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Spend Christmas in Friday Harbor this year surrounded by the friends you know and a couple of special deliveries from the Hometown Harbor Series. In between holiday activities, friends of Linda and Max are helping plan their Valentine's Day wedding. Regi is anxiously awaiting the arrival of her fortieth birthday and the fulfillment of the promise she and Cam made over twenty years ago. As she anticipates the reunion with Cam, she's oblivious to the signals the local delivery man, Nate, is giving her. She and Nate work together helping a newcomer open an art and antiques shop. While spending time together, she discovers she has feelings for Nate and bonds with the new shopkeeper over their past losses. As Regi's contemplating her choices, she's dealt a blow that brings her to her knees and reconnects her with the past. In the pursuit of her youthful fairytale promise, she'll risk the only chance she's encountered for true happiness and a home.

Set against the background of Hungary's rich peasant culture and rigid class divisions, spanning the years from 1880 to 1944, Anna & Elizabeth tells the story of two very different women and their unlikely friendship --- Anna, a Baptist woman from the countryside, and Elizabeth, her one-time Jewish employer. The story shows how their bond develops and survives, despite war, revolution, and the ravages of time. Inspired by the author's grandmother and the friend who tried to protect her during the Holocaust, this novel explores the strengths, joys, and sorrows of personal and family relationships.

Tot va començar l?any que va perdre la virginitat. L?any del te, quan la Magda es va acostumar a prendre?l les tardes que feien l?amor. Va ser un amor d?adolescent, el primer amor, impulsiu i violent. Després, en la vida de la Magda Audet tot va ser doble





Tinc perfectament clar que disposem de totes les eines necessàries per resoldre la crisi climàtica. Només ens manca un ingredient: la voluntat col·lectiva.Des del punt de vista adequat, la crisi climàtica és una oportunitat sense precedents per redreçar, per fi, moltes de les causes permanents de patiment i misèria que s'han deixat de banda durant molt de temps, i de transformar les esperances de les generacions futures de viure vides més sanes i pròsperes i d'augmentar les probabilitats d'èxit en la seva particular cerca de la felicitat.La nostra opció reuneix les solucions més eficaces disponibles actualment i que, actuant en conjunt, serviran per resoldre aquesta crisi. La seva finalitat és separar la qüestió de la política tant com sigui possible i inspirar els lectors per emprendre accions, no només individualment sinó també com a partícips en els processos polítics, i fer que tots els països, i el món en el seu conjunt, s'enfrontin a la decisió que han de prendre.Hi ha un antic refrany africà que diu: «Si vols anar ràpid, vés-hi sol; si vols anar lluny, vés-hi acompanyat». Nosaltres hem d'anar lluny... i ràpid.Podem resoldre la crisi climàtica. Serà, sens dubte, difícil, però si escollim l'opció de resoldre-la, no tinc cap dubte que podem reeixir, i ho farem.Al Gore, de la introducció