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Launching Your Dream Box is your comprehensive guide to starting a subscription box business from the ground up. Whether you're venturing into this field for the first time or refining an existing business idea, this book provides the tools and insights you need.

Thyra König ermittelt als investigative Journalistin in einem großen Fleischskandal. Da lenkt ein anonymer Anrufer ihre Neugier bereits auf das nächste Thema und bietet ihr brisante Informationen an. Ihre Recherchen zu afrikanischem Blutgold führen sie auf eine Kreuzfahrt von Hamburg nach Rotterdam und auf die Spur eines skrupellosen Politikers mit dunklen Geheimnissen. Auf der Reise dabei ist der ehemalige Hauptkommissar Folkert Mackensen, der ihr in brisanten Situationen zur Seite steht.

Transitions of the Heart is the first collection to ever invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children of all ages to tell their own stories about their child’s gender transition. Often transitioning socially and emotionally alongside their child but rarely given a voice in the experience, mothers hold the key to familial and societal understanding of gender difference.

In dem Fischerdorf Dulworth Bay sind zwei Schüler spurlos verschwunden. Als einzigen Hinweis findet die Polizei im Kinderzimmer der beiden einen signierten Kricketschläger...

In 1898, a group of schoolboys in Bridgeport, Connecticut, discovered gruesome packages under a bridge holding the dismembered remains of a young woman. Finding that the dead woman had just undergone an abortion, prosecutors raced to establish her identity and fix blame for her death. Suspicion fell on Nancy Guilford, half of a married pair of “doctors” well known to police throughout New England. A fascinated public followed the suspect’s flight from justice, as many rooted for the fugitive.

Vivi Shager is living her dream. Raised with drive and ambition by a resolutely single mother, Vivi has a thriving law career, a gorgeous apartment in London, and a full calendar that keeps her busy at work and at play. Then on the day of her 27th birthday, an undiagnosed heart condition sends Vivi’s prospects for the future into a tailspin. After escaping her roots nearly a decade ago, she’s forced to return to her childhood home to be cared for by her devoted and enigmatic mother.

J'étais convaincue qu'une fois mariée, ma vie chaotique se calmerait et que je pourrais profiter de quelques interludes romantiques bien mérités avec mon nouveau mari. Ce n’a pas été le cas. Et quand un étranger fait irruption dans notre ville, tout s'effondre. Mis à part le fait qu'il soit riche, personne ne semble avoir la moindre information à son sujet. Mais je sais une chose. Son arrivée n’est pas une bonne nouvelle. Et il cache quelque chose.

Rejuvenates fear the backlash caused by bad drugs: they want nothing to interfere with their pursuit of long life—or the profit that comes from promising it to others. Neighbor states fear the aggressive expansion of the Familias Regnant, fuelled by population growth and extended lifespan. Within the Regular Space Service, those who have received experimental rejuvenations fear they may have been intentionally given bad drugs. Esmay Suiza's family fears that her marriage to an offworlder will damage their position.

Um ihre demente Mutter Gwen zu betreuen, zieht die alleinstehende Connie nach Buckinghamshire. Sie kümmert sich gern um sie, auch wenn sie selbst zurückstecken muss. Bis eines Tages ein weißer Van vor der Tür steht. Eine soziale Einrichtung hat den Handwerker Paul zur Unterstützung geschickt. Aber Connie ist alarmiert. Irgendetwas gefällt ihr nicht an Paul. Er ist zu freundlich, zu charmant und mischt sich zu sehr in das Leben ihrer Mutter ein. Zunehmend hilflos beobachtet sie, wie Gwen ihn für ihren verstorbenen Mann hält, wie sie Paul den Schlüssel zum Haus überlässt und er letztlich sogar einzieht.

Josephine is obsessed. Or possessed—by unrequited love for a younger man who doesn't promise anything, but who gives her a taste of intimacy that puts her on the brink of losing her mind. Oscillating between her elusive lover and her older former partner, stuck in the hell that is working in a cubicle, and obliged to tend to her destructive, senile mother, Josephine is trapped. After a work assignment promises to deliver distraction, Josephine makes a decision to visit a former quarantine island in the Adriatic Sea, where she meets an enigmatic, beautiful man with a haunting story.

Feeling stressed, anxious or burnt out? Sophrology is a transformative health-care philosophy that is designed to help people achieve a calm, alert mind in a relaxed body. Inspired by Eastern philosophies and classical relaxation techniques, sophrology will help you to become consciously, actively aware of yourself, how you feel, what you want and the environment around you.

The quest for Earth's domination remains the primary directive of an ancient, inhuman enemy. Challenging this alien bid for iron rule, an elite force led by former magistrates wages war against Earth's enslavers. These rebel commandos are resourceful, dedicated and possess the immutable human willpower to survive — by any means necessary....

You’re just too sensitive! That didn’t happen. You must be imagining things. I don’t remember saying anything like that. You must have misunderstood me. Do these phrases seem familiar? Perhaps, a little too familiar? If you hear them often, you might be a victim of abuse called gaslighting. Gaslighting can happen everywhere, and nobody should have control over your emotions and feelings - nobody but you.

Wie eine Wildkatze durchstreifte die Tänzerin Lola Montez die Biedermeierzeit. Eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit König Ludwig I. füllte die Seiten der weltweiten Klatschpresse...

We're all used to encountering even the most hardcore porn from the comfort and privacy of our computer screens, but how many of us would go see it live? Thought Catalog editor Chelsea Fagan did, spending an evening in the world of live sex shows and hardcore pornography. Here, she gives us the guided tour to everything from rules about condoms to the pressure of facials, showing us a world that is at once completely familiar and something we've never quite seen before.

Esmay Suiza and Brun Meager should be friends - they're both bright, brave, likable and adventurous. But true friendship doesn't run any smoother than true love. Brun thinks Esmay's a stuck-up prig, and Esmay thinks Brun's a spoiled rich brat who's making a play for Barin Serrano, Esmay's first love. So when Brun falls into the hands of a repressive religious militia movement, Esmay finds herself n disgrace, suspected of conniving at the capture.

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The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power, or for blood. The Loyalists, meanwhile, fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space. But when Esmay Suiza-Serrano is unceremoniously booted out of Fleet, the apparent victim of family politics, she has no idea of the whirlwind of conflict into which she is about to be drawn.

Köln, 1941. Anna wächst bei ihrer Tante Marie und ihrem Onkel Matthias auf, einem Bäckerehepaar. Das Mädchen liebt die Backstube über alles. Der Duft von frischgebackenem Brot, die mehlgeschwängerte Luft, der große Ofen aus Vulkanstein - für Anna der schönste Ort der Welt. Doch mit dem Krieg kommt das Unglück: Matthias wird eingezogen, die Bäckerei bei Luftangriffen zerstört, und Anna und Marie sind obdachlos.

Laura, a student from a modest background, escapes her small town to join the ranks of the academic elite on a Weatherfield fellowship to study at Oxford University. She enthusiastically throws herself into her coursework, yet she is never able to escape a feeling of unease and dislocation. Years later, back in the United States with a PhD and dissertation on Henry James, she loses her job as an adjunct and reconnects with the Weatherfield Foundation. Commissioned to write a history for its centennial, she becomes obsessed by the Gilded Age origins of the Weatherfield fortune.