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Girls will face many obstacles as they grow into their bodies and identities-false narratives in the media, peer pressure and judgment, and confusion with the process their bodies are going through. But, there is an easier path-through intentional and open conversations.
In, Blossom and Bloom: Tips for Talking to Your Tween Daughter About Puberty, Dr. Cecilia Banga, a board-certified OBGYN, aims to help daughters and their parents communicate more...
44702) Jane
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Pure Terror. Real Courage. A Survivor of the Golden State Killer's True Story.
Jane Sandler had just kissed her husband goodbye as he left for work that morning. When he pulled out of the garage, another man walked in unnoticed. Seconds later, as her three-year-old nestled by her side, Jane heard footsteps-and then saw an intruder wearing a black ski mask. He had a rope and a knife in his hands…
This is the harrowing account of Jane's all-too...
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Are you a material girl? The truth is that, as women, we all have a unique relationship with money. We strive for financial security to support our family, ensure we can retire comfortably, create independence separate from our partners, and along the way, buy some nice purses. As much as we are motivated to make money, we often do not consider the crucial relationship between what we do today and how it WILL impact our life tomorrow. From your Roaring...
44704) Condemned
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An old house. A fire. Two corpses… DI Charley Mann returns in this gripping crime thriller.
West Yorkshire DI Charley Mann is called for what seems a routine job. Prior to demolition a deserted manor house appears to have been the target of an arson attack.
But something isn't right.
The house has a dark history – and a dark present. When the remains of two bodies are discovered hidden inside, it soon emerges they were murdered decades apart....
44705) Surviving Agent Orange: And Other Things I Learned From Being Thrown Under the Partridge Family Bus
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Hello world! Gretchen Bonaduce came onto the scene in the mid-00s, starring in Breaking Bonaduce, a VH1 reality show with her former Partridge Family star husband Danny Bonaduce. Soon after the show ended, they divorced and Surviving Agent Orange focuses on the rest of the story: her eighteen-year marriage to Danny and all that entailed-addiction, infidelity, and the chaos of celebrity, as well as their divorce and her life as a single mother....
44707) Telling
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At the age of twelve, Cassie is old enough to babysit. But when the father of two children for whom she babysits fondles her, Cassie is too confused and embarrassed to know what to do. She becomes more and more frightened as he continues to aggressively molest her. At last, she tells her teenage cousin, Lisa, and together they try to find ways to cope. Lisa realizes the escalating situation is more than the two of them can handle on their own and...
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¿Temes confesar tu edad? ¿Te asustan los cambios físicos que trae consigo el paso del tiempo? ¿Piensas que es demasiado tarde para cumplir tus sueños? Si es así, no eres la única. Desafortunadamente, muchas mujeres comparten estos sentimientos. Sin embargo, los años que tenemos en este momento equivalen siempre a nuestra mejor edad. Nunca es demasiado pronto, pero tampoco demasiado tarde, para aprender a querernos y sacar el mayor partido...
44709) L'école des dunes
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L'école des dunes explore un éventail d'histoires s'étendant de Munich à New York, d'Alger à la France, de la Bosnie jusqu'en Italie. S'inspirant de lieux variés et de moments du vingtième, voire du vingt et unième siècle, l'auteure y dépeint des détails de la vie quotidienne, qu'il s'agisse du chant d'un coq, de la vente d'un morceau de tissu, d'une tempête soudaine ou d'un souvenir qui surgit à l'improviste.
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Monika...
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Décryptez Un appartement à Paris de Guillaume Musso avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir de Un appartement à Paris, ce thriller inattendu sur fond de quête initiatique ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
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• Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que Madeline Greene et Gaspard...
44711) Mon nom est Malice
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Milène Goldman, également connue sous le nom de Malice, participe à sa toute première mission. Elle pénètre avec succès dans un bâtiment en ruine, accompagnée de soldats en tenue de combat, et élimine rapidement ses ennemis. Cette mission est le début d'une série d'aventures pour Malice, qui deviendra plus tard connue sous le surnom de « l'ange qui défie la mort ».
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Après des années de dévouement à la lecture...
44712) La maison des âmes perdues
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Maryline, en quête d'identité et de sécurité, fera la découverte d'une maison située en bord de mer sur l'île de Ré. Cette demeure, qui oscille entre bienveillance et danger, est enveloppée d'un mystère séduisant qui laissera une empreinte indélébile sur notre protagoniste. Sur les traces du passé de ce lieu idyllique, Maryline se retrouvera jusqu'à New York, de l'autre cté de l'océan. Les secrets qui se cachent derrière le destin...
44713) This Spells Trouble
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I'm Harper, a natural-born witch. My bookstore, Enchanted Editions, is the heart of our small town. I sell books, spells, and potions to customers who seek the power of the supernatural. When a woman asks for a deadly spell to use against my old friend, Damien Caine, I refuse. He may have hurt me in the past, but I have no interest in revenge. Unfortunately, Damien doesn't see it that way. He thinks I'm out to get him and I have no idea why.With the...
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Razia dreams of getting an education, but in her small village in Afghanistan, girls haven't been allowed to attend school for many years. When a new girls' school opens in the village, a determined Razia must convince her father and oldest brother that educating her would be best for her, their family and their community.
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Lonely and bored with rural life in 1856, young Bella Lee Dunkinson began to hang around the local railroad. Engineer John Hardiman took a liking to the spirited girl and gave her a boy's responsibilities helping with the engine. One stormy night, the engine was slipping dangerously on wet rails. While John was putting sand on the tracks, Bella found herself alone in the cab driving the train up a steep and dangerous mountainside-a 16-year-old female...
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Be nice, but not too nice. Be successful, but not too successful. Just be likeable. Whatever that means?
Women are stuck in an impossible bind. At work, strong women are criticized for being cold, and warm women are seen as pushovers. An award-winning journalist examines this fundamental paradox and empowers readers to let go of old rules and reimagine leadership rather than reinventing themselves.
Consider that even competent women must appear...
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In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern women's lives. Claiming the Pen offers the first intellectual history of early southern women. It situates their reading and writing within the literary culture...
44718) Islid
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When Victor Chavez, the indigenous leader of an eco-labor revolution, was brutally, assassinated, his daughter Estrella was only a baby. Twelve years later, the Revolution all but forgotten, Estrella is packed off to an elite, boarding school by her aristocratic mother, Linda, and Linda's best friend, Kit Hamilton, the richest woman in the world. But, what Estrella doesn't know is she's being educated among the very families that killed her father.
Estrella...
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This special fifth volume in The Girls Who Could series honors not just one girl, but an entire fleet of fierce female aviators. Dubbed "The Night Witches" by their German adversaries, this all-female battalion out-flew and outmatched everyone else in the sky, flying eight or more missions every night in small canvas planes. No parachutes. No fear. Just honest heroine-ism standing up for what was right. The Girls Who Could Fly in the Night encourages...
44720) Menopause Matters
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Menopause Matters: Menopause and Perimenopause—The low down on menopause symptoms, night sweats and natural remedies for menopause Menopause is nature's way of stopping you having more kids. It is caused by a change in your hormones levels which can cause a range of symptoms from wooly headedness to mood swings and hot flushes. As with most hormonal changes, each women will have her own variation of the symptoms so one cure does not fit all. In...
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