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Thrust into a bloodthirsty alien society obsessed with high-tech gladiatorial combat, Red fights for her life. Taken from her home, she faces execution in the arena. After surviving the opening games, she must also learn to adapt to the world of Ashari, the society that has given her one last chance, and prove herself to her peers. A Brotherhood of hardened gladiators, battle ready and ruthless. But nothing is permanent in the Brotherhood; allegiances and affections shift daily. Dangerous powers are at play, and time is running out for Red to decide whom to trust.

Ruth Galm's spare, poetic debut novel, set in the American West of early Joan Didion, traces the drifting path of a young woman as she skirts the law and her own oppressive anxiety. Into the Valley opens on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first counterfeit check and flees San Francisco for the Central Valley.

Effektives Sprachenlernen mit Spaß, Spannung und Motivation. Compact Lernkrimi Hörbücher sind die ideale Kombination aus spannungsgeladenem Krimi-Hörgenuss und effektivem Sprachtraining. Die Kriminalgeschichte wird von Muttersprachlern gelesen und eignet sich hervorragend, um das Hörverständnis gezielt zu verbessern. Die Geschichte zum Mitlesen sowie zahlreiche textbezogene Übungen mit Lösungsteil und Glossar sind im kostenlosen Begleitbuch (im PDF-Format) enthalten.

Aggie and her friends have rented a beach house in Oceanside while anxiously awaiting the birth of her granddaughter. Little did she know that Roger's supposed near-death experience of practically choking to death on a golden ring baked into a gluten-free doughnut would land her in so much trouble. Now, it's up to Betty, Aggie's best friend, to put the clues together and play detective in order to dig Aggie out of a dangerous situation.

A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Each of these characters has a desperate desire. Can any of them be sated? Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humour, Eliza Clark's debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger.

Set in the 1800's. This story is about a man, Thomas, who meets an older gentleman by the name of Mekal. Mekal teaches him how to travel back in time. In a great time of turmoil in his life, Mekal is visited by the Angel Kala. Kala talks a great deal with Mekal and gives him two precious gifts. The story tells all that happens to Thomas and Mekal as a result of those gifts.

From the best-selling author of The Artist's Way comes a deeply personal account of pain, healing and growth. Using her own history of alcoholism as a springboard, Julia shows the listener how to harness prayer - in whatever form that takes for the individual - to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and forge ahead towards becoming the person they were meant to be. Seeking Wisdom is a guide to 'creative unblocking': a spiritual path to deeper creativity and a more profound connection to the divine.

Aggie and Betty decide to take a last-minute flight to Las Vegas for a girl's weekend. Since the Christmas holiday had left them exhausted, they thought a mini-vacation was just what they needed. Who knew the flight would be just as exhausting as the Christmas season?

Learn how to heal and protect yourself with crystals! Are you looking for alternative healing techniques that you can learn by yourself? Are you fascinated by the beauty and the unique properties of crystals? Are you a magick practitioner seeking to expand her or his skills? Then this is the right audiobook for you! It will give you the knowledge and confidence you need to control the energy of crystals. Working with healing crystals may seem complicated and arcane, but you can learn it easily with this beginner-friendly introduction.

A useful book to spirituality development.

What companies need to know—and do—to win and hold on to tomorrow's best employees The workplace of the future is being shaped today by Web 2.0—a collection of breakthrough social media technologies—and by the Millennial Generation, people born between 1977 and 1997. The convergence of...

Now that her live-in boyfriend Tom has abruptly left her for his old girlfriend (he went out one night to buy a jar of mustard and didn't come back), and given that Gil-the-homosexual, her previous boyfriend, wasn't really that interested in her anyway, Alison is finally free to find her Big Love.

Mama's Child is story of an idealistic young white woman who travelled to the American South as a civil rights worker, fell in love with an African American man, and started a family in San Francisco, where the more liberal city embraced them - except when it didn't. They raise a son and daughter, but the tensions surrounding them have a negative impact on their marriage, and they divorce when their children are still young.

A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and Prosperity If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold’s language is forthright and...

A fun, campy set of short stories revolving around Katy Rachford, an Air Force veteran and grad student, who solves mysteries and has a unique side gig. She is a part time pro lady wrestler known as Gorgeous Katy! She has an excellent cast of supporting characters!

On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries. In The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. Should he send in the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. It is a story for our time.

With her med school internship close at hand, Jaz is finally ready to put her bartending days behind her. She had expected the nerves, as well as getting a little sentimental over leaving the club. What she was not prepared for was the blast from the past that blew into her going away party.

The people of a desert town found a girl’s body in the sacred river. When she started breathing, they thought it was incredible. When that same girl healed a crippled boy, the townspeople thought it was a miracle. When the girl grew up to command the dead to do her bidding, the townspeople knew she was the legendary pharaoh returned. But when Ashira’s divine abilities reveal her to the powerful Alvari Emperor, she must flee her town and find a way to claim her throne and liberate her people.

Prince Alexius of Hellenica will do anything to help his four-year-old daughter learn to speak—which is why the intensely reserved and private royal finds himself opening up to bubbly children's speech therapist Dottie Richards. Dottie is a breath of fresh air in the palace, and motherless Zoe blossoms in her care—as does the reluctant attraction Alex feels toward his new employee!

Two women, two millennia apart with seemingly unconnected lives - one from the Lake District in England and the other from Bethany in Palestine. Both experience loss and betrayal, which engender feelings of fear and uncertainty about what the future holds. Martha from the Lake District faces challenge and change in 2,000 A.D. as her deepest insecurities are exposed. But supported by her partner Ben, she discovers the mystical Aramaic teachings of Yeshua that offer her a pathway to self-realization and freedom.