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As a young girl, Elena fell while climbing a tree with her best friend, Aleks. Thrown into the shore of the river of the dead, she found a boy named Evander Akti, who was there thanks to a terrible fall of his own…thousands of miles away in Arktos. Together, they turned their back on the river and went into the dark, holding each other tight as they escaped back to the land of the living. But that was only possible because Aleks, left behind to watch Elena fall, made a deal with Death.

The last thing Sara Flannigan needs is a man in her life. When she returns to her hometown, she vows to create a happy life for her son and to rebuild her life after a painful divorce. Yet when she meets her son’s new doctor, she can’t deny the spark of attraction that heats between them.

Rachel is a computer genius whose personal life is hell. While she continues to climb the corporate ranks, her beloved twin sister is plagued by a chronic illness that will eventually kill her, leaving Rachel all alone.Serendipity in the form of a mysterious email lands in Rachel's lap one day, but not without a price. Thousands of miles away, archeologist John Tanek sits trapped inside a collapsed tomb with a laptop. He knows that Rachel is the only person who can help him, but time is quickly running out.

Mitten im Leben wird die Autorin mit einer tödlichen Diagnose und der ihr noch kurzen verbleibenden Lebenszeit konfrontiert. Sie blickt zurück auf ihr Leben, ihre große Liebe und ihre Familie und versucht, unsere aller Welt im neuen Licht zu sehen, um Sterben zu lernen. Dabei erkennt sie, dass wahre Schönheit nur im Lichte der Vergänglichkeit sichtbar und das Leben in all seiner Tiefe nur angesichts des Todes erfahrbar wird.

Diese Kriminalsatire wird aus der Perspektive von sieben Protagonisten erzählt: Die Freischaffende, die einem Serienvergewaltiger entkommt und ihm nach Jahren wiederbegegnet, als er mit Hilfe eines Galeristen zum Künstlerstar emporgehoben wird; die Gutachterin, deren Expertise ignoriert wird; der Anwalt, der dem Schwerverbrecher ein freies Künstlerleben ermöglicht; der berühmte Filmemacher, der die Welt neu erklären möchte, und dessen Kunstagent, der ihn zu waghalsigen Investitionen verleitet.

In this podcast we’ll dive into personal stories, conversations, and reflections about sexual pleasure, intimacy, and the ways we’ve learned, or unlearned, to experience them. Each episode, we’ll host a different guest or theme, but everything you’ll hear will somehow circle around one central idea: the sexual script.The Pleasure Society is a platform for sexuality. Queer owned and based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This podcast is one of the productions we make: we also host Radio Pleasure Society.Thanks to SO PR/SO Studios for offering us an amazing podcast studio to host this ...

If fate suddenly made you more beautiful that you ever dreamed possible, would it be the beginning of a fairy tale, or your worst nightmare? The brutal attack should have killed anybody, but Nell Calder did more than survive. She emerged a woman transformed, with an exquisite beauty found only...

Greater Than a Tourist - Sibiu Transylvania Romania, by Iris Matubis-Diaconescu, offers the inside scoop on Romania. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Get ready to giggle with Boo Can't Poo, the hilarious board book sure to get your little ones laughing and pooping! Join Boo the constipated ghost on his quest to get his bowels moving with the help of his ghostly family.

Shirley Wolf and Cindy Collier met in a juvenile detention center and had known each other for only a few hours when they decided to escape and randomly kill a stranger. They would go to a senior condominium center in Auburn, California, where they would seek an elderly victim. They would find one in the 85-year-old Anna Brackett. They entered her home under the ruse that they needed to use the phone to call their parents.

James Brooks, the Chief of Staff to the President, is hoping for some downtime to rekindle his connection with his wife, Ashley, amidst the challenges of raising their young children. However, his plans quickly go awry when he takes over parenting duties for their mischievous two-year-old daughter, Avery. What starts as a simple task soon spirals into a series of humorous and heartwarming moments that define the chaos of family life during the holiday season.

In Renaissance Italy, intrigue is as intricate as carved cathedral doors, but none is so captivating as that surrounding the prized Wind Dancer, the lost treasure of a family—and of the man who will stop at nothing to reclaim it. Lionello Andreas is bound by his vow to guard the exquisite statue. But to recover what is rightfully his, he will need the help of a thief—one he can control body and soul.

Es hat einen Grund, warum Diäten nie funktionieren: Unser Essverhalten ist in den für unsere automatisierten Verhaltensweisen zuständigen Basalganglien abgespeichert. Wenn wir unser Essverhalten ändern wollen, müssen wir deshalb zuerst unsere Basalganglien neu programmieren.

Tras muchos años de trabajo y muchas sábanas revueltas en el ejercicio de amores desganados, el gran Charles Arrowby, famoso dramaturgo, director y figura destacada de las tablas londinenses, decide retirarse de las candilejas para ir a un apartado rincón de la costa británica y escribir sus memorias.

LEAD YOUR WAY UP is a practical guide to outstanding leadership, whether you are a newbie in the corporate world, stuck in your career, or want to shake things up. Full of invaluable life and career lessons, Iris Irumva unveils the untold secrets of leadership that you need to become a person of influence: from adopting a leader’s mindset and leading yourself first to leading others.

Violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara's lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history, would even talk to her, everything would be perfect. But the carefully constructed life Cara has built for herself is suddenly threatened when she is kidnapped by a mysterious man from her grandfather's past, setting off a violent chain of events that puts everyone Cara loves in danger. 

Archer and Iris are AI hosts built by the Row0 team who break down the most important AI stories in 10 minutes. New tools, model drops, industry shifts, and community buzz — by builders, for builders. Everything you need to know before you start building.

Everyone’s favorite houseguest who never left, Leon Black (played by award-winning comedian JB Smoove on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm) drops his wisdom and good-bad advice for the masses. Learn the secrets Larry David has gleaned from the Falstaff of television. Live your best Leon. Bring the...

Hoffnung auf Freiheit und Glück im geteilten Deutschland: die packende Fortsetzung der Löwenthal-Saga von Bestsellerautorin Iris Krumbiegel. Berlin 1948: Lorenz Löwenthal wünscht sich nach den Kriegswirren vor allem Versöhnung – sogar mit der Familie seines einst besten Freundes Bertram. Seine Frau Frida dagegen versucht, Bertrams Familie für ihre nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Doch ihre Entscheidung, brisante Unterlagen an die Russen zu übergeben, hat fatale Folgen.

Have you ever had the feeling of being watched when you're alone? Andrea has just moved in to her new apartment after ending a long relationship. She is drawn to the affordable rent and the landlord, Lee, who appears helpful and understanding to someone facing financial difficulties. Unbeknownst...