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Jillian loves her job working as Dr. Richards’ housekeeper. Taking care of the house and those who she loves takes all her time and energy. When she crashes into a man who speaks to her as a Little, she runs. Yoga studio owner and instructor Griffin always listens to what his instincts and body tell him. He recognizes immediately that the driver of the grocery cart that plows into him is someone he needs to know.

For decades they assumed that people who face adversity - a difficult childhood, career turbulence, sudden bouts of bad luck - will succumb to their circumstances. Yet over and over again they found a significant percentage are able to overcome their life circumstances and achieve spectacular success. How is it that individuals who are not “supposed” to succeed manage to overcome the odds? Are there certain traits that such people have in common?

We all know math is important: We live in the age of big data, our lives are increasingly governed by algorithms, and we're constantly faced with a barrage of statistics about everything from politics to our health. But what might be less obvious is how math factors into your daily life and what memorizing all of those formulae in school had to do with it. Math prodigy Stefan Buijsman is beginning to change that through his pioneering research into the way we learn math.

De nouvelles découvertes en biologie et en neurosciences révèlent comment la structure du langage peut véritablement changer les relations entre nos neurones, nos cerveaux et nos coeurs. Déjà, il y a des millénaires, nos ancêtres comprenaient intuitivement cette relation. Ils ont créé des modèles verbaux précis destinés à procurer confort, guérison, force et puissance intérieure en période difficile, et encodé ces paroles efficaces dans des prières, des psalmodies, des mantras, des hymnes et des Ecritures saintes, à l'intention des générations futures.

A brother competes for gaming glory while his twin sister exposes the dark side of the Communist government on her underground blog; a worker at a government call centre is alarmed one day to find herself speaking to a former lover; a delicious new fruit arrives at the neighbourhood market, and the locals find it starts to affect their lives in ways they could never have imagined; and a young woman's dreams of making it big in Shanghai are stalled when she finds herself working as a florist.

Ink doesn't fade, but bad memories do. Gabby, Olivia, and Emma have stumbled through the ashes of their past. They've happily moved on when disaster strikes again, and one heart breaks when another stops beating - forever. Olivia must help her twin sister, Gabby, keep her tentative grip on reality when the happily ever after she and Jake fought so hard for is threatened.

Clive Thompson’s Coders is a delightful place to begin to understand this vocation, which is both a profession and a way of life and which essentially didn’t exist little more than a generation ago, but now is considered just about the only safe bet we can make about what the future holds. Thompson takes us close to some of the great coders of our time and unpacks the surprising history of the field, beginning with the first great coders, who were women.

The Lost Recordings is an audio documentary about Nueva Canción, a musical movement that emerged across Latin America in the 1960s and '70s. The genre became an essential means of artistic expression and social resistance to the many dictatorships and oppressive regimes of the time.

Olivia has found someone. He's everything she secretly dreams of, but he's strictly an online-only friend. While he tries to remain hidden behind his throbbing pierced-heart avatar and swoon-worthy screen name, she's at last ready to put her rocky past behind her. If she can convince him to step out from behind the curtain, maybe then she could finally find - and keep - her own happily-ever-after.

Could the man she’s fantasized about become her real-life Daddy? When Fiona is badly injured by an irate customer, she discovers the chef she’s ogled for months will step in to make sure that she is taken care of—completely. Georges LeDoux, the executive chef for the exclusive restaurant, Le Pamplemousse, immediately takes steps to make sure the injured produce delivery driver recovers. As she heals, Georges realizes just how special Fiona is.

Años cuarenta del siglo xx, en un mundo azotado por los conflictos bélicos. Charlotte, una niña belga de ocho años, desaparece de la Lieja ocupada por los nazis, dejando atrás su casa y su infancia feliz. Junto con la familia huye de los perseguidores, viviendo increíbles peripecias y ocultándose en míseros escondites de pueblos y ciudades.

Best friends are the BEST! But WHO is the BEST? Is it Pizza or Taco? The question is debatable! They both love water slides. They both are friends with Hot Dog and Hamburger. In fact, maybe they should have a debate and get their friends to VOTE for who's the best! Can their friendship survive the race for top spot on the popularity food chain? Cast your VOTE!

It's Squish - a hilarious, action-packed graphic-novel series, now adapted for audio, from the award-winning creators of Babymouse! This audiobook includes books five through eight of the Squish series: Game On!, Fear the Amoeba, Deadly Disease of Doom, and Pod vs. Pod.

Les miracles que nous observons dans le monde quantique nous indiquent-ils en réalité nos immenses possibilités plutôt que nos limites scientifiques ? Se pourrait-il que la guérison spontanée des maladies, la connexion instantanée avec tout le monde et toutes choses, et même le voyage dans le temps, constituent notre véritable héritage universel ? Il existe un lieu où commencent toutes choses, un endroit de pure énergie. Dans cet incubateur quantique de la réalité, tout est possible.

"En algunos de sus relatos Gabriel García Márquez habla de un hombre que está muriendo de indigencia en el paraíso. Cualquier colombiano, rico o pobre, puede hoy reconocerse allí."

Hollywood is a cutthroat town. Nobody knows that better than the Landis brothers. It's time for them to step out of their parents' shadow. It's time for them to become legends. Nate Landis likes being the anonymous Landis brother. He's a stuntman. Period. So why is someone trying to kill him? Paige Chamberlain prefers to do things on her own. She hates asking, but Nate Landis is the only one who can help. The heat is instantaneous. So is the danger that follows Nate to Montana.

On dirait parfois que les hommes et les femmes sont des êtres venant de planètes différentes. C'est en partant de cette constatation que le Dr. John Gray a mis au point sa méthode.

Se pourrait-il que nos plus profondes souffrances nous révèlent la clé d'une forme puissante de prière perdue il y a 17 siècles ? Que pouvons-nous apprendre aujourd'hui de l'extraordinaire secret de nos traditions les plus chères ? "Des forces magnifiques et sauvages existent en nous". Par ces mots, le mystique saint François a décrit ce que les anciennes traditions croyaient être la force la plus puissante de l'univers - le pouvoir de la prière.

Ben Mattlin's wife, ML, recalls falling in love with his confidence and sheer determination. On one of their earliest dates, he persuaded her to ride on his lap in his wheelchair on their way home from an Elvis Costello concert. Thirty years later, they still travel like this from time to time, undaunted by the curious stares following them down the street. But In Sickness and in Health is more than an "inspiring" story of how a man born with spinal muscular atrophy

In the mid-1950s, the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating the communist influence in the entertainment industry. This searing docudrama from actual transcripts of the hearings reveals how decent people were persuaded to "name names", and the steep price paid by those who refused.