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What sort of mad longing besets a woman-nearing fifty and recently widowed-to sell everything she owns, buy an around-the-world airline ticket, pack a single suitcase, and set off alone on a year-long journey without a plan or agenda? When Your Heart Says Go answers that question.
Set in 1990–'91, Judy's story takes readers from San Diego through eleven European countries, the then-Soviet Union, and finally India, during the lead-up to the first...
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Tess déménage à Tahiti et va s'embarquer dans une incroyable aventure faite de rencontre, d'amitié de mystère et d'amour!
Une jeune fille, Tess, accompagne son père enseignant nommé à Tahiti. Elle rencontre dans ces lieux paradisiaques des amitiés inattendues comme cette jeune Tahitienne, ou ce chef de bande à l'abord rébarbatif, mais si séduisant. Elle découvre des endroits dont elle n'imaginait pas l'existence en compagnie d'un beau...
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When Pam Valois met her in the 1970s, Jacomena (Jackie) Maybeck was a model of zestful, hands-on living and aging, still tarring roofs and splitting logs into her seventies, and Pam was a young working mother trying to carve out time for creative projects. Jackie became her mentor, and their friendship led to a best-selling book, Gifts of Age, that features portraits of Jackie and other exemplary women in the winter of their lives.
Decades later,...
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While best remembered for her revolutionary work, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792), renowned feminist, author, and thinker Mary Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime was a remarkable travel narrative, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
The impetus behind Wollstonecraft's journey couldn't be more dramatic: Her relationship with her lover on rocky ground, Wollstonecraft sets out for Scandinavia in order...
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Maya Deren (1917–1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a dream-like experiment with time and symbol, looped narrative and provocative imagery, setting the stage for the twentieth-century's groundbreaking aesthetic...
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These nonfiction works span from the 1960s to the 2000s and were produced by one of the great fiction writers of the period. They add critical depth to Shirley Hazzard's creative world and encapsulate her extensive and informed thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They also offer greater access to her brilliant craftsmanship and the multiple...
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Entry-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment allows students to have the opportunity to identify and appropriately label anatomical structures and injuries using objective terminology. This publication challenges sexual assault examiners to critically analyze medical evaluations, systematic evidence collection processes, general treatment considerations, and patient education. Upon completion of the Entry-Level assessment, you can continue...
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God wants every girl to know she's awesome in his sight. He cares about everything-from bullies to boys, friends to future goals, and disappointment to discoveries. As far as he is concerned, girls rock! In this life-impacting devotional, God's girls will discover answers to the questions that boggle them most. Most of all, they will discover that God's loving presence is rock solid and their faith in him can withstand anything.
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Sans aucun tabou, l'auteur aborde tous les thèmes liés à la séduction, du maquillage à la sexualité
Aujourd'hui, une femme de cinquante ans travaille, est indépendante, peut être à la fois une jeune maman et une jeune grand-mère et demander le divorce. Elle plaît, aime ça et le revendique. Cependant, la plupart du temps, elle continue à se maquiller, à se coiffer, et à s'habiller comme il y a vingt ans. Ce qui était charmant il y...
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Whitney Houston (1963-2012) was a superstar. Few in the world of show business reach the career heights that she attained with what seemed such ease. Her megastardom peaked in 1992 with the release of the hit movie The Bodyguard and the international Number One hit "I Will Always Love You." The movie soundtrack still stands as one of the bestselling albums of all time. She won six Grammy Awards, two Emmy Awards, thirty Billboard Music Awards, and...
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The essential guide for work from home moms everywhere!
More than half of kids across the United States are learning virtually from home. There are fewer daycare spots than ever before. And more and more moms are clocking into their jobs from the kitchen table. The coronavirus pandemic has erased the lines between work and home, and made balancing the two more challenging than ever. This book, chock full of wisdom from the writers and editors at...
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Called the "Queen of Beauty" and the most influential lone woman to impact the beauty industry since Estée Lauder by the New York Times, Leslie Blodgett's story is anything but ordinary. As the CEO of BareMinerals, she reinvented how beauty was sold by tapping into the power of community before the idea of social media existed. In 2006, Blodgett took the company public in one of the largest cosmetic IPOs of the decade, and in 2010, the company was...
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Daughter is a memoir-style collection of poems and essays by model and poet Ebonee Davis that form the narrative of what it looked like for a young black woman in America to break generational cycles, begin to heal the trauma that lives in all of our bodies, and embark upon the spiritual awakening that changed her life.
An introspective exploration of growth, healing, forgiveness, and self-love, Ebonee Davis's debut collection is a must-read for...
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During Ellen Snee's eighteen years as a Catholic nun, she gained a number of essential-and, happily, transferable-skills: how to discern a call or deep desire, how to work collaboratively with other women, and how to be a savvy operator within male hierarchies. In Lead, she draws on that knowledge-as well as lessons learned and insights gained from her Harvard dissertation on psychological dimensions of authority for women, two decades of work with...
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Dianna Anderson offers a fresh approach to the purity conversation, one that opens a new dialogue with the most influential Christian authors of her generation.
Anderson's new sexual ethics draw on core biblical principles and set a standard for today's Christians that may be as influential Joshua Harris' I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Don Raunikar's Choosing God's Best, and Elisabeth Elliot's Passion and Purity. Anderson uses her own illuminating experience...
51436) The Meltdown
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Jayd Jackson hopes her magical Mama has a spell to chase all her cares away. . .
Jayd needs time to recoup from her dramatic school year, but time is the one thing she doesn't have. She's said yes to becoming a debutante, and now she has to deal with her girl Mickey's jealousy--on top of babysitting, hair braiding, cheer camp, and a summer writing class. With the stress of Jayd's hectic schedule, strange visions, and insomnia, luckily Mama returns...
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No Nice Girl Swears is the original, trailblazing guide to the "new etiquette," brimming with timeless advice on style, romance, and grace, and finally back in print 90 years after its original release. Forewords by today's editor in chief of Town & Country and the editor in chief of Vogue from 1914-1952.
Heralded as the go-to guide for soon-to-be debutantes and ladies who'd recently made their debut, No Nice Girl Swears ushered in a "new etiquette"...
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The founder of Better Life Bags, Rebecca Smith, teaches us how to take little steps, say yes when God calls, and follow the passion He has given us. Let love stretch you. As the founder of one of the most popular custom handbag companies in the country, Rebecca Smith knows a thing or two about business. A highly successful entrepreneur in a world where the focus is on scalability, brand strategy, and global marketing, Rebecca Smith also knows the...
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For women in professional and corporate jobs, much of the discrimination and inequity faced in the past has been confronted-and at least to some extent, conquered. But the fact is that we have a two-tiered system, where some working women have a full panoply of rights while others have few or none at all. We allow blatant discrimination by small employers. Domestic workers are cut out of our wage and overtime laws. Part-time workers, disproportionately...
51440) Worldwide Crush: A Novel
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Rory Calhoun is a teen popstar with perfect teeth and messy hair who's inspiring first crushes all over the globe. Millie Jackson is just one of the millions of fans who love him-but that doesn't mean her heart doesn't break for him every single day in this laugh-out-loud coming-of-age story.
How many of Rory's fans collect "data" about him in a special notebook hidden in their underwear drawer? Or have faked a fascination with whale migration for...
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