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An acclaimed novelist, playwright and comic book writer, Denise Mina has won numerous awards, including the CWA John Creasy Dagger for Best First Crime Novel and the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award (twice). Her 'Paddy Meehan' series has been adapted for BBC TV, and she has presented numerous television and radio programmes. Included here are six of her stories, as heard on BBC Radio, plus a bonus biographical programme.

In our collective quest to regain our personal power and strength, we often end up leaning on masculine displays of love, life, success, and power. Borrowing both their voice, energy, body postures, and life goals. Leaving us burnt out, unsatisfied, and still nowhere close to feeling and knowing our place in this world and beyond. In Lady Balls, Mina Irfan activates that long forgotten feminine knowing of both our innate savageness and divinity. Interweaved in both her art of storytelling and her sacred body of work.

When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt Nikki instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's adoption. To this day, Susan's killer has never been found. Nikki asks Margo for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer for decades. She is determined to find him, but she can't do it alone.... A brilliant, thought-provoking and heart-wrenching new thriller about identity and the value of a life.

Hard as nails fight club manager Zara cares about two things in life: her club and her brother. The problem is, technically the club belongs to her asshat of a father. Who is missing, along with last quarter's takings...and the money the club owes to Reese, the guy who controls all the shifter fight clubs in the city. He's a dangerous man and now Zara owes him money. A lot of money. The sort of money that would normally get her and her brother taken outside the city limits and buried in a shallow grave.

Did you know that anyone can learn to achieve flow? This book shows you how. Discover the secret weapon of champions: Flow. Unlike a rare talent, anyone can learn to cultivate this state and access peak performance in their sport. Create the optimal conditions for cultivating flow in your own athletic career. Cultivating the flow state in sport can be a powerful way to improve your performance and achieve a greater sense of satisfaction and enjoyment in your athletic pursuits.

This is the true story of a love-filled process and journey of transitioning from an exhausted single mother into a nourished, stay-at-home, feminine wife and mother. Learn the exact mindsets, tips, and lifestyle changes that Mina Irfan took to create a delicious, nourished, and soft life for herself and her family. The exact journey documented in this book led to the top one percent success and lifestyle that Mina now enjoys with her husband and children.

Hyo Hakai is a hellmaker. But when a curse destroys her village, she and her brother are forced to flee to the Island of Onogoro—a place where Gods live among humans. Hyo expects the bodies when they show up, but as she investigates she is drawn into a tangled web of demons, death, conspiracy, and secrets.

Unit 77 is a cyborg...but he used to be so much more. Tortured by glimpses of his past, former Captain Andrew Fischer goes through his days in a metallic nightmare, feeling broken inside though he doesn't know why. Doctor Claudia Chambers is distraught. After a land mine blew up Drew Fischer and his unit of elite Space Corps Marines, she was forced to implant the CyBRG device in all of them which turned the men into machines. But she keeps catching glimpses of humanity from the supposedly inhuman Captain...could it be that part of Drew is still in there, longing to get out?

Maureen O'Donnell is facing the darkest episode in her life. She owes more than she makes in a year in back taxes; Angus Farrell, the psychologist who murdered her boyfriend, is up for trial; and her abusive father has arrived back in Glasgow. On top of it all, she has become embroiled in someone else's family feud. Ella McGee, an elderly stallholder at the fleamarket where Maureen is selling illegally imported cigarettes, is bringing a case against her son in the small claims court.

Unit 78, formerly Corporal Richard Hardgraves, is a Cyborg with a mission: to rescue the Admiral's daughter from the dreaded Tr'Low Cult on Beacon 5. The Tr'Lows have a prophesy that a half-metal man will come from the sky and father the perfect child on a chosen bride - Rich tells himself he will play the part just long enough to grab the girl and run.

Experiences of world dignities with Sanskrit literature

Klidný nedělní večer na předměstí Glasgow. Běží televize, v troubě se peče večeře. Klid naruší stará otlučená dodávka, která prorazí dveře jednoho ospalého domu. Vyřítí se z ní skupina ozbrojených mužů v kuklách. Zajmou rodinu a požadují výkupné milion liber. Útočníci jednoho člena rodiny unesou. Na místo je přivolána vyšetřovatelka Alex Morrowová. Ale kolem případu se objevuje spousta záhad. Kdo byli ti únosci? Proč si mysleli, že v normálním domě žije bohatá rodina? Rodina zarytě mlčí.

A Little Power Prayer Book for Your Daily Living: It is a book that is filled with inspiring anointed prayers that will encourage and bless believers through trials in life, based upon the word of God. Be blessed as you spend time listening to this beautiful book.

Orphaned and forced to live under the cruel eye of her stepmother, Saskia spends her days and most of her nights sewing gowns for rich dragonesses to wear to balls she will never see. When a chance encounter brings her into contact with the handsome Callan, duke and cousin to the queen, she thinks nothing of it. After all, what royal duke would want a woman with a broken, mad dragon? But when the otherworldly intervenes, Saskia gets her chance to go to the ball.

ถ้าพูดถึงนางฟ้าของมหาวิทยาลัย ทุกคนต้องคิดถึง 'ใบข้าว' คนนี้แน่นอนค่า พูดแล้วจะหาว่าเข้าข้างตัวเอง...

31st August 1997. Rose Wilson is 14, but looks 16. Pimped out by her ‘boyfriend’, she has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. On the night of Princess Diana's death, Rose snaps and commits two terrible crimes. But a defence lawyer takes pity and sets out to do what he can to save her. Present day. DI Alex Morrow is a witness in the case of Michael Brown – a vicious, nasty arms dealer.

Katie Carmichael may not be a scary badass dragon capable of toasting her enemies to a crisp, but that doesn’t mean she’s a pushover. And sure, the roaring, fire-breathing hottie is, uh, hot, but she’s a chick with a plan. A plan that includes a secluded old farmhouse and doesn’t include a tall, heavily muscled, and totally delicious weredragon.

Denise Mina is well known for her bestselling 'Tartan Noir' novels. She has twice won the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award, and her 'Paddy Meehan' series has been adapted for BBC TV. Before becoming a novelist, she studied law, and she has a particular interest in true crime. In these six episodes, she uncovers some of Scotland's most dramatic trials that continue to fascinate us years later. Also included is a bonus documentary, The Street Lawyer.

When Dr Susie Harriot is convicted of the brutal murder of Andrew Gow, a serial killer in her care, it looks certain that she will be given a life sentence, depriving her of her home, family and two-year-old daughter. Susie's husband, Lachlan, is convinced his wife is innocent, and is determined to find evidence to support an appeal. Every night he sits in Susie's study and goes through her papers – her case notes, her interviews with Gow, and the press cuttings from the trial.

It's mid-September, a heatwave has descended on the parched hills of LA, and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy twenty-two-year-old Chrissie Montgomery, set to inherit an enormous fortune, is missing. She's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father, along with his sultry bottle blonde girlfriend, wants her found before that happens. They've hired Anna Riorden, Marlowe's nemesis, too. The search takes them to the roughest neighbourhoods of LA.