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This audiobook includes a one hour long meditation session designed to increase mindfulness and create a mindset for happiness. It is a part of the Beach Hypnosis and Meditation Series. The beach is the most effective place to induce a mindful and relaxed state of mind. Research has indicated the sound of water has a calming effect on the brain, leading to increased mindfulness, deep relaxation and a feeling of being one with the universe. These healing properties occur even when just the sound of water is present.

What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views. John Maynard Keynes believed that government spending could create employment and longer-term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich Hayek believed that investments have to be based on real savings rather than increased public spending or artificially low interest rates. Keynes's biographer, Professor Lord Skidelsky, takes on modern-day followers of Hayek in a debate.

From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, PostCapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big, so profound, that this time capitalism itself has reached its limits.

Meet River. He used to be the nerd next door … only now he’s all grown up, got a sleeve of tattoos, and women seem to like him. A lot. Even Lexi, the girl of River’s teenaged dreams, all bubbly sweetness—never noticed him. Until now. There’s only one problem. They’re not meant for each other. Now it’s up to Deanna, the super pragmatic, algorithm-fueled brains behind the new dating app Meetcute, to make sure they realize it. River might be certain he knows true love when he sees it, but Deanna knows differently, and the future of her company is riding on it.

Adeena Stuart and Katharine Carnegie were born nearly three centuries apart. Yet, their music and an ancient cello connect them to each other and to a man doomed to die in 1746 after the Battle of Culloden. In book one of the Song for a Lost Kingdom series, Adeena receives an untitled musical score from her dying grandmother in Scotland.

From the history of food production to today's food fights to the future of eating, food fear is the lively dinner conversation we all need to have. Damian Mason combines his farm background, agricultural education, and industry expertise with wit and edge. The result: a food book that is factual, informative, and entertaining.

Sheriff Jonathan MacSweeny is in charge of keeping the peace in Prospect Springs. Frontier living isn't what it used to be. It's hard to survive in the New Old West and it's even harder when your area doesn't exactly embrace supernaturals - and you howl at the moon. That being said, he's good at his job and has a reputation with the ladies. When he learns his childhood sweetheart is to be married off to the town sleazebag, he goes in guns blazing to see to it she's his.

Westley Worthington has found the love of his life in Cordelia Cross. She's even convinced the carefree billionaire to abandon his life of excess. His only problem is, ever since the injury that changed him forever, she's been pulling away, making excuses to avoid being alone with him. Determined not to let this one slip away, West vows to use his newfound abilities to be a force for good in Glacier City and win back the respect and admiration of the woman he loves.

Brynn Thomas desperately needed a job and jumped at the chance to work for the cleaning company owned by Dallas "Dash" Smith. But she never expected to find her boss cleaning up a crime scene. Or to be swept off her feet by him. The men of the Silver Saints MC moved fast when they found the women meant to be theirs. Dash was no exception. They'd also do anything to keep their women safe. And Dash wasn't going to let anyone hurt Brynn. Ever.

In a place where realms combine and portals open passages to the unknown, a prophecy speaks of fertility being restored to his people through the taking of King Kabril’s mate. The prophecy neglects to mention she lacks something vital to his kind - wings. Kabril, King of the Buteos Regalis has no interest in taking a human mate. His kind believes humans are dirty, vile creatures who rely on machines to lift them into the air. The last place he wants to go in search of his mate is Earth, but he’s left no choice.

The rebel caprices of Enzo Ferrando have dire consequences. His father, the Risorgimento war hero is gunned down on his veranda. His son Lucca is forced into hiding as a deckhand on a merchant ship. Enzo himself is conscripted into the Italian army and forced to wage war on the African Horn, yet he yearns to take vengeance on his father’s killers and to reunite with his son. Set in the second half of the 19th century, Terribilita is a coming-of-age tale about family, and an examination of the redemptive power of violence.

When a young woman's body shows up in the small town of Helena, Louisiana, a local reptile consultant, Brenda Gray, is brought in to examine the case. Elsewhere, ten former college friends plan a long overdue reunion at their friend's luxurious island lake house, expecting the party of a lifetime. Their night is interrupted when a mysterious creature appears and begins hunting them down, one by one. As they are cut off from help, Brenda struggles to piece together the deadly truth, racing to save the trapped islanders from the savage monster lurking among them.

Aging manhunter Harlon Slade needs a bounty, and fast. When a gang of dingy outlaws crosses his path, it seems his troubles are postponed. But when he overhears their hushed whispers of gold in the cliffside ruins of the Sonoran desert, he wonders if there's more than just a bounty to be had.

In 14 sublime stories, Edward P. Jones turns an unflinching eye to the ordinary citizens of Washington, DC: men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw behind them and the future uncertain, Jones' cornucopia of characters will haunt the reader for years to come.

Amid all the printer's ink and historical speculation, the antebellum period (approx. 1820-1860) has largely been ignored until recently. The antebellum period often gets lost between the better-documented Federalist and Victorian eras.

Schmucks! combines Mason's and Felder's nails-to-the-wall political satire. They combine impeccable timing with insightful observations on the foibles of modern life to create material that will leave you crying with laughter.

Caleb Williams is a young, naive, and bookish man from a humble family. He is hired as a private secretary and librarian by a local country squire Ferdinando Falkland. Falkland seems to be the best of men - a cultivated, humane, liberal and kindly man. But when honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a secret.

Things are not going well at the offices of Private Eye. Jinx is having demon problems, the city is overrun with pyromaniacal imps, and Ivy's wisp powers are burning out of control, attracting the attention of both the Seelie and Unseelie courts.

Operating under the pseudonym A. Mason, without reservation, he reveals all of the masonic signs, grips, passwords, illegal oaths, and the most important portions of the secret ceremonies in general use through the world, given verbatim, including the history of the mysterious Hiram Abiff.

Holidays are hell, a point driven home when a certain demon attorney returns with information regarding a series of bloody murders. Five Harborsmouth residents have been killed, and every victim has one thing in common - they are fae. Whoever is killing faeries must be stopped, but they only leave one clue behind - a piece of mistletoe floating in a pool of the victim's blood.