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"Do monsters always stay in the book where they were born? Are they content to live out their lives on paper, and never step foot into the real world?" The Villa Diodati, on the shore of Lake Geneva, 1816: the Year without Summer. As Byron, Polidori, and Mr and Mrs Shelley shelter from the unexpected weather, old ghost stories are read and new ghost stories imagined. Born by the twin brains of the Shelleys is Frankenstein, one of the most influential tales of horror of all time. In a remote mountain house, high in the French Alps, an author broods on Shelley's creation.

Cut through the noise and get to the truth with Dr David Craig’s "Lie Catcher: Becoming a Human Lie Detector in Under 60 Minutes". From making a purchase, negotiating a contract to dealing with children, "Lie Catcher" provides fast, simple and effective techniques to enable you to harness expert detective skills in your day-to-day life - in less than 60 minutes. With over 20 years of practical and academic experience, Dr David Craig provides a fully credentialed and accessible guide. Ideal for education, parents, relationships, and business activities.

The body of a young woman is found by a river outside Belfast and Detective Sergeant Ryan McBride makes a heart-wrenching discovery at the scene, a discovery he chooses to hide even though it could cost him the investigation—and his career. The victim was a loner but well-liked. Why would someone want to harm her? And is her murder connected to a rapist who's stalking the local pubs? As Ryan untangles a web of deception and lies, his suspects die one by one, leading him to a dangerous family secret and a murderer who will stop at nothing to keep it.

There are many different forms, arguments, denominations, and doctrines within the Christian faith. Diving into the various theories and histories can be a lengthy and often confusing journey. This collection of sermons concisely discusses many views on salvation and faith. Anyone who has...

It’s the final years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Bríd and her sister, Ina, try to maintain a stable life in a divided country. Pushed by her mother’s fanaticism and a family tragedy, Bríd joins the IRA and makes a devastating choice. Frightened and guilt ridden, she flees, leaving behind Ireland and her family for America. Years later, her guilt and tragic history still buried, Bríd is an overprotective mother raising her sensitive daughter, Bernie, in Southern California.

In Madison’s Militia, Carl T. Bogus illuminates why James Madison and the First Congress included the right to bear arms in the Bill of Rights. Linking together dramatic accounts of slave uprisings and electric debates over whether the Constitution should be ratified, Bogus shows that—contrary to conventional wisdom—the fitting symbol of the Second Amendment is not the musket in the hands of the minuteman on Lexington Green but the musket wielded by a slave patrol member in the South.

In this collection of sixteen detective episodes, you’ll hear Frank Sinatra as amateur detective Rocky Fortune, Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Alan Ladd on Box Thirteen, Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson on The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, William Gargan as Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, Vincent Price as Simon Templar aka “The Saint” and many more!

When the world was flipped on its head in early 2020, Medix went into crisis mode with everyone else. Business came to a halt. Clients and competitors alike were shutting their doors at record pace. Major cities were turning to ghost towns and the idea of normal life as we knew it was being questioned. As COVID-19 attempted to pull Medix into the depths, the leadership team struggled. They sought new and innovative ways to keep revenue coming in the door and employee paychecks clearing. They swam hard to the surface as COVID-19 continued to pull.

In this thought-provoking and engaging book, Malachi O'Doherty argues that division in Northern Ireland is fundamentally not about whether the country should be governed as part of Ireland or as part of Britain - as presumed by the Good Friday Agreement - but rather is entirely sectarian, an...

Mexican Spanish for Tourists is an audiobook designed to help visitors to Mexico communicate effectively with locals using commonly used words and phrases. The audiobook is aimed at tourists who are traveling to Mexico for leisure or business and want to navigate the country with ease.

An ambitious account of the evolution and biology of insects. Insects are the most successful group of animals ever to have lived. They comprise a million species and perhaps 10 quintillion individuals: one in every four animals on the planet is a beetle; one in every ten is a butterfly or moth...

Comedian Alan Davies invites four very funny and talented guests to join him around a table and chat. Their one task? To come up with a title for the show based on the stories shared. It’s as simple as that. It’s completely unscripted, unprepared and unrehearsed.

Una novela sobre la muerte que defiende la alegría de vivir En clase, Yamashita es el gordinflón, Kiyama es tan larguirucho que le llaman «espárrago» y Kawabe, el raro que cada vez que habla de su padre se inventa una profesión distinta.

Schmerz, Trauer und Hass – kann die Liebe siegen? Arthur, der Kronprinz von England, kann die Tatsache, dass er schwul ist, nicht länger verleugnen. Als er im Internat auf Noah trifft, lässt ihn ein erster, unschuldiger Kuss erbeben. Doch das darf einfach nicht sein! Ein schwuler Prinz, wie nur soll er dies dem Volk erklären? Durch ein unfreiwilliges Outing kommt eine Lawine ins Rollen, die Arthur nicht mehr aufhalten kann. Es folgen Ereignisse, die den jungen Mann niederringen und ihn doch reifen lassen.

Do you remember Beatlemania? Radio Caroline? Mods and Rockers? The very first miniskirts? Then the chances are you were born in the or around 1960. To the young people of today, the 1960s seems like another age. But for those who grew up in this decade, school life, 'mod' fashions and sixties...

A solas, un individuo llegará hasta cierto punto en el trabajo espiritual; después, es necesaria una guía, que podrán proporcionar los compañeros, con su apoyo en el camino; aquí hallarás la manera de juntar un grupo o una “escuela” con personas que se ayuden en el estudio y el trabajo. Este libro es como tener una conversación con Halevi, la cual te impulsará a vivir la escuela del alma en tu propia vida.

Todos estamos en la búsqueda. Unos persiguen seguridad, placer o poder; otros buscan algo que no conocen. Y otros más saben lo que buscan pero no lo encuentran en el mundo natural. Para tales buscadores, quienes los precedieron dejaron señales. Al realizar un trabajo serio sobre el significado de tales señales, la Providencia abre una puerta desde el mundo natural hacia el sobrenatural para revelar una escalera que va de lo temporal a lo eterno. Quien se atreve a ascender, entra en el camino de la Kabbalah.

In Soul Strength, Dr. Alan Ahlgrim explores twelve principles that will help you experience deeper relationships than ever before and, in the process, discover the secret to creating the kind of growth and transformation you crave. The missing element in spiritual transformation for many-even...

What does it take to digitally transform? Szatvanyi is aware of the obstacles, and he doesn’t shy away from tough topics in the retail space, including the challenges surrounding stores and misunderstandings about remote work. Rather, in an approachable “around the fireplace” style, he extends his hand and invites listeners to sit back with him and dream. After all, with the technologies available today, the possibilities are nearly endless.

In Modernizing Medicare, editors Robert Emmet Moffit and Marie Fishpaw bring together a rare combination of leading scholars and policy practitioners to outline a vision for Medicare reform and provide solutions for the millions of seniors whose health care depends on it. Contributors include a former Medicare trustee, a former Medicare administrator, and a former director of the Congressional Budget Office.