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'Our Next Guest Is...' talks to some of Australia's most fascinating and inspirational Australians who also happen to be incredible speakers! These interviews provide a deeper insight into who they are, what they speak on and why they should be considered for your next event. Hosted by professional MC and entertainer Michael Pope and co-hosted by 20 year speaking industry veteran and co-founder of Leading Voice Speaker Management, Carson White.If you are a Speaker and would like to be on Our Next Guest Is then please contact Carson White - carson@leadingvoice.com.au

London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old trans, autistic Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Finishing School and Sanitorium.

Welcome to Relaxing White Noise, the podcast featuring white noise and nature sounds to help you sleep, study or soothe a baby. We make relaxing sounds to improve your life and are excited to share them with you. Join the hundred million people who have already enjoyed our white noise soundscapes which include rain sounds, ocean waves, white noise for babies, fan sounds, spaceships, Tibetan bowls, waterfalls and rain with thunder. Whether you're trying to study for a test, focus at work, fall asleep or simply relax, we have the perfect white noise sound for you. Cheers to feeling your best!

To hesitate on the edge of life or to plunge in and risk change - this is the dilemma explored in The Living and the Dead. Patrick White's second novel is set in '30s London and portrays the complex ebb and flow of relationships within the Standish family. Mrs Standish, ageing but still beautiful, is drawn into secret liaisons, while her daughter Eden experiments openly and impulsively with left-wing politics and love affairs. Only the son, Elyot, remains an aloof and scholarly observer - until dramatic events shock him into sudden self-knowledge.

Conjuror’s House: A Romance of the Free Forest is a thrilling adventure set in the Canadian wilderness. At a remote Hudson Bay trading post, Ned Trent challenges the iron rule of the ruthless factor Galen Albret—while falling in love with his daughter. A story of defiance, survival, and romance.

Zipporah is thirteen when the Spirit descends upon her, opening her eyes to a world beyond the physical goings-on of the villa outside Rome she has always called home. Within hours, she learns what serving the Lord can cost. Forever scarred after a vicious attack, she knows her call is to use this discernment to protect the Way. She knows she must serve the rest of her life at Tutelos, where the growing Roman church has congregated. She knows her lot is set.

A collection of provocative, fun, and lustful LGBT stories that will fulfill any craving you have. The 10 seductive tales include topics such as: first-time erotica, group action, romance, older and younger, BDSM, threesomes, and more forbidden deviancies.

Kyra’s seen and survived the worst things imaginable, all because of the magic she was born with. Trapped by her secret, she has no choice but to serve Councilman Gallagher or risk everything she has tried so hard to build. Because despite black magic being banned, her very survival depends on it. Xander’s hate for black witches was notorious, but nothing frustrated him more than the one witch who brings trouble with a capital T. With dark amber eyes, and a controlled strength that fascinated his beast—the monster he’s cursed to share a soul with—Xander will do anything to push her away.

More than any other writer, Gilbert White (1720-1793) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil and understood the significance of territory and song in birds. His precise, scrupulously honest, and unaffectedly witty observations led him to interpret animals’ behaviour in a unique manner. Here, a collection of his letters to Daines Barrington and Thomas Pennant.

Back from the brink, Fuller has a thriving business, money in his pocket and even a woman in his life in the shape of the UK's youngest Home Secretary, Rosemary Longthorn-Grey. All is well, until he learns of the release of ex DCI Larry Simpson. After serving just two years in a secure hospital, Lauren's killer is free and walking the streets of Manchester. As the weeks and months pass by, Rick becomes desperate for revenge. It eats at him.

Oliver's life has already been saved once by the gorgeous yet grumpy "close protection specialist" provided by Cipher Security, Dallas Profeit. She calls him uncooperative. He'd prefer to think of himself as unpredictable and stimulating.

When Dr. Paris DeMont lost her beloved Gabriella to the mindless tragedy of 9/11, she lost more than her partner of eight years. She lost her will to love. A successful cardiologist to New York City's elite, Paris now lives a sterile existence on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But Paris finds out that even when one tries to give up on life, life has a way of interfering and forcing you to live it. When Paris returns to Banyon, Missouri, to oversee the repairs to the aging farmhouse she inherited from her grandmother, the barrier she has wrapped around her heart is tested to the limit.

A mile wide and with winds over 200 miles per hour, the EF-5 tornado that laid waste to Joplin, Missouri, took everything from Dale Kinsel. Already struggling to get through the months after the death of her partner Sydney, Dale doesn't believe she can find the strength to dig through the rubble. The last thing she needs is Sydney's sister, Taren, crossing her path again. There is nothing but bad blood between them and Taren's help doesn't change that. In a broken landscape, Dale has little hope of reclaiming even the simple pleasures. But life—and love—have a way of starting over.

The White Noise Podcast is a space where you will find relaxing audios for meditation and sleeping

Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? What was his legacy on history? And why, more than 200 years later, does the conflict which he gave his name to still matter? Join award-winning Napoleonic historians Dr Zack White, Dr Luke Reynolds, Liam Telfer and Josh Redden as they host Europe's leading show devoted to the American War of Independence, French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. From interviews with leading researchers, to deep dive debates on some of the big questions, this show is ideal for those who want to start building their knowledge deepen their understanding of the period.

Welcome to The Big Idea: We take the best leadership and business books out there today and bring you the big idea.

Geoff White charts the astonishing development of hacking, from its birth among the ruins of the Eastern Bloc to its coming of age as the most pervasive threat to our connected world. He takes us inside the workings of real-life cybercrimes, revealing how the tactics of high-tech crooks are now being harnessed by nation states. From Ashley Madison to election rigging, Crime Dot Com is a thrilling account of hacking, past and present, and of what the future might hold.

In the winter of 1996, on the orders of the British government, the SAS stole the contents of a safe belonging to the Provisional IRA. Rick Fuller headed that team. Days later Fuller's wife was brutally murdered. Convinced he was betrayed from within, Fuller begins a relentless search for her murderers. Ten years on, Fuller is a Manchester gangland enforcer, a lone and bitter figure.

Spacers call the warp point Charon's Ferry. No star ship has ever entered it and returned since a vengeful Orion task force pursued a doomed Terran colonization fleet into it in 2206. Almost a century has passed. The fiery hatreds of a quarter-century of warfare between the Terran Federation and the Zheeerlikou'valkhannaieeee, the cat-like species humans called the "Orions", have eased at least a little.

The next high-octane installment of Robert White's bestselling Rick Fuller series.