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Many parents struggle with sleep when their children are babies - and there are hundreds of books on the subject - but what happens to night-time parenting when you have a toddler or older child and the strategies that may have worked for your baby no longer seem to be helping? Older children's sleep is often complicated by factors which cannot be addressed simply by optimising a nap or tweaking the bedtime routine, and parents can feel frustrated and confused when their older children continue to wake at night or find it hard to settle.

Mon homme est cuisinier. Rien de très excitant me direz-vous ? Hum ! J'ai là de quoi vous faire rougir d'envie de le rencontrer... Mais je ne suis pas partageuse ! Joueuse, oui ! Alors laissez-moi vous conter une de nos petites coquineries intimes dont nous seuls avons le secret... Histoire de vous mettre l'eau à la bouche !

Nous sommes mariés, mon mari et moi, depuis 15 ans et l'amour a toujours été au rendez-vous, enfin pour moi. Nous nous suffisons à nous même, mais ces derniers temps, Jeff, mon mari, a besoin de s'évader vers d'autres femmes, d'autres horizons ! En fait surtout vers un fantasme qui lui plait énormément ! Et il adore quand je le lui raconte... Pendant ces doux moments remplis de sensualité, je suis allongée sur le lit, dénudée, mon mari m'excitant de sa langue tout en se délectant des paroles de ce conte érotique que je me plais à lui susurrer.

Sexy et grande gueule, Rosie Maldonne est une jeune mère de trois enfants qui a pour seules ressources les versements du RSA. À quelques encablures de Cannes, elle vit dans une vieille caravane posée sur un terrain vague, à la lisière d'une petite ville. Ce matin-là, la voilà partie à la recherche de quelques sous en mettant en pratique son système D habituel, quand le destin va frapper à sa porte : un gros paquet de fric lui tombe dessus sans prévenir !

Encore des souvenirs d'ados, à l'époque je devais avoir à peine 17 ans, j'étais en vacances de neige avec ma famille à Courchevel. Cette année-là, mon cousin Bill, qui a le même âge que moi, nous a rejoints dans la demeure familiale pour y fêter noël. Cela faisait 3 ans que je ne l'avais pas revu, plus jeune il était beau gosse et il me faisait rire, nous envisagions même de nous marier lorsque nous étions gamins.

Was hat ein Floh mit Musik zu tun? Eine Menge! Pit der kleine Floh wohnt auf Rex dem Schäferhund. Er liebt es, wenn im Konzertsaal nebenan musiziert wird. Er möchte zusehen und erfahren wo, von wem und vor allem wie diese Musik gemacht wird. Und eines Tages geht der Traum für Pit in Erfüllung. Pit lässt sich in den Konzertsaal einschmuggeln und traut seinen Augen kaum. Es ist alles so riesengroß. Durch Zufall landet er im Konzertflügel. Hier trifft er Tara, eine winzige Spinne...

Palermo. Un'estate caldissima. E tre poliziotti che più diversi non si potrebbe: il questore Lobianco, severo e forte, Rosario D'Alessandro detto Sasà - amante del cibo e delle donne, affetto da un curioso disturbo della lacrimazione che fa sì che pianga quando si eccita - e Marò Pajno, affascinante e volitiva, relegata in un noioso commissariato di quartiere. I tre sono uniti sin dai primi anni di servizio da un'amicizia più forte di tutto. Tanto che Marò, attratta da entrambi, ha finito per non concedersi a nessuno dei due.

On the night of Bel’s birthday, at the stroke of midnight, her world goes black. When she wakes, she is thrust into a new and frightening world—the underground Onyx City. It is a place rife with magic and creatures of the night. It is also a place of dark beauty, dangerous intrigue and ruled by a beast—the ruthless vampire prince, Ezra Blade. When Bel makes a desperate attempt to escape her captors, she trespasses through the royal gardens, and is caught by the prince himself. Now, her fate is in his hands.

In a comic whirlwind of high style, La Bête tells the story of Elomire, a 17th century French playwright, and his touring acting troupe who have come to lead the high life due to the patronage of the fickle Prince of Conti. Sparks fly when Valere, a swaggering braggert with delusions of artistic grandeur, becomes the Prince's choice to join Elomire's troupe. It is a battle of wits and witticisms as the two face off in this outrageous commentary on the nature of art and the artist in society.

The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. When Alice Waters opened the doors of her...

More than any other writer, Alice McDermott exposes the vein of poetry, of profound joy and pain that transforms everyday experience into the heroic and universal. At Weddings and Wakes tells the bittersweet, lovable, human story of an Irish-Catholic family on Long Island as seen through the eyes of two sisters and a brother.

What if Eve, the mother of all humankind, had blogged? What if she had shared her discoveries of the newly formed world, her experiments as the first scientist, and her travels as the first explorer? What if she shared the secrets of assisting the first man without damaging the first fragile male ego? What if we could enjoy with her the first falling in love? Perhaps she did. Perhaps we can. Perhaps somehow Mark Twain plucked that first "blog" out of the cosmic ether....

Mia Landon travels to a mountain sanctuary near Asheville, North Carolina, while she begins her recovery from breast cancer. There, in the cabin at Watkins Glenn, Mia discovers the long lost journal of a well-known fly-fisherwoman from the 1920s, Kate Watkins.

When Rachel Lindstrom fled from her rural hometown in Western Illinois to join the State Department and see the world, she never expected to return with her life in tatters. But after the horrors of war and a painful divorce, the only place where she can rebuild is the town she once escaped.

Tess O'Rourke dreams of becoming the first female chief of police in Long Beach, California. As commander of the East Division, she is well on her way...until the night she responds to an officer-needs-assistance call and fatally shoots an unarmed teenager. Despite being cleared of wrongdoing by a grand jury, Tess is so hounded by the public that she takes a job in Oregon to escape the bad press.

Practical, smart, and desperate to escape a shadowy past, Faye takes a job at a top advertising firm in London where she hopes she and her children can find a fresh start. When she finds the beautiful two-story flat for rent in a stately old Victorian complete with a neglected but tumbling English garden, she can scarcely believe her good fortune. But it isn't long before Faye realizes not everything in the old home may be as peaceful as it seems.

It is summer's end, and Sea Breeze, the family's beloved estate on Sullivan's Island, must be sold. It is an emotional time of transition as Mamaw and the three sisters each must face loss and find a new place in the world.

Every year, the monarch butterflies - las mariposas - fly more than two thousand miles on fragile wings to return to their winter home in Mexico. Now Luz Avila makes that same perilous journey south as she honors a vow to her beloved abuela - the grandmother who raised her - to return her ashes to her ancestral village. As Luz departs Milwaukee in a ramshackle old VW Bug, she finds her heart opened by a series of seemingly random encounters with remarkable women.

Set against the backdrop of Europe in the 20s and 30s, The Beejum Book tells the story of a young American girl named Teak who grows up in hotels and boarding schools and travels through Europe and Asia Minor as well as the imaginary world of Beejumstan. Filled with extraordinary characters, this book has humor and wisdom for children of all ages.

For years, Dora has played the role of the perfect wife and mother in a loveless marriage. Now her husband has filed for divorce, her child is diagnosed with autism, and her house is on the market. Dora's façade collapses under the weight of her grief, and she suffers "broken heart syndrome." Mamaw and the girls rally around Dora - but it's up to Dora to heal herself as she spends the summer prowling the beach, discovering the secrets of the island and her heart.