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In the slums of 18th-century France, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift - an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects. Then one day, he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume" - the scent of a beautiful young virgin.

You can choose where you live, serve, learn, and give. What about where you invest? What if you could align your investments with God’s heart? Imagine the impact that you could have.

On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives.

If you want to stop gambling, then this audiobook can help you. After 30 years of gambling addiction, John Woods placed his last bet on January 5, 2017. Here, he tells the brutally honest story of a lifetime of gambling and the pain and misery it caused not just to John but also to those closest to him. Most importantly, he shares all he has discovered since stopping gambling and beginning recovery. It is estimated that for every problematic gambler, there are a further six to 10 people directly affected and experiencing gambling-related harm.

For nearly a century, treasure hunters have searched for the lost treasure of notorious gangster, Dutch Schultz. When Dane Maddock and Bones Bonebrake take up the search, they find themselves in a race against a dangerous enemy and in the crosshairs of deadly assassin. Maddock and Bones must unravel the clues and survive a game of cat and mouse where failure could mean death.

The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books What’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of 35, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the Andrew Carnegie of the developing world", he strove to bring the lessons of the corporate world to the nonprofit sector - and succeeded spectacularly.

In the near future, a new space race is in full swing to be the first to colonize Mars. In preparations, an engineering team is building out the interplanetary communications network when a mysterious object emerges from the depths of interstellar space. As the nations of Earth scramble to investigate this strange comet, they must overcome plots from within and the machinations of a malignant AI in order to be the first to meet the menace, or the promise, that the intruder foretells.

After mountain man Isaiah Crow and his companion, Jacques LeRue, arrive in Alta, California, they intervene and save a group of people from local bandits. As luck would have it, they are family and Vaqueros from the rancho of Don Hernando Batista, one of the most powerful families in Southern California - and very anxious to take their new friends to meet the Patron.

Now, in the face of the "Great Resignation" and "botsourcing," thought leaders Sanders and Wood present a more positive and promising scenario, where an enterprise recognizes human resources as an asset class that possesses skills that cannot be replaced by automation. Enlightened business leaders will look to create synergy between technology and people, enabling the organization to maximize its capabilities by elevating the basis of decision making with closer-to-perfect information and rationality.

This is a collection of remarkable personal accounts of a variety of American Civil War incidents, from both Union and Confederate perspectives. These vivid and absorbing reminiscences provide an inside view of many fascinating events of the time, shedding light on our shared past and illuminating the character and point of view of those who lived through an extraordinary time in our nation's history. Enjoy these excursions back through the mists of time, recounted by those who were there.

Three years after his triumphant return from Treasure Island, Jim Hawkins learns that Long John Silver has been captured and sentenced to hang. Jim's fateful decision to help Silver propels them into a dangerous search for the greatest treasure of all time: The Pharaoh's Gold!

Podcast by Extraordinary MissionSaturdays with Sir Rolland is your weekly Catholic kids podcast on the art of dragon slaying — where dragons are sins, temptations, and obstacles to become saints, and we are called to become dragon slayers!Streaming platform: www.dragonslayers.tvThe Training Guild: www.extraordinarymission.com/dragonslayersThe 7 Deadly Dragons Book Series: www.extraordinarymission.com/7deadlydragons

Harmon Tomeral and his friends wanted nothing more than to go to space, and they have beaten the odds, time and again, to get there. They developed a mech and won the Top Fleet Marine competition. They brought back a battle cruiser from an unknown system and made it their own. They made allies who helped them achieve great victories, and they, ultimately, founded new colonies in what has become known as the Salvage System.

Discover how to strike the perfect screen-time balance. Reap the benefits of technology without the negative consequences. You may find yourself worrying that your child is spending more time in front of a screen than playing outside, learning something new, or socializing with family. All you ever hear is how technology is rotting the brains of your kids, preventing them from developing social skills and exposing them to violence.

Amy Wirkner, a high school senior in Barnesville, Ohio, is a loner, nicknamed “Chevy” for her size. She’s smart, funny, and absolutely determined to escape from her small town in the Ohio Valley, a place poisoned by fracking. She does well in school despite the cruelty of her classmates and has her eyes on a college scholarship, so she can one day become a veterinarian and make something of herself.

The Blue Rose Magazine is dedicated to covering the world of Twin Peaks from Mark Frost & David Lynch.This cover was created by painter Lisa Hession who encompassed over 28 different scenes that take place in Twin Peaks over 3 seasons and a movie for this original painting. The hard copy is a wrap around cover. With the Kindle you get the full Jpg picture.This is a special issue where many of our writers return to the magazine to write about their favorite scenes in Twin Peaks. They look at it from a critical, personal, directorial or comic perspective. It is anything and everything that ...

John Wood grew up in working-class Melbourne; when he failed out of high school, an employment officer told him, 'You have the mind of an artist and the body of a labourer.' And so John continued to pursue his acting dreams in amateur theatre, sustaining himself by working jobs as a bricklayer, a railway clerk and even in the same abattoir as his father. When he won a scholarship to NIDA, in Sydney, it moved John into a new and at times baffling world, full of extraordinary characters.

After terrorists acquire a suitcase bomb, no one knows who they are or what the target is. A team of specialists is reactivated and assigned the code name 'Resurrection'. Their mission is to locate and neutralize both the bomb and the terrorists.

"Islands of Space" is a science fiction novel generally credited with introducing the concepts of hyperspace and the warp drive to science fiction. The novel concerns the adventures of a trio of heroes, Arcot, Morey and Wade... "As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below them, like a vast shining horizon, the mass of stars that formed their own island universe.

For three-years, Jeb Benjamin and Zach Daughtry dreamed of traveling to California to gain their fortune, once released from Camp Douglas, an infamous Union POW hellhole. When the Confederate veterans reach Jeb’s sisters ranch in the Rio Grande valley, they find it in flames, his sister’s family dead and the ranch’s cattle stolen. Death and destruction haunt the veterans. A border war flares with General Juan Cortiña’s irregulars. Jeb learns Juan’s younger brother, Miguel, has raided their ranch, kidnapping his 14-year-old niece.