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As one of the fastest growing outdoor activities for beginners, stand-up paddleboarding is a great way to lose weight, enjoy nature, and improve your physique. Stand-Up Paddleboarding 2.0 has a full glossary of SUP-related terms along with 101 tips and lessons associated with the sport.

We are constantly fed the line that more productivity will bring more ease, satisfaction, and meaning to our lives. But what if all the gold stars and check boxes are just a distraction? What if we could stop project-managing life and act from our being instead of all our doing? If you long to leave the pressure to do enough behind in favor of a life full of meaning, creativity, and joy—a life where you don't feel rushed because you can't fall behind—Making Time is for you.

Bologna, 1944, le strade brulicano di soldati tedeschi. La diciannovenne Leila Venturi entra nella Resistenza dopo la notizia scioccante che Rebecca, la sua migliore amica e figlia di un importante uomo d’affari ebreo, è stata brutalmente deportata in un campo di concentramento.

When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed. Two years later, Rosie returns to the house, and living there is Martha, whom Seb Gennaro married less than a year after the death of Rosie’s mother. Martha is struggling to fulfil Seb’s dream while Rosie is coming to terms with new responsibilities. And so begins a stand-off between two women who refuse to move out of the home they both lay claim to.

The byproduct of years of practice in the medical field, Ending the Eczema Epidemic was written by Ana-Maria Temple, MD, and John Temple, MD, to expose the factors involved in treating eczema, allergies, and chronic diseases. Contrary to what one might expect, their solutions focus on gut healing through nutrition, removing environmental toxins, and restoring gut and skin microbiomes. In fact, their anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle recommendations would likely improve the lives of anyone willing to try them.

As the reach of business becomes global and companies expand into newer markets, it is increasingly more important to dominate a greater number of languages. And what language is more important to learn in the 21st century than Spanish - the second most-spoken language in the world? For these reasons, we have created Business Spanish: Learn Conversational Spanish for Business Professionals to provide you, the business specialist, with the best tools in language-learning for situations you will encounter in your day-to-day life.

Organized and Engaged: Simple and Effective Strategies to Support Executive Function explains what executive function is, why it matters, and how it differs from self-regulation. Discover strategies, activities, and play-based ideas to support children’s classroom success.

CeCe har aldrig rigtig følt, at hun passede ind nogen steder, og efter faren, Pa Salts, død kan hun næsten ikke klare mere. Hun dropper ud af kunstskolen og kan kun se til, mens hendes søster Star lige så langsomt bevæger sig ud af hendes liv. I desperation beslutter hun sig for at forlade England og udforske sin fortid. Det eneste, hun har at gå efter, er et sort-hvid-foto og navnet på en kvindelig pioner, der boede i Australien for over hundrede år siden. På vej mod Sydney gør CeCe holdt i Thailand, og her møder hun den mystiske Ace, der er lige så ensom, som hun er.

Diego González es un documentalista que habla dormido. Está casado con una sonidista que trata de descifrar lo que dice en sueños. Se muda a Barcelona, pero el pasado lo alcanza como una pesadilla. La visita de un viejo conocido, el periodista Adalberto Anaya, trastoca su reciente tranquilidad. Anaya - quien ha vigilado a Diego durante años con la atención casi desmedida de un admirador - lo culpa de haber hecho un documental para entregar a un narco.

Nick Carraway is expecting a normal life. He has a steady, if boring, job and a modest home. He even has some family nearby. But there's one thing he didn't plan for - his neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. Gatsby hosts lavish parties, while rumors about his sordid past fill the air. After attending an infamous Gatsby bash, Nick is pulled into love triangles, destructive wealth, secrets, and far too much champagne. Join Nick on a journey through art deco decay.

Samantha Smith hopes to shed her troubled past and reinvent herself as a freshman at San Diego University. When she crosses paths with a handsome tattoo-clad bad boy, her life is turned upside down, and Samantha finds herself with more adventure than she ever dreamed possible.

As we grow and move through the world, it shrinks us and puts us in boxes - tells us who we should be, what we're capable of, and who to love. As a queer child of immigrants, Maria Thattil knows what it is like to struggle with belonging. To have confusing, disparate identities, none of them fitting traditional ideas of worth, power or success. In Unbounded, she shares galvanising stories of what she has lived and learned through experiencing racism, sexism, financial hardship, intergenerational trauma, homophobia and mental health challenges.

Zunächst denkt Tom, dass die einzige Herausforderung des Tages darin bestehen würde, Welf dazu zu bewegen, mal mit Dada ein paar Tage in die Berge zu fahren. Auch Vlarads verschnupfte Nase und entsprechende Laune ist noch kein Grund, sich Sorgen zu machen und Mimis Unlust auf ihre Feststofflichkeitsübungen sind für Tom nichts Neues. Doch als ein geheimnisvoller Gast in der Geisterbahn auftaucht, nur um kurz darauf wieder spurlos zu verschwinden, ist nicht nur Tom alarmiert.

Eine Tote im Flugzeug und keine Tatwaffe! Welch ein Glück, dass Hercule Poirot an Bord ist. Dennoch sind die kleinen grauen Zellen des belgischen Meisterdetektivs enorm gefordert bis er herausfindet, wer über den Wolken ein Motiv hatte, Marie Morisot umzubringen.

Oskar, un newyorkese di nove anni a suo modo geniale, ama inventare singolari dispositivi. Inventa camicie di becchime per farsi trasportare in volo dagli uccelli in caso di emergenza, inventa un sistema di tubi collegato ai cuscini di tutti i letti di New York per raccogliere le lacrime di chi piange prima di dormire, riversarle nel laghetto del Central Park e mostrare ogni giorno il livello di sofferenza della sua città. A Oskar capita di piangere sul cuscino, da quando suo padre è morto nell'attacco alle Torri Gemelle.

Die 15-jährige Mara wäre am liebsten eines: unauffällig. Ein ganz normales Mädchen. Ohne die Tagträume, die der Grund für die ständigen Hänseleien in der Schule sind. Doch gerade als sie beschließt, ihr Leben zu ändern, passiert etwas Unglaubliches: Mara erfährt, dass sie eine der letzten Seherinnen ist. Eine Spákona. Und nur mithilfe ihrer besonderen Gabe kann sie verhindern, dass sich der Halbgott Loki von seinen Fesseln befreit und zu einer Gefahr wird. Maras Welt gerät aus den Fugen: Wird sie es schaffen, sich dieser großen Aufgabe zu stellen?

Tauchen Sie mit Ihrer Familie in die zauberhafte Welt von Emma ein, einem fröhlichen Mädchen, dessen Träume zu aufregenden Abenteuern werden. In "Emmas Traumwelten" werden die Kinder in eine magische Realität entführt, in der Emma jede Nacht mit Tieren spricht und in farbenfrohen Traumlandschaften tanzt, fliegt und taucht.

Ellen G. White, pioneer and prophetess of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, published Steps to Christ in 1892 as a methodical guide for the evangelical. She describes the steps needed to be taken in order to become close to Christ on a personal level. The book expands greatly on topics, such as repentance, confession, acceptance, and prayer.

In this short and easy to listen to book, you will learn what people who struggle with these conditions go through every day. It will help you understand them better and know how to relate to them. Share it with others and help our world become more accepting and friendlier to someone you might know.

Als bei der Explosion einer Autobombe eine junge Frau und ihre Tochter ums Leben kommen, setzt die Kölner Kriminalpolizei um den Ermittler Lasse Brandt alles daran, die Täter schnell zu fassen, auch aus Sorge, dass weitere Taten geplant sein könnten. Noch ahnt Brandt nicht, dass der Anschlag dem ehemaligen US-Topagenten Peter Walsh galt. Auch Walsh sucht die Täter, weil bei dem Attentat sein bester Freund schwer verletzt wurde. Aber im Gegensatz zu Brandt, sinnt er auf Rache und ist dafür bereit, über Leichen zu gehen.