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Fresh out of the Israeli Army, 20-year-old Iris Bahr decides to follow in the footsteps of many before her and backpack through Asia. Only unlike the average traveler, she has more in mind than just seeing the sights: She is on a desperate mission to lose her virginity. Dork Whore is a fresh and funny memoir about a young woman whose quirky personality and embarrassing neuroses always seem to get in the way of her getting what she wants.

After witnessing his parents’ doomed love affair long ago, serial playboy Ash Younger decided that love was not meant for him. With his charm and good looks, he’s never lacked for beautiful women. He may push numbers as an accountant by day, but by night, he’s only interested in having a woman in his bed. Yet the night he encounters a mysterious - and gorgeous - widow who doesn’t immediately fall under his seductive spell, Ash realizes he wants her more than he’s ever wanted another woman.

Para escribir esta magnífica historia, merecedora del Premio Pulitzer, Toni Morrison se inspiró en la vida real de una esclava afroamericana, Margaret Garner, que en 1856 escapó de una plantación en Kentucky y consiguió llegar al estado libre de Ohio. A punto de ser recapturada, Margaret tomó la trágica decisión de sacrificar a su hija para salvarla de una vida en cautiverio.

Megan Flannigan wants only two things in life: to run her bakery The Rise and Shine and to avoid the handsome and insufferable officer Caleb Thornton. Caleb has made her life difficult ever since he arrested her over a decade ago, and her one wish is that he leaves her alone - while they both continue to deny the attraction that sparks between them every time they meet.

Hoffnung auf Freiheit und Glück im geteilten Deutschland: die packende Fortsetzung der Löwenthal-Saga von Bestsellerautorin Iris Krumbiegel. Berlin 1948: Lorenz Löwenthal wünscht sich nach den Kriegswirren vor allem Versöhnung – sogar mit der Familie seines einst besten Freundes Bertram. Seine Frau Frida dagegen versucht, Bertrams Familie für ihre nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Doch ihre Entscheidung, brisante Unterlagen an die Russen zu übergeben, hat fatale Folgen.

Berlin 1933: Die Studenten Lorenz und Bertram und die Schwesternschülerin Frida sind seit ihrer Kindheit beste Freunde. Während Lorenz in Naturwissenschaften hochbegabt ist, schafft Bertram es nur knapp an die Universität. Als zwischen Lorenz und Frida zarte Gefühle aufkommen, verheimlichen sie es vor dem eifersüchtigen Bertram. Doch auch die Machtergreifung der Nazis stellt ihre Freundschaft auf die Probe: Lorenz und Frida sind Juden. Bald schlagen die drei unterschiedliche Pfade ein.

Kate McKenna is a photojournalist with a renegade reputation - and a fearless streak that lands her in an experimental hot air balloon, flying over the Rio Grande with the infamous Nick O’Brien. She wants to capture the real man behind the brilliant inventor, but to do that she needs to survive a crash landing in a lawless land and the ruthless bandits who take them hostage. As they conspire to escape their captors, Nick’s fierce protective instinct ignites a deep, primitive desire.

Devon Brady is a veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital at an island search and rescue site. When Jude Marrok arrives with his wounded black lab, she has no idea that she is about to be plunged into a whirlwind of terror, destruction, and passion. The last thing Devon needs is to be drawn into Marrok's high-stakes game. And while she feels increasingly drawn to him, she doesn't trust him. Is Jude her salvation or her damnation? Are the secrets he's protecting worth killing for?

Violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara's lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history, would even talk to her, everything would be perfect. But the carefully constructed life Cara has built for herself is suddenly threatened when she is kidnapped by a mysterious man from her grandfather's past, setting off a violent chain of events that puts everyone Cara loves in danger. 

We all carry different degrees and varieties of psychological trauma. Our subconscious programming follows the impulses and beliefs we once formed in response to pain and suffering. When the subconscious becomes our compass to think and act, life becomes a repetition of patterns and a recycling of painful situations and unwanted experiences. Only through uncovering and understanding the traumas and irrational beliefs, can people free themselves from their mental barriers and transform their lives. The Reflections of Your Mirror, by author Iris Pitaluga, focuses on growth and transformation.

Bienvenue dans IA Signal, le podcast qui transforme l’actualité de l’intelligence artificielle en décisions concrètes.Chaque épisode décrypte les grandes annonces IA, les nouveaux modèles, les agents autonomes, les outils pour développeurs, la régulation, les usages business et les tendances qui peuvent changer notre façon de travailler.L’objectif n’est pas de faire une simple revue de presse. IA Signal sélectionne les signaux importants, explique pourquoi ils comptent, puis les traduit en implications concrètes pour les entrepreneurs, les développeurs, les créateurs de ...

Listen with Mike, Iris, and Mark to the Badasses, Boobs and Body Counts Podcast. This show is dedicated to all things cinema but mostly trashy exploitation movies. We discuss films made by Doris Wishman, Roger Corman, Joe Sarno, Fred Olen Ray, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Jack Hill and Sam Fuller (just to name a few). These pioneers shaped low-budget film making designed for quick profit by focusing on sensationalist topics like sex, violence, and social anxieties.

A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The third volume, published in 1918, contains poems by Aldous Huxley, Arnold James, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. ( Algy Pug)

«Lui vive qui?» Queste le tre parole che hanno cambiato la mia vita e quella dei miei figli. Questo libro parla della storia vera di un uomo con una doppia vita. L'uomo di cui mi sono innamorata, nonché il mio fidanzato, si è rivelato un impostore. Quando l’ho scoperto è entrato in un vortice di follia. Voleva rendermi la vita impossibile. Più scavavo a fondo, più scoprivo segreti sconvolgenti. Mi intimava di non curiosare, dicendomi che avrei potuto ottenere ciò che volevo se avessi smesso di cercare.

Markenstoff ist der Podcast über Hypes und Trends im Marketing. Wir – Danuta & Iris – schauen auf alles, was gerade Buzz erzeugt. Wir sprechen über aktuelle Phänomene, starke Marken, Zeitgeist und die Frage, warum manche Themen plötzlich überall sind. Mit zwei Perspektiven aus dem Marketing, viel Gespür für Trends und dem Blick für das, was dahintersteckt.

A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The fourth volume, published in 1919, contains several notable poems by the recently deceased Wilfred Owen. The other poets represented are Francisco Quevedo, Aldous Huxley, Arnold James, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. - Summary by Algy Pug

El Baúl de Psicología es un podcast para poner palabras a eso que a veces cuesta entender: la ansiedad, los bucles mentales, la desconexión emocional y las formas en las que el cuerpo expresa lo que no siempre sabemos decir. Soy Iris Pasamón, psicóloga especializada en trauma, regulación emocional y trabajo somático. En este espacio comparto reflexiones y lecturas clínicas sobre ansiedad, trauma, apego, sistema nervioso, relaciones y procesos de cambio. No encontrarás soluciones rápidas ni frases vacías, sino una mirada humana, profunda y rigurosa para comprender lo que duele, lo ...

While mapping the ancient underwater city of Marinth in the Atlantic Ocean, submersible designer Hannah Bryson makes a shocking discovery: she may have finally uncovered the truth about the once-glorious city’s mysterious demise. Long ago it was a thriving metropolis bursting with culture and life – Marinth’s sudden disappearance has plagued scientists for years.

Aldo Moretta es un héroe. Se alistó en el ejército y cada año lucha por su país, y también tiene un próspero negocio en el pequeño pueblo de Benevolence. Solo le falta una cosa: una compañera de vida. Gloria Parker se enamoró del hombre equivocado. Pasó diez años en una relación tóxica y, ahora que por fin es libre, necesita reconstruir su vida y volver a ser la Gloria de antes.

Mara has built her life around hard decisions. As the director of an overcrowded animal shelter, she knows compassion alone is not enough. Every intake is a calculation. Every yes has a cost. Every life must fit within the limits of space, staffing, and time. When a senior dog named Calder is surrendered, Mara makes room for him. Then another old dog arrives. And another. What begins as a single act of mercy soon becomes a quiet reckoning, one that draws scrutiny from donors, board members, and the system around her.