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Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf’s final novel, set in a quiet English village just before World War II. The story unfolds over the course of one day, as villagers prepare for and perform an outdoor pageant that reflects the history of England. Beneath the surface of this seemingly simple event, tensions rise—between family members, within relationships, and in the looming shadow of war.

Descubre a la pareja como arquitecto de la familia, la importancia de la comunicación, hablar y escuchar, así como el papel de la autoestima en la construcción de la familia. En esta obra Virginia Satir recoge las inquietudes de sus lectores y analiza temas como la adolescencia, el retiro, las transiciones de los últimos años, la paz en el mundo y la espiritualidad.

In the aftermath of World War I, Clarissa Dalloway is an upper-class politician’s wife, who longs for the carefree, impassioned days of her youth. Her marriage to a sensible man gives her many opportunities to socialize and progress in society, but this practicality also prevented her from following other romantic and personal passions. These old regrets come to new light as Clarissa is reintroduced to Peter Walsh, a man she loved—and who had proposed to her—in her younger days.

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain has helped over 90,000 individuals manage their pain and strive to live satisfying, fulfilling lives. In the new second edition, the authors have carefully developed and improved every chapter. Packed with useful advice, tips, strategies, and positive reinforcement, the book empowers listeners to become their own informed pain self-managers.

Los Pargiter, una típica familia burguesa, recorren en este audiolibro un periodo de tiempo comprendido entre los últimos estertores de la era victoriana y los primeros años treinta. Y en el seno de su hogar se dramatizan las tensiones históricas, sociales e ideológicas de esa época de transición y niebla, cuando un mundo y una idea de la civilización se desmoronaban para dar paso a un tiempo nuevo y lleno de incertidumbre.

After being gone for two decades, Maddy’s half sister, Emily, is back in town to settle their late father’s estate. Emily’s not the troubled girl Maddy remembers from their volatile childhood. Apparently, all is well. It can’t possibly matter anymore that Maddy married Emily’s first love, but the pictures Maddy finds on her husband’s phone tell a different story. Suspicions of an affair are hard to ignore.

Elaine "The Mink" LaCroix has just cat-burglared into a temple in Japan and reaches for the Eye of Buddha - a blazing green emerald as big as a man's fist - when she slumps to the ground. A white bony hand strips the glowing silver ring from her finger. Half a world away, Merlin opens his eyes and whispers, "It is not to be, little Mink", then drifts to the sleep of the enchanted.

A spirited new version of Virgina Woolf’s Orlando adapted with a distinctly queer point of view. This adaptation revels in the origin of the story as a love letter from Woolf to Vita Sackville West. Beginning the story as a young 16th century nobleman, Orlando’s life spans centuries, continents, lovers and genders in a sumptuous celebration of what it means to explore one’s own identity.

Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel takes place over the course of a single June day in the lives of some very different Londoners: wealthy society hostess Clarissa Dalloway, who is preparing for a party; her old friend Peter Walsh, recently returned from India, whose proposal of marriage Clarissa rejected years ago; Septimus Warren Smith, a WWI veteran suffering from shell shock; and his Italian-born wife, Rezia, who is trying to care for him as best she can. Woolf's beautiful prose captures the minds and souls of these vivid characters.

Che cos'è l'Europa? La definizione più azzeccata ce l'ha data Jacques Delors: l'Europa è un "oggetto politico non identificato". Un Ufo. Perché l'Europa non è né uno stato né una vera e propria organizzazione internazionale. Partendo dai suoi padri fondatori e madri fondatrici, Virginia Volpi traccia una breve, felice storia della nascita della Ue. Ci spiega quali sono le sue istituzioni più importanti e come funzionano, i cambiamenti che ha portato a livello politico ed economico negli stati aderenti. Ci racconta i valori su cui si fonda ma anche i problemi.

This audiobook will help you to connect and work with your angels and archangels on a daily basis. There are also some powerful guided healing meditations to help you connect with the different archangels to bring healing and peace to different areas of your life. You will learn how to know and feel when your angels are around and how to invoke their presence on a daily basis.

This audio recording is designed to teach you how to get the life you want through meditation. Wouldn't it be nice to just relax completely and use meditation to improve your life? Well, that's exactly what you are going to do as you listen to this recording.

Virginia Jacko's extraordinary odyssey begins at Purdue University, where she is diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa while serving as a highly successful senior financial executive. As the darkness grew around her, she realized that she would slowly, but surely, go completely blind. Refusing to retreat to bemoan her fate, Virginia starts over as a vocational rehabilitation client at the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Jacob Flanders is a uniquely ambiguous protagonist: he is defined almost entirely by others’ impressions and is nearly unknowable as a result - but that does not at all detract from the vitality of Virginia Woolf’s story. In her experimental first novel, she tracks Jacob through the seemingly mundane early years of his life - from a boyhood trip to the Cornwall coast to his college years at Cambridge to his time as an adult in London and Greece - before arriving at his shocking, even tragic, entry into war.

Sofia e Camilla sono due sorelle brillanti, carine e di buona famiglia, alla disperata ricerca di un lavoro gratificante e di una relazione duratura. Sofia ha trent'anni e lavora in televisione senza "santi in paradiso" né raccomandazioni. Non si rassegna a dover scegliere tra carriera e famiglia. Camilla di anni ne ha ventitré, sta per laurearsi e ha una valigia piena di sogni. Ma come si fa a trovare un lavoro con una laurea triennale? E come si fa a trovare il ragazzo giusto nella Milano delle apparenze?

A single day becomes the entirety of a life in Virginia Woolf’s enduring exploration of a woman’s soul and purpose. As society hostess Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party, she also reflects hour by hour on her past, her secret burdens, her safe marriage, and other compromises that have brought her to this moment in time. But elsewhere in London, a stranger, a damaged World War I veteran, makes irreversible choices of his own - choices that will intrude on Mrs. Dalloway’s reverie before the night is over.

Jacob’s Room was written in 1922 and is Virginia Woolf’s third novel; the first in which she made a radical shift from the established style of prose narrative writing and began experimenting with the modernist "stream of consciousness style" now so firmly associated with her work and that so shook the literary establishment. Jacob’s Room is overwhelmingly centered around feelings of absence and emptiness and is a collection of memories and sensations that chart the life of Jacob Flanders, largely observed through the eyes of others.

The adventures of a beautiful little locomotive who decided to run away from her humdrum duties.

“Mrs Dalloway sa at hun ville kjøpe blomstene selv.” Med denne senere så berømte setningen innledes romanen, som utspiller seg en sommerdag i London i juni 1923 hvor Clarissa Dalloway forbereder et middagsselskap. I løpet av dagen skjer det flere ting som fører til en rekke overveielser og assosiasjoner knyttet til tidligere begivenheter. Mannen hennes har, til hennes utilfredshet, blitt invitert til lunsj uten henne hos Lady Bruton, hvis animerte lunsjer er berømte i de høyere sosiale lag.

Hamburg 1962. Der Star-Club öffnet seine Pforten als eine Beatband aus Liverpool, bestehend aus John, Paul, George und Pete, von sich reden macht. Aufsehen erregt der neue Beat und der freche Lebensstil der vier Pilzköpfe. In allernächster Umgebung tummelt sich die Mädchenband She Bees,deren Gitarristin Tina sich in John verliebt hat. Als ein Star-Club-Kellner ermordet wird und die Kriminalpolizei ermittelt, wird es richtig mulmig. Johns Verhaftung kann nicht verhindert werden, die beiden Bands verstricken sich im Reeperbahngeflecht. Es geht um Opium, um die Chinesenmafia, um Geldschiebereien. Wann schlägt der Serienkiller wieder zu?