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Andrea's earliest memories was lying still in bed, waiting to be assaulted by the person hiding in her home. The catch was that no one was ever in her home, but the fear only grew bigger as she grew older. From the outside, Andrea has always appeared high functioning, well organized, and a hard worker. No one has ever noticed how many times she checks locks, cleans until she's shaking, or that she can never be alone in the dark. It wasn't util she was twenty-four that she was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that everything started to make sense.

Emocjonujące powroty przyjaciół. Desperacka walka o przewagę. Szanse, których nie wolno zignorować. Po uratowaniu „Celestii" kapitan Nathan Scott musi stanąć do walki z tyranią Jungów i przywrócić wolność planecie, której poprzysiągł bronić. Czekają go dramatyczne decyzje, zaciekłe bitwy, próby charakteru… a także nieoczekiwane spotkania z ludźmi, których uważał za straconych. Przyszedł czas, aby wyzwolić Ziemię.

Please Save Me is a story of the sickening abuse to which a father subjected his daughter, which led to her giving birth to two children conceived from that abuse. Mandy's father was seen as a pillar of society but no one knew what went on behind closed doors. From the age of 11, he raped his daughter four times a week, like clockwork, forcing himself on her even when she was pregnant. After being dismissed and ignored for years, Mandy finally found someone to believe her and help bring her father to justice.

Trickster in the Palace: For Razhar, life in the palace of Instanolde came with an extensive list of perks. Endless opportunity to pull pranks on the soldiers, to use his wit and charms to secure dessert, and to come and go as he pleased. Not to mention having a prince as a best friend to get him out of trouble. But when a deadly plot against the king creates more trouble than Razhar or even Prince Elerek can handle, it’ll take cunning, bravery, and maybe a few well-timed jokes to solve the mystery.

Noni Barlow is broke, jet-lagged and alone in New York with nothing but a dream and a manuscript. But when her idol Joyce Carol Oates tells her that Born Again memoirs are so 'last year', Noni's big break starts to feel like a big mistake. To add to the general weirdness, she meets her new flatmate only once before he vanishes into thin air – and that's before Noni discovers he is a transcendental meditation guru with a massive following, and a million-dollar trust fund.

A FAMILY FOR THE AMISH ORPHANS An unexpected arrangement might lead to a forever home… Daryn Yutzy’s three orphaned nieces are now his responsibility—but the Amish bachelor is clueless when it comes to raising little girls, especially one who refuses to speak. When kindhearted food-trailer...

"Imani the tiny" the children tease her, but this young Maasai girl is determined to touch the moon. Her mother shares stories of others who have overcome challenges and managed great accomplishments always reminding Imani that "it is only you who must believe." This magical tale, with roots in the tradition of the adumu, a cultural jumping dance, is one strong and spirited girl's thrilling story.

“A powerful reminder that true courage is measured not in strength but in service to others . . . Tim Brown doesn’t just tell a story of survival—he delivers a blueprint for leadership under the most extreme circumstances imaginable.”—Gary Sinise “I was profoundly moved by Tim’s...

A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Dean Browne arrives at the After Party with the maturity and style of an altogether more seasoned poet. In a debut collection of standout and stand-alone poems, each tests the boundaries of its unique universe. Browne is a mesmeric teller of strange tales...

Sandra Brown was eight when her friend and neighbour, twelve-year-old Moira Anderson, disappeared from the small town of Coatbridge near Glasgow in 1957. Moira has never been seen since. Twenty-seven years later, at a family funeral, Sandra's estranged father confessed to her that he had been...

'The Upstairs Room is the real thing. Frightening and clever and full of atmosphere.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman In Black The Upstairs Room is a gripping and unsettling debut from Kate Murray-Browne. Eleanor, Richard and their two young daughters recently stretched themselves to the limit...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE “A bold and memorable achievement.”—The Booker Prize 2025 judges Remember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of power, hailed as “a nesting doll of satire that leaves readers...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2025 NPR’s Books We Love Remember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth...

Ian Brown, award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon and the memoir Sixty, now recounts his daily reckoning with the milestone age of seventy. Fearlessly candid, often funny and relentlessly real, Brown asks the terrifying questions we all have about growing old, even when he doesn’t want to...

She didn’t know, because I knew she didn’t feel the same way and I was scared she would try to, so I hid it and encouraged myself to deny it, like a sickly feeling in your gut that you try to pretend isn’t the beginning of food poisoning. Hetty and Ness have been best friends since...

The exceptional talents behind some of the nation’s best-loved books – from The Gruffalo to The BFG, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt to the Charlie and Lola series – the Children’s Laureates are the perfect ambassadors for children’s literature. It’s been twenty wonderful years of the...

This visionary and unflinching novel is about a black woman who has spent her life carefully navigating cutthroat worlds of privilege in her career and relationships—until one day she is pulled up short by a life and death decision. Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile...

"Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination...

In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the significance of the parts...

From the internationally acclaimed Oxford authority on Communism, a definitive history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development in different nations, its collapse in many of those countries following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe. The Rise and Fall...