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Una bebé robada. ¿Puedo ser yo esa niña? Cuando encuentro un viejo recorte de periódico en el que se ve a mi padre junto a un conocido político, mi mundo se pone patas arriba. Hace veintinueve años, la hija recién nacida de ese hombre fue robada de su cuna, sin que su madre, que dormía a su lado, se diera cuenta. ¿Puedo ser yo esa niña? ¿Mi padre, tan amable y cariñoso, pudo haber hecho algo tan terrible? Estoy decidida a desentrañar los secretos de mi familia, pero husmear en el pasado puede ser peligroso y tener consecuencias fatales.

Diriger, c’est décider. Et pourtant, les décisions qui comptent vraiment se prennent souvent dans la solitude, sans quelqu’un pour vous dire ce que vous n’avez pas envie d’entendre. Si vous êtes CEO, fondateur, dirigeant de PME, scale-up, ETI ou solopreneur, et que : vous portez des arbitrages difficiles, vous avez trop d’options et trop d’injonctions contradictoires, votre entourage vous ménage, personne ne vous challenge vous tournez en boucle, sans réussir à trancher, Ce podcast est fait pour vous. Dans Choisir sans renoncer, je mets la prise de décision et le ...

As a single mother, Annie Quinn knows she should steer clear of football players, if her son's absent father is anything to go by. Tanner Pace has always known Annie Quinn is strictly off limits. Somewhere between unpredictable drives and slow Texas sunsets, sparks fly and Annie forgets why she decided never to trust a sports star again. As much as Tanner wants something to happen, he knows it can't. Annie is his best friend's sister. Completely, undeniably out of bounds… but are some rules meant to be broken?

Written with her signature timbre of startling honesty and unfaltering hope, Laura offers listeners a new way to experience life in This Side of the Sky. Through poetry that is remarkably specific yet widely universal, she explores what it means to grow older in a fallen body, wrestles with complicated feelings around grief and suffering this side of Heaven, and reflects on the ache of living in a world that feels both heavy and holy.

Published in 1910, the young sisters, Barbara and Mollie Thurston, are being invited by their skilled friend, Ruth Stuart, to go on a real-life adventure in a motor car, for Ruth is a girl who actually can drive a motor car, to Newport with a chaperone, Aunt Sallie, and friend Grace Carter. Horse shenanigans come into play as well as protecting themselves from a burglary. Many hopes arise in their revels as well as wondering if or when women shall get “the vote”. Much culminates in the upcoming tennis tournament taking place at their destination and the danger of a jewel thief amidst them,...

Gracie Reynolds and I have been best friends since we were kids. She's smart, kind, funny, beautiful—and one of the best parts of my life. When Gracie walks into a room, people notice. I always notice. But when she moved across the world with a guy I despised, it felt like I'd lost a piece of myself. I missed her in ways I still can't explain. Now she's back—and she's crashing at my place for a couple of months while she figures things out.

Viviamo in un mondo imprevedibile, pieno di contraddizioni, e navigare in questa complessità mentre cerchiamo di prendere le decisioni migliori è tutt'altro che facile. Con Le gioie della scienza, Al-Khalili ci regala otto brevi lezioni che ci avvicinano alla chiarezza, al potere e alla gioia di pensare e vivere un po' più scientificamente. È un libro che infonde fiducia e ci invita a guardare il mondo come lo vedono gli scienziati.

Helen, Margy and Rose Blythe, displaced from their family home in Long Island, have struggled to carve out a new life in their tiny apartment in New York City. But it is still hard to make ends meet. When Margy discovers she is to receive an inheritance from an aunt she hardly knew in the Midwest, the sisters are excited. Excitement turns to chagrin when they find that the inheritance appears to be an old clock, a battered living room set, and a huge box of flour. But there’s more there than meets the eye —if the girls can solve their eccentric aunt’s clues to a real-life treasure hunt. ...

Basada en la historia de la corredora Katrhine Zwitzer, la primera mujer que corrió con dorsal la Maratón de Boston. ¿Y si te dijeran que no puedes hacer deporte, que no puedes correr, que eso está prohibido para ti solo por ser mujer? Las mujeres no están hechas para practicar deporte y si...

¡El fantasy que está arrasando en redes! No corras el peligro de menospreciar a Alosa: es la hija del Rey Pirata, y cuando se propone algo, lo consigue. Así que cuando su padre le asigna una importante misión, no tendrá el más mínimo reparo en manipular, mentir y pasar por encima de quien...

Blaire has always been a dreamer. She built her little ice cream truck with its crazy flavors, from the ground up. Who wouldn't want to eat something called Unicorn Daydream, or Bumblebuzz Swirl? Whimsy and fun are her middle names, after all. And she's been dreaming of the day her motorcycle riding, bad boy...but secretly good boy...mechanic drifts into town to rescue her from the life of singlehood. So when her truck is broken into and she discovers a brand new mechanic with just the right arm tattoo...Blaire is convinced her dreams are suddenly coming true.

Tu croyais avoir touché le fond ? Eh bien non...ici on creuse toujours plus dans l'absurde !

The Bobbsey twins are off to spend a summer full of fun and adventures on Blueberry Island. They will encounter a cave, and gypsies, and other things I won't tell you about. You can find out by listening to this book! As with many children's books written during this time in history, there are racial stereotypes that would not pass muster today. To edit them out would be to erase history, so I'm reading the book, as is. There is a "fat black mammy" named Dinah, and gypsies (of undetermined geographical origin) who naturally steal because they don't know any better. These stereotypes can act as...

This book is the first part of the Six Little Bunkers series, written using the pseudonym of Laura Lee Hope. It follows the lives of the Bunker family, with six children. - Summary by bhavya

The Blythe sisters, orphaned and near-penniless are completely on their own. With the last of their resources, they move from their lovely big house on Long Island to a third-floor walk-up apartment in New York City hoping to find work and start new lives. Things are far from easy and they soon discover that the world can be tough and sometimes treacherous with dismaying twists and turns. With determination, courage, humor, and love, they gamely tackle each new challenge. (Summary by Cheryl Adam) Laura Lee Hope is a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Bobbsey Twins and several ...

Deux fois veuve, à la tête d'un domaine qui tombe en ruine et criblée de dettes, elle s'accroche à la respectabilité que lui confère le titre de son défunt mari, consciente que ses filles ne seront à l'abri du besoin qu'une fois mariées. Alors quand un messager de la cour se présente avec une invitation au bal royal, elle y voit la chance d'assurer enfin leur avenir. Mais seule Elin, sa belle-fille, a été invitée... Ravalant son orgueil, Ethel va plaider la cause de ses filles auprès de la reine, avec qui elle partage une vieille inimitié.

Life was going along comfortably; her job and personal and spiritual lives were satisfying, and Laura Pardo was about to enter her seventh decade. When she experienced an unknown neurological event, she embarked on a health journey that would engulf her for eighteen months and become a permanent part of her life moving forward. Being diagnosed with a rare and little-known blood disorder was terrifying. After a visit to Mayo Clinic, the treatment began immediately, and life as Laura knew it no longer existed.

Unexpectedly elected Senior Councilor, Jeran Chenzira must now build a home for his new people, and prove that they can become honorable members of his society, but how can he counsel a species he barely understands, or earn their trust in only a few months?

April 1912. As the RMS Titanic begins her fateful voyage, five passengers—each carrying heartbreak, ambition, or regret—board with hopes of a new beginning. Madeleine Astor, young bride to one of America’s wealthiest men, is already buckling under the weight of high society’s disapproval. Her husband, John Jacob Astor IV, hides his own doubts behind charm and control—but as whispers of scandal grow louder, the cracks in their marriage widen.

Raw, unfiltered first-time stories from women: desire, pleasure, and sexual awakening. Honest confessions that break taboos and reclaim female pleasure.