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Learn how to speak the basics of the Ukrainian language with this book. Whether you have friends who are Ukrainian or you are planning a visit to the country, this is a simple guide that will help you do just that quickly and easily. With useful information about the history and traditions of Ukraine, you will be taken on a journey through topics from the basics of the alphabet and numbers to greetings, food and drink, and shopping.

When actress Winnie Baker agrees to star in a steamier-than-a-steaming-mug-of-mulled-wine Christmas movie, she has just one concern: how can she be sultry on-screen, when she’s never been sultry in real life? Kallum Lieberman is an ex-boyband member now known exclusively for his reputation in the bedroom, thanks to a rogue sex tape. And he’s got just the experience she needs. But Winnie and Kallum need to keep this research purely professional. They say opposites attract, and that makes this co-stars-with-benefits set up extremely dangerous indeed.

FACING THE LION is the autobiographical account of a young girl's faith and courage. In the years immediately preceding World War II, Simone Arnold is a young girl who delights in life – her doting parents, her loving aunts and uncles, and her grandparents at their mountain farm in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. As Simone grows into her preteen years, her parents turn from the Catholic Church and become devout Jehovah's Witnesses. Simone, too, embraces the faith. The Nazi party (the "Lion") takes over Alsace-Lorraine, and Simone's schools become Nazi propaganda machines.

This book draws on the insights of professional tennis to create the ultimately profound CEO’s Guide to Tennis. For players who have been brushed aside in tennis due to their age and late start (aka the late bloomer), this guide discloses in full detail how to have modern tennis technique with Vincent Simone, the "Tennis Doctor" as your teacher.

All Parker Hayes wanted was a fresh start, serving up frothy lattes and decadent desserts at her charming new cafe, Catch You Latte. But just as she's perfecting her caramel drizzle, her grand opening takes a bitter turn when a face from her past turns up dead… right behind the cafe. Suddenly, Parker's at the center of town gossip—and the prime suspect. Dodging murder accusations was definitely not part of her business plan. Then an ominous text turns everything upside down, and the clues start pointing to one of Magnolia Grove's most upstanding citizens.

Sara is walking home from work one night. She hears police sirens and takes a different route than normal to avoid any trouble. On her detour, she inadvertently witnesses a man being shot by a group of men in suits. But they see her....

Peregrine Hind, known to all as the bloodiest highwayman ever to bedevil the road, seeks only one thing—revenge against the Dartham family. And so when a robbery sends the second Dartham son and notorious rakehell Alexander Dartham tumbling to Peregrine’s feet, it seems like fate has given Peregrine his vengeance at last. Except then Alexander offers him a desperate bargain: to kidnap him instead, so Peregrine can harvest a generous ransom from Alexander’s family first.

Any group of people expected to work synergistically needs a system that structures their interactions. That system is “governance.” The Pragmatist’s Guide to Governance takes a first principles approach to exploring the ways governance structures affect the humans living under them (and vice versa), with a special focus on how human psychology interacts with the structures that facilitate our interaction with other people.

"La femme a toujours été, sinon l'esclave de l'homme, du moins sa vassale ; les deux sexes ne se sont jamais partagé le monde à égalité ; et aujourd'hui encore, bien que sa condition soit en train d'évoluer, la femme est lourdement handicapée. En presque aucun pays son statut légal n'est identique à celui de l'homme et souvent il la désavantage considérablement." Simone de Beauvoir

“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow....” In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the...

She didn't know how it happened, but Kirby found herself pulled to her feet and held in Dru's arms. She wanted to blame it on the margarita, but she couldn't lie to herself. There was something magnetic about the feel of Dru's arms around her. She allowed herself to relax into the redhead's embrace and began to sway to the music. When the song ended they continued to sway together dreamily for several long minutes. As their feet finally stopped moving Dru pulled Kirby closer, her hand sliding up her back.

Everyone seems to be in a rush searching for ways to weight loss nowadays. A myriad of offers covering diets, health and food supplements, physical fitness programs, and various training workshops are flooding the entire health and fitness market. All these entail costs and effort on your part and mostly turn out to be not as effective as these marketers promised in their glamorous ads. However, there’s an ongoing solution that many are resorting to nowadays. Although it is not exempted from the opinions of cynics, it is a lot better than those options being offered in the market.

The Golden Book of Life & The Plasma Soul Codes is an extraordinary self-help bible overflowing with life-changing spiritual information, healing guidance, cosmic wisdom, and unconditional love specifically designed to empower you to live your best life.

A woman moves to a town where she becomes obsessed with watching the lives of her neighbors while stuck in a house that refuses to let her leave in this first ever short story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. Is there something wrong with Ginette Cox? It’s...

In Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 5, award-winning editor Rachel Kramer Bussel takes listeners on an outrageous journey into the world of female fantasy and desire. These sexy stories offer up wild, hot, and steamy tales from today’s top authors. You’ll be swept away by the sexiest business deal ever, break the rules in a future world where skin-on-skin contact is forbidden, and discover the art of getting off by phone sex.

Salomé was bullied for years and no one did a single thing to help her. One day she finally snapped. Now at just sixteen years old, she's being held in a secure unit for young offenders. Salomé's counsellor, the man whose good opinion is key to her release, is best known for his racist gaffes on reality TV. Her father has recently been diagnosed with liver cancer and her elder sister Miriam's main preoccupation is to get out of their small close-minded village as soon as possible. Both at home and in the unit, things are unbearably tense.

Ivy Leavold came to Markham Hall looking for a home and a new start, and instead she found the enigmatic Julian Markham—along with a love that threatened to consume them both. Now Mr. Markham is offering her a new life as his bride, as the mistress of Markham Hall, and Ivy wants nothing more than to say yes. But Ivy knows that the closer she binds herself to Mr. Markham, the closer she binds herself to danger.

Une femme de 44 ans apprend que son mari, son seul et unique amour, la trompe, et pire que cela, qu'il la trompe depuis 10 ans ! Il s'ensuit un effondrement tragique d'une femme qui ne vivait que par et pour son mari. Le récit présenté par Simone de Beauvoir est en fait un journal intime où sont décrits les moindres états d'âme de cette femme rompue.

A Most Anticipated Novel by PopSugar * Crime Reads * Goodreads * A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel. In 1977, Claire...

As Our Souls Foretold is an evocative collection that transcends time, identity, and human experience, guiding listeners into the hidden currents of the mind and soul. Each verse flows like a wave—sometimes gentle and calm, other times intense and transformative—carrying listeners through the ebb and flow of subconscious thoughts and emotions. Themes of love, loss, transformation, and resilience weave throughout the collection, offering a poetic journey that invites reflection and self-discovery.