Rich in history, color, and imagination, a remarkable novel that pairs the seductive lost world of a creative legend with the coming of age of a young girl guided by an artistry all her ownIn Barbara Quick’s luminous novel, eighteenth-century Venice comes to life in all its splendor and decadence. The Grand Inquisitor’s spies lurk everywhere, and yet the city’s inhabitants abandon themselves to the revelry and masques of Carnival for half the year. This is the worl...

What Disappears is a gripping multi-generational tale that begins in 1880s Tsarist Russia and ends in Paris at the start of World War I. Jeannette Dupres, one of two identical twins born to a Jewish family in dire financial straits, is spirited out of an orphanage as an infant by a couple from France. The other twin, Sonya Luria, raised to believe her sister died at birth, has her life upended by the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev. The sisters are reunited in the doorway of Anna Pavlova's dressin...

Alessandra is desperate to escape.Desperate to escape her stepmother, who's locked her away for a year; to escape the cloister that awaits her and the marriage plans that have been made for her; to escape the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There's no tolerance in her quiet village for Alessandra and her keen intelligence and unconventional ideas.In defiant pursuit of her dreams, Alessandra undertakes an audacious quest, her bra...

A breakthrough guide to healing troubled relationshipsWhy do couples break up? In The Commitment Dialogues, bestselling author Matthew McKay dissects a range of typical dialogues gone wrong in order to illustrate how fear sabotages relationships. He introduces readers to 10 couples struggling with specific issues. As their dialogues unfold, each couple's core problems are revealed. Dr. McKay then shows how his techniques can help heal fractured relationshi...

Many students feel a bit stuck after learning the meanings, unsure of how to put the cards together into a coherent, relevant, and useful message or answer to a question. This is because understanding what a card means and doing a reading are two different things. PT's Quick Start Guide to Tarot Readings will help you understand the process of interpreting a tarot reading with ease and confidence. This Guide details my process of conducting a reading. You can use this to read for yourself ...

The Only HR Book You’ll Ever Need!“Whether you’re a small business owner, a manager in a business without an HR department, or even a seasoned HR professional, this book will help you handle any personnel problem—from on-boarding to outplacement—quickly and easily.”—Solutions ReviewFor more than a decade, busy managers by the tens of thousands have turned to this best-selling book as a handy guide to the ins and outs of human resources. And...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In 1955, the gas chamber at San Quentin claimed its third woman in California history. But who was Barbara Graham—a mistreated person entangled in a web of circumstances, or the cold-blooded killer known to the media as "Bloody Babs?”Born to a teenage mother in Oakland, Barbara's early life read like a manual for disaster: reform schools, teenage marriage, petty crime, and a desperate search for belonging. By age thirty, she had...

This Guide is designed so you can create basic card meanings efficiently and effectively. This Guide does not give you card meanings; it shows you how to create card meanings…your own meanings. If you are completely new to the cards, this is an excellent way to get to know your deck. If you have been studying for a while, this is the perfect way to synthesize all that wisdom and experience you've accumulated. In fact, I recommend that tarot lovers go through this process every other year o...

Four books one for each season.Panic in the PansiesIt's springtime in Nova Scotia- house selling, bulb planting, transplant buying time. Stay at home mom and canning aficionado Krista Willett is happy to be out of the house and working at a garden center. However, she knows nothing about gardening, her boss is AWOL, and her best customers are dead or crooked, or both. Can she keep this job? Does she want to? Her children, a stray cat, and her brother-in-law ...

This Deluxe edition includes both Practical Tarot's Quick Start Guide to Learning the Cards and Practical Tarot's Quick Start Guide to Tarot Readings.Learning the Cards is designed to help you create basic card meanings efficiently and effectively. This Guide does not give you card meanings; it shows you how to create card meanings…your own meanings. If you are completely new to the cards, this is an excellent way to get to know your deck.Tarot Readings will help you unders...

The Little Book of HSP Wisdom is a thoughtful book to reach for when needing a few words of wisdom about struggles, values, habits and perspectives on life as an HSP.This book addresses in a simple and straight- forward way, common areas of challenge, growth and development most highly sensitive people encounter. Reading this book will feel like hearing some very kind but no-nonsense advice from someone who knows and understands you as a sensitive person.B...