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A collection of psychological thriller novels featuring a woman with a dangerous past, a moral code she can't ignore, and a talent for uncovering what others want hidden. These are psychological thrillers that build. Tension simmers. Danger creeps. Secrets unravel minute by minute.

Sister John has devoted her life to serving God. For almost 30 years she has lived in a Carmelite monastery near Los Angeles. There, she experiences religious visions of such intensity that she is revered by the other nuns. But these visions also bring on excruciating headaches. When she is offered an operation that may stop the pain, she realizes that it may also stop the visions. Now Sister John wonders how this change will affect her faith.

Baby learns more about Easter. She learns about Faberge eggs and Easter Island. She helps the Easter bunny paint eggs in time for the Eastern Egg Hunt. Join baby on her adventures as she helps save Easter this year.

Lee Smith, one of today's finest writers in the Southern literary tradition, has been compared to Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. This collection of nine stories, ranging from poignant ballads to delightfully inventive forms, showcases Smith's celebrated talent. The stories will make you chuckle and leave you with a satisfying sense that no matter how unruly or warped life may seem, equilibrium can be found after all.

Allow Linda’s soothing vocal tones to guide you into restorative sleep with this collection of deeply relaxing, reassuring and comforting sleep-inducer meditations. The meditations combine positive affirmations and progressive relaxation techniques to promote states of mind conducive to sleeping soundly. Each track is complete in itself, and contains mindfulness practice, breath awareness, positive affirmations, positive suggestions and loving kindness.

Carl Gustav Jung ha sido un gran seductor de mujeres de fama legendaria. Esta ficción dramática explora e ilustra las relaciones de C.J. Jung con sus cuatro mujeres más importantes: Emma Rauschenbach, su esposa, Sabina Spielrein, su primera paciente y amante, Toni Wolff. Paciente, asistente, amiga y amante durante 40 años y finalmente , durante sus años maduros, con la estudiante Marie-Louise von Franz.

Few of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime. Her posthumous fame is largely due to the efforts of her editors and supporters Thomas W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd.

Veil had been a step out of place all his life. Until one day he found a phone that took him on a path far beyond the world he knew. But to get all the answers he had to save the princess he fell in love with - only to lose her once he made her a queen.

Sara Polat hat immer davon geträumt, der Liebe ihres Lebens das Ja-Wort zu geben. Nicht einem milliardenschweren CEO, den die spanische Presse als kalt und skrupellos beschreibt. Für Victor Moreno ist Liebe die größte Zeitverschwendung. Was zählt, sind sein Unternehmen und die Pflichten, die sein mächtiger Familienname mit sich bringt. Bis ein Ultimatum seines Großvaters ihn zwingt zu heiraten. Als das Schicksal ihm Sara in die Hände spielt, scheint er in ihr die perfekte Lösung gefunden zu haben. Denn sie steht tief in seiner Schuld.

Reverend Augustus Shackleford hat nur ein Ziel: für jede seiner acht eigensinnigen Töchter einen wohlhabenden Ehemann mit Adelstitel zu finden. Ein beinahe unmögliches Unterfangen, da die jungen Damen nach seiner eigenen Einschätzung nicht den Hauch einer damenhaften Ader in ihren acht Leibern besitzen. Wo er Gentlemen finden wird, die willig–oder töricht–genug sind, sich dieser Aufgabe zu stellen, bleibt ein Rätsel, das selbst göttliches Eingreifen auf die Probe stellen könnte.

In this anthology of creative nonfiction, 28 writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in these essays were shaped, for good and bad, by the economic and political crosswinds of their time.

Da Bryanna in Schottland aufwächst, sind ihr Hobgoblins, Selkies und Kelpies aus den Geschichten ihrer Heimat wohlbekannt. Umso mehr staunt sie, als sie einige dieser Wesen eines Tages wirklich sieht. Leidet sie unter Halluzinationen? Bevor sie ihren Vater um Rat fragen kann, wird er von einer Frau entführt, deren Geruch Bryanna merkwürdig bekannt vorkommt. Anstatt die Polizei zu informieren folgt sie der Entführerin und landet im Abenteuer ihres Lebens.

A groundbreaking study of a contentious practice that has become popular among the nouveaux riches, The Golden Passport takes listeners from the details of the application process to the geopolitical hydraulics of the citizenship industry. It's a business that thrives on uncertainty and imbalances of power between big, globalized economies and tiny states desperate for investment. In between are the fascinating stories of buyers, brokers, and sellers, all ready to profit from the citizenship trade.

The "modern noir masterpiece" is now back in print! Hot and scrappy Sherri Parlay gives up her life of depravity, and with best intentions, finds a respectable job as a dry cleaner in hopes for a decent future. But nature and nurture plot against her when she meets the beautiful, tortured, and rich young Payne, who tempts her with the love and life she never thought possible. Even Brenda, Payne's domineering mother, can't keep the lovers apart when Sherri's animal passions take control.

Er ist der Typ Mann, von dem ich unbedingt die Finger lassen sollte. Ein einziger verbotener Kuss könnte mein Leben verändern - wäre er nicht mein Fake-BOSS. Die toughe Journalistin Milly Morgan hat ein freches Mundwerk, ist unabhängig und genießt ihr Singleleben in vollen Zügen. Sie tut, was sie will und mit wem sie es will. Nichts kann sie erschüttern - glaubt sie. Doch dann soll sie sich für eine Story bei einem der wohlhabendsten Hedgefonds-Manager von Manhattan als Dienstmädchen einschleusen, um die Geschäftsgeheimnisse von Banks Capital aufzudecken.

Focusing on personal growth, the book advises readers to embrace change, cherish the past, and look forward to the future. “Growing Up with PlayStation” serves as a comforting reminder that change is natural and manageable, offering optimism and confidence to anyone facing life’s transitions.

What would it be like to be invisible? What would you do? What if you couldn't change back? Griffin, an albino, unlikable, the most gifted physicist the world has ever seen, works himself almost to madness in his quest for invisibility. Once he succeeds, he does not care for it as much as he expected to. Cold, jostled by strangers, attacked by dogs - unable even to eat without becoming visible, he comes to the conclusion that invisibility is good for only one thing - for killing.

Ein fesselnder Roman über zwei unvergessliche Frauen, die vier Jahrhunderte trennen und dennoch um dieselbe Sache kämpfen: dass ihre Stimmen gehört werden.England im frühen 17. Jahrhundert: Emilia Bassano liebt das Schreiben, doch als Frau hat sie keine eigene Stimme. Nur für einen hohen Preis kann sie ihre Geschichten heimlich auf die Bühne bringen: Sie muss einen Mann finden, der sich als Autor ihrer Werke ausgibt. Und dieser ist niemand anders als Englands berühmtester Dramatiker: William Shakespeare.

Tragedy strikes America’s darling three-year-old Thoroughbred, Hyperion, when he’s injured in a Kentucky Derby qualifying race. Doctors Mark Thurman and Claire Hodgson are asked to treat his broken limb using their revolutionary fracture-healing methods, but when former experimental subjects begin developing a life-threatening form of cancer, the rescue plan is halted. Then, a serendipitous discovery suggests a new drug made from a rare plant source might be a cure. A flicker of hope is kindled for Hyperion and the stricken patients.

If your thoughts ever tried to entice you to get a temporary hurt relieved by doing something mean, nasty, or obscene, know that you’re contemplating a sip of Satan’s sweet tea! Doing wrong may make you feel better immediately but its consequences have eternal effects. Know that you’ll never get healthy in any area of your life by taking a sip of Satan’s sweet tea. This generation has a bad habit of thinking that doing wrong is the cure for wrong. This book is sure to have a person think before taking a sip of Satan’s sweet tea!