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"Deux ans avant qu'il ne quitte la maison, mon père dit à ma mère que j'étais très laide." Giovanna, fille unique d'un couple de professeurs, vit une enfance heureuse dans les hauteurs de Naples. L'année de ses douze ans, elle surprend une conversation dans laquelle son père la compare à Vittoria, une tante à la réputation maléfique.

Lolli comes from the Land of Color and speaks directly to children guiding them through stories that they themselves adventure on and feel a part of. Kids love the whimsical nature of following where Lolli takes them and learn things incidentally along the way. A fun and creative approach to mindfulness for children. arents, use these meditations to help increase your children's self-esteem, enhance your child's imagination, and encourage positive thinking.

In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei. Before she leaves, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin’s brutality.

I’ve been captured. Don’t even get me started on how pissed off I am. My rage is raging. Azrael is the most powerful vampire I’ve ever encountered, and I hate knowing I can’t beat him. He’s brought me to this creepy cave because he thinks he can synthesize a cure for vampirism from my pure Vocari blood. I think he’s insane.
Doesn’t really matter, though. If I don’t do what Azrael wants, he says he’s going to hurt my guys. I can’t allow that. With no other option, I decide to be a good little Rose until I can find a way out of this mess.

* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * “A haunting book of rare courage.” —Clarissa Ward, CNN chief international correspondent and author of On All Fronts To be a journalist is to...

The story of an infamous poison that left toxic bodies and decimated wildlife in its wake is also a cautionary tale about how corporations stoke the flames of science denialism for profit. The chemical compound DDT first earned fame during World War II by wiping out insects that caused disease...

From award-winning journalists John Quiñones and María Elena Salinas comes One Year in Uvalde, a narrative that builds on yearlong ABC News reporting from Uvalde, Texas, chronicling how the community is forging on through grief with hope and activism in the shadow of tragedy.

In The PD Book, bestselling author Elena Aguilar and coauthor Lori Cohen offer seven habits—and a wealth of practical tools—that help you transform professional development. In this book, you'll learn how to inspire adult learners, the importance of having clear purpose, and how to navigate power dynamics in a group. You'll also learn a new way to plan PD that allows you to attend to details and be a responsive facilitator. The dozens of tips and tricks, anecdotes and research, and tools and resources will enable you to create the optimal conditions for learning.

Are you tired of losing control of the guilt that follows those explosive moments of anger? Are you looking for strategies to manage your anger and create a more harmonious environment for your children? We explore the complex world of anger and its profound impact on our families. This insightful audiobook offers a lifeline to parents who find themselves trapped in patterns of explosive anger. Weaving through the intricate layers of anger, this audiobook helps you understand its roots, its triggers, and its devastating impact on your children.

Every self-help product, self-improvement resource, and dieting program either explicitly or indirectly points to the fact that we are not good enough the way we are; that we need to change something about ourselves to become happy. If we are trying to lose weight so that we can feel better about ourselves, what we are saying is that our body is not sufficient and that it has become an obstacle to us in our pursuit of feeling happy. Because it is a barrier, we develop a sense of resistance to it.

Den Palast zu betreten bedeutet, einen blutigen Pfad zu beschreiten. Joseon (Korea), 1758. Unehelichen Töchtern stehen in der Hauptstadt nur wenige Möglichkeiten offen, aber durch harte Arbeit und Studium hat sich die achtzehnjährige Hyeon eine Stelle als Palastschwester verdient. Alles, was sie will, ist, den Kopf unten halten, gute Arbeit leisten und vielleicht endlich die Anerkennung ihres entfremdeten Vaters gewinnen. Doch plötzlich wird Hyeon in die dunkle und gefährliche Welt der Hofpolitik gestoßen, als jemand in einer einzigen Nacht vier Frauen ermordet.

From the outside, my life appears normal, boring even—but in that way you treasure when you once had nothing. These days, I have a loving new husband, a polite and intelligent teenage son. Everything seems perfect, but beneath the surface, I feel afraid. My son, the child I’ve sacrificed everything for, is scaring me. When he looks at me, his gaze is dark and calculating. In public he’s as sweet as always, but the things he says to me at home make my neck prickle with fear. I'm a mother—I've learned to trust my instincts, and right now, they're screaming that something is very wrong.

Teachings and Tools for Clarity, Balance & Energetic Vitality in Your Daily Life Yoga has the power to connect us deeply with our body’s energies and wisdom. But once we’re off the mat, it can seem impossible to extend those gifts into the crises and chaos of the real world. Acclaimed yoga...

"I metodi tradizionali con me non hanno funzionato. Sono uscita dal liceo dopo tredici anni di inglese con ancora tanto, troppo, da imparare. Il mio modo di comunicare era basico e meccanico, il che mi faceva sentire spesso a disagio. Sognavo di esprimermi liberamente, senza rinunciare a tutte le sfumature che una lingua possiede e stabilendo connessioni più profonde con le persone, ma non ci riuscivo. Mi ci è voluto del tempo per capire che dovevo lasciar perdere la traduzione letterale e iniziare a pensare in inglese.

Footballeur prodige, charismatique et adulé, Arden Scorsese n'a peur de rien. Sauf peut-être d'elle : Lolita Cerretani. Son talon d'Achille. La fille de ses rêves. Mais aussi sa meilleure amie, à qui il ne refuse jamais rien. Alors, quand elle lui demande de la débarrasser de sa virginité en prétendant que ça ne changera rien à leur relation, Arden accepte. Même s'il l'aime depuis toujours et n'a jamais osé le lui dire. Très vite, les non-dits et les regards brûlants prennent le pas sur tout le reste, et les limites se floutent.

“Inner and outer change often happen through direct action,” reflects yoga and meditation teacher Elena Brower, “but to engage with life fully, we must also be able to listen deeply and receive.” With Grounded and Free, you will learn how to use receptivity and tenderness to nurture...

Acerca de la primera y única edición, hasta este momento, de Celia en la revolución dice Andrés Trapiello en su prólogo: "lo que sucedió con (este) libro fue misteriosísimo, un caso único. Apenas publicado, desapareció de las librerías y únicamente en el mercado de viejo ha ido apareciendo desde entonces, con cuentagotas, algún que otro ejemplar, siempre a precios fabulosos, de todo punto infrecuentes en un libro reciente, lo que habla de su carácter excepcional".

Cuando rescatan a la Subteniente Azumagus Honor Renn de entre los restos de su primer puesto naval, solo espera la muerte o la desgracia. Sin embargo, se despierta a bordo de la Piedra Angular, una embarcación legendaria de la que se habla en las baladas portuarias y en las salas de guerra reales por igual. Una tripulación de inadaptados. Un capitán élfico y misterioso. Y una misión ligada a la Gran Barrera del Terror, el muro de agua agrietado que impide que Supramar e Inframar estallen en una guerra sin cuartel desde hace cientos de años.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children’s team in this small-town love story in the vein of It Happened One Summer—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception. Adalyn Reyes...

Las cinco primeras novelas de la saga Celia de Elena Fortún por primera vez en un solo volumen.