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This book is about finding inspiration in a person, situation, or an event that can influence your life for the better. The author of this book hopes you find healthy options that allow you to feel confident, enthusiastic, and put a spring in your step to be the best version of yourself.

It was the summer of 1950 in Taneytown, Alabama, and what started out as a childish game quickly turned tragic when Maggie Green's playmate Angel disappeared. Maggie lied to her parents and the police about where they had been playing to protect another friend. That lie would haunt her long after she and her brother discovered Angel's lifeless body in the woods.

Als Sara in die blauen Augen von Dante Craven blickt, ist ihr Schicksal besiegelt. Sie verfällt ihrem charmanten Mitschüler, ohne zu ahnen, welches Geheimnis er hütet. Auch wenn er gegen jede Regel verstösst, die der Rat aufgestellt hat, Dante kann Sara nicht fern bleiben. Er besucht sie Nacht für Nacht, bis das nicht mehr reicht. Ein Wächter der Unterwelt darf keine Sterbliche lieben und doch tut er es. Mitreissende Romantasy-Reihe mit Suchtfaktor.

The number one rule in life: never make a deal with Death…even if Death is your sister. Theodra, Goddess of War, knows not to break this rule. But like all arrogant gods, she does just that. Unable to hold back, she destroys a ship full of traffickers, unaware there are girls on board. When one of them dies, Theo trades with Death for a soul she will someday love. A soul for a soul. A good deal, in her esteemed opinion, since she is incapable of falling in love.

Rooted in humorous stories distilled with bits of sagely honest advice, The Journey goes beyond the well-chronicled college admissions madness and cuts to the core of parental angst with concrete suggestions for preparing children for a competitive and rapidly changing world.

Entertaining. Thoughtful. Philosophical. Enlightening. Deep and Dense. Listen for more.

In 1983, a husband and wife were in an accident on the beltway. The man subsequently died. Eight months later, a biracial child was born to a White mother in a redneck valley that was not prepared to deal with him. Children can be cruel, and growing up was a struggle. Music became his voice to the world.

There are times in this life when our beautiful brains become so chemically involved with the likeness of another that the extent of which we would go for them overwhelms all rationale. We call this love.

Pilar Rhonda Alvarez lives what she considers to be a neat and calm existence. She's the youngest of three half sisters and a DEA officer with the Miami Police Department, and she and her sisters run a secret PI agency, helping battered and abused women. What's more, she's a werewolf. Events take a sudden twist, when Alton Succo crashes into her life. Hailing from Sedona, Arizona, he's in town investigating a drug trafficking ring. But PI's wolf instantly identifies him as her mate.

A book about love and loss, and how to live in a world filled with both... When you die, your spirit wakes in the north, in the City of the Dead. There, you wander the cold until one of your living loved ones finds you, says "Goodbye," and Sends you to the next world. After her parents die, 12-year-old Sophie refuses to release their spirits. Instead, she resolves to travel to the City of the Dead to bring her mother and father’s spirits back home with her.

Pass auf, was du liest, denn du könntest dich plötzlich im Buch wiederfinden... Endlich bleiben die Buchhelden wieder in ihren Romanen und die Wächter der Bibliotheca Elementara sind zu ganz normalen Menschen geworden. Doch dann verschwinden ausgerechnet die beiden Bücher, die den Anfang und das Ende aller Geschichten markieren. Als auch noch Lins Fähigkeiten wiederkehren und Buchfiguren mysteriöse Nachrichten hinterlassen, wird ihr klar, dass die Buchwelt an Macht gewonnen hat. Lin wird der Realität entrissen und befindet sich plötzlich in "Otherside", dem Buch, das ihr Herz schon einmal zum Rasen gebracht hat.

In a small village, a young boy named Dodo begins a life changing friendship with a mosquito named Mykayla. Dodo accidentally reveals their secret friendship to his mom, Mama Dodo, setting off a malaria discovery journey into the opposing worlds of mosquitoes and humans. At the request of Papa Dodo, Dodo invites Mykayla home for dinner. Is the dinner a trap? Will Dodo lose his friendship with Mykayla or will their friendship secure a page in history books? The debut novel by Nana Banafo.

Verliebe dich niemals in eine Romanfigur, denn sie könnte dich suchen kommen... Wenn die Menschen nur wüssten, wie gefährlich das Bücherlesen ist, wäre Lins Job um einiges leichter. Aber leider verlieben sich tagtäglich junge Frauen in Romanfiguren und ahnen dabei nicht, dass sie ihnen mit jedem schwärmerischen Seufzer ein wenig mehr Leben einhauchen – bis die Protagonisten aus den Büchern heraustreten, die Stadt unsicher machen und Lin sie wieder einfangen muss. Die unwiderstehlichen Vampire, die muskulösen Außerirdischen, die Gitarre spielenden Bad Boys.

Just over two years ago, I began my journey with post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. Through the struggles, there have been times where I thought I would be unable to continue the things I enjoyed: work, soccer, volunteering, and socializing. The triggers of April 6, 2020 continued, but lessened. I am still brought back to that day by everyday triggers that act as a reminder. When it happens, I revisit that beautiful, sunny day where I was redeployed to the makeshift morgue and saw the atrocities of the time.

In Aging Wisely, Viola B. Mecke creates a look at the aging process using her firsthand experiences and those of patients from her former psychology practice, among others.

Du kannst das Kind begraben - aber die Wahrheit lebt weiter. Es ist nur eine winzige Nachricht in der Abendzeitung: "Überreste eines Babys auf Baustelle gefunden", unscheinbar und kaum der Rede wert. Aber drei Frauen lässt die Notiz keine Ruhe: Die eine erinnert sich an das schlimmste Erlebnis ihres Lebens. Die andere hat Angst, dass ihr dunkelstes Geheimnis enthüllt wird. Und die dritte begibt sich auf die Jagd nach der Wahrheit. Sie wird die Geschichte des Kindes erzählen.

5 Freundinnen - 1 Mission. Und die ganz große Liebe. Wenn man plötzlich Gefühle für den besten Freund und Untermieter, der zudem als Hamburgs Bad Boy gilt, entwickelt, dann hat man ein ernsthaftes Problem. Das muss die alleinerziehende Maike feststellen, als sie sich in Steve verliebt. Der wichtigste Mann in ihrem Leben ist allerdings ihr sechsjähriger Sohn Leon, und deswegen kommt Steve als Partner nicht infrage. Aus der verworrenen Situation flüchtet Maike nach Himmelreich und widmet sich den Nachforschungen rund um den Tod ihrer Jugendfreundin Nattie.

Just as Dr. Paul Hill’s quantum communication system starts receiving messages from civilizations across the galaxy, his project is abruptly defunded and shut down. Following the discovery of what appears to be unequivocal evidence to the existence of God, hidden in messages coded in the human genome, those in power believe they now hold all the answers.

Three 70-year-old sisters turn to the family business—cat burglary—to pay off an old debt.

Although author Joellen Saddock was raised in a Christian household, she often found herself on the outside of religion looking in. In Christian Awakening, she narrates a coming of age story about the way she discovered answers to all her tough religious questions. More than anything, her story exemplifies how God’s law actively works to multiply desires and assist in creating a life of possibilities. Her story is about man’s mountain-moving potential that has, until now, been obscured by religious hypocrites.