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A year ago, Aimee Spencer's world imploded, and she has been running ever since. She doesn't want to feel. She doesn't want to remember. To bury the ghosts that haunt her, she is living a life that has become unrecognizable. Cole Everly has grown accustomed to girls throwing themselves at his feet, but when Aimee trips and literally lands in his lap one afternoon, she's not at all what he expects - difficult, damaged, and closed-off. If Cole needed to make a list of qualities to avoid in a girl, Aimee would probably match up with every single one of them.

What are cash-strapped 40-somethings like Harry (played by Kris Marshall) supposed to do when they see their cash-rich, equity-released parents spending all their inheritance? It doesn’t help that Harry’s rich brother seems to upstage him at every turn as he tries to make ends meet and support his family. As their father's 65th birthday approaches, and the money starts disappearing, Harry decides to see if he can ‘help’ them to change course.

Amelia Earhart flew solo over the Atlantic, afterward receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross, and began championing the efforts of women to explore careers traditionally held by men. Tragically, just days before her 40th birthday, her plane vanished en route to a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean as she neared the end of her round-the-world journey. After an exhaustive search, no trace of the plane or Amelia was ever found.

This basic language course is specifically designed for healthcare professionals who frequently interact with Tagalog-speaking patients. It offers a practical and focused approach to bridging the language gap in medical settings, ensuring clear communication and better patient care. Across seven comprehensive sessions, participants will gain an in-depth understanding of core medical terminology and essential situational vocabulary in Tagalog, tailored to the needs of healthcare environments.

For the first time in history, eight defined generations live side by side with each other, from Alphas to the Greatest Generation by way of Boomers, Xennials and others. The Multigenerational Revolution is a bravura call for change that argues that we should fully utilise the range of lives and experiences, helped by technological advances, to develop new ways of working and living together. It asks us all to experiment with new models of playing, learning, and working that take advantage of our longer lives and multigenerational society.

London, 1593. Five years on from the Armada and England is taking its first faltering steps towards a future as a global power. Nicholas Shelby – reluctant spy and maverick physician – and his companion Bianca Merton are settling into a life on Bankside. But in London there is always a plot afoot.... Robert Cecil, the Queen’s spymaster, once again recruits Nicholas to embark on a dangerous undercover mission that will take him to the back alleys of Marrakech in search of a missing informer.

These 25 new stories mark Graham Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed novels and confirm him as a master storyteller. They unite into a richly peopled vision of a country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions.

With the third installment in her My Place collection, outdoor journalist Kris Millgate follows grizzly bears through the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for the Emmy-winning wildlife film On Grizzly Ground. Her route through the wilds of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming reveals the challenges people and wildlife face as this federally protected apex predator expands its presence.

As a smoke jumper, Reyne Oldre once led a team of courageous firefighters into a blaze that ended in unspeakable tragedy. Now, crippled by fear, she conducts fire research from a safe distance, determined not to risk that kind of pain again. But when the flames of love begin to flicker between her and smoke jumper Logan McCable, Reyne must face the fearsome storms from her past and battle the raging firestorm that burns her soul.

Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, ‘Summer of Blood’ breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381. The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic and bloody events in English...

This is audiobook #5 in the Full Circle Series. lexana is willing to risk her life to make history, and nothing - not even love - will stand in her way! As supervisor of the historically significant Solomon's Stables dig, archaeologist Alexana Rourke, grad school friend of Dr. Christina Alvarez (Treasure), knows she's in serious danger. Yet she's determined that nothing will impede her excavations under the Temple Mount, not even the concern of handsome, world-renowned news correspondent Ridge McIntyre.

Ever since her days as an undergraduate student at Harvard, nautical archaeologist Dr. Christina Alvarez has been obsessed with finding her ancestor's lost treasure ship, and striking underwater gold. Traveling to the Caribbean Island of Robert's Foe, Christina must win over treasure hunter Mitch Crawford, who has refused to help her search.

Welcome back to Rotherweird. The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for 400 years to protect a deadly secret. Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of the summer...but someone is playing a very long game. Disturbing omens multiply: a funeral delivers a cryptic warning; an ancient portrait speaks; the Herald disappears - and democracy threatens the uneasy covenant between town and countryside.

The world of plant life holds limitless possibilities for any witch willing to learn its secrets. In Herbal Magic, best-selling author Lisa Chamberlain brings the ancient knowledge of the magic of herbs to modern Wiccans, witches, and other interested magical practitioners. The variety of uses for herbs - teas, sachets, baths, oils, and charms, to name a few - makes this form of magic more versatile than any other. The spells in Herbal Magic are all centered around the same 13 herbs.

Louis is upset to find his parents becoming ultra-competitive, wanting him and his brother to get straight A's at school and join lots of after-school clubs like the other kids. Then Louis meets Maddy, who has trained her parents to ignore her.

A naïve English graduate arrives in Greece seeking experience and perhaps an encounter with his literary hero: Nobel laureate and irascible old hell-raiser Irakles Bastounis. Agreeing to act as driver for Bastounis, the young man finds himself on a hectic, adventurous, and always challenging tour of Greece’s wonders - an apprentice in how to live life to the fullest. As the road trip progresses, the questions arise. Is Bastounis still an addict? Who is following him and why? Is he researching his final, much-anticipated novel? Who are the people he’s meeting along the way?

Best-selling author Lisa Chamberlain has put together a collection of her top guides for new and aspiring witches, covering everything from the history of the craft to how to integrate your spiritual journey into your everyday life.

Shakespeare's King Lear ranks with Sophocles' Oedipus as a tragic hero destroyed by his own good intentions. From the moment when Lear unfolds his darker purpose, we are drawn into an ineluctable chain of events that leads through betrayal, deceit, destructive family conflict, reconciliation, despair, and death. Considered by many to be the most grueling of Shakespeare's tragedies.

This inspiring collection of spells, rituals, and other workings is devoted to the magical energies of the plant kingdom and can be used on its own or as a companion to best-selling author Lisa Chamberlain’s beginner’s guide, Wicca Herbal Magic. Each spell is relatively simple and suitable for beginners to magic, yet can inspire more seasoned practitioners as well. Focusing on a Witch’s dozen of 13 commonly-used herbs, these easy spells use minimal ingredients for an elegant, hassle-free approach to magic.

In today's postmodern world truth is increasingly difficult to define and defend. The quintessential questions we find ourselves asking are, "Is there such a thing as truth?" And, if so, "How are we to define what truth is?" The Bible is very clear: all truth comes from God, and he has made it known to us.