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Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy named Jackie Drummond, who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never knew he had....

In her work with countless powerful, successful women over the last 20 years, best-selling author and financial educator Barbara Stanny found that most women's problems with money have little to do with money itself, but rather their fear of or ambivalence toward power. Instead of pushing women to pursue financial success in the traditional fashion, Sacred Success seeks to redefine power from a feminine perspective.

New Orleans, 1836. When free Black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin - only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Just one person recognizes the corpse of the White man: Hannibal Sefton, fiddle-player and one of January’s closest friends. But he seems unwilling to talk about his connection to the dead man.... 

The summer of 1833 has been one of brazen heat and brutal pestilence, as the city is stalked by Bronze John - the popular name for the deadly yellow fever epidemic that tests the healing skills of doctor and voodoo alike. Even as Benjamin January tends the dying at Charity Hospital during the steaming nights, he continues his work as a music teacher during the day. When he is asked to pass a message from a runaway slave to the servant of one of his students, January finds himself swept into a tempest of lies, greed, and murder that rivals the storms battering New Orleans.

Traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures. Retold from the originals, these lively stories will captivate listeners.

What Are the Chances? reveals how psychology and neuroscience explain the significance of the idea of luck. Barbara Blatchley explores how people react to random events in a range of circumstances, examining the evidence that the belief in luck helps us cope with a lack of control. She tells the stories of lucky and unlucky people as well as the accidental discoveries that fundamentally changed what we know about the brain.

In Rewire for Wealth, Huson offers a proven and integrative approach to rewiring your brain. Using the latest neuroscience, psychology, and mind-training techniques with original research that includes more than 20 years of hard-won financial expertise, she shows you how to quickly but methodically eliminate maladaptive financial behaviors and expand your ability to build wealth. 

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Inspector Green is coping with an office job, still eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing. His chance comes when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. In her possession is a Medal for Bravery from a peacekeeping mission. As Green and his team dig deeper into the military past, Green finds himself sucked not only into the murky past of a peacekeeping unit but into the high-stakes present of a federal election race. What crime was committed in Yugoslavia more than a decade ago? Is someone still killing to prevent that secret from coming to light?

In the seventh book in the acclaimed Inspector Green series, an old man is found beaten to death on a street corner in Ottawa's Byward Market. Initially, the killing appears to be a mugging gone wrong. However, the mystery deepens when the victim is identified as Dr. Samuel Rosenthal, a retired psychiatrist with a contentious approach to life and treatment.

A 17-year-old sets out to meet her secret lover by an Ottawa waterfall. Three days later, her body washes up in the shallows. The public fears a sexual predator is on the loose, but Inspector Green suspects a more personal connection. His search for answers draws him into the world of elite young athletes, drugs and teenage sexuality. Then a social worker who knows too much disappears, and blood is found in the house of a star with NHL prospects. Unless Green can unravel the truth, how many others will pay the ultimate price for a young mans dreams?

Can money buy you happiness? Impoverished Lady Viola and her twin brother David Northcombe find that their fortunes change dramatically when their entrepreneurial father dies unexpectedly, leaving them a vast fortune that will change their lives forever. Returning home to England, still reeling from their dramatic change in circumstances, fate seems to have smiled on them when the handsome, but impoverished, Duke of Glentorran dramatically rescues them from the perils of the sea off the coast of Scotland.

When Blanche White moved north to Boston, she believed it would be a better place to raise her kids, especially after she got them into an elite private school. But now her children are becoming elitist and judgmental, acquiring more attitude than education. So when she and her kids are invited to Amber Cove, an exclusive resort in Maine for wealthy blacks, Blanche jumps at the chance to see how the other half lives and maybe stop her kids turning into people she doesn't want to know.

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. La violinista Angelica Cannon llegó a Smoky Hollow con una mochila y su violín para intentar volver a sentir pasión por la música… no para enamorarse del soltero más atractivo del pueblo, Kirk Devon. Los pantalones vaqueros y el encanto...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Ella había renunciado al amor. Liz Strauss era la reina del orden y el control. Como madre soltera, tenía que serlo. Pero la atracción que sentía por su nuevo jefe, Charles Bishop, hizo que su ordenado mundo se pusiera patas arriba. De...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Viviendo con el señor Misterioso... Tras ser engañada por su novio, Emily Silver corrió a refugiarse en casa de su primo, solo que este se encontraba ausente y fue su compañero de piso, Jude Marlowe, quien la recibió. Jude, escritor de...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Aquel hombre la llevaba a alturas que jamás habría imaginado… Después de perder aquel avión, Erin O'Connell, compradora de diamantes, creyó que había perdido para siempre sus posibilidades de ascenso… pero quizá no fuera así...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Kelsey había pensado que trabajar con el solitario escritor Alex Markoff iba a ser el trabajo de sus sueños… hasta que lo conoció. Alex era tan guapo como una estrella de cine, pero sus malos modales pronto dejaron claro a Kelsey que no se...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Holly O'Mara había creado un fuerte vínculo con los pequeños gemelos de su recién fallecida prima. Cuando su padre, Gray Kidman, acudió para llevárselos a su rancho en el interior de Australia, era evidente que estaba desbordado. Holly se...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Sam Kirby se quedó asombrado cuando encontró a Meg Bennet ocho meses después de su breve idilio. ¡Su embarazo estaba muy adelantado, y el bebé era de él! Después de la forma en que terminó todo, Meg no estaba exactamente deseando que...