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A straight-talking guide to decoding the intricacies of flirtingMany people are mortified by their flirting skills and get flustered when dealing with people they're attracted to. This easy-to-follow manual to mastering the art of flirting offers indispensable advice on working the dating scene and reinvigorating your love life. Exploring key areas including listening and communication skills, body language and self-image, Flirting For Dummies provides readers with all the tools they need to boost their self-confidence and engage with people in a natural and charming way. Flirting For Dummies: Features black and white photographs to provide examples of flirting in action Gives advice on getting to grips with flirting basics and how to get noticed Covers how to develop a killer rapport with body language Provides advice on taking the next step Gives ‘Top Ten’ tips such as opening lines and flirting faux pas About the author Elizabeth Clark is a renowned flirting and charisma expert. She has featured on ITV's Des & Mel, BBC Breakfast, and in a host of radio shows and press articles. Elizabeth is the founder of Rapport Unlimited- a company specialising in presentation skills training and keynote speaking.

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Flirten Lieber Herzen gewinnen als Körbe kassieren Vom ersten Blick zum ersten Kuss Flirten, das ist wie Schmetterlinge im Bauch, Herzklopfen, knisternde Spannung … Würden Sie so gerne, aber trauen sich nicht recht? Dann ist dies das richtige Buch für Sie! Elizabeth Clark zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie das nötige Selbstbewusstsein entwickeln, um jemanden einfach anzusprechen. Sie hilft Ihnen, die richtigen Worte zu finden und so ins Gespräch zu kommen, und zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie Körpersprache geschickt einsetzen und die Signale Ihres Gegenübers richtig deuten. Außerdem erhalten Sie wertvolle Tipps, wie Sie es vermeiden, zurückgewiesen zu werden, und wie Sie den richtigen Zeitpunkt für den nächsten Schritt finden, damit aus dem Flirt auch mehr werden kann — wenn Sie dies wünschen. Sie erfahren: Wie Sie Flirtbereitschaft signalisieren und Aufmerksamkeit auf sich lenken Wie Sie herausfinden, ob sich Ihr Flirtpartner für Sie interessiert Wie Sie durch geschickten Einsatz von Körpersprache die richtigen Signale aussenden Wie Sie mit jemandem in Kontakt treten und ein Gespräch eröffnen Wie Sie Ihren ganz persönlichen Flirtstil entwickeln

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Beautifully crafted traditional tales from home and faraway lands. Each story is divided into tiny chapters, making these perfect early readers, as well as lovely bedtime stories. Six tales, including 'The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle', 'The Cat that Climbed the Christmas Tree and 'The Little Brown Bird'. Line drawings and charming colour plates by Nina Brisley are complemented by goil foiling on the cover and a ribbon bookmark.

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It is a crisp, cold Christmas Eve, and an old donkey finds himself alone on the common. At midnight, he hears a sound, like bells and hooves rushing by. Then a figure appears over the horizon: it is Father Christmas with one last sack to deliver. The donkey finds he can help, and Father Christmas gives him the best present he could ever wish for.

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Beautifully crafted tales from home and faraway lands. Each story is divided into tiny chapters, making these perfect early readers, as well as lovely bedtime stories. Six tales, including the title story and 'The Tale of Peter Peregrine Patch'. Exquisite line drawings and charming colour plates by Nina Brisley, plus ribbon bookmark.

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'Authoritative' GUARDIAN. 'Raw' SUNDAY TIMES. 'Timely' LITERARY REVIEW. 'Powerful' INDEPENDENT. Growing up poor, Yasmine vowed she would always protect her little brother from harm. She broke her promise on the day she left home, abandoning Fadi to his life in the Stockholm slums. Now, five years later, Yasmine still carries the guilt of leaving him behind. Then she hears a rumour that he is dead, killed by a US drone in Syria. What happened to turn her sweet-natured brother into one of the CIA's most wanted men? The answer will shock her. It will shock you too. WORLDWIDE REVIEWS FOR JOAKIM ZANDER: 'An absorbing thriller in a complex world of spies, politics, terrorism and assassination... Excellent' The Times (UK). 'A multi-layered thriller full of style, drive and immediacy' Göteborgs-Posten (Sweden). 'Wonderfully written... A superb thriller' Metro (Croatia). 'Intrigue, action and adrenaline mixed to perfection' Librería Reconquista (Spain). 'A terrific page-turner rich with complex conflicts and a big, meaty, chillingly credible conspiracy' Chris Pavone (USA). 'A riveting thriller with a great plot. What more can you ask for?' Lokalavisen (Denmark). 'An explosive, thrilling dance fuelled by authenticity' Il Giornale (Italy). 'A multi-layered, action-packed thriller' Dorstener Zeitung (Germany).

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Tehran, 1978: Nahid and Masood, both eighteen, are young lovers and young revolutionaries, determined to overthrow the Shah's regime and help to bring about democracy. Their clandestine activities are dangerous, but with youth, passion and right on their side, they feel invincible. Then one night, Nahid allows her younger sister to come along to a huge demonstration. Violence breaks out. Nahid lets go of her sister's hand. Everything changes.As the revolution sours, and the loss becomes too much to bear, Nahid and Masood are forced to flee to Sweden, on borrowed money with forged passports. Tehran is no longer safe for them, and now they are expecting a baby; they need to get out before they lose everything.Thirty years later, Nahid lies in a hospital bed replaying her life, raging at her carers, at her recent cancer diagnosis, at Masood, at her - now pregnant - daughter, and at her exile among people who while purporting to understand know nothing of what she has been through. Told with startling honesty, dark wit and an irresistible momentum, What We Owe is a novel of love, guilt and dreams for a better future, vibrating with both sorrow and an unquenchable joie de vivre.

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Beautifully crafted tales from home and faraway lands. Each story is divided into tiny chapters, making these perfect early readers, as well as lovely bedtime stories. Six tales, including the title story and 'Yogodagu and the Bees of Yamato'. Exquisite line drawings and charming colour plates by Nina Brisley, plus ribbon bookmark.

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It's Christmas Eve, and a lonely old donkey limps through the frozen grass, searching for food. Suddenly he hears the sound of galloping hooves. Could it be Father Christmas' reindeer? When the Donkey meets Father Christmas, he receives a gift he could never have dreamed of! This charming tale with gorgeous nordic illustration is one that little ones will want to hear again and again!

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THE FIRST IN THE MILLION-SELLING DCI EWERT GRENS SERIES, WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY 2005 FOR BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR, AND AS HARD-HITTING A CRIME NOVEL AS YOU WILL EVER READ.'A must read' ObserverBernt Lund harbours a sickness. He is a monster: in the mind of society, in the mind of his nine-year-old victims' parents, and in the mind of his fellow inmates.Lennart Oscarsson has a situation. The worst scenario imaginable for Aspsås prison's Department for Sexual Crimes.These two men's actions are about to hand DCI Ewert Grens the most profoundly sickening and impossibly sensitive case of his career, and in Stockholm's history.Pen 33 is both an unforgiving collision between a time-hardened policeman and a truly heinous crime, and an unflinching exploration of what people - whether criminals or victims - are capable of when they choose to relinquish self-control.Loved Pen 33 and hungry for another DCI Ewert Grens thriller? If so, choose the next novel in the series, Box 21 . . .

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The explosive third novel in the Ewert Grens--Piet Hoffmann trilogy, which began with Three Seconds.Stockholm, Sweden. Seventy-three refugees have been found dead, suffocated in a container at Varta harbour.Niamey, Niger. Ewert Grens arrives in a city he's never heard of, in search of a man he never thought he would see again.Piet Hoffmann has again got himself in too deep, infiltrating a West African trafficking ring. He thinks he has two weeks to extricate himself, but will learn that his life, and that of countless defenceless people, now hangs on his actions during three desperate hours.

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THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF THREE SECONDS AND CELL 8 INTRODUCE DCI EWERT GRENS TO THE CRUEL REALITY OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING.'This is crime writing at its most ambitious and morally complex' Financial TimesLydia Grajauskas will never forget the face.The face of the trafficker who brought her to Stockholm: the man responsible for three unrelenting years of forced prostitution and slavery.DCI Ewert Grens will never forget the name.The name of the prisoner the day his life was destroyed: the man responsible for twenty-five years of torturous heartache.Sweden will never forget their revenge . . .Box 21 is a steely, airtight thriller containing both the harshest aspects of degradation and retaliation, and the toughest questions surrounding the morality of violent and obsessive reprisal.Looking for a companion to Box 21? Look no further than Roslund & Hellström's Pen 33 . . .

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INFILTRATOROne-time Swedish government agent Piet Hoffmann is on the run from the life prison sentence he escaped: living under a false identity with his family in Calí, Colombia.INFORMANTWhen Hoffmann is offered employment by a Colombian drug mafia, and is simultaneously approached by the US DEA to infiltrate the same cartel, he says yes to both.IN TOO DEEPHowever, when America settles on an enemy for their next War on Terror, Colombia, the US government and the cartel are faced with the same problem. Piet Hoffmann.Hoffmann is marked. Yet help will come from unlikely quarters: DCI Ewert Grens - the enemy who Hoffmann once tricked - will now become the only ally he can trust.

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