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Do you ever feel like you're treading water, struggling to keep up with the rising tide of expenses? From groceries to housing to transportation, your cost of living continues to climb while your wages struggle to keep up. It's a frustrating and often isolating feeling. But the truth is, not only are you not alone in this struggle, but you are not the problem. The challenges we face stem from our money!

After coaching hundreds of women in private dating coaching sessions I made a shocking realization. A lot of my wonderful clients struggled in their relationships and marriages because they did not know how to turn a man on, how to satisfy a man in bed and how to make him so addicted to them that he would NEVER even consider cheating or leaving. Up to this point I shared dating tips and dating advice on my now quite popular Get Him Keep Him Podcast on which I mainly focus on helping women to establish an emotional connection with a man that makes this man devoted to them. What about the sexual...

When the famous German author Sebastian Haffner died at the age of 91 in 1999, a manuscript was discovered among his unpublished papers. The book was begun in 1939, but with the advent of World War II, Haffner had set it aside. His family made the decision to publish it, and the book became a best seller in Germany in 2002. Spanning the period from 1907 to 1933, it offers a unique perspective on how the average educated German grappled with the rise of Hitler.

Thomas McNulty, having fled the Great Famine in Ireland and now barely 17 years old, signs up for the US Army in the 1850s and with his brother in arms, John Cole, goes to fight in the Indian Wars - against the Sioux and the Yurok - and, ultimately, in the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language.

A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia.

Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat - the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.

With no police to investigate and no escape, could it be the perfect setting for a crime? Martin Schwartz (Beesley) is an undercover detective who is recovering from his wife and sons' bizarre disappearance from a cruise ship 5 years ago. He is a desperate man willing to take big risks. Martin never wanted to step onto a cruise ship again until he receives a call which can't be ignored. On average, 23 people per year disappear without a trace from cruise ships. Never before has someone come back... until now.

Robert Selby is determined to see his sister make an advantageous match. But he has two problems: The Selbys have no connections or money, and Robert is really a housemaid named Charity Church. She’s enjoyed every minute of her masquerade over the past six years, but she knows her pretense is nearing an end. Charity needs to see her beloved friend married well and then Robert Selby will disappear...forever.

Ein Roadtrip voller Komik, Dramatik und unvorhersehbarer Abzweigungen von Deutschlands Bestsellerautor Nr. 1 Sebastian Fitzek - mit zwei skurrilen, ans Herz gehenden Hauptfiguren, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Livius Reimer macht sich auf den Weg von München nach Berlin, um seine Ehe zu retten. Als sein Flug gestrichen wird, muss er sich den einzig noch verfügbaren Mietwagen mit einer jungen Frau teilen, um die er sonst einen großen Bogen gemacht hätte. Zu schräg, zu laut, zu ungewöhnlich - mit ihrer unkonventionellen Sicht auf die Welt überfordert Lea von Armin Livius von der ersten Sekunde an.

Ni testigos ni pistas ni cadáver. Josy, la hija de doce años del conocido psiquiatra Viktor Larenz, desaparece en misteriosas circunstancias de la consulta del médico que la trata de una inexplicable dolencia.

While the Litany of Saint Joseph is filled with many rich titles describing Joseph’s virtues and duties—such as most just, most chaste, patron of the dying, terror of demons, and protector of the holy church—there is one title that stands out which is quietly absent from his litany: the man closest to Christ.

First heard on radio between 4 August 2014 and 9 November 2018, each episode of Home Front is set exactly 100 years before the broadcast date, and each follows one character’s day. Together they create a mosaic of experience from a wide cross section of society, mixing historical fact with enthralling fiction to explore how ordinary people coped with daily life in wartime Britain. We resume the story in Folkestone, where hospital staff face pressure to return wounded men to duty as conscription is introduced.

Ni testigos, ni pistas, ni cadáver. Josy, la hija de doce años del prestigioso psiquiatra Viktor Larenz, ha desaparecido en misteriosas circunstancias y nadie sabe qué ha sido de ella. Dos años más tarde, Viktor vive atormentado y recluido en la remota casa donde solía veranear. Pese a ello, ha conseguido llegar hasta él una bella desconocida que padece alucinaciones en las que ve a una niña que después desaparece sin dejar rastro, igual que Josy. Viktor acepta tratarla, pero la terapia se va convirtiendo a cada paso en un tenso interrogatorio.

Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a white Victorian Castle in Dalkey overlooking the sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, but his peace is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask questions about a decades-old case. A traumatic case which Tom never quite came to terms with. His peace is further disturbed by a young mother and family who move in next door, a woman on the run from her own troubles. And what of Tom’s family, his wife June, and their two children?

Año 827. En su pequeña corte guerrera, Alfonso II el Casto, rey de Asturias y aliado de Carlomagno, recibe una extraordinaria noticia: en un bosque próximo a Iria Flavia, allá donde termina el mundo, han aparecido los restos del apóstol Santiago. ¿Es posible tal prodigio? El rey decide acudir al lugar, a fin de aclarar el misterio. En la comitiva marchan nobles enredados en intrigas, fieros soldados, cautivos sarracenos, monjes custodios de turbios secretos... un fiel reflejo de ese tiempo turbulento, cuyo epicentro es un rey determinado a salvar su reino.

It is no exaggeration to say that venture capital has been central to the greatest legal creation of wealth anywhere and has enabled much of the world we live in, yet we know surprisingly little about this strange tribe of financiers. In The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby turns his unprecedented access to the industry's central players into a riveting, character-driven account of venture capital and the world it has made.

P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in 1915 ("Extricating Young Gussie") to his final completed novel (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) in 1974. These two were the finest creations of a novelist widely proclaimed to be the finest comic English writer by critics and fans alike. Now, forty years later, Bertie and Jeeves return in a hilarious affair of mix-ups and mishaps.

Boris Johnson was touted as the saviour of the country and the Conservative Party, obtaining a huge commons majority and finally getting Brexit done. But within three short years, he was deposed in disgrace, leaving the country in crisis. With unparalleled access to those who were in the room when key decisions were made, Payne tells of the miscalculations and mistakes that led to Boris’s downfall. This is a gripping and timely look at how power is gained, wielded and lost in Britain today.

Series 1-5 of the groundbreaking BBC Radio 4 drama charting life on the home front during World War One. First heard on radio between 4 August 2014 and 9 November 2018, each episode of Home Front is set exactly 100 years before the broadcast date, and each follows one character’s day. Together they create a mosaic of experience from a wide cross section of society, mixing historical fact with enthralling fiction to explore how ordinary people coped with daily life in wartime Britain.

"Die Therapie" von Sebastian Fitzek geht richtig unter die Haut! Der Psychiater Viktor Larenz lebt zurückgezogen in einem Ferienhaus auf der Insel Parkum. Seit seine Tochter Josy vor vier Jahren unter ungeklärten Umständen verschwand, erträgt er keine Gesellschaft mehr. Dann taucht eine schöne Unbekannte auf, die Wahnvorstellungen von einem kleinen Mädchen hat. Auch dieses verschwindet in ihren Träumen spurlos.