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Striking, enigmatic, and filthy rich, Salis Dangerfield is a man who knows how to win, whether at the poker table or in business. Despite all his success, all he’s looking for is a safe haven for him and his sister. He finds the perfect opportunity when an old miner offers him an irresistible deal - a new life in an old town, with a beautiful bride to match. For the man they call Lucifer, it’s an offer that’s heaven-sent. Rachel Maxwell’s world is flipped upside down when she finds out that both she and her family’s homestead have been sold to a mysterious stranger.

Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighborhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents - old communist ladies, their skeptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors - go about their daily lives.

Ranch hand Eddie Murtaugh worries he’ll never find a wife. And with poor reading and writing skills and no proper education, he has little hope of attracting a mail-order bride. So, he’s delighted when the letter his doctor friend helps him draft earns attention from an attractive New England woman of substance.

Dorothy Draper has one last chance to prove she chose the right course for her life. With the restoration of The Greenbrier resort at her fingertips, Dorothy aspires to give new life to a place that’s sentimental to her, and to bring a new spark to interior design.

Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in the United States and across the diaspora, it hasn't often been easy to find Black romance joyfully showcased in entertainment media. In this collection, revered authors and sparkling newcomers, librarians and academicians, and avid fans and reviewers consider the mirrors and windows into Black love as it is depicted in the novels, television shows, and films that have shaped their own stories.

Me lo dijo sin preámbulos, pero no me tomó por sorpresa.A principios de 2022, mi padre, Carlos Alberto Montaner, me encomendó la misión más difícil y dolorosa de mi vida: "Te pido que me ayudes a morir". Más de seis años después de ser diagnosticado en Estados Unidos con párkinson sus capacidades físicas habían mermado considerablemente y la enfermedad comenzaba a hacer mella en sus facultades cognitivas.

Las vidas de Gloria Felipe y de Nuria Valencia se entrelazan en torno al robo de una niña pequeña que conmociona a la capital mexicana en la década de 1940. Por medio de una narradora que (en sus propias palabras) «no canta mal las rancheras», somos testigos de la batalla de los Miranda Felipe por recuperar a la menor de sus integrantes y de la crianza angustiosa de los Fernández Valencia para salvar a su propia niña de un peligro potencial que la policía no ha podido frenar y los medios reportan con el tono de un thriller.

Are you tired of fighting in your own strength? Are you worn out and weary? Are you paralyzed by anxiety, fear, and depression? This is where Gina Murray found herself seven years ago. After a lifetime of dealing with fear, insecurities, and trying to be perfect for everyone around her, including God, she became physically ill. It was at this point that God spoke to Gina and told her to rest.

My Road Beyond the Codependent Divorce is written to encourage and support those of us who feel the need to move out of dysfunctional marriages and family relationships.

Tras el fallecimiento de su padre, Rodrigo González, en el terremoto de 1985, Amanda Lalena Escalante, de seis años, se embarca junto con su madre en un avión con destino a la Ciudad de México, dando inicio a esta narración autobiográfica en la que Amanda, desde una profunda intimidad y honestidad, comparte su vida en momentos conmovedora y en otros dolorosa. En estas páginas, recorreremos su infancia marcada por la muerte de su padre y la compleja relación con su madre; las carencias económicas y emocionales que padeció.

Humans have produced and enjoyed olive oil for thousands of years, but education about olive oil is woefully lacking. After meeting and falling in love with an American on holiday, then moving to the U.S., Giuseppe Morisani was shocked to discover that quality olive oil was not appreciated or even available in many parts of the United States. He was raised among his family’s seaside olive groves in Calabria, Italy, so when he and his wife, Skyler Mapes, decided to demystify the industry, they moved to Calabria.

In this revolutionary book, women (and men!) will learn a new perspective that empowers them biologically, sociologically and personally—all from the inside out, through their own eyes, and free of media stereotypes and myths.

Gina Castellanos te acompañará en el camino del despertar de la conciencia femenina y te ayudará a descubrir que tu menstruación es la mejor vía hacia el amor propio y el bienestar.

Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful change. Chisholm spent her formative years moving between Barbados and Brooklyn, and the development of her political orientation did not follow the standard narratives of the civil rights or feminist establishments.

With her family in Pennsylvania struggling, Quincy knows that it is up to her to marry well and solve their money issues. Becoming a mail-order bride seems to be the quickest way to the altar, and when wealthy rancher Willy Powers reaches out to her, Quincy hopes that all her troubles will finally be solved.

You can travel the world, but love will always find its way to you. From joining the army to please his father to going into business to help the man who saved his life, Harry Wallsey has lived his life for other people. Now, Harry is content with his life in Iron Creek, helping run the newspaper he helped establish—but as a lover of poetry and literature, even this life is not one he ever wanted.

Your Place or Mine? is a detailed resource for separating parents. It will help you navigate the legal system, including negotiating a settlement, mediation, and litigation, and explains the nuances of different paths to dispute resolution. It also provides specific advice about what to include in a compassionate separation agreement, such as specifying how far parents can live from each other, where transitions take place, how to handle kids’ belongings, communication, future disputes, and introducing your child to a new partner.

Unfinished Business focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. Faced with the regular stuff of life - work, aspiration, marriage, age, divorce, bereavement - his ordinary plight is sharpened, becoming increasingly urgent. Having lived in a modern condition, confusing pleasure with happiness, wanting the dream to deliver, what do you do when you notice the shadows begin to lengthen on the lawn?

An international best seller ranked number one in six different business and finance categories, Your Dollars, Our Sense is your go-to guide for decoding the essentials of life and money. It makes sense of a variety of topics including credit, saving priorities, investing, home ownership, insurance, marriage, children, retirement, estate planning, and much more.

Jonny Cable isn’t like his twin brother. Andy might have chosen to settle down and marry, but Jonny has a duty to fulfill in the army. It shouldn’t matter that he sometimes yearns for a different life—one where he can stay in one place and make a simple living running a hotel. Or that he should long for companionship like his brother has with his own lovely wife.