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When Harry Met Sheila is the story of highly-acclaimed comedy actress Sheila Steafel, her relationship with Steptoe and son actor Harry H. Corbett, and how a woman - who should have had the world at her feet - ultimately destroyed her marriage and promising career. Sheila's autobiography is a brave and honest account by an actress who was once crowned "The Queen of Comedy", in which she explores how the traumas of her childhood have impacted her personal life and career.

To help herself come to terms with her sorrow, Gloria delves into lessons from the past and from her own parents' failed relationship. Her father never recovered from the death of his first love, and her mother lived in bitterness at giving up her own ambitions for a man who never loved her. Between her father's clinging despair and her mother's emotional abandonment, Gloria struggles to find a balance for herself and for her young son.

Hello listener, welcome to my book, Darkness to Light. This book is about me as a young girl, young woman, and adult woman. I went through experiences in my life that were very traumatic. I came to find a way out of the darkness in my life through Jesus. I am excited to know you are interested in my book. I wrote this book to inspire you, motivate you, help you heal, and take you to your destiny with God, for you to know that there is a new journey ahead: a journey of life, and of blessing. Open your heart and receive. Be blessed!

Chelsea, 1547. At 10 years old, Lady Jane Grey arrives at Old Manor to begin her education with the Dowager Queen Katherine: Widow of the late Henry VIII. Jane is a bright, scholarly girl, but destined to reach early maturity and be manipulated and groomed by over-ambitious men. After being forced to marry Guildford Dudley - son of the Duke of Northumberland - the country is divided and Jane struggles to come to terms with her situation.

Caroline Tibbot is the daughter of merchants and never expected to be married to a duke, much less the attractive, arrogant, and brash Thomas Ecclestone, Duke of Durham. Sent to his estate against her wishes, Caroline still longs for her one dream to be fulfilled - to sail the oceans just as her parents did. Yet each day that she tries to escape her marriage is a day that shows her a new side to the young duke.

A teenager's refusal to attend school leads to criminal charges against his parents and disastrous consequences for him. His parent's recent divorce, his father's hasty remarriage, his brother's moving away for college, leave Andrew Tibbet in a desperate whirlwind of emotions. Using revenge as his weapon of choice, he sets out to destroy his family emotionally and financially.

Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a girl herself, she must soon learn how to survive as a woman with a child of her own. Just as the world around her seems entirely consumed by madness, bound for hell, she is offered an escape of sorts - but only into another landscape of trials and terrors amidst the unforgiving wilds of northeastern Nigeria.

Diets rely on 'willpower' to try to forcefully control your body and eating habits. With this revolutionary guide is different! The concept of mindful eating is increasingly becoming popular in the modern-day world, perhaps, because of the downsides that have been observed with the opposite of mindful eating, that is mindless eating. With this guide, you will be able to build a brand new relationship with food and learn how to promote health and wellness.

BibleBreak is a collection of Bible stories summarized for people of all ages. There are 11 stories from the Old and New Testament along with a timeline of main events - all condensed into short and easy to understand stories. The book also cites the Bible verses to find the exact context for further reading/listening and study!

Brendan Kensleigh is introduced to Celeste Clarins. An orphan of the revolution in France, she has resided with the Kensleighs as a companion for Brendan’s sister. Brendan is immediately drawn to Celeste and sets out to learn more about her. Discovering her speaking privately to his sister’s fiancé, Delbert Hartford, Brendan immediately grows suspicious. Believing they are indulging in an affair; he follows Celeste to the abandoned carriage house prepared to confront the lovers. Instead, he finds Delbert laying on the floor with a gash on his forehead and Celeste clutching a brick in her hand.

Theirs was an unlikely life together. Sheila gave birth to Josephine on 11th May 1993 and for twenty-three years they co-existed in a loving mother-daughter relationship, but one with a difference. Josephine suffered catastrophic brain injury at birth, never spoke to Sheila, rarely smiled and was barely able to see the faces of the people who loved her.

When the earth finally grew overpopulated, they put a plan in place. A plan to expand to other earths. It worked for millenniums, populating one new earth and then the next. Until there were 8. Now, after a failed mission, El is stuck on Earth 7 with no way home and no way to apprehend the madman responsible for destroying his own planet. She is close to losing all hope, until her tracker goes off. An ancient artifact has been activated and it can get her off the planet…

A powerful and heart-breaking portrait of the bond between two sisters, in life and beyond death. Once We Were Sisters is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler. Maxine is just shy of her 40th birthday when her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and kills her. Devastated, Sheila returns to South Africa, determined to find answers to her sister's sudden death at the hands of her husband.

Were you born to just pay bills and die? Of course not! Lots of people undervalue themselves. Everyone has lived different childhoods, and some of us were convinced that money will be hard to come by. Some of us believe our self-worth is undeserved. Now is the time to change that. The ATM is inside us all. Whatever you want in this life, your mind first must be the equivalent of it.

This audiobook examines the lives, the accomplishments, and the punishment of some of the female secret agents, while they lived and worked during the 20th century, in hot or cold wars. They all were convinced that they were on the right side of the conflicts they participated in, even if some of them were dead wrong. Their lives were never certain, since a bullet in the head could put an abrupt end to their work.

The Jewels of Warwick are two very different sisters: Topaz and Amethyst Plantagenet. They are grand-nieces of Richard III, who lost his life and kingdom to Henry Tudor, future father of Henry VIII. Amethyst is the love of Henry VIII’s life, but each time he proposes marriage, something - or someone - gets in the way. Meanwhile, Topaz wants what’s rightfully hers: the throne of England. And hers it would have been, had her father been crowned Richard III’s heir. But life holds many strange twists of fate.

Una maravillosa antología de 16 cuentos infantiles inolvidables, animados y musicalizados para que los más pequeños no dejen de soñar.

Amber Dearing is living her dream - she's finally the owner of her own brand new ice cream shop and she's got the chance to make it a huge success. Everything is riding on the Cow & Moon launch going as planned. With all of Amber's life savings poured into the business, she has no plan B. But when, on the day of the official launch, a women drops dead in the middle of store, Amber is not only in danger of losing her business - she is a prime suspect.

Forty-five episodes from Series 1-8 of the Sony Award-winning BBC Radio comedy show, hosted by Rufus Hound. In this hilarious and revealing show, host Rufus Hound invites his guests to revisit their formative years by dusting off their intimate teenage diaries and reading them out in public for the very first time.

Harlem 1969; it's the height of the Civil Rights era and the community is still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King. Arthur Mitchell, the first Black principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, takes his protest to the stage and establishes the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Here begins the story of the five extraordinary women at the heart of this book. This is a book about ballet, the enduring allure of ballet for young girls, and about how these pioneers broke into a world that was closed to them and changed ideas of what a classical dancer could be.