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Two men at odds with themselves and each other embark on what should be a simple team-building exercise, but nothing goes as planned. Unexpected intimacy and a freak accident leave Kit and Alden dependent on each other long after they leave the mountain behind. Now they have a choice—to continue as they’ve been, or trust a shaky new reality together.

Figuring Sh!t Out is an undertaking of self-help, coming of age, and finding & healing yourself. To those seeking healing, purpose, and a higher truth -- this Podcast is a mission to awaken to the preciousness of life, honor your own individual evolution, and to discover how connected we all are in the not-knowing. Hosted by Vanessa Fontana in her New York City bedroom, FSO was born in the throws of a deeply personal coming of age and self-discovery journey.We are all crocheted together in our connection to ourselves, finding the strength to navigate the highs & lows of life -- on our ...

Mail Order Bride: Widowed, Jilted, and Pregnant on the Wagon Train West is a truly emotional and spellbinding story of a fiercely independent French woman who is first widowed, and then pregnant, then jilted by the man she corresponded with to become his mail order bride. After the long journey from Europe to the US, she decides to undertake an even longer and far more hazardous one, when she joins a wagon train and a family on their way to Salt Lake City.

In the relentless turmoil of the Civil War, Union spy Hattie Logan engineers a daring escape from the infamous Libby Prison. Fueled by an unyielding determination for retribution, she embarks on a quest to hunt down Luke Blackstone, the double agent who betrayed her and her first true love. Her relentless pursuit of justice leads her to the heart of Tennessee, where she forms an unlikely alliance with the spirited and unpredictable Pauline Carlton, once an actress, now a fellow spy. Together, Hattie and Pauline enlist the aid of a resourceful Nashville prostitute, unraveling a perilous web ...

Britain's 20th century seen through the prism of one extraordinary family. Taking the listener on a journey from the dying embers of Edwardian England, through the trauma of two world wars, the hedonism of 1980s London and ‘Cool Britannia’ in the 1990s right up to the present day, One Hundred Summers is a portrait of a century as it was experienced by one extraordinary family.

Vanessa Montfort, con una voz única, nos deleita con una historia que entrelaza con gran sensibilidad el presente y el pasado de una familia marcada por la guerra civil española. Este hilo llevará a Eva Alcocer a descifrar las claves de la historia de su familia, así como la memoria de todo un país. ¿Conseguirá con esto descubrir cuál es ese misterioso ingrediente que le falta para sentir que su vida tiene sentido?

Oraciones a San Jorge es un audiolibro de oración en el que se incluye antiguas, poderosas y milagrosas bendiciones, plegarias y oraciones a este santo. San Jorge es una de las figuras más icónicas del mundo y uno de los santos más importantes del catolicismo. La vida y los relatos de las aventuras ligadas a este bíblico soldado, han traspasado fronteras y han hecho de San Jorge una de las figuras más populares entre los cristianos y no creyentes. En este audiolibro encontrarás una selección de oraciones, plegarias, novenas, pedidos y bendiciones de este santo.

In this powerful, straight-from-the-heart take on societal burnout, Vanessa Autrey shows listeners simple practices and philosophies to cultivate self-awareness. The Art of Balancing Burnout is a raw, well-aimed inspiration to encourage hustlers, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and stay-at-home parents alike. It is an opportunity to reflect, recalibrate, and redirect toward a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life.

Cease the fear will help you cease your own fears, after listening to this will feel better about yourself and find ways to cease the fear that followed you for so long, you will be able to associate with the narrator very easily and I guarantee you that when you are done listening to this book, you'll be grateful and want a sequel!

Unique and dangerously drinkable cocktail recipes for every astrological sign, so the stars can guide your imbibing as much as they do the rest of your life.

This podcast is about encouraging people to understand that in life, we experience many hardships in relationships trying to hold on to what’s not good for us. Just because somebody is good TO you doesn’t mean they’re good FOR you.

Imagine what it would be like to one day wake up and find that you were suddenly completely blind. This is what happened to Vanessa Potter. Her condition is unique. It has no name. Over the course of the next six months, Vanessa slowly recovered her vision. This mesmerising account tells the story of Patient H69 in her own words, based on these detailed diaries she kept during her time of blindness and through the scientific research that was to follow.

Just before her father's sudden death, Cuban-American artist Veronica Gonzalez is offered her first gallery exhibit, a real chance to break into the art world. Torn between the need to mourn and the pressure to create new artwork, Veronica is propelled into a fever-dream of productivity and grief, amidst memories of her tumultuous relationship with her colorful but infuriating Cuban emigre father, a volatile man of outsize appetites and passions who never stopped longing for his homeland.

Many of us are striving to reach our full potential at work and beyond—to achieve our goals, rise to challenges, and connect well with others. But how can we develop our performance while also taking care of our well-being? The Performance Curve is a bold new holistic guide that effectively tackles this challenge, providing practical insights into how you can develop and sustain a productive and fulfilling life. This book explores not only how you can improve individual performance, but also how to build relationships and environments that bring out the best in others.

In 1980s New England, a young tomboy and naturalist grows among the hypocrisies of elitist culture. At 16, she witnesses the ills of corruption at close range when officials at Lawrence Academy, a boarding high school in Groton, Massachusetts, tell her they are going to keep a child molester on campus - and remove her to hide their secret. Feel captivated by courageous and magnificent tale of her ongoing fight for gender equality and sexual health in a society on the brink of great social change.

J’ai cherché aux quatre coins du continent, me suis rendu à des jeux d’accouplement, mais je n’ai toujours pas trouvé la louve qui m’est destinée. Je suis déjà devenu trop sauvage au lit. Je ne suis pas inoffensif - pas pour les femmes normales. Et encore moins pour celle qui vient d’emménager dans le ranch voisin. Elle est beaucoup trop tentante. Et je suis beaucoup trop dangereux. Il faut que je garde mes distances. Je n’ose pas l’approcher.

This is the story of a young woman who lost her parents at the start of their journey west along the Oregon Trail. Close to her as she travels along, is a group of young men and boys who had also lost their parents and had decided to make a new beginning in the west, raising cattle. While bathing at the river one day the woman hears, then sees, a baby crying and she retrieves a young Native American infant found propped up against a tree.

It should have been the perfect summer. Sent to stay with her late mother's eccentric family in London, 16-year-old Joan is determined to enjoy herself. She loves her nerdy job at the historic Holland House, and when her super cute co-worker Nick asks her on a date, it feels like everything is falling into place. Then a Good Samaritan attempt gone wrong sends Joan spinning through time, and her life quickly begins to unravel. Her family aren't just eccentric: they're monsters, with terrifying, hidden powers. And Nick isn't just a cute boy: he's a legendary monster slayer.

What image does Venus draw to your mind? A great planetary body of deadly gases neighboring Earth, existing as its own world, mysterious and alluring? Or an image of a more fantastical nature, such as the jungles described by Edgar Rice Burroughs? Or do you think, perhaps, of a goddess who holds power and beauty beyond measure, whose name, throughout the ages, has been synonymous with love? Within this book, you will find tales of wonder, some of space, some of the heart, some that follow in the footsteps of the goddess herself.

Can a loving hand applied to the naked rear of a peevish woman sweeten her character? As a Georgian gentleman, Sir Thomas Wiggington expects to be master within his own home; after all, everyone knows that an Englishman's home is his castle. However, when he weds Lady Margaret Beauchamp, it appears that she has other ideas about who should be in charge. Thomas finds that his patience as a gentleman is sorely tried and tested.