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As Christian women, we sometimes wear different hats and play different roles. We usually find ourselves overstretching and trying to be everything for everybody. In addition, we neglect our emotional, physiological, and mental well-being. As much as we want to do everything and be everything to everybody, we forget that we’re just human and can only go so far. Lack of self-care drains us and makes us empty and dry.

Amos Barshad has long been fascinated by the powerful. But not by elected officials or natural leaders - he's interested in their scheming advisors, the dark figures who wield power in the shadows. And, as Barshad shows in No One Man Should Have All That Power, the natural habitat of these manipulators is not only political backrooms. It's anywhere power dynamics exist - from Hollywood to drug cartels, from recording studios to the NFL.

Beau For my best friend Cali, I'd do anything. Including joining an anonymous mail-order bride website once she tells me she's signing up. I thought we were getting closer. Like, friends turned lovers kind of closer. I guess I was wrong... But I'm determined to find out why, because Cali's mine, even if she doesn't realize it yet. Cali It's a dream come true when Beau Woods asks me to dance. He's gripping my waist and staring at me like the grown woman that I am. Not like I'm still just his best friend's little sister. I've been waiting for this day for years... that is until I hear the ...

Dear Listener: Welcome to a captivating journey through the realms of persuasion, where the art and science of inquiry intersect to unlock the secrets of effective communication. As you embark on this exploration, you are about to delve into the intricate tapestry of human behavior, psychology, and communication dynamics that shape our interactions in the world of sales and marketing. In a world filled with noise and information overload, the ability to persuade is an invaluable skill.

RETURNING FOR 2024 FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH Welcome to the Filipino American Woman (TFAW) Project, a podcast that strengthens Filipino voices one conversation at a time through all things life, culture and personal development. Hosted by Jen Amos and Nani Dominguez-Smith. This show is brought to you by our family at THENEWFILIPINA.COM. Join the conversation today! JOIN THE CONVERSATION Join our family today on our FREE app, THENEWFILIPINA.COM, which offers daily conversations, book club sessions, and the Tsismis with Jen and Nani Private Podcast (a.k.a. the Rated "R" version of TFAW ...

In this startling collection of short fiction, Ama Asantewa Diaka creates a vibrant portrait of young Ghanaians’ today, captured in the experiences of characters whose lives bump against one other in friendship, passion, hope, and heartache. Men like Opoku Sr., not yet forty and struggling to keep his family’s cocoa business afloat after his father’s unexpected passing. Opoku strains under the burden of caring for his eight younger siblings and the child whose mother ran off. When his new girlfriend tells him she’s pregnant, he knows he has nothing left to give.

Emmy A year after being rejected by my first love and my best friend's older brother, Grant, I return to Covet County for a fresh-old start. Turns out the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be and my blood pressure and bank account agree. Now, I'm in desperate need of a job. So when my best friend Ayla tells me I'm a shoo-in at the new Bear Lair Lodge and Lounge, I jump at the opportunity for a peaceful reset in the mountains. The problem? She didn't tell me that Grant was going to be my new boss. Built like a bear, he's still as irresistible and off-limits as I remember, with a beard ...

Tres historias protagonizadas por ángeles. En la primera veremos a Rastro de Dios, un ángel torpón pero con una misión muy importante que cumplir. La segunda nos sitúa en la Edad Media, con un ángel protector de los caminantes. Por último, un ángel moderno que aterriza en la Tierra en Navidad y recuerda el verdadero sentido de esas fechas. Historias de amor, aventura y amistad escritas con una exquisita forma literaria. Montserrat del Amo nació en Madrid el 15 de junio de 1927.

Madison Montgomery wollte nichts als endlich ein ganz normales Leben führen. Doch Vincent Bishop Hayes zog sie in eine Welt aus Macht, Intrigen und Geheimnissen. Obwohl sie sich versprochen haben, immer ehrlich zueinander zu sein, verbirgt er seine Gefühle hinter meterhohen Mauern. Und immer, wenn Madison glaubt, auf dem Weg zur Wahrheit ein weiteres Puzzleteil gefunden zu haben, schlägt der Elite Kings Club alles, was sie zu wissen glaubt, in tausend Stücke. Werden die Geheimnisse um die Kings für immer zwischen ihnen stehen, oder kann Maddie Bishop endlich vertrauen?

Après plusieurs années d'absence, un homme resurgit dans la vie de sa compagne et de leur jeune fils. Il les entraîne aux Roches, une vieille maison isolée dans la montagne où lui-même a grandi auprès d'un patriarche impitoyable. Entourés par une nature sauvage, la mère et le fils voient le père étendre son emprise sur eux et édicter les lois mystérieuses de leur nouvelle existence. Hanté par son passé, rongé par la jalousie, l'homme sombre lentement dans la folie. Bientôt, tout retour semble impossible.

~ Where taking the higher road can sanctify the journey~ Paisley St. James discovers Brace Cordan, the charismatic leader of the Re-Occupy movement, has been left behind to fend for himself at the wildlife park where she works in Pawnee Rock, Kansas. Sympathetic to include him in the community, she gives him a job tending the lorikeets, where he devises a gymnastics act that covers him with avian attention. When Brace lends his marketing expertise to increase daily attendance and passes romantic glances her way, small town living starts looking up. Betrayal strikes the park, leaving a tag-...

In the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel, Judas. These candid, uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw. What Makes an Apple? presents the most revealing of these conversations in English for the first time, painting an illuminating and disarmingly intimate portrait of a towering literary figure.

Take a chill pill, get ready to catch boogie fever, and turn it up to 11! Do You Fear Like We Do is set in an alternate scary ’70s where "disco inferno" isn’t just a song tile, an FM radio DJ who works the graveyard shift finds out what "catch you on the flipside" really means, and a rock band faces death flying the not-so-friendly skies. Stories include "Tiny Danger", "Comfortably Dumb", and "While My Guitar Gently Reaps".

Der Roman setzt ein im Jerusalem der vierziger Jahre, dem Fluchtpunkt all jener, die den Nationalsozialisten entkamen...

Cuando es enviada a un pequeño pueblo de Escocia por motivos laborales, la estirada joven no tiene más remedio que viajar hasta allí acompañada por su ayudante personal, Shane. Pronto, Leslie descubrirá que su refinado estilo de vida no es compatible con este lugar: sus empleadas no la respetan, no tiene centros comerciales donde satisfacer su vena consumista, y el encargado de ayudarla en su proyecto es un atractivo highlander que no para de burlarse de ella.

Hosts MA and LB bring you a weekly storytelling podcast of firsthand encounters with the other side.

Marine researcher Jaima Delarie’s world tilts out of predictable routine when Perry Manning shipwrecks off Cape Hatteras, forcing her into rescue mode. Attracted to the handsome fisherman, more than a hull repair ensues while an upstart boat towing company scours the shore looking for undisclosed salvage. Unexplainable complications follow, putting the tranquil coastal community on edge. Sabotage at her aquarium facility wraps Jaima too deep in involvement, lending Perry the perfect reason to come around more often. When the wrecked hull produces a hidden surprise, Perry’s reluctant ...

"Descifrando la Guerra", uno de los medios de comunicación digitales más influyentes en materia geopolítica, traza en este audiolibro la transición entre el viejo orden mundial unipolar y el nuevo, en el que múltiples potencias se disputarán el poder internacional en cinco escenarios que podrían ser clave para el futuro del mundo: Europa, el Sahel, el Mediterráneo oriental, Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos-China.

~Where honest advocacy justifies an investment of the heart~ Marin Evans finagles her way into a rowboat with a temperamental sound-side resident who’s about to have his salty heritage crumble beneath him on the Outer Banks. Tyde Fearing lowers his guard to give the insistent land use planner her interview, but doesn’t expect to enjoy her company as the threat of condemnation for the historic Fearing cottage makes his future seem bleak. Marin goes into advocacy mode when the historical society and recreation department clash for use of the Fearing land donation. An outbuilding with a ...

~Where a shared heritage becomes a bonding landscape~ On a forty-acre pocket of land his Grandpa Rowdy received as a gift off the neighbor’s sprawling ranch, accountant Reece Myers methodically strives to improve his standing in life. Next door, sassy Jodie Givens continues her sequined approach to ranch living, secretly scheming to regain Reece’s land until betrayed by hired help, leaving her entire ranch to face dissolution. A cataclysmic kiss exchanged the day she’s apprehended for owing back taxes turns into a pact between them to rectify land holdings. Jodie struggles to reinvent...