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This soul-stirring tale celebrates children who sense what’s unspoken and respond with kindness, empathy, and grace. Through poetic storytelling and interactive reflection prompts, Lan’s Light invites young listeners to embrace their rare strengths and see gentleness as a quiet superpower.

The View from the Auntie Chair: Stories of Love Across Generations is my joyful tumble through memory lane, where hugs are healing, laughter echoes across decades, and being the “favorite auntie” comes with storytelling perks. With charm and candor, I invite you to sit beside me and swap tales some sweet, some silly, some soaked in sentiment.

Step into the sunshine of childhood as I share Summer Memories: Water Balloons, Pool Days, and the Fun Times of Being a Kid, a celebration of laughter, friendship, and the moments that shaped me. Through storytelling and reflection, I invite listeners into the world I grew up in. From wild balloon battles and joyful front yard games to quiet poolside lessons and family encouragement, each chapter is a tribute to the magic of being a kid. With humor and honesty, these stories shine a light on the lessons I learned in the sprinkler spray and the warmth I felt in backyard adventures.

I’ve spent the past year plotting my revenge and imagining all the wicked things I’d do to her when our paths finally crossed again. I just had no idea it would be so soon. The last thing I expected when I reentered the world was to find myself right in the middle of hers. The girl who betrayed me, the snitch who ruined me - here for the taking. While she’s been oblivious here in Rosewood, I’ve been trapped in hell. Better watch your back, Harley Hunter. You’re about to be owned by a Legend.

I might have been the one who walked away, but that doesn’t mean I’m not still haunted by her - by what I did to her. But that’s the thing about ghosts…they always return when you least expect it. My stepsister was an outlet for my pain, but everything has changed. Now I’ve got nothing to lose. If she thought I hated her the first time we met, then she’s about to get a shock. The rage I felt didn’t compare to the fury that now consumes me. I might be empty, but I’m going to show her how it feels by taking away everything she has...one painful piece at a time.

Fear of public speaking is reported to be the number-one phobia on the planet. This exercise done on a regular basis will help reduce stress and anxiety about making speeches and giving presentations. Bring this recording to every speech and speaking engagement to be 100% prepared, relaxed, and confident on stage.

For the first time, the four most popular restorative justice audiobooks in the Justice & Peacebuilding series —The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated, The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing, The Little Book of Family Group Conferences, and The Little Book of Circle Processes — are available in one audio volume.

Could you condemn one child to save another? In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change and far-right politics, biologist Lina Stephenson works in the remote Rila Mountains. But when an old enemy dies, Lina's dangerous past resurfaces and puts her family's lives at risk. Trapped with her vulnerable sister and the dead man's family, Lina is facing pressure from all sides: her enemy's eldest son is determined to destroy her in his search for vengeance, whilst his youngest carries a sinister secret.

Trey was only meant to be a distraction, someone I’d never see again. Turns out, the man starring in my wild fantasies is also occupying the desk next to mine. My experience with men tells me that he can’t be trusted, but my heart, and body, tells me something different. His demands for more weaken my resolve, and I find myself craving a man that’s over a decade my senior. I can’t escape the memories of our sizzling night together.... I don’t want to. He could be different, but was I willing to repeat my mistakes to find out?

Losing her nearly destroyed me. Reclaiming her is something I've waited years for. I can see it in her eyes, feel it in her touch. The desire, the temptation, she needs me just as much as I need her. But there's something else there, defiance. She’s never forgotten me, after all this time, but has she forgiven me? Turns out she's forgetting one thing...she’s mine. I'm not letting go this time.

Many of us are faced with the dilemma of trying to find the answers to these questions. We have been taught that success comes from 80 percent action and 20 percent thought. But this equation is wrong: true success comes from 80 percent thought and 20 percent action. There is nothing in your life that you cannot change, modify, or improve simply by changing the way you think.

In networking situations, anyone can feel awkward at one time or another - even those charismatic extroverts who look like they are having all the fun. But that awkward experience doesn't have to be yours - not anymore. This program gives you all the tools and techniques you need to master the art of networking.

1941. A talented flier, Jessie Lovelace yearns for a career in aviation. When the civilian flight school in her small Texas town begins to clandestinely train British pilots for the RAF, she fights to become an instructor. But the task isn’t without its perils of near-misses and death. Faced with the weight of her responsibilities, she finds solace with a British officer who knows firsthand the heavy price paid in war . . . until he returns to the battles he never truly left behind.

Through interviews with successful product designers and inventors from around the world, and case studies of products from their local inception to their global success, The Future of Design will answer these important questions and provide a robust framework for activating innovative thinking that goes beyond Western approaches to creativity and innovation.

With sadness, Tori Cannon learns that the bait shop and small motel her grandparents ran has fallen on hard times. Jammed into one of the motel's units is a body, his mouth filled with spikes. Tori's friend, Kathy, arrives to help spruce up the property, and the two find themselves mixed up in the petty jealousies and deadly consequences that murder entails. Can they save the bait shop and find a murderer or will they, too, sleep with the fishes?

In Angels Do Always Knock, I share a tender, honest memoir rooted in love, loss, and the quiet ways grace finds us. Through childhood memories, caregiving moments, and spiritual reflections, I trace the final chapters of my parents’ lives—and the presence that gently accompanied them.

In this lyrical memoir, I trace my ancestral roots to Johannes Valentin Pressler a shared ancestor with Elvis Presley. What begins as a genealogical exploration unfolds into a spiritual and musical revelation, uncovering a legacy woven through German soil, early America, and the quiet melodies of the soul. More than a family tree, this story is a symphony of lineage, honoring truth, memory, and the mysterious ways our ancestors speak. Whether you're drawn by heritage, history, or harmony, The Pressler Connection invites you to listen for the echoes that shape us all.

The second gripping instalment in the DI Paolo Sterling crime series. Detective Inspector Paolo Sterling is determined to shut down the syndicate flooding Bradchester’s streets with young prostitutes. When a child is murdered, Paolo becomes aware of a sinister network of abusers spread across Europe and spanning all levels of society. But Joey, the shadowy leader of the gang, always seems to be one step ahead in the chase. Has Paolo come up against a criminal he cannot defeat?

My Race is the memoir of a gifted Jewish athlete growing up under the apartheid system of South Africa. As both an outsider excluded from the conservative Christian mainstream and an insider who reaped many of the benefits of a society founded on white supremacy, South African track star Lorraine Lotzof Abramson had a unique vantage point on the apartheid experience.

It's been seventeen years since the internet crashed and left the world broken... On the Bellwether, a huge floating college safe from the politics and war of the mainland, Auli is part of a research team studying the Oracle—a strange, uncanny girl who channels dangerous ghosts. The scientists notate everything she says, using her to piece together maps, weather forecasts, and anything else that might make the region’s hazardous waters a little safer for shipping cartels and local fishermen alike.