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Personal Organizing Coach Marin Rose argues that we're all in a toxic relationship with our stuff and that we've got some serious thinking to do before we can expect to make lasting, positive change. In this book, she explores the common emotional barriers to people reducing consumption and ownership, from personal feelings of anxiety, guilt, and regret, to our faith in the omnipresent American illusion that stuff is a direct path to happiness.

A partir de una experiencia personal con la taxidermia, y rodeado de anécdotas sobre el traslado de huesos, Cristóbal Marín narra en esta crónica las peripecias de su viaje en búsqueda de información sobre el paradero y destino de los fueguinos que murieron tanto en Londres como Europa durante el siglo XIX luego de ser expuestos en zoológicos humanos y ferias o llevados, siempre contra su voluntad, para ser analizados por científicos y anatomistas y, en algunos casos, educados en los valores occidentales con el propósito de que regresara "civilizados" a sus tierras.

Marina Warner's father, Esmond, met her mother, Ilia, while serving as an officer in the British Army during the Second World War. As Allied forces fought their way north through Italy, Esmond found himself in the southern town of Bari, where Ilia had grown up, one of four girls of a widowed mother. The Englishman approaching middle age and the twenty-one-year-old Italian were soon married. Before the war had come to an end, Ilia was on her way alone to London to wait for her husband's return and to learn how to be Mrs. Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman.

Valeria Valle is a twenty-three-year-old barista with a college degree, a tiny apartment, and a mountain of debt. When she runs into an old friend, she proposes a way for Valeria to solve all her money troubles, by becoming a sugar baby. Out of desperation, she caves and goes to an exclusive party to meet a potential sugar daddy. Valeria tells herself she is only doing it for the money, but when she sees Enrique Allende smile, she knows she is a goner. Publisher Note: This steamy romance contains elements of power exchange.

You are invited to the Dining Club. If you pass the challenges we set, a world of pleasure awaits you. He is everything she never wanted: brooding, secretive, rich - and far-removed from her care-free artistic lifestyle. Yet David has a power over Grace that she cannot resist, a power that comes from his darker, passionate side. And now he is ready to truly reveal himself.

She’s a clever tween vampire. But she’s terrified of everything. Can she find some courage, or will stage fright be her doom? Twelve-year-old Ellie “Scaredy Bat” Spark would give her fangs to prove herself and become a real detective. So when she learns of a haunted movie set, she jumps at the chance to solve the puzzle. But if her stage fright stalls the case, Ellie will disappoint her hero and the old Mumford Mansion will be condemned.

Durante más de diez años, Olivia Novak ha recorrido el mundo en busca de algo lo bastante intenso como para llenar el vacío de su alma. Ha triunfado en su carrera profesional, lo ha experimentado todo y ha estado en todas partes, sin embargo, no fue capaz de encontrar aquello que andaba buscando: volver a sentir la emoción que sentía cada vez que él la besaba. Hasta que la enorme noria llamada vida la devuelve al punto de partida, y entonces todo cambia. Por razones ajenas a su voluntad, Olivia quebranta su antigua promesa de no volver a pisar jamás su pueblo natal. En cuanto cruza ...

Would you marry the man you adored if you knew he had a chance of inheriting one of the cruelest diseases on earth? Therese Crutcher is not a risk taker. Through meticulous planning, she eliminates as much uncertainty from her life as she can. Yet during her senior year of college, blithely planning to marry her beloved John Marin, she is suddenly thrown into turmoil when John’s sisters announce they finally know what killed their mother, institutionalized when her four children were all under ten. Phyllis had Huntington’s disease, an inherited neurological disease with horrible odds: ...

«Él me mostraba el lado salvaje de la vida. Un nuevo tipo de oscuridad. Era como una enfermedad incurable que me había golpeado con fuerza. Me obsesionaba. Sencillamente, me obsesionaba. Lo habría seguido hasta el mismo Infierno si así me lo hubiese demandado». Alexia odia las citas a ciegas y el hecho de que su padre se haya empeñado en organizarle una. Quiere vivir la vida a su manera, irse lejos de su ciudad natal y empezar de cero. Pero no tardará en averiguar que las cosas no siempre salen según las has imaginado. Puede que un día cualquiera cruces una mirada con un ...

Anyone judging Tiffany Ufora by her cover would undoubtedly think the goth witch was a necromancer - and that's fine by her. Much to her dismay, Tiffany's particular brand of magic has a habit of spitting out oodles of the most adorable fluffy, pastel-colored critters at the most inopportune times.

Gisela es una mujer influyende de la alta sociedad de Barcelona.Su reputación es intachable.La noche de Sant Joan descubre que su hermana Isabel, que está a punto de casarse es la amante de uno de los obreros de su fábrica. Decide despedirlo. Pol se enfurece con esa mujer fría como el hielo y poco atractiva. Ella le ofrece dinero y él lo rechaza y asegura que no dejará a Isabel. Pero dispuesto a darle una lección a esa gran dama, idea un plan loco. Le propone derretir ese hielo que la envuelve a cambio de callar. Ella se horroriza, pero como está en juego la reputación de la ...

A drinking contest. A marriage certificate. A revenge plot years in the making. Captain Rowan Callahan didn't earn the nickname "Red Tide" by playing it safe. But waking up married to a fiery tavern maid after a night of whiskey and wagers? That's a new level of reckless, even for her. Brigid O'Sullivan is no ordinary barmaid. Behind her quick smile lies a razor-sharp mind that's spent three years plotting to reclaim her family's stolen legacy from a corrupt British officer who destroyed everything she loved. Tricking the infamous pirate captain into marriage is just another move in her ...

In The Visual Detox, art expert and businesswoman Marine Tanguy explains how the imagery we see shapes our wellbeing. She gives us new tools to think critically about images, combat information overload and participate more in the visual world around us by engaging with the art and content that improves our day-to-day experiences online, at work, in our homes and in public spaces.

Kennedy Sinclair never dreamed she'd own a pie shop and an orchard in a small town like Destiny Bay. But nestled between the mountains and the Pacific Ocean, it's the perfect place to cross something off her "Life's short so eat the icing first" list and start her life over from scratch. Her shop, Sweetie Pies, is famous for its hot, flaky apple turnovers and sinfully delicious deep dish pie. For Kennedy though, nothing is more enticing than the tall, strapping slice of temptation who keeps coming back for more.

Tired of living in poverty, Ruby Green decides to ruin her reputation by becoming a prostitute at the local brothel in Larkspur Valley, Wyoming. After all, having a good reputation never put food on the table, so why not follow in her mother's footsteps? Sheriff Steve Bennington has no desire to settle down into a boring domestic life and even less so when he meets the beautiful Ruby. But when he unexpectedly gets Ruby pregnant, he practically drags her to the altar. Ruby didn't sign up to be a wife and mother and she won't go with the sheriff without putting up a fight. Can these two polar...

North London in the 21st century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you.

Love Poems: Reality and Fantasy of a Woman who Loves, expresses all the sensations, feelings and emotions that love produces in a woman and a man who love each other, and how they express that love in their intimate life, in which both they unite in one flesh, making love. These love poems focus on several facets, one when the beloved is close and the woman he loves expresses her desire to be with him and enjoy his kisses and caresses. When her lover is far away, the love poems for her lover in the distance become fantasy, she imagines that her lover kisses her, that he makes her his own ...

Vives en mis recuerdos, es una colección de poemas que habla de personas que aman , pero que por alguna razón la relación de paraje se rompe o termina, y desde este episodio las protagonistas de la historia poética comienzan a recordar los instantes que pasaron juntos y los obstáculos que encontraron frente a esa relación. Los poemas fueron inspirados en la relación amorosa de una poeta italiana con su profesor de latín y griego. Todo fluye entre el amor, la naturaleza, los recuerdos, las emociones y sentimientos. Termina con un epílogo con tres poemas que habla de la mujer que se ...

Ebook on Actor Channing Tatum

El libro que está cosechando elogios entre los escritores. Los lectores han dicho: «inspirador», «sumamente bello», «valiente y sincero», «una experiencia completa» En 2017 autopubliqué en Amazon mi ópera prima, El caso Demichellis, una novela policiaca que en 2018 se convirtió en uno de los ebooks más leídos en esta plataforma. Fue la tercera novela más vendida durante el verano de ese año, solo por detrás de La desaparición de Stephanie Mailer, de Joël Dicker, y de Las hijas del capitán, de María Dueñas, y por delante de obras de ilustres autores como Lorenzo Silva o...