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The Tyrant King is dead, but Esran is far from being at peace. After the Battle of Maremer, Relaina Andovier finds herself burdened with magic that no one seems to understand. Without Darren’s help, she cannot control it and risks immeasurable pain as light and dark clash within her. While they await news from Parea and strive to help King Fabian restore peace in Evaria, three Terranian nobles arrive with a proposal that could alter their lives forever.

Alisia is normal, as far as humans go. She’s a young historian recovering from heartbreak, intent only on settling down and living peacefully. But the gods have different intentions. Alisia and her sister wake up on an alien ship. The merciless Admiral Brutus of the Vudar empire has mistaken the pair for members of the rival Sem’Pari race and plans on using them as spies, controlling them with neural implants. However, Alisia quickly realizes Brutus’s team unknowingly implanted the wrong AI chip in her head.

Luisa, 15 Jahre alt, wurde als Baby aus Peru adoptiert und wächst behütet in einem wohlhabenden Elternhaus auf. Sie hat eine besondere Fähigkeit: Luisa kann im Dunkeln sehen. Als sie im nahen Wald einen jungen Obdachlosen entdeckt, schließt sie ihn ins Herz. Tim lässt sich von ihr versorgen und sogar verstecken, denn er hat allen Grund, unsichtbar zu bleiben. Durch Luisas Gabe wird sie zur Komplizin und gerät in ein Netz aus Lügen und Verbrechen, das sich immer enger zuzieht.

Nach Jahren des bitteren Schweigens müssen sich Nova und Susanne zusammentun, um den übermächtigen Gegner in die Knie zu zwingen. Doch ist die KI in ihrem monströsen Vorhaben überhaupt noch zu stoppen? Außerdem müssen Red und Nova trickreich vorgehen, um einen heimtückischen Verräter zu enttarnen. Auch auf Lina und Manuel lauern unerwartete Gefahren.

Pummel, Pummelomi, Pummelfee und Norbert der Keks wollten eigentlich gemütlich mit der Buntbisonbahn in die Toffeetherme nach Schaumkusen reisen. Doch es kommt mal wieder anders, als gedacht: Ein riesiger, schwarzer Brocken liegt auf dem Gleis und verhindert die Weiterfahrt.

Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West in only the last 20 years or so - and it has become very popular indeed because it's a practice that one can fit very well into an ordinary life, and because it works.

Receptionist Pam Beesly and accountant Angela Martin had very little in common when they toiled together at Scranton’s Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. But, in reality, the two bonded in their very first days on set and, over the nine seasons of the series’ run, built a friendship that transcended the show and continues to this day.

Als Violet Santos eine Enthüllungsstory über den berühmten BDSM-Club Pleasure and Pain schreiben soll, erwartet sie nicht, plötzlich vor ihrer Jugendliebe zu stehen. Elijah Marshall ist inzwischen Miteigentümer des Clubs. Trotz des dramatischen Endes ihrer Beziehung flammen die alten Gefühle schnell wieder auf. Doch Elijah ist auf der Suche nach einem Verräter in den eigenen Reihen ... Kann Violet dem Sog der Vergangenheit entkommen und Elijahs Anziehungskraft widerstehen?

Ava Archer misses her best childhood friend most especially during the month of April. Ask any tax attorney, it's a lonely, grueling time of year. Luckily, Ava has just received a surprising and delectably absurd offer from her posh doppelgänger at work. She must pretend to be the aforementioned posh co-worker for one night at an extremely fancy party; a party so fancy, there exists absolutely no chance anyone will recognize her or suspect her ruse. . .

La Paloma, ade – auf, Matrosen, ohé! Mamma Carlotta weilt wieder einmal bei Schwiegersohn Erik und den Enkeln auf Sylt – doch von Entspannung kann keine Rede sein. Erst muss sie Erik beim Nordic Walking unterstützen, damit ihm die sportliche Motivation nicht abhandenkommt, und dann gibt es neue Aufregung: Die ehemalige Sylter Operettensängerin Lydia Warenholz ist nach vielen Jahren zurück, um ihrer Karriere neuen Schwung zu verleihen. Aber am Tag nach ihrem großen Konzert wird sie mausetot aufgefunden.

Mona is a smart girl and figured everything out a long time ago. She had to. She didn’t have a choice. When your parents are uber-celebrities and you graduate from high school at 15, finish college at 18, and start your PhD program at 19, you don’t have time for distractions outside of your foci. Even fun is scheduled. Which is why Abram, her brother’s best friend, is such an irritant. Abram is a talented guy, a supremely gifted musician, and has absolutely nothing figured out, nor does he seem to care.

In frightening times, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas, or “six perfections” - generosity, ethical conduct, patience, joyful effort, meditation, and understanding - can help us reconfigure the world we live in.

What does it mean to be pretty? Do you really need someone to validate your appearance? Neil LaBute tackles our obsession with physical beauty head-on in a work nominated for multiple Tony and Drama Desk Awards. Our production, directed by the playwright, includes original Broadway cast member Thomas Sadoski, whose acclaimed performance also earned aTony nomination. Includes a backstage conversation with Neil LaBute and the cast. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production.

Best buds Milo Manganiello and Alice Hooper have been the one constant in each other's lives for over 15 years. The charismatic and compassionate physics professor was there when Alice got married, and he was there 10 years later when she got divorced. Likewise, the candid and kind computer science professor has always been there for Milo. She babysits his apartment and plethora of houseplants when he's traveling, and they share breakfast together every day he's in town.

Kaitlyn Parker has no problem being the invisible girl, which is why she finds herself hiding in various cabinets and closets all over her college campus. Despite her best efforts, she can’t escape the notice of Martin Sandeke—bad boy, jerk-face bully, and the universe’s hottest, wealthiest, and most unobtainable bachelor—who also happens to be Kaitlyn’s chemistry lab partner.

The question-and-answer format makes this introduction to Zen especially easy to understand - and also to use as a reference, as you can easily look up just the question you had in mind. The esteemed Zen teacher Norman Fischer and his old friend and teaching colleague Susan Moon (both of them in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind) give this collaborative effort a playful tone: Susan asks a question on our behalf, Norman answers it, and then Sue challenges him.

What do you do when you discover your super-hot blind date from months ago is now your super-hot Russian lit professor? You overthink everything and pray for a swift end to your misery, of course!

In spite of the hyper-connected culture we live in today, women still feel shamed for oversharing and being publicly vulnerable. And no matter how many friends we seem to have, many of us are still desperately lonely. Laura Tremaine, blogger and podcaster behind 10 Things to Tell You, says it's time for something better. Openness and vulnerability are the foundation for human growth and healthy relationships, and it all starts when we share our stuff, the nitty-gritty daily details about ourselves with others.

Vowing at an early age "to be a poet or nothing at all", Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles that remain widely influential today. Another was a body of evocative spiritual poetry. Published for the first time in English, these vivid, probing short works reflect deeply on the challenges of life.

What do you do when your freakishly smart and wickedly sarcastic Research Methods professor sees you mostly naked? You befriend him, of course.