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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jane the Virgin meets The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in New York Times bestselling author J.C. Cervantes's charming, romantic YA debut.Ava Granados will never forgive herself for being late to her beloved Nana s deathbed. But due to a flash flood that left Ava in a fender bender with a mysterious boy, she missed her grandmother s mystical blessing one that has been passed between the women of her family upon death for generations.Until Nana s ghost appears with a challenge from beyond the grave. As it turns out, Nana did give Ava a blessing, but it missed its target, landing with the boy from the night of the storm instead. Was it fate Ava refuses to believe so. With the help of her sisters and Nana s rather bumbling spiritual guide, she s determined to reclaim her share of the family magic and set Nana free.But for guarded Ava, befriending some random boy is the last thing she wants to do. She s gotten along just fine protecting her heart keeping people at a distance is a great way to ensure no one ever hurts you. But as Ava embarks on her mission to retrieve the lost blessing, she starts to wonder if getting close to thunderstorm boy is worth the risk.In her swoony, heartwarming young adult debut, New York Times bestselling author J.C. Cervantes weaves an unforgettable tale about family, fate, and finding love where you least expect it.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Nazi-occupied Paris, a talented designer must fight for her life by creating art for her enemies. From New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell comes an extraordinary story about holding on to hope when all seems lost.Art lover Capucine Benoit works alongside her father to produce fans of rare feathers, beads, and intricate pleating for the haute couture fashion houses. But after the Germans invade Paris in June 1940, Capucine and her father must focus on mere survival-until they are betrayed to the secret police and are both arrested for his political beliefs. Capucine saves herself from deportation to Auschwitz by highlighting her connections to Parisian design houses, and she is sent to a little-known prison camp located in the heart of Paris, within the Lévitan department store.There, hundreds of prisoners are forced to sort through, repair, and put on display the massive quantities of art, furniture, and household goods looted from Jewish homes and businesses. Forced to wait on German officials and their wives and mistresses, Capucine struggles to hold her tongue in order to survive, remembering happier days spent in the art salons, ateliers, and jazz clubs of Montmartre in the 1920s.Meanwhile, Capucine's estranged daughter, Mathilde, remains in the care of her conservative paternal grandparents, who prosper under the Nazi occupation. They counsel Mathilde to accommodate herself to the new regime, but after her mother is arrested and then a childhood friend goes missing, the usually obedient Mathilde finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of Paris's Résistance fighters. As her mind opens to new ways of looking at the world, Mathilde also begins to see her unconventional mother in a different light.When an old acquaintance arrives to go 'shopping' at the Lévitan department store on the arm of a Nazi officer and secretly offers to help Capucine get in touch with Mathilde, this seeming kindness could have dangerous consequences.Story Locale: Paris, France, WWII.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of BaronÉdouard-Jean Wado Empain, intertwined with the story of his famous grandfather, the first baron and builder of the Paris Métro. A multigenerational saga told against the backdrops of both Belle Époque and 1970s high-fashion Paris. What does it take to create a dynasty What does it take to keep one going And what does it take to save the life of the dazzling but flawed man who inherited it all Launched in the 1880s by the first baron, the Empain industrial empire spread from Belgium and France to span more than a dozen countries. When Wado took over, he further expanded the company, became a key player in France s nuclear sector, and, by the mid-1970s, was one of the country s most powerful business leaders a self-described master of the universe. But these were also the years of lead, marked by a rash of high-profile kidnappings around the globe, including the headline-grabbing seizure of American heiress Patty Hearst. Wado s vertiginous rise caught the eye of Alain Cailloll, a small-time gangster who had grown up in a wealthy family before embracing a life of crime. On January 23, 1978, Caillol and his confederates snatched the baron off the Paris streets, sure that they d get the 80 million francs they demanded in ransom. To show they meant business, they chopped off Wado s little finger and warned that more body parts would follow. But nothing unfolded as the kidnappers, or Wado himself, expected. Would Empain s company pay Could his family afford this astronomical sum How much was the life of a leader, a father, and a husband worth Most important, could a determined police chief and his crack investigators outsmart the kidnappers The answers to those questions unspooled over two months in a tangle of events leading to a bloody showdown whose consequences would prove fatal to the Empain dynasty.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A detailed, impassioned argument from an early childhood development specialist that will change the way we think about the practical importance of the parent-child bond.Weaving together neuroscience, strategies for parents and policy prescriptions with powerful stories of adversity and hope, Dr. Dana Suskind, founder of the Thirty Million Words Initiative offers a revelatory new look at early childhood and the often-unrecognized essentials for optimal brain development that parents are in the best position to deliver. Written with award-winning science writer Lydia Denworth, PARENT NATION uses brain science to lead us ultimately to a society delivering far more robust support for the first years of life.The natural follow-up to Dr. Suskind's THIRTY MILLION WORDS (Dutton; 2015) which revolutionized the way we understand parent-child communication, showing how important it is for children to hear as many spoken words as they can, PARENT NATION goes further, definitively describing the critical improvements parents can make to a child's brain development. This book explains exactly what parents need to know about enhancing healthy brain development-how to physically interact with kids (at their level), how to talk about math, new ideas on how to build grit and character, among many other practical insights. Readers will see from fascinating research illustrated with compelling stories that across ethnicities, faiths, and the socio-economic spectrum, kids need essentially the same things when it comes to healthy brain development-and it all starts with the parents.