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Dear Bennington College Admissions Officer: I'm probably not your average applicant from Beverly Hills, CA. And I'm not one to brag, but I'm pretty much the smartest girl in my class at Mark Frost Academy. My grades are excellent. My motivation is high. I don't drink or do drugs or hang out with the bad kids. I'm pretty much all business. My life is not going to end here, in this part of Los Angeles. I'm going places. Which brings me to my latest venture: babysitting teenagers.

"La napolitudine ormai è diventata troppo scontata, si è prostituita. Sono stati sfruttati proprio i canoni napoletani per fare soldi." Così si sfogava già quarant'anni fa Pino Daniele in un'intervista in cui spiegava il suo difficile rapporto con il capoluogo campano. In un suo studio, Benedetto Croce, napoletano d'adozione, aveva invece definito la città, approfondendo una convinzione medioevale, "un Paradiso abitato da diavoli". Durante il suo Grand Tour, un Goethe estasiato appuntava nei suoi diari: "vedi Napoli e poi muori".

In this captivating and empathetic book, Gigi Georges follows five girls as they come of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Eastern seaboard. Their stories transform our understanding of life in small towns and offer hope for the future of rural America.

When three-year-old Joshua Gortler and his family were forced from their hometown in Poland during World War II, they scrambled for safety across border after border, finding refuge at last in Europe’s Displaced Persons Camps. Undocumented and unschooled, Gortler spent his adolescence learning to survive. When his family eventually relocated to the US, Gortler found himself starting over, and after teaching himself English, Gortler managed to complete high school in three years, earn an MSW, and begin what would become a distinguished career in the field of eldercare.

A delightful collection of fun, inspirational and heart-warming sweet billionaire romances. Each standalone story has it's own happily ever after. You'll encounter twists and turns with a bevy of second chances, a love triangle, a secret baby, best friends to lovers, opposites attract, and soulmates find each other tropes.

While on a well-earned vacation in the south of France, renowned San Francisco architect and designer AJ Taylor has a chance encounter with a bright, charming couple who later find themselves playing matchmakers. The couple arranges a meetup between AJ and their close friend Patrick Walker, recluse billionaire cybersecurity genius. Unmistakable sparks fly as AJ’s open and honest personality begins to break down Patrick’s walls. But can the two resolve the issues within themselves in order to allow the affection to unfold?

Alex’s billions bought him a private jet, but he has yet to capture a woman’s heart. With Samantha Stone, he thought he had found the one. But Sam needed him most, he pushed her away. She left him. She chose Damian, and Alex lost his chance at love...until a beautiful bridesmaid sashayed into his life. Courtney Chase was everything Alex wanted. But her beauty fueled an unhealthy drive to become head nurse. Her job took her from Alex. Three years later, a literal blow to Alex’s heart has brought them together for another try.

After the death of her fiance, the last thing Ginger Riley was looking for was romance, especially with someone like billionaire Chandler Briggs. He was everything she stood against: arrogant, superficial, and above all else, infuriating. She would do anything to keep her distance from him, but fate had other ideas. After Chandler agrees to partner with Ginger in a charity project, Ginger must learn how to cope with her dislike for Chandler. But in the process, she discovers that he is much more than she gave him credit for.

After a heartbreak leaves intelligent billionaire Dillon Quinn lost in love, it’s up to his best friend, Jill Sinclair, to help him move on. But with each lingering touch and gentle caress, Jill can’t help but wonder: Could her feelings for Dillon go beyond friendship? Could this be love? Dillon is ready to investigate his growing feelings for Jill as well. He has never felt anything like this before. Jill triggered in him something that no woman had before. Right at the height of their fervor, Jill and Dillon receive news that shocks them to the core.

Career-driven journalist Samantha Stone has cryptocurrency, not men, on her mind when she travels from her home in Texas to the Acapulco Bitcoin Conference. Sam’s world revolves around words. Damian Dunne, billionaire investor and author of a book on the finer points and ideals of Bitcoin, knows his words, and he speaks them from a reserved and compassionate heart. But Alex, Damian’s flashy, ambitious, and intoxicating twin and business partner, has his eyes set on Sam, and he has a reputation for getting what he wants. Sam can't have them both. She has to choose.

After her last billionaire beau, Kylie Mitchell has vowed to avoid rich men from now on. But she didn’t count on falling on Scott Ryan while overseas on a business trip. When the embarrassment wears off, the attraction doesn’t, and Kylie can’t get him off her mind even after she’s back home in New York working for her ex-boyfriend boss, Alex. When Scott shows up at her office and asks her out, she can’t resist. He may be a big name in new space technology, but he is also down-to-earth, kind, and unassuming - not your typical billionaire.

We live in a culture awash with advice on nutrition and eating. Who do we believe? And what does it really mean to eat healthy? FoodWISE is for anyone who has felt unsure about how to make the "right" food choices. It is for food lovers who want to be more knowledgeable and connected to their food, while also creating meaningful dining experiences around the table. Professor and food fanatic Gigi Berardi shows readers how to buy foods and prepare meals that are W.I.S.E: Whole, Informed, Sustainable, and Experienced with friends and family.

50 Ways to Worry Less Now offers four life strategies and 50 eclectic tools to dissolve the whispered lies of negative self-talk. Although many books address negative thinking, very few give the listener step-by-step directions on how to defeat it. Others simply advocate a single approach. With candor and humor, Langer describes a wide variety of strategies that helped her, and others, defeat dysfunctional relationships, perfectionism, addiction, and worry about loved ones.

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the US, affecting 40 million adult Americans. This accessible guide provides listeners with an overview of anxiety: what it is, who gets it, how to recognize it, what the major causes are, how a small amount of anxiety can actually help motivate us, and what the dangers of letting more severe anxiety go untreated are. In addition to case studies and patient interviews, Dr. Small also includes side-bars with factoids, lists, and other helpful information.

La frontiera dei diritti e la disobbedienza. Il braccio di ferro tra il ministro e i sindaci in sei articoli di Repubblica: L'identità in crisi dei populisti, di Enrico Franceschini; Dietro al Colle, la sfida delle due Italie, di Stefano Folli; Decreto Salvini, la sicurezza immorale e la disobbedienza civile, di Massimo Giannini; Dietro la rivolta dei Comuni la paura di una nuova bomba sociale, di Alessandra Ziniti; I sindaci e la via maestra della Consulta, di Stefano Folli; Sulle donne in fuorigioco la politica si sveglia tardi, di Gigi Riva.

The Plant-Based Workplace reveals the hidden health crisis that pervades our modern American workplace food environment. This audiobook galvanizes the conscientious and fiscally astute company to enhance employee well-being, promote environmental sustainability, and revitalize productivity by getting to the root of employee chronic diseases.

When Jack Power, the titan of real estate in New York City, decides to divorce his wife, Cynthia, former ballerina and Princess of Park Avenue, in order to marry his mistress, Lara, America's favorite morning news anchor, all hell breaks loose. He's got to come up with a plan, and fast - including finding a suitable boyfriend for his wife so that she will let him go.

"Herrin Gnadenlos" erzählt eindrucksvoll die Geschichte von Burt, der sich bedingungslos als Sklave verdingen will und bereit ist, seiner Auserwählten für diese "Stellung" sogar mehrere tausend Dollar zu bezahlen. Doch er muss sich zunächst beweisen, um als Sklave seiner gestrengen Herrin akzeptiert zu werden. Und DIE kennt keine Gnade!

Born a slave in 1776, Gabriel grows up capable and literate only to be taken from his mother and sent to the capital city as a blacksmith’s apprentice. There in the forge, a meeting point for many travelers and news bearers, his work awakens him to the sparks of resistance that are igniting into rebellion around the globe. When he is unable to both defend the love of his life and earn the money to buy her freedom, Gabriel makes a decision: freedom for just his own family would not be enough.

L.A. is no place for widows. This is what 44-year-old Hannah Bernal quickly discovers after the tragic death of her handsome and loving husband, John. Misery and red-rimmed eyes are little tolerated in the land of the beautiful. But life stumbles on: Hannah's sweet three-year-old daughter, Ellie, needs to be dropped off at her overpriced preschool, while Hannah herself must get back to work in order to pay the bills on "Casa Sugar", the charming Spanish-styled bungalow they call home. Fortunately, Hannah has her "Grief Team" for emotional support....