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If she sink, she be no witch and shall be drowned. If she float, she be a witch and must be hanged. Meg Lytton has always known she is different - that she bears a dark and powerful gift. But in 1554 England, in service at Woodstock Palace to the banished Tudor princess Elizabeth, it has never been more dangerous to practice witchcraft. Meg knows she must guard her secret carefully from the many suspicious eyes watching over the princess and her companions. One wrong move could mean her life, and the life of Elizabeth, rightful heir to the English throne.

Quand Ellen Ripley retourne enfin sur Terre, c'est pour découvrir que LV-426, la planète sur laquelle l'équipage du Nostromo est pour la première fois entré en contact avec les terribles/monstrueux Xenomorphes, a été rebaptisée Acheron. Protégés par un régiment de Marines coloniaux, les colons essaient de terraformer la planète balayée par les tempêtes. Au-delà des conditions de vie extrêmes et des combats journaliers imposés par ce nouveau monde, l'espoir et l'humanité demeurent.

Women made their way to India for exactly the same reasons men did - to carve out a better life for themselves. In the early days, India was a place where the slates of 'blotted pedigrees' were wiped clean; bankrupts given a chance to make good; a taste for adventure satisfied - for women. They went and worked as milliners, bakers, dress makers, actresses, portrait painters, maids, shopkeepers, governesses, teachers, boardinghouse proprietors, midwives, nurses, missionaries, doctors, geologists, plant collectors, writers, travellers and - most surprising of all - traders.

Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happiness and hope and agree to go in search of these things together. But even after their children Selena, Tara, and Rohan are grown up and have their own families, Bedi and Sushma are still searching.

“Working Mothers Inspiring Others” is a collective shoutout to all the fierce, unstoppable women who are rewriting the rules of what it means to be a working mother.

It's devastating to hear your husband has died in an horrific car accident. But to learn he died with a mystery woman as his passenger is torment. Was Greg having an affair? Ellie clings to Greg's innocence, and her determination to prove it to the world means she must find out who the woman was and what she was doing in Greg's car.

Worries and anxieties are familiar to us all. Worrying can be helpful when it prompts you to take action and solve a problem, but unrelenting doubts, fears, and negative possibilities can dominate your mind, affect your ability to manage your everyday life and well-being, your sleep and appetite, your social life, and your ability to concentrate. But it doesn't need to be like this; there are ways that you can manage this spiral of unhelpful thoughts and difficult feelings. Overcoming Anxiety explains how to manage anxiety and stop it from taking over.

Siete mai stati nel fantastico paese delle meraviglie? Vi accompagna Alice, una bambina curiosa e coraggiosa che in un bel pomeriggio d'estate, seguendo un curioso coniglio bianco, si ritrova in uno strano paese abitato da creature fantastiche e da animaletti a volte dispettosi. Tratto dalla celebre favola di Lewis Carroll, questo bellissimo Audiobook vi condurrà nel mondo incantato della fantasia. Seguite Alice e i suoi piccoli compagni di viaggio: incontrerete il Coniglio bianco, il Bruco turchino, la Lepre di Marzo, il Cappellaio matto, il Ghignagatto e tutti gli altri incredibili e indimenticabili personaggi di questa bellissima avventura!

We've all heard the sayings that girls should be 'sugar and spice and all things nice', while 'boys don't cry'. In Hysterical, Pragya Agarwal dives deep into the history and science that has determined the gendering of emotions to ask whether there is any truth in the notion of innate differences between the male and female experience of emotions. She examines the impact this has on men and women—especially the role it has played in the subjugation of women throughout history—and how a future where emotions are ungendered might look.

Lo sapevi che ci sono degli stratagemmi e semplici esercizi, che aiutano a sviluppare le tue potenzialità e le tue performance mentali...

Aphra Behn was a prolific and well-established poet and playwright but facts about her life remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said is that Aphra Behn is regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in Restoration theatre. Her poetry is now far more appreciated and seen as a breakthrough for women of the 17th Century and beyond. Her first play, ‘The Forc’d Marriage’, was staged in 1670, and thereafter many followed, including her later comic works, which were more commercially successful.

Ci sono giornate in cui tutto va storto. È così per Camille, quando sotto un incredibile diluvio si trova con l'auto in panne e senza la possibilità di chiamare nessuno. Tutte le sfortune del mondo sembrano concentrarsi su di lei. Ma Camille non sa che quello è il giorno che cambierà il suo destino per sempre. Un uomo le offre il suo aiuto. Si chiama Claude, e si presenta come un "ambasciatore della felicità." Le dice che lui è in grado di dare una svolta alla vita delle persone. Camille sulle prime non dà peso alle sue parole.

Whitman 'Win' Tagore and Leo Milanowski are the greatest love story of our time. International movie star meets the beautiful son of a millionaire. Their kisses write headlines, and their fights break the internet. Nobody needs to know it's not real. Win knows that Hollywood demands perfection - especially from a woman of colour. Leo just wants to enjoy life, and shift press attention away from his dysfunctional family. Together they control the narrative.

1903. Sbarcata in Cina dopo un lungo viaggio dalla Scozia, Mary incontra per la prima volta il suo promesso sposo e capisce subito che il loro non sarà un matrimonio felice. Mesi dopo, benché sia rimasta incinta, continua a sentirsi sempre più sola, mentre il marito è perso nei suoi affari. Fino al giorno in cui, durante una delle sue passeggiate, incontra Kurihama, un samurai discendente da una nobile famiglia giapponese.

Sophrology is a dynamic relaxation, stress management and personal development technique that is steadily growing in popularity in the UK. Sophrology is already extremely popular on the continent - especially in France, Switzerland, Spain and Belgium, where sports stars and pop stars, among others, have used the techniques to overcome fear of failure, manage stress and anxiety, beat insomnia, prepare for big events and fulfil their true potential.

In questo AudioBook che fa parte della collana dedicata alla letteratura italiana, esploriamo l'incredibile mondo di Gabriele d'Annunzio. Il Prof. vi parla di lui, "il Vate" e dei suoi romanzi più significativi: "Il Piacere", "La Venere delle rocce", "Le Novelle". Poi esplora la sua immensa opera poetica: "Le Lodi" e le celebri liriche in esse contenute. Prima tra tutte, "La pioggia nel pineto", forse la sua poesia più bella, la più suggestiva. In questo AudioBook dedicato a d'Annunzio, il Prof. vi racconta la vita di questo eclettico scrittore, poeta, artista, creativo, della sua ricerca continua verso l'eccellenza e l'eccentricità nella vita come nella sua produzione artistica.

China, 1923. Evangeline English arrives with her sister to help establish a Christian mission. As they attempt to navigate their new home and are met with resistance, Eva commences work on her book, A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar… In present-day London, Frieda, a young woman adrift in her own life, opens her front door one night to find a man sleeping on the landing. In the morning he is gone, leaving on the wall an exquisite drawing of a long-tailed bird and a line of Arabic script…

Un uomo schivo, vile, che sopravvive a stento senza il sostegno di amici e senza riconoscimenti di nessun tipo, né a livello personale, né lavorativo, racconta di sé. Lui è in contrasto permanente con la società, e dal suo sottosuolo la osserva, la critica, anche se a volte desidera farne parte. Il più delle volte però si autocensura e si rifugia nel suo mondo sotterraneo popolato di fantasie sfrenate e deliranti che si alternano a stati di risentimento estremo, avallato dalla consapevolezza che la sofferenza è insita nell'essere umano pensante, e che per lui non c'è scampo.

Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happiness and hope and agree to go in search of these things together. But even after their children Selena, Tara and Rohan are grown up and have their own families, Bedi and Sushma are still searching. Years later, the siblings attempt to navigate life without their parents. As they travel to the Ganges to unite their father's ashes with the opaque water, it becomes clear that each of them has inherited the same desire to understand what makes a life happy.

Alexis Gibbs, addicted to a controlling man named Jarred Simmons who has given her nothing but empty promises and broken commitments, must choose between being Jarred's mistress forever or moving on and starting a new life with a new man.