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Author, filmmaker and conservationist Roger Deakin first came to fame with his best-selling book Waterlog, which brought wild swimming into the mainstream and pioneered the 'new nature writing' genre. Published posthumously, his second travelogue, Wildwood, and collected journals, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm, were also hailed as classics.

A fox making a name for herself in a wolf's world. I'm Kira Fairwood - fox shifter, bane of the werewolves, and also their employee. My job isn't just a paycheck. It's a way to ensure my unborn niece's heritage won't work against her when she grows up. So I dive right into bag a hot alpha werewolf who's using his bar as a front to murder human women. Unfortunately, I soon discover Thom is being framed. Then the true murderer begins to hunt the hunters. Can I keep my family safe by continuing to follow orders like a wolf?

Torino, 1935. Mancano poche settimane all'uscita del nuovo numero della rivista di gialli Saturnalia. Anita è intenta a dattilografare con grande attenzione: ormai ama il suo lavoro, e non solo perché Sebastiano Satta Ascona, che le detta la traduzione di racconti americani pieni di sparatorie e frasi a effetto, è vicino a lei. Molto vicino a lei.

People have been talking about selling the same way for years. They might use different phrasing, but they’ve been saying the same things. “Don’t take no for an answer”! “Always be closing"! “You’re either born to sell, or you’re not". Well, guess what, times have changed. You don’t have to sell like that anymore! And no, you don’t have to be born with “the sales gene”. Anybody can succeed in sales, and better yet, everybody will find more success by being themselves.

When Riley Raynor, a 50-year-old eye surgeon, is smitten with the painting of a dancer, it sets in motion a deeply intimate journey across three countries in search of the one thing missing in her life. Ana, a quirky mother figure and best friend who hilariously drives Riley to the brink of insanity, is devoted and true-blue. Young hip Sara turns Riley upside down and inside out, challenging her views of age-gap relationships. Quinn, the mysterious artist who painted the portrait of the dancer that hangs in Riley’s bedroom, brings an entirely new and unexpected challenge.

Bring on the bug spray, because to prevail, Josie's going to have to face her greatest fear. Josie's not a brave person, and she's especially scared of spiders. Imagine her surprise when she finds herself attracted to not one, but two, larger than life men. Clint and Brandon both want the timid mouse who's come to work for them - and their beasts are chafing to mark her - but when she can't decide between them, there's only one thing to do - share her.

An absolutely fascinating, trailblazing and early work of feminism and social realism! This novel reflects the important sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Here, women are portrayed as "odd" and marginal in relation to an ideal. Set in a smoggy London, our heroines range from the idealistic, financially autonomous Mary Barfoot; to the Madden sisters who struggle to get by in low paying jobs.

Dietro un ciuffo di capelli neri e vestiti altrettanto scuri, Vani nasconde un viso da ragazzina e una innata antipatia verso il resto del mondo. Eppure proprio la vita degli altri è il suo pane quotidiano. Perché Vani ha un dono speciale: da piccoli indizi che sembrano insignificanti, coglie l'essenza di una persona, riesce a mettersi nei suoi panni, pensare e reagire come avrebbe fatto lei. Un'empatia profonda, un intuito raffinato, uno spirito di osservazione fuori dal comune, sono le sue caratteristiche.

This is a companion audiobook to Mary Alice Monroe's novel Swimming Lessons, the sequel to The Beach House. In the novel, the listeners witness a young mother, Toy, writing a journal for her daughter, Little Lovie. This is the journal Toy is writing. This journal explains the nesting cycle of sea turtles and the natural life along the Southeastern coast, including local shore birds, shells, and the sea turtle hospital. Adults and children will enjoy the information and the journal with or without the novel.

"A Little Princess" is a beloved classic of English children's literature. Captain Crewe, a wealthy young English widower, enrolls his seven-year-old daughter Sara, who has been living in India, at Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London, in order to prepare her for a future life in society. Crewe dotes on his daughter, ordering and paying for her special treatment at the school, such as her own room fitted with extra luxuries, her own maid, and her own carriage for rides.

Un'autrice amatissima dalla stampa e dai lettori "Deve scrivere nell'ombra. I libri sono il suo rifugio. Perché loro hanno tutte le risposte". A Vani basta notare un tic, una lieve flessione della voce, uno strano modo di camminare per sapere cosa c'è nella testa delle persone. Una empatia innata che Vani mal sopporta, visto il suo odio per qualunque essere vivente le stia intorno. Una capacità speciale che però è fondamentale nel suo mestiere. Perché Vani è una ghostwriter. Presta le sue parole ad autori che in realtà non hanno scritto i loro libri.

Van and Linny Luong are as baffling to each other as their parents' Vietnamese legacy is to them both. Van, the quintessential overachiever, has applied the same studied diligence to her law career and to her marriage - a beautiful idea that vaporized when Mr. Right walked out. Linny - pretty, fashionable, untethered - is grasping for purpose when her affair with a married man takes a humiliating turn.

At a high-security military complex in Colorado, a computer war game ends with the brutal death of a programmer.

Un roman poignant et lumineux qui raconte le deuil, la solidarité et l'espoir, incarné avec justesse et sensibilité par Alice de Ferran Astrid a tout perdu. À quarante ans, plus rien ne la retient, alors elle part. Elle achète sans l'avoir visitée une maison isolée dans la région montagneuse et sauvage du Mercantour. Parmi ses bagages, un carton marqué d'une croix rouge, ce qu'il lui reste de sa vie passée. Soraya a tout laissé derrière elle. Sa Syrie natale, sa famille, ses amis, son insouciance. Elle traverse la montagne pour rejoindre la frontière française en se cachant de la police.

"The Fifth Queen" trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It consists of three novels: "The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court" (1906), "Privy Seal" (1907) and "The Fifth Queen Crowned" (1908), which present a fictionalized account of Katharine Howard's arrival at the Court of Henry VIII, her eventual marriage to the king, and her death. The "Fifth Queen" trilogy has an omniscient narrator.

"Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her." That is the dilemma this powerful and beautifully observed work centers around.

Unstressable applies Mo Gawdat's brilliant engineering mind and Alice Law's psychology and stress-management expertise to the 'stress pandemic'. This follow up to bestselling Solve For Happy will show you that chronic stress is not an unavoidable part of modern life, but a predictable - and therefore preventable - response, often as much to do with negative thought patterns as external circumstances. Mo explains how he made it through the most acutely stressful times in his own life, and the book touches on the idea of post-traumatic growth.

"Darf ich mal deine Haare anfassen?", "Wo kommst du her?" Wer solche Fragen stellt, meint es meist nicht böse. Aber dennoch: Sie sind rassistisch. Warum, das wollen weiße Menschen oft nicht hören. Alice Hasters erklärt es trotzdem. Eindringlich und geduldig beschreibt sie, wie Rassismus ihren Alltag als Schwarze Frau in Deutschland prägt. Dabei wird klar: Rassismus ist nicht nur ein Problem am rechten Rand der Gesellschaft.

Per Vani le parole sono importanti. Nel modo in cui una persona le sceglie o le usa, Vani sa leggere abitudini, indole, manie. E sa imitarlo. Infatti Vani è una ghostwriter: riempie le pagine bianche di scrittori di ogni genere con storie, articoli, saggi che sembrino scaturiti dalla loro penna. Una capacità innata che le ha permesso di affermarsi nel mondo dell'editoria, non senza un debito di gratitudine nei confronti dell'uomo che, per primo, ha intuito la sua bravura: Enrico Fuschi, il suo capo.

When 25-year-old Samantha Briggs invites her best friend Juliana over for a sleepover, Juliana's daddy drops her off at Samantha's house with stern instructions to be a good girl and obey Samantha's daddy. The evening is filled with coloring, cartoons, baking cookies, and giggling, and when it's time for bed, Samantha and Juliana decide they aren't done having fun. But after they're caught jumping on the bed late at night, they soon find their bottoms bared for a sound spanking, as they are reminded what happens to naughty girls who disobey their daddies.