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Liebe Zeltlager-Begeisterte und Abenteuerliebhaber, stell dir vor, du sitzt auf einer hölzernen Bank und richtest deinen Blick in die lodernden Flammen des Lagerfeuers. Das Knistern des Feuers wird vom sanften Rauschen der Blätter begleitet, die Schatten der Bäume tanzen im Mondlicht. Der Himmel über dir ist sternenklar und du spürst die wohltuende Wärme des Feuers auf der Haut. Der Duft von Wald und Asche steigt in deine Nase, während noch immer der salzige Geschmack des Stockbrots vom Abendessen auf deiner Zunge liegt.

The Eastern Isles, an empire of humans, beastkind, and Fae, have recovered from a divisive war caused by an infectious entity. Humans established the Commission as a defense mechanism; however, mistrust of the Fae races has only increased while upholding their duty to protect against dangers. Beast, Kovuco Blackstar, born of a deviant legend, lives in the shadow of remorse until he meets the enchanting Lady Ameilja Rose Frost, a human seer of the Eastern Isles.

Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family. For generations, the men of the al-Raqb family have served as watchmen of the storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo, built at the site where the infant Moses was taken from the Nile. Joseph learns of his ancestor Ali, a Muslim orphan who became enchanted by the legendary - perhaps magical - Ezra Scroll.

In Nebraska, in the late 1890s, 17-year-old Effie and 11-year-old Bridget must struggle to endure at a time when women and children had few rights, and society looked upon domestic abuse as a private family matter. The story is told through the eyes of the girls as they learn to survive under grueling circumstances. River People is a novel of inspiration, love, loss, and renewal.

La física cuántica trata de todo. Sí, así como suena. Si te han dicho que solo va de vibraciones cósmicas que resuenan en el universo, no te han contado más que tonterías. Para transmitirnos la auténtica magia de una extraña teoría que describe el comportamiento de los átomos y la luz, y que hasta un niño de diez años o un adulto después de unas cuantas copas puedan entenderlo, Lukas Neumeier y James Douglas han decidido escribir la historia de Bob, un hippie espiritual, y Alice, una ingeniosa nerd que se pasa el día soñando con la física cuántica.

As a life raft for beginners and their supervisors, Where to Start and What to Ask provides all the necessary tools for garnering information from clients. Lukas also offers a framework for thinking about that information and formulating a thorough assessment. This indispensable audiobook helps therapeutic neophytes organize their approach to the initial phase of treatment and navigate even rough clinical waters with competence and assurance.

In Finding Your Funny Muscle, Mike shows you how to “flex” your ideas into funny, original, and relatable humor that gets big laughs—and makes you memorable for the right reasons.

An elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting debut novel set in a mystical, exotic world, in which a gifted young girl charms a sultan and changes the course of an empire's history. The Oracle of Stamboul is a marvelously evocative, magical historical novel that will transport readers to another time and place—romantic, exotic, yet remarkably similar to our own.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the best-selling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities."

Investing in Rental Properties imparts the practical and exciting strategies that investors across the world are using to build significant cash flow through real estate investing. For years, investors have built wealth through real estate the hard way: saving money slowly and sacrificing their current happiness for a future reward. While this method should produce results in the long run, what if there's a better, more efficient way? What if you can build a real estate empire in years instead of decades?

With a career spanning a quarter of a century, veteran comedian and comedy coach Mike Lukas (Tonight Show, Comedy Central, Second City, CBS Radio) strips comedy down to the bone. Here in Fine-Tuning Your Funny Muscle (book two of the Funny Muscle series), Mike dives deeper into all those joke-writing concepts from book one and fine-tunes them for you, one by one.

Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s largest industrial economy, and creatures like tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, and triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and spectacular, American dinosaurs dominated the popular imagination, making front-page headlines and appearing in feature films.

Join Lukas Biewald on Gradient Dissent, an AI-focused podcast brought to you by Weights & Biases. Dive into fascinating conversations with industry giants from NVIDIA, Meta, Google, Lyft, OpenAI, and more. Explore the cutting-edge of AI and learn the intricacies of bringing models into production.

During the gilded age, when women live subjugated to men, 18-year-old Bridget prides herself on having earned acceptance to medical school. When her father is murdered, a crime that does not interest the law because he was half Native American, she risks her plans to become a doctor, determined to avenge his murder. Bridget's quest thrusts her into a world of seedy men and glitzy women, in one of Omaha's most opulent brothels. There, she finds herself the prey rather than the hunter. If she is to survive, she must keep alliance with a community considered society's lowest.

Freddys Vater, einer der berühmtesten Piratenkapitäne, ist seit Jahren verschollen und Freddy wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als auf hoher See nach ihm zu suchen. Als eines Abends der geheimnisvolle Seebär Kork auftaucht und erzählt, dass der Kaiser denjenigen zum König der Piraten krönt, der ihm die Schätze aller sieben Meere bringt, ist sich Freddy sicher: Wenn sein Vater noch dort draußen ist, wird er dem Ruf des Kaisers folgen.

Es ist das Jahr 1312 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung. Eine dunkle Macht überzieht die friedliebenden Zivilisationen in Andromeda mit Terror und Verwüstung. Gemeinsam mit einer Handvoll treuer Gefährten eilt der Terraner Perry Rhodan zu Hilfe. Doch in der Nachbargalaxis trifft er auf eine Gefahr, die jede Vorstellungskraft übersteigt... Alle sechs Hörbücher in einem Paket - ein Ereignis für alle SF-Fans.

We've been duped. We were raised to think we could have it all. In college we were told that men weren't necessary. Pop culture told us that career, not family, came first. The idea of being a stay-at-home mom was for losers. And yet are we happier than our mothers or grandmothers, who grew up before women were "liberated" by the sexual revolution? For many women, the answer is no.

When Willow is born and her mother dies moments later, only the narrator of this spellbinding debut novel knows the death isn't from complications of childbirth. Amelie-Anais, buried on the Nebraska hilltop where the family home resides, tells the story of deceit, survival, and love from beyond the grave. Following Willow's life and Willow's incredible passion to paint despite loneliness, a physical handicap, and being raised by a father plagued with secrets, Amelie-Anais weaves together the lives of four enigmatic generations.

Twelve sexy stories. Twelve happy endings. One anthology. It's Christmas Eve, and all around the world people are getting caught up in the holiday cheer. In the North, an exasperated elf stresses to maintain Santa's naughty and nice list, but when a new helper comes along, our elf learns it's okay to let someone lend you a hand. In the city, a couple of interns clean up after a work party, with a few questions about the answers they shared during truth or dare.

Are You Still Mine? is a fresh and deeply fascinating take on one of the most controversial historical mysteries ever debated: the love story of Jesus and Mary Magdalen. We've all seen the breadcrumbs of clues and evidence strung throughout the ages that have kept the question of their love alive, but never put together transcendentally as a timeless solution to the corrupt and outdated patriarchal religious institutions of today.