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The world may be in crisis, but you don't have to be. People who bounce back from change and challenge are able to face reality head-on, find deeper meaning in life, and use whole-brain thinking to improvise novel solutions to life's problems. The two meditations here were created especially to help you cultivate the qualities of resilience that some people are born with, but most of us need to learn.

Melissa has just finished writing her latest mystery novel and is enjoying the arrival of spring. She’s decided to let her fictional detective retire at last and perhaps put her own days of investigating behind her, too. But the ink has barely dried on the page when Melissa receives shocking news: Her estranged father has been found dead in the family home and her mother, Sylvia, is under suspicion of murder.

A newspaperman of the people, by the people, and for the people - that's Randy Stone of the Chicago Star, pounding the city streets night after night on the trail of crime, corruption, and haunting human interest stories! Frank Lovejoy stars as Stone in these 16 digitally restored and remastered episodes from 1950. Sheldon Leonard, Joan Banks, William Conrad, Lurene Tuttle, Gerald Mohr, Betty Lou Gerson, Bill Johnstone, and more portray the complex characters in his intriguing adventures.

Two ranching families, the Blackthornes and the Creeds, are locked in a bitter century-old feud. In The Cowboy, Johnston brings to life a breathtaking love story between the Blackthornes' oldest son and the Creeds' beautiful daughter - a magnificent novel of passion, vengeance, and star-crossed love.

"El reino de Dios está en vosotros me abrumó. Me marcó para siempre." Con estas palabras definió Gandhi esta obra tan polémica, por la cual se reconocerá a Tolstói no sólo como a un genio de la literatura, sino también como a un pensador que influyó en los movimientos pacifistas de todo el mundo. En este texto, Lev Tolstói, para quien la no resistencia constituye la esencia del cristianismo, muestra cómo la Iglesia ha pervertido las enseñanzas de Jesús y ha hecho posible conciliar dos conceptos totalmente incompatibles: violencia y religión.

Moby Dick, which has been considered the great American novel, was first published in 1851. For material, Melville drew on his experience on whaling ships between 1841 and 1844, the sinking of the whaling vessel Essex in 1820, and extensive perusal of literature on whaling and many other subjects.

La aventura de Vasco de Gama que le llevó a las Indias através del cabo de Buena Esperanza abrió una guerra por el control de las especias y por el control estratégico mundial que concluiría con la gesta de Magallanes y Elcano: la expedición que dio, a ciegas, la primera vuelta al mundo.

Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. 1000 of miles away a 20-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres.

In this audiobook program, world-renowned author and lecturer Joan Borysenko leads you through the specifics of three distinct forms of meditation (concentration, mindfulness, and a centering prayer) and discusses the common pitfalls that sabotage these practices.

In The Thumbmark of St Peter Miss Marple tells how she was able to help her niece when the poor girl was accused of poisoning her husband. In The Herb of Death foxglove leaves are picked with sage for the dinner with disastrous results, and a burglary at a riverside bungalow sets off an unusual chain of events in The Affair at the Bungalow. In the final story, Sir Henry Clithering, ex-commissioner of Scotland Yard, is staying with his friends Colonel and Mrs Bantry, when news arrives that the village innkeeper's daughter has met her 'death by drowning.'

Three Teen Choice Awards, one Emmy nomination, and several Maxim covers later, Maizie Albright was an ex-teen star, stuck in reality show hell, and standing before a California judge. She has one chance for a new life: return home to Black Pine, Georgia, and get a job that has nothing to do with show business. So why not become a private detective - the person she played during the happiest days of her life?

Un recorrido histórico por los aspectos del arte y la sociedad azteca más destacados. La historia de sus dioses, sus templos, costumbres, mitos...

Taking inspiration from numerous fairy tales and weaving them into a wholly original story, Into the Woods is a whirlwind of a novel, full of imaginative happenings, dastardly deeds and thrilling adventure. Our guides are sisters three: Storm, Aurora and Anything Eden. Accidentally orphaned and left to fend for themselves in a decaying mansion on the edge of the wilds, they come to the very much unwanted attention of the sinister Dr DeWilde: a scar-faced gentleman with a pied waistcoat and an unhealthy interest in rats.

Metrópolis autenticas, casi siempre desconocidas, desde las que se gestionaron los mayores imperios de la antigüedad. Existen pocos trabajos que nos enseñen cómo eran las grandes metrópolis del mundo antiguo, y muchos menos que nos las recreen y que nos den una imagen total que englobe el urbanismo, la arquitectura, el arte, la política o la religión.

On her favorite day of the year, Elizabeth Davenport awakens in her cottage on the wild and windy Cornish coast, opens her front door, and discovers a precious gift: the small blue crocus and a note that begins "I Wish". The notes are never signed, but she knows they’ve been left by her first and truest love, Tom Hale. Each of these precious missives convey a simple wish for something they had missed, and the life they might have shared, if circumstances hadn't forced them apart all those years ago. She has kept them all.

After the death of her GP husband, widow Sarah is battling to bring up her strong-willed 18-year-old daughter, Clare, hindered by her meddling mother, Eleanor. Living on the middle floor of the family home, with Clare downstairs and Eleanor upstairs, Sarah finds herself besieged from above and below as she tries to cope with the demands of both her mum and her daughter. Luckily, she finds solace at work, where her best friend and boss at Bygone Books, Russell, provides a sympathetic ear.

Most residents of the eastern United States never get to see an old-growth forest. They think perhaps these forests are too far away, or they dont know how to find them. Joan Maloof's Among the Ancients remedies this. In her intelligent, lyrical book, Maloof takes you to twenty-six forests--one in each state east of the Mississippi River and all open to the public. She tells you how to get there and what you will find when you arrive.

Stop Messing About - the first all-nude radio show. Nervous listeners are advised to keep their eyes closed... and it’s forbidden to take photographs. Taking over the mantle of Round the Horne, Stop Messing About carried on the comedy tradition, which reunited Kenneth Williams with his Carry On co-star Joan Sims and Hugh Paddick. These four episodes include the story of a young politician, who can put his hand to anything....

Delve into the world of Rosemary Timperley if you dare! In this chilling collection, discover ten chilling full-cast dramatisations of sinister stories and suspenseful tales and immerse yourself in a totally unique listening experience. Recorded with a full musical score, these standalone tales are perfect for fans of the supernatural and will raise goosebumps on even the warmest of days.

El embarazo es un momento especial en la vida de la mujer en el que se dan muchos cambios de forma acelerada. El cuerpo va adaptándose para acoger y permitir el desarrollo de una nueva vida que crece día a día, pero también cambia la mente de la madre, que se prepara para proteger y cuidar a su bebé. Un proceso en el que es normal que surjan dudas y temores.