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Unlock the secrets behind your child’s worries. Is your bright child overwhelmed by worries that seem beyond their years? Do questions about global issues or personal anxieties keep them up at night? "Why Smart Kids Worry" offers a compassionate roadmap to understanding and supporting your...

When grief cracks her open, magic answers.After the sudden death of her grandmother, Mari Pollard is torn from her quiet life and thrust into the glittering, ruthless world of New York City’s elite. Surrounded by wealth, secrets, and expectations she never asked for, Mari begins to feel...

Your Work Is Not Your Life is the podcast for ambitious finance professionals who want career success without sacrificing the rest of their life.I'm Allison Marie, a life and leadership coach for finance professionals and former finance executive. Each week, I'll help you rethink how you're working and develop more sustainable ways of succeeding in finance so you have capacity for your finance career AND the rest of your life.We'll challenge assumptions about what your career actually requires, look at the habits and ways of working that may be taking more of your time and energy than they ...

This gritty crime novel set in 1990s New York City will appeal to fans of Dennis Lehane. New York, 1993. Jimmy Lettner, a convicted drug-trafficker who once lost a daughter in a narco-fueled car wreck, runs Manhattan's hottest nightspot, Abattoir. Reformed by his time in prison, all he wants is...

Canadian ski cross phenom Cedric Bérard has spent his life chasing speed, glory, and his best friend Austin down every mountain they could find. They’ve always pushed each other harder, faster, closer to the edge—until one night, Cedric falls in a different way. One kiss. One touch. A...

Stories with depth, strong protagonists, high tension, all told while pulling at your heartstrings, or making you smile with understanding. In this anthology, you'll find fifteen stories, including many novelettes. Go on adventures with heroes old and young, a couple of war pigs, and visit many new fantasy worlds. Watch out for the dragons! Deep Magic: Volume 3 has stories that will satisfy your hunger to escape.

The Cybersecurity Playbook is the step-by-step guide to protecting your organization from unknown threats and integrating good security habits into everyday business situations. This audiobook provides clear guidance on how to identify weaknesses, assess possible threats, and implement effective policies. Recognizing that an organization's security is only as strong as its weakest link, this audiobook offers specific strategies for employees at every level.

Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? Answer: no. Not only is free-market capitalism good for the economy, it is our only hope for recovery. As the nation’s longest-serving CEO of one of the top 25 financial institutions, John Allison has had a unique inside view of the events leading up to the financial crisis.

Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family - a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard- drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective.

Britain is awash, the sea creeps into the land, brambles and forest swamp derelict towns. Food production has moved overseas and people are forced to move to the cities for work. The countryside is empty. A chorus, the herd voice of feral cows, wander this newly wild land watching over changing...

Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist with a quick temper and an even quicker wit, is on an expedition with six eccentric nobles in search of a fabled spring. The magical spring promises untold power, which the king wants to harness to secure his reign of the embattled country, and Lorelei is determined to use this opportunity to prove herself and to make her dream come true: to become a naturalist, able to travel freely to faraway lands.

An ecologist reveals why the solution to the climate crisis lies in Earth's oldest inhabitants: microbes. Our planet is in crisis. Scorching temperatures, deadly fires and flooding, and food shortages—the signs are everywhere. Experts warn that the planet is careening toward a point of no...

"Du bist vielleicht das einzig Gute, was ich je gewollt habe." Niamh Ó Conchobhair besitzt eine magische Gabe: Sie kann Erinnerungen und Emotionen in Stoffen verweben und kreiert so Kleidung, die sogar die Aufmerksamkeit des Nachbarkönigreichs Avaland weckt. Sie wird eingeladen, die gesamte Garderobe für die anstehende royale Hochzeit zu gestalten - eine Chance, die Niamh sofort ergreift, denn ihre Fähigkeit zerrt an ihren Kräften und ihre Zeit ist begrenzt.

Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor, Gifted—Suzumi Suzuki's first novel to be translated into English—offers a nuanced, frank, and intimate portrayal of the lives of a mother and daughter getting by (or not) in an industry rarely depicted authentically in literary fiction.

Too Stubborn to Quit is a podcast about resilience, reinvention, and the moments in life that force us to keep going. Hosted by Pam Kane and Linda Allison, the show shares real stories of people facing setbacks, unexpected change, illness, loss, and second chances — and finding the stubborn determination to move forward anyway. If life has knocked you sideways and you’re still standing, you’re in the right place. Please follow, like and share - that really helps to keep bringing you the content you enjoy.

Missy Takes Command: Book XVII After more than a year as executive officer for her Special Forces unit, Missy is chosen to replace her commander when he is promoted and leaves for his next assignment. She must now take on more responsibility while continuing to lead her team members on...

A "fascinating" (MetroSource) collection of uncensored, confessional, and at times outrageously funny essays about coming of age, coming out, and the wildest experiences that define us. Collecting the most celebrated stories from the hit podcast RISK!, along with all-new true tales about...

Andrew Bishop can't stop thinking about the gorgeous redhead who crashed into him and then disappeared, even though he should have way more on his mind - like dealing with his Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and finishing out his last year in law school. When Andrew and Lauren run into each other at the cancer center where she's working and he's being treated, they try to keep it professional. They can be friends, and nothing more. But sometimes life has other plans.

In London, 1946, the Right Sort Marriage Bureau is getting on its feet and expanding. Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge are making a go of it. That is until Lord Bainbridge—the widowed Gwen’s father-in-law and legal guardian—returns from a business trip to Africa and threatens to undo everything important to her, even sending her six-year-old son away to a boarding school. But there’s more going on than that.

Deliciously clever and touching, with a compelling twist, I THINK I LOVE YOU asks what happens when the man you thought you loved turns out to be somebody else... In her bestselling debut, I Don't Know How She Does It, Allison Pearson spoke to mothers everywhere. Now, in I Think I Love You, she...