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Broadway’s most esteemed visionaries tell all - how they got started in the business, how they chose projects, how they raise money, why some of their shows were huge hits and others flopped, and much more. From Flo Ziegfeld and David Merrick, from Joseph Papp, from Cameron Mackintosh, from today’s up-and-coming new generation of producers - here are priceless words of wisdom.

In 2015, Rhea Iris Rivers felt horrified, scared, sad, embarrassed, exhausted, and ungrateful after she learned she was facing a myriad of health challenges. In a 30-day guidebook filled with personal experiences and the wisdom of our Mother Earth, Rivers shares how she naturally beat her own health crisis with seven steps to renewal that transformed her life and healed her ailments through what she found in nature, her kitchen, and most importantly, within herself.

Growing up in the small Missouri town of Heron’s Landing, Grace Danvers has loved Jaime Martínez from afar for five long years. A young artist and painter, Grace feels adrift, but one thing is constant: her love for Jaime. To her, he is everything: handsome, talented, and completely out of her league. But when she and Jaime kiss under the stars one fateful evening, suddenly her crush on him transforms into something more - something neither of them can deny.

Number-one New York Times best-selling author Iris Johansen offers listeners a classic tale of a love that seems impossible - and a hunger that is undeniable.

Jenny Cashman longs to escape the refined, rarified air of her exclusive Swiss education. At 19, she’s desperate for independence - and to once again see the man she loves. So she sells her belongings, leaves Europe, and heads to Las Vegas. The sight of Steve Jason’s newest palatial hotel and casino thrills Jenny - but not as much as the sight of the man himself....

Catherine Ling was abandoned on the streets of Hong Kong at age four. Schooled in the art of survival, she traded in the only commodity she had: information. As a teenager, she came under the tutelage of a mysterious man known only as Hu Chang - a skilled assassin and master poisoner. As a young woman, she was recruited by the CIA and now she is known as one of their most effective operatives. Having lived life in the shadows, Catherine is aware of the wobbly moral compass of her existence....

When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter, he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife, Nan, and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence?

After taking a break from pop stardom to turn his musical hand to composing — earning both a Tony and an Oscar for his efforts — Rex Brody is making a triumphant return to performing with a sold-out, coast-to-coast tour. But he has one crucial stop to make first: his aunt’s home in New Hampshire.

Nach einer turbulenten Trennung hat sich Polizist Matthew Haldon in die Abgeschiedenheit seiner Hütte im tiefen Wald zurückgezogen. Umgeben von der Stille der Natur und seinen treuen Hunden, hat er sich in die Routine seines Jobs geflüchtet, ohne zu ahnen, dass das Schicksal ihm eine unerwartete Wendung bereithält Er rechnet nicht damit, die Liebe wiederzufinden, schon gar nicht mit der Frau, die er während eines Schneesturms am Straßenrand stehen sieht. Als Matt feststellt, dass Holly Cook nirgendwo hin kann, lädt er sie ein, in seiner Hütte zu übernachten.

Sheltered her entire life, Jubilee Thornton yearns to spread her wings and fly after a childhood marked by illness. Her first goal? To attract the attention of the handsome schoolteacher she’s had a crush on for years - Heath DiMarco. One fateful night, Jubilee throws caution to the wind and kisses Heath - until he pushes her away and tells her they can never be together.

My best friend asked me to marry his sister...so I did everything I could to ensure it. I've been after Aria Funar for years, wanting her by my side, craving that woman and her spirit. Over the years I had watched her grow up and turn into the woman she's become. After a traumatic event happened to Aria, her father branded her as damaged, irrelevant, she was deemed useless to him. Now, and only now am I worthy of marrying his daughter - because the tragic things that have happened to her ultimately brought her down to my level in her father's eyes.

Fresh out of the Israeli Army, 20-year-old Iris Bahr decides to follow in the footsteps of many before her and backpack through Asia. Only unlike the average traveler, she has more in mind than just seeing the sights: She is on a desperate mission to lose her virginity. Dork Whore is a fresh and funny memoir about a young woman whose quirky personality and embarrassing neuroses always seem to get in the way of her getting what she wants.

For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Watching Frankie grow into a talented and confident young girl has made Grace as happy as any mother could hope to be. Happy enough...

In Your Body Is the Portal to Your Soul, Iris Angellys provides the simple steps to allow you to develop a loving, respectful and reverent relationship with your body. You will understand the different sensations your body uses to communicate with you, and how to live in alignment with your body’s guidance in order for you to live your life to its fullest potential. This book is filled with lived experiences, wisdom, practices, interviews, inspirational quotes and poetry to gently guide you home to your self.

The annual Buckeye Trail Town Festival. A trail construction site. And one dead naturalist. The charming town of Hawthorn Heights is celebrating its connection to the Buckeye Trail with a weekend-long town festival. When a local naturalist is found dead at the bottom of a ravine off the trail, amateur sleuth and garden center manager Molly Green finds herself tangled in a murder investigation - again. As the Trail Festival concludes, Molly unearths unexpected secrets about the bird-obsessed naturalist’s life along with other people in her small community. When the police focus on who ...

A truckload of Christmas trees. Mysterious string lights. A most festive secret. It’s the holiday season, and Molly Green, the manager of Patty’s Plant Place, is busy selling fragrant firs, teaching holiday crafting workshops, and eating all the holiday desserts. But when mysterious string lights appear on Christmas trees for sale at the garden center, she can’t help but wonder who snuck through the fence to create such festive mischief. With the help of her twin sister May and their quirky crew of employees, Molly sets out to solve this cheerful mystery. Will she untangle the mystery...

A literary plant swap. An arrogant library board president. A creepy library attic. Join Molly Green and her friends as they investigate another mysterious incident in the charming small town of Hawthorn Heights, Ohio. Molly and her BFF, Claudia, are managing a Plant Swap at the local library branch when the library board president unexpectedly collapses in the attic. First responders assume it’s a heart attack, but Molly suspects something more sinister and the Succulent Sleuth is on the case again. Will Molly uncover the truth or will the culprit leave the library undetected – free of...

Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures.

What happened to Franny Blackman? Franny is now Liza Kasner, and is hiding in Chatham on Cape Cod. This newly minted blonde escaped from suburban New Jersey with her cat in the middle of the night. As she settles into the off-season beach resort, people from her hometown keep appearing. Can she lie well enough to keep her abusive husband, Barry, off her trail?

Astrology offers a potent portal to self-inquiry, including into our erotic landscapes, desires, and relationships. In Sex and Your Stars, certified clinical sexologist and astrologer Stefanie Iris Weiss invites us to explore our sexual selves―as complex, confounding, and fulfilling as we are―through the lens of astrology.

In the early hours of Christmas eve, a young girl hides in doorways seeking refuge from the icy streets. But London is not kind to orphans and paupers and survival can exact an unthinkable price. On Christmas Eve in 1881, eight year old Luella Morris is suddenly and tragically alone in the world. Blue with cold from the icy winds, and shuddering in doorways for shelter, Luella is discovered by Agatha a cunning street girl and learns to survive the seedy backstreet alleys. Yet London has many dangers for a young street child, and soon Luella must forge a new path alone, and prove her own ...