Mostrando resultados por narrador "Leanne Woodward" en Todas las categorías

Py-Lieberman reflects on the profound connections between even outwardly dissimilar objects and offers insight and stories from Smithsonian experts. The book explores artworks, scientific specimens, historical artifacts, airplanes, spacecraft, plants, and so much more, contemplating how each item represents different facets of humanity and resonates with cultural meaning in surprising ways. Whimsical, affecting, and insightful, The Object at Hand offers an intimate and exclusive tour of the Smithsonian collections.

Rivah Half-Elven is a thief of the Court of the Masked King, the thieves' guild of the imperial city of Tar-Carmatheion. With her debts paid off and a skilled crew at her back, Rivah is rising high in the Court. But when an old acquaintance turns up dead on her doorstep, an ancient artifact of dark magic clutched in his hands, Rivah will need all her allies and cunning to survive.

Everyone loves a good bottle of EVOO. That's Extra Virgin Olive Oil, in case you didn't know. Olive Oil for Dummies is full of things you might not know about how to taste, buy, store, and use this incredible—and increasingly popular—oil.

Accessible and practical, the book draws on research from coaching, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology to provide the best science-based practices that can be applied in work and life. It presents core coaching skills that anyone can develop and use to improve their own emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and interactions with others. It uses levels of analysis to help listeners think about key concepts first in relation to themselves, and then in 1:1 interactions, group and team dynamics, organizational-level impact, and beyond.

In an America controlled by wizards and 100 years behind on women's rights, Beatrix Harper counts herself among the resistance - the Women's League for the Prohibition of Magic. Then Peter Blackwell, the only wizard her town has ever produced, unexpectedly returns home and presses her into service as his assistant.

Rivah Half-Elven is a master thief of the Court of the Masked King, the ruling thieves guild of the imperial city of Tar-Carmatheion. Yet her debts hang over her head like a sword that might fall at any moment. So when a guildmaster of the Court orders her to take a job from a mysterious client, Rivah has no choice but to accept. But the client wants her to steal the spell book of a fearsome and powerful wizard.

Legend tells of a sacred land shrouded by the obscure, where the barrier between worlds is thin, and strange things happen without rhyme or reason. Mila, a budding violinist, is unaware of these myths when she accepts a job at a remote inn called the Dawn. Awed by the atmospheric location, Mila begins work, only to discover nothing is as it seems. Haunted by unsettling vestiges, mysterious disappearances, and the lure of a magical song, Mila takes it upon herself to unravel the secrets of the inn. And its handsome innkeeper.

Tate Antonio has been without her father for nearly 13 years. He left one day and never came back. Tate has given up on hearing from her father ever again when a strange letter arrives in the mailbox of her apartment that she shares with her best friend since birth, Flynn McEntire. Born just two weeks apart, the two girls grew into women with a plan. They would be at each other’s wedding party when they married the men of their dreams. The problem with that plan? Tate has no idea that Flynn’s dream has changed, and Flynn wonders if Tate will ever realize she’s in love with her.

When Lauren’s parents die in a small plane crash, she inherits the fortune they made with the sale of their software business. Determined to follow in their footsteps, she moves her young family to Austin and launches her own successful company. But her charmed life begins to fray at the edges when an idle threat made 18 years earlier comes back to haunt her. Someone with a grudge is willing to stop at nothing to destroy her. Someone with time on their hands and murder in mind. Someone who knows her secret. Can she save herself from a dangerous past before a killer comes calling?

Can your first love be your one great love? Can your high school sweetheart be your soulmate? Is it possible to find the person you're meant to spend the rest of your life with so early in life? Ford and I were destined for a great romance until our parents forced us apart. We'll do as they ask and try to stay away, but being apart only makes our love stronger. Trying to live my best life is impossible without him beside me, but I'm trying to live in the moment. Even if I must wait until June to be with the guy I love.

Rivah Half-Elven is a master thief of the Court of the Masked King, and has finally escaped the debts that hung over her head like a sword. But she made many enemies along the way, and they have not forgotten her. So when the Masked King himself has a job for Rivah, she has no choice but to take it if she wants to stay in his good graces. The job is much more dangerous than it first appears, but treachery from Rivah's fellow thieves may be far deadlier.

I honestly thought things couldn't get any worse. I was wrong. Now I'm forced to defend my enemy to protect what's dearest to me. Forced to trust the very thing I've been fighting against. I can't do this alone, and if I play my cards right I won't have to. Everything has led to this. All the threads are coming together, and the pieces of the puzzle are slotting into place. Question is, where do I really fit in?

An ancient war, a tenuous truce, a delicate balance. Sounds ominous right? It is. The tri-pack collective has existed for centuries—three dire wolf packs bound to the most powerful coven in the world through a single witch born under the thirteenth sign of the zodiac. Through this covenant they keep an ancient threat unlike any other at bay. At the next blood moon, I'll be that witch-bound to the three leaders of the dire wolf packs. Responsible for keeping the peace. That is if I make it to the blood moon alive, because someone is trying to kill me.

No one said being bound to three dire wolf shifters and a possessive malevolent spirit was going to be easy. Fighting all the emotions that come with the connections is even harder. Thank goodness for my spot on the Elites team. Setting my focus on honing my powers and building my stamina by running with the wolves takes my mind off the fact that there are three original vampires out there somewhere, gagging for a taste of my blood. I can't worry about them right now.

A healer travels to a healer's gathering for the Black Moon Samhain and runs into old friends. In the shadow realm, amidst masks and veils, she reunites with a long-lost love, faces evil in the guise of friendship, and discovers the depths of her own power as she dances on the veil between this world and the next.

I expected to wake up tangled in my husband's arms. His wicked hands dragging me back into bliss. Instead, I'm barefoot on a freezing cot and I'm dressed like a trauma surgeon who lost her shoes. This sucks and I'm scared. The cotton sheets and silk robes are gone, replaced by chains, shadows, and a cast-iron door. At first, I thought it was Radomir. That two-timing bastard must have found out I was going to leave him. But the truth is far worse. I've been kidnapped. Not by just anyone—but by the monster from my nightmares. He wants what's locked inside my mind.

A group of teenagers work as camp counsellors at a recently reopened summer camp. A camp that hides a sinister secret. It's home to an undead killer. A monster that picks them off one by one, until there's only one girl left standing. For Ellie Cartwright, that's not how the story ends. That's how it begins. Because Ellie's not the only girl to have faced evil and survived. There are others. And now, they've sworn to protect those in danger. They've sworn to fight back against the creatures that lurk in the darkness.

A glass blower with a unique ability, Ember Farrow breathes magic into every piece of glass she makes. It’s a gift handed down through generations in her family of fire elementals, all the way back to when her great-great-grandfather created Cinderella’s slippers. But then, the slippers are stolen, and Ember is the prime suspect.

The Enneagram is an incredibly powerful tool for understanding personality types: who we are, how we function best in the world, and how we relate to each other. A Little Bit of Enneagram is an essential guide to the basics of this amazing system, including background and history and a basic overview of the nine major motivations.

Four blind dates in five days. I can’t believe I agreed to this. Actually, I can. That’s what I do. I agree to things I don’t want to do to make other people happy. In this case, my four best friends. They’re worried about me, and if going on a few dates will make them happy, then I’ll do it. How bad could they be? I probably shouldn’t have asked that.