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Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness.

Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity - and the home of 80 percent of the world's population by 2050. As the 21st century progresses, metropolitan areas will bear the brunt of global megatrends such as climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth, income inequality, mass migrations, and education and health disparities, among many others.

Set in Manhattan, this is a story of classic scope in which the characters hunger for love, wrestle with faith and doubt, and struggle to bind themselves to something sacred in the midst of modern chaos.

Get inspired and motivated to go biking by listening and reflecting on many positive affirmations with the I Love Biking Affirmation Audiobook. As you listen to the affirmations, your love and admiration for biking will be awakened as you realize how fantastic biking is and how much better your life is and can be from biking. Regularly listening to affirmations about how fantastic biking is can help you become internally motivated to ride your bike and develop the habit of biking and exercising.

Dr. Jason White and Ricky Gold, a former professor and defense attorney in New York City, find themselves blacklisted from their professions after Jason is denied tenure and Ricky is disbarred from the legal profession. Desperation leads the two to start working as consultants for a new Mexican cartel. Soon, their academic prowess helps the cartel make millions of dollars, and the criminal organization expands its operations and revolutionizes the way business is conducted in the criminal underworld through data science.

What has been missing from the daring tales of fairy tale heroes is quite simply some heft. In Burly Tales, Lambda Literary Award-winning editor Steve Berman has gathered a dozen stories of whimsy and romance that feature gay men with plenty of curves and fur. Run away with us to enchanted woods, where the cubs and bears are not going to eat you (not without informed, enthusiastic consent), where no one will judge if you take up residence in a house with seven bearded men and only one bed.

As a child, did you hide under your blankets when you were scared of the dark? After listening to some of the scariest stories from new and up-and-coming authors, we won’t blame you if you start hiding again. Take a journey with us into the twisted mind of horror. “The Fallout” travels through the unknown, while “Feast” will make you never want to love again. Listen to these and many more stories to know what it truly means to be afraid of the dark.

CFR Senior Fellow Max Boot, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Director Richard Betts, RAND Senior Political Scientist Rick Brennan, Georgetown Professor Daniel Byman and Brookings Fellow Jeremy Shaprio, and former U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan Peter Tomsen debate the lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Thank You Exercising for All You Do Affirmation Handbook is designed to help An Affirmation Handbook Designed to help you build the habit of exercising by connecting to your gratitude for how much exercising has helped you have a better life. Listening to these affirmations regularly can inspire and remind them of the many things they are grateful for exercising and get them to think of other things they are thankful for.

Written by men with unquestioning loyalty to Jesus Christ, this volume covers the book of Hebrews in twelve lessons, primarily from the standpoint of the superiority of Jesus. Lessons include: *Introduction to Hebrews *Jesus is Better than the Angels (Hebrews 1-2) *Jesus is Better than Moses (Hebrews 3) *Jesus is Better than Joshua (Hebrews 4) *Jesus’ Salvation is Better (Hebrews 5-6) *Christ, Our Forever High Priest (Hebrews 7) *Jesus’ Covenant is Better (Hebrews 8) *Jesus’ Tabernacle is Better (Hebrews 9) *Jesus’ Sacrifice is Better (Hebrews 10) *The Hall of the Faithful (Hebrews ...

When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle, in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of professors, the boys were best friends and fierce rivals who soon followed each other to Yale University. Michael blazed through Yale in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. Then one day, Jonathan received a devastating call: Michael had suffered a psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Michael was still in hospital when he learned he'd been accepted to Yale Law School.

Ike Eisenmann from Disney's Witch Mountain movies, and author, Jonathan Rosen, take you on a trip down Memory Lane, as each episode they revisit some of our beloved memories from our childhoods.

Jonathan R. Rose’s feminist fable slices into the reader with the satirical razor of Angela Carter. — James M Wright Growing up in a small highway town, Elena Corzo always dreamt of attending university in her country’s capital city. After leaving home and finally arriving in the sprawling metropolis however, she becomes overwhelmed by its relentless movement, suffocating population, strange customs and unaffordable prices. Less than a month to go before her classes begin, Elena finds herself trapped in perdition, where she catches the eye of Diego Bustamante. Handsome, successful and...

Francisco Roberto Morelos is trapped in a school run by a cruel, sadistic, corrupt principal nicknamed Evil Espinosa, and she has chosen him to perform a Herculean task. As punishment for disobedience, he must paint 92 portraits of his classmates on a giant wall surrounding the school. He has only 3 weeks to do it, and the portraits must be perfect, or he will face terrible consequences. In his quest to bring those students to life on the wall, Francisco embarks on a journey into their hearts, minds and lives, where he discovers just how much Evil has affected each and every one of them. ...

The Hole-in-the-Tree gang, led by Quickpaw Cassidy and the Sunshine Cub, is the most daring group of raccoons in town. But when these cheeky chancers carry out the biggest, boldest heist of their lives, they push the neighbourhood too far. The heat is on, and the gang goes on the run in this wild adventure ultimately learning that there’s no place like home.

After the Flames is about one of the world's most famous burn victims: his incredible survival, his nightmarish path to recovery that helped revolutionize medical treatment for burn victims worldwide, the fame thrust upon him after he was declared a hero from the media, and the tumultuous years that followed, most of which were spent under the microscope of an unforgiving public eye.

Would you like help from God, your creator, to build deep and meaningful relationships and become a more loving person? This affirmation handbook is filled with many great affirmations that will encourage and remind you to reach out to God to help you be more loving and caring. Be inspired to reach out to God to listen wholeheartedly to people and want to know and understand them. Be encouraged to reach out to God to work through feelings of pain, anger, and hurt to develop a loving and caring heart.

Falling in Love With Exercise Affirmation Audiobook is designed to inspire, motivate, and help someone develop and build the habit of exercising to get in their best shape, achieve their health and fitness goals, and live an active and healthy life. By figuring out what inspires and encourages us to exercise, we can all get in our best shape, achieve our health and fitness goals, and live an active and healthy life.

Positive Affirmations to Inspire You to Go after Things That Are Important and Meaningful in Your Life was created to help you focus on pursuing essential and meaningful things to live a more prosperous life.

Would you like people to develop deep and meaningful relationships and feel loved and cared for by you? This affirmation handbook contains many affirmations to inspire, remind, and help you be a more loving and caring person. Deep down inside, people want to feel heard and listened to. People want to think that you care for them and understand them.