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When Nan Prunty's mother kept an alehouse in Portsmouth she renamed it The Duchess of Prunty, the title she claimed would have been hers had Lord Nelson lived. He was her lover. She saw him die at Trafalgar, or so she says. The details vary according to the amount of drink she's taken. Nan makes her own determined way in life, but always haunted by the wish to know the truth about her father. From the aging seamen at the Greenwich Hospital to the battlefields of the Crimea, Nan discovers the world is full of people with a story about Nelson.

Adam Wallace thought he had his life all planned out until he couldn't get a job in his field of study after college. Rose Miller's life was drastically changed when a medical mishap put her in a wheelchair in a nursing home. Beth Young, sister to Rose and an employee of Adam, had the perfect suburban life with her husband and three children until she and her husband were in a car accident that changed everything. Samantha and Dwayne had a love that couldn't be.

Mary Lennox, a sickly and contrary little girl, is orphaned to dim prospects in a gloomy English manor - her only friend is a bed-ridden boy named Colin, whose prospects may be dimmer than hers. But when Mary finds the key to a secret garden, the magical powers of transformation fall within her reach.

In this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late 19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world.

The story unwinds in a typical American city. Jason, a talented computer programmer, found himself thrown into captivity with Tasha. She was a woman caught in the snare of human sex trafficking from the darkest parts of the Internet. Together they embarked on an unparalleled journey of greed, extortion, theft, and human cruelty through the use of the very connection of simple, home-based communications.

Puh! Seit Frau Bernhard, Billes Klassenlehrerin, dieses furchtbare Parfüm benutzt, stinkt es im Klassenzimmer immer zum Umfallen. Wie praktisch wäre es doch, wenn es ein geruchloses Parfüm gäbe. Das ist die Idee! Billes Freund David will das Parfüm erfinden und Bille stürzt sich in die Vorbereitungen, um ein neues Geschäft zu eröffnen. Doch ausgerechnet Fifi Flanell, der berühmteste Parfümhersteller aller Zeiten, macht ihnen Konkurrenz. Wer hat am Ende die Nase vorn?

Looking Back is a memento! Use it as a guide and step into the process of sharing and communicating with loved ones and or friends. Listen as they speak one-on-one to you and share your truths and watch the positive benefits all will gain by the way of healing.