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Es ist, als hätte sich in diesem einen Moment etwas zusammengefügt, das zusammengehört, während die Welt aus den Fugen geriet. Ich kann es nicht erklären, finde einfach nicht die richtigen Worte dafür. Aber ich weiß: Nichts wird je wieder so sein wie vor diesem Moment. Ella: Ich glaubte immer, ein ganz normales Mädchen zu sein. Doch in dem Moment, als ich Kyle sah und die Zeit stehen blieb, hat sich etwas verändert. Seitdem unsere Herzen im Gleichklang schlagen, ist alles anders.

Sugar, Baby follows Agnes, a mixed-race 21-year-old whose life seems to be heading nowhere. Still living at home, she works as a cleaner and spends all her money in clubs on the weekends searching for distractions from her mundane life. That is until she meets Emily, daughter of one of her cleaning clients, who lives in London and works as a model...and a sugar baby, dating rich older men for money. Emily’s life is the escape Agnes has been longing for—extravagant tasting menus, champagne on tap, glamorous hotels with unlimited room service, designer gifts from dates who call her beautiful.

The Prairie Trilogy is a series of three novels centered around life in the Midwest during the late 19th/early 20th centuries by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. First, in "O Pioneers!," we meet Alexandra Bergson, who inherits the family farm after her father dies and leaves her to care for her three siblings. While many immigrant families are giving up their farms and moving back to the city (or to their home countries), Alexandra decides to try to tough it out on the prairie.

In "The Song of the Lark," we follow the life of budding artist Thea Kronbog, who rises from complete obscurity in a tiny Colorado town to become a world-renowned opera singer. A fascinating look at life in the early 20th century as well as a deep dive into the life and struggles of a creative artist rising to the top of her profession, "The Song of the Lark" was universally praised for its realism and meticulous depiction of Thea's journey. One of the most important and powerful novels of the early 20th century, "The Song of the Lark" is presented here in its original and unabridged format.

On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway—the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate. On Friday she is pronounced dead. By Sunday, women have taken to the streets across Iran, setting their headscarves on fire and cursing the Supreme Leader. Months later, workers down their tools and businesses close. The battle-cry everywhere: Women, Life, Freedom.

Sta per iniziare a studiare e sente già una buona dose di sopraffazione strisciante e di anticipazione al pensiero? Ha appena iniziato e ha bisogno di una guida su come bilanciare al meglio i suoi studi e il suo tempo libero? Desidera da tempo un nuovo inizio perché il ciclo ricorrente di motivazione, procrastinazione e apprendimento stressante la sta prosciugando? Non sa più qual è il suo vero problema e come può affrontarlo? Non si disperi ancora, perché le conoscenze che le vengono impartite in questo libro possono capovolgere i suoi studi.

L'uno o l'altro di voi ricorderà sicuramente le pause scolastiche nel cortile della scuola elementare, quando penserà al salto della corda. E sicuramente ora ne sta sorridendo. Era un passatempo da bambino, era divertente e letteralmente un gioco da ragazzi. È ancora così oggi? Chi avrebbe mai pensato che il "salto della corda" sarebbe diventato uno sport riconosciuto, in cui oggi si svolgono anche competizioni internazionali? Ciò che dall'estero si è diffuso in Europa come tendenza, sta conquistando l'entusiasmo anche da noi, in tutte le fasce d'età e in tutti i gruppi sportivi.

È una verità universalmente riconosciuta che uno scrittore in possesso di un po' di tempo e di un'idea non ha bisogno di nulla di più urgente della motivazione. Ora, se mi perdona se adatto questa citazione di Jane Austen alle circostanze, le spiego il mio pensiero: Si può avere un'idea rivoluzionaria e tutto il tempo del mondo, solo che è poco utile se manca la motivazione. Se è presente anche questa, tuttavia, possono sorgere domande che possono essere un po' opprimenti, soprattutto per i nuovi scrittori.

La paura è un argomento molto serio e soprattutto la paura della malattia è un vero e proprio calvario per molti di coloro che ne sono affetti. La paura, però, è anche un sentimento che ogni essere umano porta dentro di sé, che è vitale o essenziale per la sopravvivenza e che è più o meno forte in ogni persona a seconda della sua personalità. La paura guida, ispira, mobilita le proprie forze, porta al successo, ma può anche far ammalare, tanto da rendere la vita un inferno.

Sadie Rivera has been haunted all her life by a vengeful ghost—a ghost that doesn’t want her to make any friends. The moment she tries? Cue exploding lightbulbs, chilling gusts of wind, and slamming doors. Last year, Sadie got fed up. Last year, she made a best friend, Anna. So when the ghost caused an accident that killed her best friend, Sadie knew it was all her fault. Which is why she’s not going to make any friends this year at her new school. At least until mysterious cool girl Mal shows up, and the ghost doesn’t bother her for once.

Shaun Attwood, former ecstasy kingpin in Arizona turned author and podcast-host, has gained a reputation for earning the trust of some of the world's most dangerous people, including gangsters, serial killers, and mafia enforcers. Drawing on his many hours of interview material, along with new content exclusive to the book, Shaun collates a collection of hard-hitting conversations with ten of the most dangerous female gangsters he's met.

Jewels still hasn't learned to trust herself. Grateful that her spiritual leader has temporarily healed her debilitating panic attacks, the anxious 25-year-old doesn’t question the man when he encourages her to take a job at a local strip club. But when she starts putting his behaviors together, she becomes suspicious of his motives.

Una antología que concentra todo el potencial fantasioso y onírico de Gaiman: historias de terror y de fantasmas, ficción especulativa y cuentos de hadas, fábulas perversas y versos sorprendentes.

A missing person case sends search and rescue worker Elsie Montgomery and her K-9 to a remote Alaskan island…only to discover she’s got a target on her back. Now she must partner with pilot Wyatt Chandler, the one man she doesn’t trust, to stay alive while confronting her shadowy past. But can they capture a killer before their time together runs out for good?

C'è un regno inesplorato al di là delle montagne. Nessuno vi è entrato e nessuno ne è uscito. Andarlo a conquistare non è un gioco, né grande, né piccolo. È crescere e viaggiare. E tu hai un tesoro, tra tanti, fatto di piccole foglie: il tè. Quindi sì, papà: verrò con te.

Mara's ex, Nico, is the girl of her dreams: beautiful, wild and unpredictable. She's Mara's everything, even though Mara's never sure that she's Nico's anything. Then Nico goes missing... New Year's Day: A girl is rescued from the sea. She knows she is called Nico, but other than that, she has no memory of why she was in the sea or what came before. When destiny reunites them, is this Mara and Nico's second chance? Can their relationship make it out of the shallows? And what will happen when they discover the truth behind Nico's accident? Because one day, Nico will remember everything.

London, 1833. Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission. But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband and their canal-side home in Kings Cross and move to Tall Trees—a dark and foreboding house in Fitzrovia. If Hester can cure the ailing health of its owner, Gervaise Cherville, she will receive payment that will bring her everything she could dream of. But on arriving at Tall Trees, Hester quickly discovers that an even bigger task awaits her.

In O Pioneers, we meet the Bergsons, a family of farmers in the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska who have emigrated to America from Sweden. When the family patriarch dies, the running of the farm falls to the eldest daughter, Alexandra, who struggles to make the farm viable and provide for the family. Eventually, the focus turns to the romantic entanglements of Alexandra and her brother as well as touching upon the enormous difficulties of running a farm at the turn of the last century.

The late May air is filled with the rich scents of a Maine spring, and Tatum, a sweet, rust-colored rescue dog, is enjoying a trip to the hardware store with his dad when a heavy thunderstorm blows in. Frightened, Tatum scampers off to hide—and buries himself beneath a blanket on a nearby truck. When Tatum wakes, hungry and confused, he’s hours from home. The truck’s kind owner promises to get him back to his family, but that’ll be no easy feat. Tatum lost his ID tag during his travels, and with service down because of the storm, the local vet can’t scan for a chip.

At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas, watching a train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be an only occasional—and always troubled—visitor who denies her the love she longs for. Linda Joy Myers’s compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story of three generations of daughters who, though determined to be different from their absent mothers, ultimately follow in their footsteps, recreating a pattern that they yearn to break.