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It’s time for the annual Whispering Pines Tour of Gardens, and plant lovers are arriving by the busload. Discussions of raised beds, fertilizers, and proper amounts of water and sunlight can be heard all around the village. But just as the tours begin, chaos erupts. Someone has vandalized the gardens.

On an otherwise ordinary day, in a small shrimping village off the coast of South Carolina, a boat goes missing. The entire town rallies as all are mobilized to find the lost vessel. Throughout the course of one day, flashbacks of Bud Morrison, the captain on board, and Carolina, his wife, reveal the happier days of a once-thriving shrimping industry juxtaposed with the memories of their long term marriage.

This audiobook walks you through every step of creating an effective online learning course using time-tested principles of instructional design and instructional writing. It’s a multi-step guide that subject matter experts and copywriters can follow to go from idea to fully developed online course. Whether your course will be sold on a marketplace platform, self-hosted on your own website, or launched through sites such as Teachable, Thinkific, or Kajabi, this audiobook will help.

Agatha, Ende 30, Aushilfskraft in einem Londoner Supermarkt, weiß genau, wie ihr perfektes Leben aussieht. Es ist das einer anderen: das der attraktiven, wohlhabenden Meghan, deren Ehemann ein erfolgreicher Fernsehmoderator ist und die sich im Londoner Stadthaus um die zwei reizenden Kinder kümmert. Meghan, die jeden Tag grußlos an Agatha vorbeiläuft. Und die nichts ahnt von den sehnsuchtsvollen Blicken, die sie immerzu verfolgen.

As Martine and Jacques Le Guennec prepare for their annual family Christmas dinner, Martine reminds her husband to be on his best behavior. Their son Nicolas is bringing his girlfriend, Jeanne, to their home for the first time, and she doesn't want Jacques to scare this one off. Jacques has always ruled his roost with patriarchal bravado, and he can't help but verbally antagonize everyone - especially the wives of his sons.

Carolyn knew everything about Veronica Campbell. She knew about the case of murder and retribution that haunted her life and her career. About her stormy relationship with her husband, Drew. About the emotional darkness that was overwhelming Veronica's fragile seventeen-year-old daughter, Jude. But seeing her friend laid out on a cold hard slab of steel in a morgue, and hearing the initial judgments of the investigators, she knows this: there's no way Veronica would have ever taken her own life.

The Second Silence takes us into the breaking heart of Noelle Van Doren, whose only child is snatched from her by her estranged husband, Robert, a powerful real-estate developer. As Noelle and her long-estranged parents, Mary and Charlie, frantically peel away layers of mystery regarding Robert's past, the lives of each begin to change in unexpectedly wrenching ways.

Contemporary satirist Loh spins a darkly comic, semi-autobiographical tale of growing up middle-class Chinese-German in Southern California. This comic monologue is for sons and daughters everywhere who feel that their parents must have beamed to Earth from another planet.

Dear Reader: When I think of Heart of the Night, I think of one of the characters in the book, late-night disc jockey Jared Snow. So do many of my readers, if the mail they send me is any indication. It's his voice - always his voice - there on the radio, as soothing as a massage and twice as sexy. For me, Jared Snow is also a concept, the idea that a single voice on the radio is heard by many different people, with a different effect on each.

When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest playwright. Both were already married - Pinter to the actress Vivien Merchant and Fraser to the politician Hugh Fraser - but their union seemed inevitable from the moment they met: 'I would have found you somehow', Pinter told Fraser. Their relationship flourished until Pinter's death on Christmas Eve 2008 and was a source of delight and inspiration to them both until the very end.

Cold, cunning, and without remorse, Holden was the kind of criminal the death penalty was made for, and the forensic evidence had him nailed - or so everyone thought. But when the evidence is discredited, Holden is a free man again, and Carolyn is his assigned parole officer. To the state, Holden is a man who has served his time. But Carolyn still remembers the grieving family and the victims who have been betrayed by a miscarriage of justice.

In 10 powerful stories, Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens and into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. As she evokes their distinct atmosphere, she brings vividly to life a host of unforgettable characters, from a lonesome priest to battling brothers, and from an unwanted stranger to a groom troubled by music and memory. These bittersweet tales of love and loyalty, of separation and reconciliation, captured in Victoria Hislop's unique voice, will stay with you long after you reach the end. Three of these stories appeared previously published in Victoria Hislop's collection, One Cretan Evening.

Asa: Drogendealer, Betrüger, notorischer Frauenheld. Er hat nur eine Schwachstelle: Sloan, seine große Liebe, von der er besessen ist. Carter: Undercover-Cop. Sein Auftrag: Asa zu überführen. Sein Unglück: dass ausgerechnet Sloan die erste Frau ist, in die er sich verliebt. Sloan würde für die, die sie liebt, durch die Hölle und zurück gehen. Und das tut sie, jeden einzelnen Tag. Sich mit dem verführerischen Asa Jackson einzulassen, bedeutet für sie die dringend benötigte finanzielle Sicherheit, auch wenn sie dafür ihre Moral aufgeben muss.

Roxane, 25 ans, célibataire désespérée, mais pas suicidaire, a monté une opération secrète : détourner un BlaBlaCar pour y réunir 4 beaux gosses soigneusement sélectionnés sur photo. Direction : la Corse. Objectif : rencontrer l'amour avant les vacances. Et comme si tout n'était pas déjà assez compliqué, l'un de ses covoitureurs met un point d'honneur à lui gâcher son speed dating roulant.

Lorène et Giulia, deux amies d'enfance que tout oppose, mais que rien n'a jamais pu séparer. Tandis que Giulia doit se battre pour rester en vie, Lorène doit, quant à elle, surmonter sa peur de vivre. Mais en amitié, il n'y a jamais de petites victoires, seulement de grands combats.

Pips Leben hat enge Grenzen. Erst eine unerwartete Begegnung schenkt ihr Hoffnung: Ein Astronom aus der örtlichen Sternwarte lehrt sie, zu den Sternen zu blicken und damit auch ihre Welt ganz neu zu sehen. Viel größer und schöner, als sie es sich je vorgestellt hat. Und vielleicht wartet darin sogar jemand auf sie. Wenn sie den Mut findet, ihr Herz zu öffnen.

Vic, die mit Make-up-Tutorials im Internet Tausende begeistert, würde ihr Gesicht nie vor einer Kamera zeigen. Auf den ersten Blick ist Victoria das Ebenbild ihrer Schwester Sam, Star der gefeierten Regency-Soap Silver Lines. Vic spürt, dass Lex genau wie sie seine Narben vor der Welt versteckt. Doch dann holt die Vergangenheit die beiden Schwestern ein, und alte Wunden reißen auf.

Wir müssen handeln – und wir können es auch! Zarah Bruhn wagt den mutigen Blick nach vorn und zeigt aus ihrer Erfahrung heraus konkrete Wege in die Welt von morgen auf. Sie macht sichtbar, wie viele Menschen bereits heute an der Lösung unserer gesellschaftlichen und ökologischen Herausforderungen arbeiten, und berichtet von ihren Begegnungen: vom Friedensnobelpreisträger bis zur CEO eines Dax-Unternehmens, von der genialen Superhackerin bis zu visionären Sozialarbeitern aus aller Welt. Sie haben Antworten. Sie sind innovativ. Sie sparen dem Staatshaushalt Milliarden.

" Retrouve-moi dans une autre vie. Retrouve-moi dans chacune d'entre elles. " Chaque fin est aussi un début. J'ai cru que j'allais mourir, et cela serait arrivé sans l'intervention de Slade. Le seul moyen qu'il avait de me sauver était d'ouvrir une brèche entre les mondes. Le seul moyen pour moi de me sauver était de la traverser. Parfois, fuir un endroit dangereux vous amène à un autre. Annwyn. Le royaume des faes. Il y a de la magie et de la beauté ici, bien qu'à chaque coin de rue, des menaces rôdent.

The story gently explores the emotional journey of a young caterpillar who feels left behind as others around him appear to progress more quickly. It highlights common struggles with learning, self-esteem, and feeling different, offering children a message of hope and self-acceptance. Through the metaphor of the caterpillar’s transformation into a butterfly, the story illustrates how everyone has unique strengths that can bloom in time. With support from friends and adults, the caterpillar discovers his strengths and begins to understand his worth.