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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon", Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, and first published in 1820. With Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction still read today.

Linda, an anxious and restless American, has moved to São Paulo, with her husband, Dennis, who has accepted a yearlong professorship. As Dennis submerges himself in his work, Linda finds herself unmoored and adrift, feeling increasingly disassociated from her own body. Linda’s unwavering and skilled maid, Marta, has more claim to Linda’s home than Linda can fathom. Marta, who is struggling to make sense of complicated history and its racial tensions, is exasperated by Linda’s instability.

It’s no secret that we are overworked, overpressured, and edging burnout. Unsurprisingly, this fact is as old as time - and that’s why we see so many prayer circles within a multitude of church traditions. These gatherings are a trusted space where people seek help, hope, and peace, energized by God and one another. This book, curated by acclaimed author Sarah Bessey, celebrates and honors that prayerful tradition in a literary form.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World is the third book in the New York Times best-selling series for children. Packed with 100 all-new bedtime stories about the lives of incredible female figures from the past and the present, this volume recognizes women who left their birth countries for a multitude of reasons: Some for new opportunities, some out of necessity. Listeners will whip up a plate with Asma Khan, strategize global affairs alongside Madeleine Albright, venture into business with Rihanna, and many more.

The funny and talented Chip Gaines is well known to millions of people as a TV star, renovation expert, bestselling author, husband to Joanna, and father of four in Waco, Texas. But long before the world took notice, Chip was a serial entrepreneur who was always ready for the next challenge. Whether it was buying a neighborhood laundromat or talking a bank into a loan for some equipment to start a lawn-mowing service, Chip always knew that the most important thing was to take that first step.

An allegory that speaks truths we are trained not to see, and we wish we could hide from. It sends us into the future in which metaphor and science have collided into a new materialism. We have gotten everything we ever wanted and yet the cost to the heart of who we are is its price. The unique story takes us into the mystery of our own hearts and beckons us to listen to our own cry for liberty.

No matter the career you have chosen. You are in sales. With every interaction, your clients, prospects, and colleagues decide if your personal brand is worthy of investment. Understanding the qualities of communication that you must bring to the table to selflessly serve others is the foundation upon which your career will flourish. Everyday Sales Wisdom for Your Life & Career will provide you with life lessons that will serve you throughout your professional journey.

Using the Beatitudes, Chip Dodd describes the eight movements we all must make if we are to live in freedom, fidelity, fullness, and faithfulness. With each movement, Dodd explores one of life's great paradoxes: The only way we get to the treasure we are made to possess is by traveling through tragedy and surrendering to the God who can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

Chip's first book, Everyday Sales Wisdom for Your Life & Career, garnered rave reviews and demonstrated how everybody is in sales! In his second work, Chip Helm helps you answer important sales and career questions with practical wisdom and effective relationship-building skills.

The unauthorized story of Lululemon. Chip Wilson’s part in this story comes from the learning of thousands of mistakes. He set the culture, business model, quality platform, and people development program and then got out of the way. Lululemon’s exponential growth, culture, and brand strength have few peers, and it is because of those employees who choose to be great. This book is also about missed opportunity - five years of missed opportunity. Chip was playing to win while the directors of the company he founded were playing not to lose.

Part manifesto and part playbook, Wisdom @ Work ignites an urgent conversation about ageism in the workplace, calling on us to treat age as we would other type of diversity. In the process, Conley liberates the term elder from the stigma of elderly and inspires us to embrace wisdom as a path to growing whole, not old. Whether you've been forced to make a mid-career change, are choosing to work past retirement age, or are struggling to keep up with the millennials rising up the ranks, Wisdom @ Work will help you write your next chapter.

Life can be overwhelming. Here is the fatherly guidance you need to pull through your toughest times.

Using brilliantly simple math that illuminates universal emotional truths, Emotional Equations crystallizes some of life’s toughest challenges into manageable facets that listeners can see clearly—and bits they can control. Popular motivational speaker and best-selling author Chip Conley has created an exciting, new, immediately accessible visual lexicon for mastering the age of uncertainty. Making mathematics out of emotions may seem a counterintuitive idea, but it’s an inspiring and incredibly effective one in Chip Conley’s hands.

When wildling Corey Green discovers his mate is Seth Dylan, a tough as nails, dour werewolf from the McCallan clan, he thinks his life is set. However, Seth's not out and doesn't know if he wants to be. A pivotal sexual encounter between the men has Seth running scared and leaves Corey brokenhearted. The men meet again nearly two years later - and this time, Seth's out - but Corey's dark depression is about to send him behind the Veil of the Jewel Box to the fae world.

It's been decades since the beatings and harassment and the humiliation of this high school bully, yet here he was big as life standing right in front of you at the car rental counter. You may never get this chance again. Go for it. Tell him what a jerk he was and how you'd like to punch his lights out. You jump over the counter, ready to exact your vengeance but you stop. Your bully is supporting himself on two crutches and he has braces on both legs. Now what? You can't very well beat up a cripple. Or can you?

Like most religions, Wicca requires a set of tools. What you obtain will depend on your beliefs. As with any tools or supplies of a religion, they should be treated with respect. The tools in the Wicca religion represents divine elements. Not all witches use ritual tools, but most do. Wicca tools and altars are used as not only tradition, but to direct energy at the command of the Wiccan practitioner.

People underestimate the power of candles. Wiccans, on the other hand, know that it's one of the most accessible and effective tools for magic around! Candle magic is one of the most beginner friendly magical arts for anyone who needs a starting point in the realm of Wicca. In this audiobook, Valerie W. Holt teaches you the wonders of fire, and how you can use candles as your helpful messengers. You'll learn how to easily use them in your very own spellwork.

If you are remotely interested in having a great start to the Wiccan religion, or practices, then this is a must listen. The fundamentals of the Wiccan religion will be covered in Valerie's latest book. She dissolves Wiccan myths and depicts the real Wiccan lifestyle. Wicca is becoming ever more popular, welcoming those who believe in preserving Mother Nature and keeping the spirit of oneself alive.

Doug has been having disturbing dreams about his friend, Alan, who had killed himself nearly thirty years earlier. While shopping at the annual flea market one summer day, Doug is drawn to a mirror in a plain wooden frame. He brings the mirror home and hangs it in his office, the perfect place for it as far as he's concerned. One night while sitting in front of his word processor trying to find the inspiration he desperately needs to finish his latest story, Doug sees something out of the corner of his eye and it's moving.

People underestimate the power of herbs. Wiccans, on the other hand, know that it's one of the most accessible and effective types of magic around! There's a rich history of ancient cultures using herbs, because of its magical essence. Ancient cultures used herbs for medicine, they had healers, (some called shamans), in their communities to harness herbal magic. Valerie W. Holt will teach you about the magical properties of the most popular herbs used in Wicca magic.