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After losing a hand at Waterloo and selling out of the military, Captain William Allen has little to live for. But when he encounters the clever and exquisite Margaret Blackburn, the necessity of extricating her from a moneylender's clutches gives him a new purpose in life. If Margaret is to remain in London long enough to realise her goal of becoming a published author, William must convince Margaret's mother that he is a suitor in earnest.

From the internationally bestselling author, keynote speaker and world-renowned business consultant, Nicola Cook, comes this specially expanded and updated 15-year anniversary edition of her powerful and life-changing book A New You. Is there something in your life that’s not working or something about yourself you’d like to change? You’re not alone. Almost all of us feel that way at some time or another.

Millie wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. She’s slowly saving up from her job on campus, but when a visiting professor offers her an unusual opportunity to make some extra money, she jumps at the chance. Agatha is a writer, recovering from a break-up while researching attitudes towards weddings and money for her new book. She strikes gold when interviewing the girls in Millie’s dorm, but her plans take a turn when she realises that the best material is unfolding behind closed doors.

Vacant homes in a new housing development are erupting into flames in broad daylight with no apparent cause. It’s a perplexing mystery for dogged arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his restless new partner, Andrew Walker, an ex-US marshal who craves action. But as they puzzle over the blazes, another home miles away burns to the ground, leaving a man’s corpse in the ashes and homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone demanding answers.

Mientras la India celebra su flamante independencia, la abadesa de un convento de carmelitas en Madrás hace realidad uno de sus sueños más audaces: enviar a África dos jóvenes monjas enfermeras con la noble misión de transmitir el amor de Cristo ayudando a mitigar el dolor de los que sufren. Siete años más tarde, en el modesto hospital Missing de Adis Abeba nacen dos varones gemelos, Marion y Shiva Stone. El hecho no tendría nada de particular si no fuera porque su madre es una monja que muere en el parto y su padre un cirujano británico que desaparece sin dejar rastro.

Grace Ward wonders if she's been cursed. She's seen too much death in 12 months. A floral designer, who never wanted to be involved in law enforcement, Grace finds herself in the middle of another homicide investigation while planning for an upcoming fundraising gala. She quickly learns all is not as it seems in this case.

What it takes to lead with moral courage, authentic trust and a living legacy mindset. Leadership is everything. Organisations, communities and businesses, rise and fall on leadership. We must get it right. Exploring what it means to lead with moral courage, authentic trust and a living legacy mindset, The Leaders Book is designed to elevate your impact, challenge your perspectives and help propel you to excellence.

Une famine provoquée par la collectivisation des campagnes. En 1931-1933, six millions de paysans meurent de faim en URSS au cours de la dernière grande famine européenne. Une famine qui ne doit rien aux conditions météorologiques, mais est la conséquence directe de la collectivisation forcée des campagnes mise en œuvre, à partir de 1930, par Staline. Une famine passée sous silence jusqu'à la chute de l'URSS Le silence sur cette hécatombe (le chiffre de six millions de morts en rappelle un autre, de la même ampleur) allait durer jusqu'à la perestroika gorbatchévienne.

After tragedy leaves Lynia devastated, she feels more alone than ever before. She and her sister, Lynessa, face an uncertain future, but at least Lynessa has her boyfriend, Ithon, to cling to. Yet he faces his own sorrow. As Lynessa and Ithon prepare to bind themselves together in love during this uncertain time, Lynia finds herself trapped—bound to a deal that she made.

New York, 1908: The days are getting longer—and warmer—in Manhattan. Molly Murphy Sullivan doesn’t want to leave her home in the city, but typhoid is back, and she’s expecting. So she heads north with the children to summer with her mother-in-law in Westchester County. Molly tells herself it won’t be so bad, after all the countryside is pretty, and she’s determined to make the best of it. Even if she’s leaving her husband, Daniel, behind. And at least she’s not the only one heading north. Her great friends, Sid and Gus, are headed to the Catskills to visit Sid’s family.

Alidor is a world of many tales and there is no better collector of them than I. Toiled and sweated I have, scoured the lands far and conversed with hundreds I did. So much so my hidey holes and secret places burst at the seams with stolen tales. Stories however need to be shared, so here I have chosen my favorite for you. Will it be the brothers Balmoth who draw your eye or perhaps an extremely cunning thief is more to your taste.

Conservationist and marine biologist Maddalena Bearzi made her career studying the wild creatures of the deep, but when COVID-19 made landfall on the California coast this seafaring scientist found herself shuttered up ashore, her wide blue world constricted by pandemic lockdown. Never good at sitting idle, she despaired at the confines of her Los Angeles flat—until she began to find wonder in the wilderness of her own backyard. Stranded charts Bearzi's discovery of both rapture and resilience in the unsung wildlife of urban LA.

When Eloise Blackburn finds a strange gentleman perched in the leafy branches of an ash tree, she has strong suspicions he is not who he says he is. After all, the neighboring Allen family has never mentioned a cousin named Crispin from the West Indies. And what's this he's saying about a missing inheritance and a secret passageway in Allen Abbey?

Surviving an apocalypse sucks. It totally does. Instead of counting herself lucky to be alive, Tess struggles to find the will to keep placing one foot in front of the other, especially when the most she ever had to worry about before the meteor catastrophe was whether she’d have a date to prom. Climbing mountains—again—dealing with the lack of food, clean water, and wondering what the point of it all is doesn’t feel much like luck at all. More like punishment.

La simple idea de “estar a dieta” es un concepto restrictivo y no es sostenible a largo plazo. De la mano de Nicolás Mier y Terán, nutriólogo especializado en obesidad y sobrepeso con más de 15 años de experiencia, aprenderás a desengancharte de una vez por todas de las conductas tóxicasque evitan que logres lo que deseas y a crear hábitos duraderos y sencillos para, al fin, alcanzar la mejor versión de ti mismo.

Vor ein paar Minuten war noch alles in Ordnung und plötzlich drehen sich deine Gedanken nur noch um ein Thema: ANGST! Du versuchst dich abzulenken, aber das Karussell in deinem Kopf dreht sich unaufhaltsam weiter, dein Herz schlägt schneller und du weißt, jetzt gibt es kein Entkommen mehr! Du fühlst dich angesprochen? Dann heiße ich dich herzlich willkommen in der Welt der Angststörungen. Generalisierte Angst, Panikattacken, Phobien – unser Gehirn macht nicht immer, was es soll.

As the world around her is ripped apart by war and infiltrated by Nazi soldiers, Savka Ivanets works as a medic for the Ukrainian resistance, stitching wounds by day, stealing supplies by night, and dodging firefights between the SS and Soviet partisans. When her husband, Marko, a reluctant member of the Waffen-SS, forces her to deliver a coded message to an underground bunker, she’s terrified. But when her mission doesn’t go as planned, and her son, Taras, is kidnapped by the KGB, Savka fears she’ll never see him again.

Panic Proof offers a holistic approach to dealing with panic disorders, amounting to a personalized path to freedom for the millions of people who have had panic attacks. While other books have focused on the thoughts that contribute to panic, Panic Proof is the first book to teach the body that it’s safe in order to prevent panic before it attacks, with remedies ranging from probiotics, herbal remedies, and adaptogens targeted for your anxiety type to healing practices for releasing trauma stored in the body.

Where the food is delicious, the people are nosy, and murder is always on the menu. Delaney Dodge has it all. Her bakery is thriving. She teaches baking lessons at night. She's landed a big deal with a New York publisher for a cookbook. And the most eligible bachelor in town can't stop flirting with her. But all of this is threatened when Delaney finds a dead body early one cold January morning. The most respected businessman in town has been murdered, and the evidence points to one of Delaney's oldest and dearest friends.

Maudit soit le jour où cet imbécile a franchi les frontières du royaume ! Aujourd'hui, c'est le pompon, la princesse a le culot de me demander si je peux les emmener faire un tour ! TOUS LES DEUX ! Plutôt mourir que de les entendre se bécoter sur mon dos ! Mourir, peut-être pas, mais s'en aller, changer de vie, certainement.