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In this audiobook program, world-renowned author and lecturer Joan Borysenko leads you through the specifics of three distinct forms of meditation (concentration, mindfulness, and a centering prayer) and discusses the common pitfalls that sabotage these practices.

Con una cucharale arrancaba los ojos a los cocodrilosy golpeaba el trasero de los monos. Con una cuchara. Fuego de siempre dormía en los pedernales y los escarabajos borrachos de anísolvidaban el musgo de las aldeas. Aquel viejo cubierto de setasiba al sitio donde lloraban los negrosmientras crujía la cuchara del rey y llegaban los tanques de agua podrida.

Finding True Happiness attempts to help people to identify and then reach for happiness. As Aristotle noted 2,400 years ago, happiness is the one thing we can choose for its own sake - everything else is chosen for the sake of happiness.

The first Olympic women's marathon and the battle for the right to run.

Her wedding day should have been the happiest day of Mavis Kendricks's life. Marrying handsome Sam, the youngest of the Farley boys, means joining the Farley clan, and there's nothing Mavis has ever wanted more than a family of her own. But the appearance of an unexpected guest ruins everything...and brings back painful memories Mavis would rather forget.

Cassie Wright, legendaria reina del porno en decadencia, decide culminar su carrera batiendo el récord mundial de polvos consecutivos con hombres distintos. Seiscientos, ni más ni menos. En una habitación repleta y ruidosa, los señores 72, 137 y 600 aguardan su turno para hacer historia. Cada uno de ellos espera que el breve encuentro con Cassie cambie sus vidas para siempre, pero, como en todas las novelas de Chuck Palahniuk, nada sale como esperaban.

La épica historia de una familia que emigró a Barcelona en busca de un sueño. En el año 1949 una familia pobre llega desde Murcia para instalarse en Barcelona. Trabajo no les faltará pero la lucha para mejorar su vida será dura y sin tregua. Carmen y sus hijos llegan a la Barcelona de 1949 para reunirse con Antonio, el padre de familia, que les espera despues de trabajar varios años en la ciudad.

Murder doesn’t set much colder than on the icy shores of Lake Ontario, where Jesse James is hot on the trail of a real estate scam that really has the feisty reporter steamed. This sleazy operation is behind a string of costly accidents - but it's no accident when Jesse wakes up, bandaged head to toe, in a hospital where everyone insists she’s Daphne Malcross, a young socialite with more connections and cash than common sense.

As with many of Ostrovsky's plays, the target of the author's satire is the merchant class and the inevitable corruption associated with mercantile endeavors. In Ostrovsky's bitterly realistic world, all personal encounters end in transactions, some humourous and some tragic.

The most beloved fairy tales of Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen, narrated by the very best of British stage and screen talent. Perfect for bedtime, the long car journey or rainy afternoons at home, let Andersen delight and enchant children (and adults) of all ages with characters that stand the test of time.

For the first time, The Secret Royals uncovers the remarkable relationship between the royal family and the intelligence community, from the reign of Queen Victoria to the death of Princess Diana. In an enthralling narrative, Richard J. Aldrich and Rory Cormac show how the British secret services grew out of persistent attempts to assassinate Victoria and then operated on a private and informal basis, drawing on close personal relationships between senior spies, the aristocracy and the monarchy.

Ten-year-old Miranda Stevens approaches the fifth-grade classroom with trepidation. She must face the same snobby classmates that she met when she came to Montana at the end of the last school year to attend this small rural school, and worst of all, Christopher Bergman, the classroom bully who takes special delight in making Miranda's life miserable. Friendship, loyalty, courage, and lesson's learned the hard way are all part of Miranda's story as she lives with her grandparents on their dairy farm. If only she had a horse of her very own, she thinks, nothing else would matter.

Un recorrido histórico por los aspectos del arte y la sociedad azteca más destacados. La historia de sus dioses, sus templos, costumbres, mitos...

When Matt Reed returns from Vietnam, eager to get back to the Wyoming family ranch and forget the horrors of war, he finds the ranch stripped of livestock and his father a mere shadow of his former self. The new bank president, Paul Pringle, is a former high school nemesis and the man who married Matt's girlfriend after Matt was sent to a distant and unpopular war. Determined to foreclose - and gain access to the Reed Ranch's rich mineral deposits - Pringle gives Matt a very short time to raise a whole lot of money.

Raiders of the Lost Ark meets The Maltese Falcon in this Maizie Albright star detective New Year’s Eve action-and-adventure-styled, humorous, romantic crime caper. Before champagne toasts and the Big Peach drops, Maizie has 12 hours to reprise her most detested role to protect her family from old acquaintances best forgotten and never brought to mind. Will these ruthless villains pop Maizie’s cork before the clock strikes 12? Or worse yet, drop the ball on her baby sister?

The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story Short show Jeffrey Archer’s great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tale. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession - and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar - to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty’s diplomatic service - but for a good cause.

Are there "public arguments-reasons that can be given that do not presuppose agreement on religious grounds or common religious commitments that can guide our thoughts and actions, as well as our laws and public policies? In Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues, Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer sets out, in a brief, yet highly understandable and lucid style, 10 basic principles that must govern the reasonable person's thinking and acting about life issues.

Hace veinte años, en un campamento de verano, cuatro adolescentes se adentraron de noche en el bosque. Dos fueron hallados asesinados y a los otros dos no volvieron a verlos nunca más. Para cuatro familias la vida cambió para siempre. Dos décadas después, está a punto de cambiar otra vez. El luto de Paul Copeland, fiscal del condado de Essex, Nueva Jersey, por la muerte de su hermana apenas comienza a remitir.

El embarazo es un momento especial en la vida de la mujer en el que se dan muchos cambios de forma acelerada. El cuerpo va adaptándose para acoger y permitir el desarrollo de una nueva vida que crece día a día, pero también cambia la mente de la madre, que se prepara para proteger y cuidar a su bebé. Un proceso en el que es normal que surjan dudas y temores.

A pesar de su apariencia de verdad objetiva, científica e indiscutible, la economía está plagada de falsedades. Sus medias verdades o patentes mentiras, sin embargo, no se dicen por error ni por gusto, sino para causar un determinado efecto en quien las escucha. En nuestro tiempo, ese efecto es evidente: justificar y propiciar la mayor concentración de ingresos y riqueza en unas pocas manos y hacer que la gente se resigne al silencio mientras se restringen sus derechos y se le impone un modelo económico, además de injusto, ineficiente.