![]() As Aphrodite, Caroline attends a masque determined to find a man to initiate her into the intimacies of erotic love. This, her last night of freedom, is to be a memory of lust that she can take with her throughout her loveless marriage. Caroline refuses to allow her first taste of desire to be at the hands of a man who would rather have any woman but her. Upon his death, Lady Caroline Wilmont is promised to the younger brother. ![]() When London’s most notorious rakehell breaks into Eve’s bedroom in the dead of night and compromises her beyond repair, she plans a daring elopement that shocks even the earl.Ī proper young lady should never attend a Masque.Aphrodite is no lady.īetrothal to the callous Lord Blackhall painted a future devoid of love. Miss Eve Crenshaw will marry for love or won’t marry at all. No gentleman breaks into a lady’s bedchamber.but then, no lady sleeps with a pistol under her pillow. Groomed for a life amongst the English aristocracy, Lord Erroll Rushton is unexpectedly thrust back into his father’s Scottish world when the Englishwoman he compromises refuses to marry him. When a man steals a bride from holy ground, he must expect war…Ī man torn between two worlds. ![]() If they are to have a future, Iain must face the past…and make the ultimate sacrifice: Victoria. Iain MacPherson swore he was nothing like his father, but his kidnapping of Victoria is the first step toward the same obsessive jealousy that sent his mother to an early grave. Freedom carries a heavy price, as Victoria Hockley learns when she flees England. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Minuchin understands the family as a system of interconnected lives, not as a “dysfunctional” group. ![]() In Dr Minuchin’s therapy there are no villains and no victims, only people trying to deal with various problems at each stage of the family life cycle. Through his confrontational style of therapy, Dr Minuchin demonstrates the strict but unseen rules that trap family members in stifling roles, and illuminates methods for helping families untangle systems of disharmony. Through the stories of families who have sought his help, the reader is taken inside the consulting room to see how families struggle with self-defeating patterns of behavior. Now, the family therapist, Salvador Minuchin unravels the knots of family dynamics against the background of his own odyssey from an extended Argentinian Jewish family to his innovative treatment of troubled families. Unfortunately, the source of people’s greatest hope for happiness often turns out to be the source of their worst disappointments. ⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May.Īt the center of people’s lives is the family, which can be and should be a haven from the harshness of the outside world. ![]() ![]() She couldn’t care for a broken warrior like me. The last thing I need is to be pushed around by an entitled human female who thinks she some sort of princess. Without my arm, I’m only half the Haalux warrior I once was. To lick my wounds and to forget all about the Empire. JAK – I came to this planet for solitude. ![]() I’ve still got time to get back home and rescue the deal of the century.Īnd if he doesn’t, well, I’ll do what I always do. If my ‘alien’ would only stop staring at the bottom of a bottle long enough to help me. The dead man I found? He claims he’s an alien species and he says I’m not on Earth anymore. The plane I don’t remember getting on? It crash-landed. What I thought was a practical joke is rapidly becoming a nightmare. My rivals? They can kiss my designer heels. I made a million before lunch and lunch is for wimps. ![]() An alien warrior with nothing to live for… A human with everything to lose…ĮVE – I didn’t claw my way up the corporate ladder by being kind, generous or caring. ![]() ![]() ![]() Find out why US interest in the Middle East will wane why Australia is now beginning an epic contest with China how Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the UK are cleverly positioning themselves for greater power why Ethiopia can control Egypt and why Europe’s next refugee crisis looms closer than we think, as does a cutting-edge arms race to control space. ![]() Now, in this “wonderfully entertaining and lucid account, written with wit, pace, and clarity” ( Mirror, UK), Marshall takes us into ten regions set to shape global politics. ![]() Since then, the geography hasn’t changed, but the world has. Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a “fresh way of looking at maps” ( The New York Times Book Review), showing how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and walls. From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” ( The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to today’s world powers and how they presage a volatile future. ![]() |