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Ad executive Tomas Garcia shouldn't even be thinking about his daughter's alluring dance teacher, Yazmine Fernandez. Burned by a shattering divorce, he's laser-focused on his career - and giving his young daughter, Maria, the secure home she deserves. Plus, he's certain that with her talent, Yaz will be leaving Chicago and heading back to Broadway as soon as she can. But Yaz's generous spirit and caring concern are sparking a desire Tomas can't resist - and doesn't want to let go.... For Yaz, good-looking workaholics like Tomas simply can't be part of her life ever again. She owes it to herself to get back her confidence and fulfill the dreams her papa could not.

Through a series of stories based on her own experiences, the author helps you to navigate through the ups and downs associated with death and grief. Each chapter provides suggestions about tools, words, and actions appropriate for many types of difficult situations.

Olivia was a pioneer. The daughter of a teenage Tejana mother and an immigrant father, she blazed a trail for the modern Hispanic woman and influenced the political history of Texas. Listen to her story and enjoy the journey from her humble beginnings to the hallowed halls of Washington.

When she receives a wedding invitation from one of her former patients, forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget is more than a little alarmed. Highly intelligent and manipulative, Jerome Barclay suffers from a severe personality disorder. Although she has never been able to prove it, Claire believes him to be highly dangerous, responsible for at least three suspicious deaths - and she fears for the safety of his new bride.

On a bright spring morning, John Hyde opens the gates to the grounds of Moreton Corbet Castle, a local medieval ruin, and discovers the body of a homeless man with his throat slashed. Detective Inspector Alex Randall and his team soon face some disturbing questions: was this a random attack, or does someone have a vendetta against the homeless? For coroner Martha Gunn, establishing the man's identity is essential, but there are no clues.

Priscilla Buckley is probably known for her long and admired tenure as managing editor of the conservative political journal National Review, founded in the 1950s by her brother, William F. Buckley, Jr. But in String of Pearls we meet a different Priscilla, young Pitts Buckley, just out of Smith, eager for the next step up from the college paper to "real" journalism.

In March 1279, Edward I takes a break from hammering the Welsh and bearing down on England's Jews to vacation in Gloucestershire. The royal party breaks the journey at Woodstock Manor. There, one life begins as the queen gives birth to a daughter, and one draws to an end as apoplexy fells Baron Adam Wynethorpe. Hastening to the baron's deathbed is his eldest son, Hugh, a veteran of Edward's Crusades who can't shake off the battle horrors he has witnessed.

Late summer, 1270. Although the Simon de Montfort rebellion is over, the smell of death still hangs over the land. In the small priory of Tyndal, the monks and nuns of the Order of Fontevraud long for a return to routine. Their hopes are dashed, however, when the young and inexperienced Eleanor of Wynethorpe is appointed their new prioress. Only a day after her arrival, a brutally murdered monk is found in the cloister gardens, and Brother Thomas, a young priest with a troubled past, arrives to bring her a more personal grief.

Come il bambino si abbandona completamente alla madre, così l'abbandono al Divino è descritto dai saggi di ogni tempo come il segreto di una vita realizzata. Questo audiolibro ci insegna a riappropriarci della nostra innocenza. L'unica regola viene dal momento presente in cui l'anima si muove leggera come una piuma, fluida come l'acqua; così si adatta con facilità a tutte le forme che Dio vuole imprimere in essa... senza sforzo, e con la massima efficacia.

Ci si può sentire soli e inghiottiti dal vuoto anche in famiglia o tra la folla. Ma siamo sicuri che stiamo camminando da soli? Nessuno ci accompagna? Seguendo le tracce degli antichi sapienti possiamo gettare lo sguardo oltre le parvenze. In questo audiolibro troverai strumenti per scoprire la luce calda di una fiaccola che illumina il sentiero, saldamente retta da un amico speciale che abita nel cuore.

Cosa sono il bene e il male? L'uomo può fare a meno della morale agendo come meglio crede? Esiste una relazione tra buono e cattivo comportamento, o tra gioia e dolore? Questo ascolto, illustrando il concetto di dharma, ci mostra come solo guardando dentro di noi possiamo orientarci nel cammino della vita. Possiamo cavalcare le nostre passioni senza esserne disarcionati solo se manteniamo ben salde tra le mani le redini della volontà.

Che tipo psicologico sei? è un audiolibro, proposto dalle Edizioni ENEA, che fa parte della collana La scienza della Relazione a cura di Priscilla Bianchi. Conoscersi è il primo passo per il raggiungimento di un reale stato di benessere. I guna sono le tre energie archetipe che sono alla base di noi stessi e del mondo. In ciascuno di noi c'è un guna che predomina sugli altri e questo spiega gusti, comportamenti, atteggiamenti così diversi nelle persone.

L'uomo è fatto per lo scambio relazionale. Da tempo, però, segno evidente di una civiltà in crisi, stiamo assistendo a un degrado delle relazioni umane...

L’azione non è qualcosa di astratto, accompagna il nostro vivere quotidiano. Non è quindi importante determinare se sia bene agire...

La vita è un delicato gioco di equilibri in quanto la realtà nella quale viviamo è caratterizzata da numerose polarità apparentemente in antitesi tra loro...

In the peaceful setting of the National Trust near Church Stretton, Tracey Walsh drives herself and her four-year-old daughter, Daisy, up the remote Burway in the early hours of the morning, tragically loses control of her car and crashes into the valley below. Tracey is rushed to hospital, but where is Daisy? She has vanished, provoking an intense police search of the area around the Devil’s Chair – land that is rife with legends and stories of witchcraft, sorcery and unexplained disappearances.

On a snowy December morning, a young woman is found outside Patches nightclub in Leek. Half dead from the cold, she says she has been raped. As Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy - fresh from a disciplinary action - investigates, she learns that Kayleigh Harrison has made unsubstantiated allegations before against her stepfather. But there are possible links to a similar rape case six months previously. Is there a real case to investigate or not? Kayleigh holds the key, but how much of her story can be trusted?

Dedicated to her profession, DI Joanna Piercy has built her imposing reputation on thorough investigative police work. However, the job that once excited and intrigued her has now fallen into a familiar pattern of form filling and snide office banter. She resorts to formulaic solutions to resolve her cases, having seen the same situations time and again. But when a strangled body is discovered recklessly dumped on the Leek moorlands, she is forced to revaluate her stance.

For recently engaged DI Joanna Piercy, a murder is the last thing she wants to deal with. Especially one with as dark a back story as that relating to calculating landowner and farmer Jakob Grimshaw; a man who managed to make enemies of all his neighbours and what little family he still had. One thing is certain; Joanna has a tough job ahead of her.

As the autumn storms of 1271 ravage the East Anglian coast, Crowner Ralf finds the corpse of a brutally murdered soldier in the woods near Tyndal Priory. The dagger in the man’s chest is engraved with a strange cursive design, and the body is wrapped in a crusader’s cloak. Was this the act of a member of the Assassin sect, or was the weapon meant to mislead? Ralf’s decision to take the corpse to the priory for advice may be reasonable, but he is soon caught up in a maelstrom of conflict, both personal and political.