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Vanessa's husband, Paul, dies suddenly and tragically on their regular Sunday morning swim. How will she cope with her dilapidated house, her teenage children, the patients who depend on her? Will therapy help? Why do mysterious white feathers start appearing in unexpected places? Beautifully written and honestly relayed, Vanessa uses her professional skills to explore the many questions posed by unanticipated death and to try to find a way forwards.

From an early age, Emily lived for the violin. Practices were a joy. Recitals were a celebration. She only felt truly alive when the meticulously crafted, finely tuned string instrument was in her firm grasp. You could say that Emily lived for the violin, and that it was her true love. You would have been right...but that all changed the day she met Xander Rothschild. Emily Rampling thought she understood the nature of power. But she didn't know the unexpected forms power could take, bending and adapting to suit its needs.

Perfect for Janeites everywhere, this enticing collection brings together for the first time six special recordings that offer a glimpse behind the scenes at the life of the celebrated author. Taking us on a journey from her earliest teenage writings, to her love affair aged 20, to the scandalous arrest of her aunt which shook her family, these fascinating programmes offer a closer look at Jane Austen and those around her, as seen through her letters, writings and final home.

The Complete Guide to the Shih-Poo is a comprehensive guide that will help new owners navigate the ins and outs of owning this unique and wonderful cross-breed. Be prepared for everything you’ll encounter throughout your Shih-Poo’s life, from their first car ride home all the way until their senior years.

"De la désobéissance naît le chaos." Kaemon, lieutenant des yakuzas Hayato, fait sa loi dans les quartiers de San Francisco. Il ne craint rien ni personne. Il a pour habitude d’obtenir tout ce qu’il désire, sans même élever la voix. Jusqu’à elle. Alba Lattini, cette jeune forgeronne américaine à qui il commande un katana pour l’anniversaire de son père, le grand chef du clan. Une femme au look unique qui représente l’interdit, tout ce que le milieu traditionnaliste du mafieux rejette. Leur rencontre est explosive, leur attirance incontrôlable.

When Grandma Mimi comes to visit, she always brings warm hugs, sweet treats...and her purse. You never know what she'll have in there - fancy jewelry, tokens from around the world, or something special just for her granddaughter. It might look like a normal bag from the outside, but Mimi and her granddaughter know that it's pure magic! In this adorable, energetic ode to visits from grandma, Vanessa Brantley Newton shows how an ordinary day can become extraordinary.

Alone on the Oregon Trail is a wonderful, emotional, Christian Romance novel set in the 1850s along the trail through the prairies and on a ranch at the end of the journey. A woman and her husband escape from Cholera-ridden New York City, after selling all that they own and buying two horses and a covered wagon. They start out for the Midwest - somewhere - having no idea where they will eventually end up.

Poetry; a unique and beautiful way to express feelings and ideas. Weaving words into perfect poetic prose, these thirty authors remind you of your childhood, bring comfort from the hardships of life, fiercely spur emotions, and tell tales of old. All lovers of poetry will find a favorite here! Featured authors include Jonathan Pratt, Douglas Allen Gohl, J.E. Feldman, Rebecca A. Demarest, E.L. Summers, Austin Worley, Jose Joel Robles, Dana Trick, Neethu Krishnan, Alize Atif, Stephen Schwei, Vanessa Bane, and Matthew Ivan Bennett.

Charles Dickens on the Oregon Trail, is the story of one lonely young woman who decides to leave the haphazard care of her aunt and sets out on her own, on the long journey west along the Oregon Trail. She rushes to town to try and find someone who will take her amongst the hundreds of people and wagons massing, ready to make the trek across the country. One kind family with seven children take her in and she ends up teaching them, along with a group of other children, and so finds her niche as a teacher on the train.

Er ist gnadenlos. Er ist blutrünstig. Und der heißeste Mann, den ich je gesehen habe. Anya Grace Krylows Leben gleicht einem goldenen Käfig. Als Tochter des mächtigsten Mafiabosses von New York ist sie behütet aufgewachsen und musste sich bisher um nichts in ihrem Leben selbst kümmern. Doch an ihrem zweiundzwanzigsten Geburtstag setzt Anya ihrem Vater die Pistole auf die Brust: Sie will studieren und das auf keinen Fall in New York! Zähneknirschend stimmt ihr Vater einem Studium an der University of Baltimore zu - ausgerechnet dem Hoheitsgebiet von Maxim "The King" Gromow.

I was drowning until billionaire Danton Belfort swept me up into his world. His unmatched reputation for mastering submissives was legendary. His methods cruel, yet beautiful. Commanding, yet delicate. He was willing to do whatever it took to reach beyond my veil of pain and ensure a transformation that would render me reborn as the most dazzling of dominatrixes. If the process didn't obliterate me. All I had to do was survive. Survive him. Survive myself.

One of the most popular designer breeds, the Aussiedoodle has quickly become a highly sought-after family pet for several very good reasons. A combination of an Australian Shepherd and a Poodle, the Aussiedoodle is both intelligent and well-mannered. While this breed is only a few decades old, in that short span of time it has proven to have many of the best traits of both parent breeds. An Aussiedoodle makes a great companion both inside and outside the home.

Vanessa Wideski has wandered the world to find answers to these questions, searching across Thailand, the island of Samoa, Buddhist monasteries, and even the bustling streets of New York City. Through homelessness, addiction, and unspeakable loss, she’s found that the answers our souls seek are out there—and the power to change ourselves, our communities, and our world is well-within our reach.

On Vanessa's first day of school, her parents tell her it will be easy to make friends. Vanessa isn't so sure. She wears her fanciest outfit so her new classmates will notice her right away. They notice, but the attention isn't what she'd hoped for. As the day goes on, she feels more self-conscious. Her clothes are too bright, her feather boa has way too many feathers, and even her name is too hard to write.

This podcast is about encouraging people to understand that in life, we experience many hardships in relationships trying to hold on to what’s not good for us. Just because somebody is good TO you doesn’t mean they’re good FOR you.

In The Complete Guide to Puggles, you’ll find everything you need to know about this unique breed to prepare yourself and your household for a new member of the family. This book will guide you through every step of owning a puggle from puppy-proofing your home and potty training your puppy, to caring for it through old age, and so much more.

This new guide to plotting and planning romantic fiction demonstrates creative strategies for using your own personality and experiences to create powerful characters who evoke strong emotions in both you as the writer, and your audiences.... Whatever kind of romance you want to write, and whether romance is the primary focus of your story or a sub-plot for your mystery, science fiction, fantasy, historical or futuristic novel - the 21st century is calling on you to create a story with characters readers can believe in; characters who are emotionally and psychologically true.

In this memoir of identity and discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define "home" and "belonging"—from her birth in Yaounde, Cameroon, to her adoption, to experiencing housing insecurity in Europe and her eventual immigration to the US. After her parents' divorce, Vanessa traveled with her mother to Lyon and later to London, eventually settling in Reno, Nevada, as a teenager, right around the financial crisis and the collapse of the housing market. At 20, still a practicing evangelical Christian and newly married, Vanessa applied to and was accepted by Harvard Law School.

¿Quieres perder peso y sanar tu cuerpo? ¿Quieres hacerlo mientras disfrutas de una deliciosa comida? ¿Quieres hacerlo sin pasar horas haciendo ejercicios que odias? Afortunadamente el ayuno intermitente puede ayudarte. ¡Recorrer períodos de comida y ayuno es un truco increíble que hará que la pérdida de peso sea más fácil que nunca para ti! Es una forma de vida que te ayudará a desarrollar hábitos alimenticios sosteniblemente saludables que brinden resultados permanentes mientras disfrutas de una comida deliciosa, y disfruta de la vida.

Las hermanas Fernández tienen distintos anhelos, pero vivirán y sufrirán juntas las hazañas y desventuras que conlleva encontrar el propio camino y, sobre todo, la felicidad. Las alumbradas es una novela sobre cuatro hermanas rodeadas de eventos extraordinarios que, a pesar de las adversidades, lucharán incansablemente por encontrar el amor.