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The annual Valentine’s Day singles soiree is always a big money-maker for Eloisa Giordono’s winery. What could be more romantic than looking for love at a quaint family vineyard on the most romantic night of year? Well, just about anything as far as Eloisa is concerned. She’s a Valentine’s Day Grinch who thinks it’s the lamest, most clichéd holiday ever invented. But Eloisa is thrown for a loop when a sexy, self-described hopeless romantic shows up at the singles soiree and keeps her captivated.

Ein Podcast über die Geschichte des Biers – erzählt durch archäologische Funde und echte Geschmackserlebnisse. Wir reisen von der Steinzeit bis in die Frühe Neuzeit, entdecken, was Ausgrabungen über alte Brautechniken verraten, und verkosten passende Biere: von rekonstruierten bronzezeitlichen Honigkräuterbieren bis zu modernen Interpretationen historischer Stile. Geschichten von Menschen, Malz und archäologischen Entdeckungen – Wissenschaftlich fundiert, spannend erzählt und immer mit einem Schluck Vergangenheit im Glas.

Nina Riggs was just 37 years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer - one small spot. Within a year, the mother of two sons, ages seven and nine, and married 16 years to her best friend, received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal. How does one live each day 'unattached to outcome'? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty?

Brought to you by Puffin. When Hazel Wong's beloved grandfather passes away, Daisy Wells is all too happy to accompany her friend (and Detective Society Vice President) to Hazel's family estate in beautiful, bustling Hong Kong. But when they arrive they discover something they didn't expect...

Ett språkbusigt äventyr där allt är möjligt och ingenting är riktigt som du tror. Vad händer på Föris om natten, när fröknar och barn har gått hem? Säg finns där små busar som leker fast klockan är långt efter fem? När förskolan släckts ner och ingen är kvar så lägger sig...

Vad händer på Bibblan om natten när allt står i prydliga ställ? När nycklar har vridits i låsen och dagen har blivit till kväll? När biblioteksdörrarna stängts och alla gått hem ställer sig böckerna för att vila. Eller? Tänk om det är då alla berättelser vaknar till liv? BTJ...

Vad händer på bygget om natten när busbarn och byggherrar gått? Då vaktis har släckt alla lampor och mörkret har gömt allting smått? När byggplatsen bommats igen står alla verktyg och maskiner stilla för natten. Eller? Tänk om det är då det verkliga byggandet börjar?...

En berättelse om hur det kan vara att ha en allergi eller intolerans. Maja har flaxiga fjärilar i magen. Både glada och bråkiga. Först ska hon åka till doktorn, sen sova hos goa mormor. Hennes bästaste Ärtan är också med förstås. Men doktorn säger saker som Maja inte vill höra och...

A Most Anticipated Book of the Year from The New York Times, Literary Hub, Stylist and many more 'Takes all the expected stories about growing up Indian American, slices them open with razor-sharp wit, and turns them inside out' CELESTE NG, author of OUR MISSING HEARTS 'Droll, caustic . . . and...

Dish up the red meat, eggs, and whole milk! In this well-researched and captivating narrative, veteran food writer Nina Teicholz proves how everything we've been told about fat is wrong. For decades, Americans have cut back on red meat and dairy products full of "bad" saturated fats. We obediently complied with nutritional guidelines to eat "heart healthy" fats found in olive oil, fish, and nuts, and followed a Mediterranean diet heavy on fruits, vegetables, and grains. Yet the nation's health has declined. What is going on?

He's destined for the White House and engaged to be married next month. Except he just married me instead. While drunk in Vegas. Bradford Black. He's powerful. Rich as sin. And he's now my husband. His fiancée hates me. His political advisors want me gone. The world can't get enough of me and the scandal we've caused. I want to run. I want to hide. I want to pretend none of this is happening. But, oh God. My husband doesn't care about the scandal because all he cares about is me. He's possessive, grumpy, and determined for us to stay married.

Durch sein Mitwirken in der US-Kultserie "FRIENDS" erreichte der Schauspieler Matthew Perry Weltruhm. Erstmals erzählt er nun seine eigene Geschichte und berichtet ungeschönt von seinem Aufwachsen als Scheidungskind, einem unsteten Leben zwischen Kanada und Kalifornien, Humor als Coping-Mechanismus, dem steilen Aufstieg als Schauspieler - und seinem schwindelerregenden Fall, bedingt durch Alkohol und Drogen. Ein Hörbuch, das die Magie von "FRIENDS" heraufbeschwört, zu Tränen rührt und ungeahnte Einblicke in ein bewegtes Leben erlaubt.

‘Literally out-Christies Agatha’ - Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair reimagines the unexplained eleven-day disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world. In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the truth of her...

Jessica Bauer is aces when it comes to security, but the PR side? Not so much. Now she has a chance to take over Knight Securities—if she plays nice with the next client. Unfortunately, that client happens to be Declan McCabe. And it's too bad someone wants him dead, because after he broke her heart ten years ago, Jessica would have cheerfully murdered him herself.

Freud famously said that the aim of psychoanalysis was to enable us to work, love and play with minimum conflict. So what gets in the way of us doing that? Philosophy of Psychoanalysis is an educational course presented at a third-year tertiary education level by A/Prof. Doris McIlwain. The course aims to ground you in the basics: the nature of unconscious processes, repression, sexuality, dreams, morality, grief, gender identity, drives and affects and their implications for perception, memory and creative processes, as well as for certain forms of psychopathology. Then, it considers the ...

The year is 3048, Earth is no longer habitable, and man has fled to the stars where they've discovered the secret of immortality—Meridian. Unfortunately, the radioactive mineral is exorbitantly expensive and only available to a select few. A new class comprised of the super rich and immortal soon evolves. The Collective, as they're called, rule the universe. 

Being a parent is usually all about giving of yourself to foster your child's growth and development. But what happens when this isn't the case? Some parents dismiss the needs of their children, asserting their own instead, demanding attention and reassurance from even very young children. This may especially be the case when a parent has narcissistic tendencies or narcissistic personality disorder.

Four years after escaping her abusive ex-husband, Kim finally believes she's in control of her life and her emotions and she's determined to never risk either again with a man. She has a great home, a job as a security specialist which she loves, and Jake for a best friend. But things are a tad lonely in the sex department, so she decides to embark on a no-strings-affair with one of her hot co-workers. And who better to help her remember how to lure a man than her best friend?

When Sara Foster runs away from home at 16, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit.

On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop - or, rather, a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled souls of his customers. The only person he is unable to cure, it seems, is himself. He has nursed a broken heart ever since the night, twenty-one years ago, when the love of his life fled Paris, leaving behind a handwritten letter that he has never dared read.