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Scarpside House is famed for its beauty, its isolation and its legendary parties. Tonight, it hosts the Penny Club soiree, an annual gathering of lucky men and women from all walks of life, coming together to celebrate their survival against the odds. But this year, their luck is running thin. Accidents do happen, after all. And some are long overdue.

The Reddening Path is the story of Paméla. Adopted as an infant by a Toronto lesbian couple, Paméla travels to Guatemala as an adult to search for her birth mother. Her quest uncovers a tangle of political and romantic intrigue as she discovers her Mayan heritage and learns about the complexities of life in Guatemala.

For Frank Harte, impoverished schoolteacher, January in London means a yearly fight to survive. A former soldier, his injuries have barred him from all but the lowest paid posts, and the cold incapacitates him still more. The chance to work as tutor to Viscount Gracewater, son of the famous big-game hunting Earl, comes as a lifeline to Frank. The Earl’s Knightsbridge mansion is huge, elegant - and, most temptingly, kept warm from basement to attics. Viscount “Scapegrace” Gracie, used to foreign climes, is delicate. But the Earl’s house is a dark one beneath its bright veneer.

One of the many strange effects of the 2020 pandemic has been to make us much more vigilant about the state of our health in general and about minor symptoms in particular. And this, in turn, has made us more conscious that we all feel slightly out of sorts a great deal of the time; maybe even every day. This book is not about what happens when we're ill with something sufficiently serious to send us to the doctor or confine us to bed. Instead, it focuses on the multitude of mild, irksome, distracting illnesses, aches and pains with which we all put up with constantly.

Discover a unique invention that makes hair fuller while keeping all existing hair usable, safe, and healthy. The overall purpose of this book is to create a movement to help spread the word on how to Stop Additional Hair Loss—a missing part in many of our lives that is desperately needed. This book lays out the principles on how to optimize the health of your hair. Find out how you can use some advanced, easy-step techniques on how to handle hair loss in a better way, plus how to advance your mindset to progress in your life more than ever before.

Sound interesting? The authors think so too! Listen to Huge Machines and learn about huge machines, from bulldozers 18-wheelers.

Is it true that, for you, the words old age rhymes with weakening, reduced abilities, decreased vision, and social isolation? That when your time has arrived, you will no longer be useful and all you will have to do is rock yourself quietly while waiting for dementia to encompass you? The problem with this kind of vision is that we risk provoking them. However, science proves to us on a daily basis that you can take advantage of these years to live to the maximum of what you have prevented yourself from enjoying since the beginning of your life.

Tomas Piety has everything he ever wanted. In public he's a wealthy, highly respected businessman, happily married to a beautiful woman and Governor of his home city of Ellinburg. In private, he's no longer a gang lord but one of the Queen's Men, invisible and officially non-existent, working in secret to protect his country.

Jasper Stone is massive in every respect. He’s a beast on the field, an animal off it, and just what we need to turn our season around. Medal winner, star athlete, 100 percent alpha male at the top of his game. The trouble is, it’s the wrong one. That's not the only thing, either. He's cocky, arrogant, and constantly in trouble, and that's when he manages to keep that thing in his pants.

The definition of success has changed over the decades. What will make one person succeed will not be the same for another. Woe to the one who follows the advice of other people to chart his path. In this book, Alain will present you with a multipoint approach that will allow you to create the life that will satisfy you. Throughout the chapters, you will be called upon to discover what success is, what creates satisfaction with life, how to find your way, what talents you need to develop to live the life you deserve, how to increase your influence to help you move forward, and more.

Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy, John Darwin did the unthinkable—he paddled out to sea in his red canoe and disappeared. After a massive search and rescue operation failed to find his body, he was assumed dead, lost in the bleak North Sea. But everything was far from what it seemed. Nearly six years later, after John miraculously returned from the dead with a strange tale of 'amnesia' and sporting a suspicious golden tan, the police and the press were desperate to discover the truth behind his remarkable resurrection.

Body Art Learner's Guide is a technical manual through the optics of 21st-century tattoo and piercing apprentice. The author distinguishes himself from the ordinary craftsman. The very few tattoos and piercings that are around, are far from perfect, not surprising since he devoted himself more to studying than to draughtsmanship. Thus, he concentrated on writing this rather than on applied work.

Friendly competition can make a fun game even better, but only if everyone remembers to be kind. Princess Charlotte and Prince Vash seem to have forgotten that the race is suppose to be fun. Instead, their race to the meadow causes hurt feelings. Bubbles the bubble-blowing dragon does his best to encourage them both. When that fails, even his magical bubbles can't bring peace between his two friends. It's only when a young unicorn shows them the error of their ways that the cousins understand what needs to change.

Real estate can be daunting. In fact, it can be downright confusing. However, you may shift your perspective into thinking that since real estate is not commonly understood, maybe there is a lot of opportunity to win. Once you do that, the entire game changes. As a man who is an advocate of the sports world, I associate real estate with sports quite a bit. It's all a game. And the one who plays it the best will win when it really matters. This book will be your playbook on how to turn real estate into a cash machine, into a W, into gold.

Hello, and welcome to this course on start-up capital. In this course, we're going to cover how to raise capital for your business. This course is divided into three modules. Module one covers various types of loan options. Module two goes over investor capital. Module three covers a variety of alternatives. By the time this course is over, you'll know how to effectively find and raise funds for your start-up. So, without further ado, let's dive into the first module. In this module, our expert will give us an overview of bank loans. So get ready to take some notes.

When British hat manufacturer Christopher Brooke is arrested under Regulation 18B in June 1940, a slow process of personal disintegration begins, affecting his family irreversibly. Irish farm girl, Mary Byrne, arrives in England in July 1940 to work as housekeeper for Cynthia Brooke and her three children, bonding with the family. When Mary is shockingly expelled from the house upon Christopher's release from internment in 1943, her narration continues through the mouth of 15-month-old Katie, conceived on a prison leave.

When Sir Ray hears that the hero who raised him is dead and returns with Prince Martin to his homeland, he uncovers his shocking family history and must confront his long-lost twin - who is now a fearsome raider. Kids will love this thrilling adventure because of the action, the art, and the riveting rhyming verse.

True love is for fairy tales. At least that is what Miss Hannah Knight believes. Her formative years were filled with difficulties, but she carries one memory with her always—even through the darkest times. The summer she spent at Manchester Castle where she started to dream of a happily-ever-after in the arms of the man who holds her heart. War has left Garrick Edwards cynical. He never expected to inherit the title and become the Earl of Manchester, but his brother drank himself into an early grave leaving a daughter behind and a mountain of debt. Reluctantly, he returns to his ancestral home. When he arrives he finds Hannah there. Her letters during the war had given him hope when there was none; however he doesn’t believe he deserves her love.

Rafael Pombo (Colombia, 1833-1912) es uno de los grandes poetas latinoamericanos. La pobre viejecita es uno de sus poemas más conocidos. Con humor, con ironía, muestra un pedazo del alma humana, contrastando la riqueza y abundancia material de la viejecita con su pobreza espiritual y moral. Las ilustraciones de Maguma, a través de un juego de simetría, resaltan el inconformismo y la codicia.

Tom Hope is broken. Ever since his wife, Laura, died he hasn't been the same man and definitely not the same father. Luckily for Tom his mother-in-law, Linda, is around to pick up the pieces and look after his two struggling daughters, Evie and Lola. But Tom getting arrested on the first anniversary of his wife's death is the last straw for Linda. In a last bid attempt to make Tom reconnect with his daughters, she takes drastic action and leaves for Australia.