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Let’s face it: Talking about race can be difficult. It’s a slippery subject, rife with as many perspectives as there are people in the world. But laughter gets us talking. It has the power to break down barriers and draw us closer together. In Open Mic, acclaimed author and speaker Mitali Perkins invites us to listen in as 10 authors for young adults - some familiar, some new - step up to the mic and share their stories about what it’s like growing up between cultures.

Every now and then, a story comes along that absolutely captures your attention. Dubai is one of those for me, but not just me - millions around the world yearn to come to Dubai. This global super city, which just five decades ago was a cholera-plagued backwater, might just be the picture of a dream becoming reality. But how, exactly, did this incredible transformation take place? Leadership! But not your run-of-the-mill government leadership, nor typical corporate leadership....

Auf der Fahrt zum nächsten Rummelplatz schlägt Geistermädchen Mimi eine Abkürzung mitten durch einen Wald vor. Doch kaum haben die Fahrzeuge den Waldrand passiert, bricht die Verbindung zu Mimi ab, Welfs Auto verliert einen Reifen und der Truck mit Anhänger landet im Straßengraben. Als Tom versucht, zu Fuß zu der Stelle zurück zu gehen, wo er das letzte Mal Kontakt zu Mimi hatte, muss er bald feststellen, dass das seltsamerweise nicht möglich ist: Ohne es zu wollen läuft Tom immer im Kreis und kommt dort wieder an, wo er losgelaufen ist!

Most of us feel overwhelmed at the idea of embarking on a grand plan for spiritual formation. As much as we'd like to, it just hasn't happened yet. Enter My One Word--an easy and surprisingly powerful practice that will allow God to form your character at a deep, sustainable level with just one word.

If you want to have a meditation that never lapses, you need to do sitting meditation every day, you need to do it when you get up, and you have to want to do it. That's the premise of this audiobook. It's not about why to meditate. It’s about how to pull it off.

Divorce rate in most countries is one out of every two couples, and many people are abandoning the idea of marriage all together. There is no better time to master some proven principles of successful marriages. There is no shortcut to a happy marriage, but The 10 Principles of a Successful Marriage does a good job in summarizing 10 tested principles into less than 50 minutes for your benefit. Whether you are having a great marriage, enduring your marriage, or even divorced, this book will be relevant in improving your relationship with your spouse or your former spouse.

Beginning as early as age six and continuing through the teenage years and on into their 20s, both male and female athletes are more at risk of serious injuries at younger ages than ever before. Dr. Tommy John, son of lefty pitcher Tommy John and also a sports performance and healing specialist, offers an invaluable diet, lifestyle, and movement plan (Rethink. Rebuild. Replenish. Recover) for injury - and performance-proofing young athletes in every sport.

Es läuft nicht gut für Nico Schnös, 47, den überforderten Controller mit der kaputten Brille. Warum gibt ihm seine Mutter seit dem Tod des Vaters täglich durch, was sie kocht und wie sie putzt? Was genau treibt Nicos Frau in dieser seltsamen Kuschelsekte, und warum flüchtet im Großraumbüro sogar der Saugroboter vor ihm? Als er bei einem Wutanfall eine Kaffeetasse auf den Finanzvorstand wirft, schickt sein Chef ihn in den Zwangsurlaub: Entweder Nico kommt entspannt zurück, oder er ist seinen Job los.

An Asian American basketball star walks into a gym. No one recognizes him, but everyone stares anyway. It is the start of a joke but what is the punchline? When Won Lee, the first Asian American in the NBA, stuns the world in a seven-game winning streak, the global media audience dubs it “The Wonder”—much to Won’s chagrin. Meanwhile, Won struggles to get attention from his coach, his peers, his fans, and most importantly, his hero, Powerball!, who also happens to be Won’s teammate and the captain.

Dr. Matt Newman thought he was leaving his life as a surgeon in private practice for a better one in academic medicine. But the kidnappers who attacked him as he left the hospital at 2 a.m. have no such plans - they just want him dead. Bound and in the trunk of his car, Matt’s only thought is fleeing with his life. He does escape, but at a price: a head injury that lands him in the ICU...where he awakens to discover he’s being charged with murder. Sandra Murray is a fiery, redheaded lawyer who swore she was done with doctors after her last relationship.

Bobby Zorn, a once successful screenwriter and recovering addict, gets a call from an ex-girlfriend. But she doesn’t want to get back together, she wants him to find Kyle Strange, an old running partner of Bobby’s. Kyle was with the ex's sister when she overdosed at a seedy LA motel. The ex claims she's trying to recover a family heirloom that was in her sister's bag, but what she’s really after is something far more valuable.

This book is a conversational style how-to book that teaches you from personal stories and real life examples from the creative genius, Tommy Swanhaus. The digital marketing, social media, and branded content expert uses his own marketing and entrepreneurial career triumphs and defeats to give the listener a plan and strategy to grow their career and company. This is an action-oriented book that will allow you to walk away from it with “know how” to apply right away to either your new business, grow your existing business, or become a better employee at your company.

This version of the audiobook has been produced with Scotland, UK, and Ireland in mind. It is also appropriate for US and Canadian markets. The only way I can get this story out safely is to call it fiction. However, I assure you, it is not. I have written it in the fashion of a movie treatment, thinking this was the best way to disguise its intention. However, things have changed since I wrote this in 2017 and even though it was optioned to be made into a movie, I fear that it was actually optioned in order to be shelved so that this story never sees the light of day.

Das perfekte Geschenk gegen den Alltagsstress – vom genialen Beobachter des täglichen Wahnsinns. Warum ist die Steuererklärung komplizierter, als Hebräisch zu lernen? Darf man lästige Werbeanrufer in den Wahnsinn treiben? Warum dauert es länger, die Wohnung saugrobotergerecht zu machen, als selbst zu saugen? Und was tun mit der Zeit, wenn der Lieferdienst meldet, dass die Sportsocken nur noch 9 Stopps entfernt sind? Der Alltag ist irre. Aber auch irre lustig. Wenn man ihn angeht wie Comedy-Bestsellerautor Tommy Jaud, hat man die besten Chancen, ihn mit einem Lachen zu meistern.

Rufus T. Feuerflieg ist es nicht gewöhnt, seine Zunge im Zaum halten zu müssen. Doch diesmal muss er lernen, nicht alles auszusprechen, was ihm gerade in den Sinn kommt, denn seine heutige Klientin wurde von einem mächtigen Wesen mit einem Zeitfluch belegt, der von einem ganz bestimmten Wort ausgelöst wird! So kämpft der Anwalt nicht nur darum, die Frau von dem Fluch zu erlösen, sondern gleichzeitig gegen das eigene Mundwerk. Wigald und Teresa Boning beweisen ein weiteres Mal ihr einzigartiges Comedy-Timing in dieser verrückten Zeitreisegeschichte.

Wie entsteht eigentlich ein Ghostsitter Hörspiel? Wie viele Menschen sind daran beteiligt und wie lange dauert es eigentlich von der ersten Idee bis zum fertigen Abenteuer? Autor und Regisseur Tommy Krappweis nimmt Euch in dieser "Doku zum Anhören" mit hinter die Kulissen. Ihr lernt viele Menschen kennen - von der Lektorin über die Besetzung und die Regieassistenz bis zu den Geräuschmachern - die euch erzählen, was ihre Aufgaben sind und wie die Texte von Tommy sich langsam zu einem fertigen Hörspiel zusammenfügen. Ein spannender und informativer Werkstattbericht für alle Ghostsitter- und für alle Hörspiel-Fans!

Irish superstar Tommy Tiernan recorded live in Cork on his Crooked Man Tour. It perfectly captures the vitality, passionand hilarious material that have made him one of the comedy worlds biggest stars.WARNING: Contains explicit language

Three books in one. The Targeted Trilogy Series: Targeted Individual Story. Three stories about being targeted by a decades long neighbor and then dealing with local sheriff keystone cops when the other neighbor, a recovering alcoholic prosecutor, involves local sheriff and police. Advanced artificial life AI with chatterbots with some human interaction via telepathy starts after the EC-120 Eurocopter leaves the author's home.

Have you ever told yourself "this is my year" only to wake up 365 days later when another New Year, birthday or anniversary comes around - yet nothing's changed? If you answered yes, say hello to UnResolution - a proven system designed to help you break through and achieve the life of your dreams without spending any more time sitting on the sidelines hoping and wishing for something better. You want the truth? New Year's Resolutions don't work. Actually, the entire "this year I promise" mindset leaves well-intentioned people like you worse off. But what if there was a better way?

When Tommy Fury realised as a young boy that he wanted to become a boxer, the odds were stacked against him. His father was sent to prison when Tommy was only nine, casting his family life into chaos. He couldn't afford a bus ticket to the gym to train, so he'd have to walk three hours instead. When he got there, everyone wanted to fight him - guys much older than him and twice his size - to say they could beat a Fury.