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1) Lavinia
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Excerpt: ""I shall never get over it." This is a phrase that has issued from the same lips very often before; and in general Lavinia Carew listens to it silently, in the impatient confidence that at her next visit to Mrs. Prince, that lady will have got over "it" so completely as to have forgotten that "it" ever existed. She is silent now, but from an opposite reason to that which has hitherto tied her tongue. In her opinion neither Mrs. Prince nor...
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"Les cicatrices de l'école" est le témoignage poignant d'une expérience personnelle de harcèlement scolaire. Il dépeint le parcours tumultueux d'une victime qui a trouvé le courage de se dresser et de faire entendre sa voix. L'auteure vous plonge dans les années de calvaire qu'elle a endurées, décrivant les premiers signes de maltraitance, ses sentiments confus et les obstacles rencontrés, mais aussi les sources de force qui lui ont permis...
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Few cities anywhere are as vibrant, historically rich, and just plain fun as New Orleans. But it's not a "dummy proof" destination. Too many travelers leave town wondering what all the fuss is about.
That doesn't happen to those carrying this book. Written by travel experts Lavinia Spalding and Tami Fairweather, Frommer's EasyGuide to New Orleans introduces travelers to the experiences other visitors miss; and has the type of insightful commentary...
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When bodyguard Brent Hawthorne moves to India to start a new business, he thinks his biggest problems are going to be the language barrier and coping with the intense heat in Mumbai. But when he starts working for one of Bollywood's top actors, Rajkumar Khan, Brent has to rethink that estimation.Raj is not only handsome and sexy but also secretly gay, and sparks fly the instant the pair meet. But Raj is being blackmailed and the unknown sender of...
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An accidental time travel led her to find love in the arms of a Duke from the past. Olivia is finally rebuilding her life and career after a painful divorce. While on a business trip to England, she is driven off the road by a mysterious force, only to come to her senses in the opulent mansion of a handsome Duke. The year is 1872. The wealthy and powerful Duke of Avondale has forsworn love after the death of his wife, for which he blames himself....
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Catch God's vision for His universal Church! See in the Bible God's vision and provision for His people to be filled with the mighty power of His Holy Spirit!
For a fresh perspective from our earthly human position into our spiritual potential, join the author on a delightful journey into realms of perhaps unexperienced possibilities. You're in for a surprise as you follow human spiritual progress compared with one of nature's tiniest creatures:...
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Summary of Kathleen Grissom's The Kitchen House is a coming-of-age story about Lavinia, an Irish immigrant who grows up at Tall Oaks, a tobacco plantation in antebellum Virginia.
When Lavinia's parents, who owe passage to Captain James Pyke, die en route to America, Lavinia is taken in by the captain and his family. She is put to work as an indentured servant and sent to live in the kitchen house with Belle, the captain's illegitimate daughter. Lavinia...
9) King Devil
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A historical mystery set in early twentieth-century New England from the acclaimed author of the Peter Shandy series. Upon graduating from an academy for respectable young ladies, Lavinia Tabard heads to the New England countryside and her rich cousin Zilpha's summer cottage with the low expectations of a charity case. Lavinia intends to endure Zilpha's saccharine sweetness and her "companion" Tetsy's bullying ways only until she can plan an escape...
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The author of the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles brilliantly captures the coming-of-age hopes and yearnings of an adolescent English girl during World War I The fourth child born to a struggling musician and a mother who's an incurable romantic, Lavinia lives an unremarkable existence. But a visit to a sprawling country estate transforms her world and becomes the touchstone for the rest of her life. Lavinia is sixteen when she's invited to a...
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Lavinia Spencer había estado ahorrando afanosamente para agasajar a su familia con una verdadera cena de Navidad. Días antes de las fiestas, su hermano fue víctima de una estafa que los dejó endeudados y al borde de la ruina. Hasta que un misterioso benefactor se ofreció a saldar la deuda. La inocente Lavinia se quedó atónita al saber lo que deseaba a cambio el apuesto William White. ¿Estaba dispuesta a aceptar aquel regalo envenenado por...
12) Carnival of Love
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A CONVENIENT HUSBAND
Rescuing Lavinia Renshaw from a Venetian canal was one thing. Accepting her surprising proposition of marriage was quite another. Maxim Purnell thrived on taking risks. However, his situation was complicated enough without taking on a wife.
But there was no denying Lavinia had succeeded in piquing his curiosity-;and desire. To come in to her considerable legacy she needed a husband, and she intended their arrangement to be a...
13) Dust spells
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Ever since the dust storms arrived and turned her world upside down, ambitious Stella Fischer spends her mornings hiding moonshine in laundry stacks for delivery before returning home to help her sisters--Lavinia and Mattie--run their family home turned boarding house, hoping to make enough money to finally escape to Hollywood. She has no time for distractions, especially from Lloyd, the handsome drifter who works as a hired hand at the boarding house....
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Nach uns eine bessere Welt?
Eine Hitzefront liegt über Europa. Waldbrände geraten außer Kontrolle. Menschen fliehen in Notunterkünfte. Durch die Städte ziehen Demonstrierende. Doch in all dem Chaos geht auch das normale Leben von Didrik, Melissa, André und Vilja weiter - vier Menschen, die um ihre Zukunft kämpfen.
Gegenwärtig wie nie erzählt Jens Liljestrand eine packende Geschichte zur drängenden Frage unserer Zeit: Wie können wir die...
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Nach uns eine bessere Welt?
Eine Hitzefront liegt über Europa. Waldbrände geraten außer Kontrolle. Menschen fliehen in Notunterkünfte. Durch die Städte ziehen Demonstrierende. Doch in all dem Chaos geht auch das normale Leben von Didrik, Melissa, André und Vilja weiter - vier Menschen, die um ihre Zukunft kämpfen.
Gegenwärtig wie nie erzählt Jens Liljestrand eine packende Geschichte zur drängenden Frage unserer Zeit: Wie können wir die...
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Get the Summary of Katy Hessel's The Story of Art Without Men in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Story of Art Without Men" by Katy Hessel chronicles the contributions of female artists throughout history, often overshadowed in a male-dominated art world. From the Renaissance to the present, Hessel highlights women who broke barriers and created influential works despite societal constraints. The book covers...
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El oscuro caballero estaba preparado para tomar la inocencia de la dama
El desalmado y desheredado Zakahr Belenki se había abierto camino desde los bajos fondos de Rusia movido por un único objetivo: destruir la Casa Kolovsky, la famosa firma de moda propiedad de la familia que lo había abandonado. Lo único que se interponía en su venganza era su nueva secretaria, Lavinia, cuya refrescante sinceridad, descaro y pasión por el trabajo...
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The eighteenth-century glass armonica, a musical instrument whose sound emits from rotating water-filled vessels, has long held the power to mesmerize with its hauntingly sorrowful tones. Just as its song-which was once thought to induce insanity-wraps itself in and around the mind, Rebecca Dunham probes the depths of human psyche, inhabiting the voices of historical female "hysterics" and inciting in readers a tranquil unease.
These are poems spoken...
19) Child's Play
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Betrayal. Hate. Revenge. TV starlet Lavinia Johnstone has 9,000 followers on Instagram. One of them hates her. And that person now has her daughter. When ex-DCI Amber Fearns hears about the kidnapping of little Nica, she offers her services as an external consultant to London's Metropolitan Police. Both Amber and her colleagues know only too well that in child abductions the first 24 hours are crucial. A desperate race against the clock begins.Time...
20) Love at All Ages
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Barsetshire novels volume 28
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From a starry-eyed teenager to an elderly clergyman, it seems no one is immune to romance in the county of Barsetshire . . .
In the long-running and beloved series that brings Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire into the mid-twentieth century and offers "a fresh, original, witty interpretation of England's social history," the quirky inhabitants and well-bred families of the county find themselves navigating the delights and uncertainties of love (The...