Modern Women

In this modern wicked fairy tale, Dr. William Pfeiffer is a brilliant researcher who’s never met a problem he couldn’t solve - or a woman who didn’t want to make him hers. Haley is a single mother struggling to make ends meet as a waitress who quits her job to seek Dr. Pfeiffer out on behalf of her daughter, Piper. Because Will is doing the final round of testing of his experimental device that allows the deaf to hear again. And Haley would do anything to help her little girl. But for the first time, Will encounters several problems he can’t solve.

Ayn Rand and her philosophical school, Objectivism, have had a considerable influence upon American popular culture, yet the true story of her life and work has yet to be told. In this book, Jeff Walker debunks the cult-like following that developed around the author of the classics Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead - a cult that persists even today.

The fourth book in Sarah Levi's controversial "Secrets of Pimpology Applied to the Seduction Game" series, "Alpha Male Strategies: How to Meet, Date & Attract Women Who Will Serve You," may be her most divisive to yet. Levi continues his investigation into the dynamics of power and attraction in this volume, this time concentrating on techniques ostensibly meant to guarantee men not only succeed in the dating scene but also land partnerships in which their partners are committed to meeting their demands.

A Modern Military Mother - Tales from the Domestic Frontline is about the life, reflections and rants of military wife Clare Macnaughton. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad and sometimes crazy, this is a quick and easy listen, with Clare herself reading her account of life on the domestic frontline. Meet ‘Hagar’, the Chinook-flying husband frequently on secret missions in ‘Afghan’, and the children, a son, ‘The Grenade’, and, a daughter, ‘The Menace’.

This book gives you some fundamental, practical steps that you can ease into, creating new habits to lower your risks of burnout causing serious health issues in the future so you can stay productive while bringing back your sparkle, your joie de vivre and feel like you again!

In elegant prose, Hilary A. Hallett traces Elinor Glyn’s meteoric rise from a depressed society darling to a world-renowned celebrity author who consorted with world leaders from St. Petersburg to Cairo to New York. After reporting from the trenches during World War I, the author was lured by American movie producers from Paris to Los Angeles for her remarkable third act. Weaving together years of deep archival research, Hallett movingly conveys how Glyn, more than any other individual during the Roaring Twenties, crafted early Hollywood’s glamorous romantic aesthetic.

Do you want to learn about the best way to text a woman? Do you want to learn about using texts to flirt? Do you want to learn to seduce a woman via texts? If your answer to any of the above questions is a yes then you have come to the right place.

I’m going to warn you from the beginning. It’s not going to be easy, and the magic won’t happen overnight. It’ll require you to step outside your comfort zone...a lot. However, if you dedicate yourself to this, you will learn how to get women to become obsessed with you....

Die neue Prinzessin der Herzen: Mit ihrem natürlichen Charme verzaubert Meghan Markle nicht nur Prinz Harry, sondern die Menschen weltweit. Die Amerikanerin, bekannt aus der TV-Serie "Suits", lebt ein echtes Märchen: Im Mai heiratet sie Prinz Harry und wird damit offizielles Mitglied des britischen Königshauses. In der Biografie erzählt Bestseller-Autor Andrew Morton, einzigartiger Kenner der Royals, umfassend über ihre Kindheit, ihren Mut und ihre Courage und zeigt mit viel Insiderwissen, was von Meghan in ihrer neuen Rolle zu erwarten ist.

Lizzy Bennett always told herself she was too busy for love, especially since she was working full-time as a nurse at Meryton Medical Center and helping to care for her young niece. When her sister, Jane, catches the attention of young medical resident Dr. Charlie Bingley, she does everything she can to help her sister find happiness - even if it means enduring the presence of Charlie's arrogant friend, Dr. William Darcy.

Frauen haben schon immer die Welt verändert: Sie haben geforscht, Weltliteratur geschrieben und neue Epochen in der Kunst eingeläutet. Doch die Namen dieser Frauen sucht man vergeblich in unseren Geschichtsbüchern. In Wahrheit hat nicht Walt Disney den Zeichentrickfilm erfunden, sondern eine Frau. Es waren auch Frauen, die die DNA, den ersten Algorithmus und die Kernspaltung beschrieben haben. Dank Vera Weidenbach erfahren wir nun endlich mehr über diese für die Weltgeschichte so wichtigen Frauen – wie Lilly Reich, Clara Immerwahr, Lucia Moholy, Nellie Bly und Margarete Steffin.

Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of the richest ancient Greek depictions of women who are married to soldiers. In tales of the Trojan War, as told by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, we encounter these mythical warriors' wives: Penelope, isolated but resourceful as she awaits the return of Odysseus after his lengthy absence; the war widow Andromache, enslaved and displaced from her homeland after the fall of Troy; the unfaithful and murderous Clytemnestra; and Tecmessa, a war captive who witnesses her partner's breakdown and suicide in the aftermath of battle.

Of all the teachings of Christianity, the doctrine of hell is easily the most troubling, so much so that in recent years the church has been quietly tucking it away. Rarely mentioned anymore in the pulpit, it has faded through disuse among evangelicals and been attacked by liberal theologians...

Phryne Fisher has gone missing in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Only her pearl-handled gun and a note arrive back home. She's left instruction that say that should she not turn up in six months' time, a letter must be sent to next of kin.

Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come from—and, more importantly, are they serving the mothers whose lives they shape? Carrie's suspicion, later crystallized while raising two small children, was that our culture’s idealization of motherhood was not only painfully limiting but harmful, leaving women to cope with impossible standards—standards rarely created by mothers themselves.

Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States.

Once upon a time, Jack loved Goldi but she left to pursue her dream. Broken, bad boy Jack fought his way through his darkness in the boxing ring. But now Goldi is back, around to break his heart all over again. Just when Jack has to stay more focused than he’s ever been. Because he’s about to fight the heavyweight champion of the world. They call him "The Giant" - and he’s married to the woman Jack loves. When Jack finds out his Goldi is trapped in a dangerous, loveless marriage, and she’s planning her escape, he knows he has to rescue her.

If you have ever wondered what it takes to attract the man you are interested in, or if you have just felt unattractive, this audiobook will show you how to change the way men look at you. Inside, you will learn what men really find attractive and how you can be the kind of woman who has that mysterious magnetic pull on men’s hearts and minds. The keys to attractiveness aren’t what you might think.

From the creator of the viral Instagram account comes an empowering guide to navigating the hazards and horrors of online dating. After one too many hostile dating app encounters, Alexandra Tweten set up the Instagram account @ByeFelipe, a place for women to protest the horrors of online dating...

Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....