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Being a firefighter isn’t easy. Especially for a Black woman. Working with family helps a little. But when somebody from your company doesn’t come back from a call, it’s brutal—as in, “How’m I supposed to go on?” brutal. And one death took me to a really dark place. A year later, I’m at the Pirates’ hockey training facility. Just another day on the job. Until I find a charred journal. I look inside for the owner’s name, but the words on the page punch me in the gut. It’s like reading my own thoughts. Reliving my own pain.

"En velopdragen ung piges erindringer" er en medrivende og øjenåbnende, øm og vred selvbiografi af en af det 20. århundredes mest indflydelsesrige litterære stemmer, Simone de Beauvoir. "En velopdragen ung piges erindringer" er på en gang et intimt og eksistentielt portræt af, hvordan det er at vokse op i en borgerlig fransk familie og som ung pige gøre oprør mod de sociale konventioner for til sidst at bryde ud af de stramme bånd.

I paesi asiatici hanno una vita politica e culturale che ne determina l'identità e la proposizione internazionale. Solo che il più delle volte siamo portati a parlarne sulla base di immagini stereotipate, superficiali e che non rappresentano la realtà. Anziché considerare gli Stati asiatici pedine in mano alle principali potenze, paesi esotici e misteriosi, “Altri Orienti” propone una narrazione asiatica dei fatti del mondo per gettare uno squarcio approfondito su quanto accade all'interno di quei mondi, come evolvono i loro conflitti sociali, le novità tecnologiche, le tendenze ...

Maximize Your Impact: Leveraging Life's Speeds for Optimal Efficiency. Discover a new way to lead and live through a unique process for overwhelmed professionals seeking balance and success. In this era of hustle culture, "embrace the grind" influencers, and all manner of get-rich-quick schemes, it's easy to get sucked into the paradigm of speed. Slow Down to Go Faster is a refreshing take on how to maintain fulfillment-and integrity-in the face of these headwinds. This audiobook will guide you on a journey of self-discovery that prioritizes purpose, intentional choices, and being present.

Being in lust with my dead brother's wife pretty much guarantees that one day I'll be the devil's bitch. But Eden Gordon works with me, so it's getting harder and harder to stay away. I promised my family - and him - I would, though. My days as an MMA champion are behind me. But whenever I see her, with those wicked curves and soft mouth created for dirty deeds, it's a knock-down fight to just maintain my distance. "Hard Knox" becomes more than just the name of my tattoo shop. However, surrendering to the forbidden might be worth losing everything...

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House...

Maria and Dwayne were inseparable as kids, they knew that they were meant to be together, and they thought nothing could tear them apart. But then a freak accident ruined everything. Now, by some miracle, Dwayne has reappeared in Maria's life - as her boss. The old attraction is still there, burning embers under the surface, but of course she can't act on it now.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate New York, 1982. Viv...

As Charlotte’s wedding day approaches, will her marriage to one of her Masters affect her relationship with the other? Her old enemy languishes in prison, but has he forgotten her? And as Charlotte searches for the mother she never knew, will the past return to reveal its secrets?

Immergiti nella meravigliosa vastità della cultura dei nativi americani, scopri l'impressionante potenza della loro spiritualità ed entra in contatto con l'incredibile patrimonio di tradizioni, racconti, insegnamenti, leggende e ispirazioni che hanno lasciato. Entrare in contatto con le tradizioni, gli usi, i costumi e la visione dei nativi americani significa riscoprire la tua identità, ti permette di risvegliare la tua capacità di ascoltare ed connetterti con le forze della natura e con il grande spirito di cui ognuno di noi è parte.

The Paradiso is a culminating aspect of a journey from Inferno to Paradiso, and it is also Dante’s vision of the variety, the paradoxes, and the wonder that human beings have any existence at all. The process of listening to Dante’s Comedy is a journey into not just literature but into the mysteries of human nature and its capacity for unhappiness and happiness, folly and wisdom, rejection and wonder over the miracles of creation and existence.

It's been five years since I've seen her. Five years since Gabriella James damn near destroyed me with her betrayal, sending me to hell in a cage. I've crawled free, escaped the mob, opened a night club, and continue to battle my demons through underground fighting and sex. But now Gabriella's back, begging for absolution, wanting my forgiveness. All I want is what she's denied me for all these years—her body. Sex. That's all we'll ever have. Because Gabriella is still keeping secrets. I see it in her eyes. I'll never forgive her betrayal. But that won't stop me from taking her.

Everyone seems to be in a rush searching for ways to weight loss nowadays. A myriad of offers covering diets, health and food supplements, physical fitness programs, and various training workshops are flooding the entire health and fitness market. All these entail costs and effort on your part and mostly turn out to be not as effective as these marketers promised in their glamorous ads. However, there’s an ongoing solution that many are resorting to nowadays. Although it is not exempted from the opinions of cynics, it is a lot better than those options being offered in the market.

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer and social theorist. Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, autobiographies, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She was best known for her "trailblazing work in feminist philosophy," including The Second Sex, published in 1949, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. The following is from a 1976 interview (in English).

Ti ha lasciato senza un perché e ora ti pare che nulla abbia più senso? La tua vita di coppia è una gabbia e non sai come uscirne? Perché "collezioni" partner che si rivelano, puntualmente, la persona sbagliata per te? È possibile stare bene ed essere pienamente appagati anche da single? Spesso i rapporti di coppia, anche quelli nati con folgorante passione e farfalle allo stomaco, si logorano e ti mettono in crisi.

Ivy Leavold came to Markham Hall looking for a home and a new start, and instead she found the enigmatic Julian Markham—along with a love that threatened to consume them both. Now Mr. Markham is offering her a new life as his bride, as the mistress of Markham Hall, and Ivy wants nothing more than to say yes. But Ivy knows that the closer she binds herself to Mr. Markham, the closer she binds herself to danger.

Leontyne Dennison is off men! She is perfectly happy focusing on running her family’s small town inn and volunteering for Rose Bend’s annual spring festival. Until a blast from her past sweeps into town.

C'è stato un tempo in cui per un giovane cinese mangiare pollo fritto da KFC a Pechino era un atto di trasgressione, e guardare Titanic al cinema significava sognare un futuro come quello di Los Angeles. Per decenni, la Cina ha osservato gli Stati Uniti con una fascinazione magnetica, un misto di desiderio e complesso d'inferiorità. L'America non era solo un partner o un nemico: era lo specchio in cui la Cina cercava la propria immagine riflessa per capire cosa sarebbe diventata «da grande». Oggi quel mondo è finito e quelle immagini sono cambiate.

Wir brauchen keine Medikamente, um jung zu bleiben! Ärzt*innen haben das Altern lange Zeit als eine Krankheit betrachtet, aber älter zu werden muss nicht bedeuten, kränker zu werden! Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Wege, wie die Zellen unseres Körpers altern, doch wir können jeden dieser...

Tanner foi criado pelos avós e passou a vida viajando, tanto como militar quanto como chefe de segurança. Projetando sua felicidade sempre na próxima aventura, nunca teve vontade de se estabelecer. No entanto, no leito de morte da avó, ela lhe faz um pedido: “Encontre o seu lugar.” Ela também revela o nome do pai que Tanner nunca conheceu e da pequena cidade onde ele poderia ser encontrado. Com a curiosidade despertada, Tanner viaja até o local e acaba conhecendo Kaitlyn, médica e mãe divorciada.