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Do you ever wonder if God is there - really there? Do you ever wish God would show up and speak to you like he did to Moses or Mary? Is it possible that God is present and active in your life, and you don’t recognize him? God shows up, but sometimes he shows up in unexpected places and in unexpected ways. God is present in the miraculous, and he is present in the ordinary. Through these vignettes and scripture readings, you will become more aware of his activity in your everyday-walking-around life.

Nestled in the snow-covered Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Santa Fe, the Grey Sage Inn is the perfect place for an unlikely group of traveling companions to spend a couple of days on their Christmas trip. There’s plenty to see in historic Santa Fe during the day, and the inn’s owners, Maude and Silas, are happy to spend their evenings hosting this year’s guests from across the country.

Namaste, dear friends! I am Sadie Beauchamp - empath, holistic medicine woman, and crystal collector. I own a small shop near Michigan Avenue in Chicago, live upstairs, and have a business partner, Neil, who is very into the occult. I also have five soul sisters who love and respect my abilities, although, to be truthful, they don't exactly understand my life. One is a lovely woman who has found her worth. Another is almost as free-spirited as I, merely pacing her cage at the moment.

Ein Haus im Wald, eine kranke Großmutter und eine junge Frau die Kuchen und Wein bringt. Jeder kennt das Märchen, aber was, wenn Rotkäppchen einmal selbst zur Sprache kommt? Gefangen in einem ewigen Zyklus, vom Haus der Mutter bis zum Bauch des Wolfes, teilt sie ihre Geschichte mit uns von Natur und Familie und der Frage, wer eigentlich über ihr Schicksal zu entscheiden hat.

Hired by multimillionaire Jeremy Loudon, my task was simple - find his missing briefcase. Loudon claimed that his briefcase held 10,000 pounds, his winnings from a poker game. However, as the trail unravelled and led to Europe my suspicions deepened. What was in Loudon's briefcase, beyond the money? Why was he being so evasive? Why did he insist on no police involvement?

Endlich frei von Angst und Panikattacken! Der Druck in unserer modernen Gesellschaft wird immer größer. Angst- und Panikattacken sind in Deutschland die seelischen Störungen, welche am häufigsten für extreme Belastungen sorgen. Die Betroffenen glauben im Moment einer Attacke, die Kontrolle über ihr Leben zu verlieren oder verrückt zu werden. Situationen, die für andere Menschen normal und alltäglich sind, werden gemieden. Wieder lebendiger und freier leben! Die Strategien in diesem Angstbuch funktionieren sehr gut und sind auch in der Psychotherapeutischen Praxis erprobt.

The sounds of Christmases past echo through a silent house.... Everyone in town knows Emerald Crest, the green granite mansion atop the highest hill: The legendary, lavish Christmas festivities that used to light up the nights - and the silence that followed when the parties abruptly stopped many years ago. And everyone has heard whispers about the reclusive, mysterious master of the manor, Henry Lafferty the Second.

Phyllis Grant's Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes, goes, and refocuses its object of desire. Grant's story follows the sometimes smooth, sometimes jagged, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard, to her experiences in and out of four-star kitchens in New York City, to falling in love with her future husband and leaving the city after 9/11 for California, where her children are born.

The Desert Between Us is a sweeping, multilayered novel based on the US government’s decision to open more routes to California during the Gold Rush. To help navigate this waterless, largely unexplored territory, the War Department imported 75 camels from the Middle East to help traverse the brutal terrain that was murderous on other livestock. Geoffrey Scott, one of the roadbuilders, decides to venture north to discover new opportunities in the opening of the American West when he - and the camels - are no longer needed.

Caroline Carlyle’s hopes and dreams were crushed when her fiancé died six weeks before their wedding. For years, she wrestled with aching loss and shattered faith, struggling to find the inspiration that once came so easily. Abandoning her half-finished piano compositions, Caroline traded her old ambitions for the comfort and familiarity of life as the town’s piano teacher.

When overwhelmed with growing up without Mama, will young Kate survive? As Kate’s 11th birthday approaches, she fears no one will remember her tradition of dressing up in her mother’s heirloom wedding gown for her birthday portrait. She grieves that their handprints won’t be on the back of the birthday photograph, and there’ll be no special letter from her mother to go in her Book of My Life this year. Precocious Kate gets a few more life’s-not-always-fair lessons as she struggles and finds the courage to ask the hard questions about life.

When a young patient grieving the death of her sister recognizes the man in a portrait hanging in her office, Dr. Kate Harding, a licensed clinician, is startled, but not entirely surprised. The face in the painting takes her back 20 years to snow-covered Cedar Falls, Kentucky, and to her first Christmas without her mother.

Ten great chapters from our women speakers from our various Steeling the Mind Conferences!

Frederick Jaeger stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the legend that has haunted the imagination of millions for over a hundred years! Summoned to the forbidden heart of the Carpathian mountains, in the depths of Transylvania, Jonathan Harker journeys to Castle Dracula. There he becomes the unwitting prisoner of the mysterious nobleman whom local legend insists is nosferatu, the vampire…

Sergeant Justin Thorpe has dedicated his life to justice and won't stop until he finds the vicious serial killer who has already claimed ten innocent lives. He works solo - until he joins forces with Sheriff Amanda Blair. The Texas Ranger can't let his desire for his coworker keep him from his mission, especially when Amanda's life is threatened.

An audio adaptation of the classic Shakespeare drama. Pericles is at the palace of Antioch with King Antiochus to solve the riddle that will win the King’s daughter’s hand in marriage. They are surrounded by the heads of men who have died trying before him. Pericles solves the riddle, learning the terrible truth about the incestuous relationship between the Princess and the King. Pericles flees Antioch, fearing Antiochus’ wrath.

This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

Murderers is a trio of three monologues by acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher. Each monologue is a confession of murder. The murders all take place on the same night on the premises of Riddle Key, a fictitious senior retirement center in Sarasota, Florida.

As a fierce nor’easter bears down on her Massachusetts town, Fiona Richter places a frantic 911 call. Her husband, Simon, eighty years old and suffering from dementia, has gone missing from the house—along with his clarinet.

Whether the subject is pentobarbital in canned dog food, aflatoxin in kibble, or salmonella in commercial raw pet foods, Toxic provides insight into pet food industry practices and gives pet owners tips to help keep their animal companions safe and healthy.