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Grant is handsome, charismatic, and charming. He's also a horror novelist who's had moderate success in his craft. The only thing more attractive than the man is the fact that he actually wants to meet Amy's son, Bailey. Bailey is independent for his age, as competent at caring for his own daily needs as most children twice his age, and he soon warms to the charming writer. Months later, after Bailey and his mother have taken up residence with this new man, odd behaviors begin to emerge....

Welcome to the Valley Drift series. This series is the complete Devil Days series. Here is where you'll find possession and a town that is put through the mill.

Viciria is an actual person who lived. She is real and her son, Marcus Nonius Balbus, actually became the first citizen of Herculaneum. Before this wealthy resort city was buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, she was known as The Witch. At title well-earned for sure. But why? What could happen in her life that could change such a gentle creature? Find out in the accompanying short story to Threatened Loyalties also by J F Ridgley.

Twenty-one short stories best described as Americana, although not all stories are set in the US. The style is from an ESL/EFL background: free of flowery prose or oblique references. The reference to the Golden Rule amounts to this: All of life is noticing how what you do comes back around to affect you. Short stories must, by nature, embrace this.

Wie begeistere ich andere von meinen Ideen? Ohne zu debattieren, ohne viel Energie zu investieren oder Widerstände überwinden zu müssen? Wie inspiriere ich mein Gegenüber zu neuen, besseren Ideen? Wie komme ich weiter, wenn Argumente versagen? Die Antworten liefert dieses Hörbuch: Es sind die Fragen und ihre heimliche Verführungskraft. Mit ihrer Hilfe können Sie Vorschläge präsentieren, ohne argumentieren zu müssen. Fragen verhelfen Ihnen dazu, Ideen zu säen, ohne auf Widerstand zu stoßen.

Fair trade, eco villaggi, transition towns, banche del tempo, slow fashion: è il vocabolario del consumo critico, in cui contano non solo il prezzo e la qualità dei prodotti ma anche il comportamento dei produttori e la sostenibilità ambientale e sociale della filiera produttiva. Una rivoluzione degli stili di vita, che può trasformare i processi decisionali promuovendo la capacità di creare nuovi legami di solidarietà dentro e fuori il mondo del lavoro.

Non sempre al primo colpo si capisce chi abbiamo a fianco, ma la seconda volta sì. Leo Fellani non si ritiene uno stupido, eppure deve ammettere che anche un imprenditore di successo come lui a volte può commettere errori grossolani. E il suo ultimo sbaglio è stato sedurre l'avvocato Ellie Benson. L'aveva contattata perché considerata la migliore nel suo campo, non certo spinto dalla necessità di trovare una donna da corteggiare o con la quale sfoggiare il suo leggendario fascino.

Un lusso che non possiamo più permetterci, per alcuni. Un pilastro a tutela dei diritti e dell'accesso ai beni comuni, per altri. I welfare state sono esperienze squisitamente nazionali, esposti alle sfide della crisi e della globalizzazione, ma anche delle trasformazioni demografiche e culturali. Questo audiolibro ci spiega come sono nati e come si sono sviluppati, dando forma a modelli diversi di cittadinanza.

Tutto sommato il conformismo gode di una certa fama, almeno in parte, immeritata. Una certa condivisione del modo di pensare e agire degli altri è indispensabile nella vita di relazione. È quando si sposano idee e si adottano comportamenti anche in contrasto con il nostro intimo sentire, solo per stare dalla parte della maggioranza, che si entra nell'accezione negativa del termine.

E voi? Non ne avete abbastanza di dover rispondere all'obbligo della felicità? Di dover sempre puntare a trarre il meglio da voi stessi? Vorreste piuttosto riuscire a perdonarvi gli errori compiuti, non vivere di rimpianti? Impegnarvi in ciò che vi conviene davvero? Ebbene, se la risposta è sì, siete sulla buona strada, perché questo è il punto di partenza della contentezza permanente, che si oppone con un no deciso alla fugace felicità.

Wenn Jugend bedeutet, unbeschwert auf alles zuzugehen, mutig und neugierig zu sein, dann stellt sich die Frage: Wann haben wir das wirklich gelebt? Mit 20, als wir hin- und hergerissen waren, wo die Reise hingeht? Mit 30, als Stress und schlaflose Nächte uns erschöpften? Mit 40 oder 50, als Gewohnheiten vermeintliche Sicherheit vermittelten? Tatsache ist: Die Zeit von 60 bis 90 Jahren ist genauso lang wie die von 30 bis 60 - JETZT ist die Zeit, in der wir jung sein können. Vorher war Pflicht, jetzt kommt die Kür, mit allen Möglichkeiten der Jugend, nur ohne deren Stress und Ängste.

Juniper Song - private detective - has a talent for surveillance and for knowing when a client isn't telling her the whole story. Rubina Gasparian, Song's latest client, is worried about her cousin, who just happens to be carrying her baby as a surrogate. Something tells her she's been hired to do more than just follow a heavily pregnant 26-year-old around LA, and soon enough, Song finds herself caught in the dangerous underbelly of one of LA's biggest immigrant communities.

Juniper Song has a new gig: apprenticed to a private investigation firm in downtown LA, she's racking up hours following cheating spouses. When a NY artist hires her to keep an eye on her long-distance boyfriend in LA, Song has no problem tailing the guy - until a panicked late-night phone call has her racing to the iconic Roosevelt Hotel. There, in the aftermath of a wild party in its top-floor suite, she finds only two people left: the boyfriend and a Hollywood legend. Only one of them is still alive.

Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Harvard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to see or hear news of his famous outlaw parents, but his grandmother refuses to tell him anything. When a woman named Dial comes to collect Che, it seems his wish has come true: his mother has come back for him. But soon, they too are on the run, and Che is thrown into a world where nothing is what it seems.

Kim Jisu never expected her traditional South Korean parents to hire Seoul's premier matchmaker to find her a suitable boyfriend. She just wants to figure out her own dreams! But to please her parents she agrees to go on the dates. When she flubs a test and then skips out on a date to spend time with friends, her fed-up parents ship her off to a private school in San Francisco, where she can shine academically - and, of course, be set up on more dates!

Meet Noh Inji: thirty years old, five wedding rings so far, and she’s never once been in love. When Inji takes a job at Wedding & Life, the popular matchmaking service, she never imagines her role will be with NM, their secretive marriage division that rents out ‘field spouses’ for a fixed period to their elite clientele. Just like a real marriage, Inji’s assignments involve a wedding, some sex and a spot of housework. When one of Inji’s old husbands, a mysterious high-profile music producer, requests her back for another year of marriage, Inji’s own dark past will begin to unravel.

Mirae was meant to save her queendom, but the ceremony before her coronation ends in terror and death, unlocking a strange new power within her and foretelling the return of a monster even the gods fear. Amid the chaos, Mirae’s beloved older brother is taken—threatening the peninsula’s already tenuous truce. Desperate to save her brother and defeat this ancient enemy before the queendom is beset by war, Mirae sets out on a journey with an unlikely group of companions while her unpredictable magic gives her terrifying visions of a future she must stop at any cost.

When Elijah Ri arrives in New York City for an internship at his father’s massive tech company, Haneul Corporation, he expects the royal treatment that comes with being the future CEO — even if that’s the last thing he wants. But instead, he finds himself shuffled into a group of overworked, unpaid interns, all sharing a shoebox apartment for the summer.

After her fraught journey to save her queendom, Mirae has finally cast the Netherking back into his dark cage in the Deep. But his imprisonment brings her no peace – because in his final schemes, the Netherking managed to possess her beloved older brother, Minho, and it is his body that languishes in the Deep, tormented by his possessor. Mirae is determined to free her brother and destroy the Netherking once and for all.

In Tomorrow's Woman, Greta Bellamacina’s bold, exploratory voice combines the vivid imagery of French surrealism and British romantic poetry with a modern first-person examination of love, gender identity, motherhood, and social issues. Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine writes that “Bellamacina is garnering critical acclaim for her way with words and her ability to translate the classic poetic form into the contemporary creative landscape."