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Fifteen-year-old Charlotte is restlessly coming of age in early twentieth-century Basra, Iraq. The daughter of a Seattle doctor and missionary, Charlotte craves an adventure of her own making. Just the thought of the steppes, hills, valleys, and the winding river stirs Charlotte’s imagination and sends her compass of flight dancing. So, preferring the wondrous unknown to solicitude, Charlotte packs up copies of her father’s Gospels and a statue of the Baby Jesus and runs away.

UnCeiling You Podcast Are you a woman looking to break barriers, redefine success, and embrace the boldness of your ambition? UnCeiling You is the podcast for women who are ready to silence their inner critic, tackle workplace challenges, and unlock their full potential. Who Is This Podcast For? UnCeiling You is tailored for ambitious women across various stages of life: -> The mid-career professional looking to advance. -> The aspiring entrepreneur ready to take bold steps. -> The working mom balancing career and family. -> Women navigating workplace dynamics, self-doubt, and ambition. This ...

Family road trips hold a unique appeal as they offer a chance for families to disconnect from their daily routines and embark on shared adventures. The journey itself becomes an opportunity for bonding, as hours spent in close quarters foster conversations, storytelling, and games that bring family members closer together. Additionally, facing the challenges of the road, navigating new places, and working together to overcome any obstacles can create lasting memories and a sense of camaraderie.

Learning should be fun. However, memorizing a list of vocabulary is rarely fun and usually ineffective. Even though you go through your flashcards a hundred times, by the next day, you’ve probably forgotten 50 percent of the vocabulary. But what if you could hear and see the vocabulary used over and over again in context? What if that context was a fun story that you would enjoy reading or listening to over and over again?

Frank Chess didn’t care for much in this world. Especially himself. So taking a job for local big shot Rhino Hulst was an easy choice. Each day drifted into the next: running Rhino’s crooked errands and blowing his meager pay on poker and the saloon. All because Rhino killed a man in cold blood, pinned it on Frank, and now holds the hangman’s rope over him. And who would give a damn? Frank came into town a drifter - a fiddlefoot. And when he finally remembers what it’s like to care about something, the town has no idea how much hell he’s about to bring down on them all.

Remember the stories your grandfather used to tell you about way back when? Remember laughing out loud as the stories got deeper? If you like to LOL, then this really is a book for you. Here you'll find some observations on life in general and people in particular, as seen through a collection of newspaper columns, presenting skewed, offbeat, semiserious, and sometimes amusing views of the world.

Deep in the jungles of Venezuela, mycologist Dr. Julia Fatheringham is engrossed in her study of native fungi. But what begins as a standard research trip quickly spirals into chaos when her associate’s erratic behavior results in his horrifying death. Soon, Julia makes a startling discovery: her partner was contaminated by an organism found only in insects. It alters the victim’s mind in alarming ways, with an invariably deadly outcome. Julia is baffled by her discovery - this organism has never appeared in humans. It shouldn’t be possible. The infection has jumped species.

It is time to take your manifesting to new heights! Most books overdo it; this book cuts to the chase and, at the same time, gives you names of people and other things you can do if you want to go the extra mile.

Something is hidden beneath the shifting sands of Middle Egypt, and its discovery will bring humanity to the edge of oblivion. Archaeologist Gail Turner stumbles upon the most incredible find in living memory, a find that the ruthless Seth Mallus will do anything to get hold of. Caught up in a web of deceit, kidnapping, and murder, Gail struggles to unravel the mystery of the Amarna Stickman as the world around her descends into chaos.

With a heart for ministry, Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Mark Hall drills right to the heart of the matter by crafting a powerful message around the story of the woman at the well found in the Gospel of John. In The Well, Hall uses stories from his own life and the lives of others to help us understand why even success-filled lives often seem empty and unsatisfying. Fortunately, Hall is able to direct us purposefully and compassionately to the only true well.

In 2005 London, two teenage boys commit a crime so horrendous that the entire nation is shocked and outraged. When Abigail Riley's body is found in an underground shelter, DS Fraser Harvey finds himself hunting her killers--whose depravity is matched only by their naivety. Eleven years later, when the young murderers are released to faraway countries with new identities, Harvey remains haunted by the case, convinced that one--or both--will kill again.

Breaking the conventional idea, I wish to reach and convey to my listeners that there should be no shying away from this issue. We should treat this problem as no different than other diseases like diabetes, typhoid, etc,. The longer we hesitate in curing this problem, the stronger it becomes. People with this disease remain unknown, just because people don't accept the fact that they have a sexual disorder. Please forget about your ego for a moment and start doing something about this.

Hey, you like movies, don’t ya? We love movies. That’s why we pit them against each other in brutal competition! Welcome to High & Low Movie Show, the podcast that compares two movies connected by a theme, one of them a “high” and the other a “low”, whatever that means. After many bits and much banter, only one comes out on top to reign supreme. Join Luke, Mitchell, and Vonn as they explore movies of every stripe: blockbusters, classics, offbrand knockoffs, inexplicable curios, and more. There’s no corner of the film world they won’t explore. If you want to revisit old ...

A fabled house. A fabulous fortune. Beautiful, identical twins...a tale of dark shadows and extraordinary deception. Dark shadows fall across the golden summer of 1886. Naive country girl Ida Garfield longs to escape the farm. When Miss Matilda Gregory, the elegant mistress of Summersby House, offers Ida employment as a housemaid, Ida leaps at the chance. Yet it's not for her servant's skills that she's wanted. It's her inquisitiveness.... Before Ida starts her first day, however, Miss Gregory is found dead.

In this podcast, Friends Brad and Luke talk all about the crazy world of football management. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eye Contact is the story of a photographer's decade-long journey in search of meaning and manhood. An experienced freelancer with the New York Times, author Luke Sharrett treats listeners to a behind-the-scenes look at covering the White House and flying aboard Air Force One. Despite achieving professional success at a young age, he is haunted by a feeling that he simply doesn't belong. He can't seem to outrun a nagging fear that he doesn't have what it takes to succeed in life. As he navigates his career, he begins searching for answers. Who am I? Where do I belong?

Pyralis’ boy is nine years old. A simple fact only in contention if you ask him. His actions today seem a little unstable. Not knowing what day it is, claiming conversations that have never happened, asking Hadriel if he's going to the forest again. Hadriel has no intention of going to the forest. He just wants to try cooking a damn fish.

Faith Driven Investor is a growing movement of business leaders, fund managers, investors, and pastors who are driven by their faith. We believe that God owns it all and that he cares deeply about how we steward our investments. Our vision is for a world where Christ's followers can pursue excellent investments that allow for financial returns and Gospel-centered transformation. Every investment has an impact. What's yours?

The intention of the pod is to speak to pioneers who are trying to change the world positively through their actions. I hope the inspiring stories of the guests can help light a spark in the listeners to help them find their truth and the message they were born to deliver.

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