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When Elizabeth Ryan is demoted on Christmas Eve, she resigns herself to a dismal future: selling kitchen utensils in a large department store. The New Year looks bleak, but a chance encounter on a karaoke evening at her local pub introduces her to the glittering world of showbiz. The Rebels are an up-and-coming pop band who are preparing for a whirlwind tour of the UK. After some persuasion, Elizabeth auditions and is astonished when she is taken on as their backing singer.

Im März 2020 hat wohl niemand von uns auch nur geahnt, wie lange uns die Pandemie begleiten wird. Unser aller Leben hat sich grundlegend verändert. Beruflich ebenso, wie privat. Ein Tagebuch der Pandemie mit subjektiven Notizen und Reflexionen. Niemand weiß, wann die Pandemie zu Ende sein wird und wie sehr uns diese Zeit für immer verändern wird.

Die schlimmsten Narben fügen wir uns selbst zu. Scarlett zweifelt daran, dass ihre Schwester Julia Selbstmord begangen haben soll. Denn Julia hatte kurz vor ihrem Tod eine mysteriöse Affäre – ausgerechnet mit jemandem aus der einflussreichen Familie Stockbridge. Also verschafft sie sich Zugang zum Familienanwesen in den Hamptons und lässt sich in ein berauschendes Spiel aus Dominanz, Unterwerfung und Eifersucht verwickeln. Zu spät bemerkt sie, dass sie im gleichen fatalen Desaster wie ihre Schwester gefangen ist. Doch die Intrigen um sie herum sind bereits zu dicht gesponnen.

An audiobook for lovers. Maybe the John 10:10 life was meant to encompass the pleasurable enjoyment and fulfillment of sex and sexual intimacy, when it is done God’s way. Myths, misunderstandings, misinformation, misdirection, and repeated practice become entrenched and sex no longer holds the pleasure it once promised. Recapture it. Get it for the first time. Your enthusiasm that is! That sex can be great--when practiced in the context that God designed it and when his instruction manual is followed and practiced.

The I is a woman who is deliberating getting married to her boyfriend and is frightened. Her childhood has made her distrust union. She has a friend who has just gone to jail for growing marijuana. He has been a war hero, an artist, is good-looking, a womanizer. She begins to visit him, because he is trapped like she is, and he gives her advice on love and herself. She begins to listen. He is the one who is free to her. In listening to him, she begins to itemize her own crimes in love. She marries her boyfriend, out of friendship, but the marriage feels doomed to her.

"Is it your plan to lay in the bed until the goddamn rapture? I mean, c’mon, so you took a hit, life goes on. Let's not forget, through it all, you are still Nikki Evelyn Armstrong. A decorated veteran honored by two counties. The recipient of multiple citations and awards for enforcement of the law, with dignity, honor, and integrity. You are a walking, breathing, recognized American hero. So, my dear sister, why don’t you act like it?”

While in her early-30s, Anna Byrne was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma. Over the next seven years, she endured four relapses, two stem cell transplants, and spent over 2,000 hours in Canadian hospitals. In 2014, she was given two years to live. Despite the odds, Anna left treatment cancer-free. She became a hospice volunteer and met Eleanor, a woman in her 70s whose death was imminent, and the two formed an unlikely friendship. Part memoir, medical guide, and spiritual text, Seven Year Summer explores the nuances of healing and hope.

Au cours d'un voyage en train à travers le Canada, l'écrivaine Arlette Cousture a imaginé dix histoires, une par province, la plupart presque vraies, qui s'entremêlent parfois. Des femmes et des hommes se croisent, transportant leurs espoirs et leurs déceptions, se confient ou rêvassent, se reconnaissent ou se rencontrent. Tous ont un désir éperdu d'être vus, aimés, compris, consolés.

The town of Macklin, Mississippi has seen its share of affairs, secrets, unexpected deaths, lies, and other scandals. There have also been various people floating in and out of the winding roads of Caleb County. Now that Ruthann, the matriarch of the town and midwife to over half its residents, has died, some wonder if the people of Macklin can continue on their path to redemption. The bond between sisters, Annie and Linda, has been put through the ultimate test. Can they find a way to resume their family ties? The sky has opened up once again, and Heaven’s eyes are still watching.

On her own in Germany in 1891, an ambitious 16-year-old English music student dreams of becoming a concert violinist at a time when women rarely performed in public. At the prestigious Leipzig Conservatory, Violet faces the challenges of fickle tutors, quirky landladies, and demanding professors. Then she falls in love with a young Canadian pianist, a match her Victorian papa deems unsuitable.

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Seit Jahren umkreist ein unbekannter Koloss die Erde, bis schließlich ein Team zusammengestellt wird, das die Technologie dieses vermeintlichen Raumschiffs bergen soll. Doch niemand reißt sich um diese Aufgabe, so findet sich eine Crew, die nicht wirklich etwas Besseres zu tun hat. Zu ihr gehören die drogensüchtige Journalistin Dysti und der ausgemusterte Cyborg Xell. Als der Trupp dem Geheimnis des Kolosses auf die Spur kommt, können sich Dysti und Xell nur durch eine Flucht in die Zukunft retten. In eine Zukunft, die einem Paradies gleicht. Aber die Idylle trügt.

Der alte Mr. Nichols wird ermordet in seiner Apotheke aufgefunden. Schon bald gibt es zahlreiche Verdächtige: Hat sich Doktor Fox gerächt, weil der Tote seine Patienten vergraulte? Oder wollte die kleptomanische Angestellte Lissy eine Anzeige bei der Polizei verhindern? Und was hat es mit dem unbekannten Medikament auf sich, das bei der Tat entwendet wurde? Lady Bedfort befürchtet, dass damit ein weiterer Mord verübt werden soll.

Die junge Soziologiestudentin Anne hat überhaupt keine Lust, in den Collegeferien gemeinsam mit ihren vier Freunden einen alten Leuchtturm an der rauen, einsamen Küste im Norden von Maine zu entrümpeln - vor allem, weil sie als Single das fünfte Rad am Wagen ist.

Jill has a very real fairy story to tell her daughter. Actually she has two: the one she recites at bedtime and the one that is the truth. Once upon a time there was a faerie whose life was contained in the forest lands of northern Maine. But when unscrupulous loggers began to cut down the trees which were the lifeblood of her people, she was ordered to take human form and find a way to stop them by using human means.

At first, an open marriage seems like the greatest thing in the world to Natalie and Sean. Adding a bunch of new, hot people to their already excellent sex life? What could be better? Then, they meet Beth, a queer single mum with a lesbian partner, and things become complicated.

Ce livre audio, vibrant témoignage du vécu d’une personne qui a beaucoup souffert, répond à des questions que se posent la plupart de ceux qui sont affectés par une épreuve difficile à traverser: maladie, dépression, épuisement professionnel, dépendance; perte d’un être cher, d’un emploi, de capacités; échec, impuissance, rejet, abandon, humiliation, trahison, etc.

Éduquer un enfant et un adolescent pour les rendre heureux, c’est leur apprendre à: Être eux-mêmes; Être en relation avec les autres; Être créateurs de leur vie, de leurs rêves et du monde.

Rook is an unapologetic thief, determined to do anything to ensure her mother and siblings survive the squalid and dangerous streets of Stamchester. Rook slips, like a shadow, in and out of the homes of the ruling elite, the Avanish, and steals what she needs. She feels no regret. After all, the Avanish have enslaved her people, the Saosuíasei, and worse, have now determined the Saosuíasei to be disposable and worthy of nothing other than death.

Victorian England, 1891. The escape of reading had saved the pathetic life of the orphaned Naomi Gladwyn. However, when she learns of books that are responsible for taking lives, everything she knows changes. Approaching her 18th birthday with only the grim prospect of living out her days in a workhouse, Naomi makes the boldest decision of her life and runs away. With only the whisper of a plan, she soon finds herself swept up into the dark world of The Book Reapers - a secret society that knows there is more to some books than meets the eye.