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"You want more time Mr Brown, of course you do. We all want more time. Let me make you an offer...." Andrew Brown never has enough time. No time to call his sister, or to prepare for that important presentation at the bank where he works. The train’s late, the lift jams. If only he’d had just a little more time. And time is the business of Mr Symington and Mr Blenkinsop. They’ll lend him some - at a very reasonable rate of interest. Detecting a problem, the Doctor, Amy and Rory go undercover at the bank.

In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow students. Eccentric and alluring, the more time Paul spends with his new friends the closer they become, and the deeper he falls in love with the mesmerising Charlotte. But Paul is not the only one vying for her affections, and soon an insidious rivalry takes root.

Gilbert Sinclair is going to marry an heiress. With his latest business venture sunk at the bottom of Lake Superior, he needs money to replace the steamship he lost. He heads to Chicago, where his father's business connections should land him a suitable wife. Like most things in his meticulously planned life, everything goes as expected - until he discovers Rebekah Cummings working as the new cook on his ship.

We all have a façade, a concealed mask we wear to portray ourselves to the world. Fallon has never had to wear a mask. She grew up with two loving parents in Chicago, graduated from college and is now working a job she loves. But her untarnished world is shaken when Luca crosses her path.

Best-selling author Naomi Wolf demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty, she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence, ultrasounds tested her commitment to abortion rights, and the keepers of the OB/GYN establishment lacked compassion. Wolf's courageous willingness to talk about the unexpected difficulties of childbirth will help every woman become a more knowledgeable planner of her pregnancy and better prepare her for the challenges of balancing a career, freedom, and a growing family.

Everybody feared the man with the metal band over his mouth. Stryker was part of an elite group of Cyborgs genetically enhanced with inhuman DNA. He was known as the Creeper, the quiet, the man with half a face. His fate was his own and his freedom hard-earned, having nothing to live for but the hunt and his perfect record. Until he received a distress call that changed his bleak existence.

Netto was a Cyborg, a protector, and a contracted mercenary. His specialty was the water: shallows, salt water, and open oceans across the universe. He was also a freak forged from the DNA of a bull shark-blue-gray skin, a body built with power, and a double-set of razor-sharp teeth. His nomadic lifestyle came to a halt when his employer, the Earthian Planetary Exploration Division, offered him his old job back. Rylie was born and raised on the planet Kepler, on an agri-lot that farmed jewels from the sea. But something was happening to her family's lots and people were disappearing. 

Dommik was a monster, a Monster Hunter, and an alpha. Part of an elite group that dealt with the horrors of the universe. At least that was what everyone at the spaceport was whispering as he walked by. A Cyborg, a hunter, a beast with eyes as dark as the pits of Hell and the stride of a predator. Katalina was a nobody who was intimate with death. It clung to her like a shroud, It followed her like the plague, and infected her like a parasite. When she overheard that the Monster Hunter needed an assistant, she took the job.

His betrayal destroyed her trust. Luca did everything for Fallon. But as the underboss of the Chicago Syndicate, he has an entire organization depending on him, and she is a weakness he can no longer afford. When Fallon's life continues to unravel, she will need Luca more than ever, but can she move beyond all the lies and deceit? 

Adriano Montesi has always revolved his life around women, his family, and the Chicago Syndicate. But his current focus is locating Camilla Guillermo, the one woman who's captured his attention beyond a simple f--k. He and Cam have a secret history together, and now that she's disappeared, he's determined to find her. What started as a routine mission quickly turns into an obsession. Italian beauty Camilla Guillermo is running away from a past that haunts her and the man that deceived her. But wherever she goes, she can't outrun her thoughts of Adriano.

Tressa Danell is finished with men - from the wastrel who left her a widow to the smelly trapper who keeps proposing to the banker who wants to repossess her bakery. Every hour is spent working to pay off her late husband's debt and keep a roof over her son's head, though it's doubtful she can do both for very long. But one thing's certain - she'll never be beholden to a man again.

Victoria Donnelly wants to do something right at least once in her lifetime. Her plan to redeem herself requires her to return to her hometown of Eagle Harbor, where forgotten feelings for a man she can never have lie buried. Elijah Cummings has loved Victoria for 15 years. But fishermen's sons don't marry shipping barons' daughters. Resolved to keep his distance from Victoria, Elijah focuses on establishing a much-needed life-saving station...until he learns she's about to make an irreversible decision, one she'll spend the rest of her life regretting.

When life is at its best, the unimaginable can shatter everything you think you know... Abigail Samuels has no reason to feel anything but joy on the morning her life falls apart. The epitome of the successful Jewish American woman, she is married to a well-known and respected accountant and is in the middle of planning her daughter Kayla's wedding. Kayla, too, wakes up that morning with the world in the palm of her hand....

The American child welfare system is bent toward protecting adults, not children. Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where kids can thrive?

After an attack on earth, all reflective surfaces become weapons to release monsters, causing a planet-wide ban on mirrors. Despite the danger, the demand rises, and 17-year-old Marty Callahan becomes a distributor in an illegal mirror trade - until he's caught by the mayor's son, whose slate is far from clean. Both of them are exiled for their crimes to one of the many abandoned cities overrun by fog. But they soon realize their thoughts influence their surroundings and their deepest fears begin to manifest.

Set in 1944 Chicago, Edgar Award-winner Naomi Hirahara’s eye-opening and poignant new mystery, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese-American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II.

Zwei Töchter, zwei Familien – ein unentrinnbares Schicksal Brooklyn, New York, 1928: Die Freundinnen Antonia und Sofia werden ins Mafia-Milieu hineingeboren, von klein auf sind sie unzertrennlich und doch könnten sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Sofia Colicchio ist ein Freigeist, ein wildes, ungezähmtes Wesen. Antonia Russo ist bedacht, beobachtet still die Welt um sich herum. Die Häuser der Freundinnen grenzen aneinander, ihre Väter sind Teil der »Familie«, die beider Welten untrennbar verbindet.

Was ist Validation? Lassen Sie es sich von der Erfinderin selbst erklären - in einem Hörbuch! Temperamentvoll schlüpft Naomi Feil abwechselnd in die Rollen von verwirrten alten Menschen und Pflegenden und lässt Hörerinnen und Hörer hautnah erleben, wie man mit Validation helfen kann: Validation lässt die Erlebniswelt des verwirrten alten Menschen gelten. Empathie und Anerkennung gehören zur Grundhaltung. Naomi Feil erzählt von den Wurzeln ihrer Methode und erklärt, welche kognitiven und emotionalen Veränderungen in altersverwirrten Menschen vorgehen.

When it comes to parenting a child with a hidden disability, everyone seems to have an opinion. Here, Naomi Simmons writes from experience, offering new solutions for when conventional parenting strategies just don't work. Whether it be high functioning autism, ADHD, OCD, a mood or anxiety disorder with or without a diagnosis, if you have a child with any hidden disability, this is the audiobook for you.

On Fire gathers for the first time more than a decade of Naomi Klein's impassioned writing from the front line of climate change and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of what we choose to do next. These essays, reports and lectures show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but also as a spiritual and imaginative one.