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The sparkling memoir of a movie icon's life in the footlights and on camera, The Good, the Bad, and Me tells the extraordinary story of Eli Wallach's many years dedicated to his craft. Beginning with his early days in Brooklyn and his college years in Texas, where he dreamed of becoming an actor, this book follows his career as one of the earliest members of the famed Actors Studio and as a Tony Award winner for his work on Broadway.

Ash Goldenlochs hasn't touched another person in years. Her gift - or curse, as she thinks of it - forces her to experience the past of anything against her hands. When she meets two of the most gorgeous men she's ever seen, she wants to rip her gloves off and let her fingers do the talking. Bear shifters Spencer Hartz and Chaz Coco are partners in a trio who couldn't be more opposite. When their coworker is murdered, they will take help in any form, including a cute blonde who happens to be their mate.

Many Muslim scholars have compiled collections of 40 hadiths throughout Islamic history. This book is an attempt to continue this beautiful Islamic tradition and provide you with 40 hadiths that can be easily applied in your daily life. In addition to the translation, each hadith comes with a practical example.

In Mother to Son, Jasmine Holmes shares a series of powerful letters to her young son. These are about her journey as an African American Christian and what she wants her son to know as he grows and approaches the world as a Black man. Holmes deals head-on with issues ranging from discipleship and marriage to biblical justice. She invites us to listen as she reminds Wynn that his identity is firmly planted in the person and work of Jesus Christ, even when the topic is one as emotionally charged as race in America.

When a mysterious Scotsman suddenly appears in the middle of the road, Klara thinks the biggest problem is whether she hit him with her car. But, as impossible as it sounds, Callum has stepped out of another time, and it’s just the beginning of a deadly adventure. Klara will soon learn that she is the last Pillar of Time—an anchor point in the timeline of the world and a hiding place for a rogue goddess’s magic.

They call me RobinTheOmega. Hacker extraordinaire. Robbing from the rich and giving to the poor Omega organizations around the world. Fueled by energy drinks and Ritz Bits, my keyboard is my sword, and I will fight back against the man. Until I take the wrong job and find myself forced into a position where I’m surrounded by three alphas. One from my past. One from my present. One from my future.

She was only four years old when she was sold into the sex trade. White picket fences and steepled churches all guarded secrets that were not ever supposed to be told. In kindergarten, she began praying every night that Jesus would let her die. In second grade, she sat in church on a Sunday morning swinging her feet from a wooden pew behind the man who had paid to rape her the night before. Her perpetrators were from all walks of life. Here is the true account of how she was brought out of captivity and into a life of freedom.

There’s nothing worse than waking up in the middle of the night and being unable to fall back asleep. Now with Midnight Meditations, you can be gently guided back to sleep faster than ever. These 150 peaceful, soothing meditations help you welcome and embrace the rest, relaxation, and restorative sleep every night has to offer. With these simple guided meditations you can tune out distractions that hinder your rest and tap into the tranquility of the night.

This guide offers a holistic approach to understanding and harnessing the power of attachments while navigating the challenges of narcissism. Whether you aim to improve relationships, overcome limiting beliefs, or gain deeper self-understanding, this audiobook is your roadmap to a more fulfilling life.

A teenage girl's body washes up on the beach near Deception Pass. Just another girl who disappeared in the night. Tess McClintock and Michael Carter dig deeper into the missing and murdered girls and young women in the Pacific Northwest sex trafficking ring, and in the process, Tess comes a bit too close for comfort to the danger.

In 2017, Elizabeth Shackelford wrote a pointed resignation letter to her then boss, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. She had watched as the State Department was gutted, and now she urged him to stem the bleeding by showing leadership and commitment to his diplomats and the country. If he couldn't do that, she said, "I humbly recommend that you follow me out the door." With that, she sat down to write her story and share an urgent message. In The Dissent Channel, former diplomat Elizabeth Shackelford shows that this is not a new problem.

La temporada de béisbol ha comenzado y Zachary Wilson, en su último año de instituto, está en la cúspide de su vida. El béisbol es su pasión y su billete hacia un futuro prometedor. Sin embargo, un desgarro muscular durante un partido lo deja fuera de juego por meses, sumiéndolo en una oscuridad abrumadora. En medio de su desesperación, encuentra un rayo de luz en una situación inesperada: la misteriosa paciente Sunny Smith en el hospital. Intrigado, comienza a visitarla regularmente, compartiendo con ella sus pensamientos más profundos y oscuros.

Comeback Season is the uplifting, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron - a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston - and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than 50 years after their playing days were over.

These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce listeners to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon.

Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for her fifth-grade history project when she learns that her four times-great grandfather once stabbed his lover to death. His grisly act was memorialized in a murder ballad, her aunt tells her, so it must be true. But the lessons of that revelation—to be careful of men and desire—are not just Grace’s to learn. Her family’s tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of women are affected by the violence immortalized in folk songs like “Knoxville Girl” and “Pretty Polly” reminding them always to know their place.

For years, Elle Dowd considered herself an advocate for justice, but her well-meaning support always took a back burner to what Martin Luther King Jr. called the tension-free, ordered "negative peace" of white moderates. Then Michael Brown, a Black man, was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the subsequent uprising changed everything.

Bordertown: a city on the Border between the human world and the elfin realm. A place where neither magic nor technology can be counted on, where elf and human kids run away to find themselves…. Here are 13 interconnected stories and eight poems - all new work by some of today's best urban fantasy, fantasy, and slipstream writers.

People all over the world have changed their marriages, careers, personal lives, and overall satisfaction with life through learning how to be faster thinkers, as this is an essential skill. With these five simple steps, you’ll learn: pоѕіtіvе thinking fоr bеttеr results, how tо thіnk your wау to success, rеаѕоnѕ fоr studуіng smarter, and much more.

When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she wouldn't have guessed she would become a kind suburban wife, a devoted mother. In fact she never thought she would escape her small and peculiar hometown. When We Were Animals is Lumen's confessional: As a well-behaved and overachieving teenager, she fell beneath the sway of her community's darkest, strangest secret. For one year, beginning at puberty, every resident "breaches" during the full moon.

Swedish is one of the less-spoken and rarer languages you’ll find around Europe and the world, which makes your interest in it very special! Because of this, we’ve created a very entertaining book that will help you master the language of Sverige, as Sweden is known in its native tongue. In this book, we have compiled over 100 conversational Swedish dialogues along with their translations into English, allowing new Swedish speakers to obtain the necessary tools to understand how to set a meeting, rent a car or tell a doctor that they don’t feel well.