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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Cyrus the Great and learn about a Persian monarch whose impact is still being felt to this day.

Finally, Rudy, Gil, and the rest of mankind's survivors will take the offensive, bringing an end to this terrible war, for better or for worse.

These enlightened and enlightening words of the great "Avadhoot" of India, Bhagawan Nityananda, were carefully recorded by his devoted devotee, Tulsi Amma, from 1920 to 1927. Nityananda's esoteric words are like arrows that guide the soul beyond mediocre obsessions and into the heart of self realization, the great space of supreme Consciousness that is Chidakash.

In the untamed heart of the Yukon wilderness, where icy winds howl and survival is both a brutal contest and a triumph of spirit, one dog's journey will awaken the primal instincts that lie buried beneath domesticated civility. Jack London's The Call of the Wild is not merely a tale of survival—it is an anthem to the wild, a hymn to the power of instinct, and a meditation on freedom itself. Every crack of a whip, every crunch of snow under a sled, and every flash of gold in the frozen rivers echoes a deeper truth: we are creatures of nature, and nature always calls us home.

Megan has a lot on her plate. She is running a farm with her brother and cousin, trying to qualify for Nationals, and having to baby sit a childish firefighter. Derek, the firefighter, has his own baggage and reasons for the way he is. He has never met anyone like Megan and she's dangerous. Great thing about being a firefighter, they always run towards the danger. The two must learn to get alone and work together and work together to keep the farm going but the flames keep getting bigger. One of them just might get burned.

Martín y Roberto se han enamorado locamente y piensan casarse en breve. Ellos son felices y sus ex… están en ello. En realidad, Carlota no es que tenga muchas ganas de fiestas, pero decide venirse arriba por su amiga. Y Daniela otro tanto de lo mismo, no tiene ganas de nada, pero elige sobreponerse por Carlota. Con lo que no contaban era con que las vacaciones fueran a empezar en las urgencias de un consultorio médico que dirige el borde cañón de Beltrán.

Me mintió. Y no un par de veces: todo el tiempo. Para ella, yo era el típico Don Popular, el quarterback estrella que reinaba en los partidos de los viernes por la noche. Para mí, ella era la friki gótica que estaba sentada en las gradas y tocaba el clarinete en la banda. Pero, a pesar de lo diferentes que éramos, todas las noches entraba en su dormitorio a través de la ventana, incluso cuando empezamos en la universidad.

Tenía que haber sido más listo; tenía que haberla dejado en paz… Me dijo que tenía veintiún años, pero era mentira. Le llevaba una década, y, aunque era madura para su edad, debí mantener las distancias. O intentarlo, al menos. No había demasiados sitios donde esconderse en el campus, y sí un montón de sitios donde podían pillarnos. Nunca quise que ocurriera: yo era su profesor y ella debía ser solo mi alumna.

Enigmatic, quirky, moody, demanding, loving, amusing, domineering and determined all apply to Ebony. Follow her life story from a stray kitten to a mature feline, in this novella told in her own words. She was just eight months old when she was left to fend for herself on the streets, abandoned and alone.

Too many of us feel trapped by work that doesn't allow us to live our purpose, feed our passions, or use our gifts. We fantasize about starting our own business, but we're told this will mean going deeply into debt, spending years working 80 hours a week, and coping with the relentless pressure to grow. Eco-Bags founder Sharon Rowe says there's another way: go tiny. She is here to show you how. Tiny isn't a size - it's a state of mind. Like a tiny house, a tiny business is built on maintaining a laser focus on what is absolutely essential to you.

A handsome stranger with steel-blue eyes makes love to Kristen Cole each night in her dreams. She presumes the men in her life are manifesting her nightly erotic experiences. But when Kristen awakes one morning to see the stranger vanish from her bed, she fears she is losing her mind. Confident that poor sleep caused her hallucination, she gives up alcohol, takes up exercise, and adopts a guard dog to watch over her. This morning, after a wild night with her boyfriend, Kristen awoke to find his lifeless body on her bathroom floor.

It's 1999, and aspiring poet Saul Judd is living quietly in Bath with his wife, Elise, and son, Thomas. But when he wins a competition he never intended to enter, he is drawn into a web of dark forces and mysterious events.

Good-hearted Bessie has been taking care of her ailing father for 20 years. But now she's the one who's sick, and she must reconcile with her estranged sister, Lee. A remarkably humorous and tender play, this critically acclaimed family drama was dubbed by The New York Times as "one of the funniest plays of the year as well as one of the wisest and most moving."

Drawing on her lifelong journey to know her family's history, leading Christian activist Lisa Sharon Harper recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair.

In this wise and intimate new book, Sharon Olds tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. As she carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending, Olds opens her heart to the listener, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love’s sight; the surprising physical bond that still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of everything from her husband’s smile to the set of his hip; the radical change in her sense of place in the world.

Nya, a dedicated teacher at an inner-city school, is desperate to give her only son opportunities that her own public high school students will never have. When a controversial incident at his private school threatens to get Omari expelled, Nya must confront her own deepest fears to give her son a future.

Based upon the short story of the same title by Juliana Horatia Ewing, this full-cast dramatization follows the life of a child whose wonderment of the Christmas holiday is formed by the beauty of Christmas Trees.

Engage with effective healing meditation practices. Karen Casey offers invaluable wisdom, encouraging women in recovery to learn the art of compassion, acceptance, creativity and more. Spiritual meditation exercises are peppered throughout the book, allowing you to heal with each coming day.

What happens when a baby goes missing? Twenty-two years ago, Erin and Vicky’s parents were killed in an explosion. Now grown up, Erin and Vicky - who have been separated - are unaware they are siblings. But when Vicky is called to her great-aunt’s deathbed, she learns that she isn’t alone after all. But where is Erin? Vicky’s search begins....

When Elizabeth Morton's father asks her to travel to the other side of the world to marry a man she's never met, she is stunned. It's 1920 and a woman has rights. But her choices are removed when she is raped by her brother-in-law and thrown out of her own home by her sister.