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Blake has turned the [Unnamed Ranch] into a bustling haven for slimes and those in need. With his mana gorl Glessal and darkness gorl Slanna by his side, life seems perfect. But there are a thousand fingers in a thousand pies, and all of them spell danger for Blake's slice of heaven.

Using a blend of research and interviews with the NIS agents who were directly involved, Ghosts of Panama reveals the untold, clandestine story of counterintelligence professionals placed in a pressure cooker assignment of historic proportions.

More than a decade since Michael Jackson’s death, his legacy remains complicated and unresolved.

ADHD may be the defining diagnosis of our time. According to the latest data, more than 10 percent of American children (that’s 7.1 million kids) have been diagnosed with ADHD. And the number of stimulant prescriptions for adults in their 30s has shot up nearly threefold since 2012. In recent years, this explosion in demand has combined with other factors to create a widespread stimulant shortage in the US. In the second installment of Backfired, cohosts Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes look at the unintended consequences of the ADHD industry, and trace the surprising path that brought us here.

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/aei-leon/subscribe Renewing the mind through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Created and Compiled by Christian Author and Recording Artist Jupiter Rueda de Leon (aka Aeileon). This podcast is 100% listener supported. If you feel led to donate via Cashapp you can do so here $Only1Jupiter

You have unlocked the world of Auntie’s Attic and a peculiar set of keys. “Well Kept Storage For Needs Big And Small.” The slogan seems benign. The circumstances, not so much. You’ve received one of the keys. White as bleached bone and slick as lies, your key unlocks a storage room. Inside you’ll find an object that could lead you anywhere, but wherever you go, you cannot return.

When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?

Blake was searching for simplicity, but fate had other plans. After an unexpected turn of events lands him in the fantastical world of Ylege, he's endowed with extraordinary physical abilities and inherits an unclaimed farmstead at the world's edge. Things seem to be falling into place until he encounters the gorls—beautiful, magical, sentient slimes.

In 1984, as a New York City subway train made its way downtown, a white man named Bernhard Goetz shot four unarmed Black teenagers he believed were going to rob him.

Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient.

Writing in the heat of struggle against the rise of fascism in Germany, France, and Spain in the 1930s, communist leader Leon Trotsky examines the class origins and character of fascist movements. Building on foundations laid by the Communist International in Lenin's time, Trotsky advances a working-class strategy to combat and defeat this malignant danger.

Cette nouvelle édition comporte 16 nouvelles techniques qui nous éclairent sur les apports scientifiques les plus récents. Madame O. (le personnage principal de l'ouvrage), femme de caractère, vit des aventures qui sont aussi les nôtres en cette première moitié de XXIe siècle. L'audio-lecteur découvre ainsi, au fil du temps, une trentaine de techniques de manipulation ayant fait l'objet de recherches scientifiques et dont l'efficacité est expérimentalement prouvée.

"Los tres ermitaños" es un relato corto escrito por León Tolstói que explora temas espirituales y la búsqueda de la verdad interior. La historia sigue a tres ermitaños que han dedicado sus vidas a la oración y la meditación en una isla remota. Su vida tranquila se ve interrumpida cuando descubren un bote varado en la costa, y en él, un hombre herido. Los ermitaños cuidan del hombre y, mientras él se recupera, les enseña una oración elaborada y formal. Sin embargo, su enseñanza es desafiada por la llegada de un ángel que les revela la simplicidad de la oración y la verdad espiritual.

Atormentado por un desengaño amoroso, el príncipe Stepán Kasatski abandona el regimiento de la guardia del Zar Nicolái I e ingresa en un convento para hacerse monje con el nombre de Sergio. Es una obra de madurez, una profunda reflexión psicológica donde analiza con un estilo directo y poderoso la sinceridad de la fe y la búsqueda desesperada de la libertad.

"Jodynka" es una novela corta de León Tolstoi ambientada en la Rusia rural del siglo XIX. La historia gira en torno a las vidas de los campesinos del pueblo de Jodynka y sus luchas contra las fuerzas opresivas de la pobreza y la injusticia social. En el centro de la narración está el personaje de Stepanida, una mujer compasiva y de carácter fuerte que se convierte en un faro de esperanza para sus compañeros del pueblo. A través del viaje de Stepanida, Tolstoi profundiza en temas de resiliencia, comunidad y la capacidad del espíritu humano para resistir ante la adversidad.

"Francisca" es un cuento de León Tolstoi que explora temas de fe, compasión y la condición humana. La narrativa sigue la vida de Francisca, una campesina que vive una existencia sencilla y devota en la Rusia rural. A pesar de enfrentar numerosas dificultades e injusticias, Francisca se mantiene firme en su creencia en Dios y su compromiso de vivir una vida virtuosa. Sin embargo, cuando ocurre una tragedia y pierde a su amado hijo, la fe de Francisca se pone a prueba. Mientras lidia con el dolor y la desesperación, Francisca se embarca en un viaje espiritual de introspección e iluminación.

Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon - the towering novel of the 20th century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies - the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus - one of the great best-selling novels of all time.

Ethan, the accidental Goblin King, faces his greatest challenge as the Goblin Emperor's army marches on Skrulgara. With war looming, he must forge alliances at a grand summit, uniting goblin tribes, elves, and dweorgar against a common foe. But diplomacy isn't Ethan's only battle. The brilliant inventor Cinda holds the key to Skrulgara's defenses, and Ethan's heart. Meanwhile, the goblin archivist Zirka harbors a secret that could change... everything.

Vivian Barrera, a professional woman focused on her company's success, doesn't know what to think when her sometimes-lover and long-time business partner Jack hires someone without her permission. The only thing she does know is that she doesn't like the newcomer. April Hawkins is determined to make her new job work. Left as the sole provider for her niece, she just wants to keep her head down and collect her paycheck. That proves to be difficult when one of her bosses seems to hate her and the other seems to like her a little too much.

Around one a.m. on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice’s squares. Commissario Claudia Griffoni, on duty that night, perhaps ill-advisedly walks the last of the boys home because his father, Dario Monforte, failed to pick him up at the Questura. Coincidentally, Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy friend of Vice-Questore Patta to vet Monforte for a job, triggering Brunetti’s memory that twenty years earlier Monforte had been publicly celebrated as the hero of a devastating bombing of the Italian military compound in Iraq.