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Orphaned and subjected to cruelty at Lowood charity school, Jane nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. The story of how Jane becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally accorded to her by Victorian society.

Ludwig von Mises is to economics what Albert Einstein is to physics. Human Action is his greatest work: a systematic study that covers every major topic in the science of economics. It is also one of the most convincing indictments of socialism and statism ever penned. When it first appeared in 1949, it ignited an eruption of critical acclaim.

Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees her independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Lucy flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the cosmopolitan capital of Villette.

Jacob's Room was the first of Virginia Woolf's novels to be published by the Hogarth Press, founded with her husband, Leonard Woolf, in their home at Hogarth House in Richmond in 1917. It is an episodic tale that attempts to evoke the inner life of Jacob Flanders and his social milieu during the first decade-and-a-half of the 20th century.

Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy.

Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst - murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth - Liam may have done the unthinkable.

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude.

William and Emily Broadmoor are in dire strait when the economic implosion puts a severe dent in their small home renovation business. When all hope seems lost, William is approached by a man with an unrefusable offer—the chance to fix a dilapidated stone mansion in Maine. Initially, the details of the offer seem too good to be true, but with nowhere else to turn, William and Emily decide taking a look can’t hurt.

A teen's suicide leads to a frightening pattern within a small town where nothing is as it seems. Details about the case remind Sam Hopewell, a local investigative journalist, of what happened to his older cousin back in the ‘90s. Sam prepares to confront his darkest memories, but if he can’t overcome his past, more innocent lives might be taken. Renowned Miami detective Anna Dedrick returns to her rural birthplace with hopes of leaving behind the vices of the big city. That dream shatters when the town’s pride—an African-American child prodigy—goes missing.

Meet Space Ranger Fred–the youngest Space Ranger in the universe! In this exciting and imaginative adventure, Fred teams up with his comic book hero, Zando Centauri, to save the planet Jambori…all thanks to Fred’s expert shoelace-tying skills!

Die Tochter Der Anderen ist ein intensiver literarischer Roman über Erinnerung, weibliche Stimmen und die Macht des Schweigens. Inmitten der Nachwirkungen deutscher Geschichte entdeckt Johanna Lévy ein verborgenes Erbe: vergessene Frauen, ausgelöschte Biografien und eine Wahrheit, die jahrzehntelang unterdrückt wurde.

Johanna kehrt in das Haus ihrer Großmutter zurück – und mit jedem Schritt in den Dachboden, in die Erde und in das Herz ihrer Herkunft erkennt sie, dass ihre Geschichte nicht nur ihre eigene ist. Inmitten von alten Briefen, Holz, das flüstert, und Frauen, die nie gehört wurden, beginnt eine Reise in die Vergangenheit, die alles verändert.

Fühlst du dich oft wie ein Passagier in deinem eigenen Leben, gesteuert von unbewussten Gewohnheiten, die dich ausbremsen? Dieses Buch zeigt dir, wie du die Regie übernimmst und mit kleinen, gezielten Schritten deine Gewohnheiten bewusst veränderst – für mehr Disziplin, Fokus und Lebensfreude. Luca Brenner erklärt verständlich und praxisnah, warum rund 40 bis 50 Prozent unseres Verhaltens automatisch ablaufen und wie du diese Automatismen mit Neuroplastizität und bewährten Strategien umprogrammierst.

She smiled in public. She wept in secret. She stayed… until she barely existed. For years, Taryn lived in the shadows of her husband’s narcissistic control—trapped in a cycle of manipulation, emotional abuse, and spiritual gaslighting that slowly stripped her of her identity. On the outside, her life looked picture-perfect. Inside, she was quietly falling apart. Until She Barely Existed is a raw, gripping novel that shines a light on the hidden world of narcissistic abuse and the quiet strength it takes to survive.

Was wäre, wenn Selbstvertrauen nicht laut sein müsste? Was wäre, wenn Klarheit nicht durch noch mehr Anstrengung entsteht, sondern dadurch, dass Sie zu sich selbst finden?

Die vergessene Tochter von Schwarzwald. Ein Dorf voller Schatten. Eine Tochter ohne Namen. Eine Wahrheit, die nicht schweigen will. Lichtenfels, 1907. Ein kleines Dorf im Schwarzwald – still, fromm, verschwiegen. Als Marlene zufällig einen vergessenen Brief ihrer verstorbenen Mutter findet, beginnt eine Reise, die nicht nur ihre Herkunft infrage stellt, sondern auch das moralische Fundament eines ganzen Ortes erschüttert.

Leyla King has been a keeper of family stories since long before she sat down across from her grandmother with a tiny cassette tape recorder. And in this beautifully crafted memoir, she braids matriarchal memory into a vivid saga of love and survival as her ancestors flee war and poverty. From Haifa to Ramallah, Damascus, Beirut, and finally Texas, Leyla makes global politics deeply personal as family squabbles, ambition, mental illness, romance, and religion shape their immigrant journey.

One month into the collapse, Rob and his dog, Captain, have lost almost everything but not their hope. Together, they are fighting their way toward a hidden prepper homestead, a place where life can start again. In the world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic struggle, hope is the fuel that keeps them alive.

Drift off into the beauty of the Japanese language with this soothing and effective audio course designed especially for beginners. Learn Japanese While You Sleep offers 30 comprehensive, bite-sized modules that combine essential grammar, vocabulary, and real-world conversation patterns—all set against a backdrop of calming music to enhance relaxation and memory retention.

I've always known my partner has a dark side, but I've just discovered he's pure evil. I’ve fully committed to being a Keeper of the Bounds between the fae and human realms, but I have to admit, I’m struggling to trust my partner, Lucas. We really didn’t have the best start, not to mention he’s so secretive, and it doesn’t help that I’m unnerved by the attraction between us. On top of that, the bounds are splitting, the cracks of dark oblivion growing by the day. We have to put a stop to their expansion right now, because the consequences would mean the end of, well… everything.