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Sofia e Camilla sono due sorelle brillanti, carine e di buona famiglia, alla disperata ricerca di un lavoro gratificante e di una relazione duratura. Sofia ha trent'anni e lavora in televisione senza "santi in paradiso" né raccomandazioni. Non si rassegna a dover scegliere tra carriera e famiglia. Camilla di anni ne ha ventitré, sta per laurearsi e ha una valigia piena di sogni. Ma come si fa a trovare un lavoro con una laurea triennale? E come si fa a trovare il ragazzo giusto nella Milano delle apparenze?

Outgoing and irrepressible, young Christina has her choice of suitors. But she and her practical-minded older sister, Hilda, have built a thriving life in the rugged Pennsylvania backcountry. Hilda has given up her marriage dreams as foolish - and Christina vows she'll never marry until she finds her sister a husband. So when two handsome newcomers arrive, Christina engages in a bit of secret matchmaking - with disastrous results....

Within our minds, time flows eternal in parallel streams, carrying a host of memories and conflicting emotions and we are connected by webs of intermittent visibility to the lives of many whom we have never even met. This is what we come to realise as we join Clarissa Dalloway on a fine June day in 1923, as she prepares a party she is giving that night for London's social and political elite. Virginia Woolf's often teasing portrait of British characters at every level of society remains remarkably accurate to this day.

This audio recording is designed to teach you how to get the life you want through meditation. Wouldn't it be nice to just relax completely and use meditation to improve your life? Well, that's exactly what you are going to do as you listen to this recording.

As a meditation technique, yoga nidra offers a gentle approach, starting with body awareness, then working compassionately with thoughts and emotions as they arise, and gradually leading the meditator to access a greater field of awareness. In this audiobook we seek self-empowerment through developing self-confidence and self-esteem. Virginia Harton leads you through two full yoga nidra meditations.

Anne Virginia Culbertson who was born in Ohio in 1864, traveled around Virginia and North Carolina in the post-war years interviewing black Southerners to collect and publish their folk tales. The Woman Who Married an Owl is such a folk tale, written in dialect, about a woman’s encounter with an owl. It is told as a bedtime story by Aunt ‘Phrony to three children, and contains references to Cherokee words.

While on a business trip to Las Vegas, Lauren Bradley’s coworker is murdered - and she’s identified as the police’s number one suspect. With a shaky alibi and the evidence mounting against her, she places a desperate call to her boss. She and Brent set out to find the real killer, but nothing is as it seems in this city. Their only lead is a chance encounter with a troop of entertainers. Together, Lauren and Brent uncover an illegal operation that stretches all the way back home to Atlanta. Can they expose the desperate killer before one of them becomes the next victim?

This is the story my mom, Helen Kaczor, told her six children. We then went on to tell her 17 grandchildren. We each had fun embellishing the details, but the moral stays the same.

Sam is an ordinary teenage girl. She is going to high school and hanging out with her loving family, when World War Three breaks out. This war is not a conventional war, where two nations are fighting one another for land or superiority. It is a war made and planned out by all world leaders. Not to take control, but to save the planet.

Au phare, c'est cette destination vers laquelle se tend et se déploie tout le roman, un serment en suspens, à flux tendu au-dessus des profondeurs abyssales de la conscience des personnages. La promesse d'une promenade scelle l'alliance de Mrs Ramsey avec ses enfants, contre le père, contre vents et marées, le temps qui passe et la Guerre - c'est autour de cette parole donnée que se nouent les désirs enfouis et les pensées tues, que se cristallisent tragiquement les souvenirs d'enfance.

A pod of 15 spinner dolphins have welcomed author Virginia C. Smith as one of their own for 22 years. Listen to the story of her life and the magical influence and guidance she experienced and how it helped her deal with life and love in the human world.

You'll love this collection of stories featuring quirky, yet lovable family members. In "Translating Aunt Edna", three boys decide to play a trick on their aunt, who insists on teaching them new vocabulary words. The English language can be complicated - there are so many words that describe the same thing! You’ll discover many of them in this silly story about a group of siblings who decide they are sick of learning new words!

The painting and the woman, both hiding in plain sight. And a killer who targets both. Sarah Downing, an art conservator hiding in witness protection, identifies a lost masterpiece by Caravaggio. History says it burned in WWII Berlin, but here it is, on her easel. Someone betrays Sarah - an agent, a friend? Soon she is fighting to save the painting and herself.

I love books. That's probably obvious based on the fact that I'm a librarian. But I don't just love reading books. I also love writing books. I specialize in erotic fiction - the naughtier, the better. There's only one problem - I can't write about something unless I experience it in real life. So once my day in the library is over, I got out looking for sexy situations I can write about in my books.

The ketogenic diet is, without doubt, a must-follow diet if you want to lose weight, keep it off, and obtain various other benefits such as making your skin healthy, fighting cancer, restoring insulin sensitivity, and much, much more.

This audiobook has actionable information about the keto diet, including 60 delicious, easy-to-make recipes that you can prepare to get started. Nowadays, most of the foods we eat are rather processed, genetically modified, or junk foods. These are foods high in calories, saturated sugars and fats, and are low in fiber, which is essential for proper digestion. What many of us don’t want to accept is that these foods are to blame for many of the world’s health problems such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other lifestyle problems.

When her aunt found her a position in the Duke of McClellan's household staff, Audrey Fisher was excited to be entering the service of such a distinguished nobleman. His reputation for both charm and generosity fills young Audrey's head with silly daydreams of being swept off her feet. Of course, no duke would stoop to court a maid. But it turns out the virile, young Duke wants his new maid to do more than just polish his silver. Being the hands-on type, he's going to train the young, chaste, virginal maid himself.

When Rebecca's best friend suggests a naughty way to rekindle her boring love life, Rebecca decides to give it a try. Will sexy photos and attention from a sexy photographer help Rebecca reawaken the naughty housewife hidden inside?

Lady Nadia Haversham, heiress to the duchy of Emerys, has seen too much of the world to be satisfied with the "prim and proper" place English society expects of her. Having accompanied her father from one end of the burgeoning British Empire to another, she has developed a hunger for something more and cannot settle for a simple fairy-tale marriage.

Sundays were fun for Trinity and her parents. The family went to church in the morning and out to eat in the afternoon. Then, her dad had a fatal accident. It was just Trinity and her mom until Allen proposed. Trinity was not happy. But that changed when Allen made a grand gesture that made Trinity very happy.