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Warum muss einem der Traummann begegnen, wenn man im Schlafanzug und mit fettigen Haaren im Supermarkt steht? Und wieso muss das zweite Treffen im Handtuchturban stattfinden? Seit ihrer Scheidung hat Orla der Männerwelt abgeschworen, aber dann trifft sie unerwartet auf Leonardo Garcia. Der charmante Ex-Cop fasziniert sie und entpuppt sich als echter Gentleman. Vielleicht sollte sie ihm doch eine Chance geben ... Als plötzlich jemand aus ihrer Vergangenheit auftaucht, kommt sie ins Grübeln. Und dann ist Leonardo auch nicht das, was er zu sein scheint. Ohne Männer ist das Leben doch leichter.

Tired of feeling small and never enough? Rediscover the remarkable you that's been hiding in plain sight as you reclaim your strength and purpose. Award-winning author Lisa Are Wulf embraces your greatness because you matter. You always matter. Like a trusted friend, Lisa's warm, comforting style will nourish your spirit.

Do you feel stuck in a life of mediocrity? Do traumas you've experienced seem to stop you from reaching new goals? This book will teach you effective engagement with life, showing you the way to authentic relationships with people, to seeing projects through to successful completion, to serenity and acceptance of your own physical beauty.

Italia, domani, anzi oggi. Era nell'aria da un po' e alla fine è successo: il neonato governo di destra, guidato dal presidente del Consiglio Diego Cederna, ha approvato la cosiddetta "Legge della Buona Vita", che spazza via la storica Legge 194 del '78 sull'interruzione volontaria di gravidanza: in Italia l'aborto diventa reato. Tra le tante voci che si levano in protesta, c'è quella di Gaia Zavattini, giovane parlamentare dell'opposizione, che, impotente e amareggiata, posta sui social uno sfogo che suona come una chiamata alle armi.

Max, an adventurous and playful young Rottweiler, is on a mission to become the Easter Bunny! After overhearing the exciting tale of the Easter Bunny, Max spends a whole year preparing his big Easter surprise for his siblings. With the help of his crafty best friend Betsy, Max designs a colorful costume, gathers berries for vibrant eggs, and plans a fun-filled adventure they'll never forget!

Lucy is sick of turning the other cheek. Ten years ago, an anti-Mormon mob drove her family and friends from their homes in Illinois. But now, the tables have turned. Rumor has it, some of those same men are traveling through Utah on their way to California. And this time, Lucy won’t run. Katrina knew the trek west would be difficult. But she had no idea she’d be walking straight into hell. The young mother of four is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect her family from the violence closing in, but the battle to survive will be more harrowing than anything she can imagine.

Nya can’t remember the last time she felt safe. The rundown rental house didn’t seem so bad at first. But now, someone is stealing her food. Rattling her bedroom doorknob. Digging through her belongings. Each night brings more disturbing incidents. And each night, Nya is more convinced that it’s not an intruder. She suspects the culprit is hiding in plain sight: her peculiar roommate-of-necessity, Sidney.

Jenny Summerlin is struggling to save her dying orange grove when a baffling mystery upends her world. A skeleton buried with a priceless treasure has been found on her land, which brings of flood of investigators onto her property to study a decades old crime. Captain Wyatt Rossiter is charged with solving the puzzling discovery. Unfortunately, he is also the man who broke Jenny's heart two years earlier. Plagued with regrets and unresolved feelings for Jenny, Wyatt resists getting drawn back into her world, but he cannot rest until he solves the unusual crime.

Historian Calvin Schermerhorn traces four hundred years of Black dispossession and decapitalization—what Frederick Douglass called plunder—through the stories of families who have strived to earn and keep the fruits of their toils. Their struggles reveal that the ever-evolving strategies to strip Black income and wealth have been critical to sustaining a structure of racialized disadvantage. These accounts also tell of the quiet heroism of those who worked to overcome obstacles and defy the plunder.

Paris, 1940. Ever since the Nazi Party began burning books, German writers exiled for their opinions or heritage have been taking up residence in Paris. There they opened a library meant to celebrate the freedom of ideas and gathered every book on the banned list . . . and even incognito versions of the forbidden books that were smuggled back into Germany. For the last six years, Corinne Bastien has been reading those books and making that library a second home. But when the German army takes possession of Paris, she loses access to the library and all the secrets she’d hidden there.

What if your vocation doesn't align with your passion? In You Have a Calling, award-winning author Karen Swallow Prior has encouraging news: If we pursue the good, true, and beautiful in all our work, we will find our greatest fulfillment. In an age when passion and calling are often confused, Prior helps listeners understand that passions come from within, while our calling, or vocation, comes from without and is about being called by others to serve. That crucial distinction can help us understand how God can use both our passions and our work, even if for different purposes.

One of the most common sources of insecurity is our tendency to be preoccupied with self. We are never more fragile than when we make ourselves the center of our story, because we will never live up to the expectations others have for us, to say nothing of the expectations we have for ourselves. But the answer to our problem is not as simple as shifting our focus. The freedom of self-forgetfulness is a sacred journey, and this book is your guide.

Creating a classroom environment that honors diversity begins with respecting the individuality of each student. When a teacher embraces a humanistic ethos and the principles of the universal design for learning, a beautiful mosaic emerges that enables all students to learn and grow within a productive and caring learning environment.

“Yes, I admit, I should have told him earlier,” lamented Wizard Apprentice Talash as Sentinel Ruben stared at him. “I just don’t know what to do now that the Portcullis has been opened.” What to do. Yes, that was the million-dollar question. Warning the citizens about the hordes of criminals, crazies and creatures flooding into Mokiem from the Land of Outcasts would be the first action; repairing and sealing the Portcullis would be the second; and rescuing Wizard Szczurik from whatever hellish place the changeling had teleported him would be the third.

Despite their cultural influence, the grand narrative of the dinosaur story is rarely told. Most of us have heard of Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, but these two dinosaurs lived more than eighty million years apart—a greater span of time than the entire post-T. rex history of the planet. Furthermore, we often know even less about the environments these animals lived in. The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs tells the full story, a 230-million-year epic of small beginnings, spectacular golden periods, and eventual global domination.

In this stirring memoir, Lisa Printz Roday begins her narrative with the sudden death of her forty-seven-year-old father. Rather than crush the twenty-one-year-old Printz Roday, it is the pivotal moment that sustains her in each new crisis she faces, including two harrowing preterm births. With remarkable candor, a little dry humor, and plenty of heart, Printz Roday explores how the experiences that shake us to our core can make us stronger than we could ever imagine.

Beyond the Pain tells the powerful journey of Morgan, a young woman who struggles to heal from the trauma of mental and sexual abuse by a beloved family member.

Sie wollte schon immer Ärztin werden. Er ist Chefarzt. Sie will etwas aus ihrem Leben machen. Er hat schon alles erreicht. Sie verliebt sich in ihn. Er ... ist der große Bruder ihres Freundes. Als Alec Jenkins eines nachts obdachlos vor Harpers Fenster auftaucht, weiß sie, dass er kurz vor dem nächsten drogenbedingten Absturz steht. Wie soll sie ihrem Freund helfen, wenn er sich nicht helfen lassen will? Die letzte Rettung: Alecs fünf Jahre älterer Bruder Adam, der ihn vorübergehend bei sich aufnimmt und somit in Harpers Leben tritt.

Mona Lisa DeMaris is a witty mermaid who loves to travel and never got over that one guy from high school. She’s on temporary leave from her cruise director job to help her ailing father run Mooncrest Inn, the only five-star resort in Wisconsin designed for supernatural guests. Jake Grayclaw Spellman is a werewolf alpha who’s afraid of commitment and never got over that one girl from high school. He’s also the fire chief and mayor of Riddle Hill, a supernatural village in Door County.

Twins Pearl and Patrick are no ordinary twelve-year-olds. They’re geniuses, hiding in plain sight, who pull heists all over the world to further their scientific and historical research. Their criminal activity, including grand theft auto and espionage, has made them a regular nuisance to both the CIA and MI5. But it’s all been worth it. They’ve finally achieved their greatest triumph: time travel. Pearl’s Chrono-Loop can take the twins anywhere in time! Their first stop: ancient Egypt, where they even get to see King Tut!