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In Talking to Children About Divorce, Jean McBride provides you with the tools and encouragement to effectively communicate with your child about divorce. McBride brings her more than 25 years of specializing in divorce to guide you through crucial but difficult conversations and cultivate an environment of love and support throughout the divorce process. You’ll learn how to have honest conversations about different situations and emotions that may arise during divorce - from breaking the news to understanding resistance.

For three young boys, Liam, Patrick, and Hugo, life in Ireland of the 1960s proves to be both idyllic and flawed. Living in close proximity but leading vastly different lives, the bonds of friendship bind these young men as they grow, dream, and navigate the storms of youth.

Jewel thievery, car chases, and romance on the French Riviera. Alfred Hitchcock's Oscar-winning film To Catch a Thief brought together Hollywood's two most glamorous stars, Grace Kelly and Cary Grant, in the most glamorous place on Earth, the French Riviera. It is a tale of jewel thievery, intrigue, false identity, covert investigation, and, most of all, romance.

Until John Wilson met the warm, wise woman who became his fourth wife, the object of his most intense devotion had always been the work of William Shakespeare. From his feat of memorizing Romeo and Juliet and half a dozen other plays as a student to his evangelical zeal as a professor, John's faith in the Bard has shaped his life. But now his mental powers have been diminished by dementia, and his wife has reluctantly moved him to a residential care facility.

Game of My Life: Dallas Cowboys takes you inside the most memorable game of 24 players and of head Coach Jimmy Johnson that earned each of them a place in the history and lore of America’s Team. Each chapter provides colorful detail on the player’s favorite game and its significance to the history of one of the world’s most recognized franchises. Learn how these men joined the Cowboys fraternity.

While much was written in the wake of Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy, few journalists stopped to ask who Oswald really was, and what was driving him. In Oswald’s Game, Davison slices to the core of the man, revealing Oswald’s most formative moments, beginning with his days as a difficult but intelligent child. She traces his erratic service in the Marine Corps, his youthful marriage, and the radical interests that prompted him to defect to the Soviet Union.

The French painter Jean Hélion’s unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps. This serious adventure tale begins with Hélion’s infantry platoon fleeing from the German army and warplanes as they advanced through France in the early days of the war. The soldiers chant as they march and run, “They shall not have me!” but are quickly captured and sent to hard labor.

Because only through the human was the divine knowable, the old peoples of the earth made gods of their heroes and not infrequently endowed these gods with as many of the vices as of the virtues of their worshipers.

Angered by assaults on a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-Francois Revel has come to America's defense in Anti-Americanism, a biting and erudite book that, paradoxically, given his country's especially vehement attack on the U.S., spent several weeks last year at the top of France's best seller list.

Con oltre un milione di visitatori dal 2005 ad oggi, Santiago di Compostela è senza ombra di dubbio una delle mete di pellegrinaggio più gettonate dei nostri tempi. Tra viandanti, mistici, coppiette in scarpe da ginnastica e turisti seduti sui sedili di comodi pullman, il medico e autore di best seller Jean-Christophe Rufin affronta il suo personale "apprendistato del vuoto". Ottocento chilometri da Hendaye, all'estremo sudovest della Francia, fino alla maestosa Cattedrale di San Giacomo. Un lungo tragitto raccontato con piglio demistificante, ironico, intenso.

Rousseau's Discourse sets out to explore the origin of inequality among people, a journey that sees him trace the evolution of humans from the savage man to the foundations of civil society. With verve and passion, the philosopher argues that the birth of private property was the "beginning of evil". Throughout the book we are led to consider the development of language, reason, self-preservation, benevolence, pity, and law - all through the lens of perhaps the most original thinker of the 18th century.

In the spirit of the diaries of Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular science, and memoir to examine the history of our fascination with ice. In entering this world, McNeil unexpectedly finds herself confronting her own upbringing in the Maritimes, the lifelong effects of growing up in a cold place, and how the climates of childhood frame our emotional thermodynamics for life.

When Adam Crag learns that one of the other candidates to fly the USA's first prospective moon lander has been murdered, he is thrust into the leadership of a secretive moon launch. Unfortunately for him, the Soviets are a step ahead. From the moment Crag is selected, deadly complications plague the mission, including the possibility that one of the three crew members is a sleeper agent for the other side.

Runaway Bunny, The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant, and Goodnight Moon are national treasures and many of us remember them from our childhoods. Catherine Zeta-Jones narrates The Runaway Bunny in a new piano-trio version composed by GPR Records artistic director and four-time Emmy Award Winner, Glen Roven. This piece premiered at Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony. Runaway Bunny was written in 1942 and has been published continuously since that time - it's a wonderful timeless story of free thinking and creativity.

Jean-Pierre Caussade è stato un gesuita e maestro di spiritualità francese. Ha dedicato quasi tutta la sua vita alla direzione spirituale, predicando gli esercizi spirituali di sant’Ignazio di Loyola.Abbandono alla Divina Provvidenza è una sua raccolta di scritti elaborati nel 1730-1740, giunta sino a noi grazie alle suore Visitandine di Nancy.

Bitna è una ragazza povera, vive nella campagna coreana ma ama leggere e vuole studiare. Così i genitori decidono di mandarla a Seul, ospite da una zia. La convivenza però si rivela difficile e Bitna comincia a passare sempre più tempo fuori casa, e in particolare in una libreria. Un giorno, il proprietario della libreria le mostra l'annuncio di una anziana signora che cerca qualcuno che vada a trovarla per raccontarle delle storie.

Algeria, regione della Cabilia, inizio del XXI secolo. La guerra civile infiamma il paese. I ribelli sono presi tra i due fuochi dell'Esercito nazionale islamico e delle fazioni integraliste che soffocano ogni libertà. Il villaggio di Aitldja viene attaccato, la giovane Fatima, sorella del ribelle Djamal, subisce le violenze di un mercenario francese, Max Tannart. Francia, un anno dopo. Il Partito nazionale è al potere, e impone con le sue milizie l'ordine "ultraliberale", facendo la guerra agli immigrati che sbarcano clandestinamente sul territorio.

Con questo magistrale romanzo Jean-Claude Izzo chiude la trilogia marsigliese avviata con Casino totale e Chourmo. In Solea lo scontro con il sistema degli intrecci illeciti tra imprese, politica e malavita è violentissimo. Ma al di là della posta politica, il romanzo è un’esplosione di rabbia per questa vita che avrebbe potuto essere bella, per questi amori che non si sanno vivere.

Le meilleur guide pratique de réussite par Brian Tracy ! Découvrez le livre audio très attendu Tais-toi et agis ! 7 étapes pour maîtriser les objectifs et transformez enfin tous vos rêves en réalité ! Nous vivons une époque formidable. Jamais plus de gens n’ont eu plus d’opportunités qu’aujourd’hui de démarrer de nouvelles activités, de nouvelles carrières, et d’atteindre de magnifiques réussites.

La pensée des Lumières émerge dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle avant de se développer dans toute l'Europe, notamment en France, au XVIIIe siècle. Ses penseurs sont engagés contre l'oppression religieuse et politique, et œuvrent pour le progrès contre l'obscurantisme et les superstitions passées ; leur pensée a amené le triomphe de la raison sur la croyance, et s'est montrée déterminante dans les grands événements qui ont marqué l'Histoire moderne.