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Dominic Hawthorne has lived with the guilt of a childhood secret for years. Now, fuelled by alcohol and desperation, he’s driving toward his mother’s house to confront her and finally expose the truth. But when Dominic crashes his car, he ends up in a coma, leaving his fractured family to pick up the pieces. Victoria Hawthorne has built her life around control, and she’ll do anything to protect the secrets that hold her family together. As the past threatens to resurface, Victoria’s ruthless grip on the truth tightens and blood will be spilled to keep it hidden.

Common sense prevails in this all-inclusive look at the health issues of younger women. One of the first chapters considers the historical treatment of puberty and the results of bad medicine on the lives of women over the centuries. Even today, some of those same treatments are used in the health care of younger women. This is the question that Dr. Bright is addressing: What is best for our adolescent women today? The drugs and surgeries in mainstream medicine today, which are used to “make life better,” are shown many times to be inadequate and damaging.

The lamiak are part-humans believed to possess gold. In this folktale, a midwife helps deliver a lamia's baby. In return, the lamia offers her gifts that will bring her good fortune. But the midwife's human flaws get the best of her.

Horacio Quiroga combina elementos reales con fantásticos. Pone en el mismo plano al hombre y a los animales integrándolos al ambiente de nuestras selvas misioneras en un marco único e irrepetible. Cuentos de la Selva son relatos amenos, apasionantes y didácticos, no sólo para chicos sino también para adultos que tendrán ocasión de recordar a grandes cuentistas.

Two things are impossible to walk away from: death and vintage clothing. Trust me. I've tried. Moving across the country and opening a costume shop was supposed to be my chance for a normal life. What I wanted was a fresh start, one where the biggest danger would be a carelessly wielded sewing needle. What I got was the ghost of a murdered reporter demanding justice, a power I can’t control, and a new goat-shifter BFF hell-bent on trouble.

Expresa tus sentimientos, la responsabilidad de ser padres, elimina el temor de llegar a viejo, date permiso de recibir la prosperidad, expresa tu creatividad, crea un mundo ecológicamente sano, un mundo seguro dónde amarse uno al otro sea posible, cambio y transición, medita para tu cura personal y del planeta.

Mögen die Hungerspiele beginnen!Suzanne Collins entwirft in dem Science-Fiction-Hörbuch "Tödliche Spiele (Die Tribute von Panem 1)" eine düstere utopische Welt, in der sie die junge Katniss für ihre Schwester an einem grausamen Ritual namens "Hungerspiele" teilnehmen lässt. Hier treten 24 Jugendliche gegeneinander an – und nur einer kann überleben.

Adolf Hitler: Mit Charme, Scheitel und Youtube. Er ist wieder da: Adolf Hitler höchstpersönlich. Der Führer ist im globalisierten Deutschland des 21. Jahrhunderts auferstanden und versucht 2011 erneut, die Weltherrschaft an sich zu reißen. Aber wie erobert ein seit 70 Jahren verstorbener Diktator aus Berlin die Welt zurück? Klar, als Medienstar. Der Führer, der vergeblich seinen Bunker, seine Armee und eine Erklärung sucht, startet eine beachtliche Karriere als Adolf-Hitler-Imitator.

Die Puppenhausdetektive. Ein heißer Tag im Puppenhaus weckt die Sehnsucht auf Abkühlung. Die Gabby Katzen haben viele tolle Ideen, wie man sich bei dieser Hitze gut abkühlen kann. Doch plötzlich verschwinden auf mysteriöse Weise Leckereien und Gegenstände, die diese Temperaturen erträglicher gemacht hätten. Zum Glück sind Gabby und Pandy heute Detektive und begeben sich sofort auf Spurensuche. Und sie geben nicht auf, bevor sie das Rätsel der verschwundenen Sachen gelöst haben.

Tender, direct and winningly witty, Swell distils the poet's complex feelings surrounding family and domesticity, exploring the contending weight and levity felt as she contemplates a thrillingly unfamiliar new chapter. Ferguson is a poet as alert to the absurd as to the shattering, and these are large-hearted poems, full of life and thought. Together, they invite the listener to join them in a search for self-acceptance, for freedom from shame, and for a path to stability in increasingly uncertain times.

Lukas der Lokomotivführer lebt mit seiner Lokomotive Emma auf der Insel Lummerland. Eines Tages bringt das Postschiff ein rätselhaftes Paket: ein Baby! Als Jim Knopf, der kleine Junge aus dem Paket, größer wird, ist bald nicht mehr genug Platz für alle Bewohner auf der kleinen Insel. So verlassen Jim, Lukas und Emma ihre Heimat und gehen auf große Abenteuerfahrt.

Tra il 2015 e il 2025, una voce femminile racconta il proprio itinerario tra relazioni amorose, amicizie, lavoro, impegno politico e ricerca di senso. La scrittura diventa spazio di resistenza: un luogo in cui il dolore può essere nominato, abitato, trasformato. Il racconto procede per frammenti. Non c'è una trama lineare, ma un mosaico emotivo che segue il ritmo dell'inevitabile cambiamento. Questo audiolibro esplora una domanda essenziale: può l'Altro colmare il vuoto interiore o è necessario riconoscersi protagonisti della propria vita?

Have you ever wanted to know more about cruise ships and how they stay afloat on the water? Learn more about the different parts of a cruise ship, how it functions, where the crew operate the ship, and activities that passengers can do while aboard.

Betty Lennox is an elemental witch on a mission to leave her desert hometown of Smokethorn, California, for good. But first, she needs to sell the property she inherited from her mother to someone who, among other things, doesn’t mind living in a paranormal seniors' trailer park in a town where it’s so hot in summer that the local demons head back to Hades to cool off.

The byproduct of years of practice in the medical field, Ending the Eczema Epidemic was written by Ana-Maria Temple, MD, and John Temple, MD, to expose the factors involved in treating eczema, allergies, and chronic diseases. Contrary to what one might expect, their solutions focus on gut healing through nutrition, removing environmental toxins, and restoring gut and skin microbiomes. In fact, their anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle recommendations would likely improve the lives of anyone willing to try them.

Maria Semple joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest book.

The inside story of how nuclear energy—long considered scary, controversial, and even apocalyptic—has become the hot topic of the climate debate, and perhaps a vital power source of the future On June 21, 2016, Pacific Gas & Electric Company announced a plan to shutter California’s last...

The Psychology of Human Behavior is written in a way that answers all such queries, along with multiple others. The best part is that the writing style of the book is so practical that the listeners will be able to learn a lot of things instantly.

My name is Cassia. A war between demons and angels will determine the fate of humanity, and my sister and I are right in the middle of it. Our enemy is an insane angel determined to bring hell straight to Earth. We are fighting a battle we cannot win. Death is fated.

With the reserves of male pilots ready for combat rapidly dwindling, England’s secret service decide to try something revolutionary. They are going to send female pilots into combat. MI6 put Wing Commander James Donovan in charge of the ‘Sirens’. Outwardly, the women chosen appear to be assisting in the transporting of planes, but this is just a cover. In reality, they will be flying secret RAF combat missions into enemy territory.