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Hire a hitman to take out my cheating ex? It was an eggnog-fueled mistake, I swear! On Christmas Eve, my perfect fiancé stands up at the altar to declare his pure undying love… for my evil stepsister. Cue public humiliation, a ruined wedding, and me crawling back to my small hometown to work minimum wage at my granny’s Christmas café. Just living the holiday dream. But I refuse to show up sad and alone to my cheating ex and man-stealing stepsister’s engagement party.

When you're a blacklisted preschool teacher and somehow end up coaching the worst team in the NHL, it's shaping up to be the crappiest Christmas ever. We’re adding an NHL head-coaching job to the Yule log dumpster fire of my holiday season. I lost my apartment and had to move back home for the holidays. My mom sneaks into my bedroom to watch me sleep because she “can’t help it. I missed my little girl so much, Ellie!” And my day-drinking granny has declared herself the team's new equipment manager so she can ogle hockey butts in the locker room.

I kept smiling when I caught my fiancé coming down my sister’s chimney on Christmas Eve. I gave polite congratulations when they got engaged. And I even offered to help decorate for their Christmas wedding despite the fact that was supposed to be my dream wedding. But when my sister cuts up my great-grandmother’s one-hundred-year-old wedding dress and turns it into a skank show, even though that was the dress I was going to wear on my wedding day? Well, this elf is torching down the North Pole.

Die aufstrebende Journalistin Nika Gruen freut sich darauf, endlich ihren Bruder Ferenc wiederzusehen und von der exklusiven Generalprobe berichten zu dürfen. Doch alles verändert sich, als Ferenc bei seinem Auftritt in die Tiefe stürzt und tödlich verunglückt. Nika ist fassungslos, und während die Polizei von einem Unfall ausgeht, ist sie fest davon überzeugt, dass hinter Ferencs Sturz mehr stecken muss. Warum musste ihr Bruder sterben? Fest entschlossen macht sie sich mit ihrem Papagei Pearl auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit, die sie geradewegs zurück in den Zirkus Asombroso führt.

Neues (Halb-)Wissen sammeln und dabei noch Spaß haben? Das ist unser Ziel! Wir nehmen uns für jede Folge ein Thema und einige Minuten zur Recherche. Dann reden wir über die Dinge, die wir "gelernt" haben. Wir haben dann zwar immer noch keine Ahnung, dafür aber ein lustiges Gesprech, aus dem ihr zumindest so etwas ähnliches wie Informationen ziehen könnt. Humor und mangelnde Vorbereitung ergeben Harmloses Halbwissen! Kontakt: harmloseshalbwissen@gmail.com

The sinking of Titanic has been told for more than a century—but rarely from the inside out. This book moves beyond legend to examine the lives shaped, tested, and lost beneath the decks: immigrant families traveling steerage, engineers and firemen who stayed at their posts, women navigating evacuation rules shaped by class, language, and access. Drawing on inquiry records, survivor testimony, and modern scholarship, it reveals how disaster did not strike evenly—and how survival was shaped by labor, hierarchy, and proximity to power. Using official inquiry findings, passenger records, ...

This book offers a critical and in-depth reading of the Bible as a historical, psychological, and political construction. Far from treating it as an untouchable text, it examines it as a system assembled over centuries to organize beliefs, behaviors, and hierarchies. Through historical theories, symbolic interpretations, and uncomfortable questions, the text explores how fear, guilt, obedience, and authority were woven into the sacred narrative and how these mechanisms continue to operate today. It does not seek to destroy faith, but to separate spirituality from control, the sacred from ...

Questo libro propone una lettura critica e approfondita della Bibbia come costruzione storica, psicologica e politica. Lontano dal considerarla un testo intoccabile, la analizza come un sistema assemblato nel corso dei secoli per organizzare credenze, comportamenti e gerarchie. Attraverso teorie storiche, letture simboliche e domande scomode, il testo esamina come paura, colpa, obbedienza e autorità siano state integrate nella narrazione sacra e come questi meccanismi continuino ad agire ancora oggi. Non intende distruggere la fede, ma separare la spiritualità dal controllo, il sacro dal ...

Ce livre propose une lecture critique et approfondie de la Bible en tant que construction historique, psychologique et politique. Loin de l’aborder comme un texte intouchable, il l’analyse comme un système assemblé au fil des siècles pour organiser les croyances, les comportements et les hiérarchies. À travers des théories historiques, des lectures symboliques et des questions dérangeantes, le texte examine comment la peur, la culpabilité, l’obéissance et l’autorité ont été intégrées au récit sacré et comment ces mécanismes continuent d’opérer aujourd’hui. Il ...

Este libro propone una lectura crítica y profunda de la Biblia como construcción histórica, psicológica y política. Lejos de abordarla como un texto intocable, la analiza como un sistema ensamblado a lo largo de siglos para organizar creencias, conductas y jerarquías. A través de teorías históricas, lecturas simbólicas y preguntas incómodas, el texto examina cómo el miedo, la culpa, la obediencia y la autoridad fueron integrados en la narrativa sagrada y cómo esos mecanismos siguen operando en la actualidad. No busca destruir la fe, sino separar la espiritualidad del control, ...

I used to be a cop, and now I kill people for fun. Yeah, yeah I know. Never admit to your crimes. But you don't know who I am. To you, I'm just words in a blurb. Besides, I don't plan on living that long anyway. The system has failed us. There is no justice. So, before I go, I'll be the justice. You know. AKAB. All Killers Are Bastards, or however the fuck the saying goes.

When you kiss your perfect boyfriend under the mistletoe...only for your cousin scream to the family that you stole her man, you realize that you will never again have a merry Christmas. In my defense, I didn’t know my boss—yup, boss. Buckle up because this is messy—was my cousin’s newly minted and totally lying fiancé. I thought he was the Nutcracker Prince come to finally show my family that I, too, was worthy of putting the star atop the Christmas tree.

As her revolutionary neighbor mysteriously disappears during Josef Stalin's Great Terror purges, 18-year-old Regina suspects that she's the Kremlin's next target. Under cover of the night, she flees from her parents' communal apartment in 1930s Moscow to the 20th century's first Jewish Autonomous Region, Birobidzhan, on the border between Russia and China. Once there, Regina has to grapple with her preconceived notions of socialism and Judaism while asking herself the eternal question: What do we owe each other? How can we best help one another?

Chase Hardy satisface su deseo de forma compulsiva y sin reparar en las consecuencias. Le resulta muy difícil controlarse y ese trastorno interfiere en su vida cotidiana y en sus planes cuidadosamente armados. Afecta a todos los ámbitos de su vida y a las relaciones con su familia y amigos. No obstante, su actividad profesional sufre una giro inesperado y se ve obligado a dejar en segundo plano las relaciones sexuales, aunque necesita ayuda para apaciguar su deseo insaciable. Y para afrontar su adicción, acude a sesiones de terapia como última alternativa. Pero el destino tiene otros ...

The battle has been won, but the war is just beginning. Although at long last Razia Khan has found peace with herself and love with her prince, Arjun, her trials are far from over. In order to save her prince and his city from certain destruction, Razia made a deal with the devil--her father...

My new billionaire boss looks like he needs something sweet in his life. I graciously offered to let him stick his hand in my candy jar. It has salt water taffy and gummy worms! I can't believe he thought it was inappropriate! In an effort to redeem myself, I set out to show Mace that I wasn't a clumsy, car-destroying, electronic-killing, accident-prone, walking disaster. That lasted all of five minutes before I set his seaweed and quinoa lunch on fire. Yeah, I didn't know that was a thing either.

Lisa had never met a polygamous family. Samuel was the first man she knew with more than one wife. But soon she cannot control her attraction to him and quickly finds herself becoming his next wife. But this family is not what it seems and Lisa soon finds out the many secrets they hide.

Two weeks ago, I was an optimistic office girl with a Pinterest vision board and a dream. Now? I’m standing in a billionaire’s penthouse office, trying not to throw a donut at his smug, perfect face. McCarthy Svensson is my new boss-slash-personal tormentor. Though he thinks he’s my only protector. He’s wrong. He’s way worse than the merry-go-round of ex fiancés who may or may not be stalking me, including ex-fiancé number one of three, who fakes his death then pops up out of a casket. Alive.

Beck Svensson fired me right before rent was due and in the middle of a rainstorm. That’s why he’s at the top of my hate list, along with pickles, people who steal other people’s lunches out of the office fridge, and trying to fold a fitted sheet. But you know what? It’s fine - totally fine. It’s freedom! I could do anything! I could start a bakery or farm the mushrooms growing in my soggy apartment carpet. Or I could just show up at the temp office at hate o’clock in the morning for a new assistant job.

Forget the summer I turned pretty…that was the summer I got hips, acne, and utterly humiliated by Aaron Richmond. This summer? This is the summer I had to marry the bastard. When I walk down the aisle towards my enemy, all to save the Coleman family fortune, I shouldn’t give in to my wounded inner 14-year old-self. I should smile, blink up at him prettily, and declare to have and to hate…Err...hold.