When a novel coronavirus hit the wet markets of China in December 2019, the world was not prepared. The virus spread like wildfire and within a few months, it had gone global. The pathophysiology of COVID-19 garners much attention in healthcare settings, but illness is not limited to its biological impact—the pandemic’s effects are a mosaic of social, economic, political, environmental, and evolutionary influences. The rapid spread of COVID-19 led to major global changes that compromised e...

How could a love that feels so right ever be wrong?Shane Wilder: pro surfer, dream chaser, thief of my heart—and completely off-limits.It was infatuation at first sight. On our first date, he took me to watch the fireworks. It was a magical night of stolen kisses and whispered confessions under the stars. But it all came to a screeching halt when he asked the one question I'd been dreading: "How old are you, Remy?"Right guy, wrong time.There...

One wedding. One reluctant bodyguard. One dangerously inconvenient attraction…Penelope Lee didn't want a new bodyguard, especially not a brooding, battle-hardened vampire who would rather be anywhere else. But when her assigned protector is murdered just before her sister's wedding, she's left with no choice.Enter Dahlia St Clair, commander of the vampire-hunter army and the last person who should be stuck on glorified babysitting duty. She's there to drink...

Isolated. Unloved. Cursed.Calathea Everhart, once a thriving princess, is now a cursed queen, haunted by a witch's dark promise. After centuries of solitude with only a few stray human companions, she's doomed to watch the life around her grow and change while she stays the same.Outside the border of her lands, a village has come to fear her, claiming a beast lives within the woods, and the only way to appease it is to feed it. Calathea doesn't interfere wi...

In the middle of a crowded bar in our small Alaskan town, my estranged wife snuggles up to me as if we’re still a happy couple.Don’t get me wrong, we were a happy couple—before she walked out on me a year ago. We were the high school sweethearts everyone thought were destined to be together forever. We thought so too, which is why we married shortly after graduation.We had a good marriage. Until she left me without any real explanation.Now, she’s back—and this is th...

A psychic prediction. A disappearing father. A world of secrets.Rose Aberdeen and Jahi Adams grow up half a continent apart. Rose in LA and Jahi in the small mountain town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas.Haunted by a singular devastating loss as a child, the mysterious disappearance of her brilliant, mercurial father, Rose grapples with heartache and self-doubt. Forging ahead, she becomes a clinical psychologist and marries a handsome, renegade surgeon...

"Rose, wer dich nicht liebt ..." Sie ist die bedeutungsvollste und wohl beliebteste aller Blumen: Die Rose zieht die Menschheit seit Urzeiten in ihren Bann. Der Botaniker Matthias Jacob Schlei-den geht ihrer Geschichte und Symbolik auf den Grund. Mit zahlreichen Verweisen aus der Literatur in Form von Gedichten, Sprüchen und Liedern begibt er sich auf Spurensuche in unterschiedlichsten Ländern, Kulturen und Epochen der Weltgeschichte.

The Rose-tree is an English fairy tale. A stepmother is very jealous of her stepdaughter. She tricks the girl and kills her. But nature takes revenge... The moral of the story is: what goes around, come around. Recommended for age 9+.

Welcome to the magic world of Grimm's fairy tales! Read one of the most romantic stories, Briar Rose! Briar Rose is a famous European fairy tale written by Brothers Grimm and also known as Sleeping Beauty (in other interpretations of this folk tale). This story has a well-known plot with a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, a handsome prince and, of course, a main ingredient of this fairy tale – true love. Briar Rose is a perfect bedtime story to read with your kids. Read it toget...

Curtis has grown tired of the cyclical nature his mind has become. He feels he's explored the whole landscape down to every nook and cranny. He wants to transcend way beyond the outline of his body and into what is ubiquitous, energy which is everywhere and takes no permanent shape. A god of sorts.

ARE YOU READY TO LISTEN TO SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR AND MUST-HAVE BEDTIME STORIES FOR YOUR CHILD? IF SO, THEN KEEP READING …Do you want easy to listen bedtime stories that will improve your child’s creativity?Or popular stories that will effectively put your child to sleep in no time?Then this is the right audiobook for you!In The Most Beloved Children's Bedtime Story Collection, you're going to discover a collection of the most beautiful classic fairy tales...

ARE YOU READY TO LISTEN TO SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR AND MUST-HAVE BEDTIME STORIES FOR YOUR CHILD? IF SO, THEN KEEP READING…Do you want easy to listen bedtime stories that will improve your child’s creativity?Or popular stories that will effectively put your child to sleep in no time?Then this is the right audiobook for you!In The Most Beloved Bedtime Stories for Kids - Volume 2, you're going to discover a collection of the most beautiful classic fairy tales ...