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Maci Bookout was just a normal, slightly overachieving high school girl in Chattanooga, Tennessee. But then she got pregnant, and everything turned upside down. Even as she rose to fame on MTV's hit series Teen Mom, Maci was struggling to balance life as a single teen mom with her own hopes and dreams...all while honoring her own sense of independence.

Eve Moore appears to have an ideal life: a lovely home, two grown children and a husband who is a good provider. Samuel Moore's alcoholism escalates and he becomes abusive. After a violent episode, she leaves. Through a mutual friend, she meets Paul Connors, a retired psychologist. They fall in love, but live 300 miles apart. Neither is willing nor able to give up their lifestyle. Can Eve and Paul sustain a meaningful long-distance relationship? Does their love transcend the limits of space?

Duty bound to save the Empire from falling further under a tyrannical usurper, Cursor resolves to unravel the conspiracy and bring the perpetrators to justice. Aiding him is an old friend; a retired Master Centurion named Gaius Calvinus. Regrettably, they know that if successful, Tiberius' retribution will be swift and brutal, sparing neither the innocent nor the guilty. This leaves only two dark paths for Cursor and Calvinus; either allow the pending reign of terror under a ruthless usurper, or unleash the unholy vengeance of an emperor betrayed.

In June of 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte's attempts at reclaiming the French Empire are destroyed on the field of Waterloo. With the Bourbon monarchy restored to the throne of France, King Louis XVIII seeks his revenge against many of Napoleon's former generals. While many are sent into exile, the fanatical royalists demand that one in particular pay with his life. That man is Michel Ney, Marshal of France; called by both friend an enemy as "The Bravest of the Brave".

In the spring of 1812, the British army under Sir Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Wellington, has driven the French from Portugal. With Napoleon obsessed by the invasion of Russia, Wellington turns toward Spain. The way is barred by two fortresses, Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz. When Ciudad Rodrigo collapses after a short siege, Wellington prepares to break the fortress of Badajoz, the most formidable stronghold in Europe and commanded by the seasoned warrior, Baron Armand Philippon.

It is December 1878, and war looms on the horizon in South Africa. British high commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere seeks to dismantle the powerful neighboring kingdom of the Zulus and uses an incursion along the disputed border as his justification for war. He issues an impossible ultimatum to the Zulu king, Cetshwayo, demanding he disband his armies and pay massive reparations. With a heavy heart, the king prepares his nation for war against their former allies.

In February, 1815, after nine months in exile, Napoleon Bonaparte, the deposed Emperor of the French, escaped from the Isle of Elba. Seizing the initiative while the European powers bicker amongst themselves at the Congress of Vienna, Napoleon advances towards Belgium with an enormous army, where the combined forces of Prussia and England are cantoned. In Belgium, Captain James Henry Webster has finally returned to a line regiment after being terribly wounded at the Siege of Badajoz three years prior.

Why do a sleazy antique dealer and a wealthy collector suddenly become interested in an unknown artist named Jo Allison? Is it the mysterious goblet she used in three still-life paintings? Jo's apartment is burglarized, and she is followed and threatened. When she attempts to determine the provenance of the goblet, she discovers that it might be a priceless artifact. Thieves follow her to Chicago and to the home of a blind woman in Riverside who also owns one of the goblets.

The year is 1950. The place: Hillside State Mental Hospital. In this atmosphere of hopelessness and despair come student nurses from surrounding hospitals for their three-month psychiatric rotation. Mary Lou Hammond and Kate Stephens are two of these young girls. Mary Lou begins receiving messages from a woman who died in the previous century. She becomes obsessed with finding proof that the woman existed. Follow Mary Lou to the life-threatening climax in this frigid winter of 1950.

The Children’s Fire forges a trail into Britain’s wild and ancient Celtic past. In the winter of 2009 Mac Macartney walked from his birthplace in England across Wales to the island of Anglesey, once the spiritual epicenter of Late Iron Age Britain, navigating by the sun and the stars, with no map, compass, stove, or tent, and in the coldest winter for many years. The Children’s Fire records that journey, and seeks to lay bare the aching loss of knowing and understanding sacredness as it applies to everything ordinary that brings joy to the human heart.

America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture. The Diversity Delusion argues that the root of this problem is the belief in America’s endemic racism and sexism, a belief that has engendered a metastasizing diversity bureaucracy in society and academia.

The Accidental Weatherman is the story of what happens when a hilarious Adelaide boy who knows nothing about meteorology scores the coveted weatherman gig on the highest rating breakfast TV show in Australia. As the Sunrise weatherman, Sam Mac has bungee jumped, swum with sharks, got his cat on...

Since catapulting to reality TV stardom on the hit MTV series Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant, Maci Bookout has become a mother of three, a successful businesswoman, and a sought-after motivational speaker - all by the tender age of 25. As she traveled across the country, speaking to young people and sharing her inspiring story, the one comment Maci kept hearing over and over was, "You're so strong. You make it all look so easy." But Maci was not born "bulletproof."

Embark on a captivating journey into the enigmatic world of Enoch, the ascended patriarch whose ancient wisdom holds the key to humanity's past, present, and future. Delve into the mystical teachings and apocalyptic visions of this pre-flood prophet, whose influence stretches across religious traditions and whose timeless insights continue to resonate in our modern world.

Spanien im Mittelalter, zwischen 1058 und 1099: Schon früh verdient sich der junge Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, den sie später ehrfürchtig "El Cid" nennen werden, den Beinamen "Der Kämpfer", denn keiner kann ihn im ritterlichen Zweikampf besiegen. Doch für den erwachsenen Mann hält das Schicksal Wechselvolles bereit: Sein König, Sancho II. von Kastilien, wird von der eigenen Schwester ermordet. Rodrigo findet zwar in Jimena die Liebe seines Lebens, doch ahnt er nicht, dass sie ihn im Auftrag des neuen Königs ausspionieren soll.

Ausgezeichnet als "Buch des Jahres". Ritter, König und zu Lebzeiten schon eine Legende: Reiten Sie Seite an Seite mit dem Mann, den sie "Löwenherz" nannten! In seinem historischen Roman lässt Mac P. Lorne mit Richard I. von England einen der berühmtesten Herrscher des Mittelalters lebendig werden. Nur wenig Zeit ist Richard Löwenherz in seiner Heimat England vergönnt: Nachdem er die Rebellion seines Bruders Johann Ohneland niedergeschlagen hat, bricht Richard mit einem kleinen Heer nach Frankreich auf.

This is a story about a family coming of age at the same time as smartphones and social media; a multiracial family coming into its own as windows into social injustice opened up before our very screens; and a multi-parent multi-professional family with children living differently depending on which house and which combination of family members happen to be home. While it is a story about a family, it is really the story of technological and global changes unfolding on our doorsteps.

Colby Watts has struggled to find his place in civilian life. The ex-Army Ranger is relieved when he's offered work as a small-town deputy sheriff, with guns and rules he knows far too well. But Biggs barely has time to ease into the job before he's tasked with catching the man who paralyzed one deputy and killed the other....

Der krönende Abschluss der historischen Abenteuer-Saga über den König der Diebe Robin Hood von Mac P. Lorne im Hörbuch: So sehr er sich auch nach Frieden sehnt, noch sind die Tage des Kämpfens für Robin Hood nicht vorüber. 1230 beginnt der junge König Heinrich III. erneut einen Krieg gegen Frankreich, und auch in England steht es nicht zum Besten. Machthungrige Höflinge machen sich die Unerfahrenheit und den chronischen Geldmangel Heinrichs zu Nutze, unter anderem auch Robins alter Feind, der Earl of Chester, der es auf Loxley und Huntingdon abgesehen hat.

Der große historische Abenteuer-Roman über den legendären Freibeuter Sir Francis Drake. Er war ein Abenteurer, Weltumsegler, Raubritter der Meere - und Spaniens größter Alptraum: Francis Drake, Pirat Ihrer Majestät Königin Elisabeth I., 1581 zum Ritter geschlagen. Mac P. Lorne lässt neben dem Mythos auch den Menschen Francis Drake lebendig werden: den engagierten Bürgermeister und betrogenen Ehemann, der Frauen gegenüber eher schüchtern gewesen sein soll.