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Protagonist and first-person narrator Alicia McMahon begins her memoir later in her life with a description of her vision to produce a tribute book for her ailing Nana Murphy. Her nana still lived in the village she grew up in - Foynes, County Limerick, Ireland. This leads to a very poignant conversation between Alicia and her Nana, a few months later. Alicia then explains how life was growing up in a little parish in Ireland and shares her stories from hardships to shenanigans.

Eine temperamentvolle Amerikanerin. Ein verklemmter britischer Manager. Heiße internationale Verwicklungen... Ruby Miller schwebt auf Wolke sieben! Sie darf den attraktiven Stadtplaner Niall Stella, das heimliche Objekt ihrer Begierde, nach New York begleiten. Und wenn es nach ihr geht, dann wird der vielversprechende Business-Trip nicht nur ein beruflicher Höhepunkt. Die temperamentvolle Kalifornierin ist wild entschlossen, den frustrierend zugeknöpften Briten zu ihrem erotischen Sonderprojekt zu machen.

Since Jack the Ripper was never caught, fascination with the unsolved mystery has been widespread and enduring. But what of the women? Who were they? What was life like for them in London of that time period? What were their struggles, their hopes, their regrets? The two novels within this volume, Say Anything But Your Prayers, about the life of Elizabeth Stride, and Of Thimble and Threat, about the life of Catherine Eddowes, give possible answers to these questions.

En una fracción de segundo, la vida de Morgan Kincaid cambia para siempre. Ella iba de regreso a casa cuando una madre le pide que detenga a su bebé, después se lo entrega en brazos. Antes de que Morgan pudiera detenerla, la perturbada mamá salta justo enfrente del tren que entraba a la estación. Morgan nunca antes había visto a la mujer, y es incapaz de comprender las causas por las que le entregó a su bebé y se quitó la vida. Tampoco puede entender cómo aquella mujer sabía su nombre.

Annie Chapman led a hard, lower class life in filthy 19th century London. Late in life, circumstances and her choices led her to earn her crust by solicitation. After a bruising brawl with another woman over money and a man, she lost her lodgings and found herself sleeping rough. That dangerous turn of events delivered her into the hands of London's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper.

In the heart of German-occupied Paris lies Chemin de vie, an all-girls asylum with a terrible past. It is the playground of Hector Barousse, a World War I-era field medic whose fascination with pain is questionable. His methods of therapy bring the girls to such fear that they see visions of the past, but Camille Sabot isn’t like the rest.

Everybody has a different notion of what heaven is like. In the heaven where Jane lives, everybody is expected to use The Will to do things. Using The Will, people in Jane’s heaven merely have to think to accomplish anything. They never have to get their hands dirty touching anything. Jane, though, wants to touch things. She wants to feel them in her hands. And because she refuses to use her Will, she falls from societal acceptance, and then she falls from heaven. But falling from heaven may be her saving grace.

Descubre las aventuras y el origen de la ballena, el dromedario, el rinoceronte, el leopardo, el elefante y el armadillo.

Keira returns to New York to discover, to her shock, that she has started a new trend in dating that is sweeping across the country - "Scandinavian romance" - and to find herself becoming a celebrity. Even more confusing, her sister gets engaged and gives Keira constant advice. Overwhelmed, Keira takes solace when Christiano calls and surprises herself when she agrees to take a week off and meet him on neutral ground: in Greece. Her magazine is thrilled, and they want this to be her new assignment: Can love work the second time around if you give it one more chance?

Chaurisse and Dana have a lot in common. They both grew up in Atlanta, they shop at the same stores, visit the same restaurants. But unlike Chaurisse, Dana knows the truth: that the girls share the same father. A father with two families, one of which he is determined to keep secret. When the girls meet and become friends, the unsteady balance of both their lives is threatened. Theirs is a relationship destined to explode.

We live in a time of social and interpersonal conflict unprecedented since the upheavals of the 1960s—and perhaps even since the Civil War. Evolving social roles, astonishing political turmoil, the rise of “cancel culture,” and the necessity of difficult conversations leave people wondering what to say—at the workplace, in social and civic groups, and around the family dinner table.

Guillermo Trejo y Sandra Ley ofrecen en este libro una teoría novedosa y necesaria sobre la violencia criminal, que enfatiza la influencia crucial de la política. A diferencia de estudios previos, que ven a los grupos de crimen organizado como empresas económicas libres que operan en oposición a las autoridades estatales, Trejo y Ley los conciben como grupos ilegales íntimamente relacionados con el Estado. Por tanto, estos grupos responden al cambio político: el crimen organizado no puede existir ni operar con éxito si no cuenta con algún grado de protección estatal.

Iris McTavish always wanted to follow in her father's footsteps. But when his sudden death leaves her household on the brink of ruin, she may have to choose an unwanted marriage over her passion of archaeology. To save her house and prove her worth, she embarks on a mysterious and dangerous expedition....

“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.

1521, England: At Hampton Court, Thomas Tester tastes wine meant for kings—and for killers. Born to a bloodline of herbalists and poison detectors, Thomas risks everything to protect his family and the crown from betrayal cloaked in velvet and venom. 2025, Tennessee: Dr. Grace Blackwood uncovers a pattern of overdoses tied to falsified pharmaceutical trials. When whistleblowers start dying and her brake lines are cut, Grace must rely on ancestral knowledge, Appalachian resistance, and the long-buried Testers' ledgers to survive—and expose the truth.

For many in product management, success comes from mastery of tools like road maps, MVPs, strategy frameworks, and OKRs. These and other technical skills describe what a product person does to design, build and support new complex technologies for our users. But as technologies quickly become ubiquitous, it’s the human approach to creativity, innovation, decision-making, and leadership that makes the difference in whether an individual, team, product, and even organization is successful or not.

Liebe ist schön, aber kompliziert. Sprottes Mama z. B. kann sich nicht entscheiden, ob sie wieder heiraten soll oder nicht. Trude entdeckt ihre Vorliebe für schwarze Locken. Frieda muss sich mit einer Wochenendfreundschaft herumärgern. Und Wilmas erste Liebe ist ein Mädchen. Das fünfte Hühner-Abenteuer von Cornelia Funke erstmalig als Hörspiel. Aufwendig produziert, mit tollen Songs und fantastischen Stimmen.

As a leader, you've heard that design is important, and you believe it. But you may not know what you need to know about it, how to buy it, and how to manage it. This is the book for you.

Audiolibro incluye dos hermosos cuentos infantiles de la literatura universal: El gato con botas y la cenicienta. El gato con botas: Al morir un molinero, le dejó por herencia a su hijo, solamente un gato. Pero no era un gato cualquiera y las aventuras están recién empezando.// La Cenicienta es una hermosa joven que vive con su madrastra y hermanastras. Hay un gran baile al que han ido sus hermanastras, pero ella es obligada a quedarse en casa. Un hada transforma una calabaza en un hermoso carruaje; unos ratones y lagartijas en caballos, lacayos y cocheros.

Pursued by one demon into the clutches of another, the ordinary life of Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols is made extraordinary by horrible, inhuman circumstance. Jack the Ripper's first victim comes to life in this sensitive and intimate fictionalized portrait, from humble beginnings, to building a family with an abusive husband, her escape into poverty and the workhouse, alcoholism, and finally abandoned on the streets of London where the Whitechapel Murderer found her.