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The play of sunlight through leaves … the songs of the wind … the arc of a brush stroke on paper. To be awake, reflects Jack Kornfield, is to discover the beauty hidden in all things—and to express that beauty ourselves. With Turn Toward the Beautiful, this lyrical writer and teacher...

Wolfsblut kennt nichts anderes, als die harte Hand der Menschen. Menschen haben ihn gezüchtigt, haben ihn geschlagen und getreten. Sie haben ihn hungern lassen und zu einer blutrünstigen Bestie gemacht. Wolfsblut war sich sicher - so würde er sterben. Dann aber begegnet er Weedon Scott und lernt, nach und nach und in kleinen Schritten, was es heißt, ein Freund der Menschen und dem Menschen ein Freund zu sein.

Diese abenteuerliche Goldgräbergeschichte stammt aus der Feder eines erzählerischen Naturtalents, das so ganz aus dem eigenen abenteuerlichen Leben schöpfte. Eine fesselnde und zugleich nachdenklich stimmende Geschichte.

It was the summer of 1965. Ray, Tim, and Jennifer were just three teenage friends hanging out in the campgrounds, drinking a little. But Tim and Jennifer didn't know what their friend Ray had in mind. And if they'd known, they wouldn't have thought he was serious. Then they saw what he did to the two girls at the neighboring campsite - and knew he was dead serious...Ray figured he was in the clear. Tim and Jennifer thought the worst was behind them, that the horrors were all in the past. They were wrong. The worst was yet to come.

There I was, surrounded by beautiful college girls and tribeswomen, enjoying the fruits of my labor and the occasional consensual spanking, when a volcano threatened a different kind of eruption. A more dangerous one. Needless to say, it's up to me, the professor with an armful of gingers, to keep everybody safe. Because if we don't get off this island, it'll be an extinction-level event. That's it. Those are all the spoilers you're getting.

This paradigm shifting how-to guide effortlessly teaches you how to outwit liars and get them to reveal the truth—from former FBI agent and author of the “practical and insightful” (William Ury, coauthor of Getting to Yes) bestseller The Like Switch. Unlike many other books on lie...

My team and I have worked hard to earn the honor of representing Krysfelt Academy for Girls, but not everyone is happy to see us rise to the top. Old rivalries are resurfacing, and some competitors are willing to take things too far.

Known for bringing Insight Meditation to the West and for his many best-selling books, including A Path With Heart, Jack Kornfield now offers a collection of his most popular teachings with Buddhist Mediation for Beginners. This specifically designed gift set includes four complete audio learning courses.

In this much-anticipated new spy thriller series by Jack Mars, listeners are taken on an action thriller across Europe as presumed-CIA operative Kent Steele, hunted by terrorists, by the CIA, and by his own identity, must solve the mystery of who is after him, of the terrorists’ pending target - and of the beautiful woman he keeps seeing in his mind.

When the body of a teenage girl is found submerged in coastal marshland it falls to DI Freya Bloom and DS Ben Savage to roll their sleeves up and dig for the truth. With no evidence to go on and no team to help them, the pair find themselves heading further into deep water, until they are faced with just one option—break the rules, and swim for the shore.

A mutiny on the moon places Sgt. Ethan Stark in command of the U.S. military forces there - and turns a dream for independence into a reality.

This treasury of essential Buddhist writings draws from the most popular Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese sources. Among the selections are some of the earliest recorded sayings of the Buddha on the practice of freedom, passages from later Indian scriptures on the perfection of wisdom, verses from Tibetan masters on the enlightened mind, and songs in praise of meditation by Zen teachers.

Detective Isaac Bell's investigation into an attempted assassination brings him to the construction site of the Panama Canal--and straight into a nest of vipers--in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from Clive Cussler. Detective Isaac Bell's wife has said that he...

After years of war, the necromancer Zaroth Karn finally lies dead at my feet, and I am one of the most powerful mages left standing. Now it’s time for peace—and to keep a promise to a fallen friend. He left me his quiet farmstead in the elven town of Aerenvale. With most men lost to the war, the women there could use a hand…or more.

Im Wald am Rand eines beschaulichen Städtchens trifft der kleine Abie auf den toten Harry. Und obwohl er lebendig anscheinend für niemanden von Interesse war, wollen ihn gleich drei Personen ins Jenseits befördert haben: eine respektable Lady, ein knorriger Kapitän und Abies Mutter, die immerhin mal mit Harry verheiratet war. Harry musste einiges eingesteckt haben – er wurde scheinbar erschossen und tödlich von einer Milchflasche sowie einem Damenschuh getroffen.

Als Welpe wird Weißzahn von einem Indianer gefangen und nach langem Widerstand gezähmt. Doch bis der Wolf sich wirklich unterordnet, besteht er manchen gefährlichen Kampf gegen Mensch und Tier.
Der Roman ist mehr als eine packende Abenteuergeschichte: Jack London stellt deutliche Analogien zwischen Menschen- und Tierwelt her und thematisiert den für ihn zeitlebens ungelösten Zwiespalt zwischen Individualismus und Sozialismus.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Four is the fourth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Four features 12 timeless works that largely focuses on the greats of American and British literature, with novels from Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, and others. Read by a cast of incredible narrators including Miranda Raison, Pearl Mackie, Adam Sims, David Rintoul, and more, this is a chance to expand your listening with some of the greatest authors of all time.

For a very long time, Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee have followed their separate paths of line-crossing, gut-wrenching, no holds-barred storytelling. Now, those roads have drawn close and merged for a collection of five collaborative stories guaranteed to shock, amuse, disgust, and bring lovers of extreme fiction back for more.

A crashed satellite's secrets spur CIA Agent Maya Lawson on a perilous mission to the jungles of Africa—only to find herself betrayed and captured deep in enemy territory.

In Any Means Necessary, nuclear waste is stolen by jihadists in the middle of the night from an unguarded New York City hospital. The police, in a frantic race against time, call in the FBI. Luke Stone, head of an elite, secretive, department within the FBI, is the only man they can turn to. Luke realizes right away that the terrorists’ aim is to create a dirty bomb, that they seek a high-value target, and that they will hit it within 48 hours. A cat and mouse chase follows, pitting the world’s most savvy government agents versus its most sophisticated terrorists. As Agent Stone peels back layer after layer, he soon realizes he is up against a vast conspiracy, and that the target is even more high value than he could have imagined—leading all the way to the President of the United States. In Oath of Office, a biological agent is stolen from a biocontainment lab. Weaponized, it could kill millions, and a desperate national hunt ensues to catch the terrorists before it is too late. Luke Stone, head of an elite FBI department, with his own family still in jeopardy, has vowed to walk away—but when the new President, barely sworn in, calls him, he can’t turn his back on her.