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In 1988, before her senior year of high school, Nina and her best friend spend the summer alone on Cape Cod. Nina has grown up with her ailing grandmother - and she yearns for the chance of a deeper connection. When she enrolls in an acting course, she soon finds romance with Sarah, one of the teaching assistants. Nina's own world revolves around Sarah, while the rest of the world moves urgently on. Nina's high school teacher does not take the end of their relationship well; her best friend feels abandoned; the AIDS epidemic rages; her fellow actors grow and hone their talents.

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff is a woman caught up in extraordinary times. She has been hectored, vilified, persecuted, and prosecuted for the grave offense of telling the truth about Mohammed and his marriage to a very young child as related in Islamic sacred literature. Her case has exposed the grave danger to freedom of speech (and thus, freedom of thought itself) in Europe.

Cultivating Calm Within Podcast, is narrated by Linda J Wolff, author, and narrator. One woman, rewiring her brain, yet, finding inner peace. Shares, sits down and talks about the struggles that come with being a single mom. Can insight come when we find value in everything, even the hard lessons? A podcast that’s refreshing, in relatable storytelling and poetry. A culmination of mistakes, hilarious and embarrassing, joyful and healing. A reminder that you’re not alone in this crazy world. #cultivatingcalmwithin

Growing Up Fast is a practical audiobook about how to implement an agile process in modern business to create the necessary collaboration between marketing and innovation for business success. The first half of the audiobook covers the philosophical underpinnings of complementary opposites in nature, human interaction, and the workplace.

"C'est pire que ce que vous pouvez imaginer. Un idiot entouré de clowns." La chronique stupéfiante et pourtant vraie d'une année de chaos au sommet du monde. Dans ce récit qui a mis le feu à l'Amérique et que Donald Trump a cherché à interdire, Michael Wolff nous entraîne dans les coulisses de la Maison Blanche et multiplie les révélations : luttes de pouvoir, favoritisme, amateurisme, trahisons, scènes de famille.

People problems? We've all experienced them. Problems with: performance, leadership, engagement, turnover, clarity and focus, cooperation.... The list goes on. But what if you could turn it around and transform your people into a competitive advantage? Processes and technology have already been optimized. But people remain a largely untapped pool of potential. If you can learn to optimize your workforce, you'll gain the kind of transformational improvement that becomes a success story.

This two-part Manic Street Preachers audiobiography is a fascinating story. Part one is before the disappearance of lyricist Richie Edwards. We hear how the band have lost some of their recklessness, as a result of getting older and also the loss of Richie, but the creativeness and political conscience in their song lyrics is still there. Manics are the acclaimed Kings of Rock.

Lady, suffocating in the car on a hot summer's day, slips into a feverish dream. Robert, her husband, watches her slip into unconsciousness as he drives. He's a soldier, a man of principle, well-educated and well-adjusted. But Robert is also a man with an agenda; he has married this young, wild lower-class girl to spite his father, and now he regrets it. How much does Lady know about Robert's intentions, and how far will he go to set things straight?

When Joe Reed was a teenager, he fell so deeply in love with Mary Claude Moore that his parents threatened to send him away. Decades later, he's living a normal life with his wife and their two children; yet in the thirty years since he's last seen Mary Claude, he hasn't stopped thinking of her. With recent news of her in hand, Joe begins to understand the reasons for which he has never stopped loving her - and just how pivotal that time in his life had been.

So, you married the man of your dreams. You have a beautiful family and a career that you love. Everything would be perfect, except you can’t seem to remember your last orgasm. Actually, you can’t remember the last time you had a long session with your husband that left you both wanting more. You love him and he adores you, so what seems to be the problem?

The Fire in His Wake, Spencer Wolff’s exuberant debut novel, tells the story of two men swept up in refugee crises of the 21st century: Simon, a young employee at the UNHCR in Morocco, and Arès, a Congolese locksmith left for dead in the wake of ethnic violence.

Dubbing his sophomore offering to the literary world “funny, informative, fiction,” Wolff’s latest book, Stop Telling Me To Pull My Pants Up is a humorous, thought-provoking look into the age-old battles between this generation and that generation.

We were all cursed. I recalled my mother once telling me that our days were doomed, that our future was forfeited and she was sorry she had brought so many of us to this world, to live a short life with no hopes of a happy ending. She birthed four girls, as have most of the other women in the family. Always girls. Only the female gender could be born from our bodies.

Wen liebst du, wenn deine Zeit abläuft? Die Monate, in denen Grace eine steinerne Gargoyle war, bergen mehr Geheimnisse, als sie sich je hätte ausmalen können. Was soll man schon erwarten, wenn man plötzlich mit ausgerechnet der Person eingesperrt ist, die man sich als Letztes als Begleitung gewünscht hätte? Doch um das Schattenreich zu überleben und all seine Bewohner retten zu können, wird Grace die Hilfe von Hudson benötigen. Wenn sie ihren nervig unwiderstehlichen Mitgefangenen nicht zuerst umbringt... oder küsst.

Mark's parents have never done a thing for him. When he got out of the army and married Krystal, they were against it, just as they are against his moving to Los Angeles. But Mark has a dream, a dream of being an entertainer, of having a show in Las Vegas. So he packs Krystal and their son, Hans, into their car and starts driving from Arizona to California, determined to show his parents how wrong they are to doubt him. But when the car breaks down at a small gas station in the desert, Mark and Krystal are forced to face realities about their future and their marriage.

While on a crowded bus near the Vatican, a man named Mallon - visiting Italy on business - feels someone reaching into his pockets, searching for his wallet. He elbows the pickpocket, seriously injuring the man. Driven by his guilty conscience, Mallon finds himself peering in on the life of an unfamiliar culture and learning more about the world than he ever could have imagined.

Theresa left the Marines after twenty-two years to start a new life. Her husband had moved on to a second wife, and her son had recently enlisted. Now Theresa is going to school, getting a degree in hotel management. But it is her art history class she finds most interesting, and a chance encounter with her professor leaves her with new fears for her life, for the future - and for her son.

Harvard has a reputation for turning out notable lawyers, doctors, politicians, and scientists - but not exactly for producing professional ballplayers. However, in the mid-1970s Rick Wolff transferred from this major leaguer of academia to baseball’s minors, playing for the Detroit Tigers organization. Thirty years later, his son followed in his footsteps: Harvard diploma in hand, he now plays for a minor league affiliate of the New York Mets.

Island, am abgelegenen Fjord Hvalfjörður: An einem Winterabend klopft ein Nachbar am Haus der Familie Hvarf, die seit einer Woche nicht mehr gesehen wurde. Als niemand ihm öffnet, dringt er durch die Hintertür ins Haus ein, wo sich ihm ein grauenvoll blutiger Anblick bietet, Mutter und Töchter wurden mit einer Axt erschlagen. Polizist Týr, seine Kollegin Karó und die Gerichtsmedizinerin Iðunn werden an diesen Tatort gerufen, um das Verbrechen zu untersuchen.

Puoi seguire il tuo cuore pur facendo soffrire chi ami? Jaxon o Hudson, questo è il problema. E Grace non sa proprio come venirne a capo. I due fratelli vampiri sono affascinanti, letali e irresistibili, ciascuno a modo suo: se Jaxon le piace perché è ombroso e sempre pronto a proteggerla da tutto e da tutti, Hudson la attira perché è irriverente e disposto a lasciare che lei testi la propria forza.