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The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical narratives by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy. This audiobook vividly describes how, before 1900, a woman who wanted to study the stars had to have a father, brother, or husband to provide entry, and how the considerable intellectual skills of women astronomers were still not enough to enable them to pry open doors of opportunity for much of the twentieth century. After decades of difficult struggles, women are closer to equality in astronomy than ever before.

Twenty-five Sunbury Press authors contributed 27 sections about the possible impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on society. Based on their experiences in a variety of fields, they provide their projections about the changes facing us, many of which have already been underway for some time.

In this Regency rom-com, when a Duke and a reporter team up to uncover his family’s secrets, their search brings up more than they bargained for—including their feelings for each other. Diana Merriwell and Giles Sinclair only tolerate one another for the sake of their nearest and dearest...

An Unwritten Novel was mentioned in Virginia Woolf's diary entry for 26 January 1920. It was first published in the London Mercury in July 1920 and reprinted in Monday or Tuesday (1921). It was also later collected in A Haunted House (1944).

Drei Frauen sind durch ihre gemeinsame Fähigkeit, Drachen zu sehen, zu Drachenschwestern vereint. Sierra ist die Dritte im Bunde der Drachenschwestern. Doch noch immer ist kein persönlicher Drache in Sicht. Insgeheim ist sie ganz froh darüber. Ein rechthaberischer, geflügelter Begleiter ist das Letzte was sie gebrauchen kann, während sie stur versucht zu ignorieren, dass in ihrem Leben einiges schief läuft. Unvermittelt trifft sie ein schwerer Schicksalsschlag und nichts bleibt wie es war. Gezwungen, einen ehrlichen Blick auf ihr Leben zu werfen, macht sie sich daran herauszufinden, was sie wirklich will.

Glück im Spiel - Pech in der Liebe. Seit sechs langen Jahren himmelt Maya Anders ihren Teamkollegen Phil Bukowski heimlich an. Zufrieden, ihn jeden Tag bei der Arbeit zu sehen, meint sie, sie hätte noch ewig Zeit, ihn zu einem Date zu überreden. Diese Illusion zerschlägt sich schlagartig, als Phil ohne Vorwarnung seinen Job kündigt. Trost findet sie in der Welt des Pokerspiels, wo sie durch ihr Talent für Mathematik eine unverhoffte Glückssträhne hat. Damit zieht sie jedoch die Aufmerksamkeit zwielichtiger Gestalten auf sich.

Nachdem der Typ, der ihr bei den Reparaturen ihres zukünftigen Foodtrucks helfen soll, spurlos verschwindet, nimmt Donna Leoni die Restauration des Oldtimers selbst in Angriff. Ein Klacks, wirklich. Schließlich gibt es Youtube-Videos. Wer braucht schon einen Mann! Ein unerwarteter Anruf zwang Orson Wellington, von seinen Freunden kurz Bull genannt, Donna in letzter Sekunde zu versetzen. Jetzt kann er es nicht erwarten, sie wieder zu sehen. Donna teilt das Gefühl allerdings nicht. Schließlich hat sie es bis hierhin auch selbst geschafft. Knapp, aber doch.

When eight-year-old Ginny moves to a house in the country and meets a new friend, she’s stunned to find out that her very real-looking, very normal friend simply...isn’t. Is it true? Could he really be imaginary? Or was he perhaps...something more? Experience what it’s like to be that child and learn how she comes to accept and grow with her gift.

Monday or Tuesday is a 1921 short story collection by Virginia Woolf published by The Hogarth Press. 1000 copies were printed with four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Leonard Woolf called it one of the worst printed books ever published because of the typographical mistakes in it. Most mistakes were corrected for the US edition published by Harcourt Brace. It contained eight stories: A Haunted House / A Society / Monday or Tuesday / An Unwritten Novel / The String Quartet / Blue and Green / Kew Gardens / The Mark on the Wall.

The narrator, apparently a woman, begins: "Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting." Along with her husband, the narrator experiences the sensations of a home literally alive with memories. She does not, however, try to keep the reader in suspense regarding the mysterious openings and closings of doors and windows that she and her husband witness. Despite the fact that she knows two ghosts wander through her home, she is not afraid. The ghosts, after all, mean the narrator and her husband no harm...

The Ported fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre drop green upon the marble. The feathers of parakeets their harsh cries sharp blades of palm trees green, too.

THIS IS HOW it all came about. Six or seven of us were sitting one day after tea. Some were gazing across the street into the windows of a milliner's shop where the light still shone brightly upon scarlet feathers and golden slippers. Others were idly occupied in building little towers of sugar upon the edge of the tea tray.

The Ported fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre drop green upon the marble.

"Kew Gardens" is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf. It was first published privately in 1919, then more widely in 1921 in the collection Monday or Tuesday, and subsequently in the posthumous collection A Haunted House (1944). Originally accompanying illustrations by Vanessa Bell, its visual organisation has been described as analogous to a post-impressionist painting.

The Mark on the Wall is the first published story by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1917 as part of the first collection of short stories written by Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard Woolf, called Two Stories. It was later published in New York in 1921 as part of another collection entitled Monday or Tuesday. The Mark on the Wall is written in the first person, as a "tream of consciousness" monologue. The narrator notices a mark on the wall, and muses on the workings of the mind.

Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky. White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains...

Als leitende Ärztin der neuen Klinik bleibt Dr. Kristina Mertens neben der Arbeit nicht viel Zeit für anderes. Doch als sie Kane Evers, den charmanten Vater einer ihrer Patientinnen, zufällig näher kennengelernt, scheint das plötzlich nicht mehr genug. Moira, Kanes Tochter und Kristinas Patientin, hat schon lange beschlossen, dass die Ärztin die ideale Frau für ihren Vater ist. Nachdem Erwachsene manchmal erstaunlich schwer von Begriff sind, tut sie ihr Möglichstes, um die beiden bei jeder sich bietenden Gelegenheit zusammenzubringen.

When Maryanne Wagner's father runs into money trouble at his bank, he trades Maryanne's hand in marriage for a loan. Maryanne refuses the marriage and robs her father's bank to get his attention. Wounded during her getaway, Maryanne stops at the livery in Wylder, Wyoming, and hides in one of the stalls. Chet Jackson Daniels runs the livery in Wylder and is looking for a new beginning. Fresh from a tangle with the law in Boston, Jackson has black-and-white ideas on what is right and wrong, until Maryanne comes into his life and shows him different.

À Londres, ce soir, Clarissa Dalloway offre une fête ! La haute société anglaise a intérêt à s'amuser. Or, de vieilles connaissances ressurgissent des limbes et exhument des souvenirs comme on ouvre une boîte de Pandore. Ce mois de juin d'après-guerre n'en est pas moins radieux. Quant à Lucrezia, déracinée de son Italie natale, elle tente de retrouver son mari dans la froide Angleterre. Septimus est là, mais absent. Pâle vétéran décoré, le jeune homme reste hanté par les tranchées et les bombes. Parfois, il entend la voix d'un de ses amis mort au front.

Jacques Pistoux befindet sich auf dem Rückweg von New York nach Europa. Mit dem Ozeandampfer Angelique gerät er kurz vor der französischen Küste in einen gewaltigen Sturm, der die Ruderanlage des Schiffes so beschädigt, dass es den Hafen einer kleinen Insel anlaufen muss. Tags darauf wird einer der Passagiere mit durchgeschnittener Kehle gefunden. Pistoux macht sich auf die Suche nach dem Mörder.