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After 40 years with his beloved wife, Henry is alone for the first time. His sudden bachelorhood is a struggle for him and his daughter Lisa, who is feeling pressure to fill the void. To give Henry the companionship he’s craving, Lisa buys him a personal robotic assistant. The device transforms Henry’s life and inspires him to embrace the possibility of romance during his golden years.

When Hurricane Harvey slams into Houston, Texas, Malia the one-eyed cat and her friend Sophie are abandoned to the flood, they must find a way to survive. This is their story. For children and adults of all ages who are learning Spanish.

Mankind in its present state has been around for a quarter of a million years, yet only the last 4,000 have been of any significance. So, what did we do for nearly 250,000 years? We huddled in caves, fearful of the things that we didn't understand...So we called them "gods" and "demons". In time, their numbers dwindled and ours rose. The world began to make more sense...While the rest of mankind dwells in the light, we must stand in the darkness to fight it, contain it, and shield it from the eyes of the public, so that others may live in a sane and normal world.

Get ready for a one-of-a-kind audio experience: discover Rome through intimate, guided audio walking tours of the city's most historic and enchanting quarters. There are four guided tours for you to listen to as you walk through Rome, plus essential Italian words and phrases that every traveler wants to know.

En este audiolibro, Louise L. Hay nos explica que la causa de las enfermedades, en la mayoría de los casos, son las creencias e ideas limitantes y nos enseña con ejercicios muy sencillos y afirmaciones, cómo cambia nuestra manera de pensar para mejorar la calidad de nuestras vidas, "Nuestros pensamientos y las palabras que utilizamos al hablar, crean nuestras experiencias", Su mensaje clave es: "Si estas dispuesto a trabajar con tu mente, cualquier cosa se puede curar".

Living alone from the age of 14, Zoe learned to budget the hard way. Since her early teenage years, she had to earn, save, and invest her own money - which, sometimes, barely exceeded $150. In this audiobook, she’s sharing her insights about how to manage even the smallest income to last the month and even save. She gives concrete, actionable advice based on her own and well-known financial experts’ experience.

An inferno erupts when an arms dealer’s classified weapon leaks in a hotbed of crime, threatening to expose the illusive elixir incubated in the territory of Ara Pacis. US intelligence detects a most bizarre signature of secret emitters in the signal traffic of that area. They suspect a lone wolf has launched a cruel defense.

It's not a good Monday for DI Daniel Owen. A body in a wheelie bin. Missing teenagers. His ex turning up as his new boss. A secretive teenager, a nosy secretary, an idealistic social worker, and a dodgy fruit and veg salesman all have pieces of the jigsaw. If Daniel and Maldwyn can trust each other again, they can put the pieces together. But time is running out, and at least one child's life is in danger. It's been raining for weeks, and the flood waters are rising, threatening to engulf them all.

Emma is afraid to ride the bus on her first day of school. She thinks of the perfect solution to help her feel better—she’ll bring her pet chicken with her! Chicken Licken isn’t partial to riding the bus, though. What happens when something scares her?

Am glücklichsten war Wilbur mit Maggie, der großen Liebe seines Lebens. Damals, in ihren Flitterwochen in Venedig. Bevor er alles aufs Spiel setzte. Nichts wünscht er sich sehnlicher, als die Zeit zurückzudrehen und einen anderen Weg einzuschlagen. Aber damit könnte er alles zerstören, was ihm je etwas bedeutet hat.

Eigentlich hatten sich Tom und seine untote Truppe darüber gefreut: Endlich steht die Geisterbahn auf dem berühmten Münchner Oktoberfest! Doch eine nicht enden wollende Menge von Kontrolleuren und Beamten piesackt Tom und Co mit Auflagen, Bedingungen und Vorschriften. Vlarad der Vampir vermutet, dass die Konkurrenz dahinter steckt, aber Tom ist skeptisch. Als wäre das nicht genug, flattert noch ein geheimnisvoller Brief herein, in dem das komplette Team der Schreckensfahrt zum "Turnier im Höllenritt" gebeten wird.

Gli altri ti sembrano sempre migliori di te, più fortunati.Non riesci a integrarti, ma vorresti.Mangi male, non hai abbastanza denaro, le tue relazioni gravitano intorno a qualcuno che spesso è o si rivela sbagliato: mentre gli altri trovano l'amore, tu ti senti sempre fuori posto, incapace di essere felice e incapace di capire perché.Stai male, ma non sai perché.Sei come sei, ma non sai perché.Sono gli altri o sei tu il problema? Te lo chiedi, e non sai più cosa pensare.Questo libro serve a spiegartelo, a rispondere a tutte le tue domande.

Ellis Coldwater is a pretty easy-going bank robber. Wendy Larkin is a pretty woman—a little shy, a little nervous, and a little married. What happens when these two get together “on the job”? Whose recipe for living life will lead to the most happiness, the most laughter, and the least amount of jail time? Our tale jumps in immediately as this novel adroitly rolls up its sleeve to expose the funny bone of crime, love, right, wrong, the pursuit of money, happiness, the vagaries of humanity that gives life meaning.

Sono passati sette anni da quando una cometa ha colpito la Terra, oscurando il sole e trasformando il mondo in un paesaggio ghiacciato e desolato popolato da creature spaventose. Esseri famelici, che sembrano emersi dalle pieghe stesse della notte. Vampiri? O qualcosa di ancora più antico e terrificante? Nella campagna britannica, un manipolo di superstiti forma una resistenza nel rifugio antiradiazioni di un castello medievale.

Some everyday problems can be solved using a series of steps called the Engineering Design Process.

Siglo I. Condenado por un crimen de sangre, el oficial romano Lucio Fedro tiene la peligrosa misión de seguir los pasos de un hombre del que todo el mundo habla pero del que poco se sabe: Jesús de Nazaret. No hay rincón del Imperio donde no se oiga su nombre. Unos dicen que es un revolucionario; otros, un simple profeta; él afirma ser "el hijo de Dios". Lo que está claro es que ese hombre está desafiando el poder de Roma y Lucio deberá desentrañar los misterios que rodean su figura al tiempo que se enfrenta a las sombras de su propio pasado.

Los chicos malos no tienen finales felices, ¿verdad? Lucian Rollins es un despiadado hombre de negocios que no teme a nada ni a nadie, excepto a Sloane Walton, la descarada bibliotecaria de Knockemout. A ambos les une un antiguo secreto, pero las raras veces en que hablan, siempre acaban discutiendo. ¿Por qué se llevan tan mal? Ahora, el padre de Sloane acaba de fallecer y la bibliotecaria está devastada. Lucian deja a un lado su orgullo y acude a Knockemout para ayudarla a ella y a su familia en todo lo que necesiten.

Over time, cultures from around the world have given us many different myths about our home galaxy. When you look up at the sky at night, what stories would you tell about what you see?

Sometimes, you worry that your partner is only “putting up” with you. They make you feel like they are tolerating you, not investing in you as you are with them, and this makes you feel alone, even in a relationship. While these two common warning signs may make you feel like something is “wrong” with you, they actually indicate strongly that you may be in a relationship with a narcissist, and you should not ignore them.

On the White Sea, realm of smashers and sea monsters, a ship is carrying Nazafareen and Darius to the Isles of the Marakai, where the wise woman Sakhet-ra-katme has guarded the secret of the talismans for centuries. But another is searching, too - a daeva born in the brutal prison of the Kiln, who plans to use the talismans to free the Vatras and their mad king.