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Olivia Curtis wakes to her seventeenth birthday and her presents: a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress, a diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, and a ten shilling note. Safe within the bosom of a family at once lovingly familiar yet curiously remote, she stands poised on the brink of womanhood, anticipating her first dance with tremulous uncertainty and excitement - the greatest, yet most terrifying, event in her restricted social life.

Ewa i Mariusz to małżeństwo z prawie dwudziestoletnim stażem. W ich związek wkradła się nuda, oboje mają wrażenie, że się od siebie oddalili. Pod wpływem znalezionego w sieci ogłoszenia decydują się na prawdziwą życiową rewolucję: sprzedają mieszkanie w mieście i kupują stare schronisko w maleńkiej miejscowości Podgórowo. Wydaje im się, że największą trudnością będzie przystosowanie się do nowych, dość surowych warunków życia oraz przedłużające się remonty, ale los szykuje dla nich wyzwania, których nie przewidzieli.

Pełna zaskakujących sytuacji i mozolnego borykania się z codziennością, inspirowana autentycznymi przeżyciami historia trzech kobiet – Agaty, Olgi i Amiry. Ich losy splatają się, chociaż każda z nich ma inne oczekiwania. Tarot, bioenergoterapia, medycyna ingerują w ich życie – słuchacz sam oceni czy wpływ ten jest tak naprawdę motorem ich działań, czy jednak same kierują swoim losem. „Żyj w tych pragnieniach, jakbyś żyła w realnym świecie. Przekonuj się, że są prawdziwe.

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband.

In the village of Spire, murder is afoot. Wealthy landowner Alexander, Earl of Greengrass, is caught with his trousers down in the village graveyard before meeting a gruesome end. Luckily Susie Mahl happens to be on hand. With her artist’s eye for detail and her curious nature, she is soon on the scent of the murderer....

When the cupboard is bare at the Flopsy Bunnies' burrow, the family all have to go in search of food. They soon find some old lettuces on Mr. McGregor's rubbish heap, but who can imagine the horrors that await them as they enjoy a nap after lunch! Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny are two of Beatrix Potter's most popular characters, and they are brought together in this exciting tale of danger and friendship.

Territory is the theme that unites these four humorous plays - whether that means fighting over an allotment plot, dealing with the sudden partition of a country, guarding the privacy of a garden or battling with the council over school catchment areas.

Joanna Gray has been training people for over twenty years in the art of voice training and accent reduction to achieve Received Pronunciation, otherwise known as BBC English. Joanna has successfully helped thousands of people across the world to reduce an accent and attain a high standard of English and has worked with professionals from all walks of life, including doctors, lawyers, accountants, CEO's and actors to name but a few.

Zazoo, almost 14, is Vietnamese by birth but feels entirely French. She lives with her adoptive grandfather, who brought her form Vietnam to his village in France when she was just two years old. Life with Grand-Pierre has always been filled with poetry and shared adventure, following the predictable rhythms of the season. Then one misty October morning, a boy on a bicycle rides into Ago's small French village and asks a question from which many stories begin to unfold.

As a breastfed baby herself, Joanna Wolfarth assumed it would come easily to her when she had her first child. Yet three weeks after the birth, she was back in hospital with an underweight baby, bewildered by the inconsistent advice and myriad problems she was encountering. As a cultural historian, Joanna's impulse was to look to the past. What she discovered, neglected in the archives, amazed and reassured her. She found connection and solace in communities from the past.

Joanna Klink's fifth book begins with personal poems of loss - a tree ripped out by a windstorm, a friendship broken off after decades, the nearing death of parents. Other poems take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from disbelief at the accumulation of losses and at the mercilessness of having, as one ages, to rule things out. There are elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems. The Nightfields closes with "Night Sky", 30 metaphysical poems inspired by the artist James Turrell's Roden Crater....

When Tony Hardstaff breaks the bank playing ‘Snap!’ at the St Petersburg Casino, he is swept up in a maelstrom of romance and adventure. Seduced by the sultry Natassia Fillipovna Karamazov – a woman with curves so perfect they could make a geometry professor spontaneously combust – Tony is caught in flagrante by the Russian mafia, and flees for his life.

Controlling the feelings does not imply containing them and driving them deep inside since this is how people develop anger management issues. This guide will teach you how to understand and channel your emotions so that they do not negatively affect you or those around you.

Ona jako jedyna nie bała się japońskich najeźdźców…. Opowieść o Polce, którą los rzucił na ogarnięty wojną Daleki Wschód. Barbara Prażmowska, polska studentka, zostaje pierwszą kobietą na japonistyce w Londyńskiej Szkole Studiów Orientalnych i Afrykańskich – SOAS. Wkrótce poznaje Davida Fitzroya, potomka arystokratycznego rodu angielskiego, a on popełnia dla niej mezalians. Gdy rozpoczyna się bombardowanie Londynu w 1940 roku, David postanawia udać się z żoną do Singapuru, wielkiej bazy brytyjskiej floty na Indo-Pacyfiku.

In her breakout business book, corporate coach and business guru Jeanet Wade distills the essence of team and company success. The secret sauce to great teams, vibrant organizations, and happy people? Human nature. In a series of engaging and provocative chapters, she combines business research with anecdotes from her career and her executive client sessions, showing how we can attend to human needs by clarifying assignments, showing baseline consideration, and inspiring confidence.

Based on extensive research with organizations and companies that are boldly breaking out of business as usual, Beloved Economies offer listeners an imagination-expanding vision of what work could be. Authors Rimington and Cea explore possibilities for how we work, learning with more than sixty people from a wide array of enterprises. What these groups have in common is that they are generating forms of success that audaciously prioritize well-being, meaning, connection and resilience—alongside conventional metrics like quality and financial success.

Growing up at Dorlcote Mill in the beautiful English countryside, young Maggie yearns for approval and affection. With her dark, striking looks and quick intelligence, she is the misfit of the Tulliver family, and while her father dotes on her, her mother despairs of her rebelliousness. But it is the love of her stolid, dutiful brother, Tom, that Maggie craves most and despite their opposing natures, the two forge a close bond.

I hope to help people understand the magic about hypnosis and how it could help them in breast enlargement and other ways. I also included a free bonus relaxation method in the last chapter because we all could use a way to let go of stress and relax. Most people, I am sure you would agree, focus more on the problem and less on the solutions. I call it the 80/20 rule. What I do is help them focus 80 percent on the solutions and 20 percent on the problem. By doing that, now they are bigger than the problem and really have no big problem at all.

I'm Veronica Neill, world class thief and the last phoenix in existence. After taking a job for a vampire in Miami, I find myself embroiled in a war that not only spans this world, but all the other realms as well, even those I never knew existed. With the help of my witchy best friend and a sexy grim reaper agent, we can survive anything......right?

Johnny Fletcher is exactly where he wants to be - a Fellow at Cambridge, with a lifetime of scholarly pursuits in front of him. He’s not allowed to marry, but he has no need for a wife when he has his books for company. But his beautiful sister is on the brink of a wonderful marriage to an earl’s son, so he joins his family for a house party at the earl’s estate. At least there will be a decent library he can hide in. But when he intervenes to protect a young woman from unwanted attention, he finds himself caught up in scandal.