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The New Kingdom had been their shared creation, their child, their masterpiece. They had abolished the hereditary nobility, redistributed land, established councils where common voices could be heard. They had been celebrated, beloved, unified...

The physical relationship develops with an intensity born of its forbidden nature. Every encounter carries the thrill of transgression, the knowledge that discovery would mean ruin for both of them. They meet in secret—a beach house owned by Adrian's family...

“If you have lost a son, you have only ceased to hold him; you have not lost him. He is beyond all harm… Nature lends us children not as possessions, but as gifts that must be returned.” The two most personal letters that Seneca wrote were to his mother, after he had been exiled to Corsica...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is an audio adaptation of the ⁠OpenStax Organizational Behavior textbook⁠. The audiobook is produced by ⁠Audileo⁠. This resource aligns to introductory courses in Organizational Behavior. The text presents the theory, concepts, and...

In The Democracy We Must Keep, historian David O. Stewart takes readers inside the nine key documents that shaped the formation of the United States. Through the words of seven visionary founders—Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and others—Stewart shows how a fragile experiment in self-government took shape. These men were not saints. They argued passionately. Yet together, they forged the principles that must still define American democracy.

"You can surpass God himself. He is beyond suffering evil; you are above it. Despise poverty; no man lives as poor as he was born: despise pain; either it will cease or you will: despise death; it either ends you or takes you elsewhere: despise fortune; I have given her no weapon that can reach...

What does it mean to be truly unshakeable? How do you ensure that insult and injury do not harm you? Seneca knew how to endure the unendurable. Despite being one of the most rich and powerful men in Rome, but his life was a sustained exercise in surviving forces beyond his control. He was nearly...

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden in einer scheinbar banalen Angelegenheit tätig: Sie beschatten den mutmaßlich untreuen Ehemann einer misstrauischen Klientin. Doch im Zuge der Observierung kommt es zu unerwarteten Eskalationen...

According to an old joke, everyone knows that men and women are different... except social scientists. In A Billion Years of Sex Differences, evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams tackles some of science's most controversial questions: How do men and women differ? Where do the...

Beginnend mit den 1880er Jahren und in das 20. Jahrhundert hineinragend, stellte Holmes seinen Status als brillantester und erfolgreichster Detektiv der Welt immer wieder unter Beweis. In der Reihe Die neuen Abenteuer werden einige der bislang unter Verschluss gehaltenen Aufzeichnungen von Dr. Watson über die Fälle des Sherlock Holmes nun erstmals der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht.

Ava era mille cose. Era una ragazza che adorava cantare. Era una ragazza con tanti amici. Ora è solo la ragazza con le cicatrici. È passato un anno dall'incendio in cui ha perso i genitori. Un anno in cui Ava ha tagliato i ponti con il mondo perché le fa troppa paura. Ora è costretta a tornare a scuola. Una scuola nuova dove non conosce nessuno. Una scuola che – ne è sicura – sarà piena di ragazzi che non faranno altro che osservare il suo viso per poi allontanarsi spaventati. Chi vorrebbe mai fare amicizia con lei? Quali nuovi modi di prenderla in giro si inventeranno i suoi compagni?

L'estate a Triple Falls è finita, e per Cecelia Horner quella che doveva essere solo una breve parentesi prima di riprendere in mano il suo destino si è rivelato il periodo più eccitante della sua vita. In pochi mesi ha imparato che nelle questioni di cuore le regole non esistono e non sempre è obbligatorio scegliere. Accantonato ogni senso di colpa, si è tuffata in un triangolo amoroso con Sean e il suo amico Dominic, che ha liberato le sue fantasie ed esaudito i desideri più inconfessabili, anche quelli che non sapeva di avere.

Manca un anno all'inizio del college, ma per Cecelia Horner il destino ha piani meno scontati. Suo padre, un industriale multimilionario e anaffettivo con cui non ha rapporti da tempo, le ha fatto un'offerta difficile da rifiutare: andare a lavorare per un periodo nella sua azienda con la prospettiva di mettere dei soldi da parte ed ereditare, prima o poi, il suo impero.

Las vivencias recogidas en este tercer volumen de la serie iniciada con Entre limones y El loro en el limonero -que no sólo cosecharon un enorme éxito en España, sino que también suman más de un millón de ejemplares vendidos en Reino Unido- reflejan el particular talante de una persona con una incorregible tendencia a actuar movida por cierta visión idealista de las cosas.

Coral Amherst is the middle child of a wealthy family, with fingers throughout the politics and laws of the magical Dalebloods and the Republic they lead. Skill and connections alike have propelled her to the highest ranks of the Republic’s Navy. Now, duty inexorably drags her into a mission to learn the fate of a long-lost magical city, once home to many of the people the Dalebloods rule. Storms of dark magic drove the Seablood from their ancient city and to the shores of the Republic—and those same storms now assail the Republic itself!

In the decade since Emma Dean’s husband died, she’s maintained a peaceful and organized life in her hometown of Wyndham Beach—until she finds evidence of her husband’s longtime affair. How, Emma wonders, can a man who’s been gone for ten years still break her heart? Still reeling from the betrayal, Emma must focus on the group of artists she’s invited to take up residence at the art center she founded, one of whom is secretly seeking refuge from her abusive ex.

Go on an adventure with Isabel Soto as she learns about pirate life during the Golden Age of Piracy.

Erik Tarverro is a skilled blacksmith, a better swordsman—and hated for his mixed aeradi parentage. Denied mastery of his craft in the human city he grew up in, he accepts a risky contract from a dangerous stranger. With new enemies at his heels, he leaps at the chance to join his father's people in the sky city of Newport. Despite his human blood, he finds his place among the aeradi: heir to an ancient noble family. But Erik's enemies will have blood, and the peace between his people and the Draconan dragon riders is like a powder keg. All it would take is one spark.

Once upon a time, six famous children's stories were magically reimagined...with hilarious results! Meet the sneaky Ninjabread Man, cheeky Little Rude Riding Hood, ground-shaking Cinder-Elephant, and clever Octo-Puss in Boots. Snow White has ditched her woodland cottage for a spaceship and seven robots...and the Three Little Narwhals are on the run from the Big Bad Shark! This wonderful compendium brings together riotously funny retellings of well-known tales by popular children's authors Chris Jevons, Samantha Newman, and Jo Franklin.

Once upon a time, a fairy tale went very wrong! This new twist on a traditional story is packed with fun, humor, and energy. Long ago, in ancient Japan, two ninja warriors had everything they wanted in life, except for a child. So they decided to bake one! Out of the oven leaped a speedy, sneaky, and brave Ninjabread Man...who went on to cause absolute chaos!