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Drift into deep, restful sleep with this calming collection of bedtime stories which take place on rainy days. In Get Sleepy: Rainy Stories, cozy travel, nature, and animal stories and a classic folktale are read to the soothing background sound of gently falling rain. These calming sleep stories are designed to quiet your thoughts and guide you into peaceful rest. Narrated by the soft, steady voice of Get Sleepy’s host, Thomas Jones, this collection of short stories is designed to help you release the worries of your days and snuggle up in bed.

This TAN Books edition of the “Baltimore Catechism #2” by Rev Thomas Kinkead, features the complete original text, along with a supplemental reading section entitled "Catholic Prayers."

Após um mês acometido por uma febre delirante, Luís da Silva se levanta da cama para contar a história da grande perturbação que desviou os caminhos de sua pacata vida como funcionário público, na Maceió dos anos 1930. Desprezado, o "pobre-diabo" perdeu Marina, vizinha bonita e interesseira, para as mãos de Julião Tavares, um homem repulsivo, mas rico. Às voltas com a ameaça recorrente dos ratos que invadem sua casa e assombrado pelo crime que cometeu, Luís da Silva rememora, de forma frenética, sua decadência, com um ódio crescente.

Civilization is breaking down, and a brilliant scientist’s solution is unlike anything imagined before: androids capable of human emotion. But when her first creation spirals out of control, she is left with one final prototype – an unfinished machine who could either safeguard humanity’s future or bring about its end. Dr. Evelyn Gillespie has devoted her life to preparing for humanity’s collapse. Nations are fracturing, wars are spreading, and civilization is slipping into ruin. Her answer: a new kind of android — machines not just built to think, but to feel.

Der vorangegangene Fall steckt Hannah Lambert immer noch tief in den Knochen. Um dem Täter das Handwerk zu legen, muss Hannah weit in ihre eigene Vergangenheit reisen und sich mit abscheulichen Bluttaten auseinandersetzen, die seinerzeit auf Sylt für Angst und Schrecken sorgten. Sylt, im Herbst: Der vorangegangene Fall steckt Hannah Lambert immer noch tief in den Knochen. Schließlich wurde sie entführt und hätte ihre Hilfsbereitschaft beinahe mit dem Leben bezahlt. Ausgerechnet in ihrem schwächsten Moment wird sie mit einem neuen Mordfall konfrontiert, der sofort alte Erinnerungen weckt.

When Common Sense hit the streets in 1776, it ignited the American colonies like never before. With bold, plain-spoken language, Thomas Paine challenged the authority of the British monarchy and made the urgent case for American independence. More than just a political argument, this short but powerful work gave everyday people the words to demand freedom—and the courage to fight for it.

This treatise comprises questions 90–97 of the Summa Theologica, in which St. Thomas Aquinas presents a philosophical analysis of the nature and structure of law. Believing that law achieves its results by imposing moral obligations rather than outright force on those subject to it, he proceeds to explore vital questions about the essence of law, kinds of law, effects of law, eternal law, natural law, human law, and changes in law.

Born out of the political turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan stands out as one of the most in influential political and philosophical texts of the 17th century. It argues for the restoration of the monarchy in light of the republic and calls for a commonwealth ruled by an authoritative, autocratic figure with absolute sovereignty. This would put an end to all controversy, war, and fear and establish peace via social contract.

Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows how Schelling's framework—conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured destruction—still applies to our multipolar world, where wars are fought as much online as on the ground.

Hannibal Lecter è uno psichiatra geniale, un uomo colto e raffinato. Ed è anche un pericoloso psicopatico e un feroce assassino. Ma è l'unica risorsa che ha a disposizione la giovane agente dell'FBI Clarice Starling per rintracciare Buffalo Bill, l'imprendibile "mostro" che scuoia le sue vittime. Il dottor Lecter decide di aiutarla, ma al prezzo di uno scambio perverso: le consegnerà Buffalo Bill in tempo per salvare la sua ultima preda unicamente se Clarice accetterà di svelargli ciò che da anni tormenta la sua anima...

For many children, the summer of 1988 was filled with sunshine and laughter. But for ten-year-old Kris Barlow, it was her chance to say goodbye to her dying mother. Three decades later, loss returns - her husband killed in a car accident. And so, Kris goes home to the place where she first knew pain - to that summer house overlooking the crystal waters of Lost Lake. It’s there that Kris and her eight-year-old daughter will make a stand against grief. But a shadow has fallen over the quiet lake town of Pacington, Kansas. Beneath its surface, an evil has grown.

The tale of spirited farmer Bathsheba Everdene and the three suitors who vie for her attention is the first of Hardy’s Wessex novels. Passion and tragedy abound against the backdrop of a 19th-century rural idyll, as Hardy sets the tone for his subsequent forays into the life and love stories of this fictional county.

How would the story of Pride and Prejudice be altered if Mr. Wickham had been a good man? Instead of becoming a scoundrel who regularly attempts to elope with teenage girls, Mr. Wickham studies the law as he originally told Mr. Darcy when he gave up the value of the living. After finishing his studies, Mr. Wickham finds work in Meryton with Mr. Phillips, a local solicitor and the Bennets's uncle.

In the early 1990’s, Hellboy, Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapien are drawn into a bizarre case in New York, linked both to Hellboy’s 1980 adventure with Anastasia in Brazil and to The Lobster’s encounter with the Proteus Club in 1933. A strange community of bizarre humans has been living in secret beneath Manhattan for more than sixty years. Now, though, someone is stalking them, murdering them one by one—someone who claims to be the ancient goddess Sem-Karul. With aid from the now elderly Cynthia Tynan, Hellboy and the BPRD must face the Goddess of Manhattan, and the monsters who serve her.

Extreme polarization in American politics is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members and district candidates and endorsed by the voters in each Congressional district who must choose between the alternatives offered.

Far from being a "First World problem", mental illness is a global scourge that affects people of all incomes and backgrounds. By 2030, mental disorders will cost the global economy around $6 trillion a year - more than heart disease.

This fascinating volume investigates how the concept of soul is connected to BDSM and kink, exploring the world of alternative sexualities through the psychology of C. G. Jung and James Hillman as listeners are guided on a provocative, lively journey through darker aspects of the sexual imagination.

Sexually innocent Jude Fawley is trapped into marriage by seductive Arabella Donn, but their union is an unhappy one and Arabella leaves him. Jude's welcome freedom allows him to pursue his obsession with his pretty cousin Sue Bridehead, a brilliant, charismatic free-thinker who would be his ideal soul-mate if not for her aversion to physical love. When Jude and Sue decide to lead their lives outside marriage they bring down on themselves all the force of a repressive society.

Socially critical and emotionally complex, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is Hardy's masterpiece. It tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, forced by her family's poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy d'Urbervilles. Violated by the son, Alec, her hopes of rebuilding her life with the gentle and bookish Angel Clare founder when he learns of her past.

Subtitled 'A Story of To-day', A Laodicean occupies a unique place in the Thomas Hardy canon. Departing from pre-industrial Wessex, Hardy brings his themes of social constraint, fate, chance and miscommunication to the very modern world of the 1880s - complete with falsified telegraphs, fake photographs, and perilous train tracks. The story follows the life of Paula Power, heiress of her late father's railroad fortune and the new owner of the medieval Castle Stancy. With the castle in need of restoration, Paula employs architect George Somerset, who soon falls in love with her.