House Wells

Set in Provence, London, and New York, this is a daughter’s wonderfully evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather—Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. Ayer, the celebrated and worldly Oxford philosopher—and the life they lived at the center of absolutely everything.

In 1931 in Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman shove the cover off the family well and toss in a baby without a word. For the Moore family, focused on helping anyone in need during the Great Depression, the apparent murder forces them to face the darker side of their community and question the motivations of family and friends.

Dr. Mahinder Watsa, India’s foremost sexologist, addresses and explains all the issues and concerns that you might have about sex and sexuality. From understanding your body to teenage troubles, from the first night to safe sex, from infancy to 60 years and beyond, he gives advice and solutions for all these and more. Plus, with classic wit and humor, he deals with hundreds of queries from his audiences across the country. It’s Normal!, a comprehensive guide to sex, is an essential listen.

Der Bau des eigenen Tiny House ist ein stets wachsender Trend aus den USA, welcher das autarke Leben auf wenig Quadratmetern mit Effizienz und Umweltbewusstsein verknüpft. Erleben Sie, wie vorteilhaft Sie Ihr Leben gestalten können, wenn Sie auf unnütze Dinge aus dem Alltag verzichten und diesen einmal vollständig auf Links drehen. Zahlreiche Tiny-House-Besitzer leben schon jetzt den Traum vom unabhängigen Leben, warum nicht auch Sie?

In 2022 American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles. But their immediate problems are more personal than political, with the three adult children, Mo, Edith, and Jacob, in various states of crisis, the result, each claims, of a lifetime of mistreatment by their father, Julian. The siblings have begun to suspect that Julian is hastening their mother Roz's demise, and years of resentment boil over.

When a hen party arrives for a weekend away, she does her best to cater for their celebrations. But with a sheep needing urgent care – an accidental mishap or something more nefarious? – she finds herself consulting the group, which coincidentally contains four vets. When one of the hens goes missing, it becomes clear there are more sinister forces at play, and someone is targeting her farm.

Los autores de este libro se han unido para crear una guía integral de buenos hábitos que nos ayuden a dormir bien todas las noches. A diferencia de los innumerables artículos en internet, que proponen una solución única y rápida para todos, en Duerme bien, vive mejor encontrarás todas las herramientas para crear un protocolo de sueño personalizado, que se adapte a tus necesidades y estilo de vida.

In February 1962, three years into Fidel Castro’s rule of their Cuban homeland, the González family - an auto mechanic, his wife, and two young children - landed in Miami with a few personal possessions and two bottles of Cuban rum. As his parents struggled to find work, 11-year-old Gerardo struggled to fit in at school, where a teacher intimidated him and school authorities placed him on a vocational track. Inspired by a close friend, Gerardo decided to go to college. He not only graduated but placed himself on a path through higher education that brought him to a deanship at the Indiana University School of Education.

Der neue Killerbot-Roman – bald als Serie bei Apple TV+. Wenn die SecurityUnit namens Killerbot nicht gerade Attentäter zur Strecke bringt oder Fernsehserien suchtet, ist sie als Begleitschutz für Forschungsmissionen unterwegs. Diesmal geht allerdings alles schief. Der Konzern Barish-Estranza schickt gleich mehrere Schiffe, um Siedler auf einem neu kolonisierten Planeten zu retten. Killerbot ist mit dabei, aber leider auch mehrere andere SecUnits. Schon bald hat der neurotischste Roboter von allen den Verdacht, dass der Konzern eine geheime Agenda verfolgt – und auch Killerbots eigenes System läuft nicht rund. Und wenn Killerbot nicht das Leben der Siedler gefährden will, muss er schleunigst eine Lösung finden.

Wer kennt es nicht: dieses Gefühl, wenn der Boss reinkommt, einem einen Auftrag gibt, von dem mal wieder die Zukunft der Galaxis abhängt bla bla bla, während man sich in dieser Sekunde viel lieber abschalten und ein paar Hundert Folgen der Lieblingsserie bingen würde. Ach ja, und eigentlich ist man ein auf die Tötung von Menschen programmierter, ausgemusterter Roboter. Sie kennen das? Herzlichen Glückwunsch - und willkommen in der Welt von Killerbot.

In Nothing Wasted, we see how we mature in time. Like fog dissipating, we recognize how God is gently leading us through each season of our lives. We may be struggling, but we are moving forward.

Killerbot ist zurück – im neuen Roman aus Martha Wells’ internationaler Bestsellerserie muss Killerbot bei Mordermittlungen helfen. Für den zu einer – wenn auch wortkargen – Sicherheitseinheit umfunktionierten Killerbot droht die schlimmste Aufgabe, die man sich vorstellen kann. Sie muss (a) einen Mord auf Preservation Station aufklären (nicht so schlimm), dafür (b) mit der Stations-KI zusammenarbeiten (suboptimal, aber okay) und vor allem (c) mit Menschen reden (sehr schlimm). Als Killerbot bleibt einem auch nichts erspart.

The best financial planner Michelle Singletary ever knew was Big Mama, her grandmother. Big Mama raised Michelle and her four brothers and sisters on a salary that never reached more than $13,000 a year. Yet at her death, Big Mama owned her own home, had paid off a car loan, and had a beautiful collection of Sunday-go-to-meeting church hats and a savings account that supplemented her Social Security check and small pension. Most important, she had taught Michelle 7 Money Mantras for a Richer Life.

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Hoy, la subida del nivel del mar es una causa de alarma generalizada entre aquellos que ya han abandonado el sueño pernicioso de que el calentamiento global es un mito. Sin embargo, no es ni siquiera la punta del gigantesco iceberg de horrores inimaginables que amenazan la vida en la Tierra: incendios, huracanes, sequías, inundaciones.... Todas estas inquietantes manifestaciones del cambio climático, ya recurrentes para millones de personas, son solo un adelanto de lo que está por llegar.

God sees everything...but who’s watching him? The time period in which these events took place is not disclosed. Five very talented and ambitious scientists asked themselves an age-old question: Where do our souls go after we die? The question was posed, not in the esoteric sense, but in a geographical one. They committed themselves to find out the exact physical locations of “Heaven and Hell”. However, their research gave them more than they bargained for.

John Wells is the only American CIA agent ever to penetrate al Qaeda. Since before the attacks in 2001, Wells has been hiding in the mountains of Pakistan, biding his time, building his cover.

Meet Ollie. He’s eleven years old. He hasn’t yet met a Killer Sudoku he can’t solve, but he finds the world around him difficult. People don’t say what they mean, and he hates being wrong. And now, a sudden tragedy teaches him there is no easy answer to the problem of grief. When Ollie’s happy-go-lucky father, Rich, dies of brain cancer, his mother, Ruth, has no idea how to keep living, and the entire family is thrown into disarray.

One of the few guarantees in life is that we will suffer. Everything around us is broken. Each of us has an expiration date. A few years ago, Eric and his wife, Elizabeth, together with their young children, were confronted with this unavoidable reality when she was faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis. Shattered by grief, they began to wrestle with what it means to follow Jesus when everything around them seemed to be giving way. What this pastor and his wife discovered were a set of truths about God from Scripture that provided the resources they needed to survive.

Even in a town as picturesque and rich in history as Oliver’s Well, there’s something special about the Reynolds house on Honeysuckle Lane. Sturdy yet graceful, it’s where Andie, Emma, and Daniel Reynolds grew up - before they began to grow apart. For Danny, this first reunion since their mother’s death is a chance for him and his sisters to relive cherished holiday traditions before finally settling their parents’ estate. But readying the house for sale proves no easy task when every piece of furniture and every moment together stirs up the past.