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Does it ever feel like everyone is living their best life? While you, on the other hand, find yourself reheating a frozen pizza while being three hours deep into a Netflix marathon, wondering where it all went wrong! It's nights like this that make even the hardiest of us want to throw in the towel and wave the white flag of defeat. I don’t possess a magic wand that will change your life overnight. What I do have is the key to help you unlock your true potential, and that's by helping you understand the power of your mind and how adopting a growth mindset will change your life.

Es war einmal ein nicht mehr ganz so stilles Erstsemestermäuschen und der gar nicht mehr so dreiste, tätowierte Bad Boy ... Ava Watson hat mir mit ihrem hoffnungslos altmodischen Kleidungsstil und dem Drang, mir den letzten Nerv zu rauben, den Kopf verdreht. Und doch ist sie tabu. Aber das ist das Problem mit Dingen, die man nicht haben darf. Man will sie nur umso mehr. Ava Watson und ich? Dieses Mal vielleicht ja doch? Nathan Riggs hat mich mehr als ein Mal vor sich gewarnt. Ich wollte nicht hören. Und jetzt liegt mein Herz zu seinen Füßen und ihm ist es egal.

Discover the humanities with Emma Smith.

The city of Paris wanted to tear down the Eiffel Tower! Gustave Eiffel, an engineer and amateur scientist, had built the incredible structure for the 1889 World's Fair. Created using cutting-edge technology, it stood taller than any other building in the world! More than a million delighted people flocked to visit it during the fair. But the officials wondered, beyond being a spectacle, what is it good for? It must come down!

Reebel, Liz, Grace und Lana sind vor fünf Jahren durch ihre Arbeit in der John Murphy Savant Library auf ihre Traummänner gestoßen. Ihre Liebe zu Büchern verbindet den Club der Bibliothekarinnen natürlich auch weiterhin. Diese Bonusstory spielt auf der alljährlichen Spendengala - findet heraus, wie es mit dem Leben der Pärchen weitergeht und was passiert, wenn ein Vierjähriger die Bühne erklimmt und ans Mikrofon gelangt ... Dies ist der 5. Band der Reihe Der Club der Bibliothekarinnen.

Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith moves with her family from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. But the dust has hardly settled when tragedy strikes, and Emma’s father, a DSO-decorated hero of the Great War, is so frustrated by the hardship of life as a lowly bank clerk and by his thwarted artistic ambitions that he suffers a catastrophic breakdown - from which disaster Emma's resourceful mother rallies courageously. Then, in 1939, the war again becomes a reality.

I’m Ivy Lane, and if I never see another faerie again, it’ll be too soon. Twenty years after the faeries came and destroyed the world as we knew it, I use my specialist skills to keep rogue faeries in line and ensure humans and their magically gifted neighbours can coexist (relatively) peacefully. Nobody knows those skills came from the darkest corner of Faerie itself. When a human child disappears, replaced with a faerie changeling, I have to choose between taking the safe road or exposing my own history with the faeries to the seductively dangerous head of the Mage Lords.

Ilsa Lynn has made it her life's goal to avoid the curse that binds her family to serve the Summer Court of Faerie. With her magically talented twin sister given the role of Gatekeeper, Ilsa is content to hide under the radar amongst the regular humans. At least until a mysterious spell book falls into her possession, granting Ilsa with a sudden and inconvenient affinity with the dead, and dangerous magic that paints a neon target on her head.

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.

As Sharaam crumbles under siege, a mercenary crew hires an assassin to kill the king. For Tash, it's a chance at glory—to be the best blade in the dark Sharaam has ever known. For Pitt, it's a way to get his cutthroat crew past the Tsarii siege and out of this hellhole, maybe even with some gold to their name. For Iananr the Bound One, it's a dream of shadows and human blood.

From award-winning author Emma Jackson comes a gripping new mystery in the beloved Cherrystone Creek series. In LOST BODY UNKNOWN, local funeral director and part-time sleuth Paige Reese faces her toughest case yet when a gruesome crime scene is discovered minus one crucial element: the body. As Paige races to unravel the mystery, she finds herself in the crosshairs of The Titans, a notorious outlaw motorcycle gang hell-bent on revenge. With her loyal companions, the eccentric Auntie Roo and gentle giant Nott, by her side, Paige must navigate a treacherous web of small-town secrets and ...

Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'. Here, Emma Smith shows us why. Portable Magic unfurls an exciting and iconoclastic new story of the book in human hands, exploring when, why and how it acquired its particular hold over us.

Er will sie. Sie will ihn. Ihr denkt, einfacher geht es nicht? Nun, dann kennt ihr Seth & Lou noch nicht! Lou. Was tust du, wenn du mit siebzehn Jahren zum ersten Mal so richtig verliebt bist? Genau, du schleichst dich in sein Schlafzimmer, um für immer mit ihm zusammen zu sein. Schon klar! Ich habe definitiv zu viele Groschenromane gelesen. Aber was ich nicht habe kommen sehen, ist, dass er mir am nächsten Tag das Herz bricht. Weil er sich an nichts mehr erinnern kann, was uns in der Nacht verbunden hat.

Sie verdient 150.000 Dollar bei diesem Deal. Er verliert für 150.000 Dollar sein Herz. Preston Niemand traut sich, mir die Meinung zu sagen. Außer meiner Familie, allen voran Granny. Nachdem ich meine aktuelle Freundin abgeschossen habe, macht Granny mir klar, dass sie enttäuscht ist von mir. Nun, man kann mir vieles andichten - die ein oder andere Erpressung, Rufmord... aber nicht, dass ich nicht alles für meine Familie gebe. Also brauche ich einen Plan. Einen, der Grannys Augen vor Freude strahlen lässt. Doch so einfach hätte es niemals sein sollen.

Homeless on the beach, haunted by war's echoes. A veteran, handicapped by PTSD, seeks solace where the sea meets the sand. Amidst his own struggles, he emerges as an unlikely hero, rescuing a woman from the clutches of a rapist. He flees before she can thank him, his PTSD making him skittish. But fate weaves an intricate tapestry, and their paths converge once again. This time, she and a young friend return the favor, offering a lifeline to the broken warrior. Together, they navigate a treacherous journey toward redemption. The combination of jobs, homes, and shattered dreams creates a ...

Es ist nicht von der Hand zu weisen: Wenn dich deine Ex-Affäre erschießen will, wirft das Fragen auf... Kilian Crow sieht nicht nur verboten heiß aus und weiß das genau, er ist auch der Erbe eines Multi-Millionen-Dollar-Vermögens und CEO seines eigenen Telekommunikationsunternehmens. Kein Wunder also, dass er denkt, er wäre ein guter Lover. Bis seine Ex ihn eines Besseren belehrt und ihm aus Rache ein paar Körperteile unbrauchbar machen möchte.

Southern-born and bred, Paige Reese plans to escape the stagnant Eastern Shore of Virginia for a big city career. When Paige’s daddy dies unexpectedly, she agrees to return home to take care of his funeral business. As the acting coroner and mortician for small town Eastville, Paige has plenty of time to resent her new life while trying to force a pleasant outlook for the locals. Iraqi-war veteran Nott Smith has deeper scars than his fractured legs admit. Battling severe PTSD keeps Nott busy as he drifts around Cape Charles, collecting and restoring remnants of trash. Always a loner, Nott...

[Contains explicit content] The Great Northwest isn't just Seattle and Portland. It ranges from the misty, artistic nerd havens of the coast to the deserts, forests, and cowboy country of Idaho and Montana to the vast expanse of Alaska. Jackie Kashian guides us on a sound collage of the Great Northwest that tackles this strange collection of independent spirits and incredible landscapes, but...in a funny way, people.

In this special episode of Black Funding Network Spotlight On Series, co-founder Patricia Hamzahee sits down with Joy-Emma Martin, solicitor at Reed Smith and passionate advocate within the firm’s Racial Justice Working Group. As we celebrate our 5th anniversary, we’re proud to spotlight Reed Smith - not only a valued corporate partner of Black Funding Network but also the generous host of our Spring Funder event in 2025. Joy-Emma shares her personal journey into law and her commitment to racial justice, as well as Reed Smith’s motivations for supporting Black-led grassroots ...

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