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Build better habits. One small step at a time. Are you tired of starting strong and burning out fast? Have you struggled to stay consistent, no matter how badly you want to change? Are your big goals overwhelming—and your progress invisible? It’s time to stop chasing intensity and start building consistency. Micro Habits, Massive Impact is a practical, no-fluff guide to behavior change that actually lasts.

Da advokat Mikael Andersen kommer hjem fra en rejse og finder en ung mand – kun iført pels – død i ægtesengen, mistænker han straks, at det må være hans kones elsker. Men psykiater Nina Berle er tilsyneladende lige så overrasket som sin mand. Til gengæld er Ninas bror Jakob Berle, der er landets landbrugsminister, blevet set i sin søsters hus samme dag, som liget blev fundet. Politiinspektør Wilma Lind og hendes efterforskningsteam har et problem. Selv om spor på gerningsstedet peger på Jakob Berle, må de ikke efterforske et medlem af regeringen.

A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below.

When you’re the baby of the family, you expect to receive the most cuddles, the most praise, the most attention. But what will baby do when that doesn’t happen? This little girl has some choice words for those whom she thinks have stolen her spotlight on her mother's birthday. For ages 5 up. Listen to the very end for the bonus interview with narrator, Evelyn Naudus! The Birthday Present is brilliantly read by nine-year old Evelyn Naudus in her first full audiobook debut and directed by her mother, Audie Award-winning narrator Natalie Naudus.

When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming self-sufficient. But in truth, it’s not the ‘good life’ she’d imagined, as three hours of digging barely yield a single straggly carrot. Worse, her teenage daughter is acting up, and her husband seems to find every strange excuse under the hot French sun to disappear. So when her friend entreats her to join the new book club she’s forming, Leah decides it’s something she will do for herself.

With The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep, Dr. Harvey Karp - arguably the world’s foremost parenting expert and best-selling author of The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block - offers invaluable tips on how to help your newborn, infant, or toddler get the rest they need, while debunking some of the most widely held myths about babies and sleep.

As the sun rises over the little Provence village where single mother Adeline has escaped with her little girl Lily, she breathes deeply. This is their new beginning. Here, she can forget the lies her family told her. Here, she can start her story again. Later she opens the door to the town’s tiny bookstore, where she is to work, ready to meet the mysterious owner Monique for the first time. She expected an ordinary bookshop. But this bookstore feels somehow different… magical. Breathing in the smell of books, she feels a jolt of something. It feels like a new chapter beginning.

Five thrilling tales of mystery, mayhem, and murder from an exceptional quintet of Edgar, CWA Dagger, and National Book Award winners.

An absolute treat for the heart and mind, these 24 lectures demonstrate how to master the art of storytelling, offering insight into the process of crafting and delivering a tale to enhancing the stories you tell everyday-to your children at bedtime, in your conversational anecdotes, and in your presentations at work. Teachers, lawyers, clergy, coaches, parents, and anyone who wants to understand the power of stories to capture hearts and minds will benefit from these lessons.

To modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most people rarely think to question it, for good or for ill. But knowing what makes capitalism work - and what makes it fail - is crucial to understanding its long-term health and the vast implications for the global economy that go along with it.

A gripping collection of over 50 of the greatest short stories written by great British writers. 1."The Missing Years" by Barry Pain, 2. "His Brother's Keeper" by W. W. Jacobs, 3. "A Madman's Manuscript" by Charles Dickens, 4. "The House of Cobwebs" by Barry Pain, 5. "Old Fags" by Stacy Aumonier, 6. "A Long-Ago Affair" by John Galsworthy, 7. "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey, 8. "The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey, 9. "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain

In Dana Point, California, surf reports, sailing conditions, and real estate dominate the news… until the calm waters of this sleepy, seaside town are shattered when a woman's body washes up on the sand. Under the pressure of her first homicide case, new evidence surfacing in the supposed accidental death of her fiancé, and a seasoned partner who'd be happy to see her fail, Kat has more than enough on her plate… not to mention that troublesome problem she's been carefully hiding.

Fifty terrifying short stories from the great classic horror writers: 1. 'Pigeons from Hell' by Robert E. Howard 2. 'Pickman’s Model' by H. P. Lovecraft 3. 'The Horror Horn' by E. F. Benson 4. 'The Fearsome Touch of Death' by Robert E. Howard 5. 'The Terrible Old Man' by H. P. Lovecraft 6. 'The Step' by E. F. Benson 7. 'Dagon' by H. P. Lovecraft 8. 'The Dream Snake' by Robert E. Howard 9. 'Caterpillars' by E. F. Benson 10. 'The Clock' by W. F. Harvey 11. 'In the Forest of Villefore' by Robert E. Howard

After Eustace Borlsover’s blind uncle dies, the nephew receives in the mail the uncle's severed hand as part of his inheritance. It soon emerges that the hand is alive in some sense, intelligent and very mobile. Eustace and his secretary immediately assume the hand is evil, but to be honest it seems more mischievous than malevolent. Until, of course, Eustace nails the hand to a board and sticks it in a safe for several months, whereupon the hand seeks vengeance and a final showdown between men and appendage ensues.

Historien om hvordan der opstod forbindelse mellem vores verden og landet Narnia. Det hele begyndte, da onkel Andrew narrede Polly til at røre ved den magiske ring. Polly forsvinder til en anden verden, men hendes ven Digory tager efter hende for at få hende tilbage igen. Indlæst af Lars Lippert 2002.

De fire børn Peter, Susan, Edmund og Lucy finder ved en tilfældighed indgangen til det fortryllede land Narnia. I Narnia hersker den onde heks Jadis, som har ladet en evig vinter falde over landet. Da det lykkes heksen at tage et af børnene til fange, ser det sort ud. Men så kommer Aslan til hjælp - den mægtige løve, der skabte Narnia.

Den 11-årige Olive ved instinktivt, at hendes stedfar ikke har gode intentioner med de to søstre fra Choctaw-stammen, der er blevet anbragt i deres hjem. Da den ældste pige forsvinder, flygter Olive ud i skoven med den seksårige Nessa. Sammen drager de ud på en farefuld rejse til de barske Winding Stair Mountains for at finde hjælp, og undervejs møder de andre børn, der også har søgt tilflugt i skovene. Da parkbetjenten Valerie begynder på sit nye job ved Horsethief Trail National Park, drømmer hun om et stille liv med sin søn.

Denne fortælling begynder på en jernbanestation, hvor de fire søskende Peter, Susan, Edmund og Lucy sidder og venter på et tog. Pludselig føles det, som om nogen trækker i dem og i næste øjeblik er hele stationen forsvundet, og de er tilbage i det magiske land, Narnia. Men Narnia har sin egen tid, og der er hundrevis af år siden børnene var der sidst. Alt er anderledes. Menneskefolket Telmarinerne har erobret landet, dyr og træer er blevet gjort tavse, og dværge og faune er fordrevet.

This volume features William F Harvey's original undead hand story "The Beast with Five Fingers" that sparked many movies including Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead". Poe's classic "The Tell Tale Heart" is joined by Lovecraft's creepy tale of alienation "The Outsider", and a chilling Dickens ghost story "The Signalman".