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Brooklyn, 1942. War rages overseas as brother and sister Will and Maggie Scripps contribute to the war effort stateside. Ambitious Will secretly scouts for the Manhattan Project while grief-stricken Maggie works at the Navy Yard, writing letters to her dead mother between shifts. But the siblings’ quiet lives change when they discover a beautiful woman hiding under their back stairs.

The Dragon Singers of old summoned typhoons and routed armies, liberating mankind from the orcs before fading into legend. Now, with the world again facing a new cataclysm, the power of music stirs in Kaiya, an a naïve misfit with the perfect voice. Without a master to guide her, she must rely on Hardeep, a disgraced foreign paladin, to help awaken her latent magic. His motives might not be entirely noble. When he leads her to the fabled Dragon Scale Lute, which only a Dragon Singer can wield, it is up to Black Lotus Clan to intervene.

Una gélida mañana de finales de diciembre, Gyeongha recibe un inesperado mensaje de su amiga Inseon: después de sufrir un accidente en su taller de carpintería en la isla de Jeju, ha sido trasladada de urgencia a un hospital de Seúl. Desde la cama, Inseon le ruega que tome el primer vuelo a la isla y se ocupe de su pequeña cotorra antes de que se le acaben el agua y la comida.

Raised in a devout Buddhist family, Steve was no stranger to ritual and prayer. But despite his lifelong search for truth, darkness followed him, pulling him into a spiral of addiction and despair. Then, after a near-fatal accident, Steve was plunged into the depths of hell itself—a place of unbearable torment, suffocating darkness, and merciless demonic forces. Trapped and hopeless, he experienced the destiny awaiting those who reject salvation firsthand.

Jie’s superior senses have made her the perfect lookout. Now, as the adopted daughter of the Black Lotus Clanmaster, she wants to prove her pointed ears aren’t a liability when she’s tasked to infiltrate a rebel lord’s castle. In this prequel novelette to Songs of Insurrection, Jie must decide between her duty to the emperor and her sense of compassion toward the downtrodden. No matter her choice, it will have explosive consequences for her, the realm, and the upcoming war.

Widowed. Unemployed. Aged fifty-one. Mrs. Shim becomes a killer. In this savage and side-splitting literary thriller, an ordinary woman dives headfirst into a world of petty criminals, crooked cops, and accidental assassins. Around her orbit a washed-up fixer blackmailed by his boss's daughter, a policeman's wife undercover at a third-rate detective agency, a ghost marriage-broker with an attraction to hairdressers, and a son who unknowingly becomes her rival.

Jane Choi is a typical Nebraskan teen—a corn-fed lover of Husker football. But lately, she feels like she’s missing something. Her non-Korean classmates—that’s everyone—are immersed in K-pop, K-dramas, K-beauty . . . basically, K-everything. But for Jane, kimchi? Not a fan. Bibimbap? What is that? Her mom even named her after the very not-Korean Jane Eyre. Everyone seems to know more about Korean culture than Jane. And she isn’t sure whether she’s more annoyed at them, or herself.

Venture capitalists manage to raise and invest trillions of dollars despite being wrong most of time through asymmetric bets—where a few big wins outsize losses by factors of 1,000x. In The Super Upside Factor, Daniel Kang draws on his experience as a venture capitalist at Softbank Vision Fund and a Y Combinator-backed founder to adapt asymmetric principles for personal and professional life. He offers a clear framework for maximizing luck and generating outsized returns―what he calls Super Upsides.

La novel·la que va consagrar Han Kang com una de les grans autores del segle: una lectura pertorbadora i transformadora. La vegetariana narra la història d'una dona, la Yeonghye, que per la simple decisió de no tornar a menjar carn converteix una vida normal en un malson pertorbador. Narrada a tres veus, explica el despreniment progressiu de la condició humana d'una dona que ha decidit deixar de ser allò que l'obliguen a ser.

What if wealth were never just about accumulation…But what goes unspoken across generations? Elysium: The Journey of Wealth & Legacy is a cinematic podcast that blends hidden money dynamics, soul-coded storytelling, and the evolving architecture of financial power.Hosted by Cassie Kang, Certified Private Wealth Advisor (CPWA®), Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA®), and Cinematic Guide for the Legacy Journey, Elysium bridges real stories, financial transitions, and the profound truths behind wealth that numbers can’t explain. Elysium guides you through the emotional vaults, ...

Un vasto cimitero sul mare. Migliaia di tronchi d'albero, neri e spogli come lapidi, su cui si posa una neve rada. Da anni questo sogno perseguita la protagonista Gyeongha che, dopo una serie di dolorose separazioni, si è rinchiusa in un volontario isolamento. Sarà il messaggio inatteso di un'amica a strapparla alla sua vita solitaria: quando Inseon, bloccata in un letto d'ospedale, la prega di recarsi sull'isola di Jeju per dare da bere al suo pappagallino e Gyeongha si affretta a prendere il primo aereo.

A dying question that needs to be answered? A horrible habit that needs to be broken? A problem that needs to be resolved? Well, we have good news for you! The Information Institute is proud to announce the release of our first podcast, titled "Lively Live Life", where we will journey deep into everyday phenomena from why people's breath stink to how to make friends. Stay tuned every two Sundays for a new episode that handles a pressing issue related to society! Listen on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/lively-live-life

When Jina sees an anonymous comment on a forum it forces her out of her stupor. It is posted on a website dissecting her public allegations of workplace sexual assault, the backlash to which forced her to quit her job. She has spent months glued to her laptop screen, junk-food packaging piling up around her, tracking the hate campaign that's raging against her online. This post stands out from the noise, for it could only have been made by someone who knew her as a student at university. The comment stirs something deeply repressed.

Why Do I Need to Urinate Every Day? is about the importance of urinating every day, and why it’s important for us to urinate to clean out the wastes in our bodies.

As a beautiful little girl who's destined to rule over the kingdom of Aris, Princess Eleanor has been cursed by her evil uncle, Lord Balthazar, as part of his plan to overthrow her family's kingdom. She has been cursed into becoming a mouse and with a bit of magic from her Fairy Godmother, she can turn human by day. One night, she meets a lonely, orphaned mouse named Dredge who longs for a family of his own after losing his parents in a tragic magical accident.

A Gen X mom and gay millennial do socialism.

Welcome to Trying Times! The show where we talk about life, and some of the trying times that just so happen during it (see what I did there?) My name is Carmen and I'm your host - but think of me as a friend that you're catching up with over the phone. That's kind of what this is. I hope ya enjoy :)

All About Dreams takes listeners into the magical, exciting, and vivid world of dreams. The world of dreams is an exciting place to venture into right inside our minds. Have you ever wondered why we dream in our sleep and what really goes on inside our minds when we dream? Why do we fantasize in our sleep? What really goes on inside our heads when we fall asleep? Find out in my new book All About Dreams as we go on a wondrous, magical journey of what goes on inside our minds when we sleep off into the delightful, magical, and vivid world of dream land.

Exclusive insights from the brightest minds in product (design, research and product management).

Have you ever wondered why two people who have a similar physical appearance or medical condition can have such different lives? Some people judge themselves constantly and are obsessed with looking perfect, while others exude confidence despite their imperfections. Some people are sensitive to receiving comments about their bodies, while others aren’t looking to others for approval and acceptance. Some people are depressed by their chronic illness, while others live peacefully despite their disease.