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In 1815, the clever, courted and cherished Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron. Just one year later, she fled, taking with her their baby daughter, the future Ada Lovelace. Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824, aged 36. The one thing he had asked his wife to do was to make sure that their daughter never became a poet. Ada didn't. Brought up by a mother who became one of the most progressive reformers of Victorian England, Byron's little girl was introduced to mathematics as a means of calming her wild spirits.

Seventy-one and a man used to controlling those around him, Saul finds himself slipping into what he describes as his slow dance with death. His ramblings, humor, emotions, lucid moments, and confusion are laid bare as well as the thoughts and feelings of his loved ones: his wife, Monique, conflicted and depressed, caring yet angry; his daughter, Florence, compassionate yet proper and reserved; his son, Joey, self-centered and narcissistic, seemingly indifferent to his family's challenges.

It’s time for the annual Whispering Pines Tour of Gardens, and plant lovers are arriving by the busload. Discussions of raised beds, fertilizers, and proper amounts of water and sunlight can be heard all around the village. But just as the tours begin, chaos erupts. Someone has vandalized the gardens.

When Mari jumps in the back of her rideshare to a music festival, the last thing she expects is for the car to pick up a cute guy along the way. Mari doesn’t believe in dating - it can only end with a broken heart. Besides, she’s only staying at her dad’s house in Chicago for the weekend. How close can you get to a guy in three days? T.J. wants to study art in college, but his family’s expectations cast a long shadow over his dreams. When he meets Mari in the back of a rideshare, he feels alive for the first time in a long time.

Florence Farr was an actress, writer, and first-wave feminist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as an active member of the British occult community who regularly worked with her male counterparts in the fields of esoterica, being an initiate of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Collected here are seven of her magical essays: "Magic of a Symbol", "On the Play of the Image-Maker", "The Tetrad or Structure of the Mind", "Egyptian Use of Symbols", "The Philosophy Called Vedanta", "On the Kabbalah", and "The Rosicrucians and the Alchemists".

With the premiere of two new film versions of the Snow White tale, Blackstone enters the fray with its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast exposé of fairy-taledom. At last it can be told! Was Snow White really as pure as the driven snow? Did her allegedly wicked stepmother get a bum rap from the Grimm brothers? What went on behind the closed Dutch doors of the dwarves’ cottage? How many handsome princes does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Folge dem Ruf der Wellen und du findest dein Glück! Ein absolut zu Herzen gehender Roman von Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Miriam Covi: Als Lotte Seliger mit ihrer Mutter und ihren zwei Schwestern eine Reise nach New York antritt, ahnt sie nicht, was sie erwartet: Auf dem Rückflug muss die Maschine notlanden und die vier Seliger-Frauen sitzen an der kanadischen Ostküste fest. Lotte weiß nun nicht, ob sie es rechtzeitig zu ihrer Hochzeit nach Deutschland schaffen wird.

Bruce Peyton wonders where he went wrong. A widower, he worries that he has spoiled his 13-year-old daughter Jolene, and in doing so, caused so much tension and hostility in his home that his new - and pregnant - wife, Rachel, has left him. He struggles to regain her trust and to raise a daughter he can be proud of, because in Cedar Cove, nothing is more important than family.

Yvonne Diewald ist erfolgreiche Neuro-Coachin mit einer besonderen Geschichte: Ihrem viel zu früh geborenen Sohn Dominic wurde von den Ärzten diagnostiziert, dass er wegen seiner Hirnschädigung niemals gehen, sprechen oder schreiben können würde. Doch ihr gelang, was niemand für möglich hielt: Dominic lebt aufgrund des konsequenten Trainings mit seiner Mutter heute ein glückliches und selbstständiges Leben und ist der beste Beweis, dass unsere Gehirne veränderbar sind.

" Retrouve-moi dans une autre vie. Retrouve-moi dans chacune d'entre elles. " Chaque fin est aussi un début. J'ai cru que j'allais mourir, et cela serait arrivé sans l'intervention de Slade. Le seul moyen qu'il avait de me sauver était d'ouvrir une brèche entre les mondes. Le seul moyen pour moi de me sauver était de la traverser. Parfois, fuir un endroit dangereux vous amène à un autre. Annwyn. Le royaume des faes. Il y a de la magie et de la beauté ici, bien qu'à chaque coin de rue, des menaces rôdent.

Par l'autrice du best-seller The Spanish Love Deception ! Découvrez une romance slow-burn pleine d'humour et portée par un duo de comédiens sensibles et séducteurs. Rosie Graham a un problème. Plusieurs, en fait. Elle vient de quitter un emploi bien rémunéré pour se consacrer à l'écriture de romans d'amour. Elle n'en a pas parlé à sa famille et souffre d'un terrible syndrome de la page blanche. Puis, le plafond de son appartement new-yorkais s'écroule littéralement sur elle.

When Lara meets super-cute new boy Caiden, she begins to think that the way to his heart is to give herself a glow up. But her friends are not impressed. You should never glow up for a boy, only for yourself! As Lara and her friends embark on their project of empowerment and self-love, Lara shares all of her innermost thoughts with her online journal. How can she keep her hair under control when she's playing football? Why is she so fast on the pitch yet so uncoordinated off it? And how will she ever convince Caiden to take an interest in her?

Weihnachten ist die schönste Zeit des Jahres? Nicht für Maelyn Jones, denn sie ist mit ihrem Leben unzufrieden und hat gerade einen romantischen Fehler epischen Ausmaßes begangen: Sie hat den Falschen unterm Mistelzweig geküsst. Als sie dann auch noch erfährt, dass die geliebte Hütte in den verschneiten Bergen Utahs, in der sie seit jeher die Feiertage mit Familie und Freunden verbringt, verkauft werden soll, bittet sie das Universum verzweifelt um Hilfe – und ein turbulentes Fest voller Missgeschicke und Gefühlschaos beginnt.

Toward the end of the Renaissance period, John Dee and Edward Kelly famously engaged in experiments with alchemy, crystal balls, and conversations with otherworldly entities during this important chapter of real occult and magical history. Here Adams explores the life of Dee and his relationship with Kelly, regarding these experiments. He offers examples of the sorts of dialogue that occurred, which Dee dutifully recorded for the sake of posterity. Adams also documents the tragic final years of the lives of both men, after they went their separate ways.

Luna has been captured and sent to a US government black site above the Arctic Circle, a site designed to weaken and imprison werewolves. When the perfect trap for werewolves is built and populated with a dozen werewolves, adding one more werewolf, even a female werewolf, to the mix should present no problem, right? Luna White has a secret; she’s not just a werewolf.

Depuis l'ère de l’uniformité. Depuis l’ère de la solitude et de la doublepensée. Depuis l’ère de Big Brother… Moi, Winston Smith. Je vous salue… Nous sommes en 1984 et la vie a radicalement changé. Big Brother vous observe en permanence et personne ne peut lui échapper. Sauf, peut-être, Winston Smith. Il travaille au ministère de la Vérité, où il réécrit l’histoire, mais en secret, il rêve de liberté. Et dans un monde où l’amour et le sexe sont interdits, où il est difficile de savoir qui est un ami ou un ennemi, il rencontre Julia et O’Brien et jure de se rebeller.

Sex trafficking. Not Thailand. Or the Philippines. Or Russia. America. Rich or poor, black or white, girls disappear across this country every day, pulled into the nightmarish world of prostitution and drugs. Mex Anderson is back, tasked with finding three missing girls before it's too late. Three girls. Three girls who could live in your town, your neighborhood, or in your own home. Caught up in a cruel system fueled by lust and money, all three young women must find the courage within themselves to survive. And Mex must come to terms with his own loss and face his demons head on.

In his new book, economist Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives favor the market over government intervention. In fact, conservatives rely on a range of "nanny state" policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse off. It's time for the rules to change. Sound economic policy should harness the market in ways that produce desirable social outcomes: decent wages, good jobs, and affordable health care.

The second installment in the ever lively and ever moving chronicles of Anne Shirley, Anne of Avonlea follows the spunky child as she grows into a caring and optimistic young woman. Working as a teacher as well as continuing her own education, Anne must learn to navigate the responsibilities and expectations of young adulthood while feeling her emotions just as deeply, loving others just as sincerely, and living with the same unquenchable thirst for adventure as ever.

Sentite il richiamo di un amore autentico che trasformi la vostra vita? “Propositi d’Amore; Preparatevi a vivere una storia d’amore appagante” è la chiave per passare dal dolore di un cuore spezzato alla gioia di relazioni profonde, sincere e durature. Scritto da Adora Aiza—orgogliosa italiana d’adozione, cresciuta tra New Jersey e New York City, e ora residente in Italia—questo libro è stato appositamente tradotto per il pubblico italiano, assicurando che ogni parola, consiglio ed esercizio risuoni davvero con il vostro cuore.