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Calvin Midnight arrives in Dark River with one goal: settle his mother's estate and disappear back to Seattle. But the small Washington town he abandoned has other plans—starting with Maren Strand, who owns the Black Lantern bar and lives in the cabin on his family's property. Maren's built her life on being everyone's safe harbor, pouring drinks and keeping her own heart locked away. Now the Midnight estate might be sold, taking her home with it. She should hate Calvin for what his family could cost her.

She said…all three men got her drunk, led her to a hotel room, and took advantage of her. Three said…she was a willing participant and consented to sex with each of them. But after five weeks of listening to all of the evidence and all of the arguments in a celebrity rape trial that has gripped an entire nation, the jury sits down to begin their deliberations. Only they don’t know who to believe…will you?

Almost two years ago, Faith and Grace Tiddle arrived home from their Saturday morning dance class to find both of their parents face down in pools of blood. Five days later, the twins—only nine years old at the time—were arrested for the double homicide. And now, twenty months on, the entire country awaits with bated breath as the jury is dismissed to deliberate their verdict on a case that has become a national phenomenon. But if Lead Detective Denis Quayle—the man who knows the case better than anybody else—isn’t fully convinced of the twins’ guilt, can a jury be?

Miles Walker has the life most people want. A career. A family. A sense of having made it. But when everything begins to unravel, Miles is pulled into a strange, unsettling journey that forces him to confront secrets he believed were long-buried.

MEDDICC gives you methods to increase your hit rate—by asking 8 important questions to customers, you can focus all your energy on the deals you can win—and ignore the rest. You will win faster and close more deals.

New York Love Stories Volume 2 is a collection of two full novels that can be listened to as standalones or is enhanced when you listen from beginning to end. This group of family and friends join together in both books as different characters navigate dating and finding love in these modern romances.

After my sisters’ disastrous weddings, I’m never going to get married. I’ll just stay single forever. It doesn’t matter that I’m in love with my brother’s best friend. Or that Bennett and I shouldn’t even be friends with benefits. Until the positive sign tells me I’m pregnant....

When a frightening demonic force, nicknamed Brony, unleashed a furious attack in the parish of Kilbroney, Rostrevor became a cursed village. And after more people started to die and disappear in terrifying and mysterious circumstances, local people established a secret society to banish the demon and keep his existence from the public, but their formidable adversary is determined to claim their souls.

This book is for thinkers, worriers, and high-achievers who can’t switch their minds off. Silence the Inner Noise is a powerful, science-backed guide to calming mental chaos, reducing anxiety, and reclaiming peace. With 30 years of lived experience and insights from cutting-edge neuroscience, Daniel J. Jacobs shares five practical tools that help you finally take control of your thoughts.

Wealthy socialite Olivia Barton never imagined her fiancé would disappear on what was supposed to be a routine business trip. She's even more heartbroken and confused when a hired private investigator tracks him half a world away, to a seaside town in Colombia. But the country has recently been ravaged by a massive earthquake and deadly tsunami, shutting down outside communication and making travel all but impossible. Still, Olivia is determined to make it to Colombia to find the answers she so desperately seeks. What she needs is a guide - a mercenary.

Cut through the noise of trial and error and step into mastery. With 'The Master Change Agent Framework,' the relentless pace of change isn't a daunting trial anymore; it's a mission you're ready to conquer. Your organizational transformation doesn't have to be a lonely battle. Equip yourself with the truth, tools, and tactics you need to design and lead successful change.

As a prominent divorce attorney and Manhattan’s most eligible bachelor, I’m as sought after in the courtroom as I am in the bedroom. I’ve learned that emotions have no place in either scenario. Not ever. Thus far, my approach to life has served me well. No hassles or strings means no heartache. There’s just one little problem....

A story of the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. Set between Victorian Liverpool and Dundee and the battlefields of the First World War, three families face the perils of life on the economic cliff-edge, where a single misstep can send lives plunging out of control. Crossing a century of dramatic change, their journey begins in the aftermath of the slave trade, moving through the era of Empire expansion and Industrial Revolution to a time of religious strife and global conflict.

A chilling and visionary tale set in 1950s London, The Recycling of Nathan Scrzimshaw is a literary psychic thriller that explores the boundaries of consciousness, identity, and the paranormal. Eighteen-year-old Nathan Scrzimshaw struggles to make sense of his life under the stern gaze of his father and the strange guidance of enigmatic outsiders. Haunted by a mysterious glow, Nathan finds himself entangled with the spirited Alice Argzand, the alluring Mayzee de Bruin, and the cryptic Danie — figures who draw him ever deeper into a web of displacement, transformation, and unsettling truths.

Follow Clare Muller as she navigates the challenges of living in a new culture after a miscarriage in 1980, and then again in 2000 as she revisits Marburg as a mid-career professor, following the death of her father. The house they inhabit, once a birthing house, becomes a source of inspiration and healing, helping Clare to craft a new narrative for her life. The intertwining timelines reveal a story of resilience and the rediscovery of joy, set against a backdrop of historical and philosophical musings.

A broken author tries to get back on his feet by staying at the super-cheap Fairfax Gardens. But the menacing Vagrant outside warns him repeatedly that the place is DAMNED. It all swings from bliss to horror and back, daily and inexplicably, due to the sweet and bubbly Sistine and her marauding demon of a mother. All, as the diabolical Vagrant outside seemingly grows more and more bent on killing them all.

Strong, Smart and Thriving: The Ultimate Teen Girl's Guide provides an in-depth resource designed to support teenage girls, as they navigate both challenges and opportunities associated with being an adolescent. Its courses cover a range of critical topics essential to personal growth and development, such as building self-confidence, cultivating healthy relationships, developing resilience in response to challenges, managing stress effectively, and prioritizing responsibilities, while planning for an exciting future.

If Fight Club, Money, and The Motorcycle Diaries had a three-way, Novelty would be their web-toed, mutant lovechild. Finn Balor is a depraved billionaire and polymath with a vendetta against fate and an insatiable appetite for hedonism. Obsessed with the idea that free will is a fallacy, he invents the Oracle—a quantum device capable of reshaping reality.

Every organization runs on maps — profit and loss statements, performance reviews, strategic frameworks. These maps compress reality into something manageable. The compression is inevitable. Scale demands abstraction. But maps always erase something. And what gets erased is often what matters most: prevention work that manifests as silence, multiplicative value that defies attribution, craft that compounds invisibly, judgment that refuses to fit the form. The standard literature offers aspiration. This audiobook offers mechanics.

In seinen Memoiren beschreibt Willy Beckel viele Aspekte des Alltags, die das Leben von Kindern und Jugendlichen während des Deutschen Kaiserreichs in den Jahren um 1912 prägten. Sie bleiben spannend zu lesen, da sie eine längst vergangene Welt beschreiben, die heute noch Relevanz hat. Das Leben einer städtischen Großfamilie, die meist im Mittelpunkt steht, fehlt nicht in dieser Hommage an seine Eltern, die viele bedeutende Ereignisse in Leipzig während der Kaiserzeit erzählt. Seine Memoiren sind gute intellektuelle und zeitlose Gedankenkost.