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Miss Emma Tilbury is notorious, and that's just the way she likes it. As mistress to the rich and famous, she's never short of cash or invitations—but after reaching thirty, a shock rejection makes her think again. Perhaps it's time to look for another protector. Abraham Fitzclarence—Fitz to his friends—believes in love and has had his eye for years on Miss Emma Tilbury. Forbidden fruit, delectable and sweet, he’s astonished when she takes a shine to him—and his heart is quickly lost despite all his attempts to remain aloof.

Are you tired of being overlooked despite having real value to offer? This is not just another book on personal branding. It’s a bold roadmap to becoming unforgettable, irreplaceable, and profitable—without selling your soul. You won’t find generic formulas here. You’ll find truth, power, and a system that works. Whether you’re just starting out or scaling your influence, this book is a mirror and a strategy. Position yourself with courage, or disappear into the noise.

The impact to a family with the birth of a child with a serious disability is shared. Perhaps, our experience may help another family if they ever have to face a similar situation.

TODO O NADA – El Código Final del Éxito es el cierre brutalmente poderoso de la serie Maestría Emprendedora. Este audiolibro no está hecho para motivarte. Está hecho para empujarte. A lo largo de 25 capítulos intensos y accionables, KOHELET lleva al oyente a confrontar su propia tibieza, su falta de decisión, y lo obliga —con claridad quirúrgica— a elegir: ¿vas a darlo todo o vas a seguir jugando a emprender? Cada palabra de este libro está diseñada para sacudir, enfocar y transformar. No hay relleno. No hay teoría que adorne. Hay dirección. Hay verdad. Hay fuerza.

Best known for his poetry and historic novels in the style of Sir Walter Scott, Alexender Bestuzhev-Marlinsky takes a turn down a different path with A Terrible Prophecy and delivers classic spooky tale on the dangers of having one's wishes fulfilled to the letter.

When Ingram is forced by overwhelming poverty and spiritual exhaustion to walk away from his home, he leaves behind a neglectful childhood on a dirt farm on a dead-end road. With no family, no resources, and no practical understanding of the world, Ingram’s only compass is the daily fight to survive and the narrow dream of one day owning a truck.

Vince prepares to pull off his largest job yet, a heist to steal an artifact containing an ancient evil. Yet another ancient evil stirs much closer to home. Vince's soul egg awakens, and he finds himself face to face with the being residing within it as she makes him an offer he knows he should refuse.

Have you ever fallen in love with a man as he was pointing his gun at you? Well, I have. Tiny problem? I'm in the middle of my murderous Christmas tradition, and he's a witness. But it's not his fault I got too excited and didn't check if I was alone. I can't just kill him because of my own blunder. Not when he has such dreamy green eyes filled with fear and pent-up rage. What I can do is take him with me for safekeeping while I work out how to make him understand that while my methods are cruel, my intentions are pure. Or how to make him fall for me. Whichever is first.

Die Zwillinge Calla und Briar leben im Verborgenen – versteckt vor der Zauberin, die einst ihre Eltern tötete und deren Thron bestieg. Während Briar sich auf eine politische Heirat vorbereitet – ausgerechnet mit Grae, Callas Freund aus Kindertagen –, bleibt Calla als ihre Leibwache weiterhin im Schatten. Auf einer gefährlichen Reise zurück in ihr gestohlenes Reich muss sie sich nicht nur der Feindin stellen, sondern auch ihren Gefühlen für Grae. Und der vielleicht wichtigsten Frage von allen: Wer will ich wirklich sein?

Sabrina Sorensen is 37, single, and recently finished her tenure as the general manager of a posh Parisian restaurant. When her younger sister gets engaged at Christmas, it's an open door for her mother and siblings to prod Sabrina for her itinerant lifestyle and her inability to commit to any of her previous relationships. What they don't know is that Sabrina, after fifteen long years, has attained her goal of becoming a MICHELIN Guide Inspector.

Randy seems to delight in making Harry’s life difficult. Sometimes it feels like he’s in a war at his own house. When Randy locks him and his art project in the pitch-black dark basement with the fire-breathing furnace, Harry vows to get even. But revenge may not be as sweet as he hoped when Randy blackmails him into a perilous canoe ride down the river. Has Harry followed his brother one step too far?

In 1924, Korea is an occupied country. In Seoul’s secret, underground networks and throughout the countryside, rebellion against the Japanese Empire simmers, threatening to boil over. Kim Na-Young lives a simple life in the rural village of Daegeori, where she watches the moon rise and set over the pine-wooded mountains, tends to her household alongside her best friend, Yeon-Soo, and cares for her sick mother.

Three masked men. One night. One room. One goal. Falling in love is out of the question. Watching my mother die for love only made me want it that much less. When things become too serious with my boyfriend in college, I know it’s time to step back. The only problem is, he doesn’t feel the same. His brand of love is possessive. Fierce. Terrifying. And he’s not afraid to enlist my best friend and my former stepbrother to help him get me back. The plan?

Most people have spiritual and paranormal abilities and these cause experiences which can overwhelm some people to make them fit the diagnosis of them having mental illnesses. Certainly there are a lot of legitimate mental illnesses which cause the need for treatments by mental health professionals. But what happens when persons having these experiences may be normal and stable in their other behaviors but these experiences are so far beyond the norms of society that others think they are “crazy” and therefore treat them as such?

Opening my eyes, I see a nurse standing over my bed. She wipes away my tears as she tells me I was in a car crash and it was my fault. Confused, I only remember snapshots of my life, but I’m not convinced the crash was an accident. My marriage had been perfect, until my husband, John, met Rebecca. He said they were just friends and that I was imagining things when I saw them cosied up like they were on a date.

In Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War Friedman takes the listener on a personal journey to understand the history of the Cohens. At the center of the story is a sensitive young man pulled between love and duty, a close-knit family straining under moral and political conflicts, and a city coming into its own.

Antarctica is a land of extremes. It is the coldest, windiest and most inaccessible part of our planet—and now one of the places most affected by climate change. In this moving and personal narrative, conservation biologist Louise K. Blight recounts her summer studying Adélie penguins with one of the world’s great Antarctic scientists.

Stories and the art of telling them takes different forms. Some stories are brief, while others take more than a simple breath to tell. And if telling a story is breathing out, then listening to one is breathing in. Some breaths make us laugh, others inspire love or intrigue, while still others cause us to gasp with fear.

Over the last several decades, Americans have become increasingly aware that the people of this nation no longer determine its destiny, despite the intentions our founding fathers made clear in our founding documents. The two-party system has become a weapon used by those in power to maintain the dysfunctional status quo in Washington and on Wall Street. This system has revealed itself to be steeped in corruption, covert agendas, and a fast-evolving surveillance state.

Hourra ! La grande-duchesse d'Essen attend un fils. Quel dommage que le petit soit déjà possédé par un démon. Un humour aussi acerbe que son narrateur, un génie à la Léonard de Vinci et Machiavel, un exorciste sans cœur : tout ce qu'il faut pour un roman aussi malin que jouissif.