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I need medicine to escape this reality - the pills, cocaine, and liquor aren't even enough to numb the pain of my past. Years without Jax destroyed me - ruined me forever - and being back in his life will only ruin him the same. I never meant to find him again, and I sure as hell never meant to want him just as much as I did before we were ripped apart. It doesn't matter that I need to stay away from him. Jax refuses to let me go. My biggest fear is destroying the only person I've ever been capable of loving, but he's not giving me any other choice....

Join Eddie 'The Beast' Hall for 10 rounds in this audio original as we follow his incredible journey from the world's strongest man to competing in 'The Heaviest Boxing Match in History' in Florida, September 2021. Featuring raw training diaries, 10 rounds of mental preparation, documentary clips and exclusive podcast style interviews with iconic friends on mental strength including Ross Edgley, James Haskell, Paddy McGuinness, his family and inner circle.

An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a longtime resident of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Told with Chekhovian restraint and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not a Stranger Here is a triumph of storytelling.

Forced to flee the city in their homeland - along with abandoning their dream of building a better world from the ashes of the old - the Mall Rats embark upon a perilous journey of discovery into the unknown. Cast adrift, few could have foreseen the dangers that lay in store. What is the secret surrounding the Jzhao Li? Will they unravel the mysteries of The Collective? Let alone overcome the many challenges and obstacles they encounter as they battle the forces of mother nature, unexpected adversaries, and at times, even themselves?

Walt Whitman said, "...poetry is the voice of the nation, expressing its deepest concerns, ambitions and longings," which is certainly true of the great classic poetry of America. This wide-ranging anthology, from the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day, reflects the changing preoccupations and visions of Americans, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, and more.

New York Times Notable Book author Charles Yu wrote the best-selling novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. In his stunning, often humorous, collection Sorry Please Thank You, Yu draws on pop culture and science to make incisive observations about society - and offer touching insight into the human condition. In two of Yu’s remarkable stories, he focuses on a big-box-store night-shift employee with girl trouble and a company that outsources grief for profit.

Metaphors of the Subjective Truth is a book of proverbs and poetry that will take you on a journey of self-discovery through the author's experience of truth and understanding about life. With poems about love and loss, beauty, mystery, corruption, health, and spirituality; you may find some of the answers you seek in this audio.

The most tempting of white powders, cocaine, is everywhere. Young men and women sniff the recreational drug as often as they spark up cigarettes or sip beer. It's typical of a generation educated by music videos and tabloid newspapers. I'm Jimmy Walker, a smart young man with a caring family around me. I'd have the world at my feet...if I wasn't addicted to cocaine.

Business English – schnell fit für den Job. Über 60 Minuten Hör- und Sprechtraining, um jedes berufliche Meeting zu meistern. Zehn hörspielartige Dialogszenen mit den wichtigsten Gesprächssituationen in Meetings. Abwechslungsreiche Übungen zum Vertiefen der gebräuchlichen Wendungen und Ausdrücke. Alle Hörtexte mit deutscher Übersetzung und Business-Wortschatz im Begleitheft (PDF). Britisches und amerikanisches Englisch. Für Lerner:innen mit Vorkenntnissen (Niveau B1).