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All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving and driving across the desert. Her mother is French, her father Algerian. When racial tensions begin to surface in their neighbourhood, her mother suffers an unspeakable act of violence that forces the family to flee the country.

When Anita finally returns home to London after a long absence, everything has changed. Her father is dead, her mother is away and she and her sister, Beth, are alone together for the first time in years. They share a house. They share a family. They share a past. Tentatively, they reach out to one another for connection, but the house echoes with words unspoken.

Clark used to be a miner, until he drank from a vial he swore was absinthe but was actually an invention to give him the ability to raise the dead. Now Clark seeks to fulfill his father's wishes to keep other inventions away from Senator Horan. His beloved Amethyst is along for the ride. Deceit, drama, romance, the insidious underbellies of gangs... How can she not be involved?

Jaya ha il cuore spezzato. Ha tentato a lungo di avere un bambino, ma dopo la terza gravidanza interrotta sta cominciando a perdere le speranze. Anche il suo matrimonio inizia a sfaldarsi e così, nel disperato tentativo di ritrovare sé stessa, decide di allontanarsi da New York per riavvicinarsi alle sue origini indiane. Non appena Jaya arriva in India viene immediatamente sopraffatta dai colori, dai profumi e dai suoni. Ogni cosa ha un fascino esotico, per lei, e ben presto il desiderio di riscoprire la cultura della sua famiglia prende il sopravvento.

Myths, Legends, and Sacred Stories is a children's audiobook that invites you to explore all the well-known stories from Greek and Norse mythology and a range of other cultures across more than 100 tales. Discover the fascinating myths of Anansi, the West African trickster god who takes the form of a spider; the story of the Wawilak Sisters of Arnhem Land in Northern Australia, who form the land as they walk across it; or the Slavic tale of Ivan as he chases the mischievous Firebird.

Jesse has a best friend named Jocelyn and Jocelyn is about the most beautiful woman a person could imagine. Jesse doesn’t mind, though. She’s okay with being the plain girl with the hot friend. She’s okay with a life of second place, and she’s happy to be free of all the drama that Jocelyn has to deal with all the time. When Sebastian shows up, though, he makes it pretty clear there isn’t anything about Jesse that he thinks is plain.

When Barbara attends a fancy charity dinner with Octavian at the Cheerville Country Club, the evening ends with a man getting stabbed to death in the men’s restroom. Barbara is the first to assess the scene, making her a prime suspect until she makes a call to the CIA. With an unlikely ally, she must rub shoulders with more of Cheerville’s finest to uncover which of these privileged old folks had the motivation to kill the new guy in town.

This short story unfolds as journal entries. The journal’s author takes you through his grief stricken teenage life, having lost his girlfriend to the afterlife. The lad uncovers something fascinating about the magical book that he’d found in his attic, but what are the consequences to all this newfound power?

Lizzy Bennet has her life sorted—well, sort of. She’s a successful veterinarian, working with her brother, Chase, in the family’s practice, she has her friends and family, and she has her petite gray cat, Evie. But, the one thing Lizzy doesn’t have is a boyfriend.

Someone is attacking and robbing luxury yachts as they sail the Hawaiian Islands leaving their passengers missing and presumed dead. Sergeant Lei Texeira, with her typical leap first look later style, dives into a case with the Coast Guard to find answers that lie as deep as Davy Jones’ locker.

Are you stressed by your day job or other life problems? Does it have an impact on your sleep, so you never get a restful night? Would you like to revert to your childhood for a solution? We all need sleep, and it is absolutely essential that we get enough of it in sufficient quality to help us function.

Many adults have a problem with sleeping at night, often brought on by the stresses of modern living. We have so much on our plate that our daily problems cannot be simply erased, and they occupy our thoughts until we find ourselves in a damaging cycle of worry, anxiety, and lack of sleep. That’s why this series of books was written - to give you a way of dropping off and getting a proper night’s sleep.

Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize-winning author, was known as much for his prose as for his travels to exotic locales; his gusto and charm created excitement wherever he went. In Ernest's Way, we follow Cristen around the globe to the places he lived, wrote, fought, drank, fished, ran with the bulls, and held court with T.S. Elliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein and many other influential writers, artists, and intellectuals of the 20th century.

Seventeen-year-old Savannah is cursed. It's a sinister family heirloom; passed down through the bloodline for hundreds of years, with one woman in every generation destined to die young. The family call them Hella’s girls, named for their ancestor Hella; the enslaved woman with whom it all began. Hella’s girls are always angry, especially in the months before they die.

Mit dem Nachtzug nach Rom! Gleich nach ihrer Ankunft begeben sich Fred und Opa Alfred auf die Spuren der alten Römer. Auf dem Forum Romanum beginnt die Tour. Über Jahrhunderte war das Forum Romanum der Nabel der Welt. Wie sah es damals aus, als die Caesaren sich mit prunkvollen Triumphzügen feiern ließen? Im Kolosseum führt die Bauforscherin Flavia die beiden hinter die Kulissen ins Untergeschoss. Fred darf sogar mit einem nachgebauten Aufzug in die Arena fahren. Doch plötzlich ist alles anders: Er hört Wildkatzen fauchen und Bären brüllen.

Have you ever wondered if God loves you? This question has been asked by children of all ages, and the answer sometimes is that they feel unloved. We often make the connection with our feelings about God in the heavens to how we feel about our fathers on Earth. If children have grown up in a harsh and unloving environment, they may have made a connection that God also gets angry easily and is not loving. How Good Can God Be? is an inspiring audiobook to all humans who want to feel the universal emotion of love.

In She Is Me, veteran journalist Lori Sokol, PhD, introduces listeners to 35 women hailing from all walks of life who have successfully utilized qualities like compassion, empathy, introspection, and solidarity to create change and transform lives.

Luisa è una donna che all`apparenza ha tutto. Eppure lei si sente terribilmente sbagliata! Durante una missione umanitaria in Sierra Leone, conosce Giorgio un affascinante medico, per cui perde la testa. Una notte i guerriglieri arrivano in un villaggio vicino l`ospedale da campo, distruggendo e incendiando tutto ciò che incontrano. Tra il fuoco e la desolazione si fa strada una donna con una bambina in braccio, salvare quella piccola vita che la madre morente le affida, darà inizio ad una catena di eventi che la cambierà per sempre.

Piper Parrish's life on Frick Island - a tiny, remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay - is nearly perfect. Well, aside from one pesky detail: Her darling husband, Tom, is dead. When Tom's crab boat capsized and his body wasn't recovered, Piper, rocked to the core, did a most peculiar thing.

En kvinde i begyndelsen af sine 30’ere ser tilbage på sit erotiske liv fra puberteten og frem til nutiden. Glimtvis udfolder hendes erindringer om den lesbiske veninde Alphonsina og elskeren Jan sig passioneret og åbenhjertigt. Hun reflekterer over kønsrollernes udvikling gennem årene, over sine mere eller mindre tilfældige bekendtskaber i den kunstneriske verden, hun bevæger sig, og over forholdet til sin egen mor.