High in the serene peaks of the Outeniqua mountains lives Glück — a soft, handmade doll with a pink cap, tiny blue sneakers, and a tag on his wrist that proudly reads: PERFECTLY imperfect.Glück's world is one of gentle joys: playing sweet melodies on his recorder, solving landscape puzzles beside a crackling stove on rainy afternoons, and watching dragonflies dance over blooming magnolias from his wooden porch. He doesn't mind a crooked seam or a dusty trail, because he knows that ...

She's a spy on probation with one final chance to prove herself-or lose everything.When a high-stakes mission pulls her into the shadows of the Eternal City, she must infiltrate an international terrorist network before their plan ignites global chaos. But when the operation spirals out of control, her only hope lies in the most unlikely allies of all-her estranged cousins, who have no idea she lives a life of secrets, danger, and deception.As the ...

These are voices that have lived what others are still learning to understand. In*Upon a Wishing Moon,*Dennis Saddleman, Dorene Bernard, Dr. Antoine Mountain, Keith Chiefmoon, Eugene Arcand, and Everett Soop share work shaped by lived experience and deep reflection. As members of the Governing Circle and Survivors Circle of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, they carry stories that are both deeply personal and woven into the larger truth this country continues to confront. T...

Most people already know what they need to do.So why aren't they doing it?Whether it's the business they haven't scaled, the relationship they haven't fixed, or the life they keep postponing until "someday," the problem isn't a lack of information. They have the knowledge, the talent, and the drive. But going from “knowing” to “doing” requires them to not only close the gap between the two, but understand what that gap is made of in the first place....

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Saint Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain wrote this counsel without his books, on the barren island of Skyropoula, trusting a memory stocked with Scripture, the Fathers, and years of monastic discipline. He first composed it for his cousin Hierotheos, a newly consecrated bishop who feared that governing others without governing himself would endanger both pastor and flock. From that urgent request comes a searching book about the gates of t...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Saint Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain wrote this counsel without his books, on the barren island of Skyropoula, trusting a memory stocked with Scripture, the Fathers, and years of monastic discipline. He first composed it for his cousin Hierotheos, a newly consecrated bishop who feared that governing others without governing himself would endanger both pastor and flock. From that urgent request comes a searching book about the gates of t...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Saint Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain wrote this counsel without his books, on the barren island of Skyropoula, trusting a memory stocked with Scripture, the Fathers, and years of monastic discipline. He first composed it for his cousin Hierotheos, a newly consecrated bishop who feared that governing others without governing himself would endanger both pastor and flock. From that urgent request comes a searching book about the gates of t...

From the award-wining author of 'Lady of the Butterflies,' 'Bloodline' and 'Pale as the Dead.'* A missing singer* A doomed love story* A family split by secrets & lies1967: Enigmatic young folk singer Molly Marrison disappears on the cusp of fame.2002: Silva is working as a housemaid at Chatsworth House when her father suddenly dies, leaving her with one instruction - find Molly.The only clue...

The Mullinix Empire, an ancient land with an unusually stable line of rulers, was about to go through their succession process yet again. As had happened before and would undoubtedly happen again the Elder Mullinix Taliaferro is dying and the next apprentice will be chosen from the young men and women who are in their first semester of citizenship school. The main criteria other than competence is that the new apprentice should not want the job, as the ones who want it most are invariably ...

It has been ten years since Medoferro was unceremoniously pushed from apprentice to Mullinix. His realm has remained quiet, however there are black clouds on the horizon.His northeastern border is teeming with refugees from a nation on the edge of civil war. Sudden movements by the Mavelan forces that had been stationed outside the armistice line have left the Mullinix in a state of worry.With a new and unfriendly empire taking shape down south the world is quickly becoming...

Catherine Remordis was a simple student when Anoki 10.1, an ancient android, showed up at her door. A set of immortals, Bolantine and Nikki, who had been frozen for two centuries have been released and Anoki needs her to help deal with them.Funded by her uncle Baltimore, Catherine and Anoki take a trip to the island of Mozandondo to find the fabled immortal, Mason Stone.This starts a world wide adventure that sends her to all corners of the earth to find Mason Stone and dea...

She was the Princess Diana of her day. Her story the English Gone With The Wind.She loved clothes and jewels and parties. She had exquisite taste in interior design. She seemed destined to reign as one of England's most glamorous queens, famed for the beautiful palaces she designed and decorated.Instead, Princess Henrietta Maria of France became caught up in the Civil War, one of the greatest cataclysms in English history. Swept from her life of luxury into the squ...