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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to En un lugar de la Mancha and experience the compelling world of Don Quixote.

Founders have a lot on their plates, and for most, that includes building a team to help achieve their organization’s mission. This book is for the founders who won’t build just any team. It’s for the founders who understand the innovative power of diverse teams comprised of individuals from different racial and ethnic groups, ages, gender identities, nationalities, religious identities, etc. These founders do not need a case for diversity. What they often do need, though, is guidance on how to build an organizational culture designed for that diverse team.

Été 1989. Les parents de Wilder Harlow viennent d'hériter d'un cottage dominant les côtes du Maine. L'adolescent, plutôt mal dans sa peau, fait la connaissance sur la plage d'une jeune fille, Harper, et d'un garçon, Nathaniel. Très vite, le trio devient inséparable. Mais malgré le tableau idyllique du bord de mer, des balades en bateau, des amitiés naissantes et des secrets partagés, des rumeurs courent à Whistler Bay.

Organic vegetable gardening offers numerous benefits that appeal to both novice and seasoned gardeners. One of the primary advantages is the enhancement of soil health. Organic gardening techniques prioritize the use of natural amendments, such as compost and cover crops, which enrich the soil with vital nutrients.

There's a fine line between WHO you love and WHAT you hate. For Lucian Kincaid, that line may as well be a wall. As far as this Scottish shifter is concerned, the only good Faerie is a dead Faerie. With the Fae's deceitful nature, his wolf is forever on edge when they're around, ready to bust out at the slightest provocation. Until a chance encounter with a human woman captures the interest of the predator inside of him. His need to be near her is unexpected. His hunger for her insatiable. Before the truth of her identity is revealed…

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since that day, prize-winning independent journalist Katerina Gordeeva has travelled to refugee centres across Europe to record the human voice and cost of war. Take My Grief Away reveals twenty-four raw, heartbreaking first-person accounts from people united in grief and their first-hand experiences of the brutality and senselessness of war. These twenty-four voices will transform what you think you know about war, grief and human nature.

Nikita is an endangered animal specialist; her sole job is to help endangered animals. She ends up getting stuff in the woods of India on one of her mission and is saved by a rogue white tiger shifter.

As the dead leaves were shedding from the trees, they were not the only part of nature in transition. Leaving behind that which once brought them life, Amelia Cavanaugh was leaving a life that once brought her joy, peace, and comfort. Heading out to Deer Creek State Park deep in the Colorado mountains, she was returning to a cabin where she knew love once lived. The love of her grandparents and, most recently, her grandmother. Upon her passing, Amelia inherited this cabin full of memories and, for Amelia, hope for a new future.

For weeks, she’s been working on a prototype enlarging ray. Her entire lab thinks they are weeks from getting it working, but she’s been sabotaging progress at every turn. At night, she fixes the machine and plugs in her working code. It feels so good to grow. But on a night when everyone should be gone, she discovers there are two people still in the lab. She’s already zapped herself, and with 10 minutes remaining until she starts to grow, she knows she’ll need to come clean.

The story begins in the wonderful '80s, a time filled with great music, alcohol, cruising, and sex. She was 15 years younger than he was. Although he had a problem with the age difference, she never did. Married three times, twice to the same woman and barely escaped a third round with her. This is a story about the multiple marriages. She also married two other men between these marriages and had an affair with Jim during both. Call it magnetism, a strange attraction, or plain old stupidity; you be the judge.

An impassioned veteran embarks back in time on a long-suffering military experience and the unexpected transition thereafter through the eyes of a meek and humble woman. She must come to embrace the life she now lives in sickness and health in remarkable ways through everything surrounding her. By the time it came for her to have a military medical evaluation, she really wasn’t feeling up to it, given the extent of how she felt that entire month. After the doctors did their evaluation and sent off the report, she waited for the final decision.

Nina is innocent when it comes to men. At 21, she’s never really dated, and ever since she started working for Mr Beck, she feels an undeniable attraction towards this super-hot older man, but she can’t bring herself to tell him. But when Mr Beck visits the kitchen for a midnight snack, he instead finds another kind of tasty morsel. But can he resist the temptation?

Clarissa is in debt, but after seeing an advert for nude models of any age, she dares to attend a trial session. What will the photographer say about her naked form? And does he say it to all the girls? Regardless, it’s a risk Clarissa feels is worth taking - as long as the money is there. Of course, if she enjoys it then that’s just a bonus.

A vicar’s wife is worried when a film she made 30 years ago comes back to haunt her. Why now? And is it possible her now comfortable world might fall apart after all these years?

In this story, 19-year-old orphan Marie visits the photographic studio of Monsieur Zee. But it is not the photographer whose initial interest is piqued by the beautiful, fresh-faced young girl, rather it is his assistant, Celeste. Perhaps it is she who holds the key to the secrets that can be found in the cabinet of Monsieur Zee.

In this story, Connie and Clara decide to pay a visit to Clive, the photographer, when they realise they’re out of money and it’s time to pay the rent. Clive knows how the girls can make the money they need and more, but can Connie convince Clara to go through with it? After all, she’s never had her picture taken - clothes on or off.

A fierce blizzard is raging as Babes finds herself abandoned in the woods by her father's new girlfriend. Lost in the darkness, she stumbles upon the enticing cottage of the voluptuous Thrift Store Lady. All is not as it seems though, as she strips to bathe in the house's warm and scented interior - especially when a virile young buck called Wolfgang appears on the scene.

It’s the 1960s at a British seaside resort where Cindy walks the promenade each day in her Snappy Snaps blazer and creased white flannels, her trusty Rolleiflex camera slung around her neck. But behind the sunny façade there lurks a darker side to her nature, as Cindy desperately seeks her muse and wrestles with her own sexuality - two conundrums that might be resolved when she meets a voluptuous Venus at the far end of the beach.

La salud no es cualquier cosa. Nuestro cuerpo es la estructura que nos sostiene toda la vida, pero hacemos poco para darle mantenimiento. Con nuestro cuerpo trabajamos, caminamos, resolvemos problemas, pensamos, nos reímos y hacemos todo. Hay que aprender a escucharlo, a darle lo que necesita y a cuidarlo para que nos funcione mejor. Cuidar nuestro cuerpo es una muestra de amor propio.

Inmitten des ecuadorianischen Dschungels trifft der schwedische Extremsportler Mikael mit seinem Team auf einen verwahrlosten Straßenhund - ausgemergelt und mit Wunden übersät: Arthur. Der Hund weicht ihm nicht mehr von der Seite und folgt ihm selbst durch knietiefen Matsch und im Kayak. Nach 650 km durch die Wildnis Ecuadors steht nicht mehr das Gewinnen des Rennens im Vordergrund sondern das neue Teammitglied heil nach Hause zu bringen.