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This Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning play is the tale of a baby-boomer's long hard road from 1960s confusion to 1990s self-made woman...or so she hopes.

This close-up look at some of the world's most exciting vehicles introduces listeners to choppers, dragsters, monster trucks, and more. Each audiobook examines multiple facets of these vehicles, including their history, an engaging description of their most important parts, and the technology behind them. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this high-octane series is sure to thrill vehicle enthusiasts.

Fears. Faults. Failures. Frailties. Every woman at some point wonders, "Do I have to get past all my weaknesses before God can use me?" Wendy Pope is happy to tell listeners: No! You don’t have to overcome, correct, rise above, or get strong before you are qualified to be part of God’s plan. He can use you right now. You are a worthwhile possibility. In Hidden Potential, listeners see that they can be faithful, even in fear; included in God’s plans, even in weaknesses; worth something, even in failure; and valuable, even in pain.

John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress, only mentioned one of his children in his memoirs: Mary. Born blind in 17th-century England, she held a special place in her father's heart. When Mr. Bunyan was arrested for unlawful preaching, young Mary travels the streets of Bedford each day, bringing soup to the prison. She resolves to prove she is independent and not hindered by her blindness. Only when she realizes she needs help does she turn to the Lord, the source of all strength.

Weaving together the narratives of three very different women living in vastly different times, The Steele Diaries paints a rich and evocative portrait of the Sydney art scene from the '30s to the '70s, and the eternal conflict between motherhood and self. The only child of two famous but self-absorbed artists, Zelda Steele is adopted by her parents’ patrons when she is just a baby. Great things are expected of this privileged young woman, but at 27 years old, Zelda is dead, leaving two young children and a body of work that only hints at her promise.

I wonder if the first day of Learning is always like this - do the girls on the hill always feel the ground tremble under their feet? Leira is about to start her initiation as a priestess when her world is turned upside down. A violent earthquake leaves her home - and her family - in pieces. And the goddess hasn't finished with the island yet. With her family, Leira flees across the sea to Crete, expecting sanctuary. But a volcanic eruption throws the entire world into darkness.

Esme Quentin is reminded of a painful past when Max Rainsford, a journalist colleague of her late husband Tim, turns up unannounced asking about a story Tim reported on thirty-five years ago—the murder of an old soldier. Esme, wary of Max's motives, declines to get involved.

Finn Donaghey turned himself into the FBI to protect Carys Van de Berg, the love of his life. Now serving multiple life sentences, he can't save her from the dangers lurking outside. Carys won't accept a life without Finn in it. While she plots to break him out of jail, other shadowy figures seek ways to take them down. After Carys is injured in an explosion, Finn teams up with unlikely allies to hunt down the perpetrators.

No one at Hollywood High knows who’s behind We'll Never Tell—a viral YouTube channel where the anonymous creators trespass behind the scenes of LA's most intriguing locales. The team includes CASEY, quiet researcher and trivia champ; JACOB, voice narrator and video editor, who is secretly dating EDDIE, aspiring filmmaker; and ZOE, coder and breaking-and-entering extraordinaire. Now senior year is winding down, and with their lives heading in different directions, the YouTubers vow to go out with a bang.

Waking up with a naked woman holding a knife at his throat is just about the last thing Sheriff Travis Flynn expected. And the brother she's looking for? A murderer. And dead. Probably. But the real shock comes when she insists she's not a Lycan. LeAnn Wilcox isn't looking for love, especially not from some wolf in sheriff's clothing. She operates on the other side of the law. Once she finds her brother—alive—she'll get out of the pack's territory and go back to her life. The sheriff has finally met his match, but LeAnn's life is at stake if she won't claim her place in the pack.

Don’t try to put out the fires—learn to dance in the flames. In her latest work, Unbreak Me, award-winning author and fitness expert Wendy Ida explores the nature of trauma, resilience, and gratitude in overcoming a myriad of life’s obstacles. A prolific journey of healing and self-exploration, Ida’s remarkable life has primed her to help others make the same transition from hardship to happiness.

At the end of a metaphysical conference, reluctant attendee Camille Dare discovers an envelope with her name on it. Filled with travel documents, a photograph, and bloody scarf material, the source of the envelope and its contents remain anonymous, but the directive is clear: Find the missing person in this unusual case. The missing person, Katherine Agurre, comes from a high-profile family. A growing obsession with the missing person case and her own quest for self-understanding compel Camille to begin a trip to meet people she never knew and locations she never expected to visit.

You’ve felt the feeling before — the one where you feel lost in the world, where you believe that everyone else has a place but yourself. You often ask yourself, “What is my mission?” or “What is my purpose?” as you are wandering through your life. You might have tried to go to a fortune teller, but most of what he or she said sounded like nonsense to you.

This extraordinary guidebook offers a satisfying new approach to raising confident, healthy, whole human beings, from toddler to teen. Groundbreaking in both its scope and methodology, ParentShift challenges some of our most popular disciplinary tools - including punishments, threats, bribery, and rewards - all of which, science has shown, sabotage so many of the long-term goals we have for our kids.

Eight stories make up the Pamper-ed Husband series...Because you want to join all these guys as they learn to appreciate the joy of wetting their panties and diapers with naughty...Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Pamper-ed Husbands: Pink Panty Stories 2 and experience the compelling world of Erotica.

This audiobook offers readers a close-up look at hot rods. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides a thrilling overview of this exciting vehicle.

Leigh traça toda a trajetória de David Bowie, desde a infância em sua família problemática, passando pela juventude desvairada em busca do sucesso, até atingir o estrelato e se tornar uma entidade única e inigualável da cultura musical contemporânea. Ao analisar a pluralidade de personagens que o cantor incorporou, examinando sua tentativa de desconstruir padrões sexuais, a autora também aponta para uma falta de ortodoxia sem precedentes, chave para a quebra de tabus e estopim de uma revolução dos costumes de gênero.

Medicine in the early 1800s was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. It was said of one surgeon, 'His surgical acquirements were very small, his operations generally very badly performed and accompanied with much bungling, if not worse.' It was lucky, for the doctor at least, that his deafness made him immune to his patients' dying groans. Into this milieu came John Elliotson, the dazzling new hope of the medical world.

Think you've got a novel inside you? Want to become a children's author or a regular contributor to a magazine but don't know where to start? We'll show you how to get your work published whether its fiction or non-fiction you want to write. How do you approach publishers? What are they looking for? How do you get noticed?

On TV, Wendy only has a few minutes to respond to each audience member, but in Ask Wendy she goes deeper, answering questions sourced from viewers across the country. No question is off-limits and no situation is too outrageous for her to take on. Wendy shoots straight from those womanly hips of hers to help you manage all the crazy that comes into your life - keepin' it real by drawing on the personal experiences that have shaped her unique perspective.