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Christmas is bad enough without all the music, frantic shopping sprees, and holiday parties. So many parties… with people you couldn’t stand in high school and definitely can’t stand now. Top of the list? Patty Harrison. She made my teen years miserable and, now that we’re adults, she’s trying to get me banned from the Christmas market. Even so, I’m not going to commit literal murder.

Five years ago, I royally screwed up, lied, and broke the heart of the woman I love. A sane man would buy her a nice present and grovel. Guess I must be crazy. I love Meg more than anything. So why am I running against her for mayor of Harrogate?

A provocative account of the long, racist history of our immigration system, revealing how it has become the brutal machine that today upends the lives of millions of immigrants. Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people are arrested, imprisoned, and deported, trapped in what leading immigrant rights activist and lawyer Alina Das calls the "deportation machine". The bulk of the arrests target people who have a criminal record - so-called "criminal aliens" - the majority of whose offenses are immigration-, drug-, or traffic-related.

A bride-to-be convinced she’s cursed in romance finds her luck changing—at exactly the wrong time. Maya Mirza is so convinced she’s unlucky in love that she’s come up with a list of laws to explain it. Most importantly…

Ella Parker's male alias was a star pupil in medical school. But as a woman in 1810 England, Ella cannot find a job as a doctor's assistant. In a life-or-death emergency with a mother in labor, she oversteps her boundaries and risks arrest. Determined to practice medicine, she decides to join her mentor on the Neptune, a warship heading for open waters. Following an accident, she is quickly thrust into the role of ship surgeon, and her skills are put to the test.

This book is a transformational guide to finding the care, courage and audacity to bring your full self to your work and life. In this powerful new vision, Alina Addison - a pioneering corporate leader, Emotional Intelligence expert coach, and mother to a son on the autism spectrum - combines personal experience with deep research to present the eight fundamental principles of audacious leadership.

Crash-land on an alien barbarian planet and told there’s no way home? Anyone else might have a nervous breakdown, but I was abducted with my besties! Between us, we have fifteen PhDs. We will be getting off this planet. Trust. Two liquid hydrogen rockets and a smidge of deep-space travel later, and we’re back home on Earth. Except that our spaceship had stowaways. Now there’s a seven-foot-tall alien named Cassius in my Los Angeles condo. He’s calmly explaining that, according to the ancestors, we are to be eternally mated and have a litter of children.

A New York Times columnist delivers an eye-opening big idea: Embracing mistakes can make us smarter, healthier, and happier in every facet of our lives. In Better by Mistake, Alina Tugend shows that mistakes are everywhere, and suggests that when we acknowledge and identify them correctly, we can improve not only ourselves, but our families, our work, and the world around us.

¡Volverás a sentir las mariposas con Alina Not! Más de 150.000 lectoras. ¿El amor está escrito en nuestro destino? ¿Crees que bastan treinta segundos para proyectar lo vivido y desvelar lo que está por venir? Beth vio algo cuando se debatía entre la vida y la muerte y ahora está segura de que logrará su sueño, de que llegará a ser una anciana feliz y satisfecha, y de que hay alguien con un aspecto muy concreto con quien compartirá el resto de sus días.

When the townspeople of Harrogate almost riot over the Christmas décor thievery committed by the chair of the Elf on the Shelf Committee, I know I’m not going to survive the holiday season unless drastic action is taken. Biddy Jefferson turning up dead in my Christmas market stall is not exactly the type of drastic measure I had in mind. With no alibi and a town obsessed with pinning the murder on me, I have to clear my name. This is on top of planning the upcoming holiday ball, dealing with quirky stall owners in the Christmas market, and corralling confused tourists.

A place to nerd-out about psychodynamic theory.

If you want to learn the basic principles of Wicca, understand the secrets behind this religion, and start your own magical journey, then keep reading...Witchcraft is an ancient religion that teaches how to establish a perfect relation with nature, the elements, and unleash the power of our ancestors. The great difference between Wicca and the other religions is that Witchcraft requires the use of magic and spells. This guide provides all the tools, knowledge, and techniques you will need to start your journey into witchcraft.

A possible genius, a smidgen of madness, a twist of science, and an invention that very nearly changed the world - all collide in a giddy, unbelievably true mystery set in turn-of-the-century Paris.

¡Vibra con la nueva obra de la autora de Bad Ash! A veces caer es lo único que te lleva a descubrir el verdadero sentido del amor. Haley afronta su primer año de universidad, lejos de casa y todo lo que conoce, con una duda que está dispuesta a resolver: si realmente el amor es algo más que lo vivido hasta el momento. Pronto creerá estar cerca de encontrar la respuesta cuando su camino se cruce con el de un misterioso chico de ojos grises cuya mera presencia grita "problemas".

Although at long last Razia Khan has found peace with herself and love with her prince, Arjun, her trials are far from over. In order to save her prince and his city from certain destruction, Razia made a deal with the devil - her father, the Sultan of Nizam. Now the bill has come due. Razia must secure the province of Zindh, a land surrounded by enemies, and loyal to a rebel queen who has survived her father's purge. But when her old tormentor Prince Karim invades her new home and forces her into a marriage alliance, Razia finds herself trapped.

"Der Raum ist voller halbnackter Frauen und Männer, high von dem Gefühl einer geglückten Vorstellung – froh, eine weitere Nacht gemeinsam überstanden zu haben. Nun entspannen sie sich auf ihre eigene Art. In einer Ecke sieht Ella zwei Frauen, die gerade beginnen, einem der männlichen Tänzer einen zu blasen. Sie sieht zwei Frauen, die sich bei einem heißen Kuss ineinander verschlingen, und der Rest des Raumes ist voller Gelächter, ein knallender Sektkorken ist zu hören und leises Stöhnen".

Vidanric reminds me daily that he despises Earth and wants to go home. He’s miserable, and so am I—even though I can’t help but admire the view when he’s standing shirtless in my kitchen making a smoothie. Loudly. At three in the morning. My horoscope didn’t prepare me for any of this. He chewed up and ate one of the inspirational notes I gave him. He cooks squirrels in my cast-iron skillet. He complains nonstop about my annoying Earth-girl habits. This alien’s not grumpy—he’s downright hostile.

Continúa la historia de Chris y Beth y descubre qué les depara el destino. Beth ha logrado acceder al programa de estudios al que siempre aspiró, aunque no esperaba que traspasar esa meta fuera a tambalear todos los cimientos de lo construido en los últimos meses. Eso que descubrió con un chico que quiso hacer volar sus mariposas y le entregó toda la esperanza tatuada en su piel. Lo que encuentra en el grupo de Teatro era el mayor sueño de Beth. La peor pesadilla de Chris. Y para Ben... Para Ben será un reto difícil de superar.

Genetic engineering expert Dr Alina Chan and renowned science writer Matt Ridley examine the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, using their formidable skills to scrutinise arguments and rigorously analyse the sprawling data. Viral is a fascinating account that takes in pangolins, horseshoe bats, internet sleuths and misleading scientific papers. It details the evidence and investigates hypotheses for the virus origin, chief among them a potential laboratory leak or a natural spillover.

El mundo de Ashley Bennet se ha vuelto completamente del revés. Ella, que por fin pensaba que había conseguido al chico perfecto... renunció a lo que tanto había deseado porque se enamoró sin haberlo planeado. Y ahora está sola. Y va a tener que descubrir quién es ella realmente. Tal vez, en los últimos años, olvidara que lo más importante siempre fue quererse a sí misma.