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As a longtime financial writer and nationally acclaimed investment advisor, Alexander Green understands the importance of money. But in this insightful and inspiring new audiobook, he looks beyond traditional measures of wealth to explore how a rich life is one of significance, not just financial success. As Green observes, money creates wealth, but so do character, conscience, attitude, and wisdom.

The Emperor is dead. His final weapon has been destroyed. The imperial army is in disarray. In the aftermath, Yrica Quell is just one of thousands of defectors from her former cause living in a deserters' shantytown - until she is selected to join Alphabet Squadron. Cobbled together from an eclectic assortment of pilots and starfighters, the five members of Alphabet are tasked by New Republic General Hera Syndulla herself. Like Yrica, each is a talented pilot struggling to find their place in a changing galaxy. Their mission: to track down and destroy the mysterious Shadow Wing.

Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status, denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights movement.

Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander brings you How to Read a Book, a poetic journey about the experience of reading.

Steven Burns, a former major league baseball player, has the perfect life...until his five-year-old daughter is abducted and murdered. With zero suspects, the police are left baffled, and Steven must accept the haunting loss without justice. Until a shadowy stranger offers Steven an opportunity to exact ultimate revenge. Compelled by fury and grief, Steven finds the stranger’s unspeakable proposition impossible to resist, despite fears he's headed down a path of no return.

Cybercriminals never rest—and small businesses are their preferred targets. Many business owners assume they're too small to attract hackers or trust that their IT provider has everything covered. But assumptions like these put your business at severe risk.

Juniper Smith thought he'd found a safe haven on the Isle of Poran, building a new nation with his companions. But when a carelessly mentioned name threatens to unleash a deadly infohazard, he realizes that even the most innocent words from Earth can kill on Aerb. A quick trip to warn the scholars at the Athenaeum of Speculation and Scrutiny should be simple enough. Instead, Juniper discovers that Uther Penndraig left far more than just his legacy behind, and events quickly spiral out of control as the Chosen One's past extends its tendrils into the future.

In times of trial the man who turns to God can compete with God's power—which has been made perfect in his weakness—to claim the choicest gifts from the tree of life as his spoils: patience, unflagging hope, the opening of the eyes of his heart, humility which places him on the path to Personhood, an expanded capacity to bear pain, the finding of unutterable joy within pain, and the invincibility of a life hidden with God.

In his broadcasts on Radio Liberty, Fr Alexander Schmemann spoke to men and women behind the iron curtain who had endured the deprivation, persecution, and state-enforced propaganda of the Stalin years. But his words do not belong to that era alone. They are addressed just as urgently to our own time. He exposes the roots of the lies and misperceptions that abound in our age, and brings all to a proper perspective in light of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the first of two volumes in the Radio Liberty Talks collection, with a foreword by Rod Dreher and introduction by Serge Schmemann.

Fiktive Ich-Erzähler berichten über ihre Begegnungen mit der dunklen Seite der Täter. Durch die involvierende Erzählperspektive werden die Hörerinnen und Hörer ein Teil der Geschichte und können die Charaktere persönlich kennenlernen. Grausame Fakten eingebettet in spannende Augenzeugenberichte lassen keinen Zweifel: Das Interesse an Kriminalfällen ist so alt wie das Verbrechen selbst.

Mother, Mother, Meat concludes the Hanging Hill Lane story, the final part in a dark and bloody fantasy horror set in modern-day Cornwall. Following on from the events that ended book two, The Third Hunter, the finale takes Daphne through more torment and through the depths of her mind looking for a way to win.

True Crime aus den 1960er Jahren. Erzählt von True Crime-Sprecher Ernst-Marcus Thomas. Ein Hörerlebnis, das Sie erschaudern lässt. Tauchen Sie ein in die dunkle Welt der 60er Jahre und entdecken Sie wahre Verbrechen, die ganze Nationen in Angst und Schrecken versetzten.

I’m being paraded like a prize. A strategic marriage to a powerful man who wants to use me like a billboard. Smile for the cameras. Memorize his politics. Don’t slip up. Don’t speak out. But I already belong to someone else.

One Missing Person. Two Rival Detectives. Infinite Chemistry. This rollicking thrill ride told in alternating “he said/she said” perspectives is an irresistible blend of mystery, sexual tension, and humor.

This is the authoritative, “deeply reported” (The Wall Street Journal) account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that will be seared into the country’s political memory for decades to come. With stunning, in-the-room detail, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns show how both our political parties confronted a series of national traumas, including the coronavirus pandemic, the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and the political brinksmanship of President Biden’s first year in the White House.

Beloved and bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to EMMA, the next book in The Austen Project.Prepare to meet a young woman who thinks she knows everything.Fresh from university, Emma Woodhouse triumphantly arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life with a splash.

Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization. Over the next two decades, numerous authoritarian regimes transitioned to democracies, and it seemed that authoritarianism as a political model was fading. But as recent events have shown, things have clearly changed. In Dictating the Agenda, authors Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis reveal how today's authoritarian states are actively countering liberal ideas and advocacy surrounding human rights and democracy across various global governance domains.

El Dr. Moody investigó durante más de medio siglo sobre la muerte y sus fenómenos, mientras millones de personas en todo el mundo han narrado experiencias similares. Estos testimonios son la prueba evidente de que la senda abierta por el doctor Moody ha dejado una huella imperecedera en lo referido a la concepción que la sociedad moderna posee sobre la muerte, siendo imposible plantear hoy ningún debate sobre la misma sin recurrir a los contenidos de este libro, que han entrado en la categoría de clásicos sobre la materia.

Ben clocked in and clocked out, living a dreary life until a rip of energy caught his attention. Of course, interfering with the spell proved disastrous and he's sucked into a portal. On Semintor, the fantastical exists alongside wondrous magic. Ben arrives with a massive advantage thanks to his tinkering with the portal that got him there: his Arcana—his ability to cast powerful magic—are downright godly. The man is capable of casting group heals, buffing all sorts of attributes, and more, making him a highly sought after spellcaster, a rare dedicated supporting healer. But there's a catch.

In a noisy world filled with stress, doubt, and constant distraction, this best-selling devotional offers a much-needed pause. Now available as a powerful audiobook, "The Prayer" invites listeners into a daily experience of peace, clarity, and spiritual renewal—one prayer at a time. Written and narrated with heartfelt sincerity by Stefania Leao, this 30-day Christian devotional was born out of one of the darkest chapters of her life.