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Rebecca Finch is a highly successful romantic novelist who has fallen out of love with love. Things look bad. The High Princess of Romance is having a crisis of Faith. On Mount Olympus things aren't any easier. Aphrodite's is fretting because divorce is almost as popular as marriage. So with even her favourite earth-bound acolyte, Rebecca Finch, showing signs of disillusionment, Aphrodite resolves to take drastic action.

300 essential words and phrases, the 100 most common verbs. How to learn a language differently ? With our learning method : I listen, I repeat, I speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening, combined with words, essential phrases, and a vocabulary list.

1217 charts the nascent sense of national identity that began to swell. Three key battles would determine England’s destiny. The fortress of Dover was besieged, the city of Lincoln was attacked, and a great invasion force set sail and, unusually for the time, was intercepted at sea. Catherine Hanley expertly navigates medieval siege warfare, royal politics, and fighting at sea to bring this remarkable period of English history to life.

Virginia Woolf's semi-biographical novel, inspired by her life changing love affair with Vita Sackville-West, takes us on an exhilarating, fantastical roller coaster, tracing 400 years of English history, in the company of her shape-shifting, gender-bending, time-travelling hero Orlando, whose inner conflicts and triumphs challenge our preconceptions of the nature of love, the battle of the sexes, posing socal and metaphysical questions including what we now call climate change.

Have you ever dreamt of strolling through the charming towns of Slovakia, or connecting with Slovakian friends and family on a deeper level? Then, Basic Slovak is the perfect first step for your language learning. This five-session audio course focuses on comprehension and pronunciation, equipping you with the foundational skills to navigate everyday conversations in Slovak.

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure was one of the most banned and censored books in the history of literature. John Cleland (a contrary man of letters, prone to boasting and getting into trouble with the law) wrote it while he was in Fleet debtor’s prison. First published in 1748 and withdrawn within a year, it was not legally republished until 100 years later. Widely considered to be the first example of literary erotica and a stylistic tour de force, with its combination of charm, daring, and love of pleasure.

With elegant simplicity and unswerving honesty, Irene Nemirovsky chronicles the brutalizing effects of war on three ordinary Parisian families whose lives intertwine, spanning the years between 1912 and 1941. What starts out as a glorious campaign in 1914, full of optimistic declarations of France's greatness, soon turns to shame and cynicism as the conflict drags on. Parisians, suffering from cold and hunger, seem unable or unwilling to comprehend the horrors of the trenches.

Lady Chatterley's Lover, written in 1928, tells the story of a passionate love affair between an upper-class woman and her husband’s gamekeeper, which was thought to be so shocking in its content and its straightforward use of explicit sexual terms, that it was not officially published until 1960.

Kenya, 1961. As a small plane carrying Nathalie Nelson lands at a remote airstrip in the Serengeti, Nathalie knows she’s run just about as far as she can from home. Trained as an archaeologist, she has fought hard to be included in a team excavating ruins in Kenya, her first opportunity to escape England and the painful memories of her past. But before she can find her bearings, the dig is surrounded by controversy - and murder. In a country on the brink of crisis, nowhere and no one is safe.

300 essential words and phrases, the 100 most common verbs. How to learn a language differently ? With our learning method : I listen, I repeat, I speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening, combined with words, essential phrases, and a vocabulary list.

Filth is Witch Sludgegooey’s Fiend; Arthur the Dragon is precise, meticulous, and lives with his mum; and O’Brian is a Leprechaun who is often mistaken for a Pixie. These three very different characters have two things in common - the band they play in (The Witchway Rhythm Boys) and the music they play - Crash ‘n’ Bang - which nobody likes very much. But then The Thing in the Moonmad T-shirt becomes their manager and sets their sights higher - on the forthcoming music competition The Battle of the Bands.

Der Wall Street Tycoon ist ein Arsch. Ein Weltklasse-Alpha-Loch. Brutal gut aussehend, jedoch schrecklich beschädigt. Der Typ Mann, den man nie zufriedenstellen kann und der die Manieren einer Messerklinge sowie entsprechende Macht und Geld besitzt. Ich bin mit Mobbern wie ihm zur Schule gegangen, weshalb ich keine Angst habe.

Die "Traumnovelle" von Arthur Schnitzler erschien zuerst 1925 kapitelweise in der Berliner Modezeitschrift "Die Dame". Die erste Buchausgabe erfolgte dann 1926 im S.-Fischer-Verlag. Schnitzler beschreibt in dieser Novelle die scheinbar harmonische Ehe des Arztes Fridolin und seiner Frau Albertine. Unter der Oberfläche ihres bürgerlichen Zusammenlebens werden beide von ungestillten erotischen Begierden und Träumen heimgesucht. Erzählt werden die sonderbaren Geschehnisse einer Nacht und des darauffolgenden Tages, die Fridolin und Albertine widerfahren.

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja knigu "Radzha-joga. Uchenie jogov o psihicheskom mire cheloveka" pisatelja, perevodchika, okkul'tista Uil'jama Uokera Atkinsona, izvestnogo pod literaturnym psevdonimom Jog Ramacharaka. V jetoj knige v prostoj i jasnoj forme izlozheny principy uchenija Radzha-jogi. Osnovnaja cel' Radzha-jogi - kontrol' uma posredstvom meditacii (dh'jana), osoznanie raznicy mezhdu real'nost'ju i illjuziej i dostizhenie osvobozhdenija.

The Lifted Curtain and My Conversion are two short erotic classics written by the colourful, aristocratic political fire-brand, esteemed author, and renowned libertine the Comte Gabrel Honore Riquetti de Mirabeau, who spent much of his young adult life in prison at the behest of this father, who disapproved of his son's licentious behaviour. During one particular stretch, Mirabeau decided to put pen to paper, to while away the time and to make the separation from his then paramour more bearable.

Мир как воля и представление—центральная работа немецкого философа Артура Шопенгауэра. Шопенгауэр утверждал, что назначение этой работы во всестороннем рассмотрении «единственной идеи». Он разработал свою философскую систему, состоящую из четырёх разделов: эпистемология, онтология, эстетика и этика.

Томас Карлейль - британский писатель, публицист, историк и философ.

The 1000 essential words. How to learn a language differently ? With our learning method : I listen, I repeat, I speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening, combined with words, essential phrases, and a vocabulary list. 20% of the words are used 80% of the time.

The 1000 essential words. How to learn a language differently ? With our learning method : I listen, I repeat, I speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening, combined with words, essential phrases, and a vocabulary list. 20% of the words are used 80% of the time.

Wenn ein magisch völlig unbegabter Mann zehn Töchter hat, die nur so vor Magie strotzen, dann ist das absolute Chaos vorprogrammiert. Ronald Clevis, Versicherungsvertreter und alleinerziehender Vater von zehn Jung-Hexen, muss sich nicht nur um die Erziehung seiner Töchter kümmern, sondern gleichzeitig versuchen, heiratswillige Damen fernzuhalten. Zehn Mädels im Haus sind mehr als genug! Einzig Elvira, seine unverheiratete Schwägerin, kommt und geht wie es ihr passt und wirbelt dabei den ganzen Haushalt durcheinander. Dabei hat sie natürlich auch ein Auge auf Ronald …