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Simone de Beauvoir affranca la donna dallo status di minore che la obbliga a essere l’Altro dall’uomo, senza avere a sua volta il diritto né l’opportunità di costruirsi come Altra. Con veemenza passa in rassegna i ruoli attribuiti dal pensiero maschile alla donna – sposa, madre, prostituta, vecchia – e i relativi attributi – narcisista, innamorata, mistica.

A young teacher buys a one-way ticket to Shishmaref, Alaska. Within minutes of landing, she finds herself dealing with unexpected, rustic accommodations, and the culture shock of living in a remote Iñuit community. She relies on her courage, resilience, and wit while enduring freezing temperatures, power outages, loneliness, and first-year teacher anxieties and missteps, but eventually realizes that those challenges pale in comparison to the life lessons she learns about the heart of teaching.

Ein furchtbarer Verlust, ein letztes Versprechen und zwei ergreifende Liebesgeschichten Versprich mir, dass du tanzt ist eine Achterbahnfahrt der ganz großen Gefühle von Bestseller-Autorin Dani Atkins, der Meisterin der tief berührenden Liebesromane mit ungewöhnlichen Twists. Es ist der erste Hochzeitstag, den Lily ohne ihren geliebten Adam verbringen muss. Sie sitzt im Garten ihrer Eltern und sieht Adams Hund zu, der durch die Äste eines gefällten alten Baumes tobt.

London, 1922: Überraschend wird die junge Sarah Piper beauftragt, den Geisterjäger Alistair Gellis bei seiner Arbeit zu unterstützen. Gellis untersucht derzeit einen höchst mysteriösen Fall: Maddy Clare, ein 19-jähriges Dienstmädchen, erhängte sich in einer Scheune. Angeblich sucht die...

This book will support you in creating massive amounts of change and invite you to create massive amounts of money. Getting Out of Debt - Joyfully is the beginning of a totally different possibility. If you're looking for a quick fix to your money problems, this isn't it. If you're ready to change your entire financial reality, let's go. What is the worst thing that could happen? Your life stays the same? You start to create money? Your choice.

Elisas Leben ist eng getaktet. Als Landschaftsarchitektin hetzt sie von einem Projekt zum nächsten, immer erreichbar, immer unter Strom. Als ihr Vater zu einer Untersuchung ins Krankenhaus muss, willigt sie widerstrebend ein, für einige Tage sein Gutshaus auf Rügen zu hüten. Auf der Insel angekommen, ist Elisa entsetzt. Das Haus entpuppt sich als Sanierungsprojekt, der Garten ist von Brombeerranken überwuchert. Während sie versucht, das Chaos zu bewältigen, entdeckt Elisa etwas wieder: ihre Liebe zu den Pflanzen.

Ariadne, Tochter von König Minos und Schwester des Minotaurus, ist so ganz anders als ihre Geschwister. Aufgewachsen mit den griechischen Heldensagen, schwört sie sich, ihr Schicksal selbst in die Hand zu nehmen und es nicht den Göttern zu überlassen. Jedes Jahr beobachtet sie, wie das unterworfene Athen als Tribut 14 Jugendliche nach Kreta schickt, um den Hunger des Minotaurus zu stillen.

Once, she had nothing. Now, Charlotte is living with her two husbands: Michael, her "golden lover", and James, her master. And she is expecting James’ child.

Do you feel like you are living the same day over and over? Are you going through life on autopilot? You're not alone. You can start to change your life. By choosing to find the time to focus on your well-being, you are making a decision which not only benefits you but also helps those you love. When you thrive, they thrive. Opportunities to practice mindfulness are opportunities to melt away stress and quiet the demands of everyday life. Make the best choice for you, and start taking advantage of those moments today.

When the man who wants to marry you and the man you want to marry are not the same, what happens next? And when the past is revealed, your secrets confessed, who will protect you?

Robyn felt like she'd lost her little sister Crystal when she ran off and married Guts. She was only 18-years-old and she'd not heard from her in over a month. But one night, she got a phone call from Crystal asking for help. Unfortunately, the call was cut off when Guts caught her on the phone. Robyn was frantic. She was her only family and she was determined to find her. Robyn takes what little money she has and heads to Nashville. The manager of the motel gives her a lead on a job at a biker bar nearby.

“[Simone] Gorrindo’s prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid...[an] engaging, evocative memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review “A hopeful, unifying memoir.” —People This profoundly intimate memoir about marriage, friendship, and the power of human...

You've been his for years, and I respected it. Maintained my distance. Kept my silence. My secret. Until that night you came to me, disillusioned, angry and hurt. God help us both, but I crossed my carefully drawn line before you left, disappeared. Now, you're back, and my need for you is a beast that hasn't been fed and has grown hungrier in the years since I've seen you. I remind myself we can't be more than friends, that you're off-limits to me. But it doesn't stop me from secretly craving what can never be mine.

After convicting a superior for corruption and shooting off a gangster's crown jewels, the career of Hamburg's most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nosedive: she has been transferred to the tedium of witness protection to prevent her making any more trouble. However, when she is assigned to the case of an anonymous man lying under police guard in hospital - almost every bone in his body broken, a finger cut off, and refusing to speak in anything other than riddles - Chastity's instinct for the big, exciting case kicks in.

Tennyson Clark is getting a life. First step: quitting her job as assistant to Dominic Anderson, star quarterback for the Washington Warriors, her best friend…and the man she’s been secretly in love with for years. But since the gorgeous, if overprotective playboy has only ever seen her as his BFF, she’s finally ready to relinquish her tattered fantasy and move on. Enter steps two and three: new job and new man. Football is Dominic's life, and with his contract soon up for renewal, all his focus needs to be on the game.

Vampire und Werwölfe, die Ermittler der Unterwelt! Nr.1 Horrorthriller von Simone Homberg (Simone H.) In einer kleinen Hafenstadt verschwinden immer wieder Menschen. Eine Spezialeinheit der Polizei wird darauf angesetzt. Zu ihr gehören auch Annabell und David. Sie sind keine gewöhnlichen...

Welcome to The Audacity Files. I'm Simone, your Lead Detective, investigating the mixed signals, situationships, and unanswered questions that make modern dating feel like an unsolved crime.

Bestimmt Arbeit Ihr Leben? Montag bis Freitag hart arbeiten, von Gehalt zu Gehalt leben und darauf warten, dass 45 Arbeitsjahre vorübergehen. Das ist der triste Alltag vieler Menschen. Aber das Gute ist: Sie können ihn ändern! Denn in der Realität müssen Sie nicht, wie ein Komparse im Film, das vorgegebene Drehbuch befolgen. Der Autor, Unternehmer und Investor MJ DeMarco nennt dieses fremdbestimmte 9-to-5-Leben das "Skript".

From USA Today bestselling author Naima Simone comes a new scorching dark mafia romance in The Hunted Kingdom series in which a modern-day Cinderella must fight against the stepbrother who inherited her legacy—but he wants more than just the family empire: he wants her. He’ll burn it all to...

A Rouen, in quella Normandia asfittica su cui aleggia il fantasma letterario di Emma Bovary, Pierre e Françoise, raffinati intellettuali parigini, conoscono Xavière, una ragazzetta per la quale entrambi provano un morboso attaccamento. Sono gli anni a cavallo tra i Trenta e i Quaranta del Novecento, la Francia è sull'orlo della guerra e dell'occupazione, l'ultimo scampolo di leggerezza, forse, prima che il conflitto segni un'intera generazione.