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Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.

The author of the blockbuster New York Times best sellers The Happiness Project and Happier at Home tackles the critical question: How do we change? Gretchen Rubin's answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier, stronger, more productive lives.

Irene Adler befindet sich in Los Angeles. Sie hat die Hauptrolle in einem modernen Theaterstück übernommen. Doch die Produktion, die mit viel technischem ...

Die erst kürzlich nach Newton gezogene Zuckerbäckerin Helen Hill ist überaus attraktiv und bringt die Herzen der Einwohner des kleinen Dorfes ganz schön durcheinander. Als eines Tages jemand mit einer ihrer grandiosen Torten vergiftet wird, fällt der Verdacht natürlich zunächst auf Helen selbst. Doch womöglich galt der Giftanschlag eigentlich der verführerischen jungen Frau? Wie sich herausstellt, hätten etliche Einwohner Newtons ein Motiv gehabt ... Pater Brown versucht gemeinsam mit Sergeant Baxter Licht in die mörderischen Irrungen der Liebe zu bringen.

Ist die schöne Yvette Delon wirklich eine "schwarze Witwe", wie es der Sohn ihres jüngst verstorbenen Ehemanns behauptet? Hutchinson Hatch macht sich an die Recherchen. Gibt es ein Geheimnis in der Vergangenheit der attraktiven Französin? Professor van Dusen macht sich seine eigenen Gedanken. Er mahnt Hatch zur Vorsicht, doch da befindet sich dieser bereits im Bann der "Femme Fatale".

Searching for answers everywhere has led you to believe your beloved child might have schizophrenia. You can only find horror stories on the illness, that is when you’re able to understand the lengthy and confusing medical terminology at all.

Gretchen Rubin has spent over a decade exploring the different routes to happiness and contentment. But she realised that by focussing so much on the mind, she was missing out on the physical experience of being human. If we don't engage with our senses, time passes without us fully experiencing it. So this audiobook will take you on a journey through the five senses, to help you get out of your head and into your life.

The right idea, invoked at the right time, can change your life. Drawing from her long studies of happiness, and also from the challenges she's faced herself, writer Gretchen Rubin has discovered the "Secrets of Adulthood" that can help us manage the complexities of life. To convey her conclusions, she turned to the aphorism - the ancient literary discipline that demands that a writer convey a large truth in a few words.

Have you ever felt really, really mad? It can be tough to figure out what to do when you’re super angry, right? In Tame that Flame, book 3 of the Adventures in Lusair, Billy feels the same way. Don’t worry! Billy’s friends Rudy and Joey are about to go on another exciting adventure in Lusair. But here’s the twist—Lusair has turned into a land full of anger! Come along with these good friends as they learn all about dealing with their own anger and discover how to make things right in Lusair. It’s going to be a fun journey!

Where there is light there is shadow. Where there is love there is war. When Selkie, an orphan with a gift for drawing, first meets Aidan, a stranger with an intoxicating smile, she thinks that her lonely heart has finally found a home. Unfortunately, love isn't always as easy as it seems, and Selkie soon discovers that Aidan has secrets that could alter her very existence. To make matters worse, something dangerous has been lurking around, contaminating her dreams with terrifying shadows.

Nach einem Lesezirkel im Haus der Windshires, an dem auch Mimi Rutherfurt und Hercule Flambeau teilgenommen haben, wird die Society-Lady Lindsay Windshire tot in ihrem Lesezimmer aufgefunden. Mimi Rutherfurt und Hercule Flambeau ermitteln und stellen schnell fest, dass sich Lindsay Windshire wohl doch nicht so großer Beliebtheit erfreute, wie zuvor angenommen. Sowohl ihre Kusine Tara Hopster als auch ihre Chorschwester Evelyn Greiling hätten ein Motiv, sich an Lindsay Windshire zu rächen. Jeder von ihnen wurde durch die Society-Lady übel mitgespielt.

Moriarty ist von dem Wunsch beseelt, sein Leben zu ändern und einem alten Rivalen den Kampf anzusagen. Doch ist dieser Plan mit großen Gefahren verbunden, denn bei seinem Gegner handelt es sich um niemand Geringeren als den Grafen Dracula. Mittels eines ausgeklügelten Plans gelingt es Moriarty, den Anführer des Zirkels der Sieben in seine alte Heimat, nach Transsylvanien, zu locken. Alles läuft auf eine letzte große Auseinandersetzung hinaus.

In den vornehmen Hotels, Restaurants, Kaufhäusern und Theatern von London kommt es zu einer Serie schaurig-makabrer Streiche, die Säure, Ratten, Ungeziefer und Massenpanik miteinschließen. An all diesen Orten hinterlässt der unbekannte "Witzbold" eine Visitenkarte mit Gruß. Die Presse und Teile der Polizei reagieren auf die schwarzhumorigen Taten zunächst teils amüsiert und mit Sympathie. Doch als einer der Streiche einen tödlichen Verlauf nimmt, bläst Superintendent Graves zur Jagd auf den "Jester".

It was a sweltering summer night in 1952 when Mary, an 18-year-old African American girl, was bludgeoned to death. Her body was found by the riverbank that separated the small town in Arkansas. The news of her death spread quickly, and the town was rocked by the brutality of the crime.

Loss is an inevitable part of the human experience, and the pain it brings can be overwhelming. Yet, amidst the grief, there is a profound opportunity for growth and connection. Through intuitive awareness and the teachings of Helen's "A-Team" of spirit guides, learn how to bridge the intricate gap between life and death with grace and understanding. Drawing from her own transformative experiences as a death doula at the bedside of the dying, Helen's poignant stories present encounters with departed loved ones and glimpses of celestial beings.

The right idea, invoked at the right time, can change our lives. Drawing from her long studies of happiness, and also from the challenges she’s faced herself, writer Gretchen Rubin has discovered the “Secrets of Adulthood” that can help us manage the complexities of life. To convey her conclusions, she turned to the aphorism—the ancient literary discipline that demands that a writer convey a large truth in a few words.

Ten-year-old Rudy is afraid of everything, and to top it off, two bullies like to chase him home from school! Every day those bullies try to make Rudy do things he’s scared to do. Rudy’s best friend Billy is usually there to defend him, but some days Billy is at Taekwondo class, and when that happens, Rudy finds himself panicked with fear.

A beautiful television personality comes home to mourn her mother, as well as the life she lost when her husband became ill and the pandemic shut down her show. When her husband dies suddenly, was she simply expressing her grief with murder? Was he the intended victim, or did she narrowly escape the well-deserved wrath of her neighbors?

When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged. Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story. But who? Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so emotional about a book (or anything else), Mac has been raised by his mom and grandad to call out things that are wrong.

You have to admit, Patty has solved all of the unexplained deaths since she moved into the 55+ Mobile Home and RV Park. On the other hand, there weren't any unexplained deaths before she moved in! Finding herself unexpectedly alone in a 25-foot camper in West Central Florida, Patty's social skills are shaky, but she really wants to get along. The pandemic, COVID-19, strikes just as she is finally feeling like part of the community, and life turns upside down again. Her neighbors get creative - and dead. Will this be her last St. Patrick's Day celebration?