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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Cyrus the Great and learn about a Persian monarch whose impact is still being felt to this day.

This Science Fiction Collection brings together 20 iconic works from some of the genre's most influential authors. Featuring Ray Bradbury's atmospheric The Monster Maker and Rocket Summer, Isaac Asimov's thought-provoking Youth, E.M. Forster's dystopian The Machine Stops, and H.G. Wells' timeless masterpiece The Time Machine, the anthology explores a wide range of speculative themes. From futuristic worlds and artificial intelligence to time travel and human survival, this collection delves into the challenges and possibilities of the future.

In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers history’s unsung characters and brings their rich, riveting stories to light for the first time.

A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, operational chief Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat for the disaster and run out of the service. Months later, Sam appears at Procter's doorstep with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole burrowed deep within the highest ranks of the CIA.

Ivy thought everything was going to plan. She checked off all the boxes in her life that make her parents happy. It is not until she finds her soon to be husband cheating on her that she realizes she deserves better. Desperate to get away from the situation, she drives hours across the state, and soon finds herself on a farm with a grumpy cowboy and rough around the edges cowgirl.

The Broken OPEN Road to Mental Health: It IS My Business is a documentary-style continuation of Sharon Fekete's journey towards healing and self-discovery. During the pandemic pause, Sharon reflected on her life and memoir, The Broken Road to Mental Health In Life and In Business (2019), realizing she had suppressed significant trauma from her young adult years.

From early childhood, we learn about the world and its possibilities through myths and fairy tales. The heroines, though, tend to be young princesses or fair maidens, and the evildoers older women: wicked witches or unforgiving matriarchs. Yet a wealth of lesser-known European stories feature mature wise women with personality and power. Compiling many years of research, Sharon Blackie has reclaimed these tales, presenting them in evocative prose that will resonate with women of all ages.

Si un negocio da beneficios es mío, no importa si es legal o no. El clan Z controla el estado de Arizona y, como su líder, todos me respetan y temen. Al menos era así hasta que mis hombres secuestran y meten en casa a una paramédico. Aparte de preciosa, también es valiente, y eso es lo primero que logra atraer mi atención.

Online, influencer Abby Allerton is savvy, relevant, and empowered due to her Instagram profiles Plus-Size Real and Femme Fatale, but IRL not so much—she’s sadly stagnant and in need of an upgrade. When the #BTSPFW invite drops into her inbox, Abby can’t help but say, “Oui, oui, this is for me!” and do whatever it takes to get on the next plane to Paris for an exclusive behind-the-scenes Fashion Week event!

In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society? Sharon Brous—a leading American rabbi—makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as instinctual as it is counter-cultural, is to find our way to one other in celebration, in sorrow, and in solidarity. To show up for each other in moments of joy and pain, vulnerability and possibility, to invest in relationships of shared purpose and build communities of care.

Childless No More is a powerful journey through infertility, adoption, and faith that reveals the profound beauty of embracing God’s perfect plan. Struggling with infertility, Aikman felt the weight of dreams unfulfilled and hopes deferred. Yet, through each trial, her faith deepened, and the understanding of motherhood expanded beyond biological ties.

For an overpopulated Earth, whose resources are strained to the breaking point, there is only one place to look for relief: straight up. With the successful completion of the Padrugoi Space Station, humanity has at last achieved its first large-scale permanent presence in space. Additional bases are feverishly being built on the Moon and on Mars, stepping-stones to the greatest adventure in all history.

Gil (Domingo) is a struggling NYC actor who heads home to Philadelphia after the passing of his mother, Adelaide (Winfrey). The plan is to tidy-up her affairs as quickly and efficiently as possible, until a few unpredictably hilarious detours ensue. With his Aunt Glo (Washington) insisting on a proper burial, but an urn of ashes already in his hand, Gil gets thrown into a car by his best friend (Newell).

La guerra ha acabado. Y una nueva guerra acaba de empezar. Tres veces a lo largo de su historia, Nikan ha luchado por su supervivencia en las sangrientas Guerras de la Amapola. Aunque la tercera acaba de terminar, Rin no puede olvidar la atrocidad que cometió para salvar a su pueblo. Ahora está tratando de librarse de su culpa, de su adicción al opio y de las órdenes asesinas del ardiente Fénix, el dios vengativo que ha bendecido a Rin con su temible poder. Aunque no quiere seguir viviendo, se niega a morir hasta vengarse de la Emperatriz, que traicionó a la que fue la tierra natal de Rin.

Practical and motivational, The PAID Educator is a guide for educators who are ready to explore innovative ways to use their current knowledge and talents to treat themselves to a bigger budget. Using Dr. Bisa's four-step P-A-I-D approach for strategically discovering Prospects-Allies-Information-Dollars, educators working in any profession can become masters at controlling their own careers and revenue streams. It's high time for educators to get P-A-I-D!

Filled with channeled messages and reminders from Home, Book of One :-) Volume 2 is an excellent bedside companion for spirits in human form as it lovingly moves listeners along the path of Oneness and Sovereignty. It reaches people in different states of wakefulness by sharing various insights, ascension tools and tips and the author’s extraordinary experiences.

In A Heart as Wide as the World, one of America’s most popular and beloved Buddhist teachers offers encouragement and inspiration for anyone on the spiritual path. In short sections that include many stories and anecdotes drawn from her years as a student and teacher of Buddhist meditation, Sharon Salzberg reveals how our own happiness is found in the capacity to open our hearts to others—and that this capacity is far vaster than we ever thought possible.

Whether you're planning a trip to Mexico, looking to build conversational fluency, or want to master authentic Mexican slang, this audiobook is your all-in-one resource.

Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it.

Women are the future of American business. According to a recent Nielsen report, women will control two-thirds of American consumer wealth in less than a decade. And yet almost all business and success literature is still written for men - dispensing advice that doesn't take into account women's unique strengths or address the demands of family life on mothers.