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This audiobook features a collection of short inspirational stories with Christian overtones.

När den berömda skådespelerskan Leila LaSalle dör efter ett fall från sin lyxvåning i New York, pekar medierna omedelbart ut Leilas man som misstänkt för mord. Men hennes syster Elizabeth kan inte skaka av sig känslan av att något är fel. För att komma bort från allt accepterar Elizabeth en inbjudan till en lyxig retreat i Kalifornien från en av Leilas gamla vänner. Men samtidigt som hon försöker bearbeta sorgen inser hon att flera av gästerna har varit en del av Leilas liv – och att de alla kan ha haft skäl att vilja se henne död.

A provocative, unprecedented anthology featuring original short stories on what it means to be an American from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen: “This chorus of brilliant voices articulating the shape and...

Words have power. Some words have more power than others. So when a group of monks seek to enlist modern technology in their quest to list all nine billion names of god, there is no telling what may happen.

This is a collection of short action stories each with a moral theme.

This is a highly informative step-by-step guide that demonstrates the fundamentals of hemp jewelry-making in a fun and whimsical way. It supplies a treasure trove of information where everything is covered: from tools that are needed, to the history of macramé, to choosing beads and hemp to work with. There is even a section dedicated to dying hemp. The main focus is in teaching basic macramé knots, along with other techniques such as braiding and weaving, to give the listener a well-rounded, cognizant base on which to start making jewelry of his or her own.

First contact with a mysterious race of aliens reveals an unusual request; a family's pet dog comes to grips with the newly bestowed gift of human-like intelligence; a poet, in danger and alone on a distant world, makes unlikely allies; hundreds of years in the future, a famous hermit lives in the sea above the now-underwater Harvard University; former friends navigate unsteady peace between human refugees and the technologically superior race that saved them; in a future where human life can be infinitely extended through cybertronic rebirth, one woman declines immortality. 

Again and again, microbes have shaped our health, our genetics, our history, our culture, our politics, even our religion and ethics. This book reveals much that scientists and cultural historians have learned about the pervasive interconnections between infectious microbes and humans. It also considers what our ongoing fundamental relationship with infectious microbes might mean for the future of the human species.

Award-winning journalist and host of Black Enterprise Business Report Caroline Clarke’s moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birth mother - Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole - and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages they exchanged on hundreds of postcards. A heartfelt, inspiring tribute to both Caroline’s adoptive parents and her biological mother, Postcards from Cookie illuminates the enduring power of love to shape and guide our lives.

Fifteen-year-old Dakota Lester has never been accused of being popular, having friends or even being remotely attractive. Convinced that by becoming a sarcastic, obnoxious cut-up he can win friends and maybe even climb out of Infinity High School's social septic tank, Dakota adopts the persona of “Lester the Jester” to mask the hurt of being unaccepted both at school and by a father who walked out on him when he was younger.

När den ensamstående mamman Jenny MacPartland träffar konstnären Erich Kreuger känns det som att hon äntligen hittat den stora kärleken. Tillsammans med sina barn flyttar hon in i hans charmiga hus på landet, men deras nya liv förvandlas snart till en mardröm. Erichs beteende blir alltmer oförutsägbart och Jenny börjar tvivla på om han verkligen är den han utger sig för att vara. Hon bestämmer sig för att ta reda på mer om honom, och när hon börjar gräva i hans förflutna inser Jenny att både hon och hennes barn befinner sig i livsfara.

The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work, and their lives are moving on at quite a pace. United by the suffragette cause and now living under one roof, some will find love and marriage whilst others experience heartache and tears. Harpers is the bond that holds them together, bringing strength through hardship and pain and friendship and love.

From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew. Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious - curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood.

Seit gut zwei Jahren bedroht ein kosmisches Gebilde die Zivilisationen der Milchstraße: Es ist der Schwarm, eine Ansammlung aus Tausenden von Sonnen und Planeten, umgeben von einem Schmiegeschirm, die anscheinend seit Äonen durch das Universum reist. Eine Strahlungswelle eilt dem Gebilde voraus, die den Intelligenzen der Milchstraße den Verstand raubt. Nur wenige erweisen sich als immun, darunter Perry Rhodan. Bei ihren Einsätzen gegen die Invasoren erfahren die Terraner mehr über den Schwarm, seine Geschichte und seine Bewohner.

Im Jahr 3587 nach Christus droht der Menschheit eine unvorstellbare Katastrophe: Die Planeten der Milchstraße werden untergehen, weil sich die schweren Weltraumbeben immer weiter steigern. Milliarden von Menschen stehen vor dem Untergang. Grund für alles ist, dass eine Materiequelle manipuliert wurde, Millionen Lichtjahre von der Heimat entfernt. Perry Rhodan und seine Gefährten versuchen, dieses Schicksal abzuwenden. Mit der BASIS operieren sie in der Galaxis, in der sich die Materiequelle befindet.

A precocious, often thoughtful 11-year-old named Lucinda befriends Bob, a lonely ghost who lives on a beach on an island in South Carolina. When Lucinda learns Bob died while vacationing with his daughter and granddaughter and now he can’t leave the island to return home to Tennessee, she must enlist her parents’ help in freeing Bob, although her parents cannot see him. In this story of friendship and hope, Lucinda takes us on a journey of what it means to be selfless in a selfish world.

With inhuman solemnity, the voice of the necromancer went on in a priest-like chant until the last echoes died out in hollow, sepulchral vibrations. Then the colored vapors cleared away. But the pale unearthly glow still filled the changer, and between Malygris and the door where hung the unicorn's head there stood the apparition of Nylissa!

In the latest thrilling collaboration from #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran must solve the kidnapping of her fiancée’s nephew—just days before her wedding. Television producer Laurie Moran...

King Hoaraph chose two of his most valiant warriors to search through desolate lands for a ravenously beautiful maiden rumored to be living among the far-off pastures. After locating the king's newest desire, mighty Zobal and Cushara headed back home, both with their own eyes on the girl! Priorities changed suddenly when the crew veered off course into mysterious weather and found themselves staring into the eyes of a tall, horrific-looking creature approaching them from the mist ahead!

A story from the renowned tales of "Xiccarph": Before Tiglari, many brave souls had the same noble dream of scaling and crossing through the forbidding palace of Maal Dweb. So far, none who attempted this feat has ever returned or have been seen again. But Tiglari, the jungle hunter skilled in destroying dangerous beasts, was undeterred by the hideous odds that lay before him!