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Just three weeks after my 21st birthday, on the evening of October 4, 1994, I was abducted from the streets of my hometown in Southern Russia while on my way home. They drugged me and drove to another country, where they held me captive in a tiny room at first, and then under a house in a pit. A few weeks after my kidnapping, a brutal civil war broke out. Through eight horrifying months of captivity, witnessing atrocities, surviving bombings and sexual violence, I fought desperately to stay alive, stay sane, and not to lose the one thing that kept me going: my hope.

I’m an uncontrollable beast that throbs in time with the heartbeat lulling me closer while a sweet, feminine scent overtakes my senses. I’ve never felt this before—a hunger so frenzied that I’m lost to its call. This siren’s song is solely meant for me, and I give in without pause or question.

Celina is having a terrible night, one full of jealousy for the new kitten, Minù; feelings of abandonment and sadness; misadventures at the hands of the beach attendant; and dark dreams. But she will be happily found by Mati, her child, once the sun rises.

On May 2,1945, Red Army soldiers broke into Hitler’s bunker. Rzhevskaya, a young military interpreter, was with them. Almost accidentally the Soviet military found the charred remains of Hitler and Eva Braun. They also found key documents: Bormann's notes, the diaries of Goebbels and letters of Magda Goebbels. Rzhevskaya was entrusted with the proof of Hitler’s death: his teeth wrenched from his corpse by a pathologist hours earlier.

Do you feel like fear and negativity block you from manifesting your desires? Perhaps, you've tried different law of attraction methods. And they worked for other people. But you still haven't manifested more money, love, or abundance into your life. You begin to feel doubtful, thinking: “Why is it taking so long? What am I doing wrong?” The truth is, to make the law of attraction work for you, you need to address the root issues that are blocking you from manifesting your dreams.

Through Adopted Hearts explores the world of adoption from the viewpoints of both birth and adoptive parents. In this follow up to Through Adopted Eyes, author and adoptee Elena Hall guides listeners through a diverse collection of true stories filled with powerful insight into the rest of the adoption triad. If you are an adoptive parent, birth parent, adoptee, or just curious to learn more, this audiobook provides thoughtful and challenging perspective into how adoption shapes and changes lives.

If you’re ready to manifest your desires and create unstoppable success, order your copy today and join thousands of other ambitious souls who are already using this transformative system to live an amazingly abundant and happy life!

How Not to Manifest is designed to help you identify your manifestation blocks so that you can create a life full of happiness, abundance, and love. You see, it’s not only about the manifestation methods you use. In reality, the true secret to success resides in your energy, vibration, and mindset. You don’t attract what you want; you attract who you are.

An addictive debut psychological thriller for fans of "The Girl on the Train", Liane Moriarty and Lucy Foley. This is the story of Lucy and Paul. They met. They fell deeply in love. They got married. Lucy thought that she had everything she wanted. Until she found the photograph, the text messages. Until she uncovered Paul's secrets. Now Lucy realises she doesn't really know her husband. She doesn't know if she can trust her own mind. She doesn't know the lengths Paul would go to keep his perfect life. And worst of all, she doesn't know that she’s in danger.

La nueva entrega del bestseller internacional que ha logrado inspirar a las niñas de todos los rincones del mundo a soñar en grande, aspirar a más y a luchas con fuerza. Cuentos de buenas noches para niñas rebeldes 2 es una colección totalmente inédita de cuentos que celebran a más mujeres extraordinarias, desde Nefertiti hasta Beyoncé y de Rosalind Franklin a J. K. Rowling.

Elena Ferrante is the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, now an HBO original series. Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called “one of the great novelists of our time” (New York Times).

Traditional leadership frameworks emphasize control over making connections, but that underestimates the value of collaboration. By sharing the lessons of facilitative leadership, Invisible Leader gives you a new framework for tapping into your team’s potential. This book will show you how to approach, prepare, and guide team meetings to their best outcomes as well as how to use reflection to improve every stage of your work.

Everything you know about health, nutrition, fat, and longevity is false. New studies are challenging the studies and research that doctors, fitness trainers, and doctors have been using for years...and there is a good reason for it. Inside your belly, there is a living eco-system. Bacteria and small organisms are living in your stomach and guts, eating the food you're eating, and even helping in digestion. Since this bacteria can manipulate the body so effectively, when the bacteria in your gut is satisfied with the food you give it, you're more happy, more focused, and less hungry!

French-born author Elena Mauli Shapiro vividly recreates Paris during World War I in this captivating novel. 13 Rue Thérèse follows Trevor Stratton, an American academic working in Paris who discovers a keepsake box dated back to the Great War. The box, Trevor discovers, belonged to a piano teacher named Louise Brunet. Inside it are mementos that give Trevor clues to Louise’s life, including the love she lost in the war and her affair with a neighbor. Mesmerized, Trevor begins to imagine what life was like for the mysterious Frenchwoman.

With Grounded and Free, you will learn how to use receptivity and tenderness to nurture roots of stability and centeredness that will serve you through your most challenging trials and storms. What we are most afraid of is the gateway to our freedom. Here, you are invited to enter that realm with courage and kindness - to evolve and embrace the full wonder of your life.

Haunted by scandal and secrets, Lillian Baptiste fled Dominica when she was 14, after discovering she was the daughter of Iris, the half-crazy woman whose life was told of in chanté mas songs sung during Carnival - songs about a village on a mountaintop littered with secrets, masquerades that supposedly fly and wreak havoc, and a man who suddenly and mysteriously dropped dead.

Elena Brower is a renowned yoga teacher and author, but she's also a mother, a partner in a lifelong relationship, and a working professional. How does she stay grounded, energized, and present amid the challenges of modern life? With this guided audio course, listeners learn the practices that have helped Elena and her students the most. She engages us with meditations, gentle movement, and many other tools to cultivate the foundations of our inner "dwelling place of the spirit".

The parenting journey with a child with ADHD is much different than that of the average child. There are many special challenges and needs, and it can be very hard to help your child in school, at home, and in social situations. You may feel overwhelmed by their behavior and frustrated by their lack of motivation and general inability to follow instructions. This guide is packed with strategies, tips, and advice for parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to help guide you through the challenges and rewards of raising a child with ADHD.

The award-winning creator of the acclaimed documentary The Music Instinct: Science & Song, explores the power of music and its connection to the body, the brain, and the world of nature. Only recently has science sought in earnest to understand and explain this impact. One remarkable recent study, analyzing the cries of newborns, shows that infants' cries contain common musical intervals, and children tease each other in specific, singsong ways no matter where in the world they live.

A podcast that gives our listeners a behind the scenes look at the zoo, our amazing animals, and the dedicated people that work here.