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The only constant certainty in this world is change, whether you call for it or it falls upon you when least expected. If you are ill-prepared, there will come times when life will hit you hard off balance and knock the wind out of you. Regardless, whatever you come in contact with is irrelevant, as long as you are able to adapt to the situation at hand to let it play out in your favor and steer toward the best outcome of your ability - adaptability that is.

Abby's life is just beginning. It is the time of her college graduation, and she has become an accomplished chef and a lovely young woman. Little does she know, she is about to face a whole new phase of her life — and an entirely different “becoming”. When tragedy strikes, Abby is driven to return to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, despite her avoiding the area due to a childhood accident that has left her scarred.

Three Teen Choice Awards, one Emmy nomination, and several Maxim covers later, Maizie Albright was an ex-teen star, stuck in reality show hell, and standing before a California judge. She has one chance for a new life: return home to Black Pine, Georgia, and get a job that has nothing to do with show business. So why not become a private detective - the person she played during the happiest days of her life?

En julio de 1868, el mariscal Francisco Solano López, tras dejar atrás la fortaleza de Humaitá, encargó el resto de su ejército y símbolo de la defensa paraguaya al coronel Paulino Alén. Este, a la espera de sus órdenes, pierde el horizonte de la realidad y, desquiciado, comete errores que desviarán para siempre el curso de las vidas del coronel Francisco Martínez y de su esposa Juliana Insfrán.

Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize, A Fist or a Heart is a gripping, artfully interwoven novel of power, secrets, and isolation by one of the most bracing and original voices of the author’s generation.

Leopard shifter Sasha Weisberg arrives in Nocturne Falls hoping someone in the town of supernaturals might be able to undo the spell an angry ex-friend put on her. Otherwise, she’s doomed to live most of every day as a bird, with only three precious hours each day to enjoy her human form and her snow leopard not at all. An archangel friend convinces Kianso Kane to travel to Nocturne Falls for a weekend of rest and relaxation. From the onset of the trip, his shaman calling challenged him to return to his Hawaiian roots and acknowledge his shaman birthright.

Vampire bounty hunter Nathaniel Newburg follows his mark into Nocturne Falls, a place where it's easy for anyone to hide and blend in. At first it seems as though he has his prey cornered, only to confront a beautiful feline-shifter, Camille Nahuel, instead. She dances around the floor with sultry steps, instructing a ballroom class, and dances around his heart even faster. Oh, tango, the game is on. Can Nathaniel control his annoyance long enough to finish his job and save his love?

In an analysis of your own thinking over the past few years, there have been many different types of thinking that have emerged, promoted as the best one: positive thinking, out-of-the-box thinking, critical thinking, and so on. It may seem that way when one thinks unconsciously all the time. It may feel as though it comes as naturally as breathing. However, thinking of ideas and managing your thoughts are not the same thing. Managing your train of thought takes technique and discipline.

In Halo, Georgia, folks know Cherry Tucker as big in mouth, small in stature, and able to sketch a portrait faster than buckshot rips from a ten gauge - but commissions are scarce. So when the well-heeled Branson family wants to memorialize their murdered son in a coffin portrait, Cherry scrambles to win their patronage from her small town rival. As the clock ticks toward the deadline, Cherry faces more trouble than just a controversial subject.

As Joanne Alvarez settles into life without Hector, her children still struggle with the fallout. Marcus confronts the differences between him and Brittany, while Dakota tries to find a new equilibrium. Meanwhile, the Johnsons grapple with war between two sets of brothers, and Ian Briggs rides into town.

Finn ist ein kleiner Junge, der mit der Weltenbummler-Maus Hannibal nachts auf Reisen geht. Die beiden Freunde lernen verschiedene Länder und Kulturen kennen...

As Sebastian and Marylee plot to cover up Sebastian's sexual escapade, Ginny and Dakota continue to reel from the fallout of Dakota's announcement. But it is the Rush family that's left to pick up the pieces as Payton, Brittany and Jeffry each cope with Sebastian's betrayal in their own way.

What if that thing you really feared happened? Would the joy you hold pop? Or would you experience love and joy deeper than you can imagine? They met in college and fell in love. They talked about getting married, and he started looking for a ring. They dreamed about life together, a life of beauty and joy, raising babies and laughing with friends and growing old. They did not imagine a car accident. They did not imagine his brain injury.

Cherry Tucker’s in a stew. Desperate and broke, Cherry and her friend, Eloise, spend a sultry summer weekend hawking their art at the Sidewinder Annual Brunswick Stew Cook-Off. When a bad case of food poisoning breaks out and Eloise dies, the police brush off her death as accidental. However, Cherry suspects someone spiked the stew and killed her friend. As Cherry calls on cook-off competitors, bitter rivals, and crooked judges, the police get steamed while the killer prepares to cook Cherry’s goose.

Welcome to Bald's farm. Well, perhaps it's not Bald's farm anymore. The old man has kicked the bucket, setting off a wave of conflict from the flooded farmhouse kitchen to the muddy pig pen to the tall wheat fields. In this darkly funny, slightly supernatural chain of tales, no creature is safe. Not Leonard Grey, a spider with sophisticated tastes. Not Esmeralda, a resentful one-legged pig. Not Tulip, a plant with a mean streak.

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Die Hörbücher aus dem Michaela Penz Verlag richten sich an Menschen, die gerne wieder in die vertraute Atmosphäre traditioneller Hörspiele eintauchen möchten. Die Hörbuchreihe Familiengeschichten bietet einfache Sätze, einen ruhigen Lesefluss und eine angenehme Geräuschkulisse, die die Handlung unterstreicht.

The Best Life Stories by Reader's Digest are 150 of the best hand-picked real-life tales of resilience, joy, and hope - all in 150 words or less! Sitting in a hospital bed with chemo chasing after late-stage colon cancer, I was at an emotional low when a gentleman pushed back my curtain and offered to make me a pastrami sandwich.

Marcus Alvarez fled Storm when his father's drinking drove him over the edge. With his mother and sisters in crisis, Marcus is forced to return to the town he thought he'd left behind. But it is his attraction to a very grown up Brittany Rush that just might be enough to guarantee that he stays.

Here is where you can find community! Are you often feeling alone, or without a place to feel known or understood? In our current, modern culture we are very fast paced, and our computers are often our closest friend. Many are without purposeful community and feeling the disconnect which may be leading to depression, anxiety, abuse of all kinds and disregard for ourselves and others. Here we want to ignite hope and rekindle some ideas around what it means to live healthy in community. We will hold conversations and create ideas on how we can be whole within our communities and neighborhoods.