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Long Rest Plzzz (LRP) is a Dungeons & Dragons actual-play podcast where storytelling meets emotional resilience. Follow five weary adventurers as they take on epic quests that reflect the players’ real-world struggles. Through heartfelt stories, unexpected chaos, and a touch of magic, we tackle burnout and face life’s challenges — one roll at a time.

Morgan Winters wants an ordinary life: A job at a bookstore, an apartment she can barely afford, and a healthy amount of existential dread. Her brother (AKA "The Ruiner") ruins that when he shows up on her bedroom windowsill, transformed into a talking cat. He claims it's due to a date gone horribly wrong, but Morgan's not buying it. Still, when he begs her to take him to a witch who can change him back into a human, she reluctantly agrees. Family is family. When they arrive in Hollowbeck—a suspiciously small and suspiciously magical town—they find the witch. Only she's dead.

This groundbreaking book shows how to identify your own Unfair Advantages and apply them to any project. Drawing on over two decades of hands-on experience, including as the first Marketing Director of Just Eat (a startup now worth over £4 billion), the authors offer a unique framework for assessing your external circumstances in addition to your internal strengths. Hard work and grit aren't enough, so they explore the importance of money, intelligence, location, education, expertise, status and luck in the journey to success.

AI-First companies are the only trillion-dollar companies, and soon they will dominate even more industries, more definitively than ever before. These companies succeed by design--they collect valuable data from day one and use it to train predictive models that automate core functions. As a result, they learn faster and outpace the competition in the process. Thankfully, you don't need a PhD to learn how to win with AI. In The AI-First Company, internationally-renowned startup investor Ash Fontana offers an executable guide for applying AI to business problems.

We're building more products today than ever before, but most of them fail—not because we can't complete what we want to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product. What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. In this book, Ash Maurya takes you through an exacting strategy for achieving product/market fit for your fledgling venture. This new edition introduces the continuous innovation framework and follows one entrepreneur's journey from initial vision to a business model that works.

Morgan and her ex-husband broke up on bad terms. But when he sends her a cryptic message, Morgan knows that whatever trouble he's in, it's likely her fault. Over Ruiner's protests, she ventures beyond Hollowbeck's borders to find him. But instead of finding him, she finds a dead body. Then she finds the Oubliette, an exclusive gambling club in the town of Darrowdale, which is a mirror image of Hollowbeck—only with a decidedly more dangerous population.

Blackbriar Academy is an enchanted school on a magical island, and everyone wants in. It’s a home away from home for the most advanced mages in the world - and only the absolute best of the best are given an invitation. By some freak accident, I managed to get one. If I pass the trials, I get to stay. With nowhere else to go, Blackbriar is my one shot at having a real life, and I won’t let anyone take this from me. But there’s a catch. It turns out the people on this island are being trained to hunt the darkness - basically, they’re being trained to hunt me.

If you have a cat, want a cat, or know someone who loves a cat, turn the page and dive into the fascinating world of cats. In this engaging, interactive trivia book that the whole family can enjoy, you will have the chance to test each other and yourself as you learn almost 200 new facts, increasing your absorption so that the facts stick with you and you can impress your friends with all of your new knowledge.

When a traveling carnival arrives in Hollowbeck, it promises magic and mayhem. It's also an opportunity for Morgan to find someone who can transform her brother, Ruiner, back into a human—he's a little tired of being a talking cat, and she's a little tired of cleaning his litter box. Things look promising until the curtains rise on rehearsal night to reveal Ruiner sitting on the lifeless body of the wizard who promised to help him.

This reassuring month-by-month overview gives you the facts and advice you need to understand your baby’s development, support your partner, and prepare for the joys and challenges of fatherhood. It concludes with two special sections: one on labor and delivery, and the other covering the first few months after your baby’s arrival.

Year One classes have begun in the enchanted halls of Blackbriar Academy, and they're more challenging than anything I've ever faced in my life. Surviving the Academy means brutal training, advanced magic, and a bloodthirsty student who is developing a dangerous hunger for my power. Worst of all, it's clear someone knows my secret. And they have my father locked away. Deep in the rubble of an ancient ruin, we find evidence of a ritual. One we don't fully understand, but one which most definitely involves me in some way.

Ben Harper is determined to make it in comedy and music, but the world refuses to acknowledge his existence, leaving him to confront his past and the ever-present feeling of being overlooked. As he navigates the challenges of pursuing his dreams, Ben's journey becomes one of self-discovery in a world that often prefers to ignore the quiet and the broken. This novel is a poignant meditation on the human experience, using biting humor to address the struggles of fame, failure, and the search for genuine connection in a world full of facades.

The curtain closed, yet they wanted more. So here, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, is your encore.

Welcome to The Open Mic Show — a space where anything can happen. From fresh takes on the latest news to deep dives into technology, culture, and everyday life, this show is all about exploring ideas in an open and unfiltered way. Think of it as a stage where curiosity meets conversation — sometimes serious, sometimes casual, but always real.Whether it’s insights, stories, or just random thoughts worth sharing, The Open Mic Show keeps it raw, honest, and engaging.

This plain-spoken 4-in-1 audiobook fixes the exact problems listeners complain about—no fluff, no off-list foods, no confusing claims. Just clear steps aligned with a Dr. Sebi–inspired approach: mineral-rich plants, gentle detox, targeted herbs, and a lifestyle that keeps your terrain calm. You get all four in one listen: Natural Herbal Remedies; Alkaline & Anti-Inflammatory Diet; Diabetes & Blood-Sugar Plan; Herpes Support & Immune Health.

Angel Castillo ist der Teufel. Kaltblütig, bösartig und rücksichtslos. Mit seiner brutalen Welt will ich nichts zu tun haben. Eine Welt, in der er als König regiert und in der Ungehorsam den Tod bedeutet. Aber ich habe keine andere Wahl. Sein Angebot ist so kalt wie sein Herz: Werde seine Frau oder stirb. Ich versuche zu fliehen, aber seine Krallen haben sich bereits tief in mir vergraben. Es gibt keinen Ausweg. Ich hasse ihn dafür, dass er mich in diesem goldenen Gefängnis gefangen hält. Wohin ich auch gehe, er ist da. Beobachtet mich. Wartet. Warum denke ich dann immer nur an ihn?

A chance discovery of an old journal propels Windtracer Tela Kioni into an expedition to the depths of the Great Chasm on the far end of the Planus continent to recover a lost, and possibly lethal, relic of the Ancient Order. It’s a race against time and the bloodthirsty Crimson Company mercenary guild to reach the relic first. Along the way, Tela will have to deal with the terrors, and her own nightmares, of the Great Chasm and the mysterious backer of the Crimson Company, a man who seeks to rebuild the Ancient Order, no matter the deadly cost.

After Birth is a brutal, gory, and gross novella with no boundary left untouched, no taboo unturned, and contains scenes that might offend with savagery from the onset.

Will is having one of those days. But not your average one of those days. It started badly and then went downhill with gusto. Now he’s going to summon a demon. You know, to get all murdery. Revenge. What could go wrong, right?

I draw ghosts.... Writer from boney pile. Ukrainian composer. PayPal 🌹 ashfairiy@gmail.com