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Originally written in the early 1800s, Grimm's Fairy Tales have captured the imagination of listeners for centuries, and have inspired various retellings and reimaginings.

David Finkleman stumbles upon a leprechaun's pot of gold while collecting herbs. It's filled with wishes and a cursed barrette and comb that belong to the Sidhe. David unwittingly gives the barrette to his girlfriend, Sabrina, dooming her to a life of a fairy, and betrothing her to the Prince of the Sidhe! His brother, Henry, steals the hair comb, making him so vain he can't concentrate on anything but his handsome face. Can David save two people he loves before their lives change forever?

Born to business-owning Holocaust survivor parents, David Stern learned early the value of freedom and how to achieve it through sales. He began practicing his sales skills as a teenager, and now after more than 40 years in sales, he coaches others to freedom through selling. At the heart of his sales philosophy is the question, "Are you for real?!" This question embodies the essence of selling - the need to be honest, authentic, and confident.

Conger, a skilled hunter, is being sent on a very special and peculiar mission: to seek out and kill the founder of the church. There are only two problems: No one knows what the founder looks like, and...he's been dead for two centuries! But Conger has one identifying clue - the founder's skull.

In this pithy and pragmatic book, seasoned management consultant John Weathington helps leaders better understand the secrets of esprit de corps in a fresh way that incorporates recent discoveries in neuroscience, anthropology, and organizational behavior. John walks the listener through the technical and emotional decisions that should be made during difficult circumstances, using examples from his own thirty years of experience working with complex and gifted organizations.

This is the first five episodes of the series. The story tells of the Dream World, a parallel world to the human realm. There was a battle in the dream world between the forces of the Dream King and the forces of the Nightmare King. The son of the Nightmare king was cast into the human world to prevent disaster. The story centers around the adventures of the Nightmare King's son and his quest to restore order to the Dream World while fighting for the love of the Dream Knight, Ayumi Kirisawa.

In 1827 the first modern national crime statistics were published: the Compte général de l'administration de la justice criminelle en France. Before the onset of data criminology, the perception of crime relied on sources from classical antiquity, rational philosophical thought, travellers' observations, and unsystematic observations by criminal justice practitioners. With the new concept of national crime statistics, it became possible to test theories and hypotheses about crime using a shared data instrument, leading to an unprecedented avalanche of crime research by continental scholars.

For 2,500 years, the civilization on Mars has been ruled by the Syndicate, an organization run by the top one percent. Freedoms are suppressed and religion is banned. The only truth is what the Syndicate tells you. Every need and desire of the average citizen has been fed by the machine in return for a lifetime of obedience. What happens when the profit margins fall and the people become a burden to the pockets of the Syndicate? What happens when their plans to exile their citizens to a certain death is revealed?

In this newly revised and expanded book, Al Janssen takes a fresh look at the exquisite design God has for marriage and brings to light the reasons this union was intended to last a lifetime. The chapters weave real-life stories with great teaching and biblical narratives in order to paint a complete picture of all that marriage can be. Listeners will examine elements such as passion, adventure, and commitment that come together to make up the colors of God's design.

In Sales Won’t Save Your Business, Super Joe Pardo shares the secrets to his TOP formula. He used this formula to catapult his family’s $100 million business to the next level and then launch his own successful consulting career. Sales Won’t Save Your Business is a GPS for your organization, taking you from where you are to where you want to be. Rather than chapters, Joe uses "pins" - points along the journey where you need to stop and learn something.

After returning to Mars, Serus discovers that things aren't quite the way they were when they left almost two years before. Thanks to their efforts, the answer to Mar's salvation has been safely delivered, but bad news travels fast. Serus learns that Harris has been abducted and Midican has been destroyed. Knowing what is at stake, he vows to return and save his friend before his enemies can take another life of someone he cares about.

Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where he works throughout the year to make the wonderful toys he delivers on Christmas Eve to his beloved children all over the world. Everyone loves good old Santa Claus - well, everyone but the denizens of the Cave of Daemons, who, after many years of despising the jolly old fellow for bringing cheer to others, decide to take matters into their own hands!

McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco. In this piece by Joca Reiners Terron, a hapless Polish insurance broker finds himself caught up among bad actors in Sao Paulo.

Finding the opportunity in his setback, Jeff Davis decides to study abroad his Junior year of college. In a series of ridiculously improbable events (some bad, many good), Jeff discovered what it means to truly embark on an adventure, be spontaneous and your own person, live each day like it's your last, push past some trials and tribulations, and live life to its fullest.

What happened? Twenty previous invasion expeditions had failed, with no word as to what could have happened back to the home world of Gorm. But this, the 21st, THIS was going to succeed. The Gorm were an extremely amorphous race.

Someone had made a mistake when the space ship was loaded for this prospecting trip. Someone had made a BIG mistake. On their way back, Casker and Hellman realize the only food left is a single radish that they must share. Then, when things look darkest, they find an oddly shaped abandoned planet with…a huge warehouse! As they search the alien storehouse for anything edible to humans, they encounter many strange and dangerous obstacles.

Once there was a young school teacher named Ichabod Crane who was entranced by a young maiden by the name of Katrina, daughter of Dutch farmer Baltus Van Tassel. Hoping to win her heart from the hero (and infamous rowdy) of Terrytown, Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, young Ichabod attends a lavish party at the Van Tassel home. As the school teacher leaves after the party, he is pursued by the deadliest, most famed of all specters, the ghost of a Hessian Trooper, more famously known as….The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.

Questions veterans and their families have asked since the beginning of time are here answered by vets who have been there and now have passed to the other side. With their new perspective they reach back to help their fellow soldiers heal and gain peace with thought provoking answers to some of the most-asked questions affecting veterans of today.

More than 90 people die from gun violence every day in the United States. Some 50 children and teens are shot. There are more than 35,000 gun-related deaths every year. Yet many Christians say gun violence shouldn't be talked about in church. In Collateral Damage, pastor and activist James E. Atwood issues an urgent call to action to Christians to work together to stop gun violence. An avid hunter for many years, Atwood enumerates the tragic and far-reaching costs that accrue in a country with more guns than people.