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Tara Gallagher is knackered. She used to dream of being Beyoncé, but suddenly she’s 36—with three kids, a loving husband, a very boring job—and instead of headlining Glastonbury, she’s in her pyjamas on a Friday night, watching Gogglebox. It’s time for a mammy makeover. She’s going to show her teenage daughter she’s still cool. She’s going to show her husband she’s still an absolute ride. She’s going to show her colleagues she’s still a boss bish.

Out of the blue, Mike receives a text from his college crush: Come out, let’s have some fun. Before he knows it, they’re driving into the night, picking up a strange, yet beautiful girl, then parking in an abandoned lot.

Aurora and Leela have succeeded in their quest to balance work and family. Aurora has risen in the ranks at her company and has become a well-known environmental advocate. Leela’s business has grown and is the president of the farmers’ market. They have done this all while raising their conceived-by-magic eleven-year-old daughter, Kari. However, the time has come for them to tell Kari about her mystical origins, as Kari’s mind and body start to evolve in powerful ways.

Ariel Ravenspeare has been taught to loathe the earl of Hawkesmoor and everything he represents. Their two families have been sworn enemies for generations. But it's one thing to hate him, and another to play the part her vicious brothers have written for her - trapping Hawkesmoor into a marriage that will destroy him, using herself as bait. Forced into the marriage, Ariel will find her new husband unexpectedly difficult to manipulate, as well as surprisingly - and powerfully - attractive.

What comes to mind when you think of a diamond slipper? Cinderella, perhaps? That's what Cordelia Brandenburg imagines when her godparents arrange a marriage for her with a man she's never met - a marriage that will take her to Versailles, far from the rigid confines of her childhood home. The betrothal gift is a charm bracelet with a tiny, glittering diamond slipper attached... as befits a journey into a fairytale future.

"Today I had word that my brother Ya'aqôb is dead." When this news reaches Mariam, living in exile in the province of Gaul, memories of her girlhood in faraway Palestine are painfully awakened. For years she has blocked them from her mind, but as illness and old age overtake her, she begins to relive the time when she defied all propriety and convention and followed her charismatic brother Yeshûa and her betrothed Yehûd'a in their daring but perilous adventure.

Un'anziana viene scippata e finisce in coma e un'emittente locale trasmetta la scena di un bambino che si contende del cibo con un cane fra montagne di spazzatura. Due vicende apparentemente scollegate che accendono una lucina nella mente di Mina Settembre, assistente sociale del Consultorio Quartieri Spagnoli Ovest, che decide di indagare con l'aiuto del bel ginecologo Mimmo Gammardella. Per fortuna, arriverà la Signora, uno dei personaggi più poetici di De Giovanni, a guidarla tra gli incanti delle troppe Sirene che tentano di stordirla.

After a co-intern dies by suicide, a grieving Noah Meier commits an accidental error. In a desperate move to save his patient's life, he covertly seeks help from audacious surgical resident Marah Maddox, igniting a bond between them. When the hospital is suspiciously quick to sweep everything under the rug, Noah turns to his late father's journal for guidance and makes a chilling discovery, all while trying to stay out of the crosshairs of abusive Dr. Rankel, keen to make an example of Noah. Worse, Rankel clearly has it out for Marah as the only woman in her program.

This book is rocking communities nationwide, especially the ALS community. Never before has anyone gone into such great detail about what you need to survive and overcome a terminal illness. From how to boost your will to live, to the weapons you need, Elizabeth covers all the bases with her fun style of wit and humor. Loaded with biblical references, this book is a wonderful evangelical tool. This book will either help you to fight for your own life or learn to appreciate the healthy life you already have!

Happily married but with a boring husband, I had found my pleasure outside the marital home for some time now. I made a promise to myself that it was ‘girls only.’ My logic was, if there was no cock involved, it wasn’t really cheating, right?

Aurora’s life is perfectly mundane. She has a job she hates, an ex that ran her out of her hometown, and the highlight of her week is Monday breakfast with her best friend. That changes when Aurora starts dreaming of a woman. A woman who Aurora falls head over heels for. She knows the romance that develops between them isn’t real, but the dreams make life so much better that she hurries to bed every night…until she discovers that her dream woman isn’t imaginary. Her name is Leela and she is in a coma.

"Estoy aprendiendo el portugués": 300 palabras y frases esenciales, 140 expresiones comunes, los 100 verbos más comunes, las 1000 palabras esenciales. Con aproximadamente 260 000 000 de hablantes, ​el portugués es la sexta lengua materna más hablada del mundo, después del español y el inglés. Nuestro método de aprendizaje: una selección de cientos de frases y palabras esenciales. Los escuchas, los repites, y hablas. Nos basamos en la pronunciación, el ensayo oral, la escucha, combinados con palabras, frases esenciales y una lista de vocabulario. El 20% de las palabras se usan el 80% del tiempo.

"The 1000 essential words in Portuguese". With approximately 220 million native speakers and 260 million total speakers, Portuguese is usually listed as the sixth most natively spoken language in the world. How to learn a language differently? Today, language learning is revolutionizing : you do not have to go to traditional language classes anymore. Our learning method : a selection of hundreds of phrases and essential words. You listen to them, you repeat them, and you speak.

In a dying world, the Offset ceremony has been introduced to counteract and discourage procreation. It is a rule that is simultaneously accepted, celebrated, and abhorred. But in this world, survival demands sacrifice so for every birth, there must be a death. Professor Jac Boltanski is leading Project Salix, a ground-breaking new mission to save the world by replanting radioactive Greenland with genetically-modified willow trees. But things aren't working out and there are discrepancies in the data. Has someone intervened to sabotage her life's work?

Do you have an object of obsession? For Lindsey, her obsession is the deadly sexy Rhys, who makes her toes curl, her temperature rise, and other parts of her body react beyond her control. Rhys always avoided emotional attachments to women...until Lindsey. Now, though, a dark family secret keeps Rhys from giving Lindsey the commitment she deserves. Lindsey discovers Rhys' secret the hard way while her own dark past occasionally rears its ugly head. Laced with laugh-out-loud humor and steamy scenes, L. D. Davis' latest novel follows Lindsey as she collects pieces of Rhys in her quest to find the whole man.

English rose Eleanor Rigby has stared into the cold eyes of death more than once. To escape its icy grip, she flees as a mail-order bride to a new future with Samuel Johnson, a Western cowboy. But when a lost love returns from the grave to claim his broken bride, a fearful fight for Ellie's own life and sanity ensues. Can the bonds of true love bring her home, or will she be lost forever?

Cabbages... The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that’s where we put the heroin... There’s a stash of heroin waiting to be imported, and no one seems sure what to do with it... But Ayla’s a gardener, and she has a plan. Offering a fresh and funny take on the machinery of the North London heroin trade, Keeping the House lifts the lid on a covert world thriving just beneath notice: not only in McDonald's queues and men's clubs, but in spotless living rooms and whispering kitchens.

140 palavras e frases essenciais, 300 expressões comuns, os 100 verbos mais comuns, as 1000 palavras essenciais. A língua holandesa é uma língua germânica ocidental, falada por cerca de 23 milhões de pessoas como primeira língua e por outros 5 milhões como segunda língua. Nosso método de aprendizado: selecionamos centenas de frases e palavras essenciais. Você os escuta, os repete e fala. Contamos com pronúncia, ensaio oral, escuta, combinados com palavras, frases essenciais e uma lista de vocabulário.

The 1000 essential words. How to learn a language differently ? With our learning method : I listen, I repeat, I speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening, combined with words, essential phrases, and a vocabulary list. 20% of the words are used 80% of the time.

The complete method. 300 essential words and phrases, 140 common expressions, the 100 most common verbs, the 1000 essential words. How to learn a language differently ? With our learning method : I listen, I repeat, I speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening.