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Jovita dreamed of wearing pants! She hated the big skirts Abuela made her wear. She wanted to scale the tallest mesquite tree on her rancho, ride her horse, and feel the wind curl her face into a smile. When her father and brothers joined the Cristero War to fight for religious freedom, Jovita wanted to go, too. Forbidden, she defied her father's rules - and society's - and found a clever way to become a trailblazing revolutionary, wearing pants!

Mona Mireles is a quintessential overachiever: a former spelling-bee champion and valedictorian of her college class, she has a sterling résumé and a wall of plaques and medals in her bedroom that stretches floor to ceiling. She's also broke, unemployed, back at home with her parents, and completely adrift in life and love. Seven months out of college, she’s desperately trying to reassemble the pieces of her life after the Wall Street job she had waiting for her post-graduation dissolves in the wake of the Great Recession.

America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths we've been telling ourselves for centuries. With iconic American catchphrases as chapter titles, these twenty-one stories illuminate the astonishing, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society to this very day—from the role of celebrity in immigration policy to the influence of one small group of white women on education to the effects of "progress" on housing and the environment, to the inspiring force of collective action and mutual aid.

Luna y Lola son amigas, pero son tan diferentes que parece imposible. Lola es alocada, jamás piensa lo que dice y vive la vida sin importarle el mañana. Luna, en cambio, es una mujer tranquila, centrada en su trabajo y que medita todos y cada uno de sus movimientos. Marcos y Víctor son hermanos, están tan unidos que incluso emprenden un negocio juntos. Son los dueños de una cadena de gimnasios y el negocio les va tan bien, que deciden abrir uno nuevo en Valencia.

Frida Liu es una madre soltera de 39 años propensa a la ansiedad. En Filadelfia, donde vive, la denuncian por dejar a su hija sola durante un breve período de tiempo. Los Servicios de Protección Infantil del Estado, cada vez más empoderados, se llevan a su hija Harriet y ponen en vigilancia la casa de Frida. Después de una serie de visitas supervisadas, un juez considera que Frida no es apta como madre, temporalmente.

Beatriz Herrera is a fierce woman who will take you down with her quick wit and keen intellect. And after the results of the 2016 election worked hard to erase her identity as a queer biracial woman, she’d be right to. Especially if you come for her sweet BFF cousin, Hero. Beatriz would do anything for her, a loyalty that lands Beatriz precisely where she doesn’t want to be: spending a week at the ridiculous Cape Cod mansion of stupid-hot playboy Ben Montgomery. The same Ben Montgomery she definitely shouldn’t have hooked up with that one time… The things we do for family.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux describe four loves: self-love, selfish love, loving God objectified, and loving one's self in God. These four loves are all on the path of learning to love God. He asserts that reaching the last stage of love grants a pain-free afterlife.

Welcome to the preview of Sci-Fi and Scary Stories Bundle. This audiobook consist of two books.

This audiobook will give you an in-depth understanding of how to optimize the nutrition of the keto diet and is full of practical strategies for implementing this diet in your busy and modern life. With the second half, you will learn how to jump-start the diet with a keto reset cleanse, and you will be able to build comprehensive and delicious keto meal plans.

In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees.

The tax demons want their pound of flesh. Or 52,000 dollars. Unable to pay what she owes, Eden is forced to fight a never-ending stream of bounty hunters while she tries to clear her name and find the cop who set her up. But demons are not known for their patience, and the new mercenary hired to bring Eden in dead or alive has magical abilities of his own - magical abilities oddly similar to Eden’s. Desperate, she turns to a friend for help, but Detective Juke demands a favor in return - help to find the demon or mage responsible for a killing spree.

Todos sabemos quién es él: el hombre que vimos en la portada de todos los periódicos acusado de un crimen terrible. Pero, ¿qué sabemos realmente de ella, de quien le sujeta el brazo en la escalera del juzgado, de la esposa que está a su lado?

Organizar una boda perfecta y memorable es más sencillo de lo que parece. Solo hay que disponer de la información clave -pros y contras incluidos- para tomar las mejores decisiones y disfrutar de los preparativos.

Winged beings are meant to be free. And so are artists, but the Cuban government has criminalized any art that doesn’t meet their approval. Soleida and her parents protest this injustice with their secret sculpture garden of chained birds. Then a hurricane exposes the illegal art, and her parents are arrested. Soleida escapes to Central America alone, joining the thousands of Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica while seeking asylum elsewhere. There she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy whose enigmatic music enchants birds and animals—and Soleida.

Are you thinking about eating healthy, but not sure how to save money? Would you like to being healthy eating all while you budget like a pro? Then, Cooking on a Budget is for you! This short guide about properly budgeting for healthy eating habits includes: Cooking 101, a back to basics approach to food preparation, budgeting for beginners, how to save and eat what you want, how to incorporate healthy cooking into your daily life, information on money saving most dieting books won’t cover, and more.

Author Ash Mahoney shares tips to healthy eating on a budget. After being in college, cooking on a budget, Ash wants to you to have his greatest tips for saving money on food, so you stick to your plans for healthy eating without breaking the bank.

Dreaming day and night doesn’t create the life you want. Disciplined action does. Where you end up in life is determined solely by a number of times you fall and get up and how much punishment you can withstand along the way. With focused perservance and willpower, discover the path to extraordinary accomplishment and a life worth living.

Un hombre aparece ahorcado en un pinar a las afueras de Madrid, con los ojos arrancados de cuajo. En uno de sus bolsillos se halla un papel con el nombre y la dirección de una mujer: Sara Azcárraga, que vive a pocos kilómetros del escenario del crimen. Frágil, solitaria, bebedora de vodka en soledad, Sara rehúye cualquier contacto con las personas y trabaja desde casa. El teniente de la Guardia Civil Julián Tresser se hace cargo del caso, asistido por el joven cabo Coira, que se enfrenta por vez primera a una investigación criminal, una investigación difícil.

Así como esa manzana podrida en la nevera emite una serie de gases que acaban afectando al resto de frutas, una célula envejecida envía señales a las otras células que la rodean, provocando inflamación en ellas. Estas alarmas incesantes pueden ser la causa de enfermedades cardiológicas, respiratorias, articulares y digestivas. Y también del cáncer.

Living alone from the age of 14, Zoe learned to budget the hard way. Since her early teenage years, she had to earn, save, and invest her own money - which, sometimes, barely exceeded $150. In this audiobook, she’s sharing her insights about how to manage even the smallest income to last the month and even save. She gives concrete, actionable advice based on her own and well-known financial experts’ experience.