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Discover #1 New York Times-bestselling Patrick Rothfuss’ epic fantasy universe of The Kingkiller Chronicle, in this illustrated companion novella, The Slow Regard of Silent Things. “I just love the world of Patrick Rothfuss.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda Deep below the University, there is a...

Disc golf is more than a game, Patrick D. McCormick carefully argues; it can be a window that shows us how we interact with the world. The way we play is the way we live.This book is about the sport of disc golf, but it also is about so much more than throwing a disc at a basket. For the passionate practitioner, disc golf becomes a meditation, and practicing has the potential to make us not only better players but better people.

「・・このことを だれにも いっては いけないよ・・・・」 少年は、うつくしい女のそのいいつけを、成長し、青年となり、妻を娶り、子をなしてもずっと守りつづけていたのでした。それを、ある日、妻にもらしてしまいます・・・。オーディオブックヒット作「羅生門」ドラマバージョンを制作したスタッフたちが、再びドラマバージョンにチャレンジしました。お得な両言語セットです。学習教材として利用してみてはいかがでしょうか?余談ながら、この物語のもととなったのは、 現在の東京都青梅市中部多摩川沿いの地方での言い伝えであったようです。現代は、ずいぶんと暖かくなったものです。(C)ことのは出版「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

やさしい英語で書かれた世界の名作小説を、BGMと効果音にのせてラジオドラマ仕立てでお届けします。ラフカディオ・ハーンは、日本名の小泉八雲でもおなじみです。1850年ギリシャ生まれ。両親の離婚で大叔母に引き取られ、イギリスで教育を受けます。1890年に来日し、英語の教師として赴任した島根県でセツと出会い結婚。その後、熊本、神戸、東京などを教師や記者などをしながら転々とし、数々の随筆を残して日本的情緒を世界に紹介しました。この作品はハーンの代表作の「怪談」の中の一編です。雌のおしどりの悲嘆と、鷹狩りの猟師の心の痛みが、余韻たっぷりに描かれています。

Mêlé de près à une affaire criminelle dans l'atmosphère trouble du Paris de la guerre d'Algérie, Jean rouvre une enquête classée sans suite et tente de mettre au clair les circonstances qui l'ont conduit à fréquenter la bande de l'Unic Hôtel et une certaine Dannie dont il était amoureux. En recoupant ses souvenirs avec les pièces d'un dossier de la brigade des mœurs, Jean, vraisemblablement le dernier témoin de cette affaire, explore au fil de ses déambulations nocturnes cet espace entrouvert où la mémoire rejoint l'oubli.

Do you give presentations at meetings? Do you ever have to explain a complicated subject to audiences unfamiliar with your field? Do you make pitches for ideas or products? Do you want to interest a lecture hall of restless students in subjects that you find fascinating? Then you need this book. Make It Clear explains how to communicate - how to speak and write to get your ideas across.

Taught by award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room arms you against the perils of bad thinking and supplies you with an arsenal of strategies to help you be more creative, logical, inventive, realistic, and rational in all aspects of your daily life.

Every parent hopes their child will develop healthy and happy friendships. However, most parents don't know what to do that will encourage their child to be a friend and attract friends. The author offers clear-cut friendship-making guidelines for parents and their children. Some of the audiobook's recommendations include: Don't overschedule a child's time; guide children to participate in "friend-attracting" activities seek out friends in the neighborhood.

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by...

Greetings, bald monkey! What's with you? Surprised to see an alien? Ha! Believe me, you're better off with me than the Swarm that Swallows Systems. It'll be here in ten years or so, and then you'll all be done for. Just so you know. What's that? You want to live? Then you best join the Legion! The Legion's your chance to earn money! And money's your ticket to survival. Oh, and don't breathe a word about the Legion to anyone. Nobody would believe you anyway.

Fourteen-year-old Kimathi has a comfortable life in the suburbs of western Kenya―until a contentious election explodes into violence. His father is killed, his house is destroyed, and he and his mother and sister must flee. They find themselves in a camp for internally displaced persons...

Finally get what you deserve, and stop “letting it slide” - without guilt, fear, or awkward tension. Saying no - just thinking about it sounds awkward, right? But that’s the barrier between you living your own life, and living for others. Get what you want, starting immediately. Stop sacrificing your own needs. Quit the agreeableness and accommodation habit.

Helen Moran is 32 years old, single, childless, college educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She is accepting a furniture delivery in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen's adoptive brother is dead. According to the Internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for "the abyss".

En una posada en tierra de nadie, un hombre se dispone a relatar, por primera vez, la auténtica historia de su vida. Una historia que únicamente él conoce y que ha quedado diluida tras los rumores, las conjeturas y los cuentos de taberna que le han convertido en un personaje legendario a quien todos daban ya por muerto: Kvothe# músico, mendigo, ladrón, estudiante, mago, héroe y asesino.

It’s "Adopt-a-Puppy" day and Zoe and Harvey host Olive and her father who have come in search of a new family friend. But the puppy Olive falls for does not turn out to be as courageous and Lassie-like as her father would have liked. Zoe relives the first time she met her beloved dog, at the same time as her best friend Harvey, who had just arrived in the valley!

This program is read by a full cast, including the author and Christopher Hastings, a coauthor of InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.S. It offers an immersive audio experience, fully sound designed to enhance your enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of the Batter Down bakery, S.U.I.T...

In his classic best-selling book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking, new approach for attacking the dangerous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here, he turns his focus to the individual member of a team, revealing the three indispensable virtues that make some people better team players than others. Lencioni’s latest fable is the story of a leader desperate to save his company by cracking the code on the virtues that define a true team player.

Zeke and Daniel have just been made hall monitors by Principal Wombat. This has nothing to do with the fact that they are monitor lizards. And never mind the fact Alicia, the only other monitor lizard in the school, is also a hall monitor. Somehow, the three hall monitors must impose order on arrogant lions, excitable seals and super-relaxed pandas. And worst of all, there is Pelicarnassus! A pompous giant pelican and the son of a major supervillain, who inexplicably has it out for the lizards.

On the 40th anniversary of Neil Postman's prophetic book Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Scrolling Ourselves to Death gathers today's most incisive writers to think critically about the shaping power of contemporary technology. This book explores Postman's insights, connects them to the challenges facing Christians today, and turns difficult challenges into life-giving opportunities for the church. Stepping back from their screens, listeners will be equipped to live faithfully, and grow spiritually, in a "scrolling ourselves to death" world.

Children are introduced to the imaginative world of art and how a picture really can be worth a thousand words.