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At just 21, Victoria James became America's youngest sommelier at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Even as Victoria was selling bottles worth hundreds and thousands of dollars during the day, passing sommelier certification exams with flying colors and receiving distinction from all kinds of press, there were still groping patrons, bosses who abused their role and status, and a trip to the hospital emergency room.

Thirty-year-old Celeste Hamilton's life is at a crossroads: she has just left a disastrous marriage, and her estranged mother has recently died, leaving the family's rose business in jeopardy. Reluctantly, Celeste returns to the family home, a moated manor house in Suffolk, to help her two younger sisters sort out the estate and revive the business.

In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia. The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks. Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister’s offer to teach him the science behind his magic.

Cole King...the name alone leaves a bad taste in my mouth, a reminder of how he broke my trust in the worst way possible. My best friend of 20 f--king years. He had my back and I had his. Always. Until he crossed the line. Now visions of him sinking between my girl's legs, making her scream in all the ways only I should've been doing, haunt me, mixed with images of all the ways I can rip his damn throat out. I've tried to forget it and move on, but I can't. Ways to inflict even just a small portion of the pain he made me feel f--king consumes me. Somewhere in his fucked up, twisted mind, he thought it would be okay to share my girl. Now.... Now, he gets to see what it feels like to share what is his.

Peas in the Lasagna- Because life serves up the unexpected! We are Jen and Victoria, sisters who are not only 14 years apart, but I, Jen, am autistic and my sister is neurotypical(ish?). As we spend more and more time together we realize that those things don't really make a difference in how we relate. Our lives took VERY different paths but we ended up learning the same lessons. We are here to talk, laugh, process our experiences and hopefully pass some wisdom Also...We love you Mom!!! (who randomly put peas in our lasagna one Saturday in 1986)

Get ready for the quirky, the quaint and the downright fascinating tales hidden in Melbourne & Victoria's past, brought to you by The Royal Historical Society of Victoria. Join Sean Reynolds and a rotating roster of guests as we dig up the most jaw-dropping secrets and stories you've never heard. From Melbourne to Mildura, Gippsland to Geelong – we're zigzagging across Victoria to bring you the wild, weird and astoundingly true tales of our slice of Australia. This is Victoria’s history, but not as you know it.

When Jade’s best friend, Hannah, tells her they’ve been invited to the most exclusive party of the year, Jade is intrigued. But when Hannah explains that it’s going to be a nude costume party at billionaire Steve Bannon’s mansion, she gets even more excited. As they begin to search for sexy costumes online, Jade becomes increasingly aroused thinking of all the fun she can have playing a different character.

Den unge herre til godset St. Aubyn's Park har vundet den purunge Fredericas hjerte, da han redder hende fra en aeldre mands tilnaermelser i en naerliggende skov. Crispin hedder godsejeren, der i øvrigt er bror til Fredericas naere veninde Tamarisk. Men dystre begivenheder i fortiden stiller sig i vejen for de to unges lykke. Fredericas vej til kaerlighed og aegteskab bliver lang og snoet, for fortiden rummer grufulde hemmeligheder - og de må frem i lyset først.

My name is Slade Merrick, and I'm a f--king sex addict...I've been told it's a problem. But I see it as a passion; something that I'm good at. And who the f--k stops something that they're good at? They want me to seek help; get my cock in check. Don't judge my lifestyle. You're no better than me. Just admit it, you like to f--k too. Sex is what I do best; my own personal high, so I embrace it instead of being ashamed. When I'm not f--king, I'm slinging drinks at Walk Of Shame or stripping my way into your bed; another thing I'm good at.

When Alessia accompanies her Italian grandmother, Ornella, on a trip to the beautiful island of Ischia, she’s amazed to discover Ornella worked on the set of the 1950s movie, Castello D’Amore. Getting to know charismatic journalist Roberto, Alessia starts to suspect a link between the film set and the untimely death of Ornella’s teenage sister Maria. As Roberto digs deeper, Alessia is torn between helping the man she is falling in love with and guarding her grandmother’s secrets.

Thrown out and thrown away. Lorne Austen - on the very day his alpha’s youngest children were 15 - was told to pack his bags and leave the only real home he had ever known. Heartbroken and alone he takes shelter from the snowstorm with other stranded travelers, miles away from the family he had always considered his. Doctor Jonathan Owens has personal reasons for never wanting to mate an omega, but all his good intentions are tested to the limit when he meets Lorne. After spending the night together he is devastated to find Lorne has vanished without a trace.

After the tragic loss of his wife, Helen, Luke Hansard is desperate to keep her memory alive. In an effort to stay close to her, he reaches out to an online friend Helen often mentioned: a reclusive photographer with a curious interest in beautiful but broken objects. But first he must find her - and she doesn’t want to be found. Orla Kendrick lives alone in the ruins of a remote Suffolk castle, hiding from the haunting past that has left her physically and emotionally scarred.

Souhaitez-vous pouvoir lire et comprendre les gens? Aimeriez-vous communiquer efficacement et réussir en convainquant tous vos interlocuteurs avec pertinence? Souhaitez-vous améliorer votre résilience afin de surmonter toutes les crises et aider les autres à faire de même? Vous trouverez la solution dans ce livre audio !En contrôlant vos sentiments, vos pensées et vos émotions vous parviendrez à vous discipliner davantage et à avoir plus de succès. Ainsi, vous serez également plus solide sur le plan émotionnel dans les situations difficiles.

Preguntarse por la naturaleza de la felicidad equivale a cuestionar el sentido y el fin de la existencia. La felicidad es una búsqueda a lo largo de la vida de cada persona; la infelicidad, en cambio, es el abandono del deseo de seguir viviendo. Más que una meta, la felicidad es un estado de ánimo, el anhelo de una vida plena.

When the YouTube-famous Ghost Gang—Chrissy, Chase, Emma, and Kiki—visit a haunted LA hotel notorious for tragedy to secretly film after dark, they expect it to be just like their previous paranormal huntings. Spooky enough to attract subscribers—and ultimately harmless.

‘I AM 000’ is a podcast produced by Triple Zero Victoria which provides life-saving call taking and emergency dispatch services to the Victorian community. It gives rare access to real emergencies and the people behind them. You will hear real audio between callers and call-takers as the patients and on-scene emergency services personnel share their stories and first hand experiences as they deal with emergencies and often challenging situations.

Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy and Sarah Brandt are not the only ones who have recently tied the knot. Family friend Mrs. O'Neill was delighted when her daughter, Una, wed the seemingly wealthy and charming Randolph Pollock. She didn't wonder why such an affluent man would want to marry a poor Irish girl, no matter how pretty she was. But now Mrs. O'Neill has a problem. Pollock's servants have found their employer bludgeoned to death, with Una cradling his body.

I 1893 finder en ung engelsk pige ved navn Annalice Mallory en gravsten med sit eget navn på - men hendes navnesøster er død 200 år tidligere. Fundet udløser en raekke dramatiske og uhyggelige begivenheder, hvor fortid og nutid blandes sammen, og snart befinder Annalice sig på en desperat rejse mod en mystisk tropeø. På sin rejse møder hun dødbringende farer - men også et løfte om kaerlighed.

Da stjernen i 1870'ernes London morskabsteater, den vidunderlige Desiré, dør, efterlader hun sin unge datter i svaere vanskeligheder, som må overvindes en efter en, i Paris, i London, på Leverson Manor, før hun kan vinde lykken. Victoria Holt (1906-1993), pseudonym for Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert, var en af verdens mest elskede og mest produktive forfattere i sin levetid. Hun begyndte allerede at skrive som 17-årig, og en raekke af hendes tidlige noveller blev trykt i London-aviserne.

Ellen Kellaway er altid blevet betragtet som den fattige slaegtning, en pige uden fremtid. Men da den flotte og rige Philip Carrington forelsker sig i hende - og også frier - ser fremtiden endeligt lysere ud. Tragiske haendelser spolerer imidlertid de unges spirende kaerlighed, og Ellen må affinde sig med sin skaebne - en trist guvernantestilling hos en usympatisk familie. Men endnu engang tager begivenhederne en overraskende vending.