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In Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This, Dr. Lina AbuJamra gives a refreshing and honest look at what it’s like to struggle with sexual temptation and shame and how the Church can better support Christians and communities in these challenging and often avoided topics.

Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted, youth. He develops affection for his neighbor's daughter, Sophia Western. On one hand, their love reflects the romantic comedy genre popular in 18th-century Britain. However, Tom's status as a bastard causes Sophia's father and Allworthy to oppose their love; this criticism of class friction in society ...

Because of the diseases it spreads, we have learned to distance ourselves from our waste, but the long line of engineering marvels we’ve created to do so - from Roman sewage systems and medieval latrines to the immense, computerized treatment plants we use today - has also done considerable damage to the Earth’s ecology. Now scientists tell us: We’ve been wasting our waste.

Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia. Anna awakes from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn irresistibly to the dashing cavalry officer, Count Vronsky. Levin struggles with self-esteem, and even flees to the country, before gaining courage to return and offer himself to the beautiful and pure Kitty. Through troubled courtships, reconciliations, marriage and the birth of each one’s first child, Anna and Levin experience joy and despair as they each struggle to find their place in the world and meaning for their lives. (Introduction by MaryAnn)

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first “modern” novel.(Summary by Stewart Wills)

Hay una especial proximidad de las historias de Lina María Parra con nuestro mundo, ese que nos contaron, que se supone es en el que vivimos, de maravillosa revelación, tragedia dolorosa y recuerdo. Pero esta cercanía evade la equiparación, porque cada cuento tiene la fuerza para desdoblar la anécdota y extender la trama hacía los resquicios por donde se aproxima a profundidades y amplitudes sorpresivas.

Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the efforts of a dreamer to reunite with his lost love. - Summary by Kara

In seventeenth-century London, unnatural babies are being born with eyes made for the dark and webbed digits suited to the sea. Sarah Davis is intimately familiar with such strangeness. Having fled her old life under suspicious circumstances to start over in the city as a midwife’s apprentice, she’d hoped to leave such uncanniness far behind. But with each new unnatural birth she attends, the greater the fear in London grows of the Devil’s work. When the wealthy Lady Faith hires her to see her through her pregnancy, Sarah quickly becomes a favorite of her husband.

La escritora chilena Lina Meruane, autora de Sangre en el ojo y Las infantas, construye un drama perturbador y atrapante en torno a la relación entre dos hermanas en medio del campo chileno. La hermana mayor trabaja en una empresa frutícola, la menor padece una enfermedad grave que ha decidido no cuidar. Pero la mayor no se resigna y lucha para que cumpla con las prescripciones médicas. Frente a la rebeldía de la menor, empeñada en dejarse morir, la mayor no podrá sino preguntarse por qué negarle ese final que incluso ella ha deseado para sí.

A wedding to end a war. It’s been four years since the blood feud between the Branwens and Mathonwys started. Four years of sunken ships and loved ones lost, four years of wounds both seen and unseen. Keira Branwen is no stranger to duty. As the first mate of a legendary pirate ship, blessed by the sea-god Lyr, and heir apparent to her clan, she would sail to the Otherworld and back to keep her family safe. But when the Council threatens banishment for her people, Keira is faced with a choice.

Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a Marchesa whose old Roman family is on the brink of ruin.

"This magnificent work will be found to embrace not only all the essential doctrines of the Gospel of Christ, but also the whole "path of the just" (Prov. 4:18), in every station and relationship of life." (from the translator's preface) - Summary by Henry Cole

There is something horrifying hiding in the woods . . .Anna’s position as a new forest witch is a great honor, and a chance to show what she is capable of. But, when she finds herself in Gora, an ancient, mysterious castle, she is not sure that she is right for the job. As Anna learns more about Gora’s inhabitants, she begins to wonder if she can trust anyone at all – including Hadeon, the dangerous and handsome master of the castle, who appears to have a dark secret.

Audible presents Happy Endings, an Audible Original.

Biblical truth for everyday life

Are customers failing to see what sets your brand apart, pushing your prices (and margins) down? Healthy prices and profits are a company’s lifeblood, critical for funding current operations and future growth. Yet too many businesses look alike and are then forced to compete on price alone. Instead, they should aim for clear, sustainable differentiation, owning the market as the enduring Go-To brand. Theresa M. Lina will help you escape the commodity trap.

Muchos se preguntan quiénes están detrás del éxito de los creadores de contenido más populares de los últimos tiempos, como Calle & Poché, Sebastián Villalobos, Juan Pablo Jaramillo, Mario Ruiz y Xime Ponch. Uno de ellos es Lina Cáceres, cofundadora del departamento digital de la agencia de representación de talentos más importante de la región, LatinWE, quien ha convertido a sus creadores digitales en celebridades multiplataforma.

***Now a complete series*** After many lifetimes of solitude, my mate is here at last. Four years ago, I jolted awake by scorching energy flowing through me as the Savior’s soul claimed mine. After several millennia, my wait is over—she’s finally here. Her arrival, however, foreshadowed a war between the Nephilim and the Fallen. Since then, I’ve traveled the world searching for her, but she’s been elusive. I know she’s near—I feel her in my soul. However, time is running out. I must find her and keep her safe, regardless of the cost, since she’s the key to saving us all. A ...

Whether you called it electro, indie dance, or were too busy scouring the internet for MP3s to care about a genre name, Never Be Alone Again: How Bloghouse United the Internet and the Dancefloor connects the disparate parts of an under-documented era in the first book focused on the musical and cultural phenomenon called bloghouse.

Melanie Booher is considered, by many, as a name to know in the game of workplace culture transformation; here, she has collected a powerhouse team of authors who have offered their years of experience working in HR on how to create a passion within people for the work that they do everyday. Whether the work begins with silencing your inner critics, expanding the inclusion of critics within your culture, strengthening your leaders to guide to stronger integrity, or cultivating a workplace culture that is noticed and awarded by others, it’s all here in Culture Impact.