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The 10-Day Binge Eating Detox Plan detoxes your thinking from the beliefs and mindsets that sabotage your weight loss. This is not a diet book, but if you need to lose weight, you will as a natural result of listening to this book and using its ideas.

A gritty and compelling drama from the best-selling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny Street. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Sheila Jeffries. Little twin sisters Sarah and Samantha are all alone in the world. When their mother died giving birth to Sarah, she was blamed for the death by her father, and her learning difficulties serve only to make him more angry and violent towards her.

Bruised from the breakdown of her marriage, Esther Lomax needs to get away, and Malaysia seems the perfect place. But a day's boat trip takes a desperate turn when Esther and six other holidaymakers are taken to a desert island and their guide doesn’t return. As the days pass, tensions erupt, secrets emerge, and time increasingly runs out, Esther must ask herself: Will she leave the island alive?

Fleur Stanthorpe, an Australian, arrives in Whitby to live out a dream after surviving cancer. She plans to rent a shop and open a bookshop café and experience the English way of life for the summer before returning home and settling down. Only, she hasn’t counted on meeting gorgeous Irishman Patrick Donnelly. Their attraction is instant, their goals a world apart. He’s looking for a solid relationship for the first time since his divorce five years ago, while she’s having her last fling at freedom before returning home to family and responsibilities.

Growing up poor but proud on the Dorset coast, Mary follows after her father, hunting for fossils of ancient creatures. Ignoring other's taunts, Mary faces danger to bring back valuable treasures to help feed her family. But tragedy and despair are never far away. Mary must depend upon her unique courage and knowledge to fulfil her dream of becoming a scientist, in a time when girls have no opportunities for such ambitions. What will happen when she makes her greatest discovery of all?

The remarkable story of Margaret Paston, whose letters form the most extensive collection of personal writings by a medieval English woman.

In the dead of night, in the pouring rain, a drunk driver smashes his car into a young man. He abandons the body at the side of the road, but the incident will set in motion a chain of events which will change his life forever. Soon Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, now retired from the Maardam police force, will face his greatest trial yet as someone close to him is, inexplicably, murdered.

Three strangers destined to be brought together by war and revenge. Marzal - an exiled daughter with a plan for revenge. Rayn - a rebel blacksmith with a blade of blood. Elena - a gentle midwife with a fiercely protected secret. Each young woman wants peace, but not everyone is fighting by the same rules. What some call fate, others call design...and someone's pulling the strings. When the flames fade, beware the hidden danger of...black heat.

Sharp, irreverent and very funny women's fiction for women who won't put up with being told to step aside! Isn't it about time we talked about you? Tessa, Sandra and Harriet have been best friends through first crushes, careers, marriage and the trials of motherhood. After 20 years of taking care of everyone else's every needs, they've found themselves hitting the big 5-0 and suddenly asking themselves, 'What about me?' Sandra has a sordid secret, and Harriet is landed with her ailing mother-in-law.

Eliza was left as a small baby at the workhouse in Whitechapel, wrapped in her mother’s shawl, which is all she has of the mother she never knew. At 11 years old, she has survived sickness, near starvation and harsh beatings. Master Simpkins and his cruel daughter rule the workhouse with a rod of iron, but when Romany boy Joe arrives at the workhouse, his spirit and courage give Eliza hope. When she is sold into service, Eliza is relieved to be out of the workhouse and hopes her fortunes are changing for the better, but cruelty and unkindness are everywhere....

Il protagonista di questa mini-storia è un ragazzo di nome Emmanuel, un bel ventenne che si trova all’improvviso in difficoltà economiche e per far fronte all’emergenza pensa di tentare la carriera di fotomodello “a tempo perso”, nonostante la sua timidezza e la sua introversione; in questo tentativo è incoraggiato dai suoi fedeli amici Carlos e Mayra. Il caso vuole che la scelta di Emmanuel cada su Gianni Gandolfini, un fotografo di moda piuttosto noto nel Milanese.

Wer wusste schon, dass bei Meerjungfrauen die Papas die Babys zur Welt bringen? Und dass die Meer-Babys gar nicht von Geburt an schwimmen können, sondern das erst in der Seepferdchen-Schwimmschule lernen müssen? Ihr Lieblingsessen ist übrigens Donauwelle und Ananas-Pizza. Und manchmal können Meerjungfrauen sogar fliegen! Diese und viele weitere gemeinsam mit Kindern erdachte „Fakten“ über Meerjungfrauen tummeln sich in diesem lustigen Hörspiel. Hier können alle Kinder in eine magische Unterwasserwelt eintauchen und sich verzaubern lassen!

In Wien sorgt die verschwundene Leiche eines Millionärs für Schlagzeilen ... Nun, da ihre Kolumne über Aberglauben ein voller Erfolg ist, will die junge Journalistin Sarah Pauli eine neue Serie über das mystische Wien starten. Spannende Informationen dazu erhofft sie sich von der Fremdenführerin Erika, die Führungen zu den geheimnisvollen Orten der Stadt veranstaltet. Doch kurz vor ihrem Treffen verschwindet Erika spurlos.

Marillenernte in der Wachau, ein Fest für die Sinne. Auch Lou Conrad, Ex-Polizistin und Inhaberin des beliebtesten Feinkostladens der Region, möchte aus den Früchten Köstlichkeiten kreieren und fährt zum Hof ihrer Bekannten Marta. Doch dort macht Lou eine schockierende Entdeckung: Die Bäuerin liegt tot im Marillengarten. Im Ort brodelt schnell die Gerüchteküche. Beging ein Tourist die Tat? Waren es skrupellose Obstdiebe? Mit Sternekoch Fabio und Berner Sennenhund Michelin an ihrer Seite geht Lou der Sache auf den Grund und entdeckt.

Following the death of his beloved father, Arthur is sent to Canada for safety with a group of evacuees on the eve of the Second World War. Alone and afraid, plagued with seasickness, and an unknown future, he can't imagine things getting any worse. Far from what he feared, Arthur is welcomed with warmth and kindness. But even on the other side of the world, the war can’t be escaped and before long, his new family are touched by it too. Faced with another dramatic change in his life, everything starts to change again for Arthur.

In The Incidental Feminist: Friend, foe, femme fatale: The truth about Thatcher, Tina Gaudoin investigates the complexities of the woman behind the tropes. Drawing upon explosive new material from the archives and interviews with her contemporaries, Gaudoin reveals how Thatcher triumphed over rampant misogyny and class prejudice to normalize female power and manipulated her femininity, sexuality, and intellect to become the most powerful woman in the world.

An einem Apriltag sorgt in Wien der Tod einer bekannten Modezarin für Aufsehen: Ihre Leiche wird unweit ihres Hauses aus der Alten Donau geborgen, und bei ihr entdeckt die Polizei eine rätselhafte Halskette. Sarah Pauli, Journalistin beim Wiener Boten mit einem Faible für Aberglauben, wird auf den Fall aufmerksam und stößt auf eine Spur zum Friedhof der Namenlosen. An dem sagenumwobenen, nebelverhangenen Ort, an dem seit langer Zeit niemand mehr bestattet wird, hat jemand ein neues Kreuz abgelegt.

Evie Grant is forty-five years old, a widow, and single mum of two children about to leave the nest. Suddenly alone in the family home, Evie realizes she hates her job, hardly goes out and hasn't had a date since who knows when... So it feels like fate when the opportunity arises for a girls trip to New York City. Staying with her sister on the Upper East Side, Evie is enchanted by a snow-covered city consumed by preparing for Christmas. Bobble hat firmly on, Evie is walking through the city one day when she bumps into Daniel Roberts, Hollywood heartthrob and one-time boyfriend of hers.

Thorpeness, 1973. Wrongly exiled from London, Judge Neville Hanmer sought solace and a quiet life on the Suffolk coast. But then a face from the past unexpectedly resurfaces and he turns to The Anglian Detective Agency for help. Laurel, Frank, and the rest of the team are busier than ever trying to solve the mysterious theft of rare plants from Yoxford Hall Gardens. But when Judge Hanmer doesn't show for their meeting, they find themselves embroiled in yet another case.

Endlich kehrte die lange verreiste Admiralin der Freien Nation zurück, doch im glücklichen Wiedersehen schleicht sich eine geheimnisvolle Krankheit in die Heimat. Schnell sind weite Teile der Bevölkerung des Inselreiches infiziert und es ist an ihrer Tochter, Tiana, zusammen mit der tapferen Mannschaft der Wellenbrecher am Festland ein Heilmittel zu finden, denn die alten Feinde der Nation warten bereits sehnsüchtig darauf die Schwächung Malnesias auszunutzen. Auf ihrer Reise muss Tiana Gefahren trotzen, die den Horizont der meisten Menschen übersteigen.