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The House of Mirth is centered on Lily Bart, a New York socialite who attempts to secure a husband and a place in affluent society. It was one of the first novels of manners to emerge in American literature.

Northanger Abbey, a satire of Gothic melodrama, is one of Jane Austen's most popular works. When Catherine Morland is launched into the politics and pitfalls of the Bath social season, she behaves with the cheerful open-mindedness of one of Jane Austen's most eligible classic heroines.

Focusing on getting the kingdom back to normal after Galina’s false and terrible rule has turned out to be a monumental task. Especially because I can’t stop the nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I need to get back to Miami. Back to Thane. Find your mate, Pavel said, but I’m running out of time.

Children and adults observe life through different spectrums. While a parent assumes, he's doing his best and showing love by working nine-to-seven and providing the financial assistance to the family, there's a dad who is showing up for practices and baseball trainings. Funny truth, the child views the dad who shows up as the one who loves him most.

Dla trzech przyjaciółek mocno doświadczonych przez los nowe okoliczności stają się pretekstem do zmian. Joanna, zdradzona przez najbliższych, szuka swojego miejsca w życiu. Czy zdoła otworzyć serce na prawdziwą miłość? Czy Magda, po nieudanym małżeństwie i walce z chorobą nowotworową, znajdzie siłę, by znowu zaufać mężczyźnie? Zuzanna zasmakowała zarówno wielkiego sukcesu, jak i spektakularnego upadku. Czy odnajdzie szczęście w spokojnym życiu u boku ukochanego?

It's the end of summer when we meet Sarah, the end of summer and the middle of her life, the middle of her career (she hopes it's not the end), the middle of her marriage (recently repaired). And despite the years that have passed since she last saw her daughter, she is still very much in the middle of figuring out what happened to Leda, what role she played, and how she will let that loss affect the rest of her life. Enter a mysterious stranger on a train, an older man who sees right into her. Then a mugging, her phone stolen, and with it any last connection to Leda.

I'm Veronica Neill, world class thief and the last phoenix in existence. After taking a job for a vampire in Miami, I find myself embroiled in a war that not only spans this world, but all the other realms as well, even those I never knew existed. With the help of my witchy best friend and a sexy grim reaper agent, we can survive anything......right?

Artificial intelligence is already embedded in much of our daily lives, and it's increasingly moving into realms that impact authors and the publishing industry. We need to embrace the opportunities and engage in conversations around possible threats in order to reinvent our industry for a very different future. In this book, I discuss current technological and societal trends and consider the opportunities for authors and the publishing industry over the next decade. We can use these technologies to surf the wave of change and invent the decade ahead - together.

Marty has terrible luck and she knows exactly why. While working as a housekeeper at the ritzy Grand Palms hotel in Maui, Marty made it a habit to steal small items from the guests. What better way to stick it to the rich snobs they have to clean up after? Marty knows how to turn her luck around—she just has to return all of the items she stole. When Marty meets Will, a new guest who is staying for the summer, she does the one thing she always promised herself she'd never do—fall for an out-of-towner. But Will's different from the other guests. Maybe Marty's luck is turning around.

Do czego jest zdolna zraniona kobieta? Opowieść o miłości i śmierci, o zdradzie i zemście. Zora Radke zajmuje się organizowaniem rozrywek dla znudzonych i bogatych ludzi, zwykle są one nielegalne i niebezpieczne. Ta praca to jej wybór, Zora lubi dreszczyk emocji i wielkie wyzwania, a z rozterkami moralnymi radzi sobie, tworząc własny kodeks etyczny. Pewnego dnia poznaje na przyjęciu u znajomej Sebastiana Dyzmę, aktora i muzyka, zakochuje się w nim. To moment przełomowy w życiu dziewczyny, nielegalna profesja zaczyna jej ciążyć.

This book contains strategies to figure out which diet is suitable for you: the Keto diet or the Blue Zone diet. The book starts with an introduction to the Ketogenic Diet and Blue Zone diet. It then proceeds with discussing the different effects of both diets on the human body and system. It also includes a brief description of both diets and their advantages at the end of the book. I hope you enjoy it!

To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, a select group of his family and most ardent admirers from the worlds of literature and entertainment, including Joanna Lumley and Simon Callow, gathered in Highgate Cemetery, burial place of many of the Dickens family, to hear readings from his work introduced by his great-great-grandson Mark Dickens and to discuss his life.

Looking for a beginner language course that fits into your busy lifestyle and gets you speaking a new language in a matter of weeks, not years? Michel Thomas's unique method is designed to overcome the frustrations usually faced by language learners.

Tytułowa bohaterka, która zdążyła już zdobyć serca czytelniczek w "Wyborach Niny", postanawia wziąć sprawy w swoje ręce i zawalczyć o samą siebie. Skromna dziewczyna z polskiej prowincji nie chce być już Kopciuszkiem. Najwyższa pora, aby Floryda stała się jej prawdziwym domem, a przystojny Damian Maxwell zrozumiał, że wspanialszej żony niż Nina nie znajdzie. Jednak czy spodziewająca się dziecka młoda kobieta, narażona na ciągły stres, borykająca się z demonami przeszłości i bieżącymi problemami wielkiego świata będzie miała dość siły, aby przestawić swoje życie na nowe tory?

Pregnancy and birth can stretch our bodies to their limit and beyond. Incontinence, birth injuries and birth traumas have been a taboo topic for far too long, and, until now, this has prevented women from fully regaining their strength. Stronger is the must-listen guide to the bodily changes encountered by all women following pregnancy, with explanations, exercises and friendly, accessible advice to protect, stabilise and rehabilitate.

Do you have a book idea you’ve wanted to write for a while but were confused on where to start? With How to Write Your First Book, you will know how to come up with ideas, how to write first drafts, and how to grab your reader’s attention.

I hope to help people understand the magic about hypnosis and how it could help them in breast enlargement and other ways. I also included a free bonus relaxation method in the last chapter because we all could use a way to let go of stress and relax. Most people, I am sure you would agree, focus more on the problem and less on the solutions. I call it the 80/20 rule. What I do is help them focus 80 percent on the solutions and 20 percent on the problem. By doing that, now they are bigger than the problem and really have no big problem at all.

Joanna Hall personally teaches the fundamentals of her Walkactive System in The Technique Series. Each of these 5 audio coaching sessions will help you master the Walkactive technique so your body looks better, feels better and performs better. Using her skill layering approach, Joanna will lead you through her scientifically verified, highly effective technique.

Parenting through the teenage years can be challenging and overwhelming. With more than 20 years of clinical practice, psychotherapist and parenting expert Joanna Fortune has devised a simple and proven 15-minute parenting model packed with practical, playful, and creative communication techniques to strengthen your relationship with your teenager.

The Cleaving is an Arthurian retelling that follows the tangled stories of four women: Nimue, Ygraine, Morgana, and Guinevere, as they fight to control their own destinies amid the wars and rivalries that will determine the destiny of Britain. The legendary epics of King Arthur and Camelot don’t tell the whole story. Chroniclers say Arthur’s mother Ygraine married the man that killed her husband. They say that Arthur's half-sister Morgana turned to dark magic to defy him and Merlin. They say that the enchantress Nimue challenged Merlin and used her magic to outwit him.