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The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami. When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and...
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"Can you meet your calcium needs if you're only eating plant-based foods? Is a vegan pregnancy safe? What about the link between soy foods and breast cancer? How does a plant-based diet affect weight loss, aging, and fertility? In Vegan for Her, dietitian Virginia Messina tackles the issues most pertinent to women who follow or who are considering a vegan diet, and JL Fields provides health-supportive recipes and tips for taking your veganism beyond...
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Vegan for Her, a blueprint for optimal health and wellness at any age, will show you how to: lower your risk for breast cancer and heart disease; manage conditions like arthritis and migraines; diminish PMs and cramps; build strong bones for life; enhance fertility; make an easy transition to a vegan diet; and incorporate principles of both fashion and compassion into your home and wardrobe.
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Who needs wedding perfection? Whether you know someone who is getting married, or in the middle of planning your own wedding, Wedding Perfection is for you. This book clarifies uncertainties and answers many questions every couple has about their big day. Wedding Perfection is an on-the-go reference guide, wedding planner, and therapist rolled into one. There is no reason why the most important, fun, special day of someone's life should be tainted...
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The subject of a front-page New York Times article, Frank Messina takes the same seat at every New York Mets home game. His self-proclaimed title as "The Mets Poet" is emblazoned across the back of his Mets jersey and printed on the season—ticket-holder plaque next to his seat. A collection of seventy-five of his poems that pay homage to his favorite team, Full Count is the ideal inspiration for any Mets fan, whether in those all-too-long, quiet...
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It's 2017, and a raging virus has drastically reduced the world's population of men, transforming all but a fraction into a race of putrid, brain-dead zombies. So what's single, ambitious 23-year-old Hattie Cross to do for fun, not to mention romance? In this hilarious marriage of post-apocalyptic fiction and supersmart chick-lit with a wry twist, novelist Lynn Messina spoofs dating manuals, monsters, and the superficial media world, all the while...
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Lucille, the mother of a medically fragile child, is traveling an emotional rollercoaster caring for her special-needs child as she desperately searches for a diagnosis. What had happened to her daughter? What did she do wrong?
You are, placed in her business world where bosses do not want a mother with this baggage. The mind-boggling callousness she observed from adults, professionals, and a waitress in a restaurant tells another tale. Amid trying...
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The Sicilian writer Maria Messina's captivating and brutal stories of the women of her home island are presented in an English translation by Elise Magistro. Messina, who died in 1944, was the foremost female practitioner of verismo-the Italian literary realism pioneered by fellow Sicilian Giovanni Verga. Published between 1908 and 1928, Messina's fiction represents the massive Sicilian immigration to America occurring at that time. The individuals...
9) Abdominales
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El estado de los abdominales es un buen indicador de la forma física de una persona. No es casual que la aparición de una barriga incipiente despierte en todos una cierta preocupación. Este libro sirve para afrontar y solucionar el problema no sólo de cara al verano, sino durante todo el año. Un test para evaluar el estado de nuestros abdominales sirve de introducción a una extensa relación de ejercicios con muchas variantes indicados para...
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Otto novelle raccontano con toni al contempo malinconici e speranzosi la lenta quotidianità di alcune donne nella Sicilia di inizio Novecento. Caterina, Marina, Camilla e le altre protagoniste sono immerse in una tediosa indolenza che sembra precluderle il riscatto sociale a cui aspirano. Fragili e al contempo determinate, queste ragazze siciliane dovranno farsi strada in un contesto che sembra costruito per darle contro...-
11) Aquagym
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Unir los beneficios del agua, que modela el cuerpo, y los de la gimnasia, que lo tonifica: ese es el objetivo del aquagym, o gimnasia acuática. Nuestro cuerpo, como toda buena máquina, necesita un mantenimiento, y resulta necesario trabajar la flexibilidad y la fuerza, músculo a músculo. En el agua, la ausencia de peso permite trabajar con suavidad; el medio acuático hace posible un desarrollo de las capacidades musculares gracias a una gradación...
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Les chansons de ce recueil ont été
comme un remède, une thérapie
face à des émotions trop vives,
trop intenses, souvent en réaction
à des sentiments puissants d'injustice,
de révolte, de tristesse ou de désir
Elle parlent d'un passé chaotique
mais au combien vivant et créatif.
Certaines ont été mise en musique et
interprétées en public, d'autres sont
vierges et s'offrent à votre curiosité..
À PROPOS DE...
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Did the inhabitants of another dimension flee into our reality to save themselves from the terrible wrath of the Great Old Ones…or to help prepare us for a final devastating invasion? And what if humanity's only chance against these Great Old Ones is an impetuous, mischievous young woman and her sardonic, furry, and surprisingly violent mentor?
All questions are asked and answered in this five-part introduction to writer and artist DAVID MESSINA's...
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A woman in the British Horticultural Society! The very idea horrifies everyone, including ardent horticulturalist Lavinia Harlow, whose own name has been put forth for membership by the provoking Marquess of Huntly. He does it as a joke, of course, to get back at her for an imagined slight-well, to be fair, she had insulted his writing-and Vinnie, older sister to the infamous Harlow Hoyden, is far too sensible to rise to his ridiculous challenge....
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Earning the nickname Lady Agony was no minor achievement for Lady Agatha Bolingbroke. It required a great deal of effort to make herself so disagreeable, but she did it for a good cause: The fewer invitations she received, the more time she had to paint. Her mother, refusing to accept an unpopular daughter-or, worse, a talented one-insists on dragging her to every event of the season. To thwart her parents and to vent her frustration, Agatha creates...
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No, no, no! It doesn't matter how many times the Duchess of Trent (The Harlow Hoyden) requests her help with a delicate matter regarding a patent for her sister's invention, Tuppence Templeton will not lend a hand. She has a habit, yes, of coming up with ingenious plans to solve other people's problems, and it is true that she's clever and daring enough to pull off the proposed scheme. But there's no way she's going to confront the arrogant and dismissive...
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Miss Emma Harlow hasn't earned the reputation as a hoyden for nothing, so when the Duke of Trent discovers her in his conservatory stealing one of his orchids, he isn't surprised-charmed, delighted and puzzled, yes, but not surprised. It is Emma who is amazed. She has naturally concluded that the man reading in the conservatory must be the country cousin (who else in London would actually read?) and is quite vexed to discover that he is the Duke of...
18) Monogamy
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Increasingly anxious about his impending marriage to Nat (Rashida Jones) and bored with his day job as a wedding photographer, Theo (Chris Messina) begins a side business, clandestinely snapping voyeuristic photos of his clients. A sexy exhibitionist client leads Theo into an all-consuming obsession, and as he follows her, he is forced to confront uncomfortable truths about his sex life at home.