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No one ever expected straight-A student Lauren Taylor to make waves. But that was the old Lauren—before she went to college and became an online stripper to make ends meet. Now, Lauren is on the run with a secret and a bag of cash, fleeing landlocked Arizona for the beaches of California.

Alzi la mano chi non ha mai dovuto superare un momento difficile o la fine di una storia d’amore, chi non si è mai sentito scoraggiato, demotivato o insicuro, chi non si è mai chiesto come smettere di crearsi problemi e poter finalmente raggiungere la felicità. La soluzione è più semplice di quanto si potrebbe credere: secondo la seguitissima giornalista Brianna Wiest, il trucco è ribaltare la prospettiva, imparando a vedere le difficoltà e gli ostacoli come opportunità di crescita e di conoscenza di sé.

Mary Lennox, a sickly and spoiled little girl, is orphaned to dim prospects in a gloomy English manor. Her only friend is a bed-ridden boy named Colin whose prospects may be dimmer than hers. But when Mary finds the key to a Secret Garden, the magical powers of transformation fall within her reach. The Secret Garden is a beautifully illustrated inspirational tale of transformation and empowerment.

College student Kelly has just been through a break up over not being able to repress her desires any more. She has a desire for a doctor, and she can't contain it any longer. Moping one Friday evening her sorority sisters convince her to come out to the hottest club in town, Neon, where it's Doctors and Nurses night....and each entrant will receive a ticket which matches them with another club goer!

Saga, a skeptical 35-year-old woman, consults a past-life regression therapist to confront the nebulous fear she carries. Why is she so intent on sabotaging her own life? During the initial session, Saga travels back to 1975 to rural Iowa where she embodies 18-year-old Fiona Dolan, a farm girl who has always felt like an outsider, even in her large, Irish Catholic family. Fiona has been labeled as a storyteller, but this is just another way to say they think she is a liar. Even her own mother thinks she's too smart for her own good.

Phil discovers that little Alice and Phyllis have lost a library book and have been suspended from school. Phil Harris, Elliott Lewis, Jeanine Roos, Walter Tetley, Robert North, Anne Whitfield, Frank Nelson.

Un agile e completo audiolibro per conoscere la vera storia della stregoneria. Vera e completa perché interamente basata su autentiche tradizioni popolari meticolosamente documentate dall'autore. Contenuti: Le origini della credenza nelle streghe – I sabba – Incantesimi, sortilegi e malefici – L'Inquisizione e la caccia alle streghe – I processi e le torture.

In 1948, 21-year-old Shannon Lyons immigrated to America, and was hired as a waitress at The Crater Lake National Park Lodge in Oregon. That same summer, an Italian bus boy, Johnny Marino, is returning for his third summer. It takes some time for Johnny to work up the nerve to ask the beautiful new waitress out on a date. A few dates, hikes, and picnics later, the two are celebrating Shannon's birthday and take a sunset drive to see Phantom Ship Island. Everyone has one summer in their life that stands out above the rest. For Johnny and Shannon, the summer of 1948 was one of those summers.

Remley buys a car for $300; and what a car!

Miranda and Adam are masterfully portrayed characters, intent upon understanding who they are in relation to who they were. A story about what first love means and how it is shattered, and the lessons old lovers may still have to share with each other many years later, The Love of My Youth is also a poignant look back at the hopes and dreams of a generation and what became of them.

"Howards End" is a novel by English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist E. M. Forster. It was first published in 1910. "Howards End" is considered by some to be Forster's masterpiece. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked "Howards End" 38th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It's about social conventions, codes of conduct, and personal relationships in turn-of-the-century England. This is also a story of difference between the middle class and the poor.

Austen's last novel, published posthumously. A timeless masterpiece, rich in everything: keen observation, characterizations, wonderful prose and a meaty plot and subplot(s)... in short, everything that we expect from and love about the great author! Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth meet and fall in love; but Anne's entourage, especially mentor Lady Russell persuade her not to act on her feelings, as the deem the young naval officer not suitable.

Phil's back after a five-and-a-half week Canadian fishing trip with his buddies. He's happy to be home, but disappointed at the reception he receives from Alice, the girls, and Remley.

Alice is collecting money for the March of Dimes. Phil and Remley decide to help get contributions.

A map of motherhood, Milk is at once a gentle and meditative story of one woman’s experience of new motherhood as well as a confronting and often painful examination of the experience of having children in contemporary Ireland. Alice Kinsella is a young mother, giving birth to her son in her mid-twenties, adrift in a new town and navigating her newly accompanied life. A powerful and yet delicate mix of the personal and political, Milk is an unflinching and unique memoir that looks at the experience of motherhood against the backdrop of a seemingly changed Ireland.

At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to – unless you’ve got the plague. From a young Elizabeth Tudor, the orphan facing deadly intrigue at court, to a teenage Richard Burton, the rugby-obsessed son of a Welsh miner, historian Alice Loxton explores Britain’s past through the lives of eighteen figures at this crucial age.

Is there a God? Can I see Him? Where do I look?" In one fashion or another such questions arise from the simplicity of a child's heart. Lil’ Kid even wonders how to talk to God. Should he shout since God seems to be far, far away? Will his questions be answered when Lil' Kid meets a man standing on a corner talking about God?

An unexpected ruler will rise in the kingdom of Azulyria. The selection process is a test of worthiness and is quite painful. Ivyssa searches for help and accidentally interrupts a sacred ritual. Because of her interference, an innocent loses their life. A building desire for revenge takes an unprecedented turn as a spell goes horribly wrong, taking all of Azulyria with it. Decades later, it is now up to an ex-FBI agent and a Stone Walker to reverse the tragic fate that had befallen a land full of elemental powers and intrigue.

Ronny Bronston accomplishes his lifelong dream of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. However, his first off-planet job is to find the elusive Tommy Paine, a radical, reputed to be involved in the assassination of an immortal god king on the planet of New Delos.

This is a cult classic in the gothic horror and suspense genre! Our hero Richard is a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls in love with a mysterious and endangered Countess, whom he glimpsed behind her black veil. To be close to her, he checks into a room in the Dragon Volant (the Flying Dragon), a haunted hotel that has seen many mysterious disappearances.