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Bear witness to the quiet courage of the women who endured one of English history’s darkest chapters. Step into the shadowy world of seventeenth-century England with Widdershins, a haunting historical novel that lays bare the terror of the 1650 Newcastle witch trials. Jane Chandler is a natural healer whose knowledge of herbal remedies leaves her vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft in a society consumed by superstition. In pursuit of her is John Sharpe, a witchfinder whose relentless crusade against witches is forged by religious zealotry.

"Je traversais la rue... Vincent passait sur le trottoir d'en face. Je me suis arrêtée au milieu du carrefour. J'étais là, figée. Le cœur battant. Je regardais son dos qui s'éloignait. Torse large, hanches étroites, il avait une stature impressionnante. J'aurais pu courir, le rattraper. Il a tourné au coin de la rue. Je suis restée debout, les jambes coupées. Les yeux fixés sur la direction qu'il avait prise. Je tremblais. Je n'arrivais plus à respirer. J'ai pris mon téléphone dans mon sac, j'ai appelé une amie."

Are you looking after yourself? For so for many of us, with so much to do and think about, self care - taking care of our mental, emotional, and physical health and well-being - often falls by the wayside. The Self-Care Handbook equips you to make positive, helpful choices for incorporating self-care into your life. It explains how to take responsibility for your own well being and provides ideas and practical advice on how you can better look after yourself.

Every pastor's wife is a faithful servant and leader in her own right. She has great influence on her church, her community, her family, and her husband, and she finds joy in seeing God move in the lives of others. Yet she also faces unique challenges that too often go unnoticed and unaddressed.

Dans la vallée, il y avait trois fermiers, éleveurs de volailles dodues... Le premier était gros et gourmand ; le deuxième était petit et bilieux ; le troisième était maigre et se nourrissait de cidre. Tous les trois étaient laids et méchants. Dans le bois qui surplombait la vallée vivaient Maître Renard, Dame Renard et leurs quatre renardeaux, affamés et malins.

Jamais Patricia n’aurait imaginé que l’aventure du Templier m’a dit n’était qu’une étape. Chargée de lever la malédiction qui, depuis des siècles, interdisait le repos des templiers suppliciés par le roi Philippe le Bel en 1314, elle nous raconte enfin ce soir du décembre 2022 où, dans un crypte troglodyte des environs de Châteaudun, elle voit 24 templiers émerger d’un étrange brouillard, enfin libérés. Avant de disparaître, ils lui délivrent un étrange message : " Regardez vers le Vatican dans 21 jours.

When it comes to finding dirt, Evan Reed is the best in the business. She’s a “dust-buster” - a paid operative hired by political campaigns to vet candidates for national office. She’s also a foulmouthed and cranky ex-Catholic - attempting to raise a 14-year-old daughter on her own. When she is hired to investigate the background of a squeaky-clean and charismatic junior senator who might just be the next president, the last thing she expects to uncover is a murder.

Is the top still spinning? Was it all a dream? In the world of Christopher Nolan's four-time Academy Award-winning movie, people can share one another's dreams and alter their beliefs and thoughts. Inception is a metaphysical heist film that raises more questions than it answers: Can we know what is real? Can you be held morally responsible for what you do in dreams? What is the nature of dreams, and what do they tell us about the boundaries of "self" and "other"?

Par une journée d’été caniculaire, l’inspectrice Blanco fait irruption dans la villa d’une famille madrilène de la classe moyenne pour se ruer dans la chambre du fils. La scène diffusée en direct sur l’écran d'ordinateur de l’adolescent dépasse l’entendement. Une implacable incursion dans l’univers du dark web et de ses "snuff movies", ces films trash dans lesquels les victimes ne sont pas des acteurs...

Based on extensive research and workplace experience, The Female Vision demonstrates that what women perceive in organizations and beyond that goes unnoticed and unrewarded is exactly what so many companies need to succeed. Helgeson and Johnson delve deeply into the stories of a number of women whose vision improved their companies - although often they had to struggle not only against unresponsive organizations, peers, or others, but also against their own personal fears.

Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness–her own and that of others–Rachel longs for love, and contact with another human being who shares her rebellious spirit. Through her summer affair with Nick Kazlik, a schoolmate from earlier years, she learns at last to reach out to another person and to make herself vulnerable.

One of the world's most multicultural cities, 20th-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and '30s, a vibrant music, theater, film, and cabaret scene flourished, defining what it meant to be a "modern" Egyptian. Women came to dominate the Egyptian entertainment industry - as stars of the stage and screen but also as impresarias, entrepreneurs, owners, and promoters of a new and strikingly modern entertainment industry.

Life is busier than ever before. We are working longer hours to keep up with longer to-do lists. Yet we’re experiencing more stress and seem to fall further and further behind. Our so-called leisure time is punctuated with interruptions, constantly pulling us back to work. We are led to believe we can prioritize our way out of this, but prioritization is broken. In Workday Warrior, productivity expert Ann Gomez presents a fresh approach that smashes today’s time challenges: too many priorities, too many interruptions, and too much complexity.

When Grace Beiler was only a girl, she was married off to an older Amish man in order to save her family’s farm. Years later, she finds herself newly widowed and a mother to a young son. She has finally fled her sad past and plans to settle into a quiet life in Pennsylvania. As soon as she arrives, she captures the attention of Seth Wyse, the most eligible bachelor in Pine Creek. Seth is candid about his feelings for her and for her son, Abel, but Grace is determined to protect her heart.

Passion had clouded P.I. Celia Carter's judgment once. Never again. Now she took on dangerous undercover assignments to deal with her guilt. But P.I. Alec Sharpe was determined to reawaken Celia's sexuality...before she got herself killed.

Aziliz fut le cœur de son monde, elle est devenue la complice de son malheur. Quand Ethan la retrouve, lui, le phœnix, est pris entre deux feux : céder à l'attirance qui anime les âmes sœurs ou s'enliser dans une rancœur tenace. Pour la sibylle, il n'y a ni passé ni futur. Amnésique, elle ne peut se reconstruire et, sans ses pouvoirs, elle échappe à la folie. Tous deux vont voir leur avenir basculer, car confrontés à une emprise démoniaque, le monde et la section Némésis vont avoir besoin d'Aziliz pour éviter l'apocalypse.

Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized—and largely mythical—notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of Edward I, often known as Longshanks. The lives of these sisters—Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary, and Elizabeth—ran the gamut of experiences open to royal women in the Middle Ages.

Falling into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross's thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. Beautifully written, deeply felt, Falling into the Fire brings us inside the doctor’s mind, illuminating the grave human costs of mental illness as well as the challenges of diagnosis and treatment. At once rigorous and meditative, Falling into the Fire is an intimate portrait of psychiatry, allowing the reader to witness the humanity of the practice and the enduring mysteries of the mind.

Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr. Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the disease in the caves beneath his new Cornish home. While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited by the strange tales her new maid tells of the fairies that hunt the land, searching for those they can steal away to their realm.

Attendue, parfois redoutée, la retraite est une nouvelle page qui s'écrit. De nombreuses questions se posent : allez-vous juste profiter du temps qui passe ? Vous engager dans des activités sociales ? Voyager ? Vous occuper de votre famille ? Vous adonner à de nouvelles passions, trop longtemps mises de côté faute de temps ? Ce livre vous aide à réaliser un bilan complet et lucide de votre situation : deuil de la vie professionnelle, santé, vie sentimentale, patrimoine, projets... Un temps d'introspection indispensable pour définir vos priorités, vos aspirations profondes et profiter pleinement de cette nouvelle vie qui démarre !