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Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether real or imagined. Seismic events in a life might crush them; the loss of a loved one for instance. Coping is difficult, support hard to find and isolation abounds.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the way you think, react, and decide is being directed by scripts you never chose? In the 1970s, a Harvard psychologist proved that one empty word could open 93 percent of doors. Most people will live their whole lives without noticing the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What starts as a therapy session slowly unravels into something else. Something darker. Something no one saw coming...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Aged priest Saulus tries to shake his congregation awake with a fiery sermon about compassion for refugees and outcasts. But his message meets cynicism, racism, and ridicule. Tensions rise when a homeless man stumbles into the church, followed by an...

This book is about today's world's number one problem and about how it desensitises and dehumanises our society. How can we stop damages occurring from the unseen area of human-kind's attention? Lightning strike on an oak tree!

Spies come in all shapes and sizes but all of the spies in this volume are decidedly not like the urbane British agent James Bond, who regularly saves the world. These spies are on a missionand whether that’s saving their own lives, or the lives of many others imperilled by their Nation’s foes.

As all profit from the sale of this book will be donated to St. Jude Children's Hospital, you might think that would be the primary reason for encouraging you to buy the book. It was not! The book was written, and priced at the lowest permitted price, to awaken us to a far more detrimental...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "And Who Shall Say----?" is a short story by Richard Middleton, first published in The Neolith in 1908 and collected posthumously in The Ghost Ship and Other Stories (1912). A father sleeps in his armchair on a dull November afternoon while his two...

The only encyclopedia for children ages 5 and up that covers the subjects of human geography, physical geography, and geology together in one inspiring audiobook. Covering essential curriculum areas such as human geography, physical geography, geology, and ecology, First Earth Encyclopedia is a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the atoms inside your body had lived a thousand lives before you? The Eternal Traveler tells the extraordinary story of a single carbon atom on a journey spanning billions of years. Born in the heart of a dying star, it drifts through space...

Stefan Zweig was born on the 28th November 1881 in Vienna, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and into a wealthy Jewish family with interests in banking and textiles. Zweig first published in 1900 and two decades later was a popular and highly regarded author in many parts of the world, although not in England. He was also the librettist with Richard Strauss of two operas and a keen collector of autographed musical manuscripts. His collection of over two hundred pieces was later donated to the British Library.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You already know what to do. So why isn't it done? Because you are not lazy. You are fighting an undefeated opponent who has trained with you since birth, knows exactly how many minutes of discomfort you tolerate, and wears your face. Psychology has...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Every hour of your life and every euro you touch is doing one of two things. It is either rented out, or it is owned. Most people play the only money game they were ever taught: work hard, earn more, spend a little more with each raise. Twenty years...

Career reinvention, adaptation and renewal have never been more important. This latest career-advice-reimagined book from Drs Schuster & Oxley tackles the subject of how to remain vital, vibrant, and forward-looking in your career against the backdrop of the AI revolution, and as our priorities shift as we enter our middle career years.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton was born on the 25th May 1803 the youngest of three sons. In 1828 his novel, ‘Pelham’, brought him an income, together with commercial and critical success. He followed these with a string of applauded works across several genres: historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, science fiction and poetry.

Richard Garnett C.B. was born on the 27th February 1835. Educated in Bloomsbury he then joined the nearby British Museum as an assistant librarian in 1851, shortly after his father’s death. As an author he wrote several volumes of verse, a book of short stories and several biographies and history books.

Móric Jókay de Ásva was born on the 18th February 1825 in Komárom, then in the Kingdom of Hungary but now part of Slovakia. Due to his timid and delicate constitution he was educated at home until the age of 10 and then sent away to complete his studies at the Calvinist college at Pápa. He found a career in law to be dull and, encouraged by the positive reaction to his first play, he moved to Pest in 1845. There he published, first in a newspaper, and then as a novel ‘Hétköznapok’ (‘Working Days’). It was acclaimed as a masterpiece.

Dorothy Kathleen Broster was born on 2nd September 1877 at Devon Lodge in Grassendale Park, Garston, Liverpool. Her novels, mainly historical fiction, peaked in popularity with ‘The Flight of the Heron’, in 1925, a best-seller followed up by two sequels. As well as poetry and various articles she also wrote several short stories, the best known of which is a classic of weird fiction ‘The Couching at the Door’ in which an artist appears to be haunted by a mysterious entity.

Móric Jókay de Ásva was born on the 18th February 1825 in Komárom, then in the Kingdom of Hungary but now part of Slovakia. Due to his timid and delicate constitution he was educated at home until the age of 10 and then sent away to complete his studies at the Calvinist college at Pápa. At 12 his father died, and he was pushed to honour him by replicating his career as a lawyer. He studied hard and completed the curriculum at Kecskemét and Pest. He won his first case as a newly graduated lawyer.

Richard Garnett C.B. was born on the 27th February 1835. Educated in Bloomsbury he then joined the nearby British Museum as an assistant librarian in 1851, shortly after his father’s death. As an author he wrote several volumes of verse, a book of short stories and several biographies and history books.