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Madame Berrebi, l'une des seules femmes rabbins de France, raconte à son fils David et son copain Louis l'histoire de la première religion à être fondée sur le monothéisme, la croyance en un seul dieu.

Before he is called to bless the body of a woman at the nearby asylum, Father Gabriel receives a strange, troubling confession: hidden under the woman's dress, he will find the notebooks in which she confided the abuses she suffered and the twisted motivations behind them. And so Rose's terrible story comes to light: sold as a teenage girl to a rich man, hidden away in an old manor house deep in the woods and caught in a perverse web, manipulated by those society considers her betters.

Award-winning poet and novelist Helen Humphreys returns to her series of nature meditations in this gorgeously written and illustrated book that takes a deep look at the forgotten world of herbariums and the people who amassed collections of plant specimens in the 19th and 20th centuries. From Emily Dickinson’s and Henry David Thoreau’s collections to the amateur naturalists whose names are forgotten but whose collections still grace our world, herbariums are the records of the often-humble plants that are still with us and those that are lost.

Helen Thorpe, author of a trio of award-winning books about the experiences of immigrants, refugees, and veterans, has turned her writerly lens on her own family, neighborhood, and ethnicity. In Finding Motherland, Thorpe shares seven essays she has written on the related themes of family, food, and migration, sharing observations about race and privilege.

Robin and Eleanor meet in 1811 at the British estate of Eleanor’s rich aunt Clara. Robin is about to leave to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, and her aunt rules out a marriage between them. Everyone Eleanor knows, including Robin, believe they’ve always lived in these times. But Eleanor has strange glimpses of other eras, dreams that aren’t dreams but memories of other lives. And their time jumps start as their romance deepens. Robin fights in the Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, in Vietnam and Iraq.

England, 2014: Audrey Collins knows only two things about her beloved grandmother's past: She was born into nobility and she immigrated to America at seventeen years old. So when Audrey inherits her gran's home in North Yorkshire, she arrives expecting a sprawling country estate fit for lords and ladies. Instead, she finds an abandoned stone cottage perfectly preserved as Gran left it when she fled in 1941—ration book and all—and begins to uncover what secrets her family has been keeping.

First lockdown has ended and classes are about to resume, but nothing is as it was. Leanne regards her studies as outdated for an utterly changed world, and decides to do something to help others instead. Her friend Alex has a plane and he is so in when she suggests volunteering in Morocco, and will fly them there. Soon, the sky above and the sands of the Sahara below will tell their tale.

Holly ya no cree en el amor. Tyler ha renunciado al sexo. Una amistad especial parece el arreglo ideal para ellos. Solo que... de repente, ya no es suficiente.
¿Qué es más difícil? ¿Dejar atrás una inseguridad que no te deja avanzar o contar un secreto que jamás creíste que desvelarías? Tyler y Holly tendrán que descubrirlo. Juntos. Como todo.

Queen Victoria's top assassin, Lord Alexander Stokes, harbors his fair share of dark secrets. Chief among them his membership in an elite brothel. When a damsel-in-distress appeals for his help, he ponders the consequences, yet her similarity to his first love intrigues him. He offers to help her with a single condition: that the beauty consents to be his chattel for an entire year.

The rain was relentless. It stung Ruth Prendergast’s face as she dashed towards her house, desperate to escape the cold and settle down for an early night. But upon entering her bedroom, she finds a man, lying on her bed - a knife buried in his chest. When Detective Isabel Blood and her sergeant arrive on the scene, Ruth claims she’s never laid eyes on the victim before. But with no sign of a break-in, how did the killer gain access to the house?

Impératrice d'Autriche-Hongrie, la monarchie la plus autoritaire et la plus compassée qui fût en Europe, elle haïssait l'Etiquette et se disait démocrate; Bavaroise d'origine et autrichienne par son mariage avec François-Joseph, elle n'aimait que la Hongrie; censée animer la Cour et rehausser l'éclat de Vienne, elle vivait le plus souvent à la campagne ou dans de lointains séjours méditerranéens.

"Show" és un recull de setze relats breus sobre les diferents realitats que hi ha en una societat urbana com la nostra. Encara que una bola de miralls de discoteca reflecteixi punts de llum i una multitud de joves que viuen el moment, la realitat segueix essent fosca i plena de trampes. Els personatges viuen situacions en mig de la bogeria quotidiana i, de la nit al dia, ja no són el que eren.

The vegan keto diet and its benefits on self-esteem and self-confidence. We call it: Keto Confidence and Positive Mindset. What we eat matters, not just to our well-being and what we look like, but also to how we feel about ourselves. When we treat our bodies with respect and love by energizing them with nutritious food, we are giving ourselves the absolute best of blessings. Self-esteem alludes to our general self-appreciation and how much we love and value ourselves. It is how we feel and think about ourselves.

On Abeth there is only the ice. And the Black Rock. For generations, the priests of the Black Rock have reached out from their mountain to steer the ice tribes’ fate. With their Hidden God, their magic and their iron, the priests’ rule has never been challenged. But nobody has ever escaped the Pit of the Missing before. Yaz has lost her friends and found her enemies. She has a mountain to climb, and even if she can break the Hidden God’s power, her dream of a green world lies impossibly far to the south across a vast emptiness of ice.

Just like humans, animals use their homes for shelter and to raise their young. Animal homes might be easy to see, or they may be hidden (camouflaged) for protection. Some animals are great builders, and other animals borrow homes that other animals have made. Different animals might just use natural places like caves or holes in trees to make a home. And some animals might even carry their home on their back! Sticks, mud, leaves, cotton, and grass are all things that animals might use to build a home.

Having been raised in Jamaica and worked in Panama, Mary Seacole came to England in the 1850s and volunteered to help out during the Crimean War. When her services were turned down, she financed her own expedition to Balaclava, where she earned her reputation as a nurse and for her compassion. Popularly known as ‘Mother Seacole’, she was the most famous Black celebrity of her generation—an extraordinary achievement in Victorian Britain.

Welchen sexuellen Weg wirst du gehen? Mucha erfährt mit 21 Jahren endlich ihre Zuordnung. Und zu ihrer größten Freude wird sie zu einer Konsumentin, und damit dem Distrikt mit der größten Freiheit zugeordnet. Aber bald muss sie die ersten Entscheidungen treffen... Die Berufliche: Soll sie das Risiko eingehen, eine Ausbildung im Gesundheitsbereich zu machen, um Hoffnung auf eine wohlhabende Zukunft zu haben? Und vor allem über ihre Sexualität: Ohne ihre Vorlieben zu kennen muss sie eine Orientierung wählen, die sie niemals ändern darf.

White Waltham, 1943. As Italy surrenders and victory looms on the horizon, Ellie's doing what she does best - flying. And this time, she's rising to the sky in four-engine Halifaxes. Determined to keep doing her bit, Ellie's successes in the airfield mount, but so do tensions with her new beau, Squadron Leader Jack Reynolds. When Ellie and Jack find their dream home, they discover they've bought more than they bargained for. With a cellar full of secrets, Jack and Ellie must stand united in the face of mystery, war and loss

Do you plan on working for someone else your whole life? Do you want generational wealth for your family? This book talks about how you can invest your money into the stock market and make passive income for you and your family.

Wenn das Eis fast so sehr funkelt, wie feuchte, erregte Haut... Vanessa und Hendrik sind einer verführerischen Einladung nach Lappland gefolgt. Auch wenn es keine Spur ihrer eigentlichen Gastgeberin Anastasie gibt, genießen die beiden ihren Aufenthalt im Eishotel in vollsten Zügen. Jennifer und Gustva, Angestellte des Hotels, kümmern sich auf eine ganz besondere Art und Weise um ihre zwei neuen Lieblingsgäste. Bei einer nächtlichen Hotelführung zeigen sie Hendrik und Vanessa das eigentliche Herzstück des Hotels: das Devil's Treaty!