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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: when adopted midwife Mariam embarks on a project to protect an abandoned premature baby, she is forced to face her own abandonment years before. Time is running out before the baby is sent to the orphanage. Mysterious characters from the city surrounding the hospital will be crucial in determining the baby's fate, as will a workaholic British doctor with whom Mariam finds herself falling in love.

Meet Wren Frankenberger, a bright and curious 10-year-old, who wanders the Tennessee mountains behind her house, learning, sketching, and adventuring. Nothing will get in the way of Wren finding her cousin. Bears, snakes and blueberry patches won’t slow her down! Will Wren’s wit and wilderness experience save her cousin? Will Rattler prove his worth?

D'Adopte un mec à Facebook, Internet est devenu LE lieu privilégié pour faire des rencontres faciles, rapides, expérimentales... mais aussi plus chaudes ! Webcam coquine qui dégénère en plan à trois virtuel, plans Q éphémères d'une twitteuse compulsive avec ses followers, blogging libertin qui dérape en marivaudage sexuel familial.

Valeria Vose: A Novel takes a listener deep inside the cultural and emotional life of a 1970’s southern woman. Privileged, approaching age 40, her “perfect” life is shattered. Determined to survive, she’s forced to confront all preconceived values and expectations in order to find a path toward creative, spiritual independence and her true identity.

Lemon Crushers is the working woman's guide to overcoming the challenges life brings, both personally and professionally, and not just to enduring them, but thriving as a result of them. Becoming a Lemon Crusher will help you avoid, even eliminate adversity, both in and out of the workplace. Learn to use each challenge you face as a stepping stone to success. Live a happier, more fulfilled, more purposeful life.

Para cualquiera que haya comido quesos en zapatillas!Únete a Pipsqueak y Cheesepuff, dos ratones inteligentes, en un paseo hilarante ya que superan a dos chicos obstinados que intentan hacerlos mascotas y un gato con sobrepeso que sueña con atraparlos para la cena. Sólo la abuelita, la Sra. Bell, entiende lo importantes que son estos ratones para el funcionamiento interno de la casa. ¡Parte detectives, parte espías, parte ratones Wiley, Pipsqueak y Cheesepuff te llevarán a una aventura mientras planean y llevan a cabo la Operación Mozzarella!

Join Pipsqueak and Cheesepuff, two clever mice, on a hilarious ride as they outsmart two stubborn boys intent on making them pets, and an overweight tabby cat who dreams of catching them for dinner. Only grandmotherly Ms. Bell understands how important these mice are to the inner workings of the household. Part detectives, part spies, part wiley mice, Pipsqueak and Cheesepuff will take you on an adventure as they plan and carry out Operation Mozzarella!

Dylan cannot sleep without his Cosydoze, but it goes missing on a visit to Granny’s house. Where has it gone? And can Mum and Dad get Dylan to sleep without it? A funny, heart-warming story for very young listeners told in rhyme.

In this work, Pascal draws an analogy between a man who was appointed king just because he resembled a long-lost king and those who are rich and powerful. He argues that the twists and turns of life are all due to chance and unforeseen events. The wealthy and powerful ought thus to despise desire and its kingdom and aspire to that kingdom of love in which all the subjects breathe nothing but love and desire nothing but the benefits of love.

Pascal illuminates the substantial differences between the early church and the Church of today. Formerly, it was necessary to forsake the world in order to be received into the Church, while people now enter the Church at the same time as they enter the world. There was thus an essential distinction between the world and the Church, the two being considered as two opposites.

Blaise Pascal describes the way in which a soul comes to repentance. It is a process of realization, self-abasement, and the understanding of grace. From this follows gratitude and the determination to serve and worship.

Nicolas de Chamfort was a great French writer in the pessimistic tradition. He wrote comedies, political essays, literary criticism, portraits, letters, and poetry. His aphorisms are iconoclastic, colorful, and picturesque.

"A Respectable Woman", first published in Vogue in 1894, is quintessential Chopin and shows us the full extent of her skill as a short-story writer. The story centers around Mrs. Baroda, who, somewhat reluctantly, is playing the gracious host to her husband’s surprise guest, Gouvernail, an old friend of her husband’s from college. The story delves into Mrs. Baroda’s psychology as she struggles with her desires versus her self-made image and self-opinion.

The short story focuses on two lovers torn apart by the American Civil War and the locket that inexorably binds them together.

"Beyond the Bayou" is about La Folle, an African American woman and former slave, who overcomes her crippling and irrational childhood fear of passing an imaginary territorial line or going beyond the bayou.

An intense story of love, lust, and betrayal set amidst an intense storm in the American South, The Storm is the sequel to At the 'Cadian Ball by American novelist Kate Chopin. Beautifully crafted and a considered a groundbreaking work of fiction when it was published, it candidly discusses sexual passion and extramarital affairs.

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women. In this 1916 speech, The Crisis, she called for vigorous action towards attaining women’s suffrage. It was in no small part due to Catt’s tireless efforts that American women were granted the right to vote in 1920.

Listen to rhyming verse that describes each of our eight planets. Have your child learn a little about each planet's respective chemical makeup and weather patterns. In case you can't set up a telescope anytime soon, experience the planets in their interstellar magic.

Lutte des classes, ambition politique, désirs refoulés et violence sourde... Une œuvre originale et parfaitement construite qui allie roman noir à la tension implacable et comédie sociale mordante, quelque part entre le "Monsieur Ripley" de Patricia Highsmith et "Le Dîner" de Herman Koch, le tout porté par un humour grinçant tout britannique. Ben Fitzmaurice est devenu le meilleur ami de Martin Gilmour le jour où, dans la cour de leur très chic école, Ben, héritier d'une prestigieuse dynastie, a pris la défense de Martin, petit boursier.

Trollet, som egentligen heter Jennifer, är ensam. Men en dag dyker Jonas upp i Trollets liv. Han har mörkt hår och gröna ögon, men ingen klocka och ingen särskild ordning i livet. Men han har en gitarr och kan sjunga. Trollet blir vän med Jonas, och blir kär i honom. Det enda problemet är att Jonas är trettio år. Trollet är en 11-årig tjej med rött hår som egentligen heter Jennifer. Hon har en mamma som är hemmafru och bantar varje morgon, en pappa som är lärare och samlar på frimärken och en storasyster som har flyttat ihop med en kille med slips.