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Fans of Barbara Freethy, Susan Mallery, and Robyn Carr will love this powerful, full-length, contemporary romance novel by award-winning Barbara Samuel.

When the Jezebel River overflows her banks and tries to swallow the small town of Gideon in East Texas, Celia Moon is alone and frightened in the farmhouse she inherited from her grandmother. When a mesmerizing and troubled drifter washes up on her porch, she has no choice but to take him in. As the river rises, the pair retreat to the attic to ride out the storm - and discover a compelling attraction.

Bestselling author and artist Ruth Chou Simons shares a message of comfort and peace inspired by Psalm 23: when you are with God, home is always right where you are. Ruth shares from her heart the words she's spoken over her own six children, from their very young days into adulthood. Ruth's...

Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world". Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom.

Wer will nicht große Reden schwingen, andere durch sein eloquentes Auftreten beeindrucken und Meister im Konfliktlösen sein...

Your Storm Doesn’t Have to Sink You At some point in our lives, we all find ourselves in a boat in the middle of a lake. We might be there due to a job loss or the death of a loved one. Maybe disability, divorce, or financial insecurity has stranded us. Patrick and Ruth Schwenk found...

Jeder macht sich manchmal Gedanken über das, was kommen wird. Die Frage ist, wie Sie über Ihre Zukunft denken...

Die Lebensbilanz einer großartigen Frau! Ruth Pfau ist Lepraärztin und Ordensschwester. Ihr Leben war und ist ein Abenteuer, Stoff für Romane. Sie ist aber auch das, was man landläufig als fromm bezeichnet. Nur ein bisschen anders. In diesem Hörbuch wird erzählt, was ihr wichtig ist, worin ihr Engagement zutiefst wurzelt. Es ist nicht nur eine Bilanz ihres Lebens, ein Nachdenken über die Wege, die sie ging. Es ist auch ein Text über eine Mystik der Tat, eine Mystik, die frei macht.

In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a beautiful, pale woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows, puts his hands around her neck and strangles her. Arthur Johnson is a mild-mannered, shy man who has never known how to talk to women. His resulting loneliness has twisted his yearning for love and respect into a carefully constructed predilection for violence and control.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A delicious insider account of the gritty, glamorous world of food culture.”—Vanity Fair In this “poignant and hilarious” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir, trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl chronicles her...

Originally published in the Netherlands in 1993, De Loo's first novel to be translated into English explores the enmity that existed between Germans and the rest of Europe after World War II. This moving tale addresses notions of guilt and responsibility in a sensitive, thought-provoking manner, without exonerating or condemning.

Paula has an anxiety attack at her 60th birthday party and realises that her life must change. While her friends are settling into retirement, she craves adventure. Then a shocking discovery forces her to question everything she thought was sure in her life. Rachel is about to go into business with boyfriend Craig when he betrays her in the worst way possible. She is desperate to get away and figure out how to move forward. Can she forgive and forget in order to have everything she has dreamed of?...

Atisha, the eleventh-century Indian Buddhist scholar and saint, came to Tibet at the invitation of the king of Western Tibet, Lha Lama Yeshe Wo, and his nephew, Jangchub Wo. His coming initiated the period of the second transmission of Buddhism to Tibet, formative for the Sakya Kagyu and Gelug traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Atisha's most celebrated text, Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, sets forth the entire Buddhist path within the framework of three levels of motivation on the part of the practitioner.

Als ich in eine Stadt zog, wo mich niemand kannte, nur mit einer kleinen Tasche voller Habseligkeiten, glaubte ich wirklich, meiner Vergangenheit entkommen zu sein. Es war kaum zu glauben, wie gut alles lief: Ich ergatterte meinen Traumjob, eine wunderschöne Wohnung und einen hingebungsvollen Freund. Zum ersten Mal seit Jahren begann ich, Menschen wieder zu vertrauen. Ich fing an, mich sicher zu fühlen. Aber jetzt passieren seltsame Dinge. Merkwürdige Geräusche in der Nacht, das ständige Gefühl, dass jemand an meiner Tür lauert.

Melanie Hanna has finally worked up the courage to travel to New York and tell an old flame that he's the father of her young son. She's done hiding and apologizing for her one impulsive night. When her best friend asks her brother to watch over Melanie, her emotional trip takes an unexpected and sizzling detour.

America, 1887. In a country healing from the horrors of the Civil War, the American West has never been more treacherous. Evil men do as they please, and the corrupt justice system does little to help their victims.

Eigentlich sollte Lara nur eine Akte zu Marion Meinhard ins Büro bringen, doch stattdessen platzt sie in einen handfesten Ehe-Streit. Besser gesagt, in einen Streit zwischen Marion und ihrer Ex. Denn die hat nicht vor, ihren luxuriösen Lebensstil nach der Trennung aufzugeben und verlangt Geld. Zwischen Lara und Marion springt sehr schnell der Funke über, die Vorweihnachtszeit verwandelt sich in einen Liebestraum mit Lebkuchenherzen und einem Weihnachtsbaum - bis Marion doch wieder zu ihrer Ex zurückzukehren scheint.

Brought to you by Penguin. Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, dissolving, recycling, shifting, solidifying, and weathering. We might spend a little less time on earth, but humans are also weathering: evolving and changing as we're transformed by...

Is your child a picky eater? Do they insist on having the same foods served over and over again? For many kids, picky eating is a sensory issue—whether it's the smell, taste, texture, or appearance of food. So, how can you help your child overcome these sensory sensitivities and ensure that they get the nourishment they need? Written by a pediatric occupational therapist with a specialty certification in feeding, eating, and swallowing, Raising Adventurous Eaters offers eight evidence-based sensory strategies to help kids foster a healthy relationship with food.

The internationally bestselling author of The Woman on the Ledge returns with a twisty thriller about a missing child and three adults whose shared secrets and hidden history could prove deadly. “I need to report a crime. My baby has been stolen.” All Lauren wants is a new life in Spain...

What did your face look like before your parents were born? In The Face: A Time Code, best-selling author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki recounts, in moment-to-moment detail, a profound encounter with memory and the mirror. According to ancient Zen tradition, 'your face before your parents were born' is your original face. Who are you? What is your true self? What is your identity before or beyond the dualistic distinctions, like father/mother and good/evil, that come to define us?