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Cruel beetle fashionista, Lucretia Cutter, is at large with her yellow ladybird spies. When Darkus, Virginia and Bertolt discover further evidence of her evil, they're determined to stop her. But the three friends are in trouble. Darkus' dad has forbidden them to investigate any further. Hope rests on Novak, Lucretia's daughter and a Hollywood actress, but the beetle diva is always one scuttle ahead....

No matter what it is you wish to become a master of - business, art, love and relationships, education, athletics, the stock market, public speaking, using computers, etc. - you can follow the Eastern Path to achieve levels of mastery you never before thought possible. Unlike quick-fix schemes to instant success, the greatest success comes not from obsessively pursuing short-term goals, but from living fully in the present and dedicating yourself to a never-ending path of mastery.

One part Dashiell Hammett, one part Dan Brown... When Theophilus, a Roman merchant, is tasked by King Herod to find the body of Christ and prove he didn’t rise from the dead, Theophilus goes down a road that will change everything he ever believed in. From the author of The Mouse that Roared. Also previously published under the titles Testament of Theophilus, The Seven Hills, and Merchant of Rome. “Mr. Wibberley has woven several important and widely neglected truths about nascent Christianity into an absorbing story.”—New York Times Book Review

Did Jesus have bad habits? In our culture we have a tendency to describe Jesus in ways that soften his revolutionary edge. Len Sweet uncovers and presents to us the offensive and scandalous Jesus described in the Bible. Did he disappear when people needed him most? Yes. Did he refuse to answer questions directly? Yes. Did Jesus offend the people of his day? Absolutely yes. Popular author and speaker Len Sweet examines the words and actions of Jesus and places them in context.

The Playmaker on any team makes the right decision at the right time, almost every time. Despite the constraints of time, tactics, and rules, the best players combine their vision and skills with razor-sharp decision accuracy for an unstoppable competitive advantage. As a follow-up to The Playmaker’s Advantage, their best-selling guide for athletes, coaches, and parents, Daniel Peterson and Dr. Leonard Zaichkowsky now focus on the split-second decision-making process that produces both clutch plays and mental mistakes.

Based on a series of lectures by Leonard Peikoff and edited by Marlene Trollope, Discovering Great Plays provides the ability to understand, judge, and savor the values offered by great drama. Listeners will discover plot-theme as the key to a play; see Antigone as a great heroine and Iago as the darkest villain in literature; learn about the Cornelian hero; see how Schiller's "Grand Inquisitor" scene is the most dramatic and philosophic in all of theater; and discover Shaw's brilliance in presenting the genius against society.

Siempre nos han dicho que pensar racionalmente es la clave del éxito. Pero las más recientes investigaciones científicas...

And Terah took Abram . . . and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees.’ The city Abraham left behind him - a city with good claims to being the oldest in the world - was rediscovered in 1854 by the then British Consul at Basra. But not until the end of World War I was serious excavation undertaken there. The results were so encouraging that four years later a joint British-American expedition, directed by the author of this book, worked on the site. The story of their discoveries made during years of work and covering the ...

"Out of the fog...out of the night...and into his American adventures comes...Bulldog Drummond." Footsteps in the dark presage the coming of H. C. "Sapper" McNeile's famous British crime-solver! This collection of classic radio adventures stars George Coulouris and Ned Wever. The Captain, along with his sidekick Denny, solves cases of slayings, submarines, and sabotage in ten digitally restored and remastered episodes, hosted by Jackson Beck.

A sinister force threatens a teenage horror fan, and only a team of B movie monsters can come to his rescue. Fear stalks a group of punks when a scarecrow proves that birds aren’t the only things it can terrorize. And all hell breaks loose when a man discovers that his next-door neighbor possesses the power to reanimate the dead... Celebrate the music of the night with Scare Street’s latest collection of diabolical horror. Thirteen tales of paranormal horror haunt this new volume. More than enough to keep you listening on long after the sun goes down.

Disillusioned columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet another report of unarmed black men killed by police, hacks into his newspaper's server to post an incendiary column that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears, and his longtime editor, Bob Carson, is summarily fired within hours of the column's publication. While a furious Carson tries to find Toussaint, the latter is abducted by two improbable but still dangerous white supremacists.

What if the very things that made you feel different in your career were actually your greatest strengths? STEM Moms is a career navigation guide for professionals who want more than survival—they want clarity, resilience, and the confidence to thrive. Drawing from real stories, practical exercises, and lived experiences, this audiobook reframes challenges as opportunities and equips you with strategies to build a career that truly fits. This isn’t just a book about career development. It’s about designing a life that reflects your truest self—and showing others it’s possible too.

Do you want to get people to agree with you whenever you want? Would you like to know how influence other people's thoughts and make them do what you desire? Then mastering the art of manipulation is for you. Manipulation is a practice whereby you look into someone's natural psychological tendencies and use them to help you get your way. Ultimately, you lead the conversation by making it look like they are. In this audiobook, you are going to learn exactly how to do this.

Brought to you by Penguin. We've been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are every bit as important to our success as thinking. You make hundreds of decisions every day, from what to eat for breakfast to how to...

Freedom in One Lesson is an extensive collection of Leonard Read’s best, most powerful sustained arguments on behalf of liberty. Read believed that nothing should stand in the way of freedom’s power to change minds, including about the morality and efficacy of “the free market and its miraculous performances” as the principle of social organization. The selections in Freedom in One Lesson are intended to stimulate serious thought and further reading and, hopefully, to begin “infecting” people today with his deep-seated commitment to liberty. That was one of Leonard Read’s ...

Jack Drake shares a Malibu beach mansion with a gorgeous movie star but hates his life. The depressed private eye can't shake the death of his wife and can't end his toxic relationship with Hollywood heartthrob Amanda Bigelow. But an at-risk sixteen-year-old who is injured in an inner-city shooting gets Jack unstuck. As a favor to a friend, Jack sequesters Game in the mansion, keeping him safe.

Getting a Christian worldview is all the rage these days. But how about a Christian worldlife? Got one of those?Leonard Sweet wants to show you the ins and outs of living an old-fashioned faith in these newfangled times. In his engaging wonderful, thought-bytes style, Sweet invites you to…...

Leonard Stringfield was born in 1920. He was director of CRIFO (Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects) - one of the world's largest research groups during the mid-'50s, and publisher of its newsletter, ORBIT (1953-1957). He also worked in cooperation with the United States Air Force (1953-1957), investigating and reporting UFO activity, having been assigned a special code number for reporting to the Air Defense Command in Columbus, Ohio.

Chic and I; or, The practical training of a dog for the gun was published by Leonard Goodwin in 1896 under the pen name of Ben Hur. It is a delightful book with insights into both dog training and bird hunting at the close of the nineteenth century in America. This book is especially unique because it is set in the American West at a time when most of the bird hunting literature was focused on the romantic traditions of ruffed grouse hunting in New England, Appalachia, and the Northwoods.

Would you like to get involved with better opportunities, things that are geared towards your passions in life? Would you like to attract people in your life who will help you reach your goals, dreams and vision? Would you simply just like to have more time with your family? The 28 Laws of Attraction: Stop Chasing Success and Let It Chase You is a program developed to take the stress and confusion out of your life.