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Gild by Raven Kennedy meets a female version of Dexter in this gritty dark romantasy. With gods-blessed magic, vigilante justice, sisterhood, and unexpected romance, Black and Blue Widow will have you rooting for rage, revenge, and somehow, love.

Those who play with prophecies will get burned… 23-year-old Undesirable Durvla Garrick has a dangerous secret. Being both deaf and having a chronic ailment, her very existence is treasonous. So, when the queen’s mercenaries accuse her of stealing a dress, she comes quietly—better to be arrested for her knitting skills than her illness. Under the watchful eye of the broody royal guard, Tiernan Kilkenny—the embodiment of the very people she’s spent her life hiding from—Durvla is appointed dressmaker to the princess. But castle life isn’t quite what she expected, and nor is its staff…

Alisia is normal, as far as humans go. She’s a young historian recovering from heartbreak, intent only on settling down and living peacefully. But the gods have different intentions. Alisia and her sister wake up on an alien ship. The merciless Admiral Brutus of the Vudar empire has mistaken the pair for members of the rival Sem’Pari race and plans on using them as spies, controlling them with neural implants. However, Alisia quickly realizes Brutus’s team unknowingly implanted the wrong AI chip in her head.

Nach dem rätselhaften Tod ihrer Lifeguard-Kollegin ist Layla am Boden zerstört. Nur Jackson und ihre Gefühle für ihn lenken sie ab. Doch dann geschieht das Unfassbare: Ausgerechnet er gerät ins Visier der Ermittlungen. Layla, die von Jacksons Unschuld überzeugt ist, steht ihm bei und taucht dabei immer tiefer in seine Welt ab.

Mags’ Welt liegt in Scherben. Nicht nur ihre Familie, sondern auch Cyrus hat sie belogen. Weder ihm noch den Knights kann sie länger trauen. Sie flieht von der Akademie, um mehr über ihre Kräfte und die Geheimisse der Loge herauszufinden. Die Suche führt Mags und ihre Freundin Stella zu den Rivalen der Knights, den Heirs of the Serpent. Was sie von ihnen erfahren, stellt alles auf den Kopf, was Mags zu wissen geglaubt hat. Währenddessen sind die Hunter der Knights Mags bereits auf den Fersen. Unter ihnen auch Cyrus, dessen Gefühle für Mags seine Loyalität infrage stellen.

Fischers Buch reflektiert zwei Jahrzehnte Praxiserfahrung mit der Gewaltfreien Kommunikation. Es liefert einen auf nachhaltiger Persönlichkeitsentwicklung basierenden Ansatz einer neuen Gewaltfreien Kommunikation – ohne Selbstzensur und Dogmatik. Es beleuchtet die Abgründe des Kommunikationstheaters und zeigt Möglichkeiten, wie sich gelingende Beziehungen in Berufs- und Privatleben gestalten lassen.

Receptionist Pam Beesly and accountant Angela Martin had very little in common when they toiled together at Scranton’s Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. But, in reality, the two bonded in their very first days on set and, over the nine seasons of the series’ run, built a friendship that transcended the show and continues to this day.

Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West in only the last 20 years or so - and it has become very popular indeed because it's a practice that one can fit very well into an ordinary life, and because it works.

Mona is a smart girl and figured everything out a long time ago. She had to. She didn’t have a choice. When your parents are uber-celebrities and you graduate from high school at 15, finish college at 18, and start your PhD program at 19, you don’t have time for distractions outside of your foci. Even fun is scheduled. Which is why Abram, her brother’s best friend, is such an irritant. Abram is a talented guy, a supremely gifted musician, and has absolutely nothing figured out, nor does he seem to care.

Ava Archer misses her best childhood friend most especially during the month of April. Ask any tax attorney, it's a lonely, grueling time of year. Luckily, Ava has just received a surprising and delectably absurd offer from her posh doppelgänger at work. She must pretend to be the aforementioned posh co-worker for one night at an extremely fancy party; a party so fancy, there exists absolutely no chance anyone will recognize her or suspect her ruse. . .

In frightening times, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas, or “six perfections” - generosity, ethical conduct, patience, joyful effort, meditation, and understanding - can help us reconfigure the world we live in.

Kaitlyn Parker has no problem being the invisible girl, which is why she finds herself hiding in various cabinets and closets all over her college campus. Despite her best efforts, she can’t escape the notice of Martin Sandeke—bad boy, jerk-face bully, and the universe’s hottest, wealthiest, and most unobtainable bachelor—who also happens to be Kaitlyn’s chemistry lab partner.

B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes - only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins - turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother....

As the "science of humanity," anthropology can help us understand virtually anything about ourselves, from our political and economic systems, to why we get married, to how we decide to buy a particular bottle of wine. This 24-lecture course reveals the extraordinary power of anthropology - and its subspecialty, cultural anthropology - as a tool to understand the world's varied human societies, including our own.

The question-and-answer format makes this introduction to Zen especially easy to understand - and also to use as a reference, as you can easily look up just the question you had in mind. The esteemed Zen teacher Norman Fischer and his old friend and teaching colleague Susan Moon (both of them in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind) give this collaborative effort a playful tone: Susan asks a question on our behalf, Norman answers it, and then Sue challenges him.

For-Bitten Love delves into the life of Brian Helsing, a descendant of the famed monster hunters. After a catastrophic party, he finds himself entangled with Violet, a seductive vampire with secrets of her own. She reveals the brutal truth: Brian was bitten by a werewolf, and now, marked by the beast, he faces a future he never imagined, where his very survival hangs in the balance.

Vowing at an early age "to be a poet or nothing at all", Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles that remain widely influential today. Another was a body of evocative spiritual poetry. Published for the first time in English, these vivid, probing short works reflect deeply on the challenges of life.

La Paloma, ade – auf, Matrosen, ohé! Mamma Carlotta weilt wieder einmal bei Schwiegersohn Erik und den Enkeln auf Sylt – doch von Entspannung kann keine Rede sein. Erst muss sie Erik beim Nordic Walking unterstützen, damit ihm die sportliche Motivation nicht abhandenkommt, und dann gibt es neue Aufregung: Die ehemalige Sylter Operettensängerin Lydia Warenholz ist nach vielen Jahren zurück, um ihrer Karriere neuen Schwung zu verleihen. Aber am Tag nach ihrem großen Konzert wird sie mausetot aufgefunden.

What does it mean to be pretty? Do you really need someone to validate your appearance? Neil LaBute tackles our obsession with physical beauty head-on in a work nominated for multiple Tony and Drama Desk Awards. Our production, directed by the playwright, includes original Broadway cast member Thomas Sadoski, whose acclaimed performance also earned aTony nomination. Includes a backstage conversation with Neil LaBute and the cast. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production.

What do you do when your freakishly smart and wickedly sarcastic Research Methods professor sees you mostly naked? You befriend him, of course.