"When a person has full Cups, they feel good and have a strong sense of fulfilment. When their Cups are emptying, a person feels unease and is driven to choose behaviours that will fill those Cups."- Sandi PhoenixThe Phoenix Cups: A Cup filling story, is a theoretical framework delivered through an endearing tale that will enrich your relationships and increase your wellbeing.Frank desperately wants to reconnect wi...

“Hey babe, I’ve got a great idea! Why don’t we take the little fishing boat over to Spain with us? It’ll be really easy and we’ll have loads of fun! What d’ya reckon? Yet another mini adventure? Come along with me, you know you’ll love it! What could possibly go wrong?”

Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: The Portable Atheist will engage you every step of the way. From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, comes this provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages with original pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens makes the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of influential voices—pas...

First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin. Classics of modern fiction, these novellas capture 1931 Berlin—charming, grotesque, and dangerous, as Hitler was ascending to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters, in particular the nightclub performer Sally Bowles, whose misadventures were popularized on stage and screen in I Am a Camera and Cabaret...

In this short story, Maeve doesn't remember her past, but that doesn't slow her down when it comes to getting up to speed on the dangers under the Tarnished Sun. Join us today and discover the wonders -- and terrors -- of an Earth ravaged by interdimensional apocalypse and the fall of several civilizations after ours is long gone.

"This baker's dozen of speeches capture historic moments and feature some of the most compelling orators of all time—from Socrates, Queen Elizabeth, Patrick Henry, and Abraham Lincoln to such twentieth century icons as Susan B. Anthony, Winston Churchill, and Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition to the recreation of speeches, this collection includes original recordings by four American presidents— Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and most recently, Barack Obama. Inclu...

From master storyteller Frederick Forsyth—best-selling author of The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File--comes this collection of five suspenseful gems.Justice does not always come easily, and it comes in many guises. On the seedier side of London, a shopkeeper witnesses a brutal beating in "The Veteran" (read by Patrick Macnee). In a better neighborhood, a famous London auction house is scammed in "The Art of the Matter" (also read by Macnee). The additional s...

Over the course of one pivotal year, events that shaped American and world history took place: The North Vietnamese launched the Tet offensive. Prague Spring began. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Students protested across the United States and around the world. Robert Kennedy was assassinated. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago was besieged by riots. Apollo 11 launched. And Richard Nixon was elected president of the United States. In the same year, Black athletes rai...

Ich dachte, wir würden eine Freundschaft aufbauen, doch langsam erkenne ich, dass ich mich verliebt habe.Die einfachen Dinge im Leben haben mich schon immer am meisten gereizt. Wie mein Vater wollte ich der örtliche Sheriff werden. Heiraten und Kinder kriegen. Mir ein Leben in Forestville aufbauen.Ich habe meine Träume verwirklicht … auf gewisse Weise. Aber es ist nicht so gelaufen, wie ich es mir vorgestellt habe.Jetzt bin ich achtundvierzig, allei...

The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth. All of these poets are featured in this collection of more than 50 poems read by award-winning actors that include Joan Allen, Julie Christie, Stephen Fry, Glenda Jackson, and Jude Law.

On board Phoenix Airlines Flight 318, Andrew Goddard awakens to discover the cockpit empty and all the passengers unconscious.In the Colorado Monarch Mountains, an old gold miner discovers a fiendish stone mask sealed inside an obsidian chamber.Sam Reilly has just three weeks to find out how the two unlikely events are connected, and the secret behind it might change everything we thought we knew about humanity.

Das Dümmste, was ein Hochstapler tun kann, ist, sich in den Mann zu verlieben, der die Macht hat, ihn hinter Gitter zu bringen.Nordin hält sich für einen modernen Robin Hood und verteilt den Reichtum jener an die Armen um, die ihn seiner Meinung nach nicht verdienen. Sein ‚Job‘ macht Spaß, ist aufregend und beansprucht all seine Talente und Begabungen.Leider sieht das nicht jeder so, FBI-Agent Tavin Donley eingeschlossen. Er nennt Nordin einen gewöhnlichen ...