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I share a secret with my grumpy billionaire boss that could ruin everything. Heath Bridges thrives on control: cold, distant, and untouchable. I’m the lively nanny hired to take care of his son, Emmett. The job should have been simple: stay professional and out of his way. When Heath insists, I join his business trip, we’re stuck in a shared suite. Sparks fly, and the walls between us crumble.

Audible presents Happy Endings, an Audible Original.

Ethel Lina White was born on the 2nd April 1876 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in Wales. Ethel started writing when she was only a child and published essays and poems in children’s papers. She was also a talented artist. Perhaps her best-known books are the ‘The Lady Vanishes’ and ‘The Spiral Staircase’ both of which were originally entitled differently but were republished with new names after being filmed. Whilst today she lacks attention, in her day she was as popular and as highly regarded as Agatha Christie.

Om vi är så rationella och smarta som vi tror - varför beter vi oss då så omänskligt korkat? Lina Thomsgård och psykolog Björn Hedensjö undersöker mänskligt beteende och ger dig oslagbara livstips. Hur blir man en bättre partner, vän, anställd, chef och människa? Dumma Människor är Sveriges största (och ärligt talat roligaste) vetenskapspodd.För en reklamfri upplevelse klicka här: https://dummamanniskor.supercast.com/I samarbete med Acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Voyage Beyond the Veil. A Gauntlet to end a God. A Sacrifice to Save a Soul. It’s been three months since Captain Ronan Mathonwy lost his wife to Death’s domain. Three months of unanswered prayers and foiled plans, three months of desperate loneliness and darkening skies. As Ronan searches night and day for a way to raise the dead, the Deyrnas suffers from the blight of Morwyn Locasta and her shadow-puppets, Porthladd’s fall only the beginning of her reign of terror.

The story of a fervent atheistic communist woman in Moscow who was denied entrance to medical school because she was Jewish. She applied to leave Russia and was denied, thus becoming a Refusenik. It describes her two-year tortuous struggle to leave, her humorous adjustment to American society, and her challenging journey to become a physician and learn what it meant to be Jewish. Her historian husband interweaves her life with the history of Soviet Russia and the Cold War period, including the fail of the Soviet Union.

Dante's Divine Comedy, an epic poem, takes readers on a transformative journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. This timeless literary masterpiece intertwines theology, philosophy, and politics, offering profound insights into human nature and divine justice. Dante’s vivid allegorical narrative captivates with intricate symbolism and richly imagined landscapes. Revered for its poetic brilliance, the Divine Comedy remains a cornerstone of world literature, inspiring literature, art, and cultural discussions with its enduring themes of redemption, moral growth, and spiritual ...

La escritora chilena Lina Meruane, autora de Sangre en el ojo y Las infantas, construye un drama perturbador y atrapante en torno a la relación entre dos hermanas en medio del campo chileno. La hermana mayor trabaja en una empresa frutícola, la menor padece una enfermedad grave...

Warum treffen uns bestimmte Menschen so sehr – im Guten wie im Schmerzhaften? Und was, wenn jede Begegnung uns etwas über uns selbst erzählen will? „Beziehungen im Spiegel“ begibst du dich auf eine berührende, ehrliche und tiefgreifende Reise zu dir selbst – durch das, was uns alle am stärksten prägt: unsere Beziehungen. Ob in Partnerschaft, Familie, Freundschaft oder Beruf – überall, wo Nähe entsteht, begegnen wir nicht nur dem anderen, sondern auch unseren Mustern, Ängsten, Sehnsüchten und alten Geschichten.

¿Tienes espasmos musculares, ojos secos y acné? ¿Tus menstruaciones son abundantes y dolorosas? ¿Se te cae el pelo, te duelen las rodillas y sufres de fatiga? ¿Estás irritable, tienes insomnio y te cuesta bajar de peso? En la medicina occidental cada síntoma debe tratarlo un especialista diferente, mientras que la Medicina China demuestra que el origen de la enfermedad está en el desequilibrio de un órgano o víscera y los trata directamente.

Lina and Adelia Beard, co-founders of the first American girls' scouting group, originally called the Girl Scout Society, then the Girl Pioneers, and finally as the Camp Fire Girls, provide practical advice and encouragement to girls and young women who wish to explore a "free, wholesome, and adventurous outdoor life." - Summary by Christine Lehman, aka stoogeswoman

Let's continue the D'Artagnan Romances that we've already started with The Three Musketeers.

Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark discursive style, providing a living glimpse of the great talker, the man who could hold his contemporaries in thrall for hours with his dazzling conversation, and who was famously described as the last man "to have read everything". Summary by Nicole Lee.

Billionaire mogul Benjamin Knight turns my world upside down. Off-limits and irresistible, his allure is a challenge I can't resist. Our words clash, igniting tension. I'm here to write his story, not get entangled in it. But scandal looms, and he grants me unrivaled access—secrets laid bare.

An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbour's makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that she's fucked her thirty-something teacher. A hose pumping cava through the maquette of a giant penis becomes a murder weapon in the hands of a disaffected housewife.

Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a Marchesa whose old Roman family is on the brink of ruin.

A four-year-old girl has disappeared from her home. And then more family members vanish. Detective Sofia Hjortn is in a race against time to find them as she and her colleagues desperately search a snow-covered Örnsköldsvik. Meanwhile, Sofia has other problems to deal with. Heavily pregnant...

Drama Queens I ett liv nära dig får vi ta del av fem historier direkt ur livet, starkt berättat av fem av Sveriges främsta författare. Det handlar om kärlek. Hur svårt kan det vara? Varför kan man inte bara älska den man har kär? Vad händer om man inte träffar den rätta och sökandet övergå till ren desperation. Ingen vill vara udda och den som sticker ut men fråga är bara hur långt man är beredd att gå för att passa in och för att ge och få kärlek.

Melanie Booher is considered, by many, as a name to know in the game of workplace culture transformation; here, she has collected a powerhouse team of authors who have offered their years of experience working in HR on how to create a passion within people for the work that they do everyday. Whether the work begins with silencing your inner critics, expanding the inclusion of critics within your culture, strengthening your leaders to guide to stronger integrity, or cultivating a workplace culture that is noticed and awarded by others, it’s all here in Culture Impact.

In einer Frühlingsnacht wird eine junge Mutter erschossen in ihrer Luxusvilla im Stockholmer Vorort Djursholm aufgefunden. Kriminalinspektorin Sakka Pienni von der Polizei Stockholm, die mit dem Fall betraut wird, sieht sich einem dichten Geflecht aus Geheimnissen und Lügen gegenüber. Und je weiter die Ermittlungen sie einnehmen, desto mehr kehren auch Sakkas eigene Kindheitserinnerungen zurück. Erinnerungen an den dunklen Norden Schwedens. Während sie alles dafür tut, den Mord in Djursholm aufzuklären, desto größer wird ihre Angst, sich selbst zu verlieren.