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This timely and powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge. Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe.

Did you know that numerous scientific studies have confirmed the mental and physical health benefits of consuming psilocybin mushrooms? We will look at the health, medical, and work-related benefits of microdosing psilocybin and show you how you can acquire psilocybin to get started on your journey to a better you! Microdosing psilocybin isn’t just for tech professionals and artists. The cat is out of the bag...the only question is, how can psilocybin improve you? After listening to this book, you will be able to make an informed decision on whether microdosing is right for you!

We live in a heavy world, and leaders feel the brunt of it. We need practical ways to not only avoid the burnout epidemic, but lead well for the long haul. Leadership Coach, Alan Briggs, shares practical steps and tools to help you avoid burnout and reach more impact that come directly from his coaching experience with leaders across sectors.

The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.

Author’s note: This special edition of Shut Up and Sell More Weddings & Events is for DJs, entertainers, lighting and photo booth companies. If you’ve already read the original edition, most of this is going to be the same for you. I’ve updated and changed the references to be specifically applicable to disc jockeys, lighting and photo booth companies. It will certainly be a good refresher for you, I just want to be transparent. If you’ve not read the original book, this will be all new to you..Thanks for choosing this book, and I look forward to your feedback and seeing how else I ...

Set in 1994, The Coast Road tells the story of two women—Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband and sons for a married man in Dublin. When she returns to her home in County Donegal to try to pick up the pieces of her old life, her husband, Shaun, a successful businessman, denies her access to her children.

Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative, among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a different kind of human time is happening.

Un podcast entre mejores AMIGOS para darle un UPGRADE a tu vida. Aprendamos juntos a disfrutar y expandirnos en el segundo acto de nuestra vida. Somos dos mejores amigos desde hace más de 17 años, con vidas diferentes pero viviendo la mismo etapa y con un mismo objetivo: pasarla bien y encontrar todos los hacks, tips, teorías, herramientas, filosofías, mentores y demás que nos puedan ayudar a ser una mejor versión de nosotros mismos. Estás invitado a acompañarnos en este camino, a divertirte y si quieres, a sumarte en esta búsqueda de bienestar.

Iris was taken and trained as a pleasure slave six months ago. Her sexual response has been strengthened to an amazing degree. Pain and pleasure are now one to her. Her masters have made her instantly responsive and taken complete control of her body. Her climaxes are now far stronger and longer lasting than she ever dreamed of. She is the perfect foil for her master's needs and stamina. Now she is being introduced to the male dominated society of her Master. All men are her masters, though only one owns her. Other slaves are sisters in servitude and masters don't allow them to compete. ...

Beautiful, successful Samantha is alone and privately miserable. Every man she has dated has showered her with gifts, pampered her and bored her. She craves energy, excitement. She wants a Bad Boy, a scalawag, a rascal, someone who will ravish her, make her blood boil, excite her. She needs passion not mere pleasure and comfort. She despairs of finding a man to excite her. Spurred on by her sister she pursues her aloof boss, the enigmatic Matt Steele. In the first minutes of their first date she is lost. He takes complete control and pushes her into the throes of ecstasy so intense she ...

Janice and Sue Harmon go on a meandering cross-country road trip. They stop for the night on a small southern town. After a few drinks, Sue gets in a fight with a local girl and sends her to the hospital. Janice tries to stop the police from arresting Sue and both end up in jail. To their horror they discover that women who break the law are sentenced to immediate shaming and punishment by the townsfolk and auctioned off to serve as bond servants, literally, submissive sex slaves, to whoever buys them, under the Female Justice Reform act. Jan and Sue are arrested and sentenced to two weeks ...

Larry takes Emma and Ruth back to Jefferson County, WA. Reinaldo has hired him as Regional VP of Superior Products and given him the two girls. Emma and Ruth like being his slaves but have been kept in the dark about their new home and his intentions toward them save that they will be kept enslaved and exposed to the public.

Good private investigators are nosy, perceptive, knowledgeable, confident, and above all, persistent. Sometimes the work presents unexpected danger, especially when the target cannot tolerate disclosure of his activities. Emma Knox unearthed a connection between the death she was hired to investigate and a shadowy “Superior Industries.” Only when she awoke naked, with a steel collar on her neck, chained to a wall in a bare cell, did she realize her peril. Even then, she had no suspicion of how much her captor intended to change her.

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The powerful debut novel from Alan Brennert, Moloka’i tells the story of Rachel Kalama, a seven-year-old Hawaiian girl who contracts leprosy and is quarantined on the island of Moloka’i during the 1890s. Separated from her family and forced to grow up in the leper colony of Kalaupapa, Rachel experiences intense isolation. But she remains strong, finding moments of joy, and even love. Rich in Hawaiian history, this novel proves itself a stellar piece of historical fiction.

After his little sister vanishes before his eyes, Kellen awakens in another realm inhabited by mythical creatures and people who shape the very forces of nature. These are the Beastcallers, wielders of elemental magics who ascend alongside their beast companions.

At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated beings, unconnected to the rest of the universe, has led us to view the “outside” world with hostility, and has fueled our misuse of technology and our violent and hostile subjugation of the natural world. To help us understand that the self is in fact the root and ground of the universe, Alan Watts provides us with a much-needed answer to the problem of personal identity, distilling and adapting the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta.

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.

Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.

In 1941, Lenin's body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill's insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. Stalin imposed the most draconian controls-unbending censorship, no visits to the battlefront, and a ban on contact with ordinary citizens.

Teaming up with New York Times best-selling author Jeffery Deaver, Suspense Magazine offers up a nail-biting anthology titled Nothing Good Happens After Midnight. This thrilling collection consists of 13 original short stories representing the genres of suspense/thriller, mystery, sci-fi/fantasy, and more.