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The exciting and inspiring true story of Apollo 8, the first crewed spaceship to break free of the Earth's orbit and reach the moon, by the best-selling author of Apollo 13. What's more exciting than spaceships and astronauts? How about a spaceship carrying the first astronauts ever to see the...

“Meditation isn’t about following rules or fitting into a perfect mold—it’s about finding the practice that feels natural to you.” Have you ever felt like you’re failing at meditation? Sitting in silence with a racing mind can leave many of us frustrated, anxious, or restless. But mindfulness isn’t about perfection—it’s about finding presence in ways that feel natural to you. In The Flexible Path to Mindfulness, Ruby Knight introduces alternative meditation practices that meet you where you are.

They broke me. Ryder, Maverick, Ezra, and Jaxson didn't think I would come back for my second year. The coldly cruel knights of Evergreen believed the Mark would be all it took to get rid of me. To keep me quiet. But now, I've got a whole new reason to stay. Those four will know a pain far worse than what I've endured. They tore me apart until there was nothing left...and now, I'm going to return the favor.

Digging up trouble is becoming a habit for Diana Flowers. But when she finds a collection of bones buried where she had planned to plant out her lupins, she can't believe her bad luck...especially as she doesn't think Diggory the dog is the one who buried them. Fergus has a wild theory about the identity of the skeleton beneath the flower field. More shockingly still, he might just be right.

When Fergus tells Diana he's taking her on a flower-arranging retreat for her birthday, she should have been more suspicious. Especially when he announces that he's coming with her. After discovering the whole truth about the retreat, Diana is still considering how to murder Fergus...when one of their fellow flower arrangers is found dead - stabbed in the back with a mystery weapon. With the retreat on complete lockdown, Diana and Fergus have a mystery to solve that wasn't part of the itinerary. Will they find the killer before the clock runs out?

Would you like to test your Math skills? This audiobook includes a lot of general knowledge. Maths Quizzes are fun--you can even test your memories.

Vicki has done everything to protect her children. Their father was out of control – every day, his life embroiled in lies, drugs, chaos. So she cut him off, for good. But when she comes home to a distraught babysitter, panic hits. The kids are gone. And Lee says he’s not bringing them back. Vicki can see how he persuaded the babysitter – Jess is young. Naïve. Easy to manipulate. The perfect pawn in his twisted plan. But then Jess disappears too. Is this just a father trying to take back what’s his? Or has something much darker wormed its way into her perfect family?

Sarah Soon may have recovered from cancer - in body - but her brush with mortality has left the usually confident OB/GYN shaken about her future and herself. When she unexpectedly runs into Jake Li, her brother's annoying high school BFF who betrayed her trust, he's the last person she wants to see. She doesn't need the now-disturbingly hot social worker hanging around while she sorts herself out, yet suddenly he's inescapable.

Making cupcakes can be murder. Especially when someone has poisoned them. Diana knows she's being framed for a crime she didn't commit, but who is out to make her look guilty, and why? Speaking of secret enemies...Fergus has done something terrible. Now part of a new crime-fighting duo, Diana finds herself immersed in a deep, dark conspiracy theory. At the heart of it is a mystery that has baffled investigators for decades. The whole thing is more ridiculous than anything Fergus has ever previously believed. The worst part is...she's starting to think it might all be true.

There’s more behind my sister’s death than I knew. Secrets she was determined I never learn, and she’s not the only one. Someone is watching. They’re waiting for me to make my move, and bring me down for good. But how is a girl supposed to find one bad royal in a group of spoiled, twisted rich brats that spread bad on their strawberry crepes every morning for breakfast? I don’t know, but I definitely don’t do it by getting distracted by my hot professor who can’t stay away. Or the infuriating fiancé who keeps making me smile in between pissing me off.

"Barrett writes with tremendous care for anyone who has ever felt lonely." —Rosie Danan, author of The Roommate Jesse Logan doesn’t want a fresh start. He wants his old life back—before an injury made his career as a firefighter impossible, before his grandfather’s Alzheimer’s got so...

La Bestia delves into the chilling and twisted psyche of a serial killer, pulling listeners into a world where darkness knows no bounds. The book unveils the life of a man whose monstrous acts left a trail of horror and devastation. From his troubled childhood to the development of his bloodthirsty impulses, La Bestia dissects the making of a killer, unraveling the haunting events and psychological scars that shaped his insidious nature.

Women Without Kids is a special podcast series created from research interviews for my book of the same title, which will be published in spring 2023. The conversations here are with the authors, philosophers, healers, activists, anthropologists, and social scientists, whose work has helped me make sense of everything it means to be a "woman without kids" today—whatever our reasons for this.

Life has never been worse. The Phantom who haunted my nightmares turned out to be bigger, badder, and deadlier than I ever knew was possible. My guys are in hiding. My allies are enemies. And I have nowhere to turn.

Air Force pilot Andromeda "Andie" Kim dreams of being chosen to join NASA so she can go to space. Instead she's stolen by savage kidnappers from a dystopian future where fertile women are needed for breeding purposes. All she wants is to escape and find a way back to her time before she's sold as broodstock and stuck in this ruined world forever.

From California Governor Gavin Newsom comes an empowering picture book, adapted for audio, about a young boy with dyslexia who discovers a new way to look at reading. Ben loves baseball. He loves the lines of diamond-shaped field and the dome of the pitcher's mound. What Ben doesn't like is...

Die Ice Planet Barbarians bringen alle Herzen zum Schmelzen! Kaum zu fassen, oder? Raahosh, einer der blauen Alienmänner von Not-Hoth, hat mich entführt, damit ich mich unsterblich in ihn verliebe. Das wäre ja noch schöner! Okay, er ist unglaublich sexy, aber diese unwiderstehliche Anziehungskraft, die von ihm ausgeht, ist reine Biologie. Da sind keine Gefühle im Spiel. Das liegt alles an dem Symbionten, den alle auf Not-Hoth aufnehmen müssen, damit sie auf diesem unwirtlichen Eisplaneten überleben können. Der Symbiont sorgt dafür, dass Raahosh glaubt, dass wir füreinander bestimmt sind.

In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history through her own words.

The new guy in town is a wolf and a scorching hot single daddy—and he needs me. His three pups need a nurse and a nanny…and I can be both. To tell you the truth, I can use a little distraction from my stalker ex. So I take the hot wolf daddy up on his offer and look after his babies.

Shakespeare—from boring to brilliant, everyone has their thoughts. For us, those thoughts just happen to be about how gay everyone is. Join Rubie and Kirsten—two queer drama students—on their journey to uncover the inherent LGBTQ+ themes in Shakespeare’s work. Enjoy scene performances, character analysis, and a little more on thou/thine pronouns than you ever thought you needed.