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Sometime in her 20s, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, "What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?" While her parents had fled Guatemala more than three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn't been back since she was a child. She gave herself permission to return - to relearn the Spanish that she had forgotten, unpack her family's history, and begin to make her own way.

The Resilient Philosopher is a podcast hosted by D. Leon Dantes, author of The Resilient Mind, exploring conscious leadership, mental resilience, and ethical living through the lens of lived experience. This is not just a podcast — it’s a journey through truth, thought, and transformation. Each episode challenges assumptions, ignites awareness, and equips you to lead with clarity, strength, and purpose. If you’re ready to think deeper, lead better, and live with intent — welcome to the conversation.

Jared just wanted to celebrate his birthday and make new friends, but he quickly finds that clubbing can be dangerous. In fact, the whole world is a different place than he thought it was. Werewolves, vampires, and faeries turn out to be all too real. Front and center of it is Steven Chang - alpha heir and all-round good guy. He says Jared's his mate. It's all a bit much for Jared to process, but maybe it'll all be okay as Steve says he's willing to date first. For a while, anyway.

Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paolo have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy, Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity and sorrow for the death of a boy, close in age to his own son, and contempt and irritation for the arrogance and high-handedness of the boy's teachers and fellow-students.

The late 19th Century was a time of liberation. After the collapse of empires, people of all creeds demanded their equality. We begin with two speeches that represent the old order, by Bismarck. Between the two speeches he went from being Prussia’s last Minister President to being the Germany’s first Chancellor. A statesman in the oldest mold, he argues for nationalist dominance against forces temporal and religious.

Eleanor Young, eldest of a Rector’s large family, once loved and lost. Nine years later, at 27, she is a teacher and governess and a confirmed spinster. She also cares deeply about the growing class of industrial poor in a society still ruled by the privileged few, who show little concern for their welfare. Galvanised into action by the tragic death of a young mill girl, she confronts the Earl of Somerton, the man she believes responsible. Unknown to her, the widowed earl has a child of the same age and is looking for a new governess to remove the girl from the undue influence of her ...

The General’s dysfunctional home life drove him to apply to the Air Force Academy almost 40 years ago, where he was provided with a new family and sense of worth he had never gotten from his own father. This purpose has driven the General throughout his remarkable career, taking him to Alaska, the Pentagon, and Germany; to Florida during Hurricane Opal, and has also allowed him to work alongside Presidents Bush and Obama and Secretaries of Defense Leon Panetta and Ashton Carter. Journey is a book about leadership. It is packed with the General’s lessons from life in the military.

Love and Survival in the Ring In a world where the stakes are high and emotions run even higher, step into the life of a fierce warrior caught in the crosshairs of love and rivalry. An explosive, steamy sports romance awaits, where the heart's desires clash with the demands of the ring. Meet our heroine, Sally O’Connell, whose name has become synonymous with strength and resilience. The spotlight is on her, having just survived a high-profile, brutal fight that left the world breathless and her enemies licking their wounds. Yet, amidst the glory, a new battle looms on the horizon. Her ...

Sid Hansen is a remorseless, death-dealing super-soldier - and he works at Gamestop. That’s right. Kill Team One now has a job in a videogame retail store filled with cranky customers, shoplifters, crying kids, and people who just haven't figured out how to use Steam yet. A global organization of radical Islamists have tracked Sid all the way from the mountains of Afghanistan, where he may or may not have been kinda sorta responsible for just some itty bitty little crimes against humanity. Hell-bent on revenge, they’ve planned the largest martyrdom operation ever conducted.

From Numbers to Espionage: A Thrilling Transformation From the spreadsheets of a high-powered accounting firm to the shadowy world of international espionage, she never imagined her life would take such a dramatic turn. In the heart of international intrigue, where shadows play a deadly game, a brilliant accountant finds herself drawn into a world she never imagined. Once renowned for her meticulous skills with numbers, she now navigates an intricate web of espionage, deception, and danger. As tensions rise, a notorious escaped gun lord sets her sights on a high-stakes target—a world ...

Fifteen-year-old Amani Kendall’s biggest problem is being the only plus-size Black girl at a white private school—until her house burns down and her family is unexpectedly on the run. Suddenly, she’s reeling from the news that her formerly boring mom is being pursued by an ex-boyfriend turned stalker, and her scientist dad has gone MIA. At the same time, she has to navigate an underfunded school in the city, suffering the cultural whiplash of being surrounded by other Black students, including the cute boy who’s an old family friend.

An essential guide to digital marketing for any social enterprise, business trying to do good, or non-profit. Discover how to use digital marketing to get a better return on your marketing dollar, increase your profits, and improve your business's positive impact. If you are not sure if your website is good enough, have an expert tell you that every business needs to be on social media, or have run online advertising and are unsure if it worked - this book is for you. If you want to reach more people and get better results without spending a fortune - this book is for you. If you are unsure...

Ever been in love and thought that it would be the end of you eventually? Laurashay's life is a struggle to understand love and the man who first held her heart, Solemn. Will she conquer her first love? Or will lust and her toxic ways poison her life? An urban tale of a naive girl as she grows to be a woman and tries to figure out this thing called love. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY! (18+)

This guide will be helpful in your understanding of the Slum Mental Test. (and prep) · A Guide for Understanding and Preparing for the Saint Louis University Mental Exam · Test Tips, Preparedness · Explaining Type of Questions · Examples, Scoring · What is Actually Measured Reduce Anxiety Stress. Understand the Test, know what to expect, Review the scoring system , scale and how questions will be administered. Find out the types of questions are on the exam,. what areas of cognitive performance are evaluated. Know how results are interpreted. Contents Include: Introduction Overview of ...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon, read by David Sibley. When important information is leaked from inside the Venetian Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is entrusted with the task of uncovering which of his colleagues is responsible. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, he is surprised by the appearance in his office of a friend of his wife's, who is fearful that her son is using drugs. A few weeks later, Tullio Gasparini, the woman's husband, is found unconscious with a serious head injury at the foot of a bridge.

When Anna Maria Giusti returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour Constanza Altavilla dead, with blood on the floor near her head, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene and it seems the woman has suffered a fatal heart attack. Patta, the Vice-Questore, is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, but Brunetti believes that there is more to it.

Amy ist zurück in Harmony Bay - und mit ihr das Monster. Cody weiß, dass seine kleine Tochter eine Gefahr für die gesamte Stadt darstellt, und trotzdem kann er es nicht zulassen, dass irgendjemand ihr etwas antut. Eine echte Zerreisprobe bahnt sich an. Als sich unter den Einwohnern der kleinen Küstenstadt ein merkwürdiges Virus verbreitet, das die Betroffenen unkontrollierbar macht, scheint der Nachtmahr allerdings nicht mehr die einzige Gefahr zu sein. Sheriff Landers muss handeln, um seine Stadt zu retten - und trifft dabei eine folgenschwere Entscheidung...

Imagine what your life would be like if you experienced life-changing joy on a daily basis? How would your life change? Who would you become? This audiobook does that. You don’t need to change one circumstance in your life to have more joy today. Joy has been waiting in different spots, even in the tough spaces, eager to be gobbled up. This audiobook gives you the tools to find those places where joy has been waiting to be discovered. The results will change your life. You will have more energy, intention, clarity, and so much more.

When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding. ‘They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no’, Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she can hear him Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni will look into what initially appears to be a private family tragedy.

La Muerte de Ivan Ilich simboliza una crítica directa de Tolstói a lo que él consideraba una vida sin sentido. Nuestro personaje, Ivan Ilich, es uno de tantos burócratas de la época quien vive su vida en la trivialidad, carente de empatía y con total indiferencia por cualquier persona o cosa que no interfiera con su cómoda existencia; hasta que un hecho trágico cambia su perspectiva de la vida.