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Iris Aguila’s To Love in Spite of It All puts aside the typical Hollywood notion of “love” and relationships, to instead embroil readers in a tale rooted in new age fable and medieval myth. Through a journey that will have listeners redefining their own lives, Iris leaves her audience wondering where the other half of their soul may be, if they’ve already found it - and what it means to truly love someone. As anyone who has met “the one” knows, the moment is so perfect, they usually can’t even put it into words.

I've never been the type to get on the wrong side of the law until the day I did. I was given two options, to either go to jail for a very long time or become an agent for the CIA. I'm unlike any other agent, though. Most of my colleagues don't have families like I do. You see, I'm Romanian and the purest of blood flows through my veins. Since time has passed I believe I was targeted because of who I know. Otherwise I wouldn't have been sent on this mission, to take down Franco Falcone of the New York Crime Family.

My father gave me an ultimatum. He should really know better than that. I was set to marry Isabella, the daughter of a prestigious accountant for one of the Clans. He's been pressuring me for years to get married to extend our lineage - basically, to open up a baby-making factory. I may be marrying a woman, but it sure as hell won't be a boring little virgin girl. I want defiance in the highest form, and how better to achieve that than marrying a slave?

I changed every part of myself for him. At first, I thought it was because I loved him. Eventually, I realized that what he did to me was the most disgusting form of emotional abuse. He made me feel as if the authentic parts of me were wrong - that I was ugly. One night, after I had been through hell, I ran to my best friend Natasha's house. I wanted the comfort of my best friend - to hold me and tell me everything would be okay.

Throughout my entire life, I've only wanted one thing - independence. It might seem easy, but it's quite the contrary. It's nothing but a myth in my family because my life is not my own. It never has been, and it never will be. At least, not until now. I made a deal with my father to gain some aspect of freedom. I would marry a Romanian Clan leader to unite their vast mafia with our family hitman business. Two powerful families coming together, creating the most feared partnership in the world.

I owed Mariana so much. I’d betrayed not only her, but The Clans - my country, my people; my own flesh and blood. With so much lost because of me, when Mariana gave me a chance at redemption I was quick to take it. I was needed in the Ukraine, and so I went. But now a vicious woman named Vera is throwing me off my game, and, despite all my preparations and all of my research, I knew nothing of this woman. I owed Mariana so much, and, though I knew nothing of her, she knew enough about me to make that impossible. She knew that I would sooner die than go back on my word.

My best friend asked me to marry his sister...so I did everything I could to ensure it. I've been after Aria Funar for years, wanting her by my side, craving that woman and her spirit. Over the years I had watched her grow up and turn into the woman she's become. After a traumatic event happened to Aria, her father branded her as damaged, irrelevant, she was deemed useless to him. Now, and only now am I worthy of marrying his daughter - because the tragic things that have happened to her ultimately brought her down to my level in her father's eyes.

Willow Kim Adame. I was assigned to protect her - “with any means necessary” - and, at first, it seemed like a simple enough job. But she tries to disobey me at every step, seems outright intent on making not only my job but my life as difficult as possible.

Ich bin das mutigste Kinderhörbuch der Welt. Und das Tagebuch der Waldschrate in Fagusien, dem schönsten Wald aller Zeiten. Als Mitmachbuch bringe ich dir die Waldabenteuer der Waldschrate direkt in dein Kinderzimmer. Diesmal erzähle ich von dem kleinen Praktikantendrachen Vladimir, der kein Feuer spucken kann. Gemeinsam versuchen die Waldschrate, es ihm beizubringen. Denn im Winter muss ja jemand das Lagerfeuer in Gang halten können. Und wie Praktikanten so sind, passieren eine Menge brandgefährlicher Abenteuer.

In 2015, Rhea Iris Rivers felt horrified, scared, sad, embarrassed, exhausted, and ungrateful after she learned she was facing a myriad of health challenges. In a 30-day guidebook filled with personal experiences and the wisdom of our Mother Earth, Rivers shares how she naturally beat her own health crisis with seven steps to renewal that transformed her life and healed her ailments through what she found in nature, her kitchen, and most importantly, within herself.

Alexandra Hill is enjoying the last bit of summer in her beautiful city, her thoughts on her last year of high school. When she wakes up one morning and finds herself reliving the same day again, though no one else notices, she hopes it is deja vu, but as the day happens again, she knows better. Something is very wrong. On her own, she tries to investigate, and finds a beautiful man with wings who will change her view about her entire world and send her on a journey with others just like her.

Greater Than a Tourist - Sibiu Transylvania Romania, by Iris Matubis-Diaconescu, offers the inside scoop on Romania. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

In himmlischem Auftrag macht sich der von Arbeitslosigkeit bedrohte Weihnachtsmann Claudius auf den Weg zur Erde, um das Weihnachtsfest wieder in altem Glanz erstrahlen zu lassen. Als Helfer begleiten ihn die Fee Morgentau, der Zwerg Tallamo, der Kobold Grünschnabel und nicht zuletzt die Hexe Eulana. Diese eigensinnige Gruppe hat die Aufgabe, zehntausend Kinder und Erwachsene zu finden, die den Glauben an Weihnachten - als das Fest der Liebe - nicht verloren haben. Keine einfache Aufgabe, da sie erkennen müssen, daß keiner von ihnen im Alleingang irgendetwas erreichen kann.

Eine ungewöhnliche Gabe und eine abenteuerliche Reise: Ein Märchen für Erwachsene und Kinder von 6-99 Jahren. Die elfjährige Bonnie hat die Gabe, mit der Natur reden zu können, weshalb sie von anderen oft wie eine Außenseiterin behandelt wird. In dem alten Leuchtturmwärter Grifford findet sie einen wahren Freund. Er ist es auch, der sie auf eine abenteuerliche Reise durch das Meer schickt, wo sie den Hüter der Meere trifft. Der bittet sie, den Menschen zu erzählen, was die Zerstörung der Umwelt für sein Reich und dessen Bewohner bedeutet. Nachdem sie sich mit Hilfe des Zauberfisches Darkahn im Wasser frei bewegen kann, erlebt sie unmittelbar, was dem Meer an Schäden zugefügt wird. Sie findet nicht nur viele Freunde, sondern auch den Mut, heimzukehren und ihre Mission als Vermittlerin zwischen den Welten zu erfüllen.

Die ersten Herbststürme jagen über Cornwalls Küste, und DI Collin Brown ist in melancholischer Stimmung. Seine Frau ist für mehrere Wochen verreist, er und die Kinder sind auf sich allein gestellt. Ausgerechnet jetzt wird er mit einem beunruhigenden Fall konfrontiert: Die sechzehnjährige Carla Wellington ist verschwunden. Collin versucht, das Mädchen mithilfe von Hundertschaften und Freiwilligen zu finden, doch nach einigen Tagen fehlt immer noch jede Spur.

How come nobody ever sees Miranda Ogilvy - except one smoking-hot neighbor and one stone cold killer? The tiny village called “Minokee” (Seminole for “alligators all over the place”) is chock full of mysteries like that, and like: Who is the hunky neighbor, Shepard Krausse, how in heck did he find the invisible Miranda, and why does such a nice guy have such deadly enemies? Who killed Miranda’s Aunt Phyllis? Is Shepard’s guide dog, Dave, really the smartest guy in town? Why does old Miz Cleary keep a loaded rifle beside her front porch rocking chair?

Als bei Miss Norma 2015 im Alter von 90 Jahren Gebärmutterkrebs diagnostiziert wurde, riet man ihr zu einer Operation, zu Bestrahlung und Chemotherapie. Doch Norma - nach sieben Ehejahrzehnten erst frisch verwitwet - dachte nicht daran, ihrem Ende in einem Krankenhausbett entgegen zu dämmern. Sie richtete sich zu ihrer vollen Größe von eineinhalb Metern auf und sagte ihrem Arzt: "Ich bin neunzig Jahre alt, ich gehe auf Reisen!"

Shirley Wolf and Cindy Collier met in a juvenile detention center and had known each other for only a few hours when they decided to escape and randomly kill a stranger. They would go to a senior condominium center in Auburn, California, where they would seek an elderly victim. They would find one in the 85-year-old Anna Brackett. They entered her home under the ruse that they needed to use the phone to call their parents.

Wie schön, dass du geboren bist! Für den kleinen Pinguin ist es der aufregendste Tag des Jahres: Heute feiert er Geburtstag und er hat alle seine Freunde eingeladen. Sie futtern gemeinsam Kuchen, haben Spaß beim Spielen und staunen über die tollen Geschenke. So einen schönen Tag würde das Geburtstagskind am liebsten gleich wieder erleben.

In 1992, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was tortured and killed by four teenage girls, led by Melinda Loveless. Caught in a lesbian love triangle, the four girls would torture the young Shanda and burn her alive. The case would shock the picture-sque town in southern Indiana and make national headlines, making an entire nation ask, "why"?