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When Snow White’s gentle mother dies, her father marries a mean queen who is very jealous of Snow White’s beauty. What will happen when Snow White is taken into the forest and she meets seven adorable dwarfs? Disguising herself as an old woman, the queen goes into the forest and gives Snow White a poisonous apple. Find out how a handsome prince helps Snow White in this fairy tale sure to encourage a lifelong love for learning.

Christianity is the most widespread global belief system and promises to remain so well into the future. But for many educated Westerners, biblical Christianity is a dangerous idea - challenging some of their deepest beliefs. Channeling state-of-the-art research, personal stories, and careful biblical study, Confronting Christianity explores 12 questions that keep many of us from considering faith in Christ.

Starting with Rebecca Smith’s own family history – foresters in Cumbria, miners in Derbyshire, millworkers in Nottinghamshire, builders of reservoirs and the Manchester Ship Canal – Rural is an exploration of our green and pleasant land, and the people whose labour has shaped it. Beautifully observed, these are the stories of professions and communities that often go overlooked. Smith shows the precarity for those whose lives are entangled in the natural landscape. And she traces how these rural working-class worlds have changed.

Two years after the man she loved was killed in Afghanistan, Morgan Bartley is trying to put the pieces of her life back together. The reno on her dilapidated beach house in the Outer Banks might be just the distraction she needs to keep her debilitating anxiety attacks at bay and begin to heal her heart . . . if she can ignore the ridiculously handsome guy next door.

When Anais receives a near-derelict Paris hotel in her divorce settlement, her first thought is to tidy it up and sell it immediately. All she wants is to move on and forget her disaster of a marriage ever happened. But selling it proves impossible, so she has only one option: to make it gorgeous and open by Christmas… when her funds will almost certainly run out. She’s not counting on the grumpy American bar-owner next door, Noah, coming and interfering at every moment though.

Are you tired of hangovers? Do you wish you could think more clearly during the day or feel less anxious at night? Are you curious about that #soberlife? Many of us want to cut back on our drinking—or even stop altogether. But in a culture that glamorizes the cocktail hour, "white wine playdates," and boozy brunches, you might wonder, What would I do instead? If you're ready for a change, this go-to guide has the answer.

Since the Final War, I’ve been doing just fine. I have a lovely cave, a darling vegetable patch, forest views...and if loneliness sometimes squeezes my aching heart, well, my books have always kept me company. That is, until a pack of hunters chase me from my home and right into the arms of several rather large, rather brutish ex-Army Rangers. And those brutes have the nerve to make me the rudest offer I’ve ever heard.

In Legacy, Colorado, our inheritance is simple: Fire and Heartbreak. Sebastian Vargas . . . he's both. He was my best friend. My first love. My everything. Until he was my nothing. It's been ten years since the wildfire that turned our small town to ashes, taking the lives of our fathers and their elite hotshot crew. Six years since Bash disappeared with my heart. No explanation. No goodbye. But now he's home, fighting to resurrect the very thing that destroyed us both.

Global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion, including how she developed her own, distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared her to fans around the world. Featuring behind-the-scenes stories from Dolly Parton’s life and career, this audiobook spotlights her most unforgettable looks from the 1960s to now. T

A film school dropout and her husband watch the highest rated, and lowest rated, movies in popular franchises and discuss over (just a little bit) of wine.

At Shapes Academy, the Big Blue Circle is struggling to learn a valuable life lesson. With the help of his friend, he is able to have a breakthrough moment.

I should've known it would all end in a war. That was their plan since I was born. They will not succeed. I know what I am now and what I'm capable of. I refuse to bow down and die. They want a war? I'm ready.

This enhanced Medical School audiobook study guide by the Davidson's, offers a full-spectrum review of all seven essential components of the Medical College Admission Test: Biology, Biochemistry, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, & Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills (CARS). This audiobook is designed for aspiring medical students who want to optimize their study time, allowing them to learn while commuting, working out, or doing all types of chores.

Nathan never understood what was "fun" about secrets, probably because he’s always had to keep a very big one. Although he appears to be a typical sixth-grader (with parents, homework and a best friend, Victor), Nathan learned at an early age that his family is from another planet. Now, their time on Earth may be coming to an end. Nathan, his parents and nine other families are part of an experiment that suddenly seems to be going wrong. Some of the experimenters, including Nathan's first crush, Izzy, are disappearing without a word.

Von der SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin von In fünf Jahren kommt die Liebesgeschichte, die eine ganze Generation prägen wird. Daphne Bell glaubt, dass das Universum einen Plan für sie hat. Jedes Mal, wenn sie einen neuen Mann kennenlernt, erhält sie einen Zettel mit seinem Namen und einer Zahl darauf – die Zeit, die sie zusammen sein werden. Die Zettel sagen ihr, dass sie drei Tage mit Martin in Paris verbringen wird, fünf Wochen mit Noah in San Francisco und drei Monate mit Hugo, ihrem Ex-Freund, der jetzt ihr bester Freund ist.

Bath 1830. Percival Webster, duca di Clarendon, è convinto che le rigide norme che regolano la vita sociale del Ton siano eccellenti e giuste e che vadano applicate con rigore, senza eccezioni. In ottemperanza a questo stile di vita, ha deciso di contrarre un matrimonio di convenienza scegliendo, come futura duchessa, una lady adeguata sotto tutti i punti di vista: non troppo bella, non troppo intelligente, non troppo appariscente. A tal proposito, ha individuato in Lady Albertina Cadwell l’esemplare perfetto.

Lass dich niemals auf einen Bad-Boy-Quarterback ein! Schon gar nicht, wenn ihr beruflich aufeinander angewiesen seid und du ihn wegen eurer Vergangenheit nicht ausstehen kannst. Dakota ist auf die Hilfe von Football-Star Brooks angewiesen. Nur sein Einfluss und sein Name können ihr berufliches Überleben noch sichern. Aber Brooks und Dakota haben eine gemeinsame Vergangenheit. Und was damals vorgefallen ist, kann sie ihm nicht verzeihen.

Drawing together many histories - of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores - Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers.

After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her best bet is to win the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette. To combat her worries, Iris writes letters to her brother and slips them beneath her wardrobe door, where they vanish—into the hands of Roman Kitt, her cold and handsome rival at the paper.

1828. Robin Swift, den ein Cholera-Ausbruch im chinesischen Kanton als Waisenjungen zurücklässt, wird von dem geheimnisvollen Professor Lovell nach London gebracht. Dort lernt er jahrelang Latein, Altgriechisch und Chinesisch, um sich auf den Tag vorzubereiten, an dem er in das Königliche Institut für Übersetzung der Universität Oxford - auch bekannt als Babel - aufgenommen werden soll. Oxford ist das Zentrum allen Wissens und Fortschritts in der Welt. Für Robin erfüllt sich ein Traum, an dem Ort zu studieren, der die ganze Macht des britischen Empire verkörpert.