Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Author : LAUREN. HOUGH
Publisher : Coronet
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 28,60 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
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ISBN : 9781529382525
Author : LAUREN. HOUGH
Publisher : Coronet
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 28,60 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781529382525
Author : Penelope Wilcock
Publisher : Lion Fiction
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,33 MB
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1782641491
This latest in Wilcockâs The Hawk and the Dove series takes readers into the world of a fourteenth-century monastery struggling to forgive an old enemy seeking refuge. The first of three sequels to the celebrated The Hawk and the Dove trilogy takes place one year after the end of the third book, in the early fourteenth century. A peaceful monastery is enjoying its new abbot, who is taking the place of Father Peregrine, when an old enemy arrives seeking refuge. Reluctantly taking in Prior William, the upended community must address old fears and bitterness while warily seeking reconciliation. But can they really trust Prior William? In her fourth book in the series, Penelope Wilcock wrestles with the difficulties of forgiveness and the cautions of building trust. Taking the form of journal entries, her story will delight the imaginations of readers captivated by a time and place far distant from our current world. Her timeless themes, however, will challenge our prejudices today as we, along with her characters, are forced to ask ourselves, âWhat is the hardest thing to do?â
Author : Ella Maise
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1398521612
In the game of love you can't afford to drop the ball... Zoe’s always been shy. At college, to try to help her, her friend dares her to do the craziest thing she can think of… kiss a random guy. She follows Dylan into a room she thinks is a classroom and ends up seeing a little too much of him. She can hardly kiss him now… not when after their embarrassing encounter and certainly not after he tells her he has a girlfriend. But when he finds out about the dare, the two make a pact… if they ever cross paths again – and they’re both single – they’ll kiss. Two years later, fate intervenes, and they end up as accidental roommates. Now Zoe’s seeing a lot more of Dylan than she bargained for and it’s even harder to resist peeking the second time round.
Author : Hemant Pandey
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2017-08-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781549516672
This gentlemen is so underrated ! I have purchased the book written by him and oh boy, it was pure gold. You have changed my entire notion of thinking about the girls. Bless you sir. Keep writing." (Via Quora Comments)Ever wondered what women really want and why? Why your girlfriend behaves irrationally ? Author writes on Quora (2500 followers, 3 million views) and runs his own blog (Hemantpandeyblog.com). Book Rated 4.33 on Good Reads. Hemant was a typical die hard romantic, writing love sonnets and letters to women he loved. Even after pouring his heart out he faced countless problems with women in his life. Changing mood of girls, suddenly going cold, neglecting etc. He started by classic psychology textbooks and was utterly disappointed. d104books teach nothing about women psychology or seduction (May be due to its controversial nature), similar to reproductive systems being treated in biology textbooks.Author started his quest in other seduction books. (Just like we learn sex through porn). The problem was immense again. Many of these books are fake and the methods simply don't work. Out of 1000s of pick up artist books and seduction material on 100s of websites, only a handful worked. It took 10 years for author to try and test almost all books on the subject. Second problem was that although these methods really work (No doubt about it), these books never teach you why they work. All methods are basically trial and error. In this book author solved these two problems. All material reinvented (10 years research) and rewritten (modified) by avoiding those which never work. Author devised 100s of entirely new methods which really work in any given scenario with any girl for any man (irrespective of his looks or personality). Every method discussed is supported by logic. Why the method works? This book will definitely save 1000s of hours in researching every book available on the planet, testing all of them and selecting best from the rest. You will learn Avoid FRIEND (PET) ZONE, Nice Guys Test, 'Dump Test' and 'Bitching Test'. Rules of TEXTING, how much, how long, what things to avoid? Get your GIRLFRIEND BACK after silence zone built after a fight or break up (entirely new 'ice breaker text method'.) 10 Most Important points in Modern Dating (Things to avoid). Secret Art of deep seduction (Fractionation) Making a girl fall in trance like love with you FOREVER. DOMINATE GIRLS to be subservient by using entirely new emotional Vaccination and Soft Dumping method. GIRLS BIGGEST TURN OFF and only ONE THING WOMEN LOVE the most in any MAN. Excerpt from the book: Fractionation and Rules of d104ing "You created a fractionation pattern by successively creating pain and pleasure response. Further you are the cause of both.This is the basic of all techniques of dealing with women. You create both pain and pleasure in quick succession and some times in one sentence like ' You look good but your hair could have been better'. Most guys there focus only on pleasure and fail to deliver emotional ups and downs, which women crave". "vii. Never be too available. This is again a test by girl to know your status. If you are always free for her, your value goes down. viii. Never chat with her for longer duration, especially when she is free. She will use you for time pass and dump you! "
Author : Pat Brisson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1101404493
Fifteen-year-old Molly Biden has always been studious, dependable, some might even say saintly. And she?s sick of herself. So when she spots mysterious bad boy Grady Dillon, she devises a plan to make herself over into someone new, someone who will attract Grady?s attention. She succeeds?but a little too well. When Molly discovers she?s pregnant, she?s forced to make the hardest choice of her life. This addictively readable portrayal of Molly?s struggle to accept her pregnancy and the fact that her life will never be the same is told entirely in poetry, from sonnets to haiku.
Author : Evan Carmichael
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 014310909X
“Evan consumes so much content and then knows how to DJ it to inspire people.” —Gary Vaynerchuk, New York Times bestselling author of #AskGaryVee and Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook In this bold and empowering guide, entrepreneur and social media sensation Evan Carmichael shares the secret to turbo-charging your path to success on your own terms. With thought-provoking questions and inspiring, instructive examples, Your One Word will help you nail down your personal mottos - the word that captures your purpose and passion. With this operating philosophy in hand, you will then learn how to leverage this powerful tool to create the business and future of your dreams. Aimed at entrepreneurs as well as intrapreneurs, managers, and anyone else who wants to achieve success in a powerfully meaningful way, Your One Word more than just a useful tool. It's also an inspiring and enlightening read.
Author : Nicole Eva Fraser
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938101595
Sexy, smart-mouthed Melody Sawyer is an underachiever, a home health care nurse with good intentions and a chip on her shoulder. Her troubled daughter Renee recently dropped dead at 24, but Renee's ghost keeps popping in on the family. And her married daughter, Kayla, has been deep in a clandestine affair with pro baseball player Baron Lee Presley since she was 16. Revolving around family and the issues that come with living in a family with mental illness, the story follows the Sawyer women through birth, coming of age, and dealing with the death--and ghosts--of loved ones.--Publisher.
Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501141171
Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A “hypnotic” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Next is “Apt Pupil,” the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. In “The Body,” four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.” “The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,” hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.
Author : Kelly Corrigan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0399588388
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A story-driven collection of essays on the twelve powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships, from the bestselling author of Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place “Kelly Corrigan takes on all the big, difficult questions here, with great warmth and courage.”—Glennon Doyle NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE AND BUSTLE It’s a crazy idea: trying to name the phrases that make love and connection possible. But that’s just what Kelly Corrigan has set out to do here. In her New York Times bestselling memoirs, Corrigan distilled our core relationships to their essences, showcasing a warm, easy storytelling style. Now, in Tell Me More, she’s back with a deeply personal, unfailingly honest, and often hilarious examination of the essential phrases that turn the wheel of life. In “I Don’t Know,” Corrigan wrestles to make peace with uncertainty, whether it’s over invitations that never came or a friend’s agonizing infertility. In “No,” she admires her mother’s ability to set boundaries and her liberating willingness to be unpopular. In “Tell Me More,” a facialist named Tish teaches her something important about listening. And in “I Was Wrong,” she comes clean about her disastrous role in a family fight—and explains why saying sorry may not be enough. With refreshing candor, a deep well of empathy, and her signature desire to understand “the thing behind the thing,” Corrigan swings between meditations on life with a preoccupied husband and two mercurial teenage daughters to profound observations on love and loss. With the streetwise, ever-relatable voice that defines Corrigan’s work, Tell Me More is a moving and meaningful take on the power of the right words at the right moment to change everything. Praise for Tell Me More “It is such a comfort just knowing that Kelly Corrigan exists: she is somehow both wise and self-deprecating; funny but unafraid of pain; frank but gentle. She is the sister/mother/best friend we all wish we could have—and because of this big-hearted book, we all get to.”—Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not Apply “With full-bodied humor and radical sensitivity, Kelly Corrigan transforms the mundane pain of life into a necessary spiritual text of sorts, one that reminds us that we have the right to grieve but the obligation to be grateful. This book will remind you that you are human—and of the fragile loveliness of being so.”—Lena Dunham
Author : John Dickerson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1984854526
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the veteran political journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and current state of the American presidency, and how we can make the job less impossible and more productive—featuring a new post-2020–election epilogue “This is a great gift to our sense of the actual presidency, a primer on leadership.”—Ken Burns Imagine you have just been elected president. You are now commander-in-chief, chief executive, chief diplomat, chief legislator, chief of party, chief voice of the people, first responder, chief priest, and world leader. You’re expected to fulfill your campaign promises, but you’re also expected to solve the urgent crises of the day. What’s on your to-do list? Where would you even start? What shocks aren’t you thinking about? The American presidency is in trouble. It has become overburdened, misunderstood, almost impossible to do. “The problems in the job unfolded before Donald Trump was elected, and the challenges of governing today will confront his successors,” writes John Dickerson. After all, the founders never intended for our system of checks and balances to have one superior Chief Magistrate, with Congress demoted to “the little brother who can’t keep up.” In this eye-opening book, John Dickerson writes about presidents in history such a Washington, Lincoln, FDR, and Eisenhower, and and in contemporary times, from LBJ and Reagan and Bush, Obama, and Trump, to show how a complex job has been done, and why we need to reevaluate how we view the presidency, how we choose our presidents, and what we expect from them once they are in office. Think of the presidential campaign as a job interview. Are we asking the right questions? Are we looking for good campaigners, or good presidents? Once a candidate gets the job, what can they do to thrive? Drawing on research and interviews with current and former White House staffers, Dickerson defines what the job of president actually entails, identifies the things that only the president can do, and analyzes how presidents in history have managed the burden. What qualities make for a good president? Who did it well? Why did Bill Clinton call the White House “the crown jewel in the American penal system”? The presidency is a job of surprises with high stakes, requiring vision, management skill, and an even temperament. Ultimately, in order to evaluate candidates properly for the job, we need to adjust our expectations, and be more realistic about the goals, the requirements, and the limitations of the office. As Dickerson writes, “Americans need their president to succeed, but the presidency is set up for failure. It doesn’t have to be.”