

Nick Ash does research for the FBI in New York. Six months ago his girlfriend Gillian walked out and broke his heart. Now he's the only person who can save her - if it's not too late. Within hours of getting her message, Nick finds himself on the run, delving deep into the past before it catches up with him.

Hunted across Europe, Nick follows Gillian's trail into the heart of a 500-year-old mystery. But across the centuries, powerful forces are closing around him. There are men who have devoted their lives to keeping the secret, and they will stop at nothing to protect it.

Awarded honorable mention in both the Rainbow Awards and the NLA: International Writing Awards for BDSM fiction! In war, sex is the most potent weapon. The kingdom is threatened by the marauding attacks from neighboring nations, and by treachery within the castle walls. Our two heroes have been thrust into a dangerous world, as Jorin has been slave-bonded to a powerful mage and Kenet has become magically bound to the general of the army.

After a magical attack that scatters the army, General Roichal flees with Kenet on horseback, while Sergetten and Jorin begin the search for the missing prince. Only together can they root out the evil that threatens the crown and bring this story to a just end. Volume Two of The Prince's Boy collects the second and final year of this original web serial by Cecilia Tan, from chapters 57 to the end. Drawing on complex themes of dominance and submission, the need for secrecy in a world where homosexuality is not accepted, and the intertwining of sex with magic, Tan weaves a multi-layered, sex-filled adventure that is part the Three Musketeers of Dumas and part Anne Rice's The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty.

Cecilia Tan is ""simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature,"" according to Susie Bright. She is the author of many novels and short stories, editor of dozens of erotic short story anthologies, and the founder of Circlet Press. She was inducted into the Saints and Sinners Hall of Fame for GLBT writers in 2010.

Wert's narrative portrait of Stuart - audacious and daring in battle, contentious with his staff and subordinates - is fast-paced and compelling, rich in telling details and human interest stories, yet objective, critical, and complete. Based on the most extensive research yet done utilizing governmental and archival sources, Wert's biography examines Stuart's controversial performance at Gettysburg and elsewhere."

This weekend workshop, recorded live, is a primer on writing the modern memoir, which, unlike your grandmother's memoir, can be written at any age. Also, a memoir can be about just part of your life. ""The more you are present, the more the past will come up and be alive,"" says Natalie. ""Only right now can give you your past.""

From the best-selling author of Witches of Eilean.

Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms. The queen gave each her six children one of the charms as their lucky talisman, but ever since the chain was broken, the gypsies had been dogged with misfortune. Sussex was the first county secured by the Roundheads because of its iron foundries.

Here in the Weald, the Smith tribe are working for Parliament, making cannons and weaponry. They have prospered under Cromwell's rule, and have no interest in old gypsy charms. Amidst the smoke and noise of the Horsmonden foundry, Emilia and Luka run into old friends - and old enemies.

Told from two points of view, Claire's and Melody's, this novel takes readers into their private middle-school worlds as the girls struggle to discover the truth.

Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. If possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who would commit 'two simple murders' for a very generous fee....

Vanessa Fitzwilliam is in dire straits. Her father's death a year ago left her with a crumbling manor and a handful of old retainers relying on her for support. When the Duke of Northbridge sweeps into her life with a surprise proposal, Vanessa is tempted - but the arrogant duke believes her to be something she's not.

Hardened by the ravages of war, Northbridge seeks a wife who will provide him with an heir but make no demands on his emotions. The scandalously experienced Vanessa, neither clinging nor innocent, seems the perfect choice. But Northbridge isn't prepared for her reluctance to accept him, or his own fierce reaction to her beauty.

To fulfill his desires, Northbridge is prepared to be ruthless, but can he bend Vanessa to his will? Or has the Duke met his match?

This book of outstanding Russian writer Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) includes his great stories about horses.

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton pens gun-blazing tales evoking the glory days of the Old West.

In City of Bad Men, Lawrence ""Fast Larry"" Shaw wants nothing more than peace and quiet after miraculously surviving a gunshot wound to the head. But his hopes for tranquility don't last long. A powerful businessman needs help defending his mining operation from the likes of the Cut-Jaws Gang, and he thinks Larry is just the man for the job.

Liv called her hunger The Void. She thought she knew it - and herself. Until a night with Cassandra silenced it. And brought out something in Liv she didn't think possible: submission. One taste of that, and Liv wanted more. But Cassandra isn't an easy dominant. She expects Liv to earn her way into her good graces. And her demands aren't simple. How many hurdles will Liv need to jump before she can kneel before Cassandra? Before Cassandra chooses to claim her? Just what will it take to become Cassandra's ""L""? And will the outcome be all she hopes for - and needs? Find out in a timeless tale, retold. Find out in Story of L.

Nicholas Parsons chairs this complete series of the devious BBC Radio 4 word game. Featuring in these 12 episodes are panellists Paul Merton, Julian Clary, David Mitchell, Gyles Brandreth, Charles Collingwood, Tony Hawks, Dave Gorman, Josie Lawrence, Liza Tarbuck & Graham Norton.

He spent his childhood trapped within the confines of countless bizarre, strict rules. And lived to tell about it. In this first-hand account, author Matthew Paul Turner shares amusing - sometimes cringe-worthy - and poignant stories about growing up in a fundamentalist household, where even well-intentioned contemporary Christian music was proclaimed to be ""of the devil"".

Churched is a collection of stories that detail an American boy's experiences growing up in a culture where men weren't allowed to let their hair grow to touch their ears (""an abomination""), women wouldn't have been caught dead in a pair of pants (unless swimming), and the pastor couldn't preach a sermon without a healthy dose of hellfire and brimstone. Matthew grapples with the absurdity of a Sunday School Barbie burning, the passionate annual boxing match between the pastor and Satan, and the holiness of being baptized a fifth time - while growing into a young man who, amidst the chaotic mess of religion, falls in love with Jesus.

Start speaking Japanese in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Gengo - Japanese, a completely new way to learn Japanese with ease! Gengo - Japanese will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your Japanese friends.

Why are the audio lessons so effective? They're short and to the point - 25 eight-minute lessons make them the perfect length. You'll receive a syllable-by-syllable breakdown of each word and phrase, so that you can say every word and phrase instantly. You'll repeat after the professional teacher, so that you can practice proper pronunciation. Quick cultural tips in each lesson will help you navigate your way even better. And above all, this is a fun and relaxed approach to grasping a lot of information quickly and easily. You'll effortlessly learn from a bi-lingual and bi-cultural host as they guide you through pitfalls and pleasures of Japanese.

You see, unlike other audiobooks, we actually teach both Japanese and Japanese culture. With each lesson, you will master a target phrase and key vocabulary. This is a complete lesson taught by a professional, bi-lingual teacher! Listen to the preview now! This is NOT a vocabulary audiobook with just words and their translations. These 25 short and effective audio lessons will allow you to:

• Speak Japanese within minutes of your first lesson
• Understand the culture, customs, and people of Japan
• Order the food you want in restaurants
• Travel in taxis, trains, buses, and cars with confidence
• Master manners, etiquette, and customs
• Learn surprise phrases and tips that will leave your guests wondering where you learned them.

This audiobook comes with downloadable lesson notes totaling over 100+ pages. Start speaking Japanese now!

Hear rare recordings from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works: Ezra Pound, ""Old Men With Beautiful Manners""; W. B. Yeats, ""The Lake Isle of Innisfree""; Robert Graves, ""A Last Poem""'; Edna St. Vincent Millay, ""The Harp-Weaver""; Richard Eberhart, ""The Groundhog""; Philip Levine, ""Blasting from Heaven""; Marianne Moore, ""The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing""; Stephen Spender, ""What I Expected""; and Vachel Lindsay, ""An Interpolation by Mr. Lindsay"".

Adam Cassidy is 26 and a low-level employee at a high-tech corporation who hates his job. When he manipulates the system to do something nice for a friend, he finds himself charged with a crime. Corporate Security gives him a choice: prison—or become a spy in the headquarters of their chief competitor, Trion Systems. They train him and feed him inside information.

At Trion, Adam is a star, skyrocketing to the top. He finds he has talents he never knew he possessed. He’s rich, drives a Porsche, lives in a fabulous apartment, and works directly for the CEO. He’s dating the girl of his dreams. His life is perfect. All he has to do to keep it that way is betray everyone he cares about and everything he believes in. But when he tries to break off from his controllers, he finds himself in way over his head, where nothing is what it seems and no one can really be trusted. And then the REAL nightmare begins....

Jake Sullivan is a licensed private eye with a seriously hardboiled attitude. He also possesses raw magical talent and the ability to make objects in his vicinity light as a feather or as heavy as depleted uranium, all with a magical thought. It's no wonder the G-men turn to Jake when they need someone to go after a suspected killer who has been knocking off banks in a magic-enhanced crime spree.

Problems arise when Jake discovers the bad girl behind the robberies is an old friend, and he happens to know her magic is just as powerful as his. And the Feds have plunged Jake into a secret battle between powerful cartels of magic-users - a cartel whose ruthless leaders have decided that Jake is far too dangerous to live.

When Sarah realizes that she has fallen in love with an English doctor, she must choose between loving a man and losing her family.

Deep in the heart of Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains, shy Sarah King is happiest when working in her vibrant Amish kitchen garden, but new family responsibilities lead her into the confusing world of the English.

Sarah finds her life turned around when she encounters the community's new English veterinarian, Grant Williams. His blue-gold eyes and his obvious concern for her people attract her immediately. Sarah seeks solace and direction from the Lord as she creates a quilt pattern which details her struggle between two worlds.

The Lord is guiding Sarah to follow His will, but will she listen?

Is Ender the general Earth needs? The only way to find out is to throw the child into ever-harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six-years-old when his training begins. He will grow up fast.

But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

This Special 20th Anniversary Edition of the science fiction classic is now digitally remastered with a full cast production. It also contains an exclusive bonus original postscript written and recorded by the author himself, Orson Scott Card!"

Hailed as ""a master storyteller"" (Booklist), Alex Kershaw routinely climbs best-seller lists with his narrative histories. In the waning months of World War II, SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann sent over half a million Hungarians to their deaths at Auschwitz. But one Jewish ghetto remained, and only one man - a Swedish diplomat named Raoul Wallenberg - could stop Eichmann.

Roald Dahl had an abiding love for and interest in nature. He kept notes about the habits of moles and foxes, the colour and song of birds and the different flowers, plants and berries that blossomed in the countryside around his home, Gipsy House, throughout the year.

In the last year of his life he worked on a diary. But what was originally intended to be a few lines turned into a memorable account of the passing year. Reminiscences of childhood and adolescene, combined with tips about how to rid your lawn of moles or attract birds to your garden, are interwoven with observations about the changing seasons and the festivals we celebrate.

Halfdan and his master, Winston the Illuminator, are guests in a monastery when they’re awakened in the middle of the night and asked to solve a crime. A monk praying in the church has been brutally murdered, and his severed hand offers the first clue of a motive. As they investigate who could have committed such a heinous atrocity - and why - Halfdan and Winston must negotiate bitter rivalries within the monastery’s hierarchy, a sensitive class structure, and the tension between the new laws King Cnut has sworn to uphold and the codes of honor that precede them. With peace in England on shaky ground and the king’s favor of paramount importance, Halfdan and Winston follow a precarious path toward answers that no one is sure they want. This second novel in Martin Jensen’s acclaimed King’s Hounds series delves deeply into a chaotic world where alliances change, but oaths are forever.

When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking audiobook, the first major study in over 50 years of how the North handled the secession crisis, McClintock follows the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus. From small towns to big cities and from state capitals to Washington, D.C., McClintock highlights individuals both powerful and obscure to demonstrate the ways ordinary citizens, party activists, state officials, and national leaders interacted to influence the Northern response to what was essentially a political crisis. He argues that although Northerners' reactions to Southern secession were understood and expressed through partisan newspapers and officials, the decision fell into the hands of an ever-smaller handful of people until finally it was Abraham Lincoln alone who would choose whether the future of the American republic was to be determined through peace or a sword.

Ellie manages a swank Mayfair gallery, has really good hair, loyal friends, and a loving family. It's only her succession of lame duck boyfriends that ruin the picture. Oh, and the famous rock-star father she's never met. Then Ellie's perfect life is smashed to pieces when her secret is sold to the tabloids. When David Gold, her father's ruthless but charming lawyer, is sent in to sort out the mess, Ellie is torn between attraction and irritation...

'In the same place where the Great Lord [Buddha] is present who would acknowledge any other man? When the Sun hath arisen, though there be many bright stars in the sky, Not one of them is visible.' - The Precious Treasury of Elegant Sayings 1280 A.D., Grand Lama of Saskya Pandita, We are all Shadows...

Theodosia Browning has never considered herself a wine connoisseur - tea has always been her forte. But that doesn’t mean she’s going to pass up an invitation to a fancy wine-tasting party at the upscale Knighthall Winery, just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. But a sweet evening takes on a bitter aftertaste when a dead body is discovered in one of the wine barrels. The son of proprietor Jordan Knight has been murdered.

Dissatisfied with the police investigation, Knight turns to Theo for help. She’s heard through the grapevine that there are both family and business problems at Knighthall. They say in vino veritas, but everyone at the winery seems to be lying through their teeth. Sorting through the guest list as well as family and staff, Theo has her pick of suspects. It may look like the killer has her over a barrel, but cracking tough cases is vintage Theodosia Browning.

The 50 tips in High Conversion E-Mail Copywriting can fine-tune your e-mail copywriting skills to make your customers more loyal, your prospects more responsive and your list more profitable. Understanding the way that your prospects and customers read their e-mail will help you create messages that will gain and hold their attention, boosting response rates to new levels. High Conversion E-Mail Copywriting is a quick and easy guide to taking your e-mails to the next level of performance and success.

A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.

Paris in the 1920s: It is a city of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats, artists, libertines, and parvenus looking to indulge their true selves. It is at the Chameleon where the striking Lou Villars, an extraordinary athlete and scandalous cross-dressing lesbian, finds refuge among the club's loyal denizens, including the rising photographer Gabor Tsenyi, the socialite and art patron Baroness Lily de Rossignol, and the caustic American writer Lionel Maine.

As the years pass, their fortunes - and the world itself - evolve. Lou falls in love and finds success as a race car driver. Gabor builds his reputation with vivid and imaginative photographs, including a haunting portrait of Lou and her lover, which will resonate through all their lives. As the exuberant '20s give way to darker times, Lou experiences another metamorphosis that will warp her earnest desire for love and approval into something far more sinister: Collaboration with the Nazis.

Told in a kaleidoscope of voices, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 evokes this incandescent city with brio, humor, and intimacy. A brilliant work of fiction and a mesmerizing listen, it is Francine Prose's finest novel yet.

Raised in a South Boston housing project, James ""Whitey"" Bulger became the most wanted fugitive of his generation. In this riveting story, rich with family ties and intrigue, award-winning Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy follow Whitey’s extraordinary criminal career - from teenage thievery to bank robberies to the building of his underworld empire and a string of brutal murders.

It was after a nine-year stint in Alcatraz and other prisons that Whitey reunited with his brother William ""Billy"" Bulger, who was soon to become one of Massachusetts’s most powerful politicians. He also became reacquainted with John Connolly, who had grown up around the corner from the Bulgers and was now - with Billy’s help - a rising star at the FBI. Once Whitey emerged triumphant from the bloody Boston gang wars, Connolly recruited him as an informant against the Mafia. Their clandestine relationship made Whitey untouchable; the FBI overlooked gambling, drugs, and even homicide to protect their source. Among the close-knit Irish community in South Boston, nothing was more important than honor and loyalty, and nothing was worse than being a rat. Whitey is charged with the deaths of 19 people killed over turf, for business, and even for being informants; yet to this day he denies he ever gave up his friends or landed anyone in jail.

As a private investigator specializing in paranormal problems, London Eyer thought she could handle working for the Sidhe. They couldn’t be any worse than vampires or werewolves or wizards, could they? Oh, how wrong she was. One 'Touch' of Sidhe magic and she was cursed. Her only chance to survive is to serve the creep that cursed her against the vicious Changelings out for his blood.

Juggling schoolwork, cadet training and saving the world, Tom is on the adventure of his life. In his new adventure, Tom, and fellow cadets Roger and Astro, have their first encounter with a dangerous new enemy with a surprising origin.

""As roaring rockets blast off to distant planets and far flung stars, we take you to the age of the conquest of space with Tom Corbett...Space Cadet!""

Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald's glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era. After the Great War, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to entice her. When Gatsby finally does reunite with Daisy Buchanan, tragic events are set in motion. Told through the eyes of his detached and omnipresent neighbour and friend, Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald's succinct and powerful prose hints at the destruction and tragedy that awaits.

Brittney and Cara were best friends, with husbands who had wandering eyes. But Brittney had a wandering eye as well, for the voluptuous curves of her blonde BFF. When the men cancel out on their foursome evening, Brittney lures Cara to her mountain hideaway, where it seems they are destined to be More than Friends.

Meeting ex-FBI agent Jack Davis in the middle of a shootout is the best thing that could have happened to Vivien Chase. But Jack has no idea how deep - and how deadly - his involvement with the mysterious young bookkeeper will get. The pretty accountant may be able to pull a trigger as well as she manipulates a spreadsheet, but her talents may add up to zero if a killer gets their way. As Jack follows Vivien into a lethal web of deceit, years in the making, the only thing that might save them - time - is running out...

The ninth volume of the collected works of the outstanding Russian writer Mark Aldanov (1886-1957) includes stories about people who played a prominent role in Russian history.

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

1. El gnomo: Como siempre los hermanos mayores se creen que el hermano pequeño es tonto. Me parece a mi que se equivocan y si no escuchad lo que le pasa al hermano menor protagonista de nuestra historia. ¿Como creeis que es el Gnomo de nuestra historia?

2. El patito feo: No debemos reirnos de alguien o de algo porque sea feo, porque a lo mejor nos llevamos una sorpresa cuando pase un poco de tiempo y sino que se lo pregunten al patito de nuestra historia que estaba siempre triste porque sus hermanos y hermanas no querían jugar con el porque era distinto, pero.

3. Las habichuelas mágicas: Periquín y su madre eran muy pobres y sobrevivían como podían cultivando el campo y tenían una vaca. Pero las cosas empezaron a ir mal y la madre decidió que tenían que vender la vaca para poder conseguir algo de dinero con el que pasar el invierno, así que mandó a Periquín que preparase a la vaca y la atara con una cuerda, para llevársela al mercado y venderla por un buen precio

4. El fiel Juan: El fiel Juan se iba a encontrar con no pocos problemas para cumplir la última voluntad del Rey, ya que el Príncipe, como joven que era. se rebelaba ante cualquier imposición. Pero el Príncipe se enamoró y el fiel Juan iba a jugar un papel muy importante, en la consecución de su felicidad, pero a cambio... iba a tener que sacrificar algo....

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Alice wants her own art gallery. But at the moment. she’s running her nightmare boss Angelica’s, which is full of gold-sprayed wheelchairs, hairy pebbles, and heads made of frozen wee. Her love life’s just hit a major Blue Period as well. Worse, she has to cope with Zeb, a bad-boy artist whose works go for bazillions. But along comes Dan, a handsome, brilliant young portrait painter for whom life is far from easel. He’s single, skint, and scraping a living holding village hall life-drawing classes.

Adding colour is a pop star who will do anything to regain his former fame, plus a sex-crazed billionairess who expects a lot more than mere paintings from the artists she patronises.

Considered by many to be the greatest epic poem ever written, this biblical tale relates the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Despite God's prohibitive warning, Satan entices Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit. Dire consequences ensue.

Ryalda - the Element heroes of old - leak from the dark void of nothingness, Ghen, and bring with them beauty, desire... and destruction.

Air Element, Erion aches to feel the heat of Kenna's emerging fire. However, merging his wind with the woman on the cusp of transformation comes with great risk. A risk he's unwilling to take. But with a male Fire Element intent on enslaving Kenna, Erion reconsiders his vow. To protect her, they must merge, but he will not bond his wind with her fire.

Aspiring glassblower, Kenna Lang finally has a showing that could launch her career - with Drakaura, blown glass replicas of the dragons of her dreams. A chance meeting with Erion ignites an attraction hotter than the furnace used to blow glass. Drawn into an erotic joining, Kenna is born into fire. Now her world is going up in flames.

Merged as Air and Fire, their power is unimaginable. However, both are unprepared for the emotions awakened by their joining and the timeless battle waged against them. Only together can they defeat their enemies, both Element and Dragon, and escape the darkness of Ghen.

The Pimsleur® Method has worked for millions all over the world. Totally portable; simple to use; Pimsleur works so you don't have to. Romanian Phase 1, Unit 25 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 Romanian. 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.

Audible is pleased to announce the premiere of an exciting new series, Audible Signature Classics, featuring literature’s greatest stories, performed by accomplished stars handpicked for their ability to interpret each work in a new and refreshing way. The first book in the series is Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, performed by Elijah Wood.

Ernest Hemingway said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn"". One hundred years after its author’s death, this classic remains remarkably modern and poignantly relevant. In this brand new edition, Elijah Wood reads Huck in a youthful voice that may be the closest interpretation to Twain’s original intent. His performance captures the excitement and confusion of adolescence and adventure. Best of all, the immediacy of Wood’s energetic reading sweeps listeners up and makes them feel as though they’re along for the ride, as Huck and Jim push their raft toward freedom.

Stay tuned for more one-of-a-kind performances from actors Kenneth Branagh, David Hyde Pierce, Leelee Sobieski, and more, only from Audible Signature Classics.

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair Isles to introduce his fiancée, Fran, to his parents. Challenging to live on at the best of times, with the autumn storms raging, the island feels cut off from the rest of the world.

Trapped, tension is high and tempers become frayed when a woman's body is discovered at the renowned Fair Isles bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair. The islanders react with fear and anger.

With no support from the mainland and only Fran to help him, Jimmy has to investigate the old-fashioned way – and quickly. There's a killer on the island just waiting for the opportunity to strike again.

From schoolyard battles between the Bowie Boys and the Prog Rockers to Mrs Kemp's firm insistence on net curtains, from acting for the Children's Film Foundation to manning a fruit and veg stall on Saturdays, Gary brilliantly evokes an upbringing full of love, creativity and optimism.

As the Thatcher years begin, Gary's account of the outrageous London club scene centred around the Blitz and Billy's is just sizzling. Out of this glamorous mayhem of kilt-wearing mascara'd peacocks would emerge Spandau Ballet - the band that would define the era, and hold high the victorious standard of the New Romantics.

Gary's thrilling journey with Spandau Ballet would see them record worldwide hits such as True, Gold and Through the Barricades, play the biggest stadiums in the world, and take to the stage in togas when their luggage gets lost in flight. Stallions, supermodels and dwarves would be hired for video shoots, and through it all, Gary records the wonderful friendships, and the slowly-building tensions that would eventually see five old friends facing each other in court.

I Know This Much tells the story of Spandau Ballet, but it's far more than a book about being in a band. Whether it's meeting Ronnie Kray before filming The Krays, sketching out the fashions and subcultures of the day, or hanging out with Princess Diana, this book offers a story in every minute. And all the more so because it's all written - brilliantly - by Gary himself.

Welcome to Volume Five of one of the world's largest collections of high quality, classic horror short-story audiobooks. If you're at home, then get some logs ready and put on your most comfortable slippers, as we kick things off with Doug Bradley's well-researched introduction to the authors and stories featured in this volume.

Ambrose Bierce brings us ""The Death of Halpin Frayser"", an intriguing tale of a young man's increasingly spooky comings together with his mother, alive and dead.

The next story may well be Edgar Allan Poe's most famous, and it is certainly amongst his best; ""The Fall of the House of Usher"" is tour de force of classic horror writing brought to life as only Renegade can do it.

Following Poe's epic masterpiece is ""How It Happened"", a short and sweet piece from Arthur Conan Doyle about a runaway car and it's impact on the narrator's life.

Then, another great story from the imagination of Conan Doyle, ""Lot No. 249"". This epic story, at over 80 minutes in length, is the longest we've released so far. It is also acknowledged as the story that kicked off the malevolent mummy genre, inspiring many more stories and movies.

We round off this volume with Edgar Allan Poe's beautiful poem ""For Annie"", one of our favorites and a lovely, heartbreaking way to bring this volume to a close.

So throw those logs on the fire, turn off the lights and settle in to hear some of the worlds best short horror stories, read by one of the worlds best narrators... unless you're going to listen to the stories in the car, in which case please enjoy while driving safely.

When Rachel Verinder inherits the Moonstone, a huge and priceless diamond, her delight turns to dismay when the gem disappears. But this is no ordinary theft. Sergeant Cuff of Scotland Yard is called in and immediately suspects an intricate plot. However, not even his powers of detection can penetrate fully the mysteries surrounding the diamond. And as we listen to each character tell their version of the events, layer upon layer of drama and suspense builds to the final and astonishing denouement of the first, and most magnificent, English detective novel.

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

This history-making autobiography is Martin Luther King in his own words as read by others and in his own words and voice: the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who chafed under and eventually rebelled against segregation; the dedicated young minister who continually questioned the depths of his faith and the limits of his wisdom; the loving husband and father who sought to balance his family's needs with those of a growing, nationwide movement; and the reflective, world-famous leader who was fired by a vision of equality for people everywhere.

In original recordings of his own vivid, compassionate voice, here at last is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s unforgettable chronicle of his life and his legacy. Years in the making, and woven together from thousands of recordings and documents, including letters to his family and diary entries, this program is a unique compilation which includes many rare recordings of Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering sermons, speeches, lectures, and addresses. Highlights include ""I Have a Dream,"" ""Letter from a Birmingham Jail,"" and ""The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech."

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these adventures, part of the unique fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.

Above them live Karl and Siobhan. Happily unmarried for 15 years, it looks like nothing can spoil their domestic idyll. Except maybe Cheri, the femme fatale in the top flat. She's got her eye on Karl and isn't about to let his girlfriend stand in the way.

Louise shows you that by changing your thinking...you really can heal your life!

A dear uncle takes his nieces, nephews, and dogs on an adventure in Mother Nature. But Mother Nature has a surprise in store for the group. Join in the fun as they discover that the real magic is in the journey, not the destination.

By day...

Los Angeles, 2040: When the terrorist known as Medusa threatens to kill millions with a stolen nuclear bomb, Nick Jameson makes a fateful decision. He reveals himself on global television as a Daywalker - a vampire with a soul. To save Los Angeles, Nick exposes not only his own gifts but three separate cultures based on millennia-old magic.

By night...

The three metahuman races exist in careful balance, working to maintain a fragile peace. Nick and his fellow Daywalkers successfully master their natural bloodlust. The Sentinels, armed with both magic and steel, repress their warlike instincts. And even some Nightwalkers, normally their natural enemies, have deserted the Court of Shadows to join the triple alliance. Nick Jameson is deeply involved with two such Nightwalkers - handsome Lorcan and powerful Rory. Both men love Nick. But neither can protect the new Ambassador to Humanity from the events he has set in motion.

By the sword...

Jeremy Harkness was lured into Medusa's service under false pretenses. A loner with no one and nothing to cling to, he was willing to die for his cause. But the night Medusa tried to obliterate Los Angeles, Jeremy met Nick Jameson, triggering the onset of his own psychic gifts. For Jeremy is the third race of metahuman, a Sentinel, born to kill the Nightwalkers with no quarter asked or offered. And neither Medusa nor the Court of Shadows will settle for peace when they can make war.

Kate has always been the Wyatt brothers' de facto little sister. After years of nursing her crush for fireman Todd Wyatt, she decides to offer him something more than free cupcakes. One surprise kiss, and suddenly Todd's resistance is crumbling fast. And when someone attacks her bakery, the phrase ""protective instinct"" takes on a whole new meaning.

Sarah Deane takes a break from graduate school-and dreary mid-March Boston-and heads for sunny Southern Texas to join her boyfriend, Philip Lentz, on a birdwatching expedition.

Philip's rare sighting of a pair of hook-billed kites gets things off to a great start. But when he ends up strangled by his binocular straps, the rest of the birders are both suspects and sitting ducks.

Is the killer a member of the Hamburg Bird Club? Major ""Big"" Foster, who claims he also saw the kites? Or the pair of spinsters who run Cactus Wren Tours? When precocious 13-year-old Jeff Goldsmith disappears, Sarah teams up with Dr. Alex McKenzie for a crash course in detecting, to track down the killer before someone else becomes the next victim.

Da politiet ankommer til advokat Sigurd Halvorsuds hus, finder de advokaten siddende ved siden af det blodige lig af sin kone. Hun er blevet halshugget med det samuraisværd, der ligger ved siden af ægtemanden; men han nægter sig skyldig. Til gengæld påstår han, at han ved, hvem morderen er. Problemet er bare, at denne person har begået selvmord adskillige dage inden halshugningen fandt sted. Oslo politis bedste detektiv, den kontroversielle Hanne Wilhelmsen, er den eneste i korpset, der tror på advokat Halvorsuds forklaring.

Anne Holt, født 1958 i Norge, regnes blandt Skandinaviens fremmeste kriminalforfattere. Hun er uddannet jurist, har arbejdet som journalist, haft egen advokatpraksis og en kort overgang fungeret som Norges justitsminister. Hendes krimier om Hanne Wilhelmsen ved Oslo Politi er en international succes.

Please Note: This audiobook is in Danish.

The conclusion to Adriana Rossi's trilogy begins when Rob has finally been convinced to join the pack and nervously awaits the initiation. He must stave off lusty werewolves until then (no easy feat during a full moon). This story contains dubious consent, a gangbang, double penetration, blowjobs, and menage!

Tais Afinskaja.Ona - prekrasnaja getera, ch'e imja proslavleno daleko za predelami Afin; u ee nog tolpy poklonnikov i grudy serebra. No chto ej do togo, esli sushhestvuet tol'ko odin muzhchina, kotorogo ona mechtaet pokorit'! A muzhchina jetot mechtaet pokorit' ves' mir. I oba oni, Aleksandr Makedonskij i Tais Afinskaja, ostavjat svoi imena v vekah. On - blagodarja svoim zavoevanijam, a ona - blagodarja svoej ljubvi, kotoraja do samogo konca budet pylat' tak zhe neistovo, kak podozhzhennyj rukoj getery dvorec persidskih carej¿

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

""What is a game? A game is an activity engaged upon by one or more individuals in order to maintain his interest in communication in life.""- L. Ron Hubbard.

What is life? Such was the central question Ron posed when setting out to unravel the riddle of human existence. After examining all aspects and elements of existence, he arrived at an altogether startling discovery - one which suddenly clarified all life’s various phenomena: Life is a game. In this lecture, Ron explains why life is best understood by likening it to a game, whereupon he defines both its prerequisites and conditions, showing that it follows the rules of any game. For regardless of what, where or how an individual plays the games of existence - and regardless of whether he consented to play - those rules are always the same. And with everything Ron puts on the board, he provides a completely new understanding of all that comprises human behavior. Here, then, is not only the knowledge to play and win at a game of one’s own choosing, but how to help others play a better game too.

Please note: This audiobook is in Dutch.

Whit and Wisty Allgood have sacrificed everything to lead the resistance against the merciless totalitarian regime that governs their world. Its supreme leader, The One Who Is The One, has banned everything they hold dear: books, music, art, and imagination. But the growing strength of the siblings’ magic hasn’t been enough to stop the One’s evil rampage, and now he’s executed the only family they had left.

Wisty knows that the time has finally come for her to face The One. But her fight and her fire only channel more power to this already invincible being. How can she and Whit possibly prepare for their imminent showdown with the ruthless villain that devastated their world – before he can truly become all-powerful?

In this stunning climax of the epic Witch & Wizard series, the stakes have never been higher – and the consequences will change everything.

J.A. Konrath is the author of the Lt. Jacqueline ""Jack"" Daniels mysteries, Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Fuzzy Navel, and Cherry Bomb. Daniels is a Chicago homicide cop with a wicked sense of humor, and the novels fluctuate between funny business and serious suspense.

Tom Schreck is the author of the Duffy Dombrowski mysteries, On the Ropes, TKO, and Out Cold.

Duffy is a social worker by day and a semi-pro boxer by night, and he's quick with a left hook as he is with his wit.

Planter's Punch is a 7500 word novella that features both Jack Daniels and Duffy Dombrowski. Both Schreck and Konrath write funny, laugh out-loud mysteries without skimping on the action and suspense.

Kirkus calls Duffy, ""Warmhearted, tough, and funny"" and Crimespree Magazine raves, ""In the boxing match of life I want Duffy Dombrowski as my ring man."" Booklist calls the Jack Daniels series, ""A solid success for those who like to mix comedy and grit"" and Library Journal calls Konrath, ""Not to be missed.""

Dogs have always been considered companions and playmates that brighten and enrich our lives, but they are also wonderful and amazing teachers. The lessons we learn from our canine friends come in all shapes and sizes, just like they do. In this audiobook, dog lovers share what they have learned from our greatest heroes and healers.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog will delight listeners with humorous, heartwarming, and inspiring stories about lessons our canine friends and family members have taught us.

Welcome to Forbes for March 26th, 2012 from Audible. This edition contains seven feature articles.

In the cover story, we'll tell you about, ""Why Matt Kemp Cleans Up"" - The National League's MVP runner-up signed a contract for $160 million--on a baseball team that is bankrupt.

Also, ""The Business of Baseball 2012"" - The National Pastime is flourishing thanks to cable companies' desire for live baseball programming.

Next, ""Silicon Valley's Hottest VC is a Rug Dealer"" - How one guy who barely spoke English landed in the Bay area, sold Persian rugs to venture capitalists - and became one of the most successful angels in tech.

We'll also tell you about, ""The Zero-Day Salesmen"" - Cracking computers to steal credit cards is passe. Hackers now sell their best tricks to government spies at six-figure prices.

Then, ""Meet the Scientists Mining Big Data to Predict the Weather"" - EarthRisk crunches decades of data to give traders and utilities a fighting chance at outsmarting nature.

Followed by, ""Tax Bracket Magic"" - Smart taxpayers have the motive and the means to doctor their adjusted gross income, particularly in retirement.

And in our final story, ""Think Stocks Not Treasurys"" - Not worried about inflation? You should be.

""Littlenose the Leader"": Littlenose loves to be at the front, whether throwing spears, firing a sling or dancing with a music stick. But with cold and hungry warriors, battling tribesmen and wild animals roaming about, he is more likely to head towards disaster. He simply can't avoid it!

""Littlenose the Joker"": Sometimes Littlenose can be a naughty little caveboy! He's always getting into trouble - whether he's tricking his cousins, dealing with a herd of woolly mammoth or playing with his new pet mouse. You can always count on Littlenose to have a good joke up his sleeve!

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No one is more familiar with Savannah's dark side than homicide detective and native resident Elise Sandburg. She's been haunted for years by her own mysterious past: She was abandoned as a baby in one of the city's ancient cemeteries, and it¿s rumored that she is the illegitimate daughter of an infamous Savannah witch doctor. The local Gullah culture of voodoo and magic is one that few outsiders can understand, least of all Elise¿s new partner. Now someone is terrorizing the city, creating real-life zombies by poisoning victims into a conscious paralysis that mimics death. As the chilling case unfolds, Elise is drawn back into the haunted past she's tried so hard to leave behind.

A treasured audiobook that will help you unleash the greatness within.

What would it be like if you could reach through space and time to query the accumulated wisdom of the ages and get an answer? 22 Steps to the Light of Your Soul, reveals such treasured insights, eloquently expounding upon the foundational principles of 22 timeless subjects of universal interest and appeal, to help each listener grow and expand into their fullest potential.

In a thought-provoking, poetic writing style, answers to questions we all ponder upon, such as love, happiness, success and friendship, are explored and illuminated in short, concise chapters, perfect for a thought to ponder through the day or contemplate as your eyes close for sleep.

These are the 22 steps of the Light of My Soul:

• Step 1: The Purpose of Life
• Step 2: Balance
• Step 3: Character
• Step 4: Habits
• Step 5: Friendship
• Step 6: True Love
• Step 7: Marriage
• Step 8: Children
• Step 9: Happiness
• Step 10: Play and Relaxation
• Step 11: Health
• Step 12: Success
• Step 13: Knowledge
• Step 14: Passion and Serenity
• Step 15: Imagination and Vision
• Step 16: Creativity and Art
• Step 17: Adversity
• Step 18: Respect
• Step 19: Freedom and Responsibility
• Step 20: Stewardship
• Step 21: Faith
• Step 22: Love Yourself - the Alpha and the Omega

Darren Shan is going home - and his world is going to hell.

Darren is going back to where it all started, back to where he was reborn as a child of the night. But like Darren, the town has changed a lot over the years. Back home, old enemies await. Scores must be settled. Destiny looks certain to destroy him, and the world is doomed to fall to the Ruler of the Night.

Travel home with Darren in this, the penultimate book in the saga.

At the end of Submit, Arianna Harlow had enough pride in herself to walk away from Rafe Palazzo, who had started their relationship using blackmail. Though she'd fallen in love with him, she was strong enough to say goodbye. We saw the softer side of Rafe, especially toward the end, but it was too late…Or was it?

Seduced begins almost two years after Ari starts her new life. She is teaching at a community college, and when she asks the class whether they have any questions for her, Rafe is there and has only one: Will you go on a date with me? What is Ari's answer?

You'll find out in the third installment of Melody Anne's New York Times best-selling series, Surrender. Along with Ari's story, we will see what happens when Shane and Lia become trapped together on an island when a tropical storm hits, and how the sparks will fly again. And we can't forget about Rachel Palazzo, who isn't looking for love, but finds it in a shocking way. This story continues the lives of Ari, Lia and Rachel. These three women are resilient, determined, and worth loving. The question is, whether the men in their lives strong enough to keep them.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a poetic marvel, a work that has survived translation into many languages, while losing little of its force and its wry character. As a source of literary imagery and memorable quotations it ranks with the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.

While Edward Fitzgerald was neither the first nor the most scholarly of the English translators of the Rubaiyat, his translation has been largely responsible for the world-wide popularity of this monument of classic Persian poetry. Fitzgerald made five editions of his translation, the fifth edition, published posthumously in 1889, often being considered his most polished version of the work. Narrated by Denis Daly.

The Mathematics of Magic was probably the greatest discovery of the ages - at least Professor Harold Shea thought so. With the proper equations, he could instantly transport himself back in time to all the wondrous lands of ancient legend. But slips in time were a hazard, and Shea's magic did not always work - at least, not quite as he expected....

This omnibus volume of all of the Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea contains The Incomplete Enchanter, The Wall of Serpents and Castle of Iron.

Where does your mind go in sleep? To the Dreamland, an ever-changing landscape drawn by sleeping minds in the Waking World.

Chuck Meadows, a Visitor from the Waking World, is on a quest through the Dreamland to find the reason for the deep misery of his soul. With the other members of the group, he must solve the puzzle before it literally tears him apart. But some Dreamlanders resent the intruders and have a secret weapon that even a Visitor cannot withstand. Unaware of the doom that awaits him and his companions, Chuck must learn the truth about the Dreamland and about himself before it's too late.

Advice columnist Molly Forrester needs a break from her job at Zeitgeist, a Manhattan glossy. The opportunity for some R-n-R arrives when her best friends, Tricia and Cassady, invite her to the Hamptons for a weekend of hard-earned fun to celebrate Tricia's brother's engagement. But Molly's plans of sipping margaritas by the poolside and working on nothing more than her tan are sidetracked by an unscheduled event - the murder of the bride-to-be....

It isn't long before suspicion is cast on Tricia's brother. Was this a case of jealousy or something much deeper? Now Molly must follow a trail of sex, lies, and streaming video back to Manhattan, but her sleuthing efforts are complicated when her ex-boyfriend, NYPD homicide detective Kyle Edwards, interferes with the case - and with Molly's heart....

Is it just a myth? Or does it still stand...somewhere in the most ancient corners of Faern?

An intrepid human explorer sets out to find the truth and what starts as an archaeological expedition soon becomes a race against time as an undying avenger is determined to protect the secrets of the ancient, xenophobic elven empire of Cormanthyr. Lost Empires is a bold new series that uncovers the secrets of the lost, ancient Forgotten Realms world.

Celebrating 400 years of the King James Bible, 1611-2011, The Poetry of the Bible is a beautiful audiobook featuring some of your favourite verses with poetry to accompany them. Read by the distinctive British voice of Stephen John, this unique audiobook brings alive the majesty and beauty of the world's most famous book.

With one phone call from a man he barely recalls meeting years ago, South Florida detective Louis Kincaid heads to the Michigan town of his college days to reopen a disturbing cold case -- and finds himself confronting his own painful past secrets...secrets that risk his future with the woman he loves, detective Joe Frye.

Ann Arbor police detective Jake Shockey wants Kincaid's help in the case of Jean Brandt, who went missing nine years ago -- and whose husband, Owen, has since been paroled. Now, Owen Brandt's girlfriend appears to be at risk, and Shockey is desperate to get involved. Kincaid soon unearths the deeply personal reasons why...and with Joe Frye assisting, Kincaid links yesterday's jealousies with today's potentially lethal vengeance. It's only a matter of time before one will win out over the other -- and before Kincaid's own shattering revelations will be forced out into the light of day.

Arnold Schwartznegger: actor, governor, and now… dirty rotten scoundrel. Maria Shriver and Arnold have called it quits to their marriage as the world learns of his love child with another woman. And Shriver stood by this guy for all these years? Why? Susie has some insights into their complicated relationship. She also looks at the history of this strange celebrity political family. She's not sure if Arnold will be able to fulfill his ""I'll be back"" promise.

Next, Susie has been traveling a lot lately on her book tour and has used the time between trains, planes, and automobiles to catch up on some reading. She has a favorite memoir to share with you: A Common Pornography by Kevin Sampsell. Susie reads from a chapter of his book, one that deals with his sexual coming of age.

Then, in our ""Try This at Home"" mailbag, Susie gets a letter from a dad with a big question: ""How do I know my 'asexual' teenager is going to turn out okay?"" Susie has some reassuring words.

Have a question? You can call Susie's hotline at 831-480-5110. And you can send your confidential questions - plus requests for free samples and blog banners! - to susie@susiebright.com. [Episode 481, May 27, 2011]

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

Feeling overwhelmed? You can live a less-stressed life! Reclaim control over your spiritual, emotional, and physical health, and conquer stress today. Incorporating the latest medical findings with the timeless wisdom of the Bible, The New Bible Cure for Stress contains findings that your own doctor never may have told you about, including....

• Stress-relieving foods and supplements
• The healing effects of exercise on a stressed body
• Practical steps you can take to manage and reduce your stress

You want to be healthy. God wants you to be healthy. Now this revised and expanded edition from the Bible Cure series is available to help you get healthy - body, mind, and spirit.

A conversation with television journalist, author, and lawyer Jan Crawford on The Supreme Court.

Next, a conversation with James Baker, former US Secretary of State.

And finally, a conversation with Kevin Warsh, lawyer, government official and academic, who was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 to 2011. [Broadcast Date: March 27, 2012]

Exodus and Leviticus span a period of 13 months in the biblical narrative; Numbers covers the remaining 39 years of the Exodus. In Numbers, Moses counts the people and organizes them by tribe, clan and family, completing a journey that spans a generation. Far from tracking aimless wanderings in the wilderness, Numbers tells the incredible story of survival against all odds, as God grooms a new generation to invade and conquer the Promised Land. This amazing book is brought to life with Dr. Bill Creasy’s vivid storytelling.

New experiences such as starting school or going to hospital can be daunting for little children, but when you have a Hippopotamus as your imaginary friend everything becomes just that little bit easier. Benita Collings reads five Hippopotamus classics from the much loved and best selling series, plus Hazel Edward's latest release Hooray! There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Having a Birthday Party.

And God Said 'Billy!' is a darkly comic coming-of-age story written by the master story teller that House of Sand and Fog author Andre Dubus III hailed as the funniest American writer since Mark Twain. The story is set in the 1980s and is about Billy, a young fundamentalist Christian who feels called to go to Hollywood to make ""God's movie."" But everything goes off the rails when he accepts a job to direct a soft-porn slasher/exploitation film in apartheid-era South Africa. He makes this ""It's a deal not a movie"" picture even though he has to bust the US entertainment industry's anti-apartheid sanctions in hopes his ""worldly movie"" will be ""used by God"" as a ""stepping stone"" to making his own divinely sanctioned ""End Times"" picture. Billy loses his fundamentalist faith, his film career, his family and more.

In New Orleans, a pair of undead serial killers is about to turn Mardi Gras into a horror show - unless the immortal hitman Bones can hunt them down first. From Jeaniene Frost comes a thrilling novella featuring characters from her New York Times bestselling Night Huntress series. Originally appeared in the anthology Unbound.

A Personal Record is a ""fragment of biography"", an autobiographical work by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912. It is also a masterpiece of atmospheric writing and the main contemporary source to detail his early life. Conrad, Polish by birth, who goes on to become one of the greatest novelists of the English language, describes his childhood and adolescence, discusses his forebears, one of whom fought on the side of Napoleon and ate a Lithuanian dog, the exile of his parents, the death of his mother and his relationship with his Uncle Tadeusz.

He takes us to the Alps with his tutor, to Marseilles with the pilots, to the freezing fog-bound docks of Rouen with his battered manuscript of Almayer's Folly. But Conrad has an overriding object: this memoir beautifully interweaves the tales of why he went to sea and how he came to be a writer. Its digressive structure is precisely what makes it a magical and timeless work about exile, destiny, and art. It is read by Greg Wagland.

Having ended the Edgar Award-nominated Shelter with a jaw-dropping cliff-hanger, Coben picks up Mickey's story right where it left off in this suspenseful new adventure. Mickey and his loyal new friends, sharp-witted Ema and adorably charming Spoon, once again find themselves in over their heads on the hunt for missing pieces to a puzzle they have yet to understand. As the mystery surrounding Mickey's dad's death unfolds, he soon learns that they may be in more danger than they could have ever imagined.

Kerry Shale's stage credits include His Girl Friday (National Theatre) and Frost/Nixon (West End). TV credits include Doctor Who and Life's Too Short. Recent films include A Fantastic Fear of Everything. He has won three Sony Radio Awards, the APA Award for Best Male Audio Book Reader (UK) and the Audie Award for Best Male Audio Book Reader (USA). His audio books include two winners of the Man Booker Prize, Life of Pi and The White Tiger.

On the surface, Ruby Gallagher has the perfect life: an adoring husband, Manny, a beautiful home and a luxury lifestyle that involves shopping, holidays and not much else. It's safe, predictable - exactly what she needs after her turbulent past. Until one day it all collapses as Manny is arrested for fraud. And it seems it's not only his business deals that have been shady - Ruby discovers he's been hiding a mistress and son too. But as her designer lifestyle is repossessed, Ruby dusts herself down and starts again. With the help of some good friends, bad wine and a new business venture, Ruby discovers that she's a lot better off without her husband holding her back. If only he would see it that way.

Fydor Karamazov, a mean and disreputable landowner, has three sons, Dmitry, a profligate army officer; Ivan, a writer with revolutionary ideas; and Alexey, a religious novice. A drama of patricide and fraternal jealousy unfolds, involving the questions of anarchism and atheism, and giving a portrait of Russian society in the turbulent 1870s.

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) was a Russian fiction writer, essayist, and philosopher whose works have been acclaimed all over the world by thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein.

Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards.

Translated by David Magarshack

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. Italian Phase 3, Unit 20 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 Italian.

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course The Science of Willpower, The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity. Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters. For example, listeners will learn:

• Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep.
• Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health.
• Temptation and stress hijack the brain's systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower.
• Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control.
• Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control.
• Willpower failures are contagious - you can catch the desire to overspend or overeat from your friends­­ - but you can also catch self-control from the right role models.

In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help listeners with goals ranging from losing weight to more patient parenting, less procrastination, better health, and greater productivity at work.

What If You Could...

• get all your work done by 6:00 p.m.?
• eat dinner with your family every night?
• form deep, satisfying relationships?
• naturally blend the world of church with your everyday life?
• spend hours a week on your hobbies?

You can! Real Simplicity reveals how to make all of these things a reality. Not by working faster or having more gadgets, but by simply choosing a lifestyle of conversation and community over a lifestyle of accumulation. The Frazees' practical, motivating insights call you back to the kind of relationships and life rhythms you were created to enjoy. In Real Simplicity, Rozanne and Randy show you how - and why it's so important - to balance work and play, establish healthy boundaries, deal with children's activities and homework, bring Jesus to your neighbors, and build authentic bonds with a circle of close friends.

Share these insights with those around you and help usher in an amazing transformation: your life and the lives of others blooming, in the midst of the chaos and fragmentation of today's culture, into communities of purpose and peace.

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

Laurence Sterne’s most famous novel is a biting satire of literary conventions and contemporary 18th-century values. Renowned for its parody of established narrative techniques, Tristram Shandy is commonly regarded as the forerunner of avant-garde fiction. Tristram’s characteristic digressions on a whole range of unlikely subjects (including battle strategy and noses!) are endlessly surprising and make this one of Britain’s greatest comic achievements. A cast of strange characters populate this strangest of novels: gentle Uncle Toby, sarcastic Walter, and of course, the pompous, garrulous Tristram himself. This edition is read by Anton Lesser in a tour de force performance.

Please note: In print, Tristram Shandy is filled with visual, typographical, and compositing jokes - pages that are completely blank, pages that are completely black, misplaced chapters or chapters consisting only of their title, squiggly lines to indicate waving a stick, and much more besides. This audiobook tries in a variety of ways to match Sterne's invention with aural equivalents.

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

General Mike DeLong deputy commander of the U.S. Central Command during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars was second only to General Tommy Franks in the war on terror. At the centre of discussions between President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Tommy Franks, General DeLong offers the frankest and most authoritative look inside the wars - how the US prepared for battle, how they fought, how two regimes were loppled-and what's happening now. Shows where Bob Woodward, Richard Clarke and others got it wrong. Reveals disagreements between Franks, Rumsfeld, DeLong and Wolfwitz.

Charles R. Morris’s The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008) was the first book to warn of the impending financial crash in all its horrific scale and speed. Now, with Comeback, Morris reveals that the United States is on the brink of a strong recovery that could last for twenty years or more.

The great economic boom times in American history have come because of fortuitous discoveries. Natural resources (coal first, then oil) fueled vast economic and industrial expansions, which in turn helped create and supply new markets. The last genuine economic game changer was the technology boom of the 1990s, which gave the U.S. a global competitive advantage for a while based on electronics and silicon. One of the first writers and analysts in the U.S. to predict that the tech boom would lead to a period of sustained economic growth was Charles Morris. In defiance of the recessionary times (in 1990), he saw the coming boom. Now, in 2013, he sees the threshold of another.

This time the gift is natural gas. The amount and distribution of gas in American shale is so vast that it has the potential to transform the manufacturing economy, creating jobs across the country, and requiring a new infrastructure that will benefit the nation as a whole. Because of fracking, jobs that once would have been outsourced abroad will return home, America can become a net exporter of energy, and cheap energy will provide the opportunity for innovation and competition.

In light of this new opportunity, and other complementary developments Morris explores in this book, the U.S. ought to be approaching the future with a robust self-confidence it has not experienced in a while. But we could fumble it away. The gold-rush style of shale boom companies does not make them good neighbors. A counter-reaction could put their industry, and the new era of national prosperity, at risk. We also have a political system that has the capacity to spoil the benefits of this hu...

The real-life stories contained in Conspiracy of Kindness illuminate how every follower of Christ can become an effective evangelist through unassuming acts of kindness - simple behaviors that communicate the love of God more persuasively than words.

What lies beneath? Things are not right at Crowfield Abbey. The building has begun to crumble. And what Will finds beneath the floor of the side chapel is truly terrifying. Is this the end of Crowfield forever? Read by Ric Jerrom.

Pimsleur® equals success. Just one 30-minute lesson a day gets you speaking and understanding like no other program. Hebrew Phase 1, 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 Hebrew.

Beverly Engel is the best-selling author of 18 self-help books. She is a psychotherapist with over 25 years of experience and is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of abuse, women's issues, relationships, and sexuality. She is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop leader at conferences throughout the United States and Canada. Listen in as Beverly Engel talks to Tara about the subjects of four of her best-selling books, which include: The Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome: What to Do If Someone in Your Life Has a Dual Personality - or You Do, Breaking the Cycle of Abuse: How to Move Beyond Your Past to Create an Abuse-Free Future, The Power of Apology: Healing Steps to Transform All Your Relationships, and Loving Him Without Losing You: How to Stop Disappearing and Start Being Yourself.

Online since 1999, Talk To Tara is an Internet radio and TV talk show featuring in-depth interviews with best-selling authors, newsmakers and celebrities. The interviews are presented in an intelligent forum and are designed to be informative as well as entertaining. Tara goes beyond chat and focuses on the core interests of her guest, allowing them to speak freely on the matters that concern them and providing her audience with an experience they can learn from.

Four new stories in which Horrid Henry terrorizes his classmates at a school sleepover in the museum; plays with Perfect Peter and tricks him into handing over all his money; gets out of writing his own story for Miss Battle-Axe by adapting one of Peter's; and meets the Nudie Foodie, a celebrity chef, who comes to the school to improve school dinners. No more burgers! No more chips!

Addressing areas of everyday life - from the anxiety of visiting the dentist to personal depression - this guide helps listeners eliminate the prohibitive nature of fear and sadness. Incorporating such techniques as visual meditation and self-recorded transcripts to listen to while sleeping, listeners learn to gain control over their negative thoughts and feelings and conquer the paralyzing and unhealthy symptoms associated with anxiety and depression.

Witches are real - and each of us may be one -in this all-new paranormal suspense novel from number-one New York Times best-selling author Christopher Pike.

Heading off for a weekend in Las Vegas with her friends, Jessie Ralle has only one worry: how to make it through the road trip in the same car as her ex, Jimmy Kelter. The guy she hasn’t come close to getting over since he broke up with her five months ago. The guy who’s finally ready to tell her why he did it, because now he wants her back.

Only, sometimes knowing why doesn’t actually make things better. Sometimes it leads to bigger, more terrifying questions.

Jessie discovers that she’s stumbled into a world where some people can do the impossible and others may not even be human. Are there really witches? Is she one of them? Armed with new abilities and shocked to discover an entire parallel world in which she and her loved ones co-exist, Jessie’s desperate to learn whom she can trust and whom she can’t - before it’s too late.

Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of 60 years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of twenty and his two lighters, and add no more singes to his cardigan? As this wonderful, wayward record of Gray's life progresses, these questions are overtaken by much larger ones. What is that lady on the plane to Athens doing with her nose? What was sex like before 1963? Will his name be in lights on Broadway? Why did he leave the bedside of his dying mother?

With their combination of comedy and serious reflection, of sharp observation and painful self-disclosure, Simon Gray's diaries have reinvented the memoir form and are destined to become classics of autobiography.

Dying is what changed Mary O'Reilly's life. Well, actually, coming back from the dead and having the ability to communicate with ghosts is really what did it.

Now, a private investigator in rural Freeport, Illinois, Mary's trying to learn how to incorporate her experience as a Chicago cop and new-found talent into a real job. Her challenge is to solve the mysteries, get real evidence (a ghost's word just doesn't hold up in court), and be sure the folks in town, especially the handsome new police chief, don't think she's nuts.

Twenty-four years ago, a young woman drowned in the swimming pool of a newly elected state senator. It was ruled an accident. But now, as the senator prepares to move on to higher positions, the ghost of the woman is appearing to the Senator's wife.

Mary is hired to discover the truth behind the death. She unearths a connection between the murder and the disappearance of five little girls whose cases, 24 years later, are still all unsolved. As she digs further, she becomes the next target for the serial killers' quest to tie up all his loose ends.

The apprentice Skeeve is just getting used to his duties as Court Magician of Possiltum. Then King Roderick decides to take a powder, leaving Skeeve in his place to marry his homicidal fiancé and face the Mob's fairy godfather - who makes him an offer he can't refuse.

Dylan James has an absentee father and a hot stepmother. An unusual coincidence puts Dylan and his Stepmother in a compromising position and neither of them has the will to restrain themselves. A weekend of experiences will lead them to a final decision about what to do about their serious misstep.

NOTE: This is an explicit erotic short story of approximately five thousand words and should only be listened to by adults interested in this sort of material in jurisdictions where it is allowed.

Chloe enjoys working as the Internet web sensation Mia Rose, the girl-next-door-turned-cam-slut. She enjoys the anonymity and the way she feels so sexy getting men off on camera. One session with a mysterious man leaves her breathless, though; and she's even more overcome when he figures out where she lives and shows up at her door! Before the night is over, she'll have a night of very rough sex, and her very first anal sex experience!

Warning: This audiobook contains very explicit descriptions of a rough sex encounter with a stranger. It includes domineering sex, spanking, slapping, and very rough first anal sex. It is intended for mature readers who will not be offended by graphic depictions of sex acts between consenting adults.

A Devotional Unlike Any Other!

Through his international bestseller, Love & Respect, Emerson Eggerichs has transformed marriages around the world with his biblically based approach to understanding the love that she most desires and the respect that he desperately needs. Now, in this long-awaited new release, Emerson has created an experience for couples that is effective, flexible and life-changing.

To build this couples devotional, Eggerichs has taken the top concerns that surfaced in a survey of thousands of couples and has developed 52 devotionals around the three cycles that are at the heart of Love and Respect: The Crazy Cycle, The Rewarded Cycle, and The Energizing Cycle.

Some may ask, ""Why 52 devotionals and not 365, like other couples' books I have seen?"" The author's research shows that married couples don't want to deal with that much material, that often. Therefore, the specific devotionals, which can be done weekly or at any chosen pace, are specifically guided to what couples say they most need. And this is a husband-friendly devotional, written and designed in such a way that the husband can feel comfortable in the entire process. With this wealth of new material, The Love & Respect Experience will be indispensable to anyone wishing to better their marital relationship.

Start speaking Chinese in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Gengo - Chinese, a completely new way to learn Chinese with ease! Gengo - Chinese will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your Chinese friends.

Why are the audio lessons so effective?

• They are short and to the point
• Thirty 15 minute lessons make them the perfect length
• Syllable-by-syllable breakdown of each word and phrase so that you can say every word and phrase instantly
• Repeat after the professional teacher section so that you can practice proper pronunciation
• Quick cultural tips in each lesson will help you navigate your way even better
• Above all, fun and relaxed approach to grasping a lot of information quickly and easily
• Effortlessly learn from a bi-lingual and bi-cultural host as they guide you through pitfalls and pleasures of China and Chinese

You see, unlike other audiobooks, we actually teach Chinese and Chinese culture. With each lesson, you will master a target phrase and key vocabulary. This is a complete lesson taught by a professional, bi-lingual teacher! Listen to the preview now!

This is NOT a vocabulary audiobook with just words and their translations.

These 25 short and effective audio lessons will allow you to:

• Speak Chinese within minutes of your first lesson
• Understand the culture, customs, and people of China
• Order the food you want in restaurants
• Travel in taxis, trains, buses and cars with confidence
• Master manners, etiquette, and customs
• Surprise phrases and tips that will leave your guests wondering where you learned them.

This audiobook comes with downloadable lesson notes totaling over 100+ pages. Start speaking Chinese now!

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Shakespeare’s timeless story of revenge, corruption, and murder is considered one of the greatest works in the English language. Composed over 400 years ago, the tragic tale of young Prince Hamlet remains one of the theater’s most studied and performed works, presented here in a new full-cast recording, directed by Martin Jarvis and featuring a special appearance by Stacy Keach as The Ghost.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Josh Stamberg as Hamlet; Stephen Collins as King Claudius; JoBeth Williams as Queen Gertrude; Stacy Keach as The Ghost; Alan Mandell as Polonius; Emily Swallow as Ophelia; JD Cullum as Laertes; Matthew Wolf as Horatio; Mark Capri as Ambassador and others; Josh Clark as Gravedigger, Voltemand and others; Henri Lubatti as Rosencrantz and others; Jon Matthews as Guildenstern and others; Darren Richardson as Player Queen and others; André Sogliuzzo as Reynaldo and others. Directed by Martin Jarvis. Recorded at the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in August 2011.

Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad's consulting job means she's grown up moving from one rundown city to the next, and she's learned to cope by collecting (sometimes even stealing) quirky trinkets and souvenirs in each new place - possessions that allow her to feel at least some semblance of home. But in the year since her brother Oren's death, Lo's hoarding has blossomed into a full-blown, potentially dangerous obsession.

She discovers a beautiful, antique butterfly pendant during a routine scour at a weekend flea market and recognizes it as having been stolen from the home of a recently murdered girl known only as ""Sapphire"" - a girl just a few years older than Lo. As usual, when Lo begins to obsess over something, she can't get it out of her mind.

As she attempts to piece together the mysterious ""butterfly clues"", with the unlikely help of a street artist named Flynt, Lo quickly finds herself caught up in a seedy, violent underworld much closer to home than she ever imagined - a world, as she'll ultimately discover, that could hold the key to her brother's tragic death.

Joe's been acting strangely lately. Causing serious trouble, messing up his friends' lives. But they can't tell anyone. Not even each other. You see, no one would believe them. Everyone looks up to Joe...Then Joe mysteriously disappears.

Distraught, his sister Debs pleads with his friends to look for him. Reluctantly, they head for the obvious place - the marsh where they used to play as kids. But they are not kids anymore, and without Joe they're leaderless. How will they even find him? And do they want to, after what he's done? In fact, they would be quite happy if Joe stayed missing for good...

Anthony Masters is the author of eleven works of adult fiction - notably, Conquering Heroes (1969), Red Ice (1986, with Nicholas Barker), The Men (1997), The Good and Faithful Servant (1999) and Lifers (2001) - and, prior to his death, was in the process of completing another, Dark Bridges, which he thought would be his best. Many of these works carry deep insights into social problems that he gained, over four decades, by helping the socially excluded, be it by running soup kitchens for drug addicts or by campaigning for the civic rights of gypsies and other ethnic minorities. Masters is also known for his eclectic range of non-fiction titles. It ranged from the biographies of such diverse personalities as Hannah Senesh (The Summer that Bled, 1972), Mikhail Bakunin (Bakunin: the Father of Anarchism, 1974), Nancy Astor (Nancy Astor: A Life, 1981) and the British secret service chief immortalized by Ian Fleming in his James Bond books (The Man Who Was M: the Life of Maxwell Knight, 1984), to a history of the notorious asylum Bedlam (Bedlam, 1977).

When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he's not alone. He's surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade - a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre and terrible stone maze.

Like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they came to be there - or what's happened to the world outside. All they know is that every morning when the walls slide back, they will risk everything - even the Grievers, half-machine, half-animal horror that patrol its corridors, to try and find out.

War is raging in Melengar. To save her kingdom, Princess Arista hires Royce and Hadrian to perform a dangerous mission behind the enemy's lines. Royce begins to suspect that they are being used as pawns in the wizard Esrahaddon’s shadowy struggle for power. The thieves journey to the ends of the world amid treachery and betrayals and Hadrian is forced to face a past he hoped never to see again.

Swords of Eveningstar is the first title in an exciting new series by author Ed Greenwood, the creator of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. This series explores the youthful adventures of the much-loved heroes, Florin, Islif, and Jhessail, as they battle to win a name for themselves and then to defend it against the machinations of a more insidious and devious evil than they ever thought to face.

Just as musicians must make music, poets must write, and artists must paint, we all have a unique gift designed for a specific vocation that will bring both meaning and purpose to our lives. Become Who You Were Born to Be is a blueprint for discovering your unique gift and using it to realize your personal and professional potential. And to illustrate his life-changing philosophy, Souza relates true stories of everyday people and world-famous celebrities, including Lance Armstrong, Amy Tan, Sylvester Stallone, Garth Brooks, and Oprah Winfrey, who became heroes by overcoming adversity and squeezing every ounce of opportunity from their gifts."

COMMENT
""Leading Causes"", by Elizabeth Kolbert: The United States needs to get serious.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN
""The Big Pin"", by Lauren Collins: Jewelry-box diplomacy.

ANNALS OF ECONOMICS
""Rational Irrationality"", by John Cassidy: The real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone.

LETTER FROM TEHRAN
""Veiled Threat"", by Anonymous: Iranian women protest the government.

FICTION
""Victory Lap"", by George Sauders.

SHOUTS & MURMURS
""Spousal Support"", by Zev Borrow: Relationships with intelligent machines.

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Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate the immaculate conceptions. Even as she comes to care and trust the young women, she realizes that both are in great danger. Terrifying forces of good and evil are gathering. Stepping into uncharted territory where the unknown is just the beginning, Anne must discover the truth - to save the young women, to save herself, and to protect the future of all mankind.

Legend has it that the Alleluia Files contain the truth about the god of Samaria. Now, a child raised in captivity among the angels will journey the length and breadth of her world to seek the documents that will alter the face of Samaria forever.

COMMENT
""Voter, Beware"", by Jeffrey Toobin: The Supreme Court takes on a civil-rights landmark.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE
""Nice Work If You Can Get It"", by James Surowiecki: Wages, productivity, and the unemployment crisis.

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON
""The Gatekeeper"", by Ryan Lizza: Rahm Emanuel's order of business.

FICTION
""Brother on Sunday"", by A. M. Homes.

A CRITIC AT LARGE
""Talk it Up"", by Adam Gopnik: How Runyonesque was Damon Runyon?

ON TELEVISION
""Whedon's World"", by Nancy Franklin: A review of the TV show Dollhouse."

Learn how God often does His best work in our most hopeless situations. What do you do when a shattered dream or an unmet expectation causes you to turn to Plan B? Pastor and author Pete Wilson uses real-life stories of disappointments and tragedy, along with biblical stories such as David, Joseph, and Ruth, to help listeners face their own overwhelming situations and, through them, to learn God is working to help them surrender their plans to receive His. He identifies our common responses to difficulties and offers hope, helping us to:

• Understand what God might be up to
• See how surrender helps us to receive God's plan
• Embrace the community of believers
• Reconcile a God of love with a life of tragedy and suffering

Wilson points listeners to the cross as not just the starting line but the centerpiece of our stories with God, where we turn in our Plan B and find the undeniable relationship between crisis and true spiritual transformation.

Come on an eco-journey to a natural paradise. The Green Travel Guide is a comprehensive audio tour recorded right on the scene.

You can SWIM and DIVE with eco-friendly tour operators, EXPLORE the crazy world of Doctor Fish, and PARTY at the full moon party with an eco-conscience - seriously! Why not make your next holiday a green one?

Have a holiday, have a conscience, and most of all, have fun.

The Green Travel Guide donates 10 percent of all profits to green charities.

When Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Investigation Team returns to the scene of the accident, he stumbles on a torture chamber buried deep beneath the earth. And this hidden house of horror reveals a ghastly truth - Sara's patient is just the first victim of a sick, sadistic killer.

Wrestling the case away from the local police chief, Will and his partner Faith Mitchell find themselves at the centre of a grisly murder hunt. And Sara, Will and Faith - each with their own wounds and their own secrets - are the only thing that stands between a madman and his next crime...

The greatest excerpts from classic literary texts on the theme of SEX. Featuring the astonishingly naughty, thousand-year-old Kama Sutra, John Cleland's erotic novel 'Fanny Hill' - which is one of the most banned books of all time - and the frank sexual writing of D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover, as well as many other stories.

Sex is one of the most intriguing, illuminating and controversial subjects in literature. Classic Compilations brings you the best excerpts from famous literature that tread upon the tantalizing subject of sex in a way that brings them entirely relevant for modern listeners.

In addition, we present these literary greats mixed beautifully with some of the world's most famous and loved classical music. Now you can enjoy these best-selling literary greats whenever you like, with Classic Compilations.

Do the friendships you make on holiday have anything to do with real life? It might be sensible to hope that they don't.

For the last few years, Beth and Ned have gone to the same Caribbean island to the same luxury spa hotel. There they meet the same crowd, and take up where they left off last time. Real life, home life, family life, are all safely left behind.

Except this year. This year, home problems have somehow tagged along for the ride. Ned has been playing away - shy; a bit of a drunken fling, that's all, nothing to worry about, Beth thinks.

But although they have put it all behind them, what Beth doesn't know is that Ned's fling was with the female half of one of the couples they are holidaying with.

To make matters worse, Beth has insisted on bringing along their 16-year-old daughter, Delilah, who¹s been ill and needs rest and sunshine. Not so ill, however, that she can't look around for some entertainment....

Charlotte is more than happy to offer her master her body, her blood, and her submission. But her mind is her own; if he really is listening in on her thoughts, he has to stop - right now!

As soon as Zachariah feeds from Charlotte's blood, he begins to hear her thoughts whispering in his mind. A rare blood bond forms between them, and Zachariah is thrilled. He's sure the bond and his new insights into Charlotte's mind will solve all their problems.

Charlotte was ready for her master's bite to hurt - she was looking forward to it. She thought she was ready for anything else too, but she wasn't ready to let her master into her mind. The bond isn't the solution to anything. The bond is the problem.

Zachariah has to solve a whole new set of problems if he's going to prove he's the master Charlotte's always wanted, and Charlotte has to learn to do something she's never done before - trust a master with her mind.

Quinn Donahue will do anyone once, so when Aaron Miller spots Quinn making his moves in a Vancouver gay bar, Aaron thinks he's found just the guy to relieve him of his unwanted virginity. Quinn, however, has apparently decided to make an exception to his usual open-bed policy. He may be an unrepentant connoisseur of one-night stands, but he's not going to disappoint a sweet kid like Aaron by giving him a hot night and then leaving while the sheets are still warm.

After Quinn takes a job at Aaron's family horse farm, Aaron spots both the demons and the decency that drive Quinn's frequent brush-offs, and it makes Aaron want him even more. But Quinn is determined that Aaron won't go home with a man who doesn't deserve him, so he starts sending likely candidates Aaron's way. It takes a grim act of sacrifice for Aaron to realize exactly why Quinn's been so skittish, and he’ll have to keep a firm grip on the man of his dreams to keep Quinn from shying away.

Welcome to the world of Digger the Dinosaur! Digger wants to go out and play, but he still hasn't cleaned his room. The race is on to tidy up, and with Digger in a rush, things might get a little topsy-turvy!

This is the simplest guide to weight loss, getting your weight in balance for the long term, and living a healthy life. The author lost 40 lbs through this plan. But more importantly, as he says, he kept the weight off, the thing most of us fail to do over and over again. The plan emphasizes the overall goal of changing your food plan, not dieting which never seems to work. The plan emphasizes investing in your calories as you would in a financial plan. It also counsels patience much as Warren Buffett does in financial investments. This is not for a week, a month, a year, or a decade. It is for life. So relax and understand any long term plan will have its ups and downs. Just get back up on the diet horse when you get thrown off as we all do. 100s of great tips.Key words: diet, health, weight, weight loss, substitution, vegetables, fruits, salads, plan, planning, lifestyle, good health.

Beware! The sordid lives of plants behaving badly. A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. Amy Stewart, best-selling author of Flower Confidential, takes on over 200 of Mother Nature's most appalling creations in an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.

Stewart renders a vivid portrait of evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, enlighten, and alarm even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.

A game of canasta turns out crooked and a golden girl ends up dead. It seems that Auric Goldfinger is a bad loser when it comes to cards. He’s also the world’s most ruthless and successful gold smuggler. As James Bond follows his trail, he discovers that Goldfinger’s real game is the heist of fifteen billion dollars of US government bullion. The final hand is played at Fort Knox, in a spectacular display of deception and intrigue.

Includes an exclusive bonus interview with Hugh Bonneville.

Ian Fleming was born in London in 1908. He was educated at Eton and worked as a journalist in Moscow and a banker and stockbroker in London before becoming personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence during the Second World War. He wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952 at Goldeneye, his home in Jamaica. Since then James Bond has gone on to become a global phenomenon.

Hugh Bonneville is perhaps best known for his role as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham in the hit series Downton Abbey. Other TV credits include W1A, Twenty Twelve, Lost in Austen, Bonekickers, The Silence and Rev. On the big screen he’s been seen in Monuments Men, Iris, Notting Hill, and the James Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies.

Sit back, turn the lights down low, and get ready for the scare of your life, with five bloodcurdling short stories from 31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead, written by Drac Von Stoller. ""Born a Serial Killer"", ""Castle Drac Von Stoller"", ""The Seance,"" ""What If The Devil Created Earth"", and ""Wood Chipper"" will have your hair standing on end!

Here are 19 classic tales from masters of the genre. The collection comprises:

'Schalken the Painter' by J. S. Lefanu; 'Sredni Vashtar' by Saki (H. H. Munro); 'The Room in the Tower' by E. F. Benson; 'Charles Ashmore's Trail' by Ambrose Bierce; 'The Mark of the Beast' by Rudyard Kipling; 'The Castle of Ratcliffe Cross' by J. Wadham; 'The Bead Necklace' by Alice Perrin; 'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'The Leather Funnel' by Arthur Conan Doyle; 'Berenice' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'The Cedar Closet' by Lafcadio Hearn; 'An Original Revenge' by W. C. Morrow; 'A Madman's Manuscript' by Charles Dickens; 'Hurst of Hurstcote' by E. Nesbit; T'he Return' by H. Murray Gilchrist; 'The Devil of the Marsh' by H. B. Mariott-Watson; 'The Professor's Story' by Amelia B. Edwards; 'The Music of Erich Zann' by H. P. Lovecraft; and 'Across the Moors' by W. F. Harvey. Read by Sean Barrett, Anne Rosenfeld, Hayward Morse, Liza Ross, Garrick Hagon, Paul Panting and Nigel Lambert.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthiness is a comprehensive medical resource for the whole family, applying Dr. Dean's practical health philosophies to today's most pressing topics, from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to obesity, depression, and the effectiveness of alternative medicines.

Dr. Dean has answered more than 50,000 questions on the air in the last twenty-five years. Here, he encourages listeners to take charge of their own health with their most powerful weapons, common sense and a dose of skepticism, saving patients time, money, and especially anxiety.

Herman Bang's første impressionistiske roman, som tilmed blev hans første rigtige succes, da den udkom første gang i 1886. ""Ved vejen"" er måske Herman Bangs mest kendte og elskede værk, en ufuldbyrdet og trist kærlighedshistorie mellem Katinka Bai og Forvalter Huus. Det er et værk, der står stærkt i erindringen selv mange år efter den første læsning, og det er ikke mindst dét værk, der holder Herman Bangs navn i live blandt folk og fæ.

Alfie and his crew are called to Fire Brigade Headquarters to be told they will be the new crew of the Fire Brigade's first ever Fire Jet - a space age super plane. But will they be ready and trained in time for their first emergency?!

Audventures treat the production of audio stories every bit as importantly as the story itself. The characters, sound effects, dramatic music, and action-packed adventure will keep your children captivated!

Music by Kevin Mcleod.

Whilst making his way down the world, Michael took part in an impressive and eclectic array of activities: a Russian kissing dance in Novgorod, a mud bath in Odessa, white-water rapids on the Zambesi and a squash game at 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Kartoum.

All of these adventures and more, including trying to buy a camel, are described by Michael Palin in his usual vivid and humorous style, leaving you wide-eyed with wonder whilst also laughing out loud.

2008. The California desert. A four-year-old boy disappears, plunging his parents into the public hell of a media witch-hunt. But the desert is inexplicable and miraculous, and the family's fate is bound up with that of all those who have travelled before them through this brutally powerful landscape.

A conversation with stage and movie actor, Frank Langella.

Next, a conversation with educator, author, businessman, and speaker, Stedman Graham. [Broadcast Date: April 24, 2012]

For so many people, whether your addiction is to a substance or merely to a certain way of thinking or acting, a profound humbling occurs when you realize that your problem is bigger than you are. The terror of realizing, even dimly, that you have no control over a self-destructive pattern of behavior - that as much as you would want to, you simply cannot stop - can mark a crucial turning point in your life. At that point, you go in one of two directions: either way, way down, or way, way up....

This audio is for you if you know in your heart that you are an addict, and that you are powerless before your addictive behavior. As the title promises, Marianne Williamson looks at weight loss from a spiritual perspective, bringing you 30 lessons that can be done separately or in conjunction with any other serious spiritual path. These 30 lessons are completely separate from anything related to diet or exercise - they will retrain your consciousness in the area of weight in order to break the cycle of overeating, dieting, and shame that rules so many lives. Finally, Marianne has brought you what you've been waiting for: help to heal your addiction once and for all!

A new trilogy by the author of many best-selling books in the Forgotten Realms series stars a young peasant who rescues a princess from a giant, only to find that her father is the real problem. Original.

Between the valiant kingdoms of the western Realms and the exotic eastern lands of Kara-Tur lies a vast, unexplored kingdom. For centuries, the ""civilized"" peoples of the Forgotten Realms have given little notice to these barbarians. Now, a powerful leader has united the wild horsemen into a mighty force - an army powerful enough to challenge the world.

To win in business requires a winning business plan. To write a winning business plan requires listening to Garrett Sutton's dynamic audiobook on the topic. Writing Winning Business Plans provides the insights and the direction on how to do it well and do it right.

Rich Dad/Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki says, ""The first step in business is a great business plan. It must be a page turner that hooks and holds a potential investor. Garrett Sutton's Writing Winning Business Plans is the book for key strategies on preparing winning plans for both business and real estate ventures.""

Crisply told and featuring real life illustrative stories, Writing Winning Business Plans discusses all the key elements for a successful plan. Topics include focusing your business vision, understanding your financials and analyzing your competition. Also covered are how to really use your business plan as a tool and how to attract funding for your new or existing businesses.

As business plan competitions become more popular around the world Writing Winning Business Plans also discusses how to enter and how to win these ever more lucrative contests.

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

He had all but given up his dream when the New York Yankees made him an offer to manage their 1996 club. Encouraged by his wife and others, he accepted. And so began one of the greatest seasons in the fabled history of the New York Yankee franchise and one of the most inspiring, heartwarming stories in all of baseball.

Here is the ultimate insider's record of that unforgettable season by the man whose personal struggles captured the hearts and imaginations of fans everywhere. Tough, gritty, but always fair and honest, Torre vividly reveals how he turned a potentially volatile mix of talented youngsters such as Andy Pettitte and Derek Jeter, seasoned veterans like Wade Boggs and Paul O'Neill, and so-called ""problem"" players like Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden into a cohesive unit that cared more about winning than personal egos. He explains how he played his hunches and earned his team's confidence and respect as he focused his players from spring training on toward one goal: the World Series. And he did it all in a pressure-filled sports city that expects nothing less than a champion.

Here is Joe Torre's own story, told for the first time in his own words, from his early childhood in Brooklyn, to his celebrated baseball career playing with the likes of Hank Aaron and Bob Gibson, to his stint as the first native New Yorker ever to manage the Yankees. Offering a rare, behind-the-scenes look at a season to remember and a man who went through so much to reach the pinnacle of his profession, Chasing the Dream is more than just another sports story. It is a poignant reminder of why we love the game - and how, sometimes, nice guys do finish first."

In 1939, the Germans invaded the town of Lodz, Poland, and moved the Jewish population into a small part of the city called a ghetto. As the war progressed, 270,000 people were forced to settle in the ghetto under impossible conditions.

At the end of the war, there were about 800 survivors. Of those who survived, only twelve were children. This is the story of one of the twelve.

A dozen compact puzzles from a master of the locked-room mystery

The Great Merlini waits impatiently at the door of the Hotel Astor. Inspector Church is late for his meeting with the famed magician, with whom he consults when homicide cases venture outside the realm of the possible. A ventriloquist has attempted suicide in the wake of his wife’s mysterious strangulation. Among the suspects are a snake charmer, a nine-foot giant, a tattooed man, and a gaggle of crap players - and this is one of Merlini’s simple cases. He will pick out the killer, with no more effort than he might a rabbit in a top hat.

In these 12 short stories, all originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Clayton Rawson’s greatest detective confronts puzzles that would leave a lesser magician’s head spinning. From vanishing blackmailers to murderous mediums, no cosmic crime can baffle the Great Merlini.

When Sue Williams set out on a 10-year series of journeys around the world, she expected glamour, excitement, a leisurely education. She simply didn't bargain for disaster, spine-tingling terror, and the kind of mind-numbing embarrassment that confronted her at nearly every turn. In fact, if she'd known she would wake up naked inside a sleeping bag, with all her belongings vanished, on a patch of wasteland in Central African Republic; get lost on a dark mountain top in Malawi; be stalked by a wife-hungry politician in Mexico; hitch 1000 kilometers in the wrong direction in Argentina; and discover, too late, she'd just eaten dog stew in China, she would have never left home in the first place!

Getting There is the hilarious, terrifying and, most of all, inspiring account of Sue's travels across the globe over 20 years. It isn't about destinations or pleasant arrivals, but journeys and the battle to get there, fuelled by curiosity, faith in humanity, naivety, and even extraordinary ineptitude - the tales of the true traveler.

Feared and admired, respected and despised, Boba Fett enjoys a dubious reputation as the galaxy's most successful bounty hunter. Yet even a man like Boba Fett can have one too many enemies.

When Boba Fett stumbles across evidence implicating Prince Xizor in the murder of Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle, Fett makes himself an enemy even he fears: the unknown mastermind behind a monstrous deception, who will kill to hide his tracks. Fett also finds himself in possession of an amnesiac young woman named Neelah, who may be the key to the mystery, or a decoy leading Fett into a murderous ambush. Fett's last hope is to run through the list of Xizor's hidden enemies. And since Xizor's hidden enemies are almost as legion as Fett's, the chance of survival is slim - even for someone as skilled and relentless as Boba Fett.

A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.

Toni Morrison was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Finally, a fun and easy way to learn REAL conversational Japanese!

We believe the best way to learn vocabulary - by far - is to study words within their proper context. The dialogues found herein are all about context and how Japanese is actually used among friends and new acquaintances.

Each dialogue has three tracks associated with it. The ""Japanese dialogues"" are all recorded by native voice actors and actresses.

First, the dialogue is presented naturally and all in Japanese. You may want to listen to this short track several times and try to guess the meaning.

The second sound file covers the vocabulary found in the dialogue. Every word is defined with the English meaning spoken after the Japanese.

The third sound file for each dialogue has the dialogue again but leaves space for repetition. Try to mimic the Japanese speakers in sound and presentation.

Rural Free, first published in 1961, beautifully conveys the joys of family life on an Indiana farm. Marked by the slow pace and rich variety of seasonal change, Rachel Peden's narrative offers an authentic month-by-month chronicle of her family's daily adventures. Today, as the slow-food movement gathers support and more urban dwellers return to the land to plant roots again in honest soil, Peden's stories of country life and her lessons on sustainability, frugality, and wastefulness gain a special resonance.

Rural Free will be a source of inspiration for all who rejoice in rural virtues and the spiritual freedom of country life.

Although one of the most influential thinkers of the last millennium, Karl Marx was relatively unheralded during most of his lifetime. Famous for predicting the inevitable demise of capitalism, it was only after his death that his clarion call reached a wide audience: ""Workers of the world unite - you have nothing to lose but your chains.""

Andrew Collier breathes new life into the achievements of Karl Marx, arguing that his work is still of vital relevance in today’s global climate of inequality. Covering all the elements of Marxist thought from his early writings to his masterpiece, Das Kapital, Collier probes the apparent inconsistencies in Marx’s work and reclaims him as a philosopher and political theorist.

In this issue:

THE TALK OF THE TOWN
""Ay-Yi-Yi-Yi"", by Ben McGrath: Photographing the Westminster Dog Show.

A CRITIC AT LARGE
""A Rooting Interest"", by Jonathan Franzen: Learning to love Edith Wharton.

LIFE AND LETTERS
""The Plagiarist’s Tale"", by Lizzie Widdicombe: The author of Assassin of Secrets has a secret of his own.

BOOKS
""Fright Nights"", by Anthony Lane: The unsettling stories of M. R. James.

ON TELEVISION
""It’s Good Enough for Me"", by Emily Nussbaum: A renaissance in kids’ TV?

THE CURRENT CINEMA
""Powers of Evil"", by David Denby: Reviews of Chronicle and In Darkness.

The Quality of Mercy opens in the spring of 1767, two years after the events of Barry Unsworth's Booker Prize-winning Sacred Hunger. It follows the fortunes of two central characters from that book: Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Liverpool slave-ship owner who hanged himself. To avenge his father's death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father's ship, including Sullivan, brought back to London to stand trial on charges of mutiny and piracy.

But Sullivan has escaped and is making his way on foot to the north of England, stealing as he goes and sleeping where he can. His destination is Thorpe in the East Durham coalfields, where his dead shipmate, Billy Blair, lived. And he has pledged to tell the family how Billy met his end.

In this collection of interviews conducted by author PJ Pierce, 25 Texas women, ranging in age from 53 to 93, shre the wisdom they have acquired through living unconventional lives. The interviews present the distilled wisdom of female ""tribal elders"" who took paths not previously open to women and rose to regional, and sometimes national, distinction. Their lifelong, ongoing habit of shattering stereotypes makes them ideal role models for women and men everywhere who dare to believe that there are no limits. Interviewees include Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, Liz Carpenter, Jody Conradt and Kay Bailey Hutchison, answering questions such as:

• ""What is most important about life?""
• ""What is most important to tell the generations coming behind you?""
• ""What insights have you had as you have gotten older?""
• ""What excites you about the future?""

Openly erotic and smart, the stories of Best Gay Romance deliver hope and happy endings. Dale Chase's ""The Early Show"" describes the tantalizing flirtation of two writers who share an eccentric habit of showing up early to Sunday matinees to enjoy the promising half-dark of the theater. S.J. Frost's ""No More Mirages"" is a tale of romantic destiny set in a dojo, an oasis of bamboo, white mats, and stone sculptures where an actor, bitter from his last break-up, finds himself drawn to a charismatic sensei. And in Rob Rosen's wonderfully funny ""Nudie Blues,"" a romance writer discovers a hole in his backyard fence and the hunky new neighbor behind it.

There's nothing All Star pitcher Peter Friedman loves more than baseball. It's his life. He breathes baseball, dreams about it, and works his tail off to be great. Most kids are nervous about starting high school, but Pete's amazing arm is going to make his life pretty easy. When you're the star, girls, popularity, and all-around stud status are sure to follow. But Pete's freshman year doesn't turn out as planned. A pitching accident over the summer ruins his arm. If he can't play baseball, what is he supposed to do? If he isn't the star pitcher, then who is he? Pete's best friend and pitching partner, AJ, doesn't believe Pete - he tells him he'll be back to his normal self by spring training. To make matters more complicated, there's something going on with Pete's grampa - he's acting weird and keeps forgetting important things, and Pete's mother doesn't want to talk about it.

The only person Pete can confide in is Angelika, the amazingly cute girl in his photography class who might like Pete as much as he likes her... only Angie doesn't know if she can date someone who can't be honest with himself, or with the people he's closest to.

He'd been under the impression they had a happy marriage. She assured him that for nearly forty years - in fact, since the second week of their honeymoon - she'd known she was married to the wrong person. This all came as a bit of a shock to Bill. Hence the soul searching.

Brought up to be a responsible sort of chap, and hitting young adulthood just the wrong side of the sixties, Bill had not had much experience of dating (or sex, for that matter) before he met and married Andrea. Post menopausal dating might be very different from dating in your 20s or 30s, but then, he didn't know much about either scene. Still, as a mildly famous television newsreader who'd managed to hold on to (most of) his looks, it seemed he was about to have plenty of opportunities to find out.

Building on the biblical story of Jacob wrestling with God and on the story of her own battle with life-changing disappointment, Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister explores the landscape of suffering and hope. Meant to help listeners cope with their own suffering and disappointment, this book is, in Sister Joan's own words, ""an anatomy of struggle and an account of the way hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression. It is an invitation to look again at the struggles of life in order that we might remember how to recognize new life in our souls the next time our hearts turn again to clay.""

While the situation of Tolstoy's plot is alien to most people, his nuanced treatment of mortal life is familiar to all. Later in his life Tolstoy confessed that he earlier had seduced two young girls for his pleasure. Perhaps his own deeds and their horrible consequences motivated him to write this novel with special passion. It is a particularly moving tale.

Tolstoy's Resurrection is marvelous in the fullest sense of the word - a story so improbable that it must be a miraculous achievement.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel is a cautionary tale of reckless ambition and squandered talent, set amid the glitter of Jazz-Age New York.

The novel tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune), the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and his alcoholism.

At once a morality tale, a meditation on love, money, and decadence, and a social document, the novel provides an excellent portrait of the Eastern elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Café Society. As with his other novels, it is a brilliant character study and an early account of the complexities of marriage and intimacy, believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald.

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. Spanish Phase 3, Unit 20 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 Spanish.

The race is on to find 39 Clues that safeguard a great power, and 14-year old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, are shocked to find themselves in the lead. The search seems to be taking them to Vienna, and they hold a coded piece of Mozart's sheet music that's the key to finding the next Clue. But tailed by a pack of power-hungry relatives, Amy and Dan can't see if they are sailing toward victory - or straight into a deadly trap.

When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind: proposing to Meggie Oliphant.

Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according to plan. A harmless game turns decidedly deadly, and suspicions of murder take precedence over matrimony. Trapped in a remote country house with a murderer, George can see no way out. But Albert Campion can....

Now, Goleman teams with renowned EI researchers Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee to explore the role of emotional intelligence in leadership. Unveiling neuroscientific links between organizational success or failure and ""primal leadership,"" the authors argue that a leader's emotions are contagious. If a leader resonates energy and enthusiasm, an organization thrives; if a leader spreads negativity and dissonance, it flounders.

Drawing from decades of analysis, the authors show that resonant leaders excel not just through skill and smarts but also by connecting with others, using EI competencies such as empathy and self-awareness. And they employ up to six leadership styles - from visionary to coach to pacesetter - fluidly interchanging them as the situation demands. The program no leader in any walk of life can afford to miss, this unforgettable work transforms the art of leadership into the science of results."

When Stink buys a mammoth jawbreaker that doesn't break his jaw, he writes a letter of complaint to the manufacturer, and receives a 10-pound box of 21,280 jawbreakers for his trouble! This unexpected benefit of acing the art of letter-writing in school sure gets Stink thinking. Soon Stink is so preoccupied with getting free stuff sent to him that he overlooks a scribbly envelope in the mail pile, until his best friend, Webster, starts acting standoffish and looks as mad as a hornet.

A shrinking school in a dying town. A face in the window of an empty house. At first these facts don't seem to be related. But Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.

COMMENT
""The Planner"" by Steve Coll: President Bush reveals his plan for Iraq.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE
""The Sky-High Club"" by James Surowiecki: Corporate culture and CEO compensation.

PROFILES
""Mr. Green"" by Elizabeth Kolbert: Environmentalism's most optimistic guru.

SHOUTS & MURMURS
""Oaky"" by Ian Frazier: A big stink takes on Manhattan.

ANNALS OF COMMERCE
""Made in the Shade"" by Eric Konigsberg: How wasabi became the new black, and other tales from the color industry.

THE CURRENT CINEMA
""Children's Tales"" by Anthony Lane: Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor in Miss Potter and the documentary Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story."

Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. This is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia, challenge all that we take for granted, lure us to new, exotic places - only to make us wish we could run back home, and keep us up all night just waiting for the safety of the dawn.

This is the second volume of a three volume audio series.

There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece. Yet it is both a popular text to be studied at school and an enigma. The scene is a country road. There is a solitary tree. It is evening. Two tramp-like figures, Vladimir and Estragon, exchange words. Pull off boots. Munch a root vegetable. Two other curious characters enter. And a boy. Time passes. It is all strange yet familiar. Waiting for Godot casts its spell as powerfully in this audiobook recording as it does on stage.

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

Hanukkah in English means dedication. It celebrates the re-dedication of the temple by Judah and the Maccabee's after it was recaptured from the Greeks in 164 B.C. The Hanukkah story is the story of a brave people fighting for religious freedom and the miracle of lights burning proudly for eight long days.

The Hanukkah story honors the heroes and heroines throughout Jewish history who have fought using both might and wisdom to overcome their foes. One of these heroes is Judah the Maccabee.

Her prayer become, ""Change me, Lord."" Here, she presents that process for all wives who want the power to pray for themselves and their husbands."

The mysterious author of the New York Times best-selling book The Name of This Book is Secret, as well as the other dangerous and daring adventures in the hugely popular The Secret series makes a rare appearance to talk with Matthew Cody (Powerless) about the latest installment. Performance playlist: Reading by the Author followed by a conversation with Pseudonymous Bosch and Matthew Cody.

People are changed by the Rain Wilds, subtly or otherwise. One such is Thymara. Born with black claws and other aberrations, she should have been exposed at birth. But her father saved her and her mother has never forgiven him. Like everyone else, Thymara is fascinated by the return of dragons: it is as if they symbolise the return of hope to their war-torn world. Leftrin, captain of the liveship Tarman, also has an interest in the hatching; as does Bingtown newlywed, Alise Finbok, who has made it her life's work to study all there is to know of dragons.

But the creatures which emerge from the cocoons are a travesty of the powerful, shining dragons of old. Stunted and deformed, they cannot fly; some seem witless and bestial. Soon, they become a danger and a burden to the Rain Wilders: something must be done. The dragons claim an ancestral memory of a fabled Elderling city far upriver: perhaps there the dragons will find their true home. But Kelsingra appears on no maps and they cannot get there on their own: a band of dragon keepers, hunters and chroniclers must attend them.

To be a dragon keeper is a dangerous job: their charges are vicious and unpredictable, and there are many unknown perils on the journey to a city which may not even exist...

In ""Ride, You Tonto Raiders"", Matt Sabre is a young gunfighter who shoots a man who forces him to draw. To his surprise, the man on his deathbed gives him $5,000 and begs him to take the money to his wife, who is alone defending the family ranch. Guilt, regret, and wanting to do the right thing lead Matt Sabre to make that ride.

In ""War Party"", a boy on the brink of manhood, a resourceful frontier woman who has beauty as well as fortitude, and a strong male character come together in this powerful, romantic, and strangely compelling vision of the American West."

In ""Trap of Gold"", Wetherton has been three months out of town when he finds his first ""color"", in a crumbling granite upthrust with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold! The problem is that the rocks are unstable, and taking out the quartz might just bring the whole thing tumbling down.

In ""Trail to Pie Town"", Dusty Barron has ridden his stallion at full gallop out of town, leaving behind him a man bleeding on the floor of a saloon. Maybe he could have explained himself, if two other men hadn't appeared and gone for their guns when they saw him. So Dusty took off. But the dead man had relatives in the area, and now it looks like he is going to be facing a clan war."

This is a major work by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings have been deeply influential on subsequent generations of philosophers."

The World's Political Hot Spots series explains the basis of conflicts in some of the world's most politically sensitive areas. Many of these regions are in today's headlines, and tensions recently have become violent in virtually all of them. Each presentation covers up to 10 centuries of background, revealing how and why today's problems occur.

He'll also be on hand with some useful tips (e.g., ignore peer pressure - unless of course you're a structural engineer who is building a pier, in which case don't put lives at risk!)

Also starring one half of comedy act The Cowards, Tim Key ""The Poet"", and Tom Basden ""The Musician"".

Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better offers a mixture of stand-up, sketches and songs. There'll be life-changing advice too - and even if this turns out to be bad advice, it'll still have good jokes in it. The show features Mark Watson, Tim Key and Tom Basden."

Here is the story of this remarkable moment, which was covered by the press worldwide. For his wife, Linda, it was a miracle. For his doctors and nurses, it was a medical mystery. For his sons, including his youngest, with whom he had never before had a conversation, it was a blessing. After his remarkable day, Donny Herbert fell into a deep sleep and never experienced a comparable moment of clarity. He died in February 2006 from pneumonia.

Written by Linda's cousin, The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up makes the listener wonder: What brought Donny back? More than anything, Linda credits Donny himself, a man with the strength to will himself back into his family's lives, if only to remind them one last time of how very much he loved them. This is as much Linda's story, one of perseverance and faith, as it is of a remarkable husband, father, and firefighter.

Performed by the St. Charles Players in exciting Radio Theatre style!

On December 5, 2009, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty of the murder of Meredith Kercher. In December of the following year, the appeal trial began. Despite the initial verdict, the Italian and international public opinion is widely divided: many are those who think that Amanda and Raffaele are the victims of a miscarriage of justice. Images of the couple have been seen around the world, on the web and on TV screens, creating a true media sensation.But what really took place? Was it truly an erotic game gone bad? What pushed the two college students with a promising future to become involved in such an ugly story of sex and drugs that eventually led to a macabre homicide? With a thorough examination of the technical and scientific evidence, Pezzan and Brunoro draft a balanced analysis of the facts that highlights the inconsistencies of an incident that still has too many unanswered questions.

Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find. This exceptional volume explains what stands between you and a fulfilling long-term research career.

Bringing the key survival skills into focus, A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! proposes a rational approach to establishing yourself as a scientist. It offers sound advice on selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser; choosing among research jobs in academia, government laboratories, and industry; preparing for an employment interview; and defining a research program. This book will help you make your oral presentations effective, your journal articles compelling, and your grant proposals successful. A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! should be required listening for anyone on the threshold of a career in science.

Please note: This title is in Danish."

As the '20s roared and the Harlem renaissance thrived, a young woman from rural Florida became the toast of literary New York. Jump At The Sun chronicles the passionate life of Zora Neale Hurston (author of Their Eyes Are Watching God), who went from spinning tales on the front porch of a country store to writing prize-winning stories, novels, and plays. Imbued with the rhymes and rhythms of the Jazz Age, Hurston's story reveals a woman's ferocious appetite for life, literature, and love.

Starring (in alphabetical order):

David Downing as Buddy, Porter, Juice
Cyndi James Gossett as Louise Thompson, Sadie, Lucy, Ann Hurston
Tommy Hicks as Langston Hughes, John Hurston, Bits
Lamakhosi Kuene as Young Zora, Plum
John Lafayette as Herbert Sheen
Mark Christopher Lawrence as Wallace Thurman, Photographer
Loren Lester as Franz Boaz
Tina Lifford as Zora Neale Hurston
Nan Martin as Godmother
Marian Mercer as Fanny Hurst
Felton Perry as Gene, Charles S. Johnson, Poe
Esther Scott as Gwen Benner, Delilah, Effie

In the thickest part of the night, a surging thunderstorm beats down on a Florida cracker home. The rain falls relentlessly, and the sky flashes with blinding brilliance, illuminating swirling leaves, twigs, and dirt. Unseen funnel clouds rotate menacingly, further reducing the almost non-existent visibility and blanketing an evil feeling over the region. Back in a corner of this rural area, the full-grown trees that surround a three-bedroom house strain at their trunks, some bending, some cracking. The wind is deafening. As the hurricane intensifies, the pines and oaks are the first to go.

It''s the dawn of the 22nd century, and the world has fallen apart. Decades of war and resource depletion have toppled governments. The ecosystem has collapsed. A new dust bowl sweeps the American West. The United States has become a nation of migrants - starving masses of nomads who seek out a living in desert wastelands and encampments outside government seed-distribution warehouses.

In this new world, there is a new power. Satori is more than just a corporation, she is an intelligent, living city that grew out of the ruins of Denver. Satori bioengineers both the climate-resistant seed that feeds a hungry nation, and her own post-human genetic Designers, Advocates, and Laborers. What remains of the United States government now exists solely to distribute Satori seed; a defeated American military doles out bar-coded, single-use Satori seed to the nation's starving citizens.

When one of Satori's Designers goes rogue, Agent Sienna Doss - ex-Army Ranger turned glorified bodyguard - is tasked by the government to bring her in: The government wants to use the Designer to break Satori's stranglehold on seed production and reassert themselves as the center of power. Sianna Doss's search for the Designer intersects with Brood and his younger brother Pollo - orphans scrapping by on the fringes of the wastelands. Pollo is abducted, because he is believed to suffer from Tet, a newly emergent disease, the victims of which are harvested by Satori. As events spin out of control, Brood and Sienna Doss find themselves at the heart of Satori, where an explosive climax promises to reshape the future of the world.

Whenever a plane goes down in the U.S., a ""Go Team"" made up of experts is assembled by the NTSB to investigate. Those people - each of them a leading expert in a specific area - are known as informally as ""Crashers"".

When a passenger plane, a Vermeer One Eleven, slams into the ground outside Portland, Oregon, a team is quickly assembled to investigate the cause. Under the leadership of the IIC (Investigator in Charge), Leonard ""Tommy"" Tomzak, a pathologist who recently quit the NTSB who also happened to be in the area when the Vermeer One Eleven went down, the team gets to work as fast as possible. Assembled by Susan Tanaka, the inter-governmental liaison from the NTSB on this crash, the team includes a variety of experts with highly specialized skills. Usually the team has months to determine the cause of a crash, but this time it's different. This time, the plane was brought down deliberately, without leaving a trace, and this was only a trial run.

In L.A., Daria Gibron - a former Shin Bet agent, now under the protection of the FBI - spots a group of suspicious-looking men. Missing her former life of action, she attaches herself to them only to learn that, somehow, they were responsible for the plane crash and are preparing for another action. While her FBI handler tries to find her and save her, Daria risks her life to try to get close enough to learn what's going on and thwart the coming terrorist action. But time is running out and her cover story is running thin.

This is a fresh and utterly compelling thriller, an original mix of action, investigation and a brilliant cast of characters that grabs the listener in the way few novels can and fewer do.

Devlin investigates a missing Salvadoran’s gruesome fate

Devlin Kirk and his partner Bunchcroft are Denver’s finest industrial security experts, even if Denver doesn’t see it that way. Their last big case got them out of debt, but since then the well has been dry. Their firm is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy when Nestor Calamaro, a young illegal immigrant whose family is close to Bunch, disappears. Kirk can’t afford any pro bono work, but Bunch talks him into the good deed. Missing persons cases are usually simple. This one is not.

Nestor’s trail leads Kirk and Bunch to two more missing immigrants, all of whom are connected to Antibodies Research, a biotech start-up whose work is shrouded in extreme secrecy. For Kirk and Bunch, penetrating their security system is the easy part. But when they learn the terrible truth behind Nestor’s disappearance, they risk becoming missing persons themselves.

Go with Mike on foot accros Basutoland; by motorbike from Cape Town to Cairo; to sea in a 36-foot ketch; into the Kalahari desert - and more. In the final chapter he describes how he and his wife move to an Edenic island in the Okovanga delta, and the terrible and wonderful events that took place there.

Col. Mike Hoare tells how he planned to overthrow the militant socialist government of the Seychelles, what went wrong at Mahé airport, and of his trial and imprisonment in South African jails.

Entwined is a new experiment in erotica, bringing together all-star authors and fans into a single immersive experience. In each volume, one award-winning author contributes the opening scenes to a new erotic adventure. But when the heroine reaches a decision point, the narrative fractures into wildly different pathways from hardcore BDSM to lighter, more romantic fare, and all of the shades in between, listeners can listen to and replay high-quality fractures, each written by an award-winning erotica author in her own genre.

In ""Hers"", Chastity has come back to the US after a well-deserved vacation in Ireland, is still in the airport when she receives two texts: One from her dream man at home, who she is not sure she is ready for, and one from her Irish ""fling"" whom she just left hours ago asking her to come back to him...and his wife! In a sudden twist of fate Chastity ends up in sexy girl/girl BDSM adventure.

TNA's ultimate goal was never to become the highest rated program on Spike - its goal is to become the number one pro-wrestling company in the industry. The key to attaining that goal is having competitive ratings, and no matter what the quality is of the TNA product, that will never happen as long as TNA calls Spike their home.

""Any work that I am doing or have done, and that you are doing, has a tremendously long and interesting background. You are delving with and working with the oldest civilized factors known to Man."" (L. Ron Hubbard)

Since time immemorial, man has sought to liberate the soul from the body and so achieve immortality. In this account of the religious heritage that stands behind Scientology, Ron recounts the extraordinary story of man’s epic quest for a way to attain that goal.

Embracing a tradition from the very dawn of civilization, here is the history of man’s relentless pursuit of the knowledge that inspired this planet’s great philosophies and religions. Moreover, as the details unfold of their swift expansion across a then barbaric world - civilizing East and West alike - Ron isolates not only the very reason and substance of religious influence, but also the common purpose uniting all religious thinking.

Against the backdrop of this epic drama, Ron reveals how Scientology, drawing from and building upon the aspirations and achievements of 10,000 years of thinking men, represents an historic, long-sought triumph for man. For with its discoveries and technology comes the culmination of man’s oldest quest and the accomplishment, in the here and now, of his most enduring dream - the freeing of the soul by wisdom.

Here, then, is how East and West, science and religion, have finally come together.

Please note: This audiobook is in Dutch.

In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional.

Spiralling round a central core of secrecy, deceit, love, and betrayal, Inversions is a spectacular work of science fiction, brilliantly told and wildly imaginative, from an author who has set genre fiction alight.

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel's hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that's consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in blood pudding in Iceland, and Wolfgang Puck's Hunan style rooster balls in Los Angeles. For Zimmern, local cuisine - bizarre, gross or downright stomach turning as it may be to us - is not simply what's served at mealtime. It is a primary avenue to discovering what is most authentic - the bizarre truth - about cultures everywhere.

In India, Zimmern almost eats himself to death during the 36 course meal.

Start speaking Korean in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Beginner - Korean, a completely new way to learn Korean with ease! Beginner - Korean will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your Korean friends.

Why are the audio lessons so effective? They're short and to the point - 25 eight-minute lessons make them the perfect length. You'll receive a syllable-by-syllable breakdown of each word and phrase, so that you can say every word and phrase instantly. You'll repeat after the professional teacher, so that you can practice proper pronunciation. Quick cultural tips in each lesson will help you navigate your way even better. And above all, this is a fun and relaxed approach to grasping a lot of information quickly and easily. You'll effortlessly learn from a bi-lingual and bi-cultural host as they guide you through pitfalls and pleasures of Korean.

You see, unlike other audiobooks, we actually teach both Korean and Korean culture. With each lesson, you will master a target phrase and key vocabulary. This is a complete lesson taught by a professional, bi-lingual teacher! Listen to the preview now! This is NOT a vocabulary audiobook with just words and their translations. These 25 short and effective audio lessons will allow you to:

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This audiobook comes with downloadable lesson notes totaling over 100+ pages. Start speaking Korean now!

A quartet of short stories by the British master of the macabre, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym ""Saki"". This collection brings together four of his most macabre tales, all of which will surprise the listener with an uncanny twist at the end.

""The Background"": When Henri Deplis comes into a small inheritance and celebrates his new found wealth by getting an elaborate tattoo, he little realizes what a series of catastrophic events will ensue. The tattoo is recognized as a masterpiece of modern art and given to the city of Bergamo. This is the start of a series of restrictions on Henri Deplis' lifestyle that gradually but inevitably lead to his downfall.

""The Chaplet"": When master chef Monsieur Aristide Saucourt presents his signature dish to diners at the Grand Sybaris Hotel, he anticipates they will acknowledge this as the pinnacle of his career. But the moment does not go as planned and ends in a fatal tragedy involving hot soup.

""The Jesting of Arlington Stringer"": When Arlington Stringer makes a joke in the House of Commons, his wife is most disapproving. As his penchant for jesting continues, the noose of fate quickly and inevitably tightens around her throat.

""Sredni Vashtar"": Conradin is a sickly and introverted child who hates his guardian, Mrs. De Ropp. When she takes away his pet hen and threatens to do the same with his pole-cat, whom he worships like a God, Conradin makes a special prayer, and his sinister wish is answered.

Winner of the 2012 Glass Key Award given by the members of the Crime Writers of Scandinavia

All the best homes are by the water, or so the matron of Kongslund Orphanage tells her small charges. But at this particular house by the sea, not all is as it appears.

On September 11, 2001, on a desolate beach on the outskirts of Copenhagen, police begin investigating the strange death of an unidentified woman. Surrounding the body are what appear to be offerings to the deceased: A book, a small noose, a dead golden canary, a linden tree branch, and a photo of the Kongslund Orphanage. As the police puzzle over their bizarre findings, the Twin Towers fall in walls of flame and the case is quickly overshadowed by the terror half a world away.

Years later, as the 60th anniversary of the matron’s reign at Kongslund approaches, identical anonymous letters are sent to six of the home’s former residents, hinting at a cover-up that has allowed Denmark’s most influential to hide away their dirty secrets and keep their grip on power. As one tenacious reporter hunts for clues, he begins to unravel the true parentage of some of Kongslund’s ""orphans"". Can he figure out who is sending the mysterious letters and who murdered the woman on the beach years earlier before it is too late?

Shape shifter Alec Graves has spent nearly a decade trying to keep his family from being drawn into open warfare with a larger pack. The new girl at school shouldn't matter, but the more he gets to know her, the more mysterious she becomes. Worse, she seems to know things she shouldn't about his shadowy world.

Is she an unfortunate victim or bait designed to draw him into a fatal misstep? If she's a victim, then he's running out of time to save her. If she's bait, then his attraction to her will pull him into a fight that'll cost him everything.

Are you looking for a powerful, natural way to heal your body and create glowing health? Do you wish you could use the power of your mind for health and wellness? Now you can harness the positive healing power of your mind and start feeling great with this hypnosis program from Erick Brown.

Fast Healing: Use the Power of the Mind Hypnosis will help you tap into the healing powers and positive mindset within ,and give you the tools to use that energy to heal your body. Powerful suggestions for deep relaxation and positive change will be received by your mind, removing negative energy and blocks, and opening pathways for healing and positive energy, as well as providing deep relaxation for the body and mind.

Fast Healing: Use the Power of the Mind Hypnosis includes an instructional track and three hypnosis tracks for you to choose from:

One containing a beach induction that will lull you into a deep state of relaxation with the soothing sounds of waves hitting the shore, allowing you to let go of any mental inhibitions and be completely open to positive change.

One containing a staircase induction that will walk you down a mental stairway in to a deeply relaxed state that ends with you in a peaceful, safe place where you can feel comfortable enough to completely open up to these hypnotic suggestions.

One containing a speed induction that will quickly take you into a deeply relaxed state. Use this track if you are already familiar with the relaxation process and would like to quickly move into deep relaxation.

In addition to the hypnosis tracks, we have included a bonus track. This soothing bonus track can be used with your hypnosis program or on its own for a deep, restful sleep.

Binaural beats and solfeggio tones relax your brainwaves and body, melting away tension and stress.

Also included on this audiobook are five subliminal chapters. These subliminal chapters are designed to be listened t...

Seeking to leave her troubled past behind, nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Cameron decides to join a religious group in Belton, Texas, where she and her five-year-old Indian charge will be hidden from a cruel world. Former gunfighter and robber Caleb Martin will do anything for a governor's pardon, even if it means escorting an irritatingly prim young woman. After this assignment, he'll have his freedom. Yet along the way, he learns that there may be something he needs even more.

Did John Cusack, Sixteen Candles, or When Harry Met Sally mess with your love life? Then you might enjoy meeting Zuke, a college student whose understanding of love has been shaped by late-eighties romantic comedies. In the tradition of Say Anything and Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, this is a coming of age novel about friendship, the dangers of romanticized love, the complexities of faith and real life, and what happens to one young man as he finds out that life is often nothing like the movies.

Nobody was stopping Leon Moses from settling on the spread he had bought with his pay from long, hard years with the 10th Cavalry - not the slick lawyer who cheated him on the sale, not the rustlers who ran off his stock, not the law that turned its back on him, not the neighboring ranchers who turned their guns on him, not the attacking Apaches who turned the sea of grass red with blood. Leon Moses was black and had to show a lot of folks that courage knew no color, and that they'd stop his bullets before they could stop him from taking what was rightfully his.

Is self-sabotage getting in the way of you achieving your dreams? How would you like to become more nurturing and supportive of yourself and start to really push yourself to reaching your goals in life? You can learn how to let go of self-sabotage and boost your self-confidence with this hypnosis program from Erick Brown.

Get Out of Your Own Way will help you to do exactly that: to get out of your own way and begin to allow yourself happiness and the ability to live the good life. Subliminal suggestions for deep relaxation and positive change will be received by your subconscious, increasing your self-confidence and releasing negative energy that may be holding you back. Why wait another day? Start nurturing your dreams today. Get Out of Your Own Way includes an instructional track and three hypnosis tracks for you to choose from:

• One containing a beach induction that will lull you into a deep state of relaxation with the soothing sounds of waves hitting the shore, allowing you to let go of any mental inhibitions and be completely open to positive change.
• One containing a staircase induction that will walk you down a mental stairway into a deeply relaxed state that ends with you in a peaceful, safe place where you can feel comfortable enough to completely open up to these hypnotic suggestions.
• One containing a speed induction that will quickly take you into a deeply relaxed state. Use this track if you are already familiar with the relaxation process and would like to quickly move into deep relaxation.

Bonus Track: Deep Sleep Subliminal -This subliminal bonus track can be used with your hypnosis program or on its own for a deep, restful sleep. Binaural beats and solfeggio tones relax your brainwaves and body, melting away tension and stress.

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

Shocking and controversial when it was first published, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece.

Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires, and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human, yet majestic in its scale and moral vision; an eloquent tribute to the endurance and dignity of the human spirit.

Understanding the profound basics of the human change process prepares you to avoid making serious leadership mistakes. If you ignore them, you risk failure. Grow stronger with the philosophies and actions that give the proper sense of urgency to your leadership strategies.

Lessons from veteran television journalists Anderson Cooper and Gwen Ifill offer further wisdom and depth on how to become a change master leader. Globally acknowledged leadership and change expert Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel, author of A New Breed Of Leader, gives you immediately usable actions...be a leader who creates the future, not one that follows the crowd. She will cover these topics and more:

• Learn the four universal and timeless factors of how and why people react to change
• Eight steps to keep followers engaged while learning to live and thrive on change
• Why a sense of humor builds productivity and team unity, even in the midst of chaos
• Explore ways to build a new more flexible commitment to positive change

The first rule of a supernatural fight club? Don't kill your opponent. When the fighters come with lethal spells, werewolf strength, and half-demon powers, that can be a lot tougher than it sounds. It's hard to attract talent if they know they might not leave the ring alive. So when fighters at a California club start dying, it's bad for business. Witch detectives Paige Winterbourne and Savannah Levine take the case. Going undercover in the power-heavy arena of the fight club is a welcome change of pace for Paige, relegated to the role of The Wife as her husband struggles to find his place in his family's Cabal---the corporate Mafia of the supernatural world. As Paige is drawn deeper into new and dangerous corners of her world, she quickly discovers the greatest threat isn't the killer in her sights. It's something much, much closer to home. And this is one fight she can't afford to lose.

Here is Henry James' dark comedic masterpiece, written in the final period of his life.

Lambert Strether goes to Paris to bring back Chad, son of the wealthy New England widow he plans to marry. But he gradually comes to feel that life in Paris may hold more for him than in Woollett, Massachusetts.

American-born English author Henry James (1843- 1916), was one of the founders and leaders of realism in fiction and is considered to be one of the great British novelists.

Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards.

Pimsleur® equals success. Just one 30-minute lesson a day gets you speaking and understanding like no other program. English for Russian 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.

Bertie drags a reluctant Whiffer to dog training classes, stink-bombs his sister's sleepover and rebels against Miss Beansprout's all-new healthy school dinners.

Experience the rosary like never before with this unique celebration of prayer and song. Talented songwriter and musician Chris Padgett offers a fresh look at the ancient practice of meditating on the mysteries of the rosary. Join Chris and his friends as they recite the rosary, interspersed with songs to lead you deeper into the life of Christ.

Ian Carmichael is Lord Peter Wimsey, with Patricia Routledge as his mother, in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Dorothy L. Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey tale introduces many of the author's best-known characters.

Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, rings her son with news of 'such a quaint thing'. She has heard through a friend that Mr Thipps, a respectable Battersea architect, found a dead man in his bath - wearing nothing but a gold prince-nez. Lord Wimsey makes his way straight over to Mr Thipps, and a good look at the body raises a number of interesting questions.

Why would such an apparantly well-groomed man have filthy black toenails, flea bites and the scent of carbolic soap lingering on his corpse? Then comes the disappearance of oil millionaire Sir Reuben Levy, last seen on the Battersea Park Road. With his beard shaved he would look very similar to the man found in the bath but is Sir Levy really dead?

A deadly agent is assigned to prepare an exotic beauty to be the ultimate seductress and perfect spy...lessons that will require long hours of personal instruction to perfect her ability to pleasure a man...and, ultimately, conquer him.

""Unrequited"" by Kimberly Dean

After years of secret longing for his brother's wife, Tyler rejoices when she is set free and ripe for new love, though it may take a prolonged seduction to convince wary Trista to open herself up to pleasure once more.

""Victim of Deception"" by Lynn LaFleur

When a woman moves into an old house, she is suddenly tantalized by erotic dreams that cause her to shed her every inhibition...leaving her vulnerable to the very real, very irresistible ministrations of the man who'd once broken her heart."

Maggy Thorsen is back! When the coffeehouse owner is dragooned into emceeing the barista competition (think Iron Chef, but with coffee) at the industry's scaldingly competitive trade show, she fears nothing good will come of it. Sure enough, the morning of the finals, Maggy discovers the body of her chief rival and conference organizer, Marvin LaRoche, under the trophy table.

Finding herself not only the fill-in conference coordinator, but also chief suspect, Maggy must track the murderer, save her coffeehouse and, if she has some spare time, heat up her love life.

Imprisoned for treason, Charlie Muffin hunts for a way out - by crossing a line.

After a trumped-up trial, Charlie Muffin lands in jail for treason - ready to learn the secrets of his fellow inmate, a convicted British traitor. Nobody expected KGB agents to stage a prison break to free their man. Charlie faces another choice: go to Moscow to complete his assignment or face 40 long years in prison. It doesn't take him long to decide.

Charlie doesn't have the full picture, of course, which is the way of espionage. But Charlie doesn't regret his Iron Curtain escape, as it leads him to Natalia Fedova, the KGB interrogator assigned to determine if his defection is genuine or staged. For anyone else, the risk would be suicidal. But for Charlie, the greatest danger may be falling in love.

As a licensed therapist and certified relationship coach Dr. Lyn Kelley gives you the complete low-down on low achieving, weak, passive men. You'll learn why they are this way - and what to do about it! You'll learn why high achieving women are drawn to low achieving men and 18 ways YOU may be enabling him to remain weak and passive. She'll give you the ONLY strategies that will motivate him to be the partner you want him to be.

Topics include

• Passive and Passive Aggressive Men
• Weak and Helpless Men
• Shy and Socially Insecure Men
• Uncommunicative and Withdrawn Men
• Withholding Men
• Depressed Men
• Dreamers, Drifters and Serial Enthusiasts
• Single Focus and ADD Men
• Lazy Men
• How to Motivate and Create Passion in Men

Taran shouldn't exist. And if the most powerful necromancer in the world has his way - he won't.

Taran's life is full of contradictions.

In a world where sorcery doesn't exist, young Taran is a sorcerer. Dreams should be harmless and private, but Taran's entire village dies, because of a dream. He has a frightening, unique talent, powerful enemies, and murderous vengeance to seek.

Why was his hometown ruthlessly destroyed? Why do horrible events continue to follow him wherever he goes?

He must face his fate, and find his freedom, in the Crystal Cavern.

Suffering from writer's block and frustrated with his tentative relationship with hot but closeted LAPD Homicide Detective Jake Riordan, gay bookseller and mystery writer Adrien English travels to northern California where he finds a body in his front drive. By the time the sheriffs arrive the body has disappeared, and Adrien once again finds himself playing amateur sleuth. But when the game turns deadly, Adrien turns to Jake. Jake may be confused about some things, but keeping his lover alive is not one of them - no matter what the cost.

Nancy Atherton's growing number of fans will certainly be delighted by Aunt Dimity's latest appearance in the honey-colored English cottage she bequeathed to her ""niece"", Lori Shepherd. Thanks to Aunt Dimity, Lori's life has taken on fairy-tale proportions: She's financially set for life and happily married...or so she thinks. When Lori's plans for a second honeymoon to England with her workaholic husband fall through, she begrudgingly takes along her father-in-law who promptly disappears, leaving behind a mysterious note. Inspired and guided by the ghost of Aunt Dimity and her inimitable blue journal, Lori's search for the elderly gentleman turns into a harrowing mission to uncover a centuries-old family secret complicated by mistaken identities, falsified deeds, family feuds, and Lori's unseemly attraction to her husband's beguiling English cousin. In a delightful chase that takes her all over the English countryside, Lori discovers the true meaning of marital bliss, and Nancy Atherton's fans, new and old, will savor a masterpiece of old-fashioned fun.

Flooded with panic, two words burst through Erin's mind: GET HELP. She ran for the door, but someone grabbed her, twisted her arm behind her. Erin's shriek was smothered by a cold, clammy hand. ""Shhh - "" Breath tickled her ear - ""Just take it easy....""

Surrounded by the oppressive sand, heat, and tension of Operation Desert Storm, soldiers Erin Grayson and Christina McIntyre shared a special bond. But when an ugly secret from Chris' past shattered their close friendship, they went their separate ways without even a goodbye.

Four years have gone by since that day in the desert, but Chris has spent her entire life running from the past, hiding her deepest secrets from those who care for her most. And now tragedy has ripped apart her life. She sees no hope in tomorrow.

It's a good day to die....

Overcoming her own anger and doubt, Erin rushes to Chris' Colorado cabin. When Chris' fear of God and Erin's faith in Him collide, they are involved in a different kind of war that only one of them can win. As Chris wrestles with grief, fear, and ghosts from the past, Erin fights to pull her from the brink of self-destruction. She will not lose Chris again.

A proven way to put together a portfolio that enhances performance and reduces risk.

Professor Craig Israelsen of Brigham Young University is an important voice in the area of asset allocation. The reason? He keeps things simple. Now, in 7Twelve, he shows you how to do the same, and demonstrates how his approach to investing can help you grow your money as well as protect it. 7Twelve outlines a multiasset balanced portfolio that is a logical starting point when assembling a portfolio - either as the blueprint for the entire portfolio or as a significant building block. He will show you how to create a balanced portfolio utilizing multiple asset classes to enhance performance and reduce risk.

7Twelve:

• Discusses how the 7Twelve
portfolio includes seven core asset classes and utilizes twelve specific mutual funds or exchange traded funds
• Details the tax efficiency of this specific investment approach
• Shows you how to use the 7Twelve portfolio as a pre-retirement accumulation portfolio or a post-retirement distribution portfolio.

The secret terrorist organization that came within a heartbeat of installing its agent as President of the United States in Executive Actions is back with a new (and more deadly) plot to destabilize the U.S. government. The mugging and murder of a female White House staffer leads Secret Service agent Scott Roarke to the elusive and mysterious assassin who manages to always stay one step ahead of him. But as the plot unfolds, new clues about the assassin's past come to light, and they just may give him the tools he needs to catch his quarry.

U odnogo portnogo rodilsja kroshechnyj syn, ne bol'she mizinca, a potomu ego i nazvali Mal'chiks-c-pal'chik. No pri malom roste u nego ne bylo nedostatka v muzhestve, i on skazal svoemu otcu: ""Otec, ja dolzhen nepremenno videt' svet."" - ""Eto verno, syn moj! - skazal starik, vzjal dlinnuju shtopal'nuju igolku i na svechke priladil k nej sharik iz surgucha. - Vot tebe i mech na dorogu.""

Please Note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Ryder wants to be more than a lab rat; he wants to be free. Katie wants him to save the world. Purists want him dead.

In a future where humans teeter on the brink of extinction, hope lies in the genetic experiments of Katie Marsh. A brilliant young scientist, Katie is hard at work perfecting a new species of humanoid resistant to the devastating virus afflicting mankind. But not everyone wants Katie to succeed.

Confined to the lab that created him, Ryder Stone wants to live as a free man. But Ryder, whose unique physiology may provide the cure for this viral malady, must tread lightly, for in his world, friends can sometimes be foes, and the helping hand of people close to him may very well turn out to be...the venom of vipers.

An Amazon Top 200 Best seller / Number-One Best-Selling Science Fiction

In this four week mini Bible Study you will examine your faith and what it means to have faith in God. He said to them, ""Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."" Matthew 17:20

Our faith begins with what we know and believe about God. Our faith will carry us how far we are willing to let it take us. Faith is a choice and we need to begin by choosing to believe in Jesus and His power to move mountains, heal the sick, and save us from all our sins through His sacrifice on the cross. When we believe in God we then learn to walk in faith and trust God. But first we must believe, and it's up to us, we can either choose to believe in Him or not. But faith will mean nothing until we believe with all our heart that God is who He says He is.

Entwined is a new experiment in erotica, bringing together all-star authors and fans into a single immersive experience. In each volume, one award-winning author contributes the opening scenes to a new erotic adventure. But when the heroine reaches a decision point, the narrative fractures into wildly different pathways from hardcore BDSM to lighter, more romantic fare, and all of the shades in between, listeners can listen to and replay high-quality fractures, each written by an award-winning erotica author in her own genre.

In ""Eight Days in May"", Chastity has come back to the US after a well-deserved vacation in Ireland, is still in the airport when she receives two texts: One from her dream man at home, who she is not sure she is ready for, and one from her Irish ""fling"" whom she just left hours ago asking her to come back to him...and his wife! Chastity heads back to Ireland for ménage a trois with a twist.

Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport. Endorsements made him a global brand and the world’s richest athlete. The child of a multiracial marriage, Woods and his blond, blue-eyed wife, Elin Nordegren, seemed to represent a new postracial America. Then, in late 2009, Woods became embroiled in a sex scandal that made headlines worldwide. In this concise yet far-reaching analysis, Orin Starn brings an anthropologist’s perspective to bear on Tigergate. He explores our modern media obsession with celebrity scandals and their tawdry ritualized drama, yet he offers much more than the usual banal moralizing about the rich and famous. Starn explains how Tiger’s travails and the culture of golf reflect broader American anxieties - about race and sex, scapegoating and betrayal, and the role of the sports hero. The Passion of Tiger Woods is required listening for all those interested in the high-stakes world of professional golf, the politics of sports and celebrity, and the myths and realities surrounding the flawed yet riveting figure who remains among the most famous athletes of our time.

Madness on his mind...

Paul Cameron heard voices. There were two of them. They were whispering to each other in the bones of his skull, wearily, interminably, making monstrous plans to conquer the Earth....

Cameron was an educated man, an English professor at a leading university. Was he going insane? Or was he really tuned in somehow on the telepathic conversations of a recon patrol for a terrible Martian invasion?

He tried warning the others, but nobody believed him.

Pinch has a problem. Aunt Hasty has sent him a new couch. But Pinch does not need a new couch. Pinch does not want a new couch. Pinch cannot stand this terrible couch! Pinch's friend Dash tries to help. They push. They shove. They move. Will the terrible couch fit? Find out in the latest adventure of Pinch and Dash, two good friends who sometimes see things differently.

USA Today best-selling author Joseph A. West writes in a style befitting the literary legacy of legendary Western author Ralph Compton. In Stryker’s Revenge, Lieutenant Steve Stryker is bound and determined to settle an old score with Rake Pierce, who left him a scarred and broken man. Now Rake is running guns to the Apaches, and Stryker sees an opportunity for payback that he just can’t pass up.

Through his artful appearance in the role of 'translator' for John, Scripture scholar Raymond Brown weaves the evangelist's words into a week of prayer and deepening acquaintance. He brings immediacy to the gospel message allowing modern listeners to understand and resolve difficulties in the text and its interpretation throughout the centuries.

Transcending the political struggles and divisiveness of some modern Christians, this retreat will refresh for you what it means to be, first and foremost, a disciple of Jesus.

This life-liberating album is the doorway to the secret source of fearlessness within you. In it, Guy Finley reveals all new Principles of Power that will help you realize a peace and contentment that nothing can wreck. You, your life, and every experience you go through, will be transformed before your very eyes.

We can help take care of ourselves with diet, exercise, and regular check-ups, but is there more that we can do to optimize our overall health? Dr. Andrew Weil, pioneer of integrative medicine, believes so. An integrative approach to health means addressing not only our physical body, but our energetic body as well.

Now in Self-Healing with Energy Medicine, this best-selling author teams up with Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson to offer insights and expert guidance about how to clear blockages to healing, enhance your longevity, and increase your vitality.

Is work a bore? Always clock watching until 5 pm? Do you just live for the weekends? Instead of accepting the 9-5 grind, why not discover your strengths, show your true potential, and be rewarded for your effort in an exciting new career.

Miss Moneypenny will show you how to get ahead by smashing through the glass ceiling, without stepping on anyone's toes, to a position where your job is fulfilling, responsible, and financially rewarding. So step up in your stilettos and take charge of your career.

Nicole Findlay gives you a fresh and honest approach to making changes in key areas of your life. Gone are the promises of wishful thinking, affirmations, and dreary hypnosis tapes. Discover uplifting and energising audio that gives you toolsto use immediately by the time you get off the train, into work, or home. www.nicolefindlay.co.uk

Axel Hake såg ner på Peter Branting. Det kändes overkligt att se en människa som man tidigare bara sett i tidningar och någon gång på film så här nära inpå. Man nästan väntade sig att han plötsligt skulle resa sig upp, borsta bort snön från byxorna och gå tillbaka till sminket för att tvätta bort teaterblodet. Men Branting var död. Hans ansikte en stel mask och hans i vanliga fall så kyliga ögon utstrålade nu en oändlig tomhet. Ur ett djupt, blårött sår vid strupen stack några senor och en bit av adamsäpplet fram. Hela framsidan av kroppen var översköljd av blod.

I Lars Bill Lundholms nya pusseldeckare i Stockholmsmiljö, ställs den egensinnige kriminalkommissarien Axel Hake inför ett spektakulärt fall när den lika omstridde som kände skådespelaren Peter Branting hittas död utanför sin bostad i Gamla Stan. Fallet väcker enorm uppmärksamhet och Hake tvingas hantera såväl den upphetsade pressen som sin opportunistiske chef Seymour Rilke. Dessutom upptäcker Hake att charmören Branting haft kontakt med Hanna, hans Hanna.

Gamla Stan-morden är den fjärde delen i Lars Bill Lundholms hyllade deckarserie om kommissarie Hake. Efter Östermalm, Södermalm och Kungsholmen är det nu Gamla Stans tur att utgöra spelplats för ett mord som leder Hake in i kretsen av mycket kända skådespelare och kulturpersonligheter med verkliga förebilder. Som vanligt bjuds här skickligt intrigmakeri, stämningsfulla miljöskildringar och stark spänning. Men också mycket humor och diabolisk berättarglädje i skildringen av teatervärlden.

Utgiven av StorySide.

Please note: This audiobook is in Swedish.

The second novel of the Liaden Universe, Scout's Progress is the story of a young girl who has won a starship, but now must learn to fly if she is to escape her dastardly brother.

Andrey Platonov (1899-1951) po pravu schitayetsya odnim iz luchshikh pisateley XX veka. Odnako priznaniye prishlo k nemu lish' posle smerti. Roman «Chevengur» byl napisan v 1926-1929 godakh, no pri zhizni avtora tak i ne uvidel svet. Eto ne prosto samyy bol'shoy po ob""yemu platonovskiy roman, no i svoyeobraznaya vekha v tvorchestve khudozhnika. V nem pisatel' podverg kriticheskomu peresmotru, «ul'trarevolyutsionnyye» idei, kotoryye nakhodili vyrazheniye v yego rannikh proizvedeniyakh.

Chevengur - tak nazyvayetsya gorod, gde gruppa kommunistov, voznamerivshis' sovershit' mgnovennyy «pryzhok» v kommunizm, organizuyet konets sveta - «vtoroye prishestviye» dlya mestnoy burzhuazii. V rezul'tate massovogo rasstrela ubity vse zhiteli goroda. S etogo momenta, po mneniyu kommunistov, nastayet «konets istorii» - prezhneye ostanovilos', i nastupilo blazhennoye bytiye v mire bez ekspluatatsii, v kotorom yedinstvennym rabotnikom yavlyayetsya solntse. Stremyas' naselit' gorod novymi lyud'mi, chevengurtsy sobirayut po stepi «proletariyev» - nishchikh strannikov. Odnako Chevengurskaya kommuna gibnet. Chelovecheskoye bytiye - v krovavom khaose revolyutsii i grazhdanskoy voyny... Sud'ba strany - v oskolke sud'by odnogo cheloveka... Krestnyy put' natsii kak zhiznennyy put' nevinnoy zhertvy «perelomnoy epokhi». «Chevengur» - strashnaya i prekrasnaya kniga!

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

His idea of permanence is the VW van that takes him from one gig to the next....

Laura, a newlywed who discovered that her husband never quit dating, came to Gansett for her cousin's Janey's wedding, but ended up staying after she met Owen and took on the renovations to the dilapidated Sand & Surf Hotel.

As Owen and Laura's attraction simmers during months of close proximity, they form a tight bond that will be tested when her estranged husband refuses to grant her a divorce. As summer turns to autumn and Laura and Owen take baby steps toward love, favorite characters from past Gansett Island stories continue to live their happily ever afters.

Father Thomas Keating is the founder of the Centering Prayer movement, based on the retreat into the ""inner room"" mentioned by Jesus in Matthew 6:6, where the individual is able to meet God. From the book Manifesting God, Father Keating explores three parables - the Parable of the Great Banquet, the Parable of the Leaven, and the Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee - and their relation to contemplative prayer.

The Lucky Ace of France tells of the amazing exploits of Captain Georges Guynemer, taking listeners on a journey through his eventful life. A national hero for France and aviation enthusiasts around the world, Guynemer racked up 53 kills in WWI, crashed several planes, and was wounded twice.

Du Pre remembers when you could send animal skins to Sears Roebuck and get merchandise in return. Now the wolves are gone from the mountains, and outsiders want them back. The trouble is, a tussle over wildlife is getting people killed.

First, two activists die by a sniper's rifle. Then four more lives are snuffed out as a brutal winter storm barrels down on a carnival of Feds, reporters, and protestors. Du Pre knows one of his own people must be behind the bloodletting, and that in this rugged land, you don't quit hunting until you're dead.

Amy and Sprocket are on a mission - to find her dad and his mum, rescue the baby from the Brats and uncover exactly what is going on inside the mysterious nudist colony. But the truth is even more terrifying than anything they imagined. Uncovering deadly secret after deadly secret, Amy and Sprocket are lured deeper into a mystery that gets more exciting with every minute.

Ten-year-old Chelsea Tennyson decides to take matters into her own hands and prove once and for all if an invisible God is really there.

Chelsea's dad, Prince Tennyson - the nickname he earned for being so dashing in uniform - died last year in the Iraq war. After a mental breakdown, her mother moves the family to live with their grandmother in Phoenix. But before long, it becomes clear the entire family is suffering the loss of a man who was pivotal in the shaping of their lives. Her mom doesn't believe God exists anymore, but Chelsea is afraid to believe it, too, because if He doesn't exist then she'll never see her prince again....

The only thing she stands to lose are her shoes.Cinderella is an ordinary teenage girl, with an extraordinary name. But because of that name, she and her cousins, Belle, Aurora, Ariel, and Snow White suffer years of torment from their peers. Then as the girls enter high school and the enticing world of dating, a life-altering decision must be made. Is it finally time to stop fighting, and surrender to the fairy tale clichés that have been holding them back? By embracing their names, the girls discover an inner-strength they never knew existed. And by putting everything they have on the line, maybe, just maybe they will discover there really is such a thing as 'happily ever after'.

On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth changed the world with a single bullet. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln had many repercussions and for Henry Rathbone they were profound. Henry was the only man to confront Booth and attempt to apprehend the assassin. Henry was also the man that let Booth escape. While Henry wasn't officially blamed for allowing John Wilkes Booth to kill Abraham Lincoln, he blamed himself.

After the assassination the vivid memories of Lincoln's death and failure to capture Booth caused Henry's mind to unravel. He traveled the world with his young family looking for an escape from his past. In 1883, eighteen years after the assassination, Henry's tortured mind reached its limit. In the early hours of Christmas Eve Henry murdered his wife, shooting and stabbing her multiple times in a fashion reminiscent of Lincoln's assassination.

In Worst Seat in the House follow the life of Henry Rathbone from his childhood through the Civil War, the assassination and his final years in a German insane asylum. In this biography and case study of a man dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, see how the events of Henry's life created the man he finally became. Place yourself into the mind of Henry Rathbone and ask yourself how you would cope with failing the world?

""After the first forty days we were alone,"" writes Churchill. This edition is part two of Churchill's own abridgement of his original six-volume history of the Second World War.

Please note: This book was originally published in six volumes:

1. The Gathering Storm
2. Their Finest Hour
3. The Grand Alliance
4. The Hinge of Fate
5. Closing the Ring
6. Triumph and Tragedy

Churchill then condensed these into four volumes, which have since been released as one, rather hefty, publication. This is an unabridged recording of Churchill's condensed volume, broken up into four parts, as follows:

1. Milestone to Disaster
2. Alone
3. The Grand Alliance
4. Triumph and Tragedy

Jo Brand is one of Britain's funniest and best-loved comedians. With a sharp eye for the absurd and in her own unique voice, she tells her story for the first time. What possessed her to become a professional comedian in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy after 10 years as a psychiatric nurse? How did she deal with late-night drunken audiences? Raised in middle class comfort, Brand left home in her teens to live with someone entirely inappropriate.

Her parents were aghast at her behaviour and attempted to rein in her excesses, finally giving up when she demonstrated that she was not headed for the life of a nun. From her early years growing up in a small south coast town with two brothers who toughened her up, to emerging on stage as 'The Sea Monster', Jo Brand tells it like it is with wit, candour, and a wonderful sense that life can be ridiculous but there's always a funny side.

Nilly is new to the neighbourhood, but is quick to make friends: Doctor Proctor, an eccentric professor; and Lisa, who is teased by the twin terrors Truls and Trym. Nilly and Lisa help Doctor Proctor develop his latest invention, a powder that makes you fart. The powder makes Nilly and Lisa very popular at school when they sell it for fifty cents a bag. And they get revenge on Truls and Trym by giving them an extra-strength dose of fart powder that shoots them up into a tree!

It's all good farty fun. That is, until someone steals the industrial-strength fart powder. Now Doctor Proctor's ticket to fame is in the hands of an enemy with evil intentions....

God commands us to do certain things. We end up questioning God as the Good Samaritan did in the story in the Book of Luke. Bishop Barbara Amos charges us to love thy neighbor as she passionately delivers this sermon. Through this, Bishop Amos helps us learn how to give value to all people we meet.

""As a smoker, giving up is probably the greatest single step you can take to improve your health. If you've experienced the depths of despair whilst trying to give up using will-power, I'm going to show you a way that can enable you to stop smoking EASILY. No Patches, No Pills, No Problems. I've helped many smokers, some with habits approaching 100 CIGARETTES A DAY who stopped immediately using the information contained on this recording and I can help you too!""

David Laing is a hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, Fellow of the Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioners Association (NLPPA), and founder member of the Clinical And Therapeutic Hypnosis Association (C.T.H.A.).

IMPORTANT NOTE: The information provided on this recording is intended for educational purposes only, and should not be considered a replacement for the expert advice of a qualified medical or therapeutic practitioner. It should not be used by any person who suffers from epilepsy, clinical depression or any other psychiatric condition. If in any doubt whatsoever, consult your physician. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Do not listen whilst operating machinery or domestic appliances. Use only when you are comfortable and can safely relax completely, without distraction. If you need medical care, it is recommended that you see a medical doctor and maintain as healthy a lifestyle as possible.

Sometimes the choice is too hard to bear... Nikki Grant is only nineteen when she discovers she's pregnant. Despite her parents' disappointment and anger, she welcomes the news with joy. The baby will complete the happy home she shares with the man she adores, Spencer James. Baby Zac arrives and is perfect in every way. And with Spencer's career taking off they are ready to make the big move to London. And then, on a day like any other, Nikki suddenly finds her life turned upside down by tragedy. As she becomes ever more embroiled in a world she cannot escape, the love between Nikki and her son is put to the kind of test no mother should ever have to face...