Francesca
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"Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford. With the rest of the court she went into self-imposed exile in France. Her family's wealth and lands were forfeited by Parliament. It was in France that she met her partner, William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a marriage that made her the Duchess...
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"The villagers of Greymist Fair know that the woods are a dangerous and magical place, and that they should never set foot off the road. But when a young tailor discovers a body, her search for the culprit reveals even more strange and dark happenings around her town"--
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HarperCollins
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2022
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"With her eye for historical detail and flair for sympathetic heroines, Francesca Stanfill breathes new life into the medieval court of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The Falcon's Eyes is a novel of epic proportions that succeeds in being both intimate and vast. History is Stanfill's canvas, humanity her inspiration."—Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
"Stanfill has persuasively re-imagined
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From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy has always mattered in the United States, whether for taking stock of kin when organizing a family reunion or drawing on membership-by blood or other means-to claim rights to land, inheritances, and more. And since, the advent of DNA kits that purportedly trace genealogical relations through genetics, millions of people have used them to learn about their...
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One day, Baby Monkey was playing in the jungle when – all of a sudden! – something came rolling down the path!
It was round, and smooth, and hard, and nearly as big as Baby Monkey!
But where did it come from? Who was its family? Baby Monkey had lots of questions!
Join Baby Monkey on a 'petite aventure' to find a home for this lost 'oeuf.'
Read along to find out what happens in this fun and friendly language-enhancing story.
One! Two! Trois!...
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Growing up in an Italian American family in Queens, New York, in the '70s, Francesca Miracola was trained from an early age to keep up appearances at all costs, but behind closed doors, her parents' toxic marriage served as a blueprint for dysfunction. So, when she met Jason Axcel at a bar as a twentysomething, she ignored all the red flags, and there were plenty of them, and dove right in, normalizing his emotional and physical abuse just like she'd...
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Book 1 - The Little Blue Door
Can a lost past lead to a beautiful future? A passionate love story - a heart wrenching discovery.
Melodie Pelletier is drawn back to the idyllic island of Corfu, a place bursting with wonderful family memories. She visits the popular fishing village of Agios Stefanos, a place with an outpouring of warm welcomes and even warmer seas and sand.
While travelling, Melodie meets a handsome man with an intriguing young...
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In these inventive and delightful Silverspun Stories, a brave rabbit finds a solution for everyone in harsh times; a lonely princess learns how loving magic can be; two angels discover the true meaning of wealth, stones deep in the earth dream of making music, and Wizard Bumble Poh returns to help solve a riddle.
Delightful and light-hearted, these stories tell of wisdom and self-discovery, kindness, cooperation, and generosity.
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Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheated by life. But when he reads about a lost Viennese novel-The House on Moon Lake-in the journals of a late esteemed literary critic, he dreams that this project will put him on the cultural and literary map, and finally bring him the accolades that...
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85 Classic and creative dishes to expand your pasta repertoire with ease
Pasta In A Pinch can help you master dozens of fast and easy pasta favorites, with delicious recipes that will get a meal the whole family loves on the table in no time. All you need is store-bought pasta and a handful of staple ingredients you probably already have in your pantry.
From creamy Pasta with Béchamel Sauce to baked Ziti with White Turkey Bolognese, these authentic...
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This challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy.
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta upends the notion that participatory democracy is worthy in purpose but unworkable in practice. Instead, she shows that social movements have...
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After thyroid cancer, Crohn's disease, and a slew of other autoimmune conditions ransacked her body in her twenties and thirties, Francesca was left feeling completely alone in her chronic pain. Constant, relentless, often indescribable, and always exhausting, it affected her whole life-intimacy, motherhood, friendship, work, and mental health. Yet it was also fairly invisible-and because of that, Francesca felt entirely alone in the centrifuge of...
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Martina Satriano, an Italian professor of cultural history at New York University, observes the great American city with admiration and gratitude, but from an outsider's perspective. She is a sublime cook, she loves her job, she has occasional erotic adventures, but Martina is a lonely woman whose real passion is a "machine" that she has built to assist in her cultural research and which she uses to record her dreams. These recordings, infused with...
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After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation. Francesca Morgan finds the first stirrings of a sense of national patriotism--of "these United States--in the work of black and white clubwomen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Morgan demonstrates that hundreds of thousands of women in groups such as the Woman's Relief Corps, the National Association of Colored Women, the Universal...
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It's a match!
Seelenverwandtschaft und die wahre Liebe? Alles Quatsch, wenn man Sienna fragt.
Sich erneut verlieben? Darauf kann Rafael für den Rest seines Lebens verzichten. Auf der Suche nach unverbindlichem Sex lernen sich Sienna und Rafael über eine Dating-App kennen und landen im Bett. Mit Rafael kann Sienna endlich herausfinden, was ihr wirklich gefällt, und er muss sich bei ihrer Vorgeschichte keine Sorgen machen, dass sie sich in ihn verlieben...
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Anyone who has ever given birth knows that a mother's worrying is never done. Parenting books give wildly contradictory advice, late-night Googling induces blind panic, and, in today's ultra-competitive environment, other parents just make you feel worse. This hilarious book, by first-time mother and Sunday Times columnist Francesca Hornak, captures perfectly the madness of modern parenting, with 101 worries all mums will have experienced themselves,...
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In today's digital age, social media platforms have become an integral part of our daily lives. While they offer a way to stay connected with others and access information, they can also have detrimental effects on mental health, particularly for young people.
In Beneath the Filters: The Dangerous Effects of Social Media on Mental Health, author Francesca Salierno explores how the beauty standards perpetuated by social media can lead to a distorted...
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The arrival of a mysterious young stranger disrupts the lives of a wealthy, unhappy family Ever since he was a little boy, Aldo Rugani has been drawn to the world of the aristocracy. Now an art dealer with a questionable past, Aldo finds himself a regular guest at the Tuscan estate of the affluent but unstable Santini family. He also works his way into the confidence of the clan's elderly but very much alive matriarch, Violante. Tough and indomitable,...
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An abandoned wife travels into the heart of the Eastern bloc in search of an elusive writer and her own identity in this wry and captivating satire Valentina has spent the last decade as a most dutiful wife: cooking meals, cleaning house, and translating dry liturgical writings for her husband, Ricardo, to use in his own bestselling literary endeavors. When Ricardo leaves her for another woman, Valentina realizes there is little in her life that is...