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A little time in beautiful Italy is just what Lady Amelia Windermere and her eccentric family need while their latest scandal dies down. Amelia is hard at work on their triumphant return to London society when she meets Lord Tristan Carteret, Duke of Ripon, a sculptor who is too wild for any proper lady.

Kathleen is excited to meet three old pals of her beau, detective Marcus Gordon, while they visit charming Mayville Heights on business. But the reunion is cut short when one of the friends is killed - and the evidence points toward Marcus as the murderer. Though it seems she doesn't know all of Marcus's secrets, Kathleen is sure he's no killer. With his suspect status sidelining him from investigating the case, it's up to Kathleen and her feline partners-in-crime to find whoever is framing Marcus.

Winter in Mayville Heights is busy and not just because of the holidays. Kathleen is hard at work organizing a benefit to raise money for the library’s popular Reading Buddies program. She has her hands full hosting the event. And when a guest at the gala drops dead, her magical cats, Owen and Hercules, will have their paws full helping her solve a murder.

It's been raining cats and dogs in Mayville Heights. The small town's been deluged, and now the local artists' co-op is on the verge of flooding. Kathleen has been up all night helping her friends move their creations to the safety of the upstairs studio.

The artwork survives, but when controversial mask maker Jaeger Merrill is found drowned in the co-op basement, Kathleen questions whether the death was accidental. After she discovers the artist was using an assumed name, she realizes she can't actually assume anything about him.

Spring is coming to Mayville Heights, and Kathleen's brother, Ethan, has arrived in town with his band, The Flaming Gerbils. But not everything goes as scheduled when one of Ethan's bandmates gets into a fight with a man interested in investing in the town. When the businessman's body is later found, Ethan's friend is implicated in the crime. Kathleen wants to help her brother by solving the case, but she has no shortage of suspects from which to choose.

With her sort-of boyfriend Marcus calling it quits and her ex-boyfriend Andrew showing up out of the blue, Kathleen has more than enough drama to deal with - and that’s before a local theater festival relocates to Mayville Heights. Now the town is buzzing with theatre folk, and many of them have their own private dramas with the director, Hugh Davis. When Davis is found shot to death by the marina, he leaves behind evidence of blackmail and fraud, as well as an ensemble of suspects.

The arrival of the Janes brothers has the little town of Mayville Heights buzzing. Everyone of a certain age remembers when Victor had an affair with Leo's wife, who then died in a car accident. Now it seems the brothers are trying to reconcile, until Kathleen finds Leo dead. The police set their sights on Leo's son and Kathleen's good friend Simon, who doesn't have much of an alibi. To prove her friend innocent, Kathleen will have to dig deep into the town's history - and into her sardine cracker supply, because Owen and Hercules don't work for free....

Lord Jakob Radclyffe thinks he left his past behind until a thief surfaces in London, threatening to ruin his daughter's reputation. With the clock ticking, Jake needs the scandalous Lady Olivia Montfort's connections in the art world to protect his daughter's future. Olivia, too, has a past she'd like to escape. She makes a deal but doesn't anticipate the temptation of the viscount. Soon, she has no choice but to rid her system of Jake by surrendering to her craving for a single scorching encounter.

Kathleen Paulson enjoys her life as a small-town librarian with two extraordinary cats, Owen and Hercules, who provide companionship during the quiet times and have a remarkable talent for sleuthing when murder disturbs the peace....The local businesses of Mayville Heights hope to convince Chicago-based company Legacy Tours to sell a vacation package for their town. Legacy Tours partner Mike Glazer grew up in Mayville Heights, but he’s no longer the small-town boy people once knew.

An absentee husband is one thing, but a dead husband is too much for Lady Mariana Asquith to ignore. When she travels to Paris to search for the body of the wastrel who broke her heart, she finds him—alive at the Opera and still far too attractive for her comfort. But not everything is what it seems with her husband…

What We Thought We Remembered: A Collection of Warped Memoirs is a book of short stories inspired by Dr. Daniel Schacter's The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers. Each story explores the balance between vice and virtue, harmony in the company of duality, through stories depicting each of Schacter's "sins": transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. Sofie uses evocative imagery to bring her warped memoirs to life in a surreal world beyond our seen reality.

Matthew has dreamed and read and thought about the North Pole for as long as he can remember. And he has done it secretly. It is a place that cannot be tarnished by the world in which he lives – a world where he struggles to find answers and make friends, while everything seems to come easily to other children. But one day, a crow called Lewis Carmichael lands at Matthew's window – a crow who believes in Matthew in the most simple and ordinary ways. Soon, the unexpected voyage of a lifetime begins, and it will change everything.

Summer is around the corner and Sarah is making sure the store is stocked and ready for tourist season. But while the weather's heating up, Sarah gets involved in a case that is decidedly cold, when a man who was linked to a drowning death years ago is found dead himself, on the same stretch of beach. Some of Sarah's friends from the store knew the victim—and the young woman who drowned—very well and are concerned they could be dragged into the case.

Yoga flows og undervisningMed “Yoga på Lyd” kan du dyrke din yoga-praksis hjemme eller hvor som helst – uden at kigge på en skærm. Hver episode guider dig gennem et roligt flow, så du kan lytte til kroppen, finde nærvær og flyde gennem yogaen (med lukkede øjne, hvis det er din stil). Podcasten er til dig, der vil stole på din intuition og kropsfornemmelse, samtidig med at du får klare instruktioner, der gør det nemt at følge med – uanset niveau.Episoderne varer typisk mellem 15 minutter og 1 time og er bygget op omkring et tema. Vi følger den samme struktur hver gang:...

Scene: The Italian countryside, where Miss Juliet Windermere awaits a confession of love from the man of her dreams. What she gets is a declaration that she looks like the woman of his dreams . . . who is currently a thousand miles away—in Scotland.

Nylander has never known a real home. Now he is ready to leave the dangers of his past behind and put down the roots he has always longed for. The only thing standing in his way is a lanky aristocratic lady who is more at home on the farm than in the ballroom. And she has secrets. Nylander inspires a recklessness in Callie that she can’t control. Soon she finds herself conspiring with pirates and contemplating midnight trysts with the very Viking who has turned her life upside down...As midnight strikes, will all their secret, sinful dreams come true?

Dit boek wil in de eerste plaats informeren, zodat zowel beginnen als stoppen altijd een bewuste keuze is. Het is zeker geen druppel (melk) op een hete plaat, maar wil wél helpen om alle pijn, spijt en schuldgevoelens de wereld uit te helpen. In Van mijn melk wordt borstvoeding daarnaast wat lichter benaderd: Sofie stapt met veel humor in het mijnenveld van (op)voeden en hoopt daar ongeschonden door te wandelen.

Een jonge lerares op de vlucht voor haar verleden probeert een nieuw bestaan op te bouwen in een stad aan zee. Wanneer ze een charismatische muzikant ontmoet, denkt ze haar kans op geluk gevonden te hebben. Ze heeft het mis. Inspecteur Olivia Leroy is recent overgestapt naar het Bureau Vermiste Personen. Ze worstelt met zichzelf, haar liefdesleven en de rest van de wereld. Als in de Polders het lichaam van een onbekende vrouw wordt opgegraven, krijgt ze de opdracht het slachtoffer te identificeren.

Bogen er den første biografi om Olga Eggers' dramatiske skæbne fra elsket forfatterinde til en af landets mest forhadte nazister. Det private og det politiske i hendes liv er forbundet i talrige knuder, og fortællingen udfolder hendes dramatiske og farverige tilværelse. Måske er Eggers' liv knap så uforståeligt, hvis det faktisk forstås historisk, altså i forhold til den tid, hun levede i.

Alle vragen beantwoord! Als vrouw breng je maar liefst een derde van je leven door in de menopauze. Het is dus enorm belangrijk om je in die lange periode zo goed mogelijk te voelen. Dit boek is het meest volledige naslagwerk wat de Menopauze betreft, met dank aan de jarenlange ervaring van prof. dr. Herman Depypere.