In a small town in the North of Romania, Mara spends her days selling fruit at a little marketplace close to the train halt. She lives with her uncle Dan and her tough grandfather who demands that they all breathe under the same rule: Never give anything for free. Once Mara discovers a gift that allows her to experience other people's memories through their belongings, she struggles to stay loyal to this principle. In order to keep the family business going, Mara tries to find a balance between her need to life a fuller life and her duty at the fruit stall. She latches onto stranger's memories imbedded in their old items and relives their past as a way to escape her current life. Market of Passing Lives is a story of fleeting encounters, hidden gifts, and the weight of the past. It explores the invisible threads that connect us to one another and the memories we leave behind, even when we've long since moved on.

John C. Maxwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author, helps readers take the first steps to living a life that matters inIntentional Living. We all have a longing to be significant. We want to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful. But many people wrongly believe significance is unattainable. They worry that it's too big for them to achieve. That they have to have an amazing idea, be a certain age, have a lot of money, or be powerful or famous to make a real difference. The good news is that none of those things is necessary for you to achieve significance and create a lasting legacy. The only thing you need to achieve significance is to be intentional. And to do that, all you need to do is start. You can't make an impact sitting still and doing nothing. Every major accomplishment that's ever been achieved started with a first step. Sometimes it's hard; other times it's easy, but no matter what, you have to do it if you want to get anywhere in life. In Intentional Living, John Maxwell will help you take that first step, and the ones that follow, on your personal path through a life that matters.

It was Michelles dream to live without money and one day it became true. She was also curious how it will be when we can't sell and buy anything any more without the mark of the biest (666), how it is written in the chapter revelations in the Bible. So she lived one year nearly completely without money in Southern France and wrote down her experiences which she published on her vagabond blog in german on the Internet. This is the first time Silvia Fischer is publishing her adventurous life during the period when she lived with 88,- Euro during the whole year 2009 in english as a book. Read her testimony how she succeeded! You'll find more of the author and blogger Silvia Fischer who publishes mostly in german on the Internet here: https://linktr.ee/SilviaFischer. There you can find her book about her adventurous life without money among other interesting things in german too.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long. This is what Pablo Neruda writes, but who and why do we remember? This anthology examines how we experience life and relationships through our five senses: smell, sight, sound, taste, and touch. But more importantly, how do we remember when we have loved and lost? Embark on a journey through the body and mind as the story unfolds of the father's and daughters whose relationship flourished and failed, and maybe as it restores again. Eat your way through burnt toast and slick sushi spines. Listen to the cicadas and screaming. Smell the ocean and gasoline down the burning pavement. Touch a beloveds hand and feel its grip around your throat. But most importantly, see the life as it unfolds, for one day it might be over and nothing remains but the memories left in its wake. This is an exploration of what prevails at the end of love.

Noemi moves to Scotland to study at the University of Edinburgh. But Noemi is no ordinary student. Noemi is a Shadowreader. Disguised as a fortuneteller, she uses her ability to rid unsuspecting customers of their money. At the Leith Witchcraft Market, she picks the wrong victim though. The seemingly inconspicuous woman who hires her for her services has no shadow. Oblivious to the danger for herself and everyone around, Noemi follows the mysterious woman to unravel her dark secret. On her journey, Noemi not only gets to know the local coven but also falls in love head over heels, just to realise that she is about to lose everything again. Noemi must admit to herself who she is and what her powers are capable of, or an ancient creature from the Otherworld will take everything she learned to love from her... For readers of Leigh Bardugo and fans of "The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue" by V.E. Schwab.

A young woman walks into a woods she's been familiar with since her childhood days and stumbles upon something she never knew was there. Getting to know the hidden whimsical world of the forest leads her to discover impossible truths and a fate she could never have foreseen. Who is the key to her destiny and what do paintbrushes and canvases have to do with it?

While predominantly a work of fiction, this tale is based on a real event that took place during the Balkan War of the 1990s. The civil war around Sarajevo is the backdrop to an unexpected love story. We follow the fortunes of a British comedian who travels to the besieged city to bring some light relief to the suffering citizens. Once there, he is invited to help run an unusual contest designed to bring some normality to the citizen's desperate, war-torn lives. This short story is taken from a collection called 'Fonts', where each story is prompted by the name of a font.