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Minnie is a 25-year old virgin. A tease for anyone privy to that information. But she doesn't care. She is a strong successful woman who is confident in herself. Or is she? She is forced to second guess herself when a mysteriously promiscuous man moves in next door. With every girl he brings back home, Minnie's confidence dwindles. Terrified of the impact a stranger is having on her self-esteem, she realizes that it's something more. Has she developed feelings for a playboy? Will those feelings ever be returned? Are they even worth pursuing?

In this summary of Parenting with Love and Logic, you can learn how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Being a parent is an extraordinarily happy experience but also very tiring. Do you ever feel like you are frustrated with your children to the point where you cannot control it anymore? Do you find that you are angry at your kids nearly all of the time? Find out more....

Through his prolific and highly regarded writing, Thomas Howard's name is familiar to Protestants and Catholics alike, but many have never heard the story of his conversion to Catholicism. With grace, charm, and wit, Dr. Howard describes his journey from Evangelicalism to Anglicanism, and finally, to the Church of Rome. In a world saturated with fashionable unbelief, Howard's testimony inspires and informs. Fr. Richard Neuhaus calls it "a marvelously engaging remembrance."

Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3. Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly specialised and complex. In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels and tired terminology.

Feeling trapped in the prison he calls his life, Cameron makes the impulsive decision - with the help of liquid courage - to quit his stable job in New York City and run away for a month to find himself. His plan brings him to Cape Verde, a beautiful island, the beauty of which stuns him almost as much as it brings him peace. Cameron only plans to stay for the month, just long enough to decide what to do next. Never did he think he'd fall in love.

Londra, anni Sessanta. Sono trascorsi vent'anni dalla morte di Julius, ma il suo ultimo gesto eroico ha lasciato un segno indelebile nelle vite dei suoi cari. Emma, la figlia minore, lavora nella casa editrice di famiglia e rifugge spaventata dagli uomini. Al contrario, Cressida, la maggiore, cerca di placare la sua brama d'amore con una girandola di uomini sposati. Nel frattempo Esme, la vedova di Julius, ancora attraente alla soglia dei sessant'anni, vive sprofondata nella routine domestica della sua bellissima casa color rosa pesca.

Three Days in Hell, action-packed from start to finish, is the story of Confederate General Bushrod Johnson's Chickamauga as told through the eyes and words of one of his staff officers, Major Chester Rigby. The author takes you onto the battlefield as no one has done before. He plunges you right into the center of the action, which doesn't let up until the very end. It's a story of heroism, desperate deeds, and death and destruction on a scale the likes of which had never been seen before.

Acclaimed baker Charlotte owns one of the most famous bakeries in Manhattan: the Sugar Cube. Her baking talents leave both men and women in awe, but secretly, Charlotte struggles with her curvy body, which she believes, no man could love. That is, until she meets the delectable detective Adam, who sees past the façade she presents to the world. Adam admires her talent, drive, and love for her bakery. And best of all, Adam thinks Charlotte is beautiful because of her curves, not despite them.

Starting over, Holly wants to forget all about her ex and how her love for him nearly killed her. With a new outlook on life, Holly is ready to focus on herself and steer clear from love, at least until she can figure out if she even knows what love is anymore. But fate has different plans for her when she meets a grumpy restaurant owner, who awakens a passion in her she thought she lost.

Four lifelong friends wake in the woods overlooking the highway, without any memory of how they got there. One has a triangle burned into his forearm. One has lost her pants. One is missing his glass eye. The last is covered in blood. As images of big, black eyes and the cries of sheep haunt their addled brains, the town fire alarm and police sirens can be heard in the distance. What is happening to them? What is happening to their pristine town? What's more, why can't they remember any of it? What.... What did they do?

Innocent, his own country had called him a murderer. Now murder was his livelihood. John Seldon hired himself out as an assassin, a sharpshooter, to kill a tyrant named Castro in exchange for cash. He did not flinch from his task until the fatal moment, when he found the girl whose love had made him want to live again.

In the wake of the controversial two-part documentary Leaving Neverland, which told the stories of two young boys who were befriended by the singer and have claimed they suffered years of agonizing abuse, Dylan Howard set out to investigate Jackson’s life and death in unprecedented depth, to determine - as one lawyer suggested - that the pop star ran “the most sophisticated child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation operation the world has known.”

Perhaps the most notorious American murderer of the 20th century, Charles Manson's legacy extends far beyond his horrific crimes. As the wild-eyed, swastika-tattooed, nightmarishly charismatic leader of the Manson Family, he was convicted of the brutal killings of nine people in 1971, including the Tate-LaBianca murders of seven in Los Angeles over two hot August nights in 1969.

During the mid-1980s, Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios, or offshore banks, all were money-laundering vehicles serving his core activity: dope dealing.

He was the billionaire financier and close confidant of presidents, prime ministers, movie stars, and British royalty, the mysterious self-made man who rose from blue-collar Brooklyn to the heights of luxury. But while he was flying around the world on his private jet and hosting lavish parties at his private island in the Caribbean, he also was secretly masterminding an international child sex ring-one that may have involved the richest and most influential men in the world.

Heroes of Normandy: The Untold Stories delivers seven action-packed combat stories. You will be taken behind enemy lines with a young Airborne soldier in the early morning hours of D-Day and then lead British troops forward as they discover the truest definition of heroism. You will also witness the same events through the eyes of retreating Germans and advancing Americans and might end up rooting for both sides to survive. You will experience a gritty assault against a stronghold in a German-held town, and learn the terrible secret hidden there.

From the sword in the stone and the founding of Camelot to the famed Round Table and the Lake of Enchantment, the legend of King Arthur will never lose its magic. Though simpler, this version includes all the wonderful stories - such as King Arthur’s winning of Guenievere and Merlin’s tragic downfall at the hands of the evil Vivien.

This book came out of a life-changing episode of "perfect storm" dimensions. As a 65-year-old man, life as I had known it became a force-10 gale. My career had crashed, my marriage of 27 years had ended suddenly, and I was nearly broke. AA was no longer the help it had been for me - no longer the flotation device or life preserver tossed to a victim who had washed overboard. Instead, it offered virtually no solutions at all - because I had finally outgrown it - and according to AA, you're not supposed to do that.

Leonardo DiCaprio. Alex Rodriguez. Tobey Maguire. Affleck. Damon. Cassavetes. What do these people have in common? Not just fame and fortune; all these men are also alumni of the ultra-exclusive, high-stakes poker ring that inspired Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-nominated film, Molly's Game. But Houston Curtis, the card shark who co-founded the game with Tobey Maguire, knows that Sorkin's is the whitewashed version. In Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist, Curtis goes all-in, revealing the true story behind the game.

When trials come, soar like an eagle. Before I learned to soar, I was powerless and defeated. Naïve of my abilities, I continued swirling in a perpetual cycle of confusion and disappointments. I repeatedly experienced storms that appeared impossible to conquer, frequently finding myself lost, discombobulated, and alone. My lack of knowledge, faith, and trust in God contributed to my inability to rise. Once I learned my worth and how to spread my wings, I used the winds of the storm to strengthen my abilities.