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In 1973, the Wilcox family sets off to sail around the world aboard the 40-foot sailboat, Vela. Thirteen months later, they are shipwrecked on a coral reef, with surf tearing a huge hole into the side of their boat. With years invested in saving money, preparing the boat, and learning to navigate by the stars, parents Chuck and Dawn refuse to give up. Can they overcome the emotional, physical, and financial challenges to transform from castaways into circumnavigators?

Wendy Wood apresenta a fascinante ciência de como formamos hábitos e mostra como desbloquear a mente para realizar as mudanças que buscamos. Ela explica que 43% das nossas ações não são escolhas conscientes. Fazemos automaticamente, por hábito. É assim que respondemos às pessoas ao nosso redor, decidimos o que comprar, quando e como nos exercitar, comer ou beber. Mas sempre que queremos melhorar algo em nós mesmos, contamos com a força de vontade, na esperança de que a determinação seja capaz de promover mudanças positivas. Por isso é que falhamos tantas vezes.

A domestic strategy and only one language means lost revenue and missed opportunities. Your business could be exploding on a global level. If your business wants international growth across borders into global industries, pursuing buyers without considering their culture or by using a machine translation hurts your efforts. A solid strategy with high-quality, culturally adapted content and translations connects you to prospective buyers online and leads to completed sales.

The first comprehensive mentoring guide written specifically for 21st-century career building, this entrepreneurial approach to work relationships addresses the key issues of our time. Using simple tools and proven strategies, this essential guide shows you how to leverage the relationships you already have to map out a new developmental network that grows with your career.

An amateur sleuth B&B owner, a weekend wedding, and a dead body in a suitcase. Another murder mystery in the cozy beach town of Sweetfern Harbor.... Brenda Rivers welcomes guests to Sheffield Bed and Breakfast with her reservationist, Allie Williams. In the meantime, everyone is excited for the wedding of Brenda’s father and her chef scheduled for that afternoon. Allie greets the booked guests and takes note of one who hits her the wrong way. Patrick Anderson is outspoken and rude. Few if any in his life like him.

Do you sometimes experience sudden, overwhelming emotions when you’re in public? And have you ever felt as though the weight of the world is on your shoulders? Chances are high you may have a special gift, and that is the gift of being an empath. Empaths have the ability to take on the feelings of others and feel them as if they are their own, including emotional pain and even physical pain. Due to the high sensitivity of feelings around them, an empath can end up thinking about the needs of every other person yet their own.

Why would a ghost choose to remain Earth-bound for hundreds of years? Ann Warren Little vividly depicts her childhood in England: her perilous journey to Colonial America aboard a Mayflower ship; five decades living and loving at Plimoth Plantation; and her shocking death during King Philip's War. Learn why this broken-hearted ghost continually refuses to go home.

Jesus Everlasting includes thought-provoking questions, journaling space, and unique explorations of six hymns to draw listeners closer to their Savior. This is a timely invitation for women to understand more of who Jesus is, was, and will be for every tomorrow.

Newspaper reporter Cali Stevens boldly walks into Sheriff Nick Justice's office with one goal in mind: to find her best friend who disappeared while vacationing. When the no-nonsense sheriff refuses to give her details of the investigation, Cali takes matters into her own hands and starts her own investigation. She never intends to fall for the sheriff...or into the clutches of Coral Isle's first serial kidnapper.

Eva Walker is a 17-year-old math genius. And if that doesn't do wonders for her popularity, there's another thing that makes it even worse: When she touches another person or anything that belongs to them - from clothes to textbooks to cell phones - she sees a vision of their emotions. She can read a person's fears and anxieties, their secrets and loves...and what they have yet to learn about calculus. This is helpful for her work as a math tutor, but it means she can never get close to people. Eva avoids touching anyone and everyone.

“You are my heiress now.” Malaxia, the most formidable witch on earth, chooses young Liana as her successor. But does Liana want to be the most powerful and destructive witch in the world? Liana gets help from a most unlikely source: Jettaret, vicomte, crusader, murderer, lost soul.

Everyone in Savannah, Georgia knows the Remington estate. The rambling old house bears blatant testimony not just to the esteemed family's vast wealth, but to unbearable tragedy and whispered secrets. Soon, the Remington's will all come home to this secluded plantation nestled deep in the shadow of moss-covered trees. Then they will have to die...one by one... For Charlotte Remington Maitland, the past five years have been a haze of pain and loss.

A wedding dress passed down through generations unravels the tangled threads of three women's lives in a novel of friendship, family, and forgiveness from the USA Today best-selling author of Ten Beach Road.

This close-up look at some of the world's most exciting vehicles introduces listeners to choppers, dragsters, monster trucks, and more. Each audiobook examines multiple facets of these vehicles, including their history, an engaging description of their most important parts, and the technology behind them. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this high-octane series is sure to thrill vehicle enthusiasts.

Fears. Faults. Failures. Frailties. Every woman at some point wonders, "Do I have to get past all my weaknesses before God can use me?" Wendy Pope is happy to tell listeners: No! You don’t have to overcome, correct, rise above, or get strong before you are qualified to be part of God’s plan. He can use you right now. You are a worthwhile possibility. In Hidden Potential, listeners see that they can be faithful, even in fear; included in God’s plans, even in weaknesses; worth something, even in failure; and valuable, even in pain.

Staring into his frightened blue eyes, investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw Haines vows to help this silent little boy who is unable - or unwilling - to communicate his past. Though her own roots remain shrouded in mystery, she relies on tangible DNA evidence to help fellow foundlings uncover theirs...until a remarkable twist of fate presents a stranger bearing an eerily familiar childhood souvenir.

The resurgence of the Irish brotherhood. An unidentified woman's body spilling out of a steamer trunk with freezer burn on her arms. The beginning of a new export industry for New Zealand that brought the country out of recession. An untimely earthquake. And a case with too many threads for Mr. Hardy.

Convicted criminal Skylar Hart is determined to salvage her reputation. When evidence of a crime points in her direction, she fears she will be the prime suspect. As Skylar sets out to prove her innocence, she becomes an unwilling participant in a deadly game of chance and finds herself tossed into the arms of the one man who has the power to bury her or to save her. Security specialist Slade Marshal is determined to gather evidence against the thief who wreaked havoc on his family.

The stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul will encourage listeners to stay upbeat, because there's always a brighter way to look at life. This collection includess 31 Stories about family, courage, and how to listen.

From an author of the best-selling women’s health classic Our Bodies, Ourselves comes a bracingly forthright memoir about a sixty-year friendship across racial and class divides. Sanford, who is white, explores her formation in a narrow world of privilege, lifts up the writings and social movements that changed her life, and reveals realities of domestic service rarely acknowledged by white employers.