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A score of years after he first walked into the histories of Men, Anasûrimbor Kellhus rules all the Three Seas, the first true Aspect-Emperor in a thousand years. Wielding more power than even the greatest sorcerer, Kellhus now leads a holy war deep into the wastes of the Ancient North, intent on destroying the stronghold of Golgotterath and preventing the Second Apocalypse.

As Fanim war-drums beat just outside the city, the Empress Anasurimbor Esmenet searches frantically throughout the palace for her missing son Kelmomas. Meanwhile and many miles away, Esmenet's husband's Great Ordeal continues its epic march further north. But in light of dwindling supplies, the Aspect-Emperor's decision to allow his men to consume the flesh of fallen Sranc could have consequences even He couldn't have foreseen.

When a Muslim cleric predicts planes will fall from the sky, America braces for a terrorist attack. But when the prediction proves true, the real cause is far more terrifying: a microbe that eats oil, effectively destroying all gas-operated mechanisms. Gillette, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control, understands the devastation that the microbe could wreak. But his far-more-chilling theory is that the microbe is synthetic and the work of terrorists.

Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360° is a must-listen for anyone wanting to know more about investing for positive social, environmental, and ethical impact-with market returns. These are the stories and tactics of those leading the way as Sustainable and Responsible Investing goes mainstream.

A score of years after he first walked into the histories of men, Anasûrimbor Kellhus rules all the three seas, the first true aspect-emperor in a thousand years. As Kellhus and his Great Ordeal march ever farther into the perilous wastes of the Ancient North, Esmenet finds herself at war with not only the Gods, but her own family as well. Achamian, meanwhile, leads his own ragtag expedition to the legendary ruins of Sauglish, and to a truth he can scarce survive, let alone comprehend.

The Better Off Dead series delves into the furthest corners of your mind, where your deepest, darkest fears lurk. These masters of horror will haunt your dreams and stalk your nightmares, taking you to the edge of sanity before pushing you to the brink of madness!

Defectors fleeing the Soviet Union seized the world's attention during the Cold War. Their stories were given sensational news coverage and dramatized in spy novels and films. Upon reaching the West, they were entitled to special benefits, including financial assistance and permanent residency. In contrast to other migrants, defectors were pursued by the states they left even as they were eagerly sought by the United States and its allies. Defectors follows their treacherous journeys and looks at how their unauthorized flight via land, sea, and air gave shape to a globalized world.

In The Stories We Tell Ourselves, author and therapist Scott Gornto shows us how to break the cycle of false assumptions that lead to unnecessary anxiety. By taking control of our reactions to the people around us, we can learn how to be truly present in our lives as we nurture the relationships that matter most.

When Connor finds River on the roof of the campus admin building, he doesn’t know what to do. His friend is drunk and shouting into a snowstorm, a bottle of vodka in his hand. The easy part is getting River down; the hard part is insisting River comes home with Connor for Christmas. River doesn’t have a family or any place outside of college that he calls home. Not that it matters to him; he’s happy being alone for Christmas in his budget motel, watching reruns of Elf.

Liam, Bowen und John kennen sich seit Ewigkeiten und besitzen alles, was sich ein Mann nur wünschen kann. Nur die Frau fürs Leben hat keiner von ihnen bisher getroffen. Da schließen die erfolgreichen Unternehmer eine ungewöhnliche Wette ab: Wer schafft es in neun Monaten, sich zu verlieben und die Frau an sich zu binden?

What's the secret to lasting happiness? How do you gain the resilience needed to weather life's inevitable storms? For ancient philosophers like Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Zeno, and Epictetus, these questions were more than mere musings—they were key elements of a school of thought called Stoicism. In The Stoicism Workbook, you'll learn how thinking like Socrates can help you identify what truly matters in your life, and build the resilience needed to go and get it!

Much of what passes as Reformed among our churches is not. As a class of churches that profess allegiance to Reformed theology, practice, and piety, we have drifted from our moorings. This book is written to facilitate change, specifically reformation according to God's Word as summarized in the Reformed confessions.

In this book, Father R. Scott Hurd writes of the spiritual, psychological, physical, and social benefits of learning how to forgive and find peace. Drawing from his pastoral experience, Hurd examines how human weakness affects such things as our ability to forgive and reconcile, our capacity to trust, and how we cope when a plea for forgiveness is rejected by a person we have wronged.

In this book you will find a set of seven principles that can be applied to your life to brighten up your day, your week, your month, your year, the time you spend alone with family , at work, at school, or in your life's journey. These principles will help you live a more fuller life with a richer experience. If you ever wanted to have an enlightening experience or a closer walk with God here is your chance. If you ever wanted to know how to become more mature, a better person, how to have discipline, or how you could change your life.

The Vampire Club - a group of lovable, laughable, larcenous college students turned vampire hunters... Over 150 years ago, a man was killed with a silver bullet in a rural, Pennsylvanian town. A man who just might be a vampire. The Vampire Club, a group of misfits who meet regularly in the basement of Western Virginia University’s library, think that they might have found their first documented case of a real vampire. Better yet, the Club thinks that the vampire might still be alive to this day, lying comatose in a hidden grave. And this is good news indeed for a group of vampire lovers.

Are you always in pursuit of happiness, but find it just out of reach? Will you be happy when you have enough money? Material possessions? Time? Energy? How much is enough? You Don’t Have to Have a Perfect Life to Be Happy provides insight into this sought-after desire. By applying the principles in this book, you will finally be able to take hold of the happy life you seek. Life is full of highs and lows, but the happier times seem much more fleeting than the sadder ones. We might glimpse happiness for a moment; then it’s gone as fast as it came.

Als Isabella und Jayden sich kennenlernen, funkt es gewaltig zwischen ihnen. Sie sind beide gerade frisch nach Chicago gezogen, und so können sie die aufregende Metropole gemeinsam entdecken. Aber nicht nur das: Schnell kommen die selbstbewusste Einkaufsleiterin und der gutaussehende Manager sich näher. Die prickelnden Stunden, die Isabella kurzerhand mit Jayden in seiner Wohnung verbringt, rauben ihr den Atem. Doch als sie am nächsten Morgen in seinen starken Armen aufwacht, stellt sich heraus, dass er der eine Mann ist, dem sie sich niemals hätte hingeben dürfen!

Nach Sonnenuntergang gelten für euch andere Regeln. Als Josie Erik begegnet, ist sie sofort von ihm fasziniert. Der charismatische Bauunternehmer hat alles, wovon ein Mann nur träumen kann: Er sieht blendend aus, besitzt ein Vermögen und wird in ganz New York hochgeschätzt. Doch es ist kein Geheimnis, dass Eriks Herz einem Eisblock gleicht. Er ist ein kalkulierender Geschäftsmann, voller Strenge und anscheinend ohne Privatleben. Als er Josie begegnet, merkt er schnell, dass sie nicht auf den Mund gefallen ist. Auch er fühlt sich stark zu ihr hingezogen.

Wenn Liebe Leben retten muss... Die heiße Lovestory von Bestsellerautorin C.R. Scott jetzt auch als Hörbuch! Eins haben der erfolgreiche Unternehmer Brian Hudson und die Profi-Sportlerin und zweifache Mutter Rielle gemeinsam: Liebe und eine Beziehung kommen für sie nicht in Frage. Doch als Brian an der Cote d’Azur auf Rielle trifft, kann er das Knistern zwischen ihnen nicht leugnen. Schon bald geht sie ihm nicht mehr aus dem Kopf – und wenn er etwas will, dann kämpft er dafür. Irgendwann kann auch Rielle nicht mehr anders, als vollkommen in seinen Bann gezogen zu werden.

This podcast is all about Kindness. As an educator, I noted the increased positive interactions students had with one another after engaging in a daily Kindness Message routine. I have now turned these kindness messages into Kindness Podcasts. If you would like to brighten your day and listen to how simple kindness can be yet how impactful it is, have a listen.