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They say that revenge is a dish best served cold - but how cold does it have to be? ?And should it be chopped, sliced or diced? What dish is best suited to a man who at one point had an ex-wife, a wife, a pregnant girlfriend and a new girlfriend - all at the same time? I was an independent, clever, blonde and slightly wild 31-year old Swedish girl when I in 1998 met the man of my dreams.

She’s a street thief working for a rival gang, and she deserves the most severe punishment. I’ll kidnap her and make her pay with her body all night long. But when she calls me Daddy and begs for more, I know I’ve found the one I’ve been looking for.

A "wild west" tale of two brothers who battle both the state and a mafia empire in 1920s Italy, from famed Italian author Andrea Camilleri. Raffadali, province of Agrigento, 1920s. The Sacco brothers are free men with strong ideas about socialism and the state. Their lives change radically one morning when their father, Luigi Sacco, receives an anonymous letter from the local Mafia demanding protection money and is the victim of a robbery attempt. Luigi tells the police of the extortion letters he received, but the police don't know what to do.

From mob wife with blood on her hands to straight-arrow breadwinner for her four kids, a tale of transformation and empowerment from a woman whose life in organized crime makes Carmella Soprano look like June Cleaver.

Are your product, marketing, and sales teams struggling to sing the same tune? The Product Momentum Gap is the handbook for leaders who aspire to create a symphony of success. In its audio, you’ll uncover the transformative power of the Product VCP (Value Creation Plan), a comprehensive blueprint for aligning your teams in creating genuine value for the customer.

What can organizational leaders in business, education, government, and most any enterprise learn from an unemployed, unmarried woman who lived in patriarchal, misogynistic rural England more than 200 years ago?

Aggie is hired to be a private nurse to an ailing millionaire’s wife. But she's not the one who dies. The couple is ensconced in a mansion in the small town to evade their enemies in the city. The marriage is anything but happy and she grows attached to the wife while repelled by the husband and baffled by the numerous silent servants who don’t seem to do anything but scuttle away. As Christmas approaches, everyone’s peace is shattered by a death at the big house. It isn’t who anyone expected would die, and it certainly wasn’t from natural causes. There are plenty of suspects ...

Laura Rodríguez Colón tiene un plan: Digan lo que digan los adultos, ella volverá a vivir con sus padres. ¿Puedes culparla? Es difícil hacer amigos en una nueva escuela. Y si bien quedarse en la casa de su tía no está mal, simplemente no es lo mismo. Pero todo eso va a cambiar. Porque cuando Laura encuentra un cachorro, parece cosa del destino. Si llega a entrenar al cachorro para que se convierta en un perro de terapia, entonces pueda que se le permita visitar a sus padres. Tal vez el perro los ayude a mejorar y las cosas finalmente vuelvan a ser como deberían ser.

Many women in the 21st Century today are more successful now in the marketplace than ever before, oftentimes, moving past their issues, but never resting. This metaphoric and literary masterpiece is constructed to help women visualize the exposure of hidden issues from past and present, ultimately leading to overcoming hurts, failures and disappointments. You will be encouraged to see that you are not the only one who has been marginalized by your experiences.

Whether you have an established step family or are in the early stages of a blended family, you can find value in the information presented in this audiobook. Also included is a chapter of real-life case studies from stepparents caring for disabled children. The experiences they share hold valuable lessons on issues that may arise and how they handled them in their endeavor to maintain a happy stepfamily.

job offer from a law firm in America. Yet before making any life-changing decisions, there is her assistant Leah's wedding to attend at the newly restored Greysbridge Hotel—with its private beach and beautiful pier. The perfect location—but the festivities are brutally cut short when a young American, a visitor also staying at the hotel, drowns in full view of the wedding guests. And when a second death is discovered the same evening, Ben finds herself embroiled in a real country-house-murder-mystery, where all the guests are suspects.

Todos los días vivimos y escuchamos historias de discriminación hacia el indefenso, la que destaca o, simplemente, los diferentes. HA LLEGADO EL MOMENTO DE TOMAR LA PALABRA: Hagamos del mundo, entre todos, un lugar mejor. Queremos creer que se trata de algo lejano, pero en realidad está más cerca de lo que creemos. Lo vemos en la calle, en la escuela. A veces, tristemente, en nuestros hogares. Todos los días escuchamos historias de odio y discriminación, historias que nos hacen pensar hacia dónde va el mundo. Es momento de cambiar.

She traded the rat race to work in an academic lab. Instead of peace and quiet, she discovers jealousy, treachery and murder. And she may be next. COVID, a stressful job and the end of Gemma’s marriage signaled a need to change everything in her life. Finding a job in public information in a university affiliated lab near Raleigh run by a world-renowned researcher seemed like a dream come true. Lured by warmer weather, a pay raise, cheaper rent and a scenic commute, she wasn’t prepared for another cutthroat environment. Or the murder of a researcher found in a chimp’s cage. Relieved ...

"Maternar" es un acto revolucionario. Como muchas otras experiencias femeninas, la maternidad ha sido narrada por ellos, que han cortado el cordón umbilical de la sabiduría. Ahora es el momento de reconquistarlas, compartirlas y exigir lo que necesitamos para vivirlas con el placer para el cual se diseñaron. Este audiolibro está escrito pensando en todas las mujeres, para que sin discriminación de clase puedan entender todo lo que transitamos a partir del instante en que decidimos ser madres y vean reflejado en sus páginas lo que más les preocupa.

Commissario Salvo Montalbano aus Sizilien ist der Star unter den Mordkommissaren der internationalen Krimiliteratur: ein liebenswerter Eigenbrötler mit einer Vorliebe für schöne Frauen und gutes Essen. Aber auch jemand, der "seine" Sizilianer kennt und mit südlicher Nonchalance und nüchternem Realitätssinn die vertracktesten Fälle löst - und deshalb schon bald das raffiniert inszenierte Spiel um den Fall Luparello durchschaut... Commissario Montalbano löst seinen ersten Fall. Nach dem Tod von Bodo Wolf wird der Sprecher Hans Jürgen Stockerl die Montalbano-Reihe fortführen.

Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie’s first and only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than 60 hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her 77 years (and counting).

Need to remain steadfast and joyful regardless of the difficulties that life brings your way? This devotional memoir provides 12 faith-filled inspirational life lessons and action walk to encourage you through life's most difficult storms. The storm represents any life period of hardship and great uncertainty. It's a distressing period that propels the individual into physical, psychological, and emotional distress. In essence, the storm is a period where your focus becomes one-dimensional, consuming your thoughts and overwhelming your life. The truth is you do not know what to do.

Sitting between planned parenthood and Pornhub, sexual wellness is the next blue ocean for tech entrepreneurs and investors alike, but nobody is talking about it. This recession-proof industry will be worth an estimated $122 billion by 2026, yet no one is prepared for this wave of innovation. But after years of being ignored due to shame and stigma, the sexual wellness revolution is upon us at last. If you ask Andrea Barrica, it's embarrassing it took this long.

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast; there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story.

Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die”? Few would seriously subscribe to this notion of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac whose music had gained national recognition was convicted of manslaughter after the prosecutor quoted liberally from his album Shell Shocked. Mac was sentenced to 30 years in prison, where he remains. And his case is just one of many nationwide. Rap on Trial places this disturbing practice in the context of hip-hop history and exposes what’s at stake.