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Bestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars. This anthology has them all. With brilliantly entertaining short stories from beloved young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney, Jaclyn Moriarty, Michael Pryor, Alice Pung, Gabrielle Tozer, Lili Wilkinson and Danielle Binks, this all-new collection will show the world exactly how much there is to love about Aussie YA.

Set in rural Ireland in the early 1960s, House of Memories concludes the story of two neighbouring farms and their feuding families. Following his brutish father's death, young Danny Conway strives to rescue the family farm from ruin. When all seems hopeless, help comes from the most unexpected quarter. A story of grief and trying to cope with loss but also of resilience in the face of family tragedy. No one knows the minutiae of country life as Alice Taylor does, and again she displays her unique ability to capture its rhythms and cadences.

Audible's Comedy Club gives you a front row seat for full length comedy shows from some of the best stand-ups on the scene.

This useful audiobook is for reiki practitioners who wish to learn more about and strengthen their distance healing practice. It offers down-to-earth information in clear language, including: explaining distance healing; traditional and innovative techniques; how to remotely assess someone's energy; and simple methods for channeling reiki and other healing energy modalities across time, distance, and for many uses.

Lisa Pearl is an American teaching English in Japan, and the situation there - thanks mostly to her spontaneous, hard-partying ways - has become problematic. Now she’s in Seoul, South Korea, with her childhood best-friend, Mindy. The young women share a special bond: They are both Korean-born adoptees into white American families. Mindy is in Seoul to track down her birth mom, and wants Lisa to do the same. Trouble is Lisa isn’t convinced she needs to know about her past, much less meet her biological mother.

The eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy. The accounts in this collection, adapted for audio, ask listeners to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be “fixed", but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. They offer diverse perspectives that speak to past, present, and future generations.

Why did Elon Musk feel compelled to send a red Tesla into space? What accounts for the multiple rocket-themed playgrounds constructed after the Russians launched Sputnik? Gorman - affectionately known as "Dr Space Junk" - takes listeners on a journey through the solar system and beyond, deploying space artifacts, historical explorations, and even the occasional cocktail recipe in search of the ways that we make space meaningful. Engaging and erudite, Gorman recounts her background as a (nonspace) archaeologist and how she became interested in space artifacts.

Reader reviews for Alice Crowley's HOT writing: "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~Multiple Fans In this jam packed, lusty, busty 5K-word short, a desperate housewife is taken to her anatomical limits by multiple aggressive studs. When the husband in uniform shows up and brandishes his weaponry though, things really go south.

Plongée dans le coma à la suite d'un terrible accident, Amber, 35 ans, est prisonnière de son corps dans une chambre d'hôpital. Elle ne peut plus ni parler ni bouger, mais elle entend tout. Elle n'a pas la moindre idée de ce qui s'est passé. Pourtant, quelque chose lui dit que son mari n'y est pas étranger. Si elle veut avoir une chance de s'en sortir vivante, elle a intérêt à aller vite, très vite, pour reconstituer le fil des événements et comprendre d'où vient la menace.

In this helpful guide, spiritual director and Enneagram teacher Alice Fryling offers an introduction to each number of the Enneagram and the respective triads into which they're organized. More than just helping us discern our number, Fryling shows how knowing it can lead to transformation by revealing to us both our false and our true selves.

¿Cómo podemos modificar nuestra conducta? El primer paso es entender nuestras costumbres. Para bien o para mal, son los pilares invisibles de la vida cotidiana. Los estudios muestran que, alrededor de un 40% de lo que hacemos, se repite casi a diario y, aun así, la mayor parte del tiempo no nos damos cuenta de lo que está pasando. En esta serie, el neurocientífico Ash Ranpura y la humorista Alice Fraser se sumergen en la ciencia de la modificación conductual. Quieren averiguar cómo podemos crear buenos hábitos y romper con los malos.

Every spring during the Qingming Festival, people return to their home villages in China to sweep the tombs of their ancestors. They make offerings of food and incense to prevent their ancestors from becoming hungry ghosts that could cause misfortune, illnesses and crop failures. Yet for the past century, the tombs of many overseas Chinese have been left unattended because of the ruptures of war and revolution. Following a record year of wildfires, Alice Mah returns to her family's rice village in South China, ninety years after her grandfather's last visit.

Making cosmetics sounds very difficult, whereas, in reality, it is a very easy process that can turn into a productive hobby. With some pointers and tips from the experts, you can get started with making your favorite cosmetics much less expensive than store-bought.

The lives of four sensuous, bold and remarkable women intersect in the year AD 70, in the desperate days of the siege of Masada, when supplies are dwindling and the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers, and all are keepers of secrets - about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love.

Cosy Crime aus England mit Herz, Humor und einer ganz besonderen Heldin. Ein mysteriöser Gast von Nita Prose ist der 2. Band der humorvollen Krimi-Reihe um das liebenswerte, leicht autistische Zimmermädchen Molly Gray. Unblutig und warmherzig: Zimmermädchen Molly ermittelt mit den Tricks von Inspektor Columbo und den Weisheiten ihrer Großmutter. Mit Stolz und Hingabe schüttelt Zimmermädchen Molly Gray Kissen auf, putzt die Geheimnisse der Gäste fort und lässt die eleganten Suiten des Regency Grand Hotel in Perfektion erstrahlen.

Maeve Dewr never imagined her life would change the moment she set foot on the Pembroke Estate. Fresh from the loss of her beloved grandmother, Maeve stumbles upon a secret world of ancient legacies, mystical forces, and dangerous enemies lurking in the shadows. At the heart of this new reality lies a powerful artifact—a mask that once belonged to a line of fierce warriors charged with protecting the world from unimaginable darkness. But this legacy is not just something to be inherited. It consumes. When Maeve dons the mask, she is transformed into the Fire Warrior, a formidable force ...

There are no secrets in Saintstone. From the second you're born, every achievement, every failing, every significant moment are all immortalized on your skin. There are honorable marks that let people know you're trustworthy. And shameful tattoos that announce you as a traitor.

On the run from a dangerous media empire, H124 places her hope in learning more about the Rovers, the last bastion of humans to embrace science as a solution to Earth’s ongoing environmental catastrophe. But with the planet under imminent threat from plummeting asteroid fragments, H124 must take on a perilous new mission: Find and assemble the pieces of an ancient spacecraft capable of pushing the deadly projectiles off course.

Immerse yourself in the wit and wisdom of Alice von Hildebrand with this new collection of her classic essays, published shortly after her death in 2022. Beloved for her classic books such as The Privilege of Being a Woman, The Soul of a Lion, and By Love Refined, Alice von Hildebrand was perhaps even better known during her lifetime for her innumerable television and radio appearances. Her in-person brilliance lends itself most favorably to the essay format, where her sharp cultural critiques and reverence for timeless truths are conveyed with intimate care and sparkling clarity.

When she was a girl, Alice Vincent loved her grandfather's garden - the freedom, the calm, the beauty of it. When she suddenly finds herself uprooted, heartbroken, living out of a suitcase and yearning for the comfort of home, Alice starts to plant seeds. Mixing memoir, botanical history and biography, Rootbound examines how bringing a little bit of the outside in can help us find our feet in a world spinning far too fast.