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"Maria sube el volumen y deja que los gemidos de la mujer inunden su habitación. Es sumamente estimulante saber que ella está realmente sentada del otro lado. Maria roza sus labios vaginales con la punta de sus dedos. Está tendida sobre su espalda. Con la cabeza girada hacia la pantalla, su mirada se pasea por la vagina de la mujer, sus senos redondos y la cifra en aumento en la esquina superior derecha". 

In this fifth volume of the series, the residents of Hobbs, Maine, are relieved to have gotten through the summer relatively unscathed by the pandemic. Town doctor, Liz Stolz, is warning about a fall surge, but everyone is ready to get back to normal. Liz has agreed to help her friend, architect, Sam McKinnon, build a sound-proof practice room over Erika Bultmann’s garage. As the days grow shorter, Erika is worried about her wife, former opera singer and Episcopal rector, Lucy Bartlett, who walks alone on the beach before dawn. Fortunately, the early Christmas gift is ready before tragedy...

Catalina Martín est désespérée. Pour ne pas arriver seule au mariage de sa sœur, auquel assisteront son ex et sa fiancée, elle a assuré à toute sa famille en Espagne qu'elle viendrait accompagnée de son petit ami américain. Sauf que ce petit ami n'existe pas. Et voilà que ce qui n'était qu'un mensonge inoffensif est à présent hors de contrôle. Quatre semaines avant les festivités, elle ne voit aucune issue.

Eva Andrews would do anything for her best friend, even if it means dropping everything to plan a last minute wedding at Castle Mountain Lodge. Especially when the last thing she feels like doing is celebrating love now that she's sworn off men. And with Jeff Michaels, the rugged and all too good-looking ranch hand determined to get in her way, it won't be easy. Jeff's never wanted more than the life he has at the Lodge, but an exciting new job opportunity and the arrival of a beautiful - albeit frustrating - woman have him second-guessing everything.

Effektives Sprachenlernen mit Spaß, Spannung und Motivation. Compact Lernkrimi Hörbücher sind die ideale Kombination aus spannungsgeladenem Krimi-Hörgenuss und effektivem Sprachtraining. Die Kriminalgeschichte wird von Muttersprachlern gelesen und eignet sich hervorragend, um das Hörverstehen gezielt zu verbessern. Die Geschichte zum Mitlesen sowie zahlreiche textbezogene Übungen mit Lösungsteil und Glossar sind im kostenlosen Begleitbuch (im PDF-Format) enthalten. Spanisch - Niveau A1. Zur Geschichte: Maribels Hochzeit wird zum Trauertag, als sie plötzlich leblos am Boden liegt.

The Story of a New Name is an extraordinary novel about two young women, Lila and Elena, growing up in Naples in the early 1960s. At 16 Lila marries the shopkeeper Stefano. She is filled with pleasure at her new wealth and horror at the life she has chosen. Elena’s own attempts at romance seem to be sabotaged by Lila’s turbulent affairs. As she tries to plot her way out of poverty via academic and literary success, her constant anxiety is that she is just a shadow of the brilliant Lila.

Rev. Lucy Bartlett’s life couldn’t be more perfect. She’s turned around her crumbling church. She’s finishing her doctorate and publishing her first book. Best of all, she is engaged to marry her soulmate, Dr. Liz Stolz. Once a world-famous opera singer, Lucy has been coaching the church’s transgender music director, who hopes to relaunch her career as a natural alto. When Denise lands an audition with a major orchestra, she knows that the conductor is only using her to lure Lucy into performing again. To show her support, Lucy agrees to do the concert, but after the triumphant ...

1992 entschied sich die Autorin der "Neapolitanischen Saga" dafür, inkognito zu bleiben. Seitdem rätseln Leser und Journalisten, wer sich hinter dem Pseudonym Elena Ferrante verbergen mag. Viel interessanter als alle Spekulation ist jedoch das, was Elena Ferrante selbst zur Figur des Autors, über das Spiel mit Lüge und Wahrheit und über ihr Schreiben äußert. In Briefen, Essays und unveröffentlichten Texten erlaubt sie einen Blick in ihre Werkstatt und erläutert ihre Entscheidung, nicht als Person in die Öffentlichkeit zu treten.

When you're looking for a little escape to the rugged mountain landscape that's as beautiful as it is wild, unwind at Castle Mountain Lodge. Christmas represents everything Andi Williams is supposed to have, and doesn't. Running away to a remote mountain lodge in the Canadian Rockies, sounds like the perfect way to escape, until a mix-up finds her sharing a villa with sexy, rough around the edges, Colin Hartford. Colin's determination to enjoy the holiday he's missed for the last five years, sweeps Andi into a season of joy that she's not sure she's ready for.

In this audiobook you will learn how to finally re-program your mind for weight loss success and create the new, stronger version of yourself. You will also receive many practical tips to help you transition to a healthy diet and start losing weight without feeling deprived.

El Sáhara, 1890. Cuando Beatriz Ayala vuelve en sí, después de estar a punto de morir en pleno desierto, tiene una sola idea en la cabeza: regresar a su hogar en España, del que fue brutalmente arrancada para ser vendida como esclava. Nada ni nadie le impedirá llevar a cabo su empresa. Ni siquiera Tahir Abdul-Azim, poderoso líder de una Confederación tuareg, el bravo y noble guerrero que la ha salvado de las garras de la muerte, tan atractivo e imponente que despierta en ella un fulgurante deseo imposible de dominar.

In Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the two protagonists are now in their 30s. Lila, married at 16, has left her husband and the comforts of her marriage and has now joined the workforce. Elena has left the neighbourhood in Naples, been to university, and published a successful novel, all of which has brought her into a wealthier, more cultured world. Both women are seizing opportunities to flee a life of poverty, ignorance and submission.

The Neopolitan quartet traces the friendship between Elena and Lila, from their childhood in a poor neighbourhood in Naples to their 30s, when both women are mothers but each has chosen a different path. Their lives are still inextricably linked, for better or worse, especially when it comes to the drama of a lost child.

La autora buscó los secretos que guardan mujeres reconocidas por su sabiduría en zonas de raíz matrifocal, que les hace sentirse cada vez mejor, vivir más años y ser cada vez más poderosas. Al final del viaje encontró a las ancianas herederas de los saberes milenarios femeninos que hoy recorren pueblos y países para recordar a las mujeres - y cada vez más a los hombres - donde reside su propio poder y como rescatarlo; como convertirse en oro a medida que envejecen y despertar entre todas el femenino global para enfrentar los grandes retos actuales de la humanidad. 

Dos ciudades en una, o al menos lo fueron durante siglos: la boscosa Buda, que desde su castillo sobre las colinas atesora las mejores vistas de, al otro lado del Danubio, el aún más monumental barrio de Pest. Algo de dual tiene también su espíritu. En Navidad, a su porte imperial se suman los mercadillos pero también las fiestas de luces láser en alguno de sus balnearios centenarios.

It's 1978. Ponte, a small community in Northern Italy: peaceful woods, discarded rubbish, a closed-down factory. An unbearably hot summer like many others, wilted flowers and trips to the waterfalls. Elia Furenti is 16, living in a secluded house with his parents, a life so unremarkable that even its moderate unhappiness has been accepted as normal. That is until the day the beautiful, damaged Anna returns to Ponte and firmly propels Elia to the edge of adulthood. But then everything starts to unravel.

Acțiunea tetralogiei începe în anii 1950, într-un cartier sărac, dar plin de viață, din mahalalele oraşului Napoli, şi acoperă aproape şaizeci de ani, pe măsură ce protagonistele—Lila, cea impulsivă şi întreprinzătoare, şi Elena, povestitoarea îndrăgostită de romane—devin femei, soții, mame şi apoi stăpânele propriilor vieți, legate în tot acest timp de o prietenie profundă şi deseori conflictuală.

Nearly 50 percent of all marriages in the United States will end in divorce. Researchers estimate that 41 percent of all first marriages end in divorce. So, what do the other half do? How can you ensure that you create the kind of marriage that will support you now and well into the future? Creating a successful marriage isn’t about being lucky or obsessing over finding the perfect partner.

If party-boy Gage Mitchell doesn't shape up, he'll lose the acting role of a lifetime, and with it, the only means he has to help his family. PR rep, Megan Powers has only one job - keep Gage Mitchell out of trouble, or she'll be looking for a new career. And what better place to do it then the remote and beautiful Castle Mountain Lodge. After all, how much trouble could he get into deep in the mountains?

"Deux ans avant qu'il ne quitte la maison, mon père dit à ma mère que j'étais très laide." Giovanna, fille unique d'un couple de professeurs, vit une enfance heureuse dans les hauteurs de Naples. L'année de ses douze ans, elle surprend une conversation dans laquelle son père la compare à Vittoria, une tante à la réputation maléfique.