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Who hasn't let their mind drift on their daily commute? This story starts with fantasy—the hot, well-read man on the train catches your eye and gives you something to look forward to from Monday to Friday. It ends with that reverie turned to reality, where the guy is just as into you as you are him, and you're bolder in real life than you ever expected to be. The laws of attraction and the politics of commuting come together in the close quarters of the Washington, DC, metro system.

Do you want to learn how to become a master of the art of mind control? We humans are the most intelligent species of animals on the planet; yet, we have forgotten the most effective tool of communication - our bodies. Body language or non-verbal communication creates an effective system that clarifies communication and enriches the interactions that we enjoy with other people. In a world of deceit and lies, it has become incumbent on all of us to catch up and learn a few tricks of the trade. None of us can survive solely on the basis of honesty and hard work.

1930s Austria. Vienna is a bustling cosmopolitan city on the brink of war. Matthias Sindelar is an internationally renowned soccer player known as “The Paper Man” because of his effortless weave across the field. When Sindelar speaks out against Hitler, his fame can’t protect him from being placed under Gestapo surveillance. Meanwhile, Sindelar falls in love with a young Jewish girl named Rebekah. As the atmosphere in Vienna darkens under the Nazi regime, Rebekah flees to relatives in Cork, Ireland.1930s Austria.

Essential oils are something that many people seem to love to try, and they have a wide variety of uses. But, what are the best ones? What are the best ways to use them? Well, you’re about to find out. This audiobook will go into detail on how you can use essential oils, including the top benefits for this. They’re very simple to use, and you can get started with these right away. By using them, you’ll be able to have a better home for yourself and for others. From there, you’ll be able to create a better life for yourself, too.

Think back to elementary school science class when your teacher put a nail in a potato and connected it with a wire to a light bulb, and then the light bulb turned on. Food is electric. Your body is electric. The sun emits electromagnetic radiation that is received by us at different intensities throughout the day; this is measured by the UV Index. The 7X Method is the first and only way of eating and exercising that connects the dots among

Born in the slums of Dublin in 1901, his father a one-legged whore-house bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing, begging, often cold, always hungry, but a prince of the streets. At 14, already six-foot-two, Henry's in the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916, a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army, fighting for freedom.

When Romilly says goodbye to her new baby daughter, abandoning her at the hospital hours after giving birth, no one can understand why she would leave - and where she has gone. In those first few hours, she had been the image of a doting mother and would have done anything to protect her baby. Something has clearly gone wrong. Could it be that Romilly is suffering from postpartum psychosis, just as her mother did? Or is something even worse at hand? A danger so grave that she would leave her longed-for daughter to escape it.

As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, Belfast is a city of army patrols, bombed-out buildings, and “peace walls” segregating one community from the other. But the IRA has called a ceasefire. So, it’s as good a time as any for Monty Collins and Father Brennan Burke to visit the city: Monty to do a short gig in a law firm, and Brennan to reconnect with family. And it’s a good time for Brennan’s cousin Ronan to lay down arms and campaign for election in a future peacetime government. But then a man goes off a bridge on a dark, lonely road; a rogue IRA enforcer is shot; and a series of car bombs remains an unsolved crime.

"The Perfect Wagnerite" is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen". According to Shaw: "I write this pamphlet for the assistance of those who wish to be introduced to the work on equal terms with that inner circle of adepts... The reason is that its dramatic moments lie quite outside the consciousness of people whose joys and sorrows are all domestic and personal, and whose religions and political ideas are purely conventional and superstitious."

A toy soldier. A butter dish. A compass. Mundane objects, perhaps, but to the remarkable authors in this collection, artifacts such as these have inspired stories that go to the heart of the human experience of World War I. Each author was invited to choose an object that had a connection to the war - a writing kit for David Almond, a helmet for Michael Morpurgo - and use it as the inspiration for an original short story.

Get the amazing benefits of mindfulness. Have you struggled with staying calm? Have you struggled with reducing anxiety? This audiobook gives you the step-by-step game plan to make it easy and enjoyable for you. This crash course includes mindfulness exercises that you can always practice, proven strategies to reduce stress and eliminate anxiety, and quotes to keep you inspired and motivated!

Joining us in the Audible Studios to discuss his latest novel, Smile, is award-winning novelist, dramatist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle, who talks to us about his own childhood growing up in Dublin and the backstory behind his 11th novel. One of the most celebrated Irish authors of the late 20th century, Roddy Doyle tells us why his latest novel is different from the others.

"Notes from the Underground" (1864) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator, who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's "What Is to Be Done?"

Learn how to eliminate sugar from your diet once and for all with a step-by-step game plan on how to make smarter food choices. Detoxing your body from sugar is empowering. It takes work, commitment, and dedication, but you feel better about yourself when you discover the amazing benefits of a sugar detox.

Bishop has been a vampire for 700 years and though he wishes nothing more than to live his life in peace, getting humans to believe that vampires are not monsters is a difficult task, and vampire hunters like The Reaper make it even more difficult. Believing that a vampire killed her mother, Irina leads a band of vigilantes, determined to rid the world of these monsters. What no one knows is that Irina herself is half vampire. Determined to deny that side of her, Irina captures Bishop.

Here are the uncensored words of real lesbians describing their hottest, wildest erotic adventures. This real-life erotica collection is like peeking into the secret diaries of some very frisky girls. In this collection, lesbians from across the country reveal their deepest, most intimate erotic secrets: things they wouldn't dare tell anyone else.

Following the release of his best-selling series, Bigfoot Frightening Encounters, author Tom Lyons was contacted by Max Sanders, an individual who was eager to discuss his encounter with extraterrestrial life. Together, Tom and Max decided they'd put the story into writing so that others could enjoy it. To add to the content, Tom and Max compiled this volume with the help of other brave folks who were kind enough to share their life-altering stories.

Not as patient as you think you are? Surprised by how quickly you lose your cool when someone shows you an imagined show of disrespect? All we can do in those situations is react. But why do we do what we do? How can we improve our actions? Repeated bad behavior becomes a bad habit. How can we break this vicious cycle? Often we know what’s wrong in our behavior, we even know how could we fix it, but somehow we never take action to change. Some mental triggers stay hidden from our conscious mind. This book bridges the gap between those two by introducing you to gears of human behavior.

Are you often cheated or tricked by others? Do you wish you could think faster and spot logical inconsistencies and lies better? Wish to influence others more? If you want to become a logical thinker instead of an irrational, snap-judging one, this book is for you.

Dylan McCormick is an average 18-year-old kid who graduated high school with his friends. The plus side of working at the family sandwich shop instead of going straight to university is he skipped gaining the freshman 15. The downside is no woman likes hearing, "Keep it down, my parents are upstairs...." A small indignity in exchange for free rent and a job that pays above minimum wage.