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“America’s favorite poet” (The Wall Street Journal) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love—all in a handful of lines. Neither haiku nor limerick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry’s famed power to condense emotional and conceptual meaning. Inspired by the small poetry of writers, the poems of Musical Tables show one of our greatest poets channeling his unique voice into a new phase of his exceptional career.

What does it mean to be gay and a Christian? Beginning with how the Bible describes the Church, author Nate Collins outlines a vision for community life that challenges Christians to examine obstacles that inhibit spiritual unity. This new vision calls straight and non-straight believers alike to patterns of Christian obedience that respect and honor their similarities and differences.

The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and it established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. The Moonstone and The Woman in White are widely considered to be Collins' best novels, and Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage in 1877, although the production was performed for only two months.

A typical book about an American founding father doesn’t start at a gay piano bar and end in a sewage ditch. But then, Tom Paine isn’t your typical founding father. A firebrand rebel and a radical on the run, Paine alone claims a key role in the development of three modern democracies. In death, his story turns truly bizarre. Shunned as an infidel by every church, he had to be interred in an open field on a New York farm. Ten years later, a former enemy converting to Paine’s cause dug up the bones and carried them back to Britain.

Vera is ruthlessly ambitious, beautiful, and knows how to get exactly what she wants—no matter who stands in the way. When she meets a wealthy older man on an exclusive dating app, she thinks nothing of the wife he tells her he’s separated from. But days later, when the man and his wife are found dead in their home, Vera is immediately blamed for their deaths and branded as good as a murderer.

Descubre las increíbles aventuras reales de Molly, la perrita detective de mascotas. La maravillosa historia real de cómo una perrita y su amo se convirtieron en la pareja de detectives de mascotas más conocida del mundo entero. Cuando el ex policía Colin Butcher montó su propia agencia de detectives de mascotas para buscar animales perdidos o robados, rápidamente descubrió que necesitaba un socio.

Wann wirst du wagen, dich der Liebe zu stellen... In Montverre, einer altehrwürdigen Eliteschule, werden die besten Köpfe ausgebildet - für das große Spiel, eine geheimnisvolle Kombination von Musik, Kunst, Poesie und Philosophie. Léo Martin war einst an dieser Schule, bevor er in die Politik ging und scheiterte. Nun ist er zurück, gewissermaßen im Exil, das man ihm auferlegt hat. Vormals eine Bastion der Männer, steht nun eine Frau an der Spitze: Claire Dryden ist die Meisterin des großen Spiels.

Louis Armstrong, also known as “Satchmo” and “Pops”, became an American jazz legend in the 1920s. His voice and skill with instruments helped him become a popular musician in a time where America was racially divided. Watch as this skilled musician learns to play, buys his first instrument, and becomes one of the best music makers of the era.

When wellness teachers and husband-wife duo Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins founded their Indigenous wellness initiative, Well for Culture, they extended an invitation to all to honor their whole self through Native wellness philosophies and practices. In reclaiming this ancient wisdom for health and wellbeing—drawing from traditions spanning multiple tribes—they developed the Seven Circles, a holistic model for modern living rooted in timeless teachings from their ancestors.

We all face storms of various types and magnitudes in our life. What separates the much-needed rainfall from the devastating hurricane is our ability to navigate these storms with grace and clarity. This audiobook provides the necessary insights and practical tools for embracing the storms we all face such that we are left more conscious and more empowered.

A selection of bedtime stories from the public domain, to help you relax and unwind. Pull a comfy armchair up to our roaring fire, as we explore a treasury of public domain literature.

All Scott needed was a phone charger...When he braves Black Friday shopping at his local mall, he knows it's going to be difficult to get in and get out. But while in line, he meets a strange woman who seems oddly flirtatious. As he makes his way across the mall, he starts to feel odd. His clothes aren't fitting correctly. He's sweating. Everyone is looking bigger. And he constantly sees the strange woman in the crowd, as if she's following him. But Scott will soon learn that it's all a game. And the prize at the end is playing with a giantess.

Step back in time and experience World War II through the stories of the people who lived through it. Witness the horror of a prison camp march. Experience the sinking of a US warship. Watch a young French freedom fighter outsmart the Nazis. True Stories of World War II doesn’t just tell you the tales of war. It drops you into the thick of combat.

When a spontaneous time leap sends Nickolas Flux back to the attack on Pearl Harbor, what's a teenage history buff to do? Try to avoid going down with the battleships, of course!

Josh always had trouble picking up girls. Standing at 6'2", he was a "gentle giant" incapable of holding a conversation. But when three beautiful women invite him to their booth at a local bar, he figures something must be wrong. This is confirmed when he quickly starts to shrink. Now he's tiny, on the dance floor at their feet! But the adventure isn't over. They decide to take him home to continue playing...

Explore history without the confines of time or distance. Dr. Isabel Soto is an archaeologist and world explorer with the skills to go wherever and whenever she needs to research history, solve a mystery, or rescue colleagues in trouble. Listeners join Izzy on her journeys and gain knowledge about historical places, eras, and cultures on the way.

When a spontaneous time leap sends Nickolas Flux back to the California Gold Rush, what's a teenage history buff to do? Join the scramble to strike it rich, of course! From meeting John Sutter to panning for gold, Nick must survive one of the most pivotal events of American Westward Expansion.

Megan always wanted to be big...For as long as she could remember, she fantasized about growing, towering over every person and every building. Now, sitting in a doctor's office, an anxious knot in her gut, she begins to feel funny. Her clothes and shoes are tight. The room is starting to look slightly smaller. The man across from her is noticing it, as well. How long can she keep her change a secret? Not long at all...

The authors show how the spiritual and shamanic beliefs of more than 100 Native American tribes align with their theory, and they reveal how some of these shamanic transdimensional portals are still active, sharing vivid examples from Skinwalker Ranch in Utah and Bempton in northern England.

Jorge Paulo Lemann, Marcel Telles e Beto Sicupira ergueram, em pouco mais de quatro décadas, o maior império da história do capitalismo brasileiro e ganharam uma projeção sem precedentes no cenário mundial. Nos últimos anos eles compraram nada menos que três marcas americanas conhecidas globalmente: Budweiser, Burger King e Heinz. Tudo isso na mais absoluta discrição, esforçando-se para ficar longe dos holofotes. Sonho grande é o relato detalhado dos bastidores da trajetória desses empresários desde a fundação do banco Garantia, nos anos 70, até os dias de hoje.