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A top model has become obsessed with retaining her youthful look to prolong her career. After overhearing a conversation involving a photographer who has just done a shoot with her commenting on air brushing small lines around her eyes she goes off the deep end. She spending days researching anti-aging products and procedures. A story about Countess Elizabeth Báthory, the Blood Countess, plants the seed of using blood to hold back age. A short while later her friend has an accident that gives her the opportunity to try applying blood to her face as an anti-aging treatment.

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𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 - Sharing My Story As I Heal My Soul, Surrender into My Feminine Power, and Learn to Live Through Heart 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟱𝟬, I left a 27 year relationship and a 29 year career. I was confused, desperately alone, and dealing with a heartache full of pain. But the only thing more terrifying than the unknown of where I found myself, was the thought of staying where I had been. 𝗜 𝗸𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 ...

We talk (and laugh) about people, places, or things that have impacted the queer community.

Welcome to the Creating Me podcast where entrepreneurs entertain, enlighten, and inspire us with stories of faith, courage, creativity and wisdom. Hosted by Simcha Dworkin & Usher Klein, prepare to be whisked away on a journey of ups & downs, successes & failures, disappointments & excitement. We get to hear how their life led them to their creation and how their creation made them who they are today.

Lessons from the Set is a comprehensive filmmaking guide that takes a cinephile’s do-it-yourself approach to low-budget indie film production and distribution. The book is peppered with filmmaking tips and tricks, as well as valuable, practical insight into the process of writing, directing, producing, and distributing commercial feature films on a low budget - whether you’re working with $1,000 or $1 million.

Lyssa Peate has found a tenuous balance between her double lives - that of the planet-discovering scientist and the other: the space pirate bounty hunter Razia. No longer on probation, Razia still struggles to be thought of as more than a chocolate-fetching joke. But when the tough and feisty Lizbeth Carter interferes with a bounty, Razia's worried her act is being stolen.

Galanta is only one step away from successfully releasing Santanas. The faeries must either stop her or hope that their allies stand strong in the coming storm. While they seek her out, they are forced to cement old allegiances and create new ones. With this in mind, Orion offers himself as a groom to the treacherous night faeries, asking only that Aethan go in his stead to choose his bride. Meanwhile, Galanta's spell means that while Izzy now remembers Aethan, he has no memory of her.

It's been thirteen years since the Dark Years ended. Thirteen years since the mad War Faery responsible was imprisoned in stone. Now, with goblin attacks on the rise, it seems Galanta, the Goblin Queen, is intent on returning the land to chaos and terror. Isadora Scrumpleton is trying not to think about the Dark Years. She's just been chosen by her "familiar", found out she's half faery, and discovered she's dating the second-in-line to the Faery Throne. That's enough for one teenage witch to handle. But when goblins attack her village, Izzy is forced into action....

Since she was a little girl, everyone - from her father to the Great Creator himself - told Lyssa Peate the same thing: she's worthless. But when she becomes the pirate bounty hunter Razia, she can see the price tag on her own head. Employed by one of the four pirate syndicates, she uses bank transactions and her considerable wits to capture rival members. At least, she would be if Razia's boss ever gave her a chance. It's a man's world, and all she's allowed to hunt are purse snatchers while she languishes on probation.

You have magic. One sentence, three words, four syllables. Enough to change my life forever. And I'm not talking about the whole spells and sorcery thing. Lexie Carrigan thought the weirdest thing about her was she preferred watching documentaries and reading the newspaper to reality TV and Twitter. But on the eve of her 15th birthday, her aunt and sisters drop a bomb - she's magical. Now the girl who never made waves is blowing up her nightstand and trying to keep from wreaking havoc on her school.

Die außergewöhnlichsten Listen der Weltgeschichte live in Szene gesetzt. Menschen halten ihre Gedanken, Pläne und Aufgaben seit jeher in Listen fest. Sie sind die Kurzfassung all der Dinge, die uns wichtig sind: Unsere Hoffnungen und Träume, Vorlieben und Abneigungen, Richtlinien für das Leben und die Liebe, Aufzeichnungen unserer Gedanken und Erinnerungen an die Dinge, die wir noch erledigen wollen, bevor wir sterben. Viele dieser Listen beinhalten wertvolle Ratschläge.

Von Virginia Woolfs herzzerreißendem Abschiedsbrief an ihren Mann bis zum höchsteigenen Eierkuchen-Rezept von Queen Elizabeth II. an US-Präsident Eisenhower; von Gandhis Friedensersuch an Adolf Hitler bis zu Iggy Pops wundervollem Brief an einen jungen weiblichen Fan in Not, zelebriert und dokumentiert "Letters of Note" die Faszination der geschriebenen Korrespondenz mit all dem Humor, der Ernsthaftigkeit, der Traurigkeit und Verrücktheit, die unser Leben ausmachen. Prominente Autoren, Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler lassen die Briefe durch ihre Stimmen lebendig werden.

The veil is sealed for 30 days and Izzy is looking for distractions to help her forget about Aethan. When a strange dragon and rider appear in Eynsford, Izzy and Isla travel with Emerald to another world. There, they discover the mystical city of Millenia; home to to a band of renegade dark faeries, Ubanty, and dragons. Unable to return, Izzy is forced to battle pirates, assassins, and the advances of the devastatingly handsome Turos. But at home, the shadow of war is marching across the land. Santanas is back and gathering an army, and Izzy is needed.

From Sam McBratney, the author of beloved bestseller Guess How Much I Love You, and immense picture-book talent Sam Usher, The Most-Loved Bear is a captivating, classic picture book story that will enchant families for many years to come. Growly Bear and Mary Rose are very best friends and do...

From Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to John Lennon Prince and Kim Gordon, tune in to the evocative expressions of treasured composers, musicians, singers, and songwriters in this enchanting volume from the compiler of the bestselling Letters of Note collections Verdi writes to his publisher about a...

If you die in your nightmare, will you die in real life? What if there was some kind of entity, not of this world, who could enter your nightmare and take your life? Imagine that your nightmare is an intrusion into another dimension and your presence causes physical harm to that dimension’s natural resident. If that entity fought back to defend its home from the intruders, would you say it was wrong? Everyone has the right to defend their home. Using the intruders’ nightmares as weapons against them is smart and effective. Sometimes killing is the only way to protect yourself and your home.

Little has been known about the Oompa Loompas who work in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Until now! This is the story of the Oompa Loompas, how they lived before they met Willy Wonka, and how they convinced him to take them to his factory.

In News for the Rich, White, and Blue, Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news organizations strategize about the future. Usher shows how newsrooms remain places of power, largely white institutions growing more elite as journalists confront a shrinking job market.

What happens when a dysfunctional family gets all mixed up with a crime family? The lines between what is business and what is personal get blurred to the point of being nearly completely erased. Personalities clash and family ties of both types get stretched to their limits. Money can justify just so much when family loyalties are at odds with good business practices. Family ties can only justify so much bad behavior. When family and ‘family’ clash, something has got to give and deals for family members’ lives have got to be made.