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Ein furchtbares Familiengeheimnis vor der rauen Kulisse der Isle of Wight: Die Schriftstellerin Jane erbt ein altes Cottage auf der Isle of Wight - von Lilly, der stets totgeschwiegenen Schwester ihrer Mutter. Auf der Suche nach Antworten fährt Jane auf die Insel und lernt Lillys Familie und Freunde kennen: den schweigsamen Fischer Neptun, die kauzige, aber warmherzige Emmeline und Marguerite, Lillys verträumte Tochter. Zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben fühlt sich Jane willkommen und geliebt.

The Asshole Whisperer book for managers contains true stories and tips to deal with crappy leaders and jerks at work. You will learn how to use corporate values to hold people at work accountable for their conduct, how to give feedback about attitudes or behavior, and how to quickly assess and utilize personality traits (extrovert, introvert, ambivert) to your mutual benefit. Why? So, you can meet your goals and deadlines and to put it simply, get shit done. Assholes are part of our lives.

The Imperfect Prophet is a podcast for women who are not content with getting old and watching their lives get smaller. The host, Wonder Wendy, exemplifies a life that grows and changes even as she ages. Remember aging happens, getting old is a choice! Each week we will discuss how Wonder Wendy and her guests are navigating these challenges by finding satisfaction and growth.They are creating positivity through action and connection with community. In general, being happier people who make the world a better place. Listen each week as we explore how to live a life full of wonder – or as WW ...

The author is the only woman to ever publish a book of poetry in Zoque (Indigenous language) and Spanish. This book is the first English translation of the author’s Zoque poems. The book’s engagement with language, Indigenous ways of living, gender, feminism, and environmental activism offer opportunities for wide coverage and listener engagement

Do you often feel lost in life? Are you trying to figure out why you are stuck in the same ruts all the time? And do you have an overall feeling of not really knowing who you are and where you are heading to? In our modern-day lives, it has become easy and almost “normal” to lose track of ourselves. The truth is, we all experience ruts in which we feel unmotivated, uncertain about the future, and uncertain about ourselves. These ruts can seem like a never-ending story.

Team Foul Play now brings you cases specifically from the United Kingdom. Murder, Mysteries, Serial Killers, Oh My! Let us take you on a journey to discover some of the most wicked monsters imaginable. Hosted by Wendy CeeListen to our sister podcast Foul Play for American-based crime stories!

In listening to our story, you’ll experience my transition from shock and fear to extraordinary joy. Mostly, you will see that living with an extra chromosome is a nonstop party.

Mystery and adventure collide in this humorous and heartfelt multiverse adventure from beloved, award-winning authors Wendy Mass and Nora Raleigh Baskin. Twelve-year-old Piper’s life has always been unusual: her parents are clockmakers whose inventions are anything but ordinary, and she’s...

Just as a murderer dumps his corpse into the lake across Valley View in Lily Dale, Bella Jordan happens to be at her window, not quite realizing what she's seeing. Jiffy Arden, a neighborhood kid looking for the black cat and stumbling across the killer, begins to have premonitions of being kidnapped during the season's first snowstorm. Sure enough, he vanishes. A body shows up in the lake. Now everyone is pulling out all the stops to find the missing child, identify the victim, and collar the killer - and fast, because he's coming for Bella next in Dead of Winter.

How long, God? When waiting on God stretches for months or years, we might begin to doubt his promises. Did I hear you correctly, God? Do you see what I'm going through? Why does this have to be so hard? In Wait and See, Wendy Pope draws on the life of King David to help us.

College admissions season at Seattle's Elliott Bay Academy is marked by glowing acceptances from top-tier institutions and students as impressive as their parents are ambitious. But when Stanford alerts the school it's allotting only one spot to EBA for their incoming class, three mothers discover the competition is more cutthroat than they could have imagined.   

Running from a bad relationship, journalist Jo Sharpe heads home to Arthurville, the drought-stricken town she turned her back on years earlier. While some things have changed - her relationship with her ailing, crotchety father, her new job at the community newspaper - Jo finds that her return has rekindled the grief and uncertainty she experienced during her childhood following the inexplicable disappearance of her mother and baby sister.

At 24, Harlow Robinson has run headfirst into a quarter-life crisis. Her high school girlfriends have dropped like flies, one wedding after another, forcing her into panic mode. It's fight or flight time, and flight wins - literally. She breaks off a loveless engagement with her childhood sweetheart and abandons a teaching degree to become a flight attendant for Omega Skies. 

When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter was both widely acclaimed and greatly feared. From humble origins, John Hunter rose...

During her second Season, Lady Elizabeth Castleton is found in a compromising situation with Lord Justice Sinclair, the Earl of Heath. Despite her attraction to him, she is dismayed to find herself betrothed to the man who is rumored to have killed his first wife. Her parents refuse to lend credence to the rumors, so she is soon married and on the way to her husband’s estate. She cannot decide what to make of the handsome earl but after an attempt is made on her life, Elizabeth is terrified that history is about to repeat itself.

2017 Ned Kelly Award Best Crime Fiction shortlist 'A chilling novel of our time, with a truly shocking twist' Australian Women's Weekly When teenage bullying spirals out of control who is to blame? Blogger Lizzy's life is shiny, happy, normal. Two gorgeous children, a handsome husband, destiny...

Curl Curl, Sydney, January 1978. Angie's a looker. Or she's going to be. She's only 14, but already, heads turn wherever she goes. Male heads, mainly...Jane worships her older cousin Angie. She spends her summer vying for Angie's attention. Then Angie is murdered. Jane and her family are shattered. They withdraw into themselves, casting a veil of silence over Angie's death. Thirty years later, a journalist arrives with questions about the tragic event. Jane is relieved to finally talk about her adored cousin. And so is her family.

In 11 Birthdays, Amanda and her best friend, Leo, stopped speaking to each other for a year. What happened when they started talking again led to the adventure of a lifetime. Now they haven't spoken for another year - and the result is even more bizarre. This time it's not just about them. Their friend's little sister, Grace, has fallen into a strange frozen state on her tenth birthday. Amanda and Leo quickly realize that Angelina D'Angelo - the mysterious old woman behind all of the magical happenings in Willow Falls - is involved.

Rapunzel is having the ultimate bad day. She's been stolen by a witch, may have a ghost for a roommate, and doesn't even have a decent brush for her hair. Prince Benjamin's got it pretty tough, too. His father wants him to be more kingly, his mother wants him to never leave her sight, and his cousin wants to get him into as much trouble as possible (possibly with a troll). Both Rapunzel and Prince Benjamin are trapped - in very different ways. Once their paths cross, well, that's when things get really strange.

In the quirky, picturesque lakeside community of Lily Dale, where the residents can talk to the dead, young widow Bella Jordan is the lone skeptic among believers. She doesn't believe in ghosts…but after a year in the village, she would admit that her new friends do sometimes seem to know impossible things. Still, when a Black stranger dressed in old-fashioned clothing arrives unexpectedly at Bella's guesthouse at midnight on Juneteenth, only to vanish the next day as if he'd never existed, Bella's sure there has to be a logical explanation.