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1934. Isabel longs to escape her squalid San Francisco neighborhood. While her mother struggles to make ends meet and her older brother serves with the CCC at Yosemite, she manages the household and comforts her younger sister with stories about an idyllic imaginary world. Desperate for a taste of freedom, she takes matters into her own hands-with tragic consequences.

Are customers failing to see what sets your brand apart, pushing your prices (and margins) down? Healthy prices and profits are a company’s lifeblood, critical for funding current operations and future growth. Yet too many businesses look alike and are then forced to compete on price alone. Instead, they should aim for clear, sustainable differentiation, owning the market as the enduring Go-To brand. Theresa M. Lina will help you escape the commodity trap.

The concept of animal resistance is now reaching a wide audience across the social media landscape. Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era offers an overview of how animals resist human orderings in the context of capitalism, domestication, and colonization. Exploring this understudied phenomenon, this book is attentive to both the standpoints of animal resisters and the ways they are represented in human society.

Die heutige Welt ist voll von Feedback – von den Likes oder Dislikes auf Social Media bis hin zum jährlichen Gespräch mit Vorgesetzten. Doch ist Feedback wirklich so wertvoll, wie immer behauptet wird? Die Autorin findet nicht und zeigt, warum man nicht alles annehmen und sich gar davon frei machen sollte. Feedback gehört zum guten Ton, kommt oft und nicht selten ungefragt: der Spruch des Kollegen, die 1-Sterne-Bewertung des Kunden, das jährliche Feedback vom Chef, der fiese Nebensatz der Schwiegermutter oder Produktbewertungen bei Google. Kritisches Feedback lässt uns zusammenzucken.

Trixie Burnett, a 23-year-old single mom and the only prostitute in the small northeast Texas town of Pineywoods, knows the winning lottery ticket in her purse is about to change things forever.

As Dave settles into his new beach house, Margaret is happy to assist, though she also notices a lot of his decisions lately don’t involve her. She can’t help but wonder if the long-term plans for his future include her and her daughters.

Lyra Castillo does many things. She’s a respected librarian in Seattle, she never misses a yoga class, and she’s read every word Jane Austen has ever written. Lyra never thought, however, that she would be foolish enough to get herself stuck with the most irritating man in existence. But, that’s exactly what happens.

With these last words from their mother, two little girls, Marguerite and her older sister, will begin a long wandering that will last two years. Equipped with a new identity, they must cut themselves off from everything that constitutes their familiar universe. Led from farms to convents, they learn to keep quiet, to pretend, to lie, to adapt and above all to keep hope, against all odds. The story that Marguerite Élias Quddus gives us takes one to the centre of it and lets us glimpse history through the eyes of a very young child.

Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while being broadly applicable to many American cities today.

Sarah’s loving the boat life and spending time with Chris, but will an unexpected call from her ex change everything? Margaret is busy in the garden again and frustrated to find that the honor system for the The Cape May Garden farm stand isn’t working out according to plan. Dave is renovating his new beach house in North Cape May but still can’t decide what his plans are for the property. Donna, an old high school friend, is back in town after her marriage ends, and as she tries to figure out a new life, she’s surprised by an unexpected spark with someone new.

En killjoy er ikke bange for at udpege den sexisme, vold og racisme, der findes overalt i vores samfund. Og en killjoy nægter at se til i tavshed for at bevare den gode stemning. I "Killjoy manifest" opstiller feminist Sara Ahmed ti principper eller viljeserklæringer for hvad en killjoy vil (gøre eller være) eller ikke vil (gøre eller være). Sidste del af bogen består af et overlevelseskit for killjoys. Sara Ahmed (f. 1969) er en britisk-australsk akademiker og aktivist.

A big-budget movie is filming in Cape May, and one of the stars, Katherine Duffield, has rented out the Seahorse Inn for two months. Excitement overtakes Margaret and Liz until they receive the celebrity’s ridiculous list demands. Dave is thrilled at the chance to use his construction skills on the film set, but tension unexpectedly arises between him and Margaret. Irene, Dave’s sister, is back in town working on the film as a production assistant. Greg takes a leap toward his dream of opening a restaurant with the support of Liz, but is it the best choice for their family?

Cammie, a dancer in her thirties, has just landed her first part in a show since coming to New York City. Yet the tug of familial obligations and the guilt of what she sacrificed to be there weigh down her dancing feet. Cammie’s lover, Tom, an older piano player, came to the city as a young man in the 1980s with a story eerily in tune with Cammie’s own. Through their triumphs and failures, both learn the fleetness of glory, the sweetness of new love, and how a dream come true isn’t cherished until it’s passed.

Everyone was happy and relieved when Lucien died. But just when one war ends, another one starts. It turns out that Royce is not the last of the Callahan Clan of vampires. His sister Chloe is. She rolls into Charlottesville and immediately declares war on the pack to avenge her brother. But it’s even worse for us this time. We turn to the Fredericksburg Pack for help, but their alpha Dante betrays us through a loophole in the alliance that he uses to reject us in our darkest hour. An army of magic-charged vampires and an ally-turned-enemy pack. What are we supposed to do now?

When Annabelle flees her abusive husband and moves into an 1860s farmhouse, she soon learns that she is not alone; she shares her home with Christian, the ghost of a poet who killed himself in 1917. Christian, wanting nothing but solitude, tries to scare Annabelle away, but once they come together while she is dreaming, they fall in love. The clock is ticking for Christian, for moments after his hanging his fiancé magically cursed his spirit to be stuck on earth for 100 years, and his time is almost up.

"Ich bin das Buch, das dich an das Urwissen in dir erinnert, denn du weißt bereits alles. Ich bin das Buch, das dich wappnet für knifflige Situationen - im Fall des Falles. Ich bin das Buch, das dir liebevolle Möglichkeiten für deine Herzensverbundenheit aufzeigt. Ich bin das Buch, das voller Verbundenheit bei dir bleibt. Ich bin das Buch, das in jeder Zeile für dich wahre Liebe schreibt. Ich wurde auf einer inneren Reise geschrieben, denn die Autorin sehnt sich nach Herzen, die aus mitfühlender Tiefe lieben.

Patty is a licensed mental health professional and a counselor. She was invited to present on Christian Pastoral Counseling for hundreds of indigenous pastors and church leaders. After the unexpected death of their 33-year-old son, both she and her husband, Dennis, invested the next year in mental health counseling from a licensed grief counselor. This time she was the client - not the counselor. As an avid writer, part of her therapy included journal entries as she expressed the emotions of her walk through her grief. Her book is an accumulation of those journal entries.

Margaret and Liz are sisters who are about to get in over their heads...They've been gifted The Seahorse Inn, a beautiful bed-and-breakfast by the beach in Cape May. Though it hasn’t been open to guests in years, the pair endeavor to reopen in time for the holidays. Problem is, they discover the charming old place is really a money pit full of more issues than they can handle on their own. On top of dealing with renovations, Margaret is surprised by an unexpected visit from her ex-mother-in-law.

This powerful audiobook will help answer the frustrating question of "how" to live a life of victory in Christ. Many times we read about how we have the victory and we know we are supposed to come out on top but many Christians are defeated, broke, disheartened, and living a life of poverty. Focusing on scriptural principles and applications, this audiobook will help you put in to practice five of the keys to living a life of victory through Jesus Christ. If you practice these things daily, your life will certainly never be the same!

A young and devout woman is thrust into a drama she never anticipated. In a matter of weeks, she is the victim of adultery, rape, and the murder of her husband, in an attempt to cover up the perpetrator's crime. Then, her first-born son - the result of her rape - dies at seven days of age. How can she survive the emotional impact of these losses in her life? What would have devastated, incapacitated, and made most women bitter was the starting point of the life of one of the most infamous women in history.