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Six months ago, Hallie Thatcher's parents sold The Stone's Throw Inn, where she's lived and worked for her entire life. Everything is changing around her, and she's been trying to adjust. And now, there's an interim manager joining the team, ensuring that Hallie can go visit her family over the holidays. What she's not expecting is to like the new manager, Brynn Fitzpatrick, as much as she does. And though Brynn's time in Stoneport is temporary, Hallie can't help but lean into her unassuming charm.

Caroline Abbott loves her job - helping engaged couples pick out the perfect save-the-date cards and invitations for their dream wedding. Working at Noteworthy means she has to deal with the occasional bridezilla, but Caroline’s always up for the challenge. Until one particular bridezilla, whose fiancé happens to be the boy Caroline shared her first kiss with, walks into the stationery store. Alexander Wilder is all grown up now, helping run his family’s successful luxury hotel chain, and is somehow even better looking than she remembers.

Beth's Dead is a new kind of true crime podcast. Brought to you by Armchair Expert's Monica Padman, and Nobody's Listening, Right? this limited mystery series explores what happens when parasocial relationships go terribly wrong. As Monica interviews her favorite podcasters, Elizabeth Laime and Andy Rosen, about why they shut down their mini podcasting empire years ago, a story unfolds that is so shocking and creepy, it's hard to believe. That's when Monica takes on the role of a real-life Nancy Drew, setting out to get answers and to unravel a mystery they thought was long behind them. New ...

What if the patterns you call "problems" were never random... but perfectly structured clues pointing to something deeper? The 7 Universal Laws is not another book of abstract inspiration. It's a guide to the hidden architecture behind your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors-where science, spirituality, and psychology meet. Through real client stories and practical protocols, Monica Ion and Stefan Irimia reveal the seven universal laws that quietly shape every life, whether we see them or not.

In this timely, personal guide, Mónica, the chief storyteller for the national cross-partisan depolarization organization Braver Angels, takes you to the real front lines of a crisis that threatens to grind America to a halt - broken conversations among confounded people. She shows you how to overcome the fear and certainty that surround us to finally do what only seems impossible: understand and even learn from people in your life whose whole worldview is different from or even opposed to yours.

Podcast semanal de pareja donde hablamos sin filtros de familia, relaciones, sociedad y temas que generan debate. Conversaciones reales, sin postureo y con opinión propia. Si te gustan las charlas auténticas, este es tu sitio.

My first crush. My first kiss. The boy who ripped my heart out of my chest again and again. Over and over. I let him have it every single time. Willingly. We are that toxic high school couple you hear about, the one you witness in the hallway as they avoid each other. You laugh at them in class when they’re forced to work together, their gazes full of hatred. We are the couple you gossip about when they win homecoming prince and princess their sophomore year.... The back and forth is what kills me the most. I’m not his princess, I’m the girl he toys with when he’s bored.

Kennedy Ryan and Brooke Nicholas have circled around one another for years without getting to know one another, but getting stuck together during a post-college trip is going to change that. A growing friendship, an abandoned puppy, and no one to act as a buffer between them will upend a lot of ideas they had about one another. Kennedy finally realizes she may have only scratched the surface where Brooke is concerned, and Brooke is terrified that she's falling in love with her best friend.

1560. Adrastée de Nemours, noble heredera francesa, debe abandonar la corte para casarse con un Highlander, por orden de la reina María Estuardo de Escocia, entonces soberana de Francia. Darren MacLennan, Laird de la isla North Uist, está obligado a aceptar esa unión para llenar las arcas de oro y así poder enfrentarse a los clanes rivales. Prisioneros de ese matrimonio que nunca quisieron, ¿lograrán superar sus prejuicios, mientras sus enemigos esperan en las sombras?

En este libro, las expertas en educación y docencia Mónica Montes y María Auxilio Castro describen a cabalidad 100 juegos que promueven el desarrollo de la inteligencia cinestésico-corporal, espacial, lingüística, lógico-matemática, musical y personal de niños en nivel preescolar y primaria.

Whit Lancaster burst into my life like a storm. Dark and thunderous, furious and fierce. Cold, heartless, and devastatingly beautiful, like the statues in our prep school gardens. The school with his family name on the sign. He can do no wrong here. This is his domain. He’s a menace on campus. Adored and feared. Hated and respected. His taunting words carve into my skin, shredding me to ribbons. Yet his intense gaze scorches my blood, fills me with a longing I don’t understand.

Nora Gallagher can begrudgingly admit that she and Gray Ferris are both stellar Philadelphia real estate agents, but that's the beginning and the end of the similarities between them. But when the two women begin to learn that maybe they're not as different as they think, they may finally figure out the most important thing they have in common when it comes to finding a life worth living.

In her memoir, Monica, 54, tells the story of her childhood, when her mother, Betty Mount, forced her head under running bathroom taps and tried to strangle her. She had previously tried to kill Monica as a baby. Monica was taken into foster care, where her new parents ran a brutal regime. To the outside world, the family was devoutly religious and respectable, but behind closed doors, Monica was physically and sexually abused.

A year ago, Sydney King was a successful pro tennis player with a long-term boyfriend, a plan for the future, and a shot at fulfilling all her dreams. Now, she has a cheating ex-boyfriend and a career-ending injury, and—quite frankly—things could not be going worse for her. She hopes that returning home to Stoneport, Massachusetts, will be the reset her life needs—until she finds out her ex's wedding to the woman he cheated with is the social event of the season.

Taylor Tate has one last chance to turn things around. As the owner of Charm City Events, she needs her upcoming week of Valentine's Day events to go off without a hitch. She's painstakingly planned every detail down to the last red heart decoration, but what Taylor doesn't plan on is the less than enthusiastic bar manager she's paired with stumbling into her life at the worst possible time, making things more difficult every step of the way.

When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta Bilingual Academy convene after school, Annelise leads them in thrilling but increasingly dangerous rituals to a rhinestoned, Dior-scented, drag-queen god of her own invention. Even more perilous is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare in which violence meets love. Meanwhile, their literature teacher Miss Clara, who is obsessed with imitating her dead mother, struggles to preserve her deteriorating sanity. Each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality.

Spencer Donato. My brother’s best friend. My dirty little secret. We fell for each other at Lancaster Prep. Sneaking around. Not wanting anyone to find out. He was my first love, my protector, my knight in shining armor. We were made for each other, and I truly believed he was my forever. But then I did the unthinkable, and betrayed him in the worst possible way. I thought I lost him for good … Until I saw him at my brother’s wedding. Now he’s older. Crueler. Unbearably handsome. We’re drawn to each other still, but will Spencer be there for me when I need him the most?

I’m the right hand to the most powerful mob boss in Russia—everything I desire, I get. Except for her. Liza Ivanova is pure temptation... and strictly off-limits as my business partner’s fiancée. She looks like an angel with a body made for sin, but nothing about Liza is as it seems.

Tom, Carrie, Em, Michael–with their cats, fish, dog and hibernating turtle–are sent to live with their aunt and uncle when their mother is in hospital and their father is sailing round the world. However, Aunt Valentina can’t cope with their ‘private zoo’ and the children think she’s stupid. Doors bang, people yell, the cats fight, the piano is hammered in frustration. So Uncle Rudolph lets them live at ‘World’s End’ instead, a run-down inn that he acquired. To them, the broken windows, weeds and rickety benches that greet them represent a new rural life of excitement and freedom.

Maeve Murphy doesn't have much to celebrate this holiday season. Ten years ago, she moved from Kingsford with no intention of returning. But home came calling, in the form of her mother's unexpected death. The least thing Maeve wants is to make friends—she's only back in Kingsford to help her father keep the family business, Murph's, afloat.