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This world is constantly nudging us—pulling, pushing, cajoling us—toward our heart's longing and our true expression of joy. Yet our stubborn and conditioned mindsets can resist these signals, too often dismissing synchronicity and serendipity (magic's very language) as little more than accident or annoyance. Playful yet potent, Be the Magic nudges us too, showing how to open ourselves to this ever-present guidance to live a more peaceful, passion-filled, and enthusiastic life.

"That's What I Thought" is a coming-of-age memoir that transports listeners to a simpler time. Back to childhood, where lifelong bonds were forged with family, friends, and neighbors and where a foundation of values was built that lasts a lifetime. Set in rural southeastern Kentucky in the 1960's, it captures the nostalgia and charm of small town living through the eyes of the narrator. Growing up in a rural area in the 1960's was a remarkable experience that will be lost if not put to paper.

Was ist, wenn die Liebe keinen Spaß mehr macht? Wenn da gerade niemand ist, der interessant wäre oder wenn es immer nur kompliziert ist. Dass wir das ändern können, zeigt uns die Journalistin und Podcasterin Diane Hielscher: Sie klopft die Forschungsergebnisse namhafter Wissenschaftler*innen darauf ab, wie sie uns helfen können, glücklich, erfüllend und besser zu lieben.

Jefferson was instrumental in authoring the Declaration of Independence, laying out the ideological groundwork of the notion of states' rights, leading one of the first political parties, and overseeing the expansion of the United States during his presidency.

Diane Rehm has hosted a show on WAMU in Washington, D.C. since 1979. In Finding My Voice, this nationally acclaimed public radio personality shares the fascinating story of her life. Diane grows up with rigid Christian Arab parents who give her little self confidence. Her father is distant, and her mother has a violent temper. Diane’s first husband is as inaccessible as her father, and her life as a housewife is disappointing. But when she begins working at WAMU, she embarks on a path of self-discovery and transformation.

On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her. So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family. Decades later, the family is lured back to Cuba by the promise of untold riches.

What's Worth Learning? addresses the central question of general education. For learners facing a complex, unpredictable, and dangerous future, it asks and answers the question: What knowledge is absolutely essential for every learner? In simple, jargon-free language, the book explains why the "core curriculum" in near-universal use in America's classrooms was poor when it was adopted in 1893 and why it grows more dysfunctional with each passing year.

Nineteenth century illustrator/author Edward Lear, best known for his nonsense poems and limericks, created this silly verse tale of the green headed, blue handed Jumblies who go to sea in a sieve - but voice actor/storyteller Diane Havens shares it in her own unique faux-British by way of Queens - the New York Queens, that is.

When a literary agent dies at a library fundraiser, Sadie Hoffmiller finds herself on the trail of the murderer. As she digs deeper into the mystery, she discovers connections to an unsolved decade-old murder-suicide.

In 1939, Olivia de Havilland had her most memorable role as Melanie Hamilton in Gone With the Wind (1939), perhaps the most famous movie in American history, but Hollywood legend has it that she only got the role because her own younger sister, Joan Fontaine, was asked to audition for the part and recommended Olivia instead so that she could audition for Scarlett O'Hara.

From former sex-crimes prosecutor and bestselling author Linda Fairstein, this gripping legal and medical thriller follows Manhattan prosecutor Alexandra Cooper as she investigates a brutal hospital attack that exposes a deadly web of secrets—and puts her directly in the killer’s sights...

I was just a teenager when I ran away from the pride that had made my life hell growing up. Leaving home wasn’t easy, since I also had to leave Daisy, the one good thing in my otherwise rough life. But scraping by, a lone lion shifter in a big world, I ended up doing some terrible things. I even ended up betraying Daisy in the worst possible way. Now I have a different life, playing for the St. Dominic Cougars and living with three other lion shifters who are as good as brothers to me. Then one day, Daisy appears with a little boy who she says belongs to me.

A perfect summer romance! Louisa is left at the altar on her wedding day with no job, no home, and an awful honeymoon on her own. Back home, she takes up living in her family’s dilapidated summer cottage in the Hamptons with a rescued dog and a bad sunburn, awful neighbors, and a handyman who is anything but helpful.

Joan Didion and Nora Ephron have both written, by turns grimly and hilariously, about the indignities of getting older. Now comes Jane Juska, laying bare (literally) everything no one has yet said about life in the later years. With her characteristic wit, unsparing eye for detail, and famously frank opinions on gender issues, Juska, author of the best-selling memoir A Round-Heeled Woman, talks sex, the ups and downs of body parts well below the neck, and the indomitable human need for connection, whatever a woman's age.

On the road to Bath, a kindhearted young man encounters a young lady in a hurry. Together they journey to an unintended destination - and share an unforgettable Christmas Eve. A Regency Christmas story.

In My Life with Helen, listeners learn for the first time what was going on behind the scenes after Helen’s fall from grace and how Diane struggled to come to terms with the media frenzy that followed. Maybe, things do happen for a reason. That’s for the listener to decide. There’s no denying that Helen was a force to be reckoned with, but more importantly, she was human, flaws and all.

It wasn’t unusual to find a dead body in the orchards surrounding Bakersfield, California. So when Vermilion Blew reads in the local paper about yet one more corpse dug up by a backhoe, she dismisses the discovery. That is, until the revelation that the man had a ticket in his pocket for a movie that she had attended with her fiancé, thirty-seven years before. And that movie was the last time she had seen Frankie Monroe, the evening before her nuptials. Very has gone on with her life, or so she believes, until a slippery slope of events pushes her into a painful and mostly repressed past.

August, le roi corrompu, est mort. Lore, nécromancienne et ancienne trafiquante de poison, vit désormais à la cour auprès du nouveau souverain. Ensemble, ils comptent bien éradiquer la corruption qui gangrène le palais et aider le peuple de Dellaire. Mais ces projets ne sont pas du goût de tous : les nobles sèment la discorde, l'empire kirythéen frappe à la porte du royaume et les anciens alliés de Lore s'éloignent. Même Bastian a changé.

Volume three of this amusing and playful tale focuses on Shotta Otter, a compassionate and giving otter who always puts others first. She works as a nurse straight out of college, and courageously fights against a deadly pandemic when a virus rages through the animal community. Eventually, she reaches her breaking point.

With the big day just three weeks away, Sadie is busily adding the perfect final touches to her wedding plans. But the arrival of a mysterious letter that bears a San Francisco postmark and no return address could change everything.