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Childbirth educator and doula Dayna Martin takes the truth about birth to new, provocative levels. Being responsible for your birth means shifting from a cultural place of control, to a place of trust and inner knowing that all is well and as it should be. It is a space of acceptance for what is; then from that disposition of well-being, informed decisions can be made. A place of fear or worry isn't the best place to be when making decisions; but unfortunately, in our culture, fear is what fuels most decisions.

Amelia Child has devoted her life to researching Gerald Shapiro, the Catfish Killer, a man who pretended to be other people online to gain women’s trust before meeting and killing them. Her book on the Catfish Killer, Into the Glass, earned wild success and a legion of true crime fans. Years later, Amelia is pulled back into the case when a girl from her daughter’s high school disappears, and all signs point to a copycat killer mimicking the Catfish Killer’s every move.

From Stoic ethics to emotions, from Stoic mayors and mindfulness to practical philosophy, parenting, psychotherapy and prisons, from Star Trek and Socrates to Stoic lawyers, literature and living in general, this audiobook brings together a wide-ranging collection of reflections on living the Stoic life today. You'll listen advice on coping with adversity, reflections on happiness, and the good life and powerful personal testimonies of putting Stoicism into practise.

Ein Camping-Ausflug mit Oma und Opa ans Meer? Klar, dass Conni sich da freut. Zumal sie Anna und Billi mitnehmen darf. Wattwanderungen, eine Leuchtturmbesichtigung und sogar ein Ausritt in den Dünen? Besser könnte es nicht sein! Doch dann passiert es: Auf einmal ist Connis kleiner Bruder Jakob verschwunden! Und dabei hatte sie doch auf ihn aufpassen sollen... Es wird ihm doch nichts passiert sein.

I sin selvbiografi fortæller Bettina Tammaro, der er kendt som deltager i Robinson Ekspeditionen, om sit liv som eventyrer. Fra lille Danmark til Afrika, Thailand og USA har hun lavet alt fra at arbejde på børnehjem til at komme helt tæt på vilde dyr. Desuden fortæller hun om livet som alenemor til tre børn, som hun har taget med på sine rejser og om sine to kræftforløb, hvoraf hun besluttede kun at modtage alternativ behandling under sidste forløb. Bettina Mattila Funch Tammaro (f. 1966) er måske mest kendt fra Robinson Ekspeditionen, men lever også personligt et liv som eventyrer.

The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates IN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of...

Children of all ages will delight in listening to these four original stories performed by Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony-winning celebrities: Beloved actress Betty White starts off this collection reading Mary Sheldon's A Day at the Zoo, the story of Lizzy and her troublesome friend Eric on the day they finally get to visit the zoo.

Sharon Stone performs Dancing in the Park, the story of a dancer named Claudia who is determined to cheer up a sad little boy in the park.

My life growing up was difficult from time to time, as were so many others, but I was not supported, I felt, in school, so I wrote my stories, and I threw them away to save the embarrassment of being discovered. Through the years, I have met many people that do the same thing, or at least they used to. I was afraid to write; it wasn’t manly.

Terrie Myers didn't believe life would give her a second chance at love. She had managed to survive cancer, but she had lost the man she thought she loved. Returning to her parents' vacation house on the Texas Gulf Coast, she never expected to fall for the man living in the bungalow next door. Sadly, he was already married. Still, she couldn't help the way she felt or deny the joy of living he gave her.

Greater Than a Tourist - Havana & Varadero Cuba, by Facundo Iglesia, offers the inside scoop on Havana and Varadero.

Amanda Storey was sent by her company to a tiny rural town to convince the community that having a chain mega-supermarket built there would be a boon to their economy and job market. She never showed up for the town hall meeting, even though the company insists she was scheduled to be there. The motor inn where she had reservations claimed she never checked in, and police have not found any trace of her body or her car. This is what really happened.

As a woman who wants to follow Jesus in her everyday life, you yearn for intimacy with God. You long to know his presence, to be satisfied in heart and soul, but you don’t know how. You feel like you’re trudging through your days, making sure you’re doing everything you can for him...but you can’t shake the feeling that something is missing. Linda Dillow understands. She longed for depth of intimacy with God, but in the middle of a busy and complicated life, realized that she’d settled for serving him.

Fesselnd, witzig und voller unerwarteter Twists – das neue Buch der Autorin von This Book Kills! *** Drei eingeschneite Mädchen. Ein unheimliches Anwesen. Und ein Abendessen, das in einem Mord endet. *** Devi ist auf dem Weg zu ihrer Großmutter auf dem Land, als ihr Auto plötzlich den Geist...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR From the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings. Features “Family Treasures,” nominated for the Edgar Award for...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs delivers another “outstanding” book (Publishers Weekly) in her “cleverly plotted” (The New York Times) Temperance Brennan series, the inspiration for the hit FOX television series Bones. There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic...

A new story featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan—from #1 New York Times bestselling author and FOX TV’s Bones producer, Kathy Reichs. When a fly-covered canvas bag floats to the surface of North Carolina’s Mountain Island Lake, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is...

Unraveled is a tale of chaos and near-death experiences that shares personal and private moments and the intense challenges and grueling work it takes to get sober and remain sober. It’s a unique story of a mother and son’s journey that ends with on-your-knees epiphanies that leave both parent and child asking for help. This tandem narrative is a compelling testimony of bravery and honesty that, with edgy and surprising humor, charts a family’s slow climb out of the abyss of pain into the full power of faith, redemption, and healing.

Did you know that mushrooms can communicate with each other through underground networks, almost like their own version of the internet? Or that there’s a type of rain in Honduras where fish fall from the sky? Sounds unbelievable, right? But here’s the thing: these aren’t just random tidbits—they’re 100% true, and they’re just a taste of what awaits you in Fun Facts Ultimate Collection: Shocking Facts You Won't Believe Are Actually True! This isn’t your average book. No dry lectures or boring monologues here!

King Claudius, when a young man, wrote a five-act tragedy which was damned, and all reference to it forbidden under penalty of death. The King has a son - Hamlet - whose tendency to soliloquize has so alarmed his mother, Queen Gertrude, that she has sent for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to devise some Court revels for his entertainment. Rosencrantz is a former lover of Ophelia, to whom Hamlet is betrothed, and they lay their heads together to devise a plan by which Hamlet may be put out of the way. Some Court theatricals are in preparation.

Believing all their troubles are behind them, Dani and Aideen seek to lead a more simple life. Their final mission is to bring Orla from 1801 to live with them in 2022. Then they will find peace. Not so. Charles is still on the loose, and has become so powerful that even capturing and imprisoning him won’t stop him. Space is being pioneered in the future using, unfortunately, time travel, and a virulent blend of intelligent life is heading toward Earth.