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It's 1950 in rural Minnesota, USA. America is still largely an agrarian society, and most families are farm families. Men are HOH's who keep their farms and their families running smoothly with strong discipline. But farm girls, as well as their mothers, often crave something a little livelier than the day to day boredom of the farm and reach out, now and then, for some fun that runs against the social mores of the times, as well as the family's hard and fast rules.

Modern adult life is complex, especially for those whose working lives dominate their mental and emotional space. Many of us spend more time at work than at any other activity; it’s there we’re often forced to deal with our own and others’ emotional issues. These issues often lead to major problems in organizations, erode individual well-being, create toxic and even dangerous environments—and impact rates of retention and productivity.

Gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal, voor de lezers van Haar naam was Sarah en De tatoeëerder van Auschwitz. Ooit was Alma Rosé een van de meest gerespecteerde violistes van Europa. Haar optredens lieten geen publiek onberoerd. Maar toen de nazi's Europa overnamen, kon niets haar redden. In Auschwitz is elke dag een gevecht om te overleven. Alma is niet langer Alma, maar gevangene 50381; het nummer op haar huid getatoeëerd in bleke inkt. Samen met duizenden anderen zit ze opgesloten, gescheiden van haar geliefden, wachtend op een ongewisse toekomst.

De familie Bigelow lijkt het ideale leven te leiden in het idyllische stadje Lakeview. Vader Graham is een succesvolle chirurg, de moeder van het gezin is een mooie vrouw, een graag geziene verschijning binnen de hechte gemeenschap van het stadje. Maar achter de gesloten deuren leven de kinderen Zane en Britt Bigelow in angst. Hun vader houdt de familie in een ijzeren greep, en zij hebben geleerd om daar zo goed mogelijk mee om te gaan en het voor de rest van de wereld verborgen te houden. Tot de dag dat Zane vier minuten te laat is en de fout maakt met zijn vader in discussie te gaan.

De megabestseller: ruim 900.000 exemplaren verkocht! Het is twaalf jaar geleden dat een automobilist Maggie Cooper de weg vroeg. Twaalf jaar geleden dat hij haar aan haar pols door het open autoraam trok en een naald in haar arm stak. Twaalf jaar geleden dat ze wakker werd in een doodstille, aardedonkere kelder. Een kelder die haar thuis zou worden. Inmiddels is Maggie alle hoop verloren dat ze ooit nog wordt gevonden. Ook aan ontsnappen denkt ze allang niet meer. Ze heeft nog maar één wens: het leven van haar zoon Max redden.

Abandoned by their beloved King and left in the hands of a brutal tyrant—lies, fear, and starvation cause the people of Welexia to splinter and turn on each other. It is every person for themselves. Thirteen is too young to shoulder heavy responsibilities, but this is Princess Alaria of Welexia's fate. Brave decisions must be made or her family members will continue to die slow, agonizing deaths.

Address anger, anxiety, and violence in the classroom with strategies and best practices that work in classrooms. Under-resourced students, wealthy students, and students in all demographics can benefit from calming and healing techniques Ruby Payne, author of A Framework for Understanding Poverty, shares in this book.

Has teaching ever felt more stressful? External pressures, environmental factors, previous experiences, fear, anger—all these and more create stress and tension in the classroom. Emotional distress interrupts and can harm—even destroy—effective teaching, learning, and emotional wellness in teachers and students.

1906. A high-spirited, unconventional girl who can turn her hand to anything, Molly Sparkes is on the verge of a big adventure. At just eighteen, she is leaving her convent school in the heart of rural Kent to accompany the formidable Mrs Alexa Nagel on a tour of Australia, acting as her companion and nursemaid to Alexa's motherless granddaughter, Fay.

It's August 1930 and storm clouds are brewing across Europe, heralding the rise of fascism and the upheavals of the Great Depression. Even so, these frightening realities can't stop 24-year-old Betty Harbert from making the most of her tour of the continent. Sailing from Montreal with her wealthy Aunt Barbie and cousin Win, Betty attends a Parisian finishing school, tours Europe twice, and spreads joie de vivre wherever she goes.

Essential oils have been part of alternative methods for healing and treating various ailments for thousands of years. Nonetheless, some of the health benefits that are related to these essential oils are part of controversies. This audiobook will be sharing with you the essential oils and their uses for treating different ailments so you can decide better in regards to essential oils and their health effects. Essential oils are most of the time part of aromatherapy, working with the aid of extracts via different categories of plants to deliver us health and well-being.

Dakota: Everyone wants me to change. Be a better employee, work harder in my college classes, give my parents the respect they deserve. They think I can’t hear them, but I do. That’s how I wind up in the Black Pine Woods facing down tall, muscular, tattooed Gunnar Issacs. Gunnar: She might only be 20, but Dakota is the woman of my dreams. I know she came here for a specific purpose, but it’s going to be hard to give her what she wants without giving her what I want. Dakota needs someone to teach her right from wrong—it’s my turn to take a crack at her behind.

An ad on the web leads parents of errant daughters, as well as grown women seeking discipline, to the farm of Mark and Lorraine Lanning. "Uncle Mark" and "Aunt Lorraine" provide disciplinary correction to the young women in the form of old-fashioned, country- and family-style punishments. Spankings, strappings, and old-fashioned "switchin's" address and correct the women's misbehavior, leaving them with very sore behinds but clean slates, the pain and fire on their behinds signaling forgiveness of their transgressions.

Becca was about to graduate college. As an only child, she had always been the object of her mother's overbearing and critical remarks regarding her weight. She'd even sent her to fat farms as a child. Becca had finally had her fill of it. When Becca's mother called her at school to announce she was getting remarried to a very wealthy old man, she was totally caught off guard. Her mom wanted her to meet her new stepdaddy, Buck, and mend fences. How could Becca refuse the olive branch her mother extended? But little did she know what awaited her at the other end of that olive branch.

Kelley Vanders-Froggett’s life is finally in order again: She’s on break from a great job, she has a supportive family, and she has Anthony Salamandras, her hot alien fiancé who’s making it all too hard to wait for the altar. Then Anthony’s brother shows up declaring Kelley unworthy to marry into his family—unless she passes ancient trials. Never mind that these trials haven’t been used in generations. Either Kelley proves herself worthy, or she’ll be separated from Anthony forever.

Born in 1370 BC, Queen Nefertiti, great royal wife of King Akhenaten, held many titles - Lady of Grace, Great King's Wife, His Beloved. And yet, he took other wives. Still, she was first. But, there was no love between husband and wife. Marriage was about power. Marriage was about alliances - there was no time for love.

When I get a letter from one of my employees saying that she's in love with me and explaining in detail all the explicit, naughty things she wants to do me, well, it's about damn time. She is the curvy woman of my dreams, and if she thinks I'm the love of her life, then I'm going to prove to her that she's the love of mine, too.

It’s been a while since college student Gabby "got any" - a state of affairs that her friends are not cool with. During an ill-advised ouija board session, on one October night, her nosy friends ask the board if Gabby will be getting laid any time soon. The board answers, "yes." Big deal, right? Except, Gabby begins to notice an invisible presence in her dorm room. A presence that seems to enjoy touching her.

Vicky knows she’s too old to be obsessed with a book series about sparkly vampires, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t reading them all again this October, and wishing for her own sexy vampire. So, what happens when Vicky gets her wish - sort of - as she's stalked by a horrifying, and decidedly not-sparkly, blood-sucking dead man? Unlike the chivalrous vampire of her books, this one's ready for an invitation into her panties.

The House of Berserkers may destroy us all...I have a beast inside of me. A monster that awakens at the best and the worst times. The beast allowed me to avenge my best friend’s death, but it’s also led to my downfall. And a betrayal so deep it cuts like a knife. Taken prisoner by the psychotic Lord of the House of the Berserkers, I must find a way to stay alive and to keep the men I love safe. Everything has changed between the mutant, the berserker, the dragon shifter, and I. But what hasn’t changed?