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All of Jennifer Wright's hopes and dreams had rested on her summer wedding - until a single moment changed everything. Including the groom. Suddenly, Jennifer agrees to marry her fiance's best friend, a darkly handsome Texan she needed - and desperately wanted - almost against her will. But US Air Force Major Colt Whitelaw had sacrificed too much to settle for a marriage of convenience, and that made hiding her passion all the more difficult. And hiding her biggest secret downright impossible....

One minute, Mac Macready was a living legend in Texas - every kid's idol, every man's envy, every woman's fantasy. The next, his fiancée dumped him, his career was hanging in the balance, and his future was looking mighty uncertain. Then, there was the matter of his scandalous secret, which didn't stand a chance of staying secret where he was headed now. So, it was either succumb to Jewel Whitelaw's shocking proposal - or take cold showers for the rest of the long, hot summer....

Kristin Kakes was fundamentally changed last week by a simple chocolate shake. Kristin can't explain it. She hasn't become a new person. Kristin is still a good student, she is still driven to succeed and do her best, but the world has opened up to her. Kristin's story could stop right there, but good stories never end. The pocket hole still exists, and even though Kristin tells herself that Tommy Amsterdam means nothing to her, she has a hard time not looking for him in the halls.

Beatnik baby boomer Joan Moran thinks it is time to get rid of all the old clichés about getting older. In her memoir, 60, Sex & Tango: Confessions of a Beatnik Boomer, she shares her engaging, humorous, and wildly entertaining personal journey as she provides a unique perspective on the trials and tribulations of being an active, sexy, intelligent woman in her 60s.

Owen Blackthorne is a lone wolf, a man who doesn't need anyone. Then Bayleigh Creed appears on his doorstep, demanding his help in locating her missing brother. Together they head into the desolate West Texas wilderness, a Blackthorne and a Creed, mortal enemies obliged to join forces to survive. Neither counts on the unwanted attraction that draws them together, or the bitter truths that will force them apart--until the ruthless wilderness compels them to make life-and-death choices between family and duty and love.

En esta novela que es considerada, creo que con razón, como una de las más importantes del siglo XX, el autor nos cuenta como una experiencia vivida, la historia de Larry Darrel. Joven americano nacido en una familia bien situada en Chicago. Cuando Larry vuelve de la guerra, no encuentra sentido a la vida que le espera, y que todo el mundo cree que aceptará encantado: casarse con Isabel, una joven de familia bien de Chicago para anquilosarse en un trabajo que no le interesa, pero que sin duda perpetuaría esa clase de vida de la alta sociedad....

More than 20 years ago, young Verity Talbot made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the man she loved: She married the brute who'd threatened to kill him. Verity, now the Countess of Rushland, also kept a shattering secret, allowing the son of Miles Broderick, Viscount Linden, to be raised as another man's heir. Now a widow, Verity and her grown son, Rand, arrive in the Wyoming Territory to begin a new life - only to face a reckoning.

La aventura de Vasco de Gama que le llevó a las Indias através del cabo de Buena Esperanza abrió una guerra por el control de las especias y por el control estratégico mundial que concluiría con la gesta de Magallanes y Elcano: la expedición que dio, a ciegas, la primera vuelta al mundo.

Kristin Kakes probably solved the meaning of life a year ago - in ninth grade honors math. Second period. She's an all-A's, all-achievement, goal-driven dynamo too smart and too good for high school. Pocket holes exist for people like Kristin. They take you to a place where getting what you need is the name of the game. Today, Kristin will run into Tommy Amsterdam. Tommy has a pocket hole. And he's got time on his hands.

Booka Audiobooks y Start2dream presentan las 10 meditaciones guiadas más exitosas del maestro Nils Klippstein. Relájate, cierra los ojos y déjate guiar por estos profundos y sensoriales viajes de fantasia que te ayudarán a conocerte mejor y proporcionarte una relajación placentera. Más de 4 horas de meditaciones guidas te transportarán a un mundo de imágenes mentales positivas, enriquecidas con sugerencias para hacer cambios profundos en tu subconsciente.

La manera ideal de terminar un día ajetreado: Nuestra fantasía "Tu oasis de fuerza" te lleva a un lugar mágico dentro de tí, donde experimentas una profunda relajación y una relajada recreación de imágenes. En un hermoso campo vas a descubrir la fuente de tu vitalidad, una fuerza misteriosa que sostiene toda la vida y te protege.

Shattered, How Everything Comes Together When It All Falls Apart chronicles the transformational journey of one mother, psychologist, and researcher who found the courage to truly live while grappling with the diagnosis of her child with a life-limiting congenital heart defect. Written as a memoir (with the backing of a lot of solid research), this book offers an intimate journey of a parent facing the unthinkable - the possibility of outliving their child.

Two ranching families, the Blackthornes and the Creeds, are locked in a bitter century-old feud. In The Cowboy, Johnston brings to life a breathtaking love story between the Blackthornes' oldest son and the Creeds' beautiful daughter - a magnificent novel of passion, vengeance, and star-crossed love.

Is living the life of your dreams really possible? It's not only possible, but it's quite predictable when you discover the way success works! Whether you're 18 or 88, author Joan Posivy will not only convince you that you are quite capable of living your dream life, she'll share with you a set of very clear and concise steps of how anyone who is eager to stand up, jump forward, and count themselves in can follow. To where? To living your best life!

When Jenny Jones and her three children move from their Washington home to that of Jenny's in-laws in the West Bank, the village of Safa seems like a haven. Sheltered from much of the area's troubles, Jenny considers the village to be the ideal place for her children to explore a part of their identity they deserved to know more about. In spite of its pastoral charm, Safa is far more complex than Jenny had imagined.

From the ashes of war rose a song of hope.... A warm-hearted, nostalgic and uplifting saga, The Songbirds of Colliers Row by Jennifer Hart is perfect for fans of Call the Midwife, Donna Douglas and Kate Thompson's Secrets of the Singer Girls and for anyone with a song in their heart.... A village without a voice. That's what the locals are saying about Llandegwen, deep in the Welsh valleys.

Blair Walton isn't your average curvaceous tattooed children's librarian. She's also one half of best-selling romance author, Scarlet Rose. Along with her BFF Raine, she spends her nights writing books so steamy, she's afraid they would shock her Southern conservative grandmother to death...if she knew about them. That's why she and Raine write in secret. On deadline for their latest book and out of ideas, Raine suggests (demands) that Blair find a guy and "do some research." Declan Bennet has all the qualifications.

Prepare to be entertained by a host of Hollywood celebrities reading the finest collection of short mystery stories surrounding the world of entertainment.

After five decades of dieting based on "science", you'd think Americans would have figured out the fat issue, but they still willingly allow themselves to be manipulated, ie suckered. In this collection of essays, Joan Breibart writes as the person who predicted today's obesity epidemic way back in 1976, when everyone thought she was nuts.

Tør du stå i dit eget lys? De fleste af os nedbryder os selv hver dag med tanker som fx: "Jeg er ikke god nok, jeg er ikke klog nok, jeg er ikke smuk nok, jeg er for tyk," vi bliver vores egen største kritiker og bruger al for meget tid på at slå os selv oven i hovedet, med alt det vi ikke er og kan. Men tankerne er ikke sande. De kommer fra vores barndom og forfølger os hele livet, hvis vi ikke stopper dem. Hele livet igennem skal du være sammen med dig selv, så hvorfor ikke være din mest trofaste og kærligste ven?