This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Because laundry, commutes, and errands deserve good drama.The debut novel everyone’s talking about — now in audio. Press play and discover why That Kind of Girl is honest, bold, and impossible to put down.Winner of the Titan Book Award, International Impact Awardand Firebird Book Award, and finalist for the Best Book Award.“Sharp, funny, and painfully...

Orphaned at Birth, Nurtured by Nuns, and Defined by Schizophrenia: A New Yorker's Struggle with Mental Illness, Homelessness, and the Pursuit of Normalcy. Join His Unpredictable Life Journey!Immerse yourself in an extraordinary tale of resilience, hope, and the human spirit's ability to adapt and survive. Born in the bustling heart of New York City and suddenly orphaned, our protagonist's life is entrusted to the compassionate care of nuns. Despite the harsh circum...

One quarter of the world's population lives in karst terrains, yet karsts are highly vulnerable to stresses caused by human activity. This book surveys human impact on karst water, showing that the increasing pollution of the environment has, to a great extent, spoiled sensitive karst ecosystems. This text examines such consequences and offers proposals for future solutions and strategies. Part One provides an overview of the functioning of karsts and of human interaction with karst enviro...

Is there really a heaven and hell? Is it true we may have many lives? What happens when we die? Should we believe all we read in the Bible? In this fascinating book, David A Drew, spiritual medium, healer and twentieth-century prophet, answers questions which have puzzled people through the ages. This book could change your entire outlook on life.

Supernatural meets Buffy! Puppies and poodles and phantoms, oh my!When Ashlee's mate Will pushes for lupine breeding just as her twin Amber is exploring new magical powers, the impending Blood Moon threatens to turn a difficult situation into a total fiasco. Add in a witches' brew of mysterious out-of-towners, old and new enemies and creatures familiar and strange, and once again her life is turned upside-down. Can Will and Ashlee forge happiness out of their newfo...

A Revolutionary War-era teen faces self-doubt while helping build the first submarine used in naval combat.It's 1776, and the Revolutionary War is raging. Fourteen-year-old Nathan Wade is a patriot, but he's too young to join the fight. Then his cousin David Bushnell comes to town with a secret. David has designed a water machine that can explode bombs underwater. And his mission is to launch it against the British warships in New York harbor.Nate reluctantl...

As a young boy, Matt Sayman dreamed of playing pro basketball. His family believed in his vision, even agreeing to move to Texas when one of Matt’s favorite coaches left Pennsylvania for the Lone Star State.Matt eventually received a full athletic scholarship from Baylor University. He was only six-feet-four but what he lacked in height, he made up for in skill and positive attitude.Then the summer before his senior year, the bottom fell out of Matt’s world. A player went m...

Hidden Criticism of the Angry Tyrant in Early Judaism and the Acts of the Apostles adds to the current literature of imperial-critical New Testament readings with an examination of Luke’s hidden criticism of imperial Rome in the Acts of the Apostles and in Paul’s speech on the Areopagus in Acts 17. Focusing on discursive resistance in the Hellenistic world, Drew J. Strait examines the relationship between hidden criticism and persuasion and between subordinates and the powerful, and he exp...

This book applies a multi-disciplinary lens to examine obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury that results from prolonged, obstructed labor. While obstetric fistula can be prevented with emergency obstetric care, it continues to occur primarily in resource-limited settings. In this volume, specialists in the anthropological, psychological, public health, and biomedical disciplines, as well as health policy experts and representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations discu...

In the last ten years, there has been a resurgence of interest in repression and violence within states. Paths to State Repression improves our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a wide variety of political-economic contexts, methodological approaches, and geographic locales, including Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Israel, Eastern Europe, and Africa. This book is inva...

In the grand tradition of Blackadder and Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the story of an anti-hero who can't help but find his way to greatness whether he likes it or not.In the conclusion to his first adventure Apropos' difficulties are compounded when a routine mission to escort the King's daughter home after a long absence goes horribly awry. Suddenly Apropos finds himself saddled with trying to survive while dealing with a berserk phoenix, murderous unicorns, mutated harpies...

Travis Ross and Chase McAlister were infamous Indian hunters, scouts and Texas Rangers turned ranchers. In a war of independence, they fought against desperate odds. Travis lost a woman, the daughter of a proud Mexican rancher, and both made the kind of enemies that never go away. Now, a new war is brewing and the two friends are looking across the Rio Grande, knowing what they left behind, facing a chance to settle scores, recapture what they lost, and many more ways to die...A de...