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Just three weeks after my 21st birthday, on the evening of October 4, 1994, I was abducted from the streets of my hometown in Southern Russia while on my way home. They drugged me and drove to another country, where they held me captive in a tiny room at first, and then under a house in a pit. A few weeks after my kidnapping, a brutal civil war broke out. Through eight horrifying months of captivity, witnessing atrocities, surviving bombings and sexual violence, I fought desperately to stay alive, stay sane, and not to lose the one thing that kept me going: my hope.

How Not to Manifest is designed to help you identify your manifestation blocks so that you can create a life full of happiness, abundance, and love. You see, it’s not only about the manifestation methods you use. In reality, the true secret to success resides in your energy, vibration, and mindset. You don’t attract what you want; you attract who you are.

The award-winning creator of the acclaimed documentary The Music Instinct: Science & Song, explores the power of music and its connection to the body, the brain, and the world of nature. Only recently has science sought in earnest to understand and explain this impact. One remarkable recent study, analyzing the cries of newborns, shows that infants' cries contain common musical intervals, and children tease each other in specific, singsong ways no matter where in the world they live.

La maravilla de descubrir la lectura y la escritura desde la infancia, los recuerdos de las primeras páginas escritas, sus olores y lugares, y luego los grandes hallazgos, desde los nombres canónicos de la literatura universal hasta las autoras que la han iluminado, impregnan estas lecciones magistrales que ha impartido Elena Ferrante invitada por la Cátedra Umberto Eco de la Universidad de Bolonia.

Katherine Pearson has lived her whole life in Alpine Ridge, Tennessee. From marrying her high school sweetheart to being divorced in her mid-thirties, Katherine is feeling stuck. Stuck in life, stuck in her hometown, and stuck in love.

Jasmine's life wasn't normal for a 16 year old girl. It hadn't been normal since the murder of her older sister, Daisy, two years ago. Her life had been changed forever. The monster that murdered Daisy was never caught. That was the reason her family decided to move away from their hometown in Southern California, to start over.

Catalina Martín braucht dringend ein Date für die Hochzeit ihrer Schwester in Spanien. Vor allem, weil ihre gesamte spanische Großfamilie endlich ihren amerikanischen Freund kennenlernen will – der allerdings nicht existiert. Lina hat nur vier Wochen, um jemanden zu finden, der mit ihr von New York nach Spanien reist, um ihre Familie davon zu überzeugen, dass es die große Liebe ist. Als sich ausgerechnet ihr Arbeitskollege Aaron dazu bereiterklärt, ihr zu helfen, würde sie am liebsten sofort ablehnen. Kein anderer Mann hat sie so oft auf die Palme gebracht.

Manifesting Alignment is your transformational guide to help you create deep changes within yourself so that you can become an unstoppable magnet for your desires!

Despite having her own heart broken, wedding planner Hope Turner is a diehard romantic and has dedicated herself to Ever After Ranch and happily ever afters—other peoples. For Levi Langdon there’s only ever been one woman for him. Now that he’s back in town after ten long years, he plans on proving to Hope that those feelings have only grown stronger. Just when Hope starts to believe that a second chance at love and her own happily ever after might finally be possible, devastating news puts everything at risk.

En este libro crudo y tierno, entre la emoción y la dureza, los recuerdos se ligan a los ritmos de las rondas infantiles. Llega el momento en la vida en que los juegos y cantos pierden su inocencia. Una muchacha educada, pero también traviesa, que toca el piano, practica esgrima y se pelea con su hermana, transita la traumática experiencia que separa la niñez de la adolescencia. El despertar del cuerpo y el encanto por lo prohibido pautan las rondas de una niña que se quiere comer y «amanecer al mundo / desflorada a besos».

I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doc­tors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself. At once uncompromising and deeply humane, it stitches reportage and personal essays into a kaleidoscopic, often other-worldly journey. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it.

Discover the secret world between the trees where fairies, unicorns and even monsters dwell. Take a stroll through enchanted woods and dance with pixies and dryads by the light of the stars. Escape Baba Yaga and fall in love with a prince in disguise. Taste the fruit at the goblin market and be whisked away on a magical adventure.

He gave her his name. Now she wants his desire. In the glittering ballrooms and discreet drawing rooms of Regency England, Lady Eliza Pemberton plays the part of the dutiful duchess. But beneath her composed exterior lies a woman brimming with curiosity—and longing. When she discovers her husband’s hidden diary, filled with bold confessions of pleasure and forbidden encounters before their marriage, Eliza is not scandalized… she is awakened. Determined to claim the passion he once gave so freely to others, Eliza devises a daring plan to seduce her own husband. With each page, she ...

Cole Sullivan is the kind of man who gets what he wants—so when he decides he wants me as his son’s nanny, he makes an offer I can’t refuse. It’s an incredible opportunity to work with children like I always wanted, but living under the same roof as this enigmatic man is harder than I thought it would be. He’s the billionaire CEO of an investment firm, and I was raised in foster homes and use Sharpie to color in the scuffs on my shoes.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Astăzi, educația financiară este mai importantă ca niciodată. În trecut, o diplomă de absolvire era garanția pentru un serviciu bun, care era la rândul lui asociat cu siguranța financiară la bătrânețe. În prezent, trebuie să ne îmbunătățim continuu abilitățile pentru a îndeplini cerințele de pe piața muncii. Și chiar dacă am muncit 35, 40, sau 45 de ani, nu primim neapărat o pensie care să ne permită să ducem o viață mai bună.

Se trata de 144 clases sobre la gramática clave del inglés con frases de traducción asociadas. Ideal para dominar los aspetos clave de la gramática.

"Clutter" is not just in our visible world - have you ever stopped to think how much is going on in our invisible world? Emotional dependencies are also a form of clutter which can weigh you down and suck the life-force out of you, and with our hectic lifestyles, it is no wonder that our brains feel scrambled all the time as well.

A sus treinta y un años, Carol es una traductora que vive en Barcelona y que está a punto de ver cómo un tsunami emocional sacude su vida. Primero es Samuel, su pareja, a quien descubre en su propia cama haciendo con otra lo que ella tanto echaba de menos. Y luego una llamada desde el pueblo: un difícil trance familiar al que deberá enfrentarse sola.

La autora buscó los secretos que guardan mujeres reconocidas por su sabiduría en zonas de raíz matrifocal, que les hace sentirse cada vez mejor, vivir más años y ser cada vez más poderosas. Al final del viaje encontró a las ancianas herederas de los saberes milenarios femeninos que hoy recorren pueblos y países para recordar a las mujeres - y cada vez más a los hombres - donde reside su propio poder y como rescatarlo; como convertirse en oro a medida que envejecen y despertar entre todas el femenino global para enfrentar los grandes retos actuales de la humanidad.

A year ago, I had the wildest night of my life with a man whose name I didn’t even know. A chance meeting at a bar sparked a connection neither of us could deny, and he spent an entire night worshipping my body. One night. No names. No strings. That’s all it was supposed to be. We were never supposed to see each other again—so I’m shocked when I show up at my new job and realize he’s the CEO.