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No matter how much money you earn, it’s always going to feel like it’s never enough. Why? Because you’re not the one who is in control of your finances. That’s what happens when we live a life without a budget. There’s no guidance, no framework, no reliable source to turn to which ensures we’re doing what we should be doing with our money. What if you knew that the secret to financial freedom all came down to simply having a budget? This audiobook is going to take a deep-dive into everything you need to set you up for a successful financial future by using a budget.

"Le Front populaire a changé concrètement la vie des gens. Pas de grands théâtres comme sous la Révolution française, pas de grands moments susceptibles de grandes fresques sous le pinceau d'un David, mais des petites choses. Des petites choses qui permettent à Jean Renoir ou à Fernand Léger de mettre en scène ou montrer les congés payés. C'est-à-dire des gens qui partent à bicyclette, en tandem et qui pour la première fois de leur vie découvrent la mer". Michel Onfray.

In January 1866 Hopkins composed his most ascetic poem, The Habit of Perfection, but a few days later he included poetry in the list of things to be given up for Lent. In July he decided to become a Catholic, and by May 1868 Hopkins firmly 'resolved to be religious'. Less than a week later, he made a bonfire of his poems and ceased to write for almost seven years.

Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit. Darkly funny and mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty.

Rising literary star and Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Sarah Gerard uses her experiences growing up along Florida's Gulf Coast to illuminate the struggles of modern human survival - physical, emotional, environmental - through a collection of essays exploring intimacy, addiction, obsession, religion, homelessness, and incarceration.

Amanda Carter had plenty of trouble just keeping the Flying K Ranch operating in the black. But when Jesse Kincannon showed up in a low-slung black Porsche, she knew that this gorgeous outlaw brought more trouble than she could handle. Jesse had come back to Montana to claim more than his inheritance. He’d never forgotten about Amanda - the girl who’d made his blood run hot and fast. For the first time in his life, he wanted more than hot sex and a fast good-bye. Could Amanda could learn to trust this daring rogue … or would he give her all the trouble she could handle … forever?

A CINDY GERARD CLASSIC! In this classic Cindy Gerard novel, Walk Away Joe (formerly published as The Cowboy Takes A Lady), Cindy revisits one of her favorite couples of all time. If you missed this book when it came out several years ago, here’s your chance to fall in love with these two outstanding characters and their touching love story. Tucker Lambert finally has his own piece of the pie thanks to the trust of a friend who has faith in him. Now he’s training cutting horses on his sweet little Texas ranch that he calls Blue Sky. But the skies turn dark and brooding when his friend ...

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad"—newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. Six years later, the specter of a revanchist Russia returned when Putin's forces invaded and annexed the Crimean peninsula. Eminent political geographer Gerard Toal moves beyond the polemical rhetoric to study the underlying territorial conflicts and geopolitical struggles.

Fans of Cindy Gerard’s New York Times and USA Today’s best-selling Black Ops, Inc. series are going to LOVE revisiting Luke and Val (book 6: With No Remorse) in this intensely suspenseful, emotional, and sexy short story that Cindy created due to the many requests from her fans to hear from this knockout couple again. Luke Coulter and his wife Valentina (Black Ops, Inc series book 6: With No Remorse) are taking their long awaited honeymoon. The island of Palau is a beautiful destination for some fun in the sun and some awesome diving for Luke. A tragic accident could cost Luke his life....

TROUBLE IN THE WIND The big city reporter was trouble. Lucas Caldwell knew it the moment Kelsey Gates, with her pretend cowboy boots and sunny smile, set foot on his ranch asking questions. He wasn’t about to let the red-haired spit-fire dig into his business and discover the secret he’d held close all of his life. Neither was he going to let her get under his skin and into his heart. FALLING HARD AND FAST Kelsey suspected that getting this rugged, loner rancher to trust her, let alone open up to her, was going to be a tricky proposition. He proved her right ten ways from Sunday. What ...

REISSUE: A classic, emotional romance by Cindy Gerard. If you missed it the first time - make sure you get it now! LEAP OF FAITH (formerly titled: A Bride For Abel Greene) SHE DIDN'T NEED A MAN TO RUN HER LIFE Scarlett Morgan knew about hard work, big rewards and huge disappointment. With the Crimson Falls Hotel, her historical north woods wilderness business, crumbling around her feet, she resorted to desperate measures. She sold raffle tickets for a chance to own part of the hotel and create some much needed cash for repairs. She'd counted on an absentee 'partner'. She got Colin Slater ...

Gerard Tellis, a noted expert on innovation, advertising, and global markets, makes the compelling case that the culture of a firm is the crucial driver of an organization's innovativeness. In this groundbreaking book he describes the three traits and three practices necessary to create a culture of relentless innovation. Organizations must be willing to cannibalize successful products, embrace risk, and focus on the future. Organizations build these traits by providing incentives for enterprise, empowering product champions, and encouraging internal markets.

Many people have asked why the paths of Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper never crossed, since the two men were contemporaries in London in 1888. There have even been some scurrilous suggestions that Holmes was himself the Ripper. The paths of the two men did indeed cross. Holmes and Watson knew precisely who the real Ripper was and even where he lived. They also knew exactly what happened to him. If you have the stomach for it, listen and all will be revealed!

A lonely man gets more than he bargained for after ordering a hand-in-a-can from an old magazine.

Gerard Schwarz describes how Bela Bartok developed new rhythmic patterns modeled on Balkan and North African folk music and explored unusual instrumental colors and textures. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Bartok's innovative tendencies earned him a reputation as an uncompromising modernist, making him almost a musical anarchist who was unappreciated and largely unperformed, particularly in his native Hungary.

In New Jersey, Parviz Amritzar is mourning for his family - killed by a US airstrike back in Pakistan - and vowing revenge against his adoptive country. He devises a plan to shoot down Air Force One and gets a lucky break when he reaches a terrorist contact who knows how he can obtain a surface-to-air missile from the Russians. When the CIA picks up on the rumors of this plot, they call on Malko Linge to carefully observe the would-be terrorist. But as soon as Malko thinks he has a handle on the situation, everything changes.

James Gerard Shaw first visited Our Lady of the Cape as feature editor for the British United Press on August 15, 1948 - the day Isabelle Naud went home from the Blessing of the Sick and rose from the wheelchair she had been tied to for 10 years. Shaw's unique insight, writing at the height of Marian piety in Canada, and with access to the exhaustive archives at the Cape, reveals many crucial details long forgotten about the extraordinary story of Canada's spiritual heritage.

According to the Journal of Sex Research, about 47-60 percent of the people have fantasized of dominating someone sexually. What’s more; a slightly bigger number of women than men are aroused by the idea of being dominated! Interestingly, before the release of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 2013, it was considered a mental disorder by health professional to participate in sadomasochism and fetishism.

Don’t fear failure...fear regret! Have you ever felt stuck in a professional rut? It’s something nearly everyone experiences at some point in their life. After years of climbing the corporate ladder, you just don’t feel that sense of fulfillment anymore. As an employee-turned-business-owner, Stephen Gerard understands your pain, and in Stuck in the Middle Seat, he explains how you can free yourself from the daily grind and find real success as an entrepreneur.

Debussy was the first great composer of the twentieth century. He departed from previous musical practice to a greater extent than any previous composer. Though he completed his masterpieces Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun and the triptych Nocturnes before the turn of the century, it was not until 1902 that Debussy received widespread recognition.