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Der internationale Millionen-Bestseller-Autor Joe Navarro verbrachte ein Vierteljahrhundert beim FBI und verfolgte Spione und gefährliche Kriminelle rund um den Globus. In seinem Beruf ging es buchstäblich um Leben und Tod. Jetzt gibt er seine hart erarbeiteten Lektionen erstmals außerhalb des FBI an die Leser weiter. Dank seiner lebenslangen Erfahrung und den gewonnenen Erkenntnissen aus mehr als 10.000 Interviews im Rahmen seiner Einsätze, konnte Navarro fünf Prinzipien definieren, nach denen herausragende Persönlichkeiten leben.

From pain to purpose, purpose to peace. In 1999, Danny Sanchez was an inmate in San Quentin Prison. In 2012, he was commended for his work in youth violence prevention and named a Champion of Change by President Barak Obama. Experience his journey through the trauma that shaped his childhood, his spiral in self-destruction, then his radical transformation, and quest to serve the community he loves. Danny grew up in the juvenile incarceration system and lived a violent life, including police brutality, suicide attempts, and surviving multiple stabbings.

Boyhood in the 1960s and ‘70s was a time for exploration and mischief. Author Michael Tougias found more than his share of misadventures in the woods and on the water: some life-threatening, but others innocently hilarious. Over time - and after reading a multitude of adventure books - these experiences took shape in his quest to be a mountain man, owning a cabin in the forest and living off the land. Part of that dream would come true, but only after a family tragedy that shook his world and forced changes in his life.

This audiobook provides 10 simple stories for children. Each can be listened by the child within five minutes, allowing a moment to connect with the child and discuss with the messages within the story. Aimed at inspiring and cultivating young minds, through simple stories, simple values and morals of love, friendship, strength in adversity. These stories have been set classically, away from the modern world of technology, and aims to appeal to people with children all across the globe.

Matt Voorhees awakes surrounded by a pile of VHS tapes in his cryopod, on the outskirts of an abandoned summer camp, along with eight other 17-year-olds. A scientist, who was tasked to watch over them while they were cryogenically frozen is dead. They have no idea where they are, or more importantly, where the rest of the frozen people are. When they were put into cryosleep, they were with their five thousand closest friends and families - but now they’re all alone. Their personalities clash while they try to formulate a plan.

A Path to Financial Recovery After Divorce: Avoid Pitfalls that Snag Divorcees & Navigate Your Way to Financial Independence, written by divorce attorney and financial coach Michael Jurek, is your guidebook on how to make up the time and money lost in your divorce. It lays out a plan for you to take control of your finances and avoid the mistakes - frequently made by divorcees - that can set you back for years.

After a brutal fight to the Mississippi River, Jonathan Fisher and the few survivors that follow him have begun their journey south. His task is clear and his reason to live has been renewed. Somewhere out there is power, working airplanes and a possible refuge from the nightmare around them. A small mute girl known as Geeda deserves a chance at life, and they want to make sure she has it. But it will not be easy. Lack of food, shelter and weapons makes their trip difficult. Foreign invaders, infected crazed citizens, and treasonous “Wranglers” make it perilous.

Leo's Big Adventure shows us no matter the size, we can always do what we dream. Leo is a small dog that has big dreams. He is able to accomplish these dreams because of the love of his best friend. This book was created for a boy who was diagnosed with childhood cancer and his mom who is a warrior. Get the audiobook and meet Leo.

How do we learn to know ourselves? What drives us, how do we develop, how does chance and our choices shape our lives? Writing this book, I’ve had to keep asking: What’s the best way to capture what I’ve learned and experienced? It’s been a challenge, one I’ve grown to cherish. My first book, Climbing Through Life, let me share the joy of cycling and climbing hills. This book is about a different kind of ride. Life never stops creating hills to climb. I can’t always see them coming and, often enough, I don’t know when they’ll crest.

Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson were abducted by aliens in 1973. The incident made headline news around the world yet like many reported UFO encounters skips into the ether and is forgotten over time. This case, however, now takes the forefront decades later as new eyewitnesses have emerged to tell the story and confirm the horrifying encounter actually happened on that October night in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Hear the true story from the lone survivor, Calvin Parker, and the shocking details that have never before been exposed until now.

This audiobook is an uplifting story, based on the life of Worthy Patterson; one of the first black players in the NBA. Real life historical events are weaved into Worthy's upbringing, all the way through his final career position as an executive in the record music industry.

Area 51 is a highly classified, heavily-guarded USAF facility, located within the Nevada desert and that is reported to house alien beings and actual UFOs that are being reverse-engineered. Many people are determined to "storm" the base by running en masse to crash the gates and take it over. Will they find aliens and flying saucers, or will it end in a massacre for those violating our national security and laws put in place to protect our nation?

Im Laufe der Geschichte hatten große Anführer, Denker, Künstler und Visionäre die Eigenschaft, Launen zu überwinden, Ablenkungen zu vermeiden und das Richtige zu tun. Die Zen-Buddhisten beschrieben es als inneren Frieden und wussten, dass es wichtig war, ob man ein Samurai-Krieger oder ein Mönch ist. Die Stoiker und Epikureer nannten es Ataraxie und glaubten, dass es ein Bollwerk gegen die Leidenschaften des Mobs, eine Voraussetzung für gute Führung und ein Weg zur tiefen Wahrheit sei. Ryan Holiday nennt es Stille - stabil sein, während sich die Welt um einen dreht.

Jeden Tag werden wir mit Nachrichten, Informationen und Meinungen bombardiert, doch wie entscheiden wir ob es sich um Fakten oder Fiktion handelt? Robert Kiyosaki - Autor des Millionen-Bestsellers Rich Dad Poor Dad widmet sich schon sein ganzes Leben lang der sinnvollen Vereinfachung komplexer und oft verwirrender Themenfelder wie Finanzen und Geld. In diesem neuen Buch, stellt er wieder die konventionellen Weisheiten in Frage und gibt Lesern endlich die essenziellen Tools an die Hand, um sich durch die heutige Informationsflut zu bewegen.

Es grassiert flächendeckend Angst vor COVID-19, vor schwerer Erkrankung und Tod. Dabei ist wissenschaftlich längst erwiesen, dass nicht das Virus selbst, sondern eine "allergische" Reaktion unseres Immunsystems tötet. Erst diese immunologische Fehlfunktion zerstört die Lungen und verursacht tödliches Organversagen. Wie es dazu kommt, dass aus einer natürlichen Abwehrreaktion eine derart unnatürliche Selbstzerstörung wird, ist der Wissenschaft ebenfalls bekannt - aber nicht der breiten Öffentlichkeit.

Niemand wurde zum Milliardär, Werbung gibt es nicht und doch gehört Wikipedia zu den Top 10 aller Websites. Die Enzyklopädie ist weltweit ein Synonym für Wissen - und sie konnte sich gegen Konkurrenten von Brockhaus bis Google durchsetzen. Ihre Entwicklung in Deutschland nahm auf ganz besondere Weise Fahrt auf. Wikipedia ist soziales Experiment, bedeutendes Instrument der Freiheit und gleichzeitig geschlossene Gesellschaft.

Die Meinungsfreiheit ist für eine freiheitliche Demokratie konstituierend. In Deutschland ist sie deshalb verfassungsrechtlich besonders geschützt. Trotzdem haben mehr als zwei Drittel der Deutschen das Gefühl, sie könnten ihre Meinung nicht frei äußern. Wie kommt das? Wolfgang Kubicki widmet sich der Frage, welche Fehler in Politik, Medien und Gesellschaft gemacht wurden, die zu diesem Vertrauensverlust führten und zeigt, wie wir zu einer neuen Diskurskultur finden.

S.O.S. - Save Our Souls! Die Informationsflut steht uns bis zum Hals, kein Land in Sicht, kein Horizont, wir haben die Orientierung verloren. Ohne Leuchtturm und Leitstern versinken wir in Anpassung oder Rückzug und vergessen, dass Angst der schlechteste aller Ratgeber ist. Den Schlüssel zu unserer Rettung tragen wir in uns, in unseren Herzen. Denn erinnern wir uns an Wahrhaftigkeit, Liebe und Mut, kehren Hoffnung und Zuversicht zurück. Dann hören wir wieder unsere wahre innere Stimme, die laut und energisch uns selbst und das Leben bejaht.

A missing woman Steve Fraser is hired to find, but he soon realizes she keeps going missing.

This is New Orleans - 1982. In Homicide, you're only as good as your last case. Fresh from solving the Slasher Murders, NOPD Homicide Det. LaStanza must investigate a "floater" pulled from the Mississippi River. The bloated body with two holes in the head is the son-in-law of the La Cosa Nostra boss, Alphonso Badalamente. Sicilian-American LaStanza is in the middle of a Mafia slaying.