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Features detailed world-building, slice of life elements, three-dimensional characters, a unique progression system starring an MC who gains power through gifting things to others, and so much more!

Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarit - known as Tt - is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tt finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves.

Relationships are vital to our existence, impacting our emotions, experiences, and general well-being. Whether romantic, family, or platonic, connections affect our happiness and personal growth. An ideal relationship is not about perfection but about developing a strong foundation built on mutual respect, trust, communication, and emotional support. It is a relationship where both persons feel respected, understood, and encouraged to grow together while keeping their uniqueness.

1957 - A young woman is found dead in a mews house a mile from Buckingham Palace, wearing only silk underwear and a a diamond tiara. An older man is discovered nearby, garrotted and pierced through the eye with a long, sharp implement. According to the police, a high society card game was going on downstairs that night. One of the players surely committed the murders, but each of them can give the others an alibi.

Clive Staples Lewis, better known as C.S. Lewis, was a respected academic, writer, and speaker. While he might be best known for his works of fantasy, especially the Chronicles of Narnia and Space Trilogy series, he also wrote many books on Christian apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

Are you constantly searching for effective language learning tools, but are only left disappointed with lackluster results? Isn't it time to find the right method to unlock your true German potential? Imagine the thrill of adding a new language to your repertoire of impressive skills! Allow yourself to be enchanted by the melodies of the German language with our extraordinary audiobook.

Past the highest mountains and deepest seas, in a sky far beyond what the eye could perceive, was a location called the Celestial Workshop. It was concealed within the folds of the cosmos, where the night sky was painted and the stars were created. The Star Painter was an elderly, lovely man running this enterprise. He painted the stars onto the big canvas of the sky with his long, silver brush. He meticulously arranged them every evening so that people living on Earth would have something lovely to dream of. They glittered exactly beautifully.

A complicated and multifarious notion, manipulation is mostly about our capacity to direct, influence, or control people, events, or results. It is profoundly rooted in human contacts and shapes people's communication, persuasion, and power assertion techniques. Though it is usually connected with negative connotations, manipulation is neither always good nor bad. The ethical consequences of the activity depend on its goal, technique, and effect. Manipulation is fundamentally the strategic use of knowledge, emotions, or actions to get a desired result.

He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park "frog" homer; about how no knot, no matter how snarled, would stay that way once he began to untie it. But the thing Maniac Magee is best known for is what he did for the kids from the East Side and those from the West Side.

With Thompson's trademark insight and passion about the state of American politics and culture, Songs of the Doomed charts the long, strange trip from Kennedy to Quayle in Thompson's freewheeling, inimitable style. Spanning four decades - 1950 to 1990 - Thompson is at the top of his form while fleeing New York for Puerto Rico, riding with the Hell's Angels, investigating Las Vegas sleaze, grappling with the "Dukakis problem", and finally, detailing his infamous lifestyle bust.

As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at 19, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her relatives, Emma works for free in the company store. There, miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for food, clothing, and tools while those who owe money are turned away to starve.

When the lead actress is found dead on a set staged to replicate the room where suspected witches were tried in 1692—and her on-screen lover, in full costume, is discovered sound asleep in her trailer—the hunt is on for a killer on the loose. Now, even with help from River's entire coven, Lee's Aunt Ibby, and O'Ryan, a clairvoyant gentleman cat, sorting out a witch's brew of secrets, sorcery, and special effects might turn Lee's documentary into her own final act . . .

Research in the discipline of influence psychology studies the processes by which people affect the ideas, beliefs, and behaviors of others. Offering insights into the subtle but significant ways in which people influence one another, this topic crosses with social psychology, behavioral science, and communication studies.

Selected for Dr. Siegel’s best-selling Prescriptions for Living series, these recordings are a combination of guided imagery, auto-hypnosis, and meditations that relieve stress, open the heart, and deeply heal your mind, body, and spirit.

Living in a little hamlet nestled between undulating green hills and large golden fields was a lad called Finn. Finn spent his days sitting by the river that passed the hamlet, seeing the water glitter under the sun while others toiled in the fields or created beautiful objects. The river had always captivated him since the elder’s spoke of its enigmatic past that it was once a passageway to a magical world inaccessible to common people. Finn noticed something unusual one evening as the sun sank below the horizon.

With this program, you'll have the tools, the techniques, and, just as importantly, the unflinching confidence to influence your readers and listeners decisively - both at work and at home.

Lady Eleanor Petersham knows exactly what she wants from her marriage - a man who will worship at her feet. Instead, her father marries her off to her brother's best friend, the devastatingly handsome, authoritative, and devilishly dominant Lord Edwin Hyde. It doesn't matter that he makes her entire body tingle when he kisses her, or how he disciplines her when she plays nasty tricks on him, she's not willing to give up on her version of marriage without a fight.

Sensible and cautious, Naomi Coblenz lives to help everyone else be happy—particularly when it comes to her twin sister, Ruth. So Omi certainly can't admit she's always loved handsome Bo Helmuth, since he and Ruth have begun courting. To look out for her sometimes-thoughtless sister, Omi even poses as Ruth on a ride home alone with Bo. But it doesn't take Bo long to see the truth—and really notice Omi for the first surprising, hopelessly-wonderful time . . .

There is a time to weep and a time to mourn. For the CSV Lion of Judah, that time has not yet come. The war with the League of Sol ended in victory for the Terran Coalition. Major General David Cohen and his crew conclude their three-month goodwill cruise with one final FTL jump. But instead of returning home in a blaze of glory, the wormhole collapses and hurls them more than four million lightyears into the unknown.

Mooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Read is a fun collection of stories. It’s exactly like The Count of Monte Cristo apart from the many differences. Our lawyers have instructed us to warn you that listening to it may directly cause you to come down with every single disease you are worried about contracting. On the plus side, our nation’s beloved and heroic critics have had their say.