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Every writer's origin story is different. In How I Became a Writer, Gloria Steinem charts her unlikely journey from restless teen in Toledo, Ohio, to professional magazine writer in Manhattan - with sage advice and "random directives" for getting started.

As America was stepping into the modern era, one great beauty became the artist's model of choice. Her perfect form became the emblem of the Gilded Age and appears on the greatest monuments of New York and the nation. Supermodel, actress, icon - her beauty paved the way for a life of glamour, passion, and ultimately tragedy. Her name is Audrey Munson.

"Ma famille incarne ce que la joie a de plus bruyant, de plus spectaculaire, l'écho inlassable des morts, et le retentissement du désastre. Aujourd'hui, je sais aussi qu'elle illustre, comme tant d'autres familles, le pouvoir de destruction du verbe, et celui du silence."

"Tu sais parfois, je me demande s'il n'y a pas quelqu'un qui prend possession de toi." Ce livre est le récit de ma rencontre avec L. L est le cauchemar de tout écrivain. Ou plutôt le genre de personne qu'un écrivain ne devrait jamais croiser.

Quand Laurence a approché Derek, l’acariâtre capitaine de la caserne locale, elle ne cherchait qu'à aider sa cousine influenceuse avec un projet vidéo. Elle ne s'attendait pas à ce que le pompier en profite pour inspecter son appartement et vérifier sa conformité en cas d’incendie, ni à ce qu’il réalise tous ses souhaits, même les plus farfelus! Pour Derek, être pompier est une vocation. Jamais il ne s’est laissé distraire par une femme. De tout façon, pour lui, c’est compliqué. Malgré sa stature imposante et son courage, il est maladroit en matière de séduction.

For years, Marianne Williamson has been offering weekly lectures based on A Course in Miracles. These lectures are profound, insightful, and compelling with an always-relevant message.

Now updated with a new introduction by number-one New York Times best-selling author Marianne Williamson, the 20th anniversary edition of Healing the Soul of America shares her timeless, visionary message of political healing. This is a time, according to Williamson, for Americans to return once again to our first principles, both politically and spiritually. Here, Williamson draws plans to transform the American political consciousness and encourage powerful citizen involvement to heal our society.

In the 1960s and '70s, Frank Yandolino rode the hippie counterculture movement alongside visionaries like Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang, and he helped put together the Woodstock Festival of 1969, the era's emblem of love and peace. From then on (and even before that), Yandolino, a beguiling fast-talker, charmer, and gifted storyteller, took charge of his life according to those ideals, grabbing and embracing all opportunities that were thrown his way.

In the powerful and unique program recorded live in front of a sold-out audience, you're presented solutions to some of the toughest challenges at this time in our generation. For the first time together Marianne Williamson and Dr. Deepak Chopra will take you through an in-depth understanding of consciousness as a field of infinite possibilities, infinite creativity, infinite energy and infinite abundance.

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American novelist and playwright who, in 1930, became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. The Job is one of his earliest novels. Concerning the exploits of a 1920s career woman, it is one of the first novels about feminism and is considered one of the stepping stones towards Lewis' success.

When women we admire such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg advise "Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes" and Vice President Kamala Harris has to remind a room full of men "I'm speaking," it can feel as though having our own voices heard at work can be a lost cause. Whether we're confronting a colleague about an inappropriate comment or trying to avoid being talked over by a male colleague—again—we can find ways to have our voices heard at work. Speak Up, Speak Out helps listeners use their voices more effectively to sound off on issues large and small.

You are no doubt a busy student with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to read your textbook in preparation for the LSAT Exam. However, the truth is that the LSAT exam is a challenging test. Thorough preparation cannot be overlooked, therefore. That is why the author, Dennis Reed, developed the LSAT study guide!

Gewaltfreie Kommunikation mit Kindern: Wie Sie schon im frühen Alter gelassene Konfliktlösung beibringen, damit Ihre Kinder besser kommunizieren können und auch in Krisensituationen die Ruhe bewahren! Wünschen Sie sich mehr Harmonie in den eigenen vier Wänden? Möchten Sie häufige Wutausbrüche oder Streitereien mit Ihren Kindern beenden? Sie wollen stattdessen ruhig und gelassen mit ihnen kommunizieren? Dann finden Sie in diesem Hörbuch heraus, wie das ganz einfach geht!

Isn’t it true that your life improves as your ability to see it in a positive light increases? But isn’t it true that on same days, you find yourself grumbling about your circumstances, angry at people, or mired in negative thoughts about yourself? Although we all know the tremendous, positive power of love and forgiveness, aren’t they sometimes difficult concepts to fully embrace? If you are ready to take the leap, I’d like to show you the way to making a permanent sift in your way of thinking....

In this recording of a workshop at The Sophia Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, Marianne Williamson explores how a new spirit is emerging among us. It comes not from a particular region or religious or ethnic group but from deep within the human psyche. It is a new internationalism that is infused with spiritual understanding, both respecting the beauty of all our individual identities and turning the realization of our oneness into a massive movement for global change.

This inspirational and down-to-earth audio program by Marianne Williamson, The Sacred Self Workshop, captures the essence of a great weekend recorded live at The Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. In this program, Williamson tells us that the purpose of our lives is to become the sacred enlightened self which already exists in each of us, and that this “Sacred Self” is the part of us that is serene and indestructible. According to Williamson, by committing with heart to a new path, we can begin to live our lives as an endless prayer. Williamson’s dynamic style helps listeners open to greater love, abundance and joy in their lives.

What do your spiritual convictions have to do with traffic jams, job anxiety, reading the newspaper, or arguing with your spouse? Everything, according to Marianne Williamson. It is the way we live in our everyday world that determines the shape of who we are.

Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe cerebral palsy and was quadriplegic, unable to speak, and wracked by seizures. He died suddenly at age 17. In fiercely honest, surprisingly funny, and sometimes heartbreaking prose, Jesse's mother, Marianne Leone, chronicles her transformation by the remarkable life and untimely death of her child.

How can you love God when you can't see or hear Him? That was the question asked by a little girl many years ago when she was told by a godly teacher that she was to love God with all her heart and soul. This book is a collection of stories, written and compiled over the past 12 years, which tells how God answered that question throughout her life. In a myriad of different ways God intersected Marianne's life with His presence and His truth, and began to reveal His great love for her.

Emma Caldwell doesn’t hate anyone—except for Hugh Warrilow, the man who jilted her older sister and left like a coward to join the army. Men are clearly not to be trusted, and Emma is determined not to give her heart to one. No, a marriage of convenience is the very thing to suit her.