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"The Road Taken" is a coming-of-age memoir in which a woman discovers her independence on the wheels of a motorcycle traveling the world and competing in the Peking to Paris Car Rally. She also draws upon her training as an artist to create an Australian homestead for herself in Sonoma, California.

This collection arguably contains some of the most charming lyrics ever written in English. Blake’s poems can be enjoyed, not only for their historical importance in an age which was fiercely proud of its genius and its traditions, but also for their simple and beautiful expression of “two contrary states of the human soul.” Songs of Innocence was originally a complete collection of twenty-three poems, first printed in 1789. In 1794, a composite collection entitled Songs of Innocence and of Experience, containing forty-seven poems, was published.

Cecily Foster loves to make podcasts. She fiercely protects her colleagues, dearly adores her friends, and never misses dinner with her sister. But after a disastrous relationship with a colleague who stole her heart and her ideas, she’s put romantic love on hold. When the boss who’s disappointed her again and again finally offers her the chance to host her own show, she wants to be thrilled. But there’s a catch—actually, two catches. First, the show will be about Cecily’s dating life.

Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.

When humans attack Iridos, killing most of the unammi population, misfit cleric Alira discovers she is a Harvester, able to absorb the memories and personalities of those who die in her presence. She'll need that knowledge to help her people. The problem is, not all Harvesters survive with their minds intact.

It is not too late. You are not too old. If you have a loss of esteem or worthiness, or if your fear-based beliefs associated with aging hinder your natural potential, wipe them away. I hear, Why bother? It could be anything from starting a new website, building your passion into a career that pays you a salary for the rest of your life, getting a puppy, or taking an acting class.

If I Could Crawl Inside Your Mind for 24 Hours, Would I Have a Good Day? Your thoughts may not always reflect your true identity. Through the transforming power of this book, you will discover who you really are and finally see yourself through God’s eyes—as one outrageously loved, totally accepted, and completely forgiven.

For a gardener blessed with a green thumb, Savannah Collins’s life sure seems like it’s all thorns, zero roses. She has no job, no relationship, and no place to live. With nothing but a car full of plants and her new rescue kitten, Savannah heads to Bloom, North Carolina, to spend the summer with her beloved Aunt Eleanor, a retired librarian. Her aunt shares her love of literature with the Finders Keepers Library, located in her beautiful garden, where anyone can stop by to pick a book or leave a book.

As Avia and her son, Lavi, get off the plane in San Francisco, the first stop of their trip across the Golden State, she cannot help but feel just a little hopeful. Maybe their time together will bring them closer and even bridge the emotional chasm separating them – filled with silences and volatile, intense confrontation.

Wenn alles in ihrem Leben so rund laufen würde wie ihr Nudelholz, wäre Nicole Keyes glücklich. Doch nicht nur die Familienbäckerei, sondern auch ihre beiden Schwestern lassen der leidenschaftlichen Konditorin keine Zeit für die Erfüllung ihrer Wünsche. Bis der wundervolle Hawk in ihr Leben tritt und ihr ein Stück von der Freiheit zeigt, nach der sie sich immer gesehnt hat. Und bald schon stellt Nicole fest: Mit der Liebe ist es wie mit einer Torte - man muss nur die richtigen Zutaten haben, dann gelingt sie auch einer Anfängerin.

The story concerns the young and vivacious Emma Watson, one of six children of a widowed clergyman. Emma has spent most of her life under the care of a wealthy aunt of liberal views, and has received a good education. However, when her aunt enters into a second marriage, Emma is forced to return to the family home, where she is affronted by the crass hunting for husbands undertaken her sisters, Penelope and Margaret.

The unlikely heroine of this novel is the bashful and unadventurous Fanny Price, who occupies a Cinderella-like position in the residence of her wealthy cousins, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. Fanny is the butt of ridicule for the young Bertram sisters (Maria and Julia), and is relentlessly bullied by her manipulative and penny-pinching aunt, the widowed Mrs Norris.

Nadia Doucet est devenue riche et célèbre en écrivant l'histoire de Cendrine, la fille du crématorium. Son livre ne laisse personne indifférent ; il éveille même en elle des passions malsaines et dangereuses. Elle sort tout juste d'une relation toxique, néanmoins son ex, un policier, refuse de la laisser partir. Elle n'est plus en sécurité nulle part.

Over the years, Dr. Laura Powell has seen things in her morgue that no one has ever seen before—a corpse filled with an unknown fungus, a body completely petrified mere moments after death—but she's never had a dead body wake up on the autopsy table. Until now. Environmental scientist Jordan Mintz was pronounced dead after suffering a mysterious illness. Now, suddenly, he finds himself alive once more, but changed. Plagued by visions of worms and an unforgiving, insatiable hunger, he wonders if he's the same man he was before.

Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes. New York City, 1978: Nineteen-year-old Annie Jenkins is thrilled when she lands an opportunity to work for former Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland, who’s in the midst of organizing the famous Met Gala, hosted at the museum and known across the city as the “party of the year.”

Der erste Autofahrer war eine Frau! Eine große Liebe, eine bahnbrechende Erfindung und eine Frau, die die Welt verändert - Alexander Schwarz' historischer Roman Bertha Benz und die Straße der Träume ist die erste Roman-Biografie über die Frau, die dem Automobil zum Durchbruch verholfen hat. Mannheim, 1888: Bertha Benz hat genug! Sie liebt ihren Mann Carl, bewundert den brillanten Ingenieur und glaubt fest an seine Vision einer pferdelosen Kutsche. Schließlich verbringt sie selbst genug Zeit in der Werkstatt und lässt sich alle Motoren und Maschinen erklären, die Carl sich ausdenkt.

Après plus de cinq siècles d’éternité à voir les siens disparaître autour de lui, Cameron est enfin libéré de son châtiment, et fait le souhait de rentrer chez lui. Cependant, ce souhait n’est pas le seul, car dans un souffle troublé, et avant d’être propulsé dans le vortex du temps, il émet le désir fou qu’Elenwë, fille légitime des déités qui s’est sacrifiée pour réparer les torts de ces dernières, vive à nouveau.

Unmoored by her husband’s death and suffering from writer’s block, novelist Saoirse White moves to Providence, and into the historic home of Sarah Helen Whitman, the nineteenth-century poet and spiritualist once courted by Edgar Allan Poe. Saoirse’s certain she’ll find inspiration in the quiet rooms, as well as in the tucked-away rose garden and forgotten cemetery at the back of the property.

Eco-activist Summer Avery abandons the bustle of New York City and scurries to the tiny coastal village of Tide Harbor, determined to accomplish what a crazy bomber has not—stop the destructive Minas Basin tidal energy project in its tracks and earn the EcoGreen directorship. Desperate for a safe place to raise his autistic daughter, recently divorced marine biologist Gil Moses takes a job with the tidal energy company, ostensibly to study lobsters, but actually to capture the bomber.

Nujeen Mustafa ha sedici anni e soffre di una grave forma di paralisi cerebrale che l'ha costretta su una sedia a rotelle e le ha impedito di frequentare la scuola pubblica. Ma questo non l'ha fermata: ha imparato l'inglese guardando le soap opera americane trasmesse dalla tv del suo paese e nello stesso modo ha studiato storia, letteratura, scienze.