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Realtor Carla Radling shows an “English gentleman” a lakeside estate - and finds herself facing a gun. Who has hired this assassin to kill her, and why? Forced on the run, Carla must uncover the scathing secrets of her past. Secrets that could destroy some very powerful people. Perhaps even change the face of a nation….

Propelled into society by his ever-hopeful father, Frank is introduced to a variety of professions in order to make his fortune. Not industrious by nature, however, Frank finds working life a challenge, and by his 25th birthday, he has failed medicine, portrait-painting, caricaturing, and even forgery. Disenchanted with life, he despairs of ever finding something to commit to — until he meets Alicia Dulcifer and her inexplicably wealthy father.

A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears, the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no one is what they seem, and nothing can be taken for granted.

The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don't help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the US ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. Can American women look to European policies for solutions?

My Secret Life is an anonymously penned memoir written during a period from the 1840s to the 1880s by a wealthy and sex obsessed English gentleman who refers to himself simply as ‘Walter’. Part confessional, part investigative erotic journalism, it meticulously documents every detail of the author’s prolific sexual encounters, offering us in the process an eye and thigh opening account of life behind closed doors in the Victorian age.
Women, in both mind and body, were the all consuming object of Walter’s interest.

Blanks, Beers, & Bull$hit is where reenacting meets cold brews and unfiltered stories. From gear talk to battlefield laughs, we dive into the chaos, history, and camaraderie that make reenacting unforgettable one blank, one beer, one tale at a time.

On the heels of her sensational New York Times best seller Dangerous Kiss, comes another tantalizing Jackie Collins treat: Lethal Seduction.

Madison Castelli, the beautiful, street-smart heroine of Jackie Collins's LA. Connections series, returns in Lethal Seduction, an edgy novel full of danger, passion and suspense.

Wenn du dazu bestimmt bist, alles zu verlieren, was du liebst, wofür lohnt es sich dann noch, zu kämpfen? Als der Tag der fünfzigsten Hungerspiele anbricht, erfasst Angst die Distrikte von Panem. In diesem Jahr werden zu Ehren des Jubel-Jubiläums doppelt so viele Tribute aus ihrem Zuhause gerissen. In Distrikt 12 versucht Haymitch Abernathy, nicht allzu sehr über seine Chancen nachzudenken. Alles, was ihn interessiert, ist, den Tag zu überstehen und bei dem Mädchen zu sein, das er liebt. Als Haymitchs Name aufgerufen wird, spürt er, wie all seine Träume zerbrechen.

Would you like building an empire without having to spend thousands of dollars to get started? Have you ever wanted to start a vending machine business in your spare time? The vending industry still has a ton of room to grow, moving into 2022 and beyond! Don't miss this opportunity that people still are ignoring! From where to buy machines, finding locations, and collecting cash flow, you will find in this audiobook everything you need to know in order to get started and begin your own vending machine side hustle business.

Are you a woman looking for self-love? Do you want to be more confident and raise your self-esteem? Do you wish you had more friends? Are you finding it difficult to meet new people? Tired of feeling lonely? Rebecca Collins has put both her books Love Yourself Deeply and How To Make Friends Easily together in this very special two-in-one audiobook package.

US Special Operations Command trains and equips units to undertake select military activities, frequently high-risk missions, often for the purposes of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency. Since 9/11, impelled by an attack on US soil, these forces have been a central instrument of America's military campaign - operating in about 100 countries on any given day. This fight - neither hot war nor cold peace - was launched and executed as a new type of global war in 2001 and has since splintered into a spectrum of regional conflicts.

You Only Live Once, Live Free is all about helping the individual in you get free so that you can live life on your terms. Living free is about breaking out of old paradigms and creating a life specifically designed for you, by you. Please subscribe

For a moment in the 1980s, Carolyn Pfeiffer was the only woman in Hollywood who could greenlight a movie. Working with directors like Sam Shepard and Wes Craven, and with actors like River Phoenix and Bette Davis, she had a hand in producing or distributing many landmark films, among them Ridley Scott's The Duellists, Alan Rudolph's Choose Me, and the Academy Award-winning Kiss of the Spider Woman. However, long before establishing herself as a player in the world of film, Carolyn was a horseback-riding tomboy who dreamed of exploring the world beyond her small hometown.

There are many general books on menopause. But this book is for those who want to know more than the basics. The information in Can I Speak to the Hormone Lady is based on scientific studies, 40 years experience as a pharmacist, and my work as a hormone specialist for over 10 years. Some have referred to me as “The Hormone Lady”.

Chronicling her childhood of abuse, her diagnosis of BPD in her twenties, and her ultimate road to recovery, Born Under the Gaslight is a memoir like none you have ever listened to before. Offering a rare and insightful glimpse into the inner struggles of someone who lives with BPD, Born Under the Gaslight is a must-listen for therapists, others living with BPD, and anyone wanting to understand the complexities of BPD and how to offer practical and emotional support.

Art teacher Walter Hartright is on the road to London when he encounters an enigmatic woman dressed entirely in white. She's an unnerving portent of strange things to come as Hartright starts a new job as drawing-master at Limmeridge House. There the teacher falls in love with Laura, his betrothed pupil, who bears a striking resemblance to the woman in white. Soon Walter is drawn into a family intrigue of greed, secrets, madness, and revenge.

In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age"), to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction, to recent decades, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target.

Welcome to the Moon Moon...where my life is turning into a werewolf joke. Sienna Luna always knew there was something off about her family. She didn’t know most of them were werewolves. Not until her uncle’s will named her pack alpha and she was forced to come to terms with the legacy no one had bothered to prepare her for. Luckily for Sienna, she’s also inherited the Moon Moon, the premier werewolf bar in San Francisco, and it comes staffed with a pack of werewolves eager to teach her the ropes - and more.

This memoir is a whirlwind journey that takes you through the throes of fighting cancer to an awakening of the metaphysical world, messages, visions, self-healing, and synchronized events of people put on the path to understanding our oneness. The universal heart guided and embraced Kathy Collins through her Doubting Thomas phase and guided her to acquiescence through self-compassion.

Little Girls Need Their Daddy is about the importance of what the man means to a little girl. The daddy is placed at the head of the household by God for a reason. He is to lead, guide, and protect the home. Because of the dysfunction that is going on in the homes today, women are being abused, and a lot of it stems from childhood. They were not shown that love and affection from their fathers. Therefore, they go out into the world to find it elsewhere. This is my story.