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It had been thirteen years, but my heart skipped a beat. My brain was bursting with things I wanted to say—many of them contradictory—things I had thought I might say if I ever saw him again. So, I said nothing. He pulled a leather bag out of an inside pocket of his cloak, opened the drawstrings, and turned it upside down over a display tray on the counter. A flood of rubies—smooth but uncut—poured out. "I need you. There's probably a whole mountain full of them. But I can't find the vein myself. Come with me, and we'll split the take."

A brief, inspiring parable about being "stuck" and—more importantly—getting unstuck. Three people, all of whom are struggling with difficult life situations, separately and individually happen upon a tranquil pond in a small, secluded park. As they muse about their difficulties, a frog appears from the pond. Their conversations with the frog lead them to discoveries and realizations that free them from their stuck circumstances.

In a quaint, rural town in northern Tennessee, self-proclaimed detective Ace Shades investigates a series of ongoing murders, somehow related to his dark, mysterious past—a past so dark and mysterious that even he doesn’t remember any of it. With the help of his colleagues, who are just as unreliable as he is, they uncover a conspiracy, involving a threat unlike any other before it—or at least any other threat they had faced before, assuming they had faced any other threat at all.

Armed with Arcane Cards and a fresh comprehension of dragonessence, Twillo is better equipped than ever to challenge Jecha, the formidable God of Carnage. However, the challenge doesn't end there: a race against time and foe alike to unlock the last of the ziggurats, which hold the key to resurrecting dragons in the Four Kingdoms of the Sagaland. Venturing towards the sun-drenched southern desert, Twillo is joined by an old friend thought lost to time. This newly forged alliance, however, will face challenges at every turn.

Cronaca di vita e d'amore ambientata in una cittadina della California degli anni Cinquanta, Mary e il gigante racconta la storia di Mary Anne Reynolds, una giovane donna dal carattere sensibile e intenso, e delle sue difficoltà affettive e relazionali.

Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland for the first time in years, only to be greeted by a completely empty house. No heat or light, no furniture, no sign of his wife or child anywhere. It seems the world has forgotten that he even existed. The one exception is a persistent caller on the telephone, someone who seems to know everything about Nealon's life, his recent bother with the law and, more importantly, what has happened to his family. All Nealon needs to do is talk with him. But the more he talks the closer Nealon gets to the same trouble he was in years ago.

You will find yourself in this audiobook. Together with the main characters, you will go from obscurity and despair to rebirth and freedom. Immerse yourself in the mysteries of the universe. Meet with truth, goodness, evil, the desire to live, the right to choose, free will, infinity of time, faith, hope, and love. And most importantly, you will meet with yourself.

Human beings always seem to be in a rush, treating life as though it is a race. However, the winners of the race are those who demonstrate pureness of soul and offer kindness as well as fairness to others.

Through five dreams the narrative depicts the main character seeing the same woman recurring throughout his dreams. Her appearance and name are continually changing, but they are always seventeen and fifteen and the two characters never fail to recognize each other. A short story of love lost and found and an example of how dreams can stay with us and weave a rich tapestry of experience and characters.

One day, one of her clients tells Lily and a group of fellow students about an autopsy that was accidentally performed on the wrong body at the hospital where she works. She was hoping to send the body to the funeral home as quickly as possible, but when the medical examiner’s report is complete, it states that death was due to homicide! Lily (along with the clients who were present that day) is intrigued and can’t help doing a little investigating. The murkiness of the woman’s death sparks the very type of passion and interest she has been yearning to feel.

Brought to you by Penguin. The future is no more, and eternity has begun. It's 1986 and a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Løyning returns home from military service to live with his mother and brother on the outskirts of a town in Southern Norway. One night, he dreams of his...

The kid called Chatter has an affliction. Perhaps it is a gift. He attracts dying jackrabbits. Orphaned by parents whose names he never knew, he was worshiped and savaged in the institutions that raised him. Pushed out by his peers, trailed by the dying, the kid called Chatter fled. In an isolated river valley on the western frontier, as the Great Depression drags on, the jackrabbits are undeterred and the kid called Chatter is trapped inside the choice to survive. Moonshiner Ruddy Lou offers him a future as a messianic faith healer, as long as he never asks questions or exposes the con.

Der #1 Bestseller Autor mit einer bewegenden Geschichte: Mach dich auf die Suche nach der Liebe in dir! Was bedeutet die Liebe in unserem Leben? Wie folgt man seinem Herzen? Ist das Leben vorbestimmt oder kann uns die universelle Kraft der Liebe leiten? Diesen Fragen begegnet Sal auf seiner Reise. Sals Kinder sind verschollen. Einzig der seltsame Fischer Deon scheint mehr darüber zu wissen. Die Suche nach ihnen bringt Sal auf einen Weg, der ihn mit den Herzen der Menschen in Berührung bringt.

The universe is populated, and many worlds are far-flung and forgotten. Until the day Gabryl, a man both alive and dead, his body reposing in a sarcophagus, his spirit roaming as a shifting being, bellows a call to arms. Eurue, as world and civilization, after ages of isolation, will now step into the ultimate arena.

Lisa steckt fest: Mit ihrem Mann und den Kindern gibt es oft Streit, beruflich kommt sie nicht weiter, sie fühlt sich ausgepowert und unverstanden. Kurzentschlossen nimmt sie eine Auszeit. Als sie auf einem Spaziergang die Reste eines Mosaiks mit zwölf Frauenfiguren entdeckt, kommt sie mit einer alten Bäuerin ins Gespräch. Diese weiht sie in das Geheimnis des Mosaiks ein und was es für Suchende bedeutet. In einer Nacht voller Magie wird Lisa klar, dass sie nur dann zur Heldin ihres Lebens werden kann, wenn sie sich selbst erkennt und ihr Leben aktiv steuert.

Two souls on the evolutionary journey are scheduled to live "The Perfect Life". They have chosen the ways and means to learn lessons to facilitate this growth and move to the next learning level... When a mix up occurs just before they are to be reincarnated again, the souls get sent to the chosen life of the other. He is born Reginald James Westing III into old money and she, Sara O'Connor, becomes the 3rd youngest child of a very large family struggling to get by. With this unfortunate twist of fate, all hope of learning the chosen lessons seem futile.

When fire rips through the Woodland Country, everything changes for Ellin. No longer do the People want to live in the Red. Fear makes them want to harness and control it. They now live in the Blue where fossil-burning and Making help destroy every form of discomfort; their charismatic leader, Low, has convinced them to live that way. But Ellin predicts their decline, caused by the new way they live. The air has turned thick and oily and everything they touch is greasy Blue. Worst of all, the animals of the Woodland and Plains Countries are dying.

In the face of tragedy and torn between the pressure of his father and the temptations of a mysterious woman, Caleb Uriel is unanchored and lost. Caleb is a budding young lawyer and observant Jew in the 1980s in New York City who struggles with his faith and direction in life. The sudden death of his mother awakens an inner earthquake and reveals the fragile nature of his beliefs. A chance meeting with a street sweeper and hidden mystic named Elijah in Times Square, though, proves to be the spark to set him on a path for personal discovery and renewal.

Niamh el Ri'ili spends her days locked away at the shining court and her nights playing fiddle across the veil in the world of men. All of that changed the night she met the vampire Connor O’Brien. Because of him, her long dormant hand of power awakens in a new world of blood and sun. As supernatural forces fan their appetites and desires, a web of courtly intrigue and seduction entangles them. Suddenly, an old foe arises when they are least expecting it. Niamh is robbed of her memories and power, and hidden away in the world of men—away from the safety of the Other World.

There is a voice within you. Listening to that voice is the difference be­tween happiness and misery, wonderful memories and heartrending regrets. The Rock­ing Chair Prophet is a transformational story about reclaiming that voice and the unmiti­gated joy that comes from following it.