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By age 50, Elin Boals has created for herself a perfect life: Her wildly successful business as Manhattan’s preeminent fashion photographer is flourishing. Her handsome, patient husband is devoted to her; her teenaged daughter, Alice, has been accepted to the ballet academy of her dreams. But then Elin receives an innocuous-looking envelope. Folded inside is a star-chart, with an address written by a familiar hand.

Un joven quinceañero llamado por va de vacaciones a un castillo escocés y allí va en contra del amor, pero ese amor se va a desarrollar solamente en la penumbra de la noche, con lo que nunca va poder identificar claramente a la joven de la que se enamora locamente. El va intentar por todos los medios poder ver a la claridad del día asomada, pero no saben sorprendente final que le espera.

The second half of life can be just as wild as the first half. This is a true story of love, loss, sex, earth, spirit, writing, and adventure after ‘the change.’ In this story people die, the author sleeps with three men, she ingests magic mushrooms, is threatened by a wild tiger, and dances naked with a famous artist. Then there is the meta layer of what happens after the wild story is written down and shared.

Sometimes love needs a helping hand.... Honey hasn't been the same ever since her husband, a Texas Ranger, died on the job. Juggling the ranch, raising her two teenage children, and nursing a wounded heart has left her at the end of her rope. So when cowboy Jesse Whitelaw turns up on her doorstep looking for work, he seems like the answer to her prayers. But Honey is used to working on her own terms, and isn't ready for the feelings he's stirring in her heart. Jesse longs to be the man in Honey's life, but he'll do anything to keep his secret hidden.

Paris, 1862. A young girl in a threadbare dress and green boots, hungry for experience, meets the mysterious and wealthy artist Édouard Manet. The encounter will change her - and the art world - forever. At 17, Victorine Meurent abandons her old life to become immersed in the Parisian society of dance halls and cafés, meeting writers and artists like Baudelaire and Alfred Stevens.

Have you ever been told to toughen up or stop taking everything so seriously? Or do you feel that in a harsh world - where the way to get noticed is to shout the loudest - your heartfelt approach just doesn’t cut it? Some of us are born sensitive. We live our lives vividly through the lens of emotion and with our senses perpetually on high alert.

Cassie Wright, legendaria reina del porno en decadencia, decide culminar su carrera batiendo el récord mundial de polvos consecutivos con hombres distintos. Seiscientos, ni más ni menos. En una habitación repleta y ruidosa, los señores 72, 137 y 600 aguardan su turno para hacer historia. Cada uno de ellos espera que el breve encuentro con Cassie cambie sus vidas para siempre, pero, como en todas las novelas de Chuck Palahniuk, nada sale como esperaban.

El misterio de "El Club Dumas", el suspense de "El Nombre de la Rosa", la nostalgia de "La Sombra del Viento". SINOPSIS: Ana Faure, con diecinueve años, descubre que su padre, que la abandonó siendo una niña, aparece asesinado en un pequeño pueblo de Francia. Su trabajo, relacionado con las antigüedades, siempre fue un misterio para ella y decide investigar sobre sus últimos días.

Kelsey joined the Wolf Liberation Front after college and quickly became their top operative. On one particular mission, she encounters a very different type of pack: a small group of captured werewolves, some of which don't even remember being free. Once released, the pack alpha and his mates treat her to a very enthusiastic, and physical, "Thank you!"

Some people find God by living in harmony with the rhythms of nature, others by the practice of specific meditations and prayers. For some, the way is beauty, creativity, love, devotion, study, or service. Just as many rivers lead to the sea, there are many paths to God. Each of the seven primary energy centers of the human body - the chakras - corresponds to a specific path.

A beautifully written and narrated autobiography using a novel format to protect the innocent and the guilty. So uplifting you will be renewed in your belief that we are all forgiven and can be one with God.

Un hombre pasa los últimos días de su vida en la casa en la que nunca quiso vivir y que está, sin embargo, cargada de recuerdos. Desde ahí busca construir el rompecabezas de su pasado. Recuerda sus modestos inicios, su ascenso económico y social en el Madrid de la inmediata posguerra, sus amantes y amigos. En algún lugar del trayecto se le perdió el alma y se le desvaneció el amor. Chirbes vuelve al espacio moral de sus anteriores novelas. Nos habla en un tono tenso de una generación que se reclama «inocente», pero que se ha construido sobre los cimientos que pusieron las «manos sucias» de otros.

100 Ways to Be Kind is a road map of practical, simple, and immediately actionable ways to be kind including how to be kinder to yourself, to others, and to nature. Theresa debunks the damaging myth that being kind is a weakness and shows that it is not anger or aggression that brings out our true inner grit, but kindness. Science has proven that there are powerful, potentially lifesaving, reasons to be kind. The kinder you are, the more likely you are to experience happiness. Kindness is the simple and scientifically proven remedy that everyone needs to administer right now.

Hasta la muerte de don Julio, Bahati vive bajo su techo junto a Ojosdeagua y a un esclavo homosexual que hace de madre del pequeño. Los cuatro forman una extraña familia en la que los tres adultos ocupan la mayor parte de su tiempo cuidando a Ojosdeagua e instruyéndolo con la esperanza de que algún día pueda tener la formación necesaria para enviarlo fuera de Cuba y continuar con sus estudios. Muerto el amo, Bahati se ocupa de la administración de un ingenio y de enviar cartas y dinero a su protegido, que finalmente consigue ser profesor en el instituto Tuskegge de Alabama.

Michael Medwin stars as account executive Michael, with Fenella Fielding as his seductive secretary Janet, Joan Sims and Sheila Hancock as shorthand typists Mavis and Shirley, Eleanor Summerfield as no-frills executive Maggie and Nicholas Phipps as copywriter Adrian. This disparate team must stick together to succeed, as they battle to win new accounts and impress clients – and from wooing a US tycoon to putting a glamorous spin on a dreary seaside holiday camp, they always think big. Why else would they hire an elephant to promote bath salts?

The town of Oak Hollow is very eager to welcome Tracey...and her baby. Soon after 17-year-old Tracey Parks found out she was pregnant, she was sent off to live with her grandmother in Oak Hollow. It was a painful transition, but she learned to love the quaint town and the people who live there. But now, as the birth of her son approaches, the once-friendly town seems much more ominous. Could it be that the residents of Oak Hollow have been waiting for her—and her unborn baby—all along? And what role will her baby play in this macabre nightmare?

There are times we all feel we need more than one heart to get through. When Briana’s father dies, she imagines she has a new heart growing inside her. It speaks to her in her Dad’s voice. Some of its commands are mysterious. "Find her!" it says. "Be your own!" How can Briana “be her own” when her grieving mother needs her to take care of her demanding little brother all the time? When all her grandpa can do is tell stories instead of being the “rock" she needs?

Ex-celebrity and current (assistant) private investigator Maizie Albright finds her already strange life has become even odder. Her new partner is 150 pounds and canine. Her ex-partner/still-boyfriend is on the wrong side of her infidelity case. So it's Spy vs Spy — or rather, Detective vs Detective — when Maizie and Nash realize they're both tailing the same subject for very different reasons.

Cassie Morgan has run away. After seven years spent waiting for her mother to return, she flees her dreary boarding school and sets out to find her. But the world outside her school is full of hidden magic and children have been going missing. With the help of a talking cat and a flying broom, Cassie escapes to the enchanted village of Hedgely. There she will begin her training in the practical skills of witchcraft with the Hedgewitch, who watches over the Hedge, the vast forest that marks the border between England and Faerie.

The Museum of Broken Promises is a beautiful, evocative love story and heartbreaking journey in to a long-buried past. Paris, today. The Museum of Broken Promises is a place of wonder and sadness, hope and loss. Every object in the museum has been donated - a cake tin, a wedding veil, a baby's shoe. And each represent a moment of grief or terrible betrayal. The museum is a place where people come to speak to the ghosts of the past and, sometimes, to lay them to rest.