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The author, who has been praised for her ability to make learning a breeze, has assembled a collection of easy-to-follow step-by-step exercises that make building the characteristics that will carry you to success simple and natural. In today's fast-paced, competitive world, it's important to keep up, to get ahead - 8 Simple Steps to Realizing Your Dreams will give you the tools you need to do exactly that.

A business magnate calls on wine expert Benjamin Cooker to kick-start his new wine business in Beaujolais, sparking bitter rivalries. Can the Winemaker Detective and his assistant keep calculating real estate agents, taciturn winegrowers, dubious wine merchants, and suspicious deaths from delaying delivery of the world-famous Beaujolais Nouveau?

Happily-ever-after turned upside down, inside out, and completely over the top! Christian is gaga for Princess Marigold. He's just a commoner, though, and no match for royalty. Heck, he lives in a cave with a troll! And now he's discovered another reason to put his love-soggy heart on ice: Queen Olympia is scheming to take over the kingdom, and she'll bump off Marigold to do it! Can Chris foil her diabolical plans?

New York City, 1832. Clarissa Tanner is carefree and lighthearted until the sudden death of her parents. Forced to pay off family debts or lose her horse farm, she’s given one choice: auction off her beloved horses or reluctantly enter 1830s New York Society social season to face the dreaded marriage market. Nicholas is a man on a mission, searching for his missing brother. Fearing Liam may be the victim of foul play, Nicholas needs to keep a low profile while conducting his search.

Can the world’s toughest immortal warrior win the heart of the world’s toughest immortal woman? Brutus is not your average immortal warrior. He leads the gods’ army, he’s tough as nails, and his mind is so powerful, he no longer speaks to communicate with his men. Some call him telepathic; he just calls it being a badass. But despite the many bloody battles and hard-won victories, this is one mission he’s not so sure about. There is a plague sweeping the immortal world.

Former Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush and New York Times bestselling author of The Man I Knew, Jean Becker shares touching and pivotal life lessons from a leader that left a mark on people's hearts and souls.

Un hameau provençal cerné de blé, de lavande, de genièvre. Le père Janet contemple cette nature depuis des années, il en connaît les sortilèges, et les secrets qui bruissent sur la colline. En montrant jadis où il fallait creuser pour capter l'eau, il a donné une fontaine, la vie, au village. Mais aujourd'hui Janet est vieux, couché près de l'âtre, il attend la mort en délirant. Ses paroles mystérieuses, menaçantes, inquiètent ses proches : c'est peut-être le signe qu'un danger plane sur le village.

ROBBIE WILLLIAMS is probably the hottest celebrity artist around. When he left Take That he firmly established himself and the burning question always was - "When will he rejoin?". Robbie has attitude, he does what he wants in a very confident way. This is not a music release by the artist or record label but an exclusive audiobiog in which we hear how he continues to be a workaholic, what motivates him, why he is so controversial and how he survives.

Soupçonnée d'adultère, la duchesse Audéarde de Bromael a été jugée, répudiée et emprisonnée. Le champion qu'on l'a accusée d'avoir trop aimé, le chevalier Ædan de Vaumacel, lui a fait défaut au cours de son procès.

Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. She’d been so much more fortunate than most Jews, saved from the horrors of the Nazi regime. Being adopted by Elizabeth and Daniel Lieber meant she and Erich spent the war in Northern Ireland, safe and loved, but Liesl always knew something was missing. When an opportunity to return to Berlin to represent her university presents itself, she is so torn.

A scholar from a cold country lived in a hot country, but he found it difficult to adapt to the climate. In the daytime, his shadow became tiny: it really was too hot for him. So, he stayed at home and went out in the evening. As the temperature went down, the town came to life. One night, the scholar was woken by a mysterious and intriguing light. What was it? How could it be explained? That is what he would try to discover. - Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist.

Une fois passé le cap de la quarantaine, travailler devient facultatif pour la plupart des Québécois. Quoi, vous n’étiez pas au courant ? En fait, il s’agit du secret le mieux gardé de notre système économique : la sur­consommation et l’analphabétisme financier nous main­tien­nent artificiellement prisonniers du métro-boulot-dodo. Ins­piré par la stratégie FIRE ( Financial Independence, Retire Early ), j’ai moi-même pris ma retraite à 39 ans, sans gagner à la loterie et en dépit d’un salaire moyen.

Harp Devereaux is torn. Part of her desperately wants to return to Ireland to finish what she and her family and friends started, and to witness the departure of the British forces from Ireland after eight hundred long years. But the other part finds life in America during the Roaring Twenties too exciting to trade for the sleepy streets of County Cork.

Colel, the Goddess of Bees, has been looking for Mr. Right for over 70,000 years. So when she meets the hunky owner of a small-town flower shop and explodes with flutters and tingles, she’s almost certain that he’s the one. Only two problems: her tiny black-and-yellow army suddenly won’t let her anywhere near him, and…is that a freaking epinephrine pen in the fridge? “Dear gods! He’s allergic to bees? Say it isn’t so".

When travelling, do you want to journey off the English-speaking path, meet people and communicate easily? If so then you need to Get Talking. Through 10 common scenarios plus culture and travel advice, you'll learn the skills for understanding and the confidence to speak French in just 10 days. Practise the most frequent words and expressions for: introducing yourself, booking a room, checking into a hotel, asking for directions, getting in touch with an old friend, meeting an old friend for coffee, booking a table at a restaurant, arriving at a restaurant for dinner...

Tula Jones is a simple farmgirl who never dreamed she’d fall for a real-life god. And not just any god. When it comes to Zac, God of Temptation, no man is more dedicated, sexy, or alluring on the planet. Hello! Temptation powers! But when Zac and his brethren mysteriously disappear, Tula is beside herself. Then she receives a photo from a mysterious stranger, and the news is devastating. The gods are prisoners in the underworld, and Zac has been cheating with the other “guests”. Tula doesn’t want to believe Zac would betray her. She and Zac are soul mates, right?

In each generation, a competition is held to find the next empress of Honoku. The rules are simple. Survive the palace's enchanted seasonal rooms. Conquer Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, and you can marry the prince. All are eligible to compete - all except yokai, supernatural monsters and spirits whom the human Emperor is determined to enslave and destroy. Mari has spent a lifetime training to become Empress. Winning should be easy. And it would be, if she weren't hiding a dangerous secret.

Dotty Davis belongs to that subgenre of hard-boiled, sleazy, overweight, boozing, and otherwise disgusting private detectives increasingly offered as protagonists working for the "betterment" of humankind. Nonetheless exhibiting a modicum of charm through her heavy-handed humor, Dotty proceeds to wiggle her way out of several murder charges after answering a middle-of-the-night call from the male prostitute living downstairs from her.

A brand-new story of crushes, first love and friendship from the original Queen of Tween - Jean Ure! When Maya falls off her bike and into the arms of Jake Harper, her cousin, Mattie, thinks the crush that follows will be as short lived as the rest - especially as Maya is a year 8 nobody and Jake is a year 12 god. Mattie's pretty sure that Jake's taken, anyway. But if Jake's got a girlfriend, then why does he keep offering Maya lifts around town? And why does Maya accuse Mattie of being jealous of her?

Cet été, la famille des Jean-Quelque-Chose au grand complet part à l'Hôtel des Roches Rouges. Au programme, excursions à la mer avec le canoë et les chaussures en plastique qui donnent des ampoules, visites clandestines de l'hôtel à l'heure de la sieste, représentation exceptionnelle du grand cirque Pipolo, sans oublier le passage du tour de France. Et surtout, quelques cartes postales bien senties aux cousins Fougasse !