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Award-winning jokesmith and self-confessed idiot Stephen K. Amos teams up with some of the world's sharpest comic minds to compile a dummies' guide to being a modern human. From raising children and having a mid-life crisis, to first impressions and facing your fears, who better than a bunch of comedians to lead us through life's existential maze?

Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals of the body, from what it means to give consent to how we grapple with demons internal and external, Woman, Eat Me Whole is an entirely fresh and powerful look at womanhood and personhood in a shifting world. Moving between Ghana and the United States, Diaka probes those countries’ ever-changing cultural expectations and norms while investigating the dislocation and fragmentation of a body—and a mind—so often restless or ill at ease.

Dos ciudades en una, o al menos lo fueron durante siglos: la boscosa Buda, que desde su castillo sobre las colinas atesora las mejores vistas de, al otro lado del Danubio, el aún más monumental barrio de Pest. Algo de dual tiene también su espíritu. En Navidad, a su porte imperial se suman los mercadillos pero también las fiestas de luces láser en alguno de sus balnearios centenarios.

Nurse Cami Walsh meets an interesting man the hard way when she sideswipes cyclist Holt Ellis on his way down Lookout Mountain. Holt survives the collision with shredded hopes of improving his dire state of unemployment, but Cami’s tender touch revives the man he longs to be. Cami’s son Mitch insists on substituting for Bicycle Man, a local hero who’s mysteriously gone missing, but she questions how Holt happens to know the delivery route for food distribution to the area’s homeless.

Despite having what others would call a happy life, Bree Sparrow dreamed of more. She would travel to Colorado, continue her education and spend much of her adult years as a social worker. After the death of her mother, many heartbreaks and short-term love affairs, she knew this was the time to break away. While hiking through the Ozark mountains, Bree Finds a friend in the most unlikely place, inspiring her to make this place the setting of her new beginning. However, a new beginning never comes without a price. Eventually, the past will catch up with us all. And we must atone.

Lacey Woodhouse arrives at River Ranch to deliver the bank’s notice of default for unmade mortgage payments, but plunges into a horse trough and meets the struggling owner, rancher Wray Benson, up close and personal. When a bouquet of field daisies finds its way to her car windshield weeks later, she decides to throw caution — and conflict of interest — to the wind. Time in the country charms Lacey and when she learns of Wray’s support of an ailing family member, it softens her heart, leading to sweet romance.

Growing up in a large Nigerian family in South London, Stephen K. Amos learnt early on to find the humour in every situation. Raised by his parents and extended family of 'aunts' and 'uncles', I Used to Say My Mother was Shirley Bassey tells the story of Stephen's chaotic upbringing in the carnival atmosphere of the late '70s and early '80s. Stephen describes his awkward beginnings as the only black kid in his class, where he told everyone his mum was Shirley Bassey to break the ice.

Jedediah Wenger lost his family to an Englishe drunk driver. He has yet to put his life back together including the long-forgotten courting of the Bishop's daughter, Felicity Troyer. When he's suddenly faced with the task of helping the fading mid-western town of Prosperity survive, he realizes the task is greater than the town or the District can overcome.

Detective Jill Brennan ignored her ex's phone call, and the next day he was dead. Searching for clues in an unsettling asylum, she's appalled when her boss insists it's a suicide. Plagued by guilt and far too close to the case, Brennan knows that the hunt for the truth could risk her career.

Kirsten Bergman, writer for Harrisburg Magazine, is busy checking off the boxes on her Christmas lists. Her boss and secret crush, Richard Collins, unexpectedly assigns her to a story in Amish country, which seems like he’s setting her up for failure. But is he actually giving her the greatest gift of all?

To the English, she’s "that Amish girl". To the Amish, she’s that girl who went chasing her "dream man". Now, unable to leave the city, what chance does she have to find her perfect match?

Have you ever looked in the mirror and hate what you saw? Have you ever been too hard on yourself or starved because “you’re just not pretty enough"? If you can answer yes to any of those questions, then it’s time you change your perception of yourself. It is time to take back your life and to take back your beauty. For too long, the beauty industry has told women how to look, dress, and act. Enough is enough! You are beautiful as a size 10 the same way you are beautiful as a size 2.

A captivating memoir about an Amish boy and his relentless search for peace with God. His early childhood recollections are heartwarming and charming but suddenly it all changed, his life unraveled before his eyes leaving him reeling in confusion and despair. Abuse, cancer, and an accident that left his brother in a wheelchair seemed to steal away even the faintest hope for what he searched for most, peace with God. One last blow that threatened to take him out was precisely what the Almighty vused to redeem him.

The various crises we experience in society and culture today, at their root, reveal a spiritual problem: a profound lack of meaning. The mystical truths revealed in scripture can surely help. “Entering the Desert”, introduces the listener to principles of awareness, deep listening, and contemplation as essential for “hearing” what Scripture has to say. Part Two details the importance of mystery and struggle in the process of healing from any past or present wounds. Part Three explores the “undivided heart” that is possible when we come to know God in silence and stillness.

Amish stories from Barnville, Pennsylvania, population 1,300. This is a bundle of the first five audiobooks of the series.

"Wo die Schakale heulen" ist eine Geschichtensammlung, die den Hörer vom ersten Wort an packt, ihn die Spannung und atmosphärische Dichte fühlen lässt, das ganz besondere Klima, das seit der Gründung Israels über diesem Staat schwebt. Einige Erzählungen handeln von der Liebe, andere vom Hass. Und oft vermischen sich diese beiden Gefühle, die so alt sind wie die Menschheit, und rufen Konflikte hervor, die kaum auszuhalten sind und für die es keine Lösung zu geben scheint. Amos Oz konfrontiert den Hörer mit Fragen, die so aktuell und drängend sind wie zur Zeit ihrer Entstehung.

From South Africa to Aviemore, this recording spans a year in the life of a busy and talented stand-up comedian. Whether it's the Edinburgh Fringe Festival or the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Stephen K Amos will lavish his charm and cutting wit on everyone lucky enough to witness this brilliant comic.

Soon after Benjamin Netanyahu began his second term as Israel’s prime minister in March 2009, he ordered the country’s military to develop a plan for a unilateral military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The air force and the intelligence branch went to work immediately; according to Ehud Olmert, Netanyahu’s predecessor, the preparations alone would ultimately cost the country nearly $3 billion.

Across the Middle East, the inevitable question is whether Washington’s apparent willingness to live with North Korean nuclear weapons foreshadows what is to come in Iran.

In this inspirational program, Wally Amos, founder of the Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie Company, will help you unlock your dreams and experience success in your life. You'll learn to embrace love, let go of fear. and accept yourself, and you'll also learn not to get bogged down with expectations.