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Enter the sparkling world of burlesque as you've never seen it before. The UK's top erotic writers revel in the erotic glamour of fluttering eyelashes, twirling tassels and more than a hint of stocking. Sapphic encounters, fetish fun, sensual exploration, kinky submission and domination - whatever your pleasure these stories are guaranteed to provide the ultimate tease.

Total Depravity: Poems bring together poems that explore love, passion, and human sensuality. The poems highlight sensual beauty in the mundane patterns of daily life and celebrate the beauty inherent in the feminine form. The collection contains metaphoric poems exploring feminine beauty and sensual expression in today's technological devices, such as the USB cord.

Enter the sparkling world of burlesque as you've never seen it before. The UK's top erotic writers revel in the erotic glamour of fluttering eyelashes, twirling tassels and more than a hint of stocking. Sapphic encounters, fetish fun, sensual exploration, kinky submission and domination - whatever your pleasure these stories are guaranteed to provide the ultimate tease.

When the 19-year-old twins who work at Bonny Fairley's fine craft gallery place a personal ad in the paper on her behalf, Bonny is mortified. A personal ad? She's not that desperate! Then the ex-husband who'd abandoned her shows up in town, vowing to win back her heart -- and Bonny starts returning calls and making dates as if her life, not to mention her happiness, depended on it.

1880, Drummond. Aimé Courchesne est bien connu dans la région, puisqu’à peu près tout le monde a recours à ses services pour traverser la rivière Saint-François vers les cantons de Wendover et de Simpson. Aimé s’enorgueillit de cette tâche, léguée de père en fils chez les Courchesne depuis la fondation du village.

1888. Encore ébranlés par la mort d’Aimé Courchesne, sa veuve, Élise, et leurs enfants quittent Lowell, aux États-Unis, pour revenir à Drummond et reprendre leur vie d’avant. Ils espèrent laisser derrière eux tous les malheurs qui se sont abattus sur la famille ces dernières années. Mais le jeune Guillaume, auquel incombe désormais la tâche de faire vivre les siens, trouve cette responsabilité bien lourde.

1900. Pour les enfants Courchesne, ce nouveau siècle s’amorce avec un bien triste événement : le décès de leur mère Élise. Après le deuil, la vie reprend doucement pour Georgiana, Guillaume, Denise, Francesca et Vianney, désormais mariés et presque tous en famille. La jeune Victoire, elle, demeure tourmentée par son passé et les circonstances de son adoption alors qu’elle n’avait que sept ans.

On ne présente plus la comtesse de Ségur, auteur des célèbres Malheurs de Sophie qui édifièrent des générations d'enfants. "Jean qui rit et Jeannot qui pleure" sont deux cousins qui quittent la Bretagne pour aller travailler à Paris. Le caractère agréable de Jean lui attire l'estime et la sympathie de tous ; malgré les bons conseils de son entourage, Jeannot cède de plus en plus à une nature canaille.

A/ Poésie : 1. La Fontaine : Le Lion et le moucheron, 2. Du Bellay : Heureux qui comme Ulysse, 3. Michelet : Les volontaires de 92, 4. La Fontaine : Le coche et la mouche. B/ Chant : 1. Dimanche à l'aube (chant populaire de Bretagne), 2. La Truite (Musique de Schubert, paroles de J. Ruelle), 3. Chante un Noël nouveau (chant populaire du Languedoc). A/ Poésie : 1. Hugo : Il neigeait (Châtiments), 2. La Bruyère : Giton (Les Caractères), 3. Colette : La cendre (Prisons et Paradis), 4. Carco : Le vent du soir (La Bohême et mon cœur). B/ Chant : 1. Air de Laurette ("Richard Cœur-de-lion").

Single mom Daisy Sorensen doesn't believe in fairytale endings - at least not for her. All she wants is to enjoy a much-needed, stress-free family vacation at a friend's Lake Tahoe home. So of course everything that can go wrong does. Including a gorgeous man and his daughter showing up in the middle of the night. Soon-to-be Governor Jack Harrison has had a crazy week, but he's sure nothing can top arriving to find a bathrobe-clad, beautiful stranger in the home he's staying in for the week.

A tragedy is unfolding all around us and is receiving well overdue attention. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than their white peers. But Dr. Monique Rainford is working to better understand these disparities and do something about them.

Retiring from a government or civil service career can be trickier than the tax code! Just ask Carl and Barb Miller. They're mid-career at the United States Postal Service, raising two children, and helping care for an aging parent. Frankly, they don't have time for the future when they're simply trying to survive the present. Retirement seems ages away and sounds great - if it actually happens. Sound familiar? Well, it doesn't have to be that way.

After years of struggle, Monique Rebelle was on the verge of suicide. That’s when she experienced a miracle that stopped her from ending her life, and marked the beginning of a new, happy life. In Transcendence Calling, Monique takes us through some of the key events from her childhood and youth, the months before the experience, then describes the transformational kundalini rising process, and introduces a new, revelatory take on chakras, kundalini energy, and spiritual enlightenment.

In Ravens before Noah, Susanna Harutyunyan paints a vivid and haunting portrait of resilience and survival amidst the Armenian mountains. Beginning with a newborn and an old man fleeing the Hamidian massacres, the novel traces the lives of exiles who form a hidden community, cut off from the world and bound by shared traumas.

Unseen Chains: The Reality of Human Trafficking in America is a compelling and eye-opening exposé that delves into the hidden world of modern-day slavery within the United States. Through a powerful blend of survivor stories, investigative research, and expert interviews, this book uncovers how human trafficking thrives in plain sight — from rural towns to major metropolitan areas. Focusing on the exploitation of women, children, and migrants, the book explores the complex networks behind sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and domestic servitude.

Feeding the Family: Coping with Rising Food Prices is a timely and practical guide for households navigating the growing challenge of putting nutritious meals on the table amid economic uncertainty. As inflation and global supply chain disruptions continue to drive up the cost of groceries, families are forced to rethink how they shop, cook, and plan. Drawing on expert insights, real-life stories, and budget-friendly strategies, this book offers readers tools to stretch their food dollars without compromising on health or taste.

Voici le texte amélioré selon les instructions : Une femme a disparu, laissant derrière elle un mari, deux enfants, une famille, des collègues, des voisins, des amis… tout ce qui fait l'ordinaire d'une vie sans histoire. Que faire, que penser lorsque, du jour au lendemain, la personne que vous croyiez connaître vous abandonne, ne laissant derrière elle que des interrogations ? Fasciné par l'absente, un homme enquête sur cette disparition. Chacun lui répond à sa manière, selon son degré d'intimité et sa relation avec la disparue.

This book is lovingly dedicated to all Educators, Para-educators, Students, and their Families in Baltimore City, Maryland. Continue to inspire, teach, love, nurture, and demonstrate greatness.

Emma was just a dreamer—until the nightmare becomes real. She escapes the shadows, but the battle to reclaim her life is only the beginning! Once an imaginative and lighthearted teen whose head was filled with survival stories, Emma never imagined living through the kind of stories she used to write—let alone fight for her life. Taken, hunted, and trapped in a brutal world of silence and control, she has to muster strength, knowledge, and instinct to escape with her life. But after surviving the darkness, the real journey begins, compelling her to build something powerful from the ruins.

Imagine your life serving you, not the other way around. Imagine a journey whose destination is confidence. Imagine taking this journey with a group of other professional women and discussing the impact of your voices, time, choices, jobs, internal narratives, and external narratives on your satisfaction and quality of life.