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Not only do we need more female leaders at the top, but we need more women at all levels of business, government, and nonprofits to step up - there's no time to waste. The problem, says Helene Lerner, isn't so much that women lack confidence but that they misunderstand what confidence really is. True confidence isn't fearlessness; it's having the courage to jump in even when your knees are shaking.

Quoi de plus banal qu'un chat noir, comme celui que Sébasto trouve posté, un matin, devant la maison de Da, son grand-père adoptif ? Pourtant, l'animal le met mal à l'aise. Peut-être à cause de l'étrange éclat métallique luisant dans son regard ? Lorsqu'un deuxième chat apparaît, puis un troisième, l'inquiétude s'installe et se mue bientôt en peur...

Fourteen-year-old Jade feels like a freak of nature when she finally gets her first period in the mall. It gets worse when she runs into handsome Luke Martin in the feminine products aisle while her dad Googles menstruation on his phone. But freak takes on a whole new meaning when hormones bring on another metamorphosis, complete with scales and a tail.

In this fifth installment in the critically acclaimed Irene Huss series, three men are found brutally executed in one of Goteborg's most fashionable neighborhoods. All three men were involved in an online poker company, but that's all they appear to have in common. The complex investigation immerses Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues into a world of expensive cars, fancy homes, and impressive castles in the air. Meanwhile, the normally peaceful atmosphere of the Huss family is disturbed by marital tension as Irene suspects her husband, Krister, of a having an affair with a younger woman.

This is a biography of Helene Hanff, the author of 84 Charing Cross Road by a leading authority on her life and works. Pastore was a long-time friend and neighbor of Hanff and had access to her books, letters and relatives and friends.

Time management consultant Helene Segura brings you quick tips (mostly 2-5 minutes, but some are up to one hour long) on the mindset, strategies or tactics successful people implement for effective time management and productivity. Note to podcast aficionados: This is not a show, so there’s no set format. These are recordings of musings, recommendations and interviews – all designed to help you understand key time management strategies to achieve the balance you seek. The author of two Amazon best-selling books, Helene Segura has been the featured productivity expert in over 100 media ...

C'est en défaisant la doublure d'un étui à violoncelle que Grégoire Coblence, l'associé d'un luthier, découvre une partition ancienne. A-t-elle été écrite par Scarlatti, comme il semble le penser ? Mais, à peine déchiffrée, la partition disparaît, suscitant de folles convoitises.

Five years after an unspeakable tragedy that changed him forever, Gordie Allen has made a new home with his half-brother Kevin. Their arrangement works since Kevin is the only person who can protect Gordie at school and keep him focused on getting his life back on track. But just when it seems like things are becoming normal, Gordie's biological father comes back into the picture, demanding a place in his life.

It's May, and the snow has hardly melted in Goteborg, Sweden, but things are heating up quickly for Detective Inspector Irene Huss. The staff of the Violent Crimes Unit is stretched thin, with everyone on edge as they race to solve two murders amid the city's ongoing gang violence. Soon Irene and her colleagues are on a hunt that pulls them into the world of anonymous online predators.

Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master, the husband who commissioned her, dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899. Ahmad is a djinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop.

In the town of St. Hilaire, most make their living by talking to the dead. In the summer, the town gates open to tourists seeking answers while all activity is controlled by The Guild, a sinister ruling body that sees everything. Dec Hampton has lived there his entire life, but ever since his parents died, he's been done with it. He knows he has to leave before anyone has a chance to stop him.

A peaceful album of 4 bedtime meditations to help encourage relaxation in children. Author and qualified researcher in storytelling and wellbeing, Françoise Hélène, voices soft soundtracks for a serene night's sleep. 1. The Growing Tree for self-love and self-appreciation 2. The Golden Feather for emotional comfort and resilience 3. For a Blossom for care and affinity 4. The Peaceful Swan for peace of mind. Using storytelling, these meditations evoke tranquil thoughts and images, relaxing children in their bodies, minds, and hearts.

En Kastanjesvingen, un vecindario silencioso a un paso del tumulto de la ciudad habitado por doctores, artistas y gente del mundo de la televisión, nunca pasa nada, es el tipo de lugar que todos querrían para sus hijos. Allí vive Rikke, en uno de los cuatro espaciosos pisos del complejo, con su familia: su marido Asmund y sus hijos Emma y Lukas. Sus vidas son tranquilas, armoniosas, perfectas.

In this final installment of the internationally best-selling Irene Huss Investigations, the gang warfare that has been brewing in Goteborg is about to explode. A member of a notorious biker gang has been set on fire - alive. Even in a culture where ritual killings are common, this brutal assault attracts the attention of both Irene's unit and the Organized Crimes Unit. Anticipating a counterattack, the two units team up to patrol the lavish party of a rival gang, but that doesn't stop another murder from occurring just outside the event hall.

Studies show that Black women often feel like they have to live up to unreasonable standards as women, employees, caregivers, and family members. Having to work twice as hard to fight against racial bias, gender inequalities, and countless microaggressions. This self-care book, written from a Black woman’s perspective, provides seven core principles for achieving physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Helene Munson resurrects her father’s WWII journals and embarks on a meticulous investigation, exposing how the Nazis trained 300,000 impressionable children as soldiers. In 1937, Munson’s father, Hans, was enrolled in an elite German school whose students were destined to take leadership roles in the Reich. At fifteen, he was drafted—along with the rest of the Hitler Youth—and assigned to an SS unit. A personal lens into a nation’s shameful past, Hitler’s Boy Soldiers documents the history of the largest army of child soldiers in recent memory.

Ao longo de Coração Dimensional, ficará a conhecer o significado de algumas palavras e expressões: Lei do karma, portais internos, intenção de cura, resgate da alma, abraço da paz e aformações são apenas uns exemplos. Hélène Abiassi explica em que consiste a terapia pelo coração e tudo o que é preciso saber para a prática e ensino da terapia multidimensional. Tido como o manual do terapeuta, trata-se de um precioso suporte de estudo a todos os que querem usar o chacra cardíaco e conhecer a terapia multidimensional.

From April 1942 to March 1944, Hélène Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays the violin and she seeks refuge from the everyday in what she calls the "selfish magic" of English literature and poetry. But this is Paris under the occupation and her family is Jewish. Eventually, there comes the time when all Jews are required to wear a yellow star.

Russ Griffin has always wanted to be a fantastic medium. Growing up in the town of St. Hilaire, where most residents make their living by speaking to the dead, means there’s a lot of competition, and he’s always held his own. But Russ knows the town he loves is corrupt, and he’s determined to save it before the sinister ruling body, The Guild, ruins all he’s ever wanted.

Paris, 1975. Camille sifts through letters of condolence after her mother's death when a strange, handwritten missive stops her short. At first she believes she received it by mistake. But then, a new letter arrives each week from a mysterious stranger, Louis, who seems intent on recounting the story of his first love, Annie. They were separated in the years before World War II when Annie befriended a wealthy, barren couple and fell victim to a merciless plot just as German troops arrive in Paris. But also awaiting Camille's discovery is the other side of the story.