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"An internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her life to her work and to her secret lover, Martìn Acla, a prominent businessman. When his sudden stroke makes headlines, her world implodes; the idea of losing him is terrifying. Desperate to find a way to be present during her lover's final days, Valeria commissions his artist wife, Isla, to paint her portrait - insinuating herself into Martìn's family home and life. In the grand,...
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The Ghost In Grace Houston's House is a short story based on an actual haunting that took place in a small town in North Carolina. The time is the mid-1960s and the story is related by Grace Houston; a bold woman who didn't believe in ghosts until the day they moved in. The author is invited for coffee one evening and the story is revealed in a quaint fashion of two women talking and sharing coffee and cake.
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Intimate, explosive, revelatory American women talk about having been unfaithful to their primary sexual partners. Why did they cheat? How and where did they manage to meet with their lovers? Were the affairs more sexually satisfying than the women's primary relationships? More emotionally satisfying? Did they feel guilt? Did they keep their affairs secret or admit them to partners or friends? And, whether confessed or not, how did infidelity affect...
45) The tempted soul
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"Carrie Miller longs for children, but after ten years of marriage, that blessing eludes her. So she fills her days with caring for her home, making artistic gifts and fancy cakes, and caring for her flock of chickens, every one of whom has a name and who under no circumstances will go in the soup pot. Carrie also finds support in the friendship she shares with her two best friends Amelia and Emma, and relishes the weekly afternoons they share working...
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"A powerful call to action for achieving equality in leadership. Women make up fewer than ten percent of national leaders worldwide, and behind this eye-opening statistic lies a pattern of unequal access to power. Through conversations with some of the world's most powerful and interesting women--including Jacinda Ardern, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Michelle Bachelet, and Theresa May--Women and Leadership explores gender bias and asks...
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Let's get raw and real, as fourteen influential women talk about the many ways that collaboration became a powerful game-changer in their lives.
Competition is an old paradigm. Great women empower other women to be great, and behind every collaborating woman is a tribe of women who have her back. Everything's easier, and everyone flies higher than they would have dreamed possible. It also makes the journey a lot more fun!
"If you want to go fast,...
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"Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven't told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Renee Engeln's Beauty Sick
The pandemic of beauty sickness is ravaging the female world and paralyzing women's potential. How often do women talk about their physical flaws? How often do they complain about their weight or wrinkles? How many young girls feel too ugly to be seen every day? In Beauty Sick (2017), Renee Engeln explores this devastating pandemic and how it affects women's lives, psychology, and...
50) The sober lush: a hedonist's guide to living a decadent, adventurous, soulful life--alcohol free
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TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2020]
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"A sober hedonist's guide to living a decadent, wild, and soulful life--alcohol-free. In a culture where sipping "rosé all day" is seen as the epitome of relaxation, "grabbing a drink" the only way to network; and meeting at a bar the quintessential "first date," many of us are left wondering if drinking alcohol really is the only way to cultivate joy and connection in life. Jardine Libaire and Amanda Eyre Ward wanted to live spontaneous and luxurious...
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Inspires women to engage with life and culture in a God-honoring way.
How should we listen to, and think in a gospel way about, the ordinary things we come across in modern life? Things we watch, read, eat, and do. There are so many voices saying so many different things that the temptations are to either disengage completely, or find ourselves being influenced more and more by the world.
In this book, godly, clear-thinking women talk about a range...
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Inspires women to engage with life and culture in a God-honoring way.
How should we listen to, and think in a gospel way about, the ordinary things we come across in modern life? Things we watch, read, eat, and do. There are so many voices saying so many different things that the temptations are to either disengage completely, or find ourselves being influenced more and more by the world.
In this book, godly, clear-thinking women talk about a range...
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Whether it is a school debate, magazine article, book or a speech in any women oriented event; women empowerment is one of the oldest and yet a very hot and happening topic. The book "Women Empowerment – A Path to Self Development and Inspiration for Women" talks about the same topic, but from a different perspective. It is not like any other typical women empowerment books that are filled with the miseries of women which de-motivate the reader...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 To successfully date, get laid, and have great relationships, you must be willing to challenge yourself and leave your comfort zone. All of the above beliefs keep you safe, and they keep you in the nursery where everything is cozy and safe.
#2 Bad daters struggle with three fundamental problems. They are isolated, lack skills, and have self-limiting beliefs. They...
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Do You Have Kids? Life When the Answer is No takes on topics from the shifting meaning of family to what we leave behind when we die. Weaving together wisdom from women ages twenty-four to ninety-one with both her own story and a growing body of research, Kate brings to light alternate routes to lives of meaning, connection, and joy. Today about one in five American women will never have children, whether by choice or by destiny. Yet few women talk...
56) Bitching
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In the early 1970s, the national conversation regarding feminism was very different. Public discussions of womanhood-single life, marriage, workplace harassment, rights, gripes-were often channeled through movement spokeswomen and always refracted through the lens of talking to men about men. Little was shared about the chats happening behind closed doors where everyday women talked to women without the threat of men listening in. But, all that changed...
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Feasting her way through an Italian honeymoon, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked back in China, where she'd lived for more than a decade. Who really invented the noodle? she wondered, like many before her. But also: How had food and culture moved along the Silk Road, the ancient trade route linking Asia to Europe-and what could still be felt of those long-ago migrations? With her new husband's blessing,...
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Deep cover agent, RYDELL gambles with people's lives to prove loyalty, earning his way into the trust circles on a pills and powder trafficking sting. He's married to a sinking ship of addictions named MARCY, a recently retired adult filmmaker. They have a daughter named SHANDELLE, who is excelling in ice skating. The bonding Rydell forms with his Underworld crew puts not only his case in danger, but his marriage. Nothing means more to him than his...
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A satirical debut novel for fans of Women Talking and Red Clocks about two best friends-a disgraced influencer and a struggling actor-who form The Atmosphere, a cult designed to reform problematic men.
Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand for women. But a confrontation with an abusive troll has taken a horrifying turn, and now she's at...
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