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Zoe has emerged in the last few years as very successful, very funny and well respected comedian. She has appeared in all of the major comedy TV shows and toured extensively to wonderful reviews. Entry Level Human is her current show and is captured superbly on this hilarious recording.

Riona is a park ranger at Yellowstone National Park in 2018, and has never found a need for a man in her life. She loves going on long hikes with her search and rescue dog, Mischa, and they make a great team while finding lost hikers. She thinks her life is complete until she finds a mysterious box that holds a time travel device. Riona accidentally triggers the device and ends up traveling through time and meets Trystan, who turns her whole world upside down. Trystan is an agent for a secret company called the Time Travel Guardians in 2045.

Dreaming day and night doesn’t create the life you want. Disciplined action does. Where you end up in life is determined solely by a number of times you fall and get up and how much punishment you can withstand along the way. With focused perservance and willpower, discover the path to extraordinary accomplishment and a life worth living.

Most of us mosey between single, dating and committed in a half-rapturous, half-tortured loop for a large portion of our lives. There's no right or wrong when it comes to love, life and relationships. There are no rules and there is no normal when it comes to the heart; it's different for each...

When Rachel discovers a Twitter message arranging a romantic liaison, she assumes her husband is having an affair and follows him. What she witnesses is so much worse: a hit-and-run using his car. Meanwhile, Rachel’s friend and business partner Suzie is increasingly worried about her fiancé, who’s not been in touch for days. When Suzie learns of huge debts racked up in her name, she fears he has run out on her, but then the threatening calls start, and she thinks something terrible has happened.

Initially published in 1914, Papa was the first major dramatic work by playwright and poet Zoë Akins (1886-1958). A subtle but quietly savage comedy of manners, the play was not a commercial success but has since come to be regarded as a masterpiece. As a skillfully drawn portrait of genteel corruption, it ranks with the works of masters of dramatic satire like Moliere and Oscar Wilde.

Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell, she wasn't sure what to expect or what to say. Through a series of experiences - Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another, hangs out in a strip club in Philadelphia, meets and marries her husband, and gives birth to her children - she traces the development of her sexuality, her relationships with men, and the cultivation of her motherhood in the shadow of her childhood sexual abuse.

Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Zoë Wicomb’s celebrated novel revolves around Marion Campbell, who runs a travel agency but hates traveling, and who, in post-apartheid society, must negotiate the complexities of a knotty relationship with Brenda, her first black employee. Caught in the narrow world of private interests and self-advancement, Marion eschews national politics until the Truth and Reconciliation Commission throws up information that brings into question not only her family’s past but her identity and her rightful place in contemporary South African society.

In this long short story (or novella), a writer arrives at an old manor for a six-week residency, only to discover that while there, she can't seem to write a word. The longer she stays, the more she loses her grasp on who she is and what she needs to say, until gradually, the background becomes the foreground, as the minutiae of the place she finds herself in start to loom large. In the echo chamber of her own head, the natural world and the strangers around her begin to speak to her in odd ways.

Born during the Cuban revolution in 1959, Yocandra learns that for a woman to survive in the world of communist machismo, she must use all her assets - her body, her wits, and most importantly, her ability to transform disillusionment into wonder.

Everyone remembers the tale of Snow White and her wicked stepmother. No one remembers Fawn Brown, the other princess, who made the fairy tale happen. Fawn Brown grew up in the shadow of her half-sister, Snow White. Daughter of the King and his second wife Margaretha, Fawn lacked Snow’s beauty and her position as heir to the throne. Fawn’s lot was to wait timidly in the background of the court until she could be sent off to a dull assignment in the bleakest corner of the kingdom.

Mercia Murray is a woman of fifty-two years who has been left. Abandoned by her partner in Scotland, where she has been living for twenty-five years, Mercia returns to her homeland of South Africa to find her family overwhelmed by alcoholism and secrets.

Not as patient as you think you are? Surprised by how quickly you lose your cool when someone shows you an imagined show of disrespect? All we can do in those situations is react. But why do we do what we do? How can we improve our actions? Repeated bad behavior becomes a bad habit. How can we break this vicious cycle? Often we know what’s wrong in our behavior, we even know how could we fix it, but somehow we never take action to change. Some mental triggers stay hidden from our conscious mind. This book bridges the gap between those two by introducing you to gears of human behavior.

If you're looking for a Cinderella-type story, you've come to the wrong place. It's mating season, and this year's alpha has no remorse for the other bear shifters. What he wants, he gets. Torn by the Alpha is raw. Unadulterated. Hot. Steamy and - gay.

Do you feel that your life lacks meaning and purpose? Have you lost the idea of who you truly are? Do you avoid the real problems in your life? Fears and insecurities are completely normal, but how can we deal with them in a proactive and healthy manner? Think Different will answer this question. We've been told that positive thinking, repeating affirmations and "faking it till you make it" were the key to a happy, fearless, confident living. But do they lead to happiness?

While most kids are served home-cooked dinners and tucked in with bedtime stories at night, Mary Zoe never knows which version of her mother, Zodie, to expect. She might be dressed to the nines, rhapsodizing about a more luxurious way of life, or she might be strewn naked on the floor, slumped into unconsciousness by drugs and alcohol. But either way, Mary Zoe has known from an early age that she wants a better life.

Terrified of making bad decisions and missing great opportunities? Do you question your judgment and doubt your intuition? Your brain is like any other muscle: it needs training to improve. Nobody is born with flawless critical thinking and judgment skills. These skills usually require systematic practice, but you can shortcut the learning curve by learning and mastering the methods of the best thinkers, psychologists, and high achievers.

Signy Zlotsky grew up thinking everything about her (except her hard-to-pronounce name) was ordinary and all-American. Then the father she barely remembers leaves her a royal inheritance. She's the princess of a hidden country ruled by shapeshifters! Signy is human, so she can't rule - but her husband will be the new king. Overnight, Signy becomes the prize in a deadly game of thrones.

Is your life filled with valueless objects that don't make you happy? Do you feel anxious when you buy things but you can't control the urge? Would you like to let go of unimportant stuff with a peace of mind? Your happiness costs less than you think. You deserve a stress-free life - where the things you own serve you and help you live a well-balanced life. Learn how to be better off with less in Minimalist Makeover.

Do emotional insecurities and a lack of self-confidence get you knocked down and feel you can't bounce back? Do you often feel uneasy and nervous, perceiving yourself inferior to others? If you think you can't turn these feelings around, you're wrong. These emotional insecurities can be changed and improved, only by understanding the nature of the emotions and learning the solution of to handle them. Everything that you fear now and believe impossible is achievable if you learn how to put your strengths to action.