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Can drugs, sex, and revolution lead to lasting fulfillment and love? This memoir by Eli Jaxon-Bear, framed as a teaching story, using Joseph Campbell’s model of the hero journey, answers this question in an exciting, funny, and deeply personal memoir.

Ein irakischer Flüchtling fesselt seine Sachbearbeiterin in der Ausländerbehörde und schlägt zu. Nach einer nicht enden wollenden Zeit des Wartens in deutschen Asylunterkünften soll er abgeschoben werden. Er ist voller Wut und hat nur einen Wunsch: dass ihm endlich jemand zuhört. Und so erzählt Karim Mensy von seiner illegalen Reise, die ihn nach Frankreich führen sollte, aber in der bayerischen Provinz endete. Davon, wie er sich eine neue Lebensgeschichte erfinden, sich durch Formulare und Asylunterkünfte kämpfen musste und sich auf fragwürdige Bekanntschaften einließ - nur, um am Ende wieder ganz am Anfang zu stehen.

Savannah Graham thought she had the perfect marriage...until grief drove her husband into the arms of his best friend’s wife. Now, she believes revenge is the only way her heart can heal from the betrayal. For 52 years, Ollie Moss lived side by side with the love of his life, his wife Elizabeth. But now that she’s gone, so is his desire to live, despite the love from his children, and his beloved grandson Samuel. Can anything save Ollie’s life?

Fourteen years after the end of slavery, Lord Henry Hardin and his wife, Lady Bertha, enjoy an entitled life in Union County, Arkansas. Until he faces a devastating reality: Bertha is unable to bear children. If Henry doesn't produce an heir, the American branch of his family name will die out. So Henry, desperate to preserve his aristocratic family lineage, does the unthinkable.

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As a young girl in Baltimore, Kiernan O’Shaughnessy lived for gymnastics, where strict discipline and endless practice kept her centered even as her life fell apart. Her idol was the late stuntman Greg Gaige. Famous for pulling off the moves no one else could, and for scorning safety equipment, Gaige was the one man O’Shaughnessy truly admired. When a young gymnast dies performing Gaige's world-famous stunt, Kiernan suspects foul play.

The love/hate relationship between Diane and Kendra Williams takes mother-daughter drama to entirely different level. Diane is a single mother who prides herself on being a master manipulator. She has no problem using anything or anyone to get what she wants. Whether it’s treating her sister, Celia, as her personal ATM or seducing unlikely, unsuspecting men, she will do whatever it takes to get ahead.

People all over the world have changed their marriages, careers, personal lives, and overall satisfaction with life through learning about money and how it can actually work for you, as this is a pillar of financial freedom.

Hur ska man lägga ett livspussel om bitarna är omaka? Mer och mer har arbetet blivit en större del av våra liv. Det har till och med gått så långt att vi har börjat identifiera oss som det vi arbetar med. Detta kan vara ett problem, menar Bodil Jönsson, eftersom det grundmurar en trend om hur arbete ska vara. Men alla är inte funtade på det vis så att denna föreställning går ihop med vardagen. Men mer än någonsin har man också möjligheten att skräddarsy sitt eget perfekta arbete.

When you’re named after a 250-year-old tortoise, you grow up believing life is full of possibilities and wonder. But ever since Addie’s family got turned upside down, those things have been harder for her to see. The last thing Addie wants to do is make a new friend, but when her dad’s summer job takes them across the country, she meets Mateo and finds herself caught up in an exciting project. With the help of a virtual reality headset, she’s suddenly scaling castle walls, dodging angry kittens, and seeing the world in whole new ways.

Sara Daniel, a star European correspondent and one of the few women reporters covering Iraq, dares to venture where few have gone, in this gripping and fascinating memoir. In June of 2002, war looms and Saddam Hussein still has a brutal grip on a nation in disarray. Sara Daniel travels the length and breadth of Iraq, following the fast-evolving events and interviewing people from all walks of life and all religious and political affiliations: from the Kurds in the north to the rising new politicians in Baghdad and beyond....

For Glory Hopkins, inheriting her Aunt Lucille's Harlem brownstone feels more like a curse than a blessing. As a struggling artist, Glory doesn't have the money, time or patience to look after the aging house of an aunt she barely knew. But when she stumbles into Parkie de Groot, a savvy, ambitious auction house appraiser, her unexpected inheritance begins to look more promising. Glory and Parkie form an unlikely alliance and work to unearth the origins of a rare manuscript hidden in the brownstone's attic.

Ava Sinclair's life is a mess. Her boyfriend cheated. Her career is stalled. All she has left is her PI license and a taste for misadventures. So when she inherits a cottage in Hazelwood, Wisconsin, Ava jumps at the chance for a fresh start. But Hazelwood's charm turns deadly when Ava finds the body of the beloved baker Agnes Pocket. Ava ignores the grumbling sheriff and the young cop's eye rolls. She inserts herself into the case. With the help of a sleuthy innkeeper and a chatty parrot, Ava follows clues on a series of hilarious misadventures.

After gunshots echo through the summer night on Mount Macedon, Detective Sergeant Zoe Mayer and her loyal service dog Harry race to the summit at first light. What they find looks like a grisly murder-suicide: an alleged fraudster named Piers Johnson, and his lawyer Antony Peterson, both dead from bullet wounds, a gun lying nearby. Something about the scene doesn't stack up.

Denise is at a crossroads. When things around her begin to spiral out of control, she is forced to be honest about what she envisions for her future and how she is going to get there. Hugh has a plan. Now that he has Denise's attention, nothing is going to stop him from showing her a glimpse of the man she deserves, even if he knows it's not him.

Experience the height of the Jazz Age through the eyes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the most notable authors in American literature. This collection includes: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby.

Sometimes, the people who seem the happiest have the most to hide. But it's imperative Elizabeth put on a brave face. So when she's not going to Costco or day drinking with her best friend, she's trying to create a new, drama-free life in the suburbs. And it seems to work - until a gossip blog begins spilling the women of Waterford's darkest secrets. Now, the blurred conversations and blank spots in Elizabeth's mind give way to panic and anxiety. If her secrets - like a hospitalization for bipolar disorder and a suicide attempt - don't stay buried, she faces social shunning.

Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman’s death, Issa is forced to confront the contradictions of his own family history, throughout which his late brother Hashem, a prominent queer artist in Tehran’s underground, defied their father, a skilled martial artist bound to traditional notions of honor and masculinity.

A portal ripped open, thrusting me into a strange new world. And then, I met her. I must return to my guard post at once, but she ignites a fire in me strong enough to threaten the sacred vow I've made to protect the Crown.

En este tercer acto, acompañaremos a Morfeo en un gran viaje donde se ocupará de sus asuntos familiares. Visitará a su hijo Orfeo, hecho que tendrá profundas consecuencias. Junto a Delirio seguirá la pista de Destrucción, su hermano perdido y el único de los Eternos que abandonó su reino.