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It is 1796. Duval Harlington, recently released from a French prison, is on his way home. He must reach his late father’s estate Muchmore House before the following evening if he is to inherit it. But the inheritance rests on another condition: he must also be married. He is at a market, hoping to buy a fast horse, when he hears about a wife sale. He takes his chance and makes an extravagant bid for young widow, Edmée Hyde. To his delight and dismay, the bid is accepted and they marry, only to find that he and Edmée are both hiding life-threatening secrets.

Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman with more regrets than belongings who spends her life doing what no one else will: searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings Frankie to Mattapan, a Boston neighbourhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier.

If Veda’s mama hadn’t pounded religion into her “the way she pounded the dirt out of Papa’s overalls”, she probably wouldn’t have married Raymond in the first place. It’s the Great Depression, and jobs are scarce, but it seems to Veda that Raymond uses religion as an excuse for why he can’t find work. He can’t work on the Sabbath, he can’t work around crude or vulgar men, and he will not join a union.

Do you feel stuck because of how your parents treated you? Do you struggle with guilt, shame, or self-doubt because of a toxic mother or father? This audiobook is here to help you heal and take control of your life. Narcissistic Parents offers two powerful guides in one audiobook to help you recover from the emotional wounds caused by a narcissistic mother or father. Whether you're trying to move past a controlling parent or escape unhealthy family dynamics, this audiobook provides simple, easy-to-understand steps for healing.

Don't let past attachments define your future. Transform your relationships and and start your journey to lasting connections today!

James Denis gives Captain Lacey a task to deliver a mysterious package to a man with an office near the Custom House on the bank of the Thames. Lacey, who has been drawn into danger delivering items for Denis before, opens the package to find a single chess piece - a white queen. The piece tells Lacey nothing, but he soon realizes it plays deeply into Denis’s ongoing battle for control of London’s underworld.

The True, the Good, and the Beautiful are as timeless a trio of concepts as Western culture has to offer. Since before Socrates, humankind has explored these virtues in an attempt to describe and categorize them. Our definitions of these concepts, moreover, have unceasingly changed over the ages and across continents.

Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, philosophy, religion, pseudoscience, and Alice in Wonderland.

As parents, you play a crucial role in supporting your dancer’s ballet path and we know navigating the world of ballet training can be challenging. The Ballet Help Desk podcast is here to help! Tune in for expert insights on supporting your student’s ballet education. We cover key topics like summer intensives, ballet competitions, full-time and postgraduate training, health and wellness, boys in ballet and more. Hear valuable advice from leading professionals across the ballet world to help your dancer make the most informed decisions about their unique training path. Learn more at ...

From the founder of Wikipedia, a sweeping reflection on the global crisis of credibility and knowledge, revealing “the rules of trust” that transformed Wikipedia from a scrappy experiment into a global utility used by billions of people—and how those rules can help others build things that last

The Forgotten Oneness delves into the fundamental teaching of the oneness of God in the Bible. This book examines the use of singular personal pronouns and clear statements about God's singularity in both the Old and New Testaments, and how this belief is the cornerstone of Judaism and early Christianity. The book also challenges traditional and mainstream Christian beliefs, including the doctrine of the Trinity, and argues for the importance of understanding the oneness of God in matters of worship and salvation.

AD 63. Leonidas’s former trainer, Aemil, asks him to look into the disappearances of gladiators from his ludus. Leonidas and Cassia investigate, and soon uncover gruesome murders involving some of the wealthiest citizens of Rome. Leonidas pits his skills against an unknown killer who hunts gladiators from the back lanes of the Subura to prestigious villas atop Rome’s hills. He and Cassia must succeed in uncovering the murderer’s identity before Nero grows impatient and makes Leonidas pay for the chaos the killer has rained down upon his city.

A "by Hackers for Hackers" podcast focused on technical content ranging from bug bounty tips, to write-up explanations, to the latest hacking techniques.

The first of John Gardner's novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent. Bond has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist known as Franco. Together, they plan to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world and start a global meltdown, unless Bond can stop them...

This audiobook on psychological warfare elaborates on manipulation, deception, and propaganda tactics used by people in public, personal, and professional realms to control victims and benefit from them.

Desbloquee el camino hacia el amor propio y la independencia con el libro de trabajo definitivo para la recuperación de la codependencia¿Está atrapado en el ciclo de la codependencia, anteponiendo constantemente las necesidades de los demás a las suyas propias? ¿Le teme tanto al abandono que dicta sus relaciones? ¿Está listo para dejar de sentirse culpable por elegir su propia felicidad y comenzar a vivir una vida fiel a sí mismo? Es hora de recuperar su independencia y autoestima. ¿De qué trata este libro? Entender la codependencia: Sumérjase en la mecánica de las relaciones ...

One summer day, a countercultural drifter known only as the Sunlight Man appears in Batavia, New York. Jailed for painting the word "LOVE" across two lanes of traffic, the Sunlight Man encounters Fred Clumly, a 64-year-old town sheriff. Throughout the course of this impressive narrative, the dialogue between these two men becomes a microcosm of the social unrest that epitomized America during this significant historical period - and culminates in an unforgettable ending.

Steph Rizzo loves three things: her career as a firefighter; her girlfriend, Rosa; and cooking. Not necessarily in that order. The only thing lacking in her life is trying to get her girlfriend to marry her. They have lived together for 11 years, but still Rosa can't quite bring herself to say I do. After Rosa's parents died in a car accident, she grew up in a state home. Now, she has everything she's ever wanted: a lover, a home, and a career. Until the night she is shot while on duty.

A la edad de veinte años y después de haber salido de la Marina, Chris Gardner, llegó a San Francisco para continuar una carrera prometedora en la medicina. Considerado un hijo prodigio de la investigación científica, sorprendió a todos y a sí mismo estableciendo su punto de vista en el competitivo mundo de las finanzas. Sin embargo, apenas había entrado a una posición de gran nivel en una empresa de prestigio, Gardner se encontró atrapado en una red de circunstancias increíblemente difíciles que lo dejaron como parte de los ciudadanos sin hogar y con un hijo pequeño.

From best-selling author David Gardner - A travel book about a couple's adventure in Italy. This is a tale of beauty, romance and wonder and a couple who fell in love with a country and its people. From Rome to Tuscany to Sicily, this is a journey of exploration, humor and surprises that take the reader into ancient piazzas, local markets, tiny medieval villages and along idyllic walking trails, always with some vino at hand and an appreciation of the extraordinary. This is a compelling read for any who want to take the road less traveled, to experience the real Italy, to understand its ...