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Written against the backdrop of global crisis, Nikita Gill's new collection Where Hope Comes From shines a light into the darkness as we begin our journey back to hope. Weaving words that explore our collective trauma, her poetry takes us on a journey through the five stages of grief to the five stages of hope through the life cycle of a star. The collection features her most popular poems to date Love in the Time of Coronavirus and How to be Strong, alongside new material and beautiful watercolour illustrations. 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power...

In Unstoppable Me, written by New York Times bestselling author and champion surfer Bethany Hamilton with husband, Adam Dirks, tells the story of Makana the lion, who loves to surf but loses her nerve when she wipes out. When her friend encourages her to go back out again, Makana summons up the...

As the world mourns the loss of Diana, Princess of Wales, one young woman uncovers a forgotten story of passion, betrayal, and a scandal surrounding the British crown in this unforgettable novel by the bestselling author of The Secret Wife. Two women who challenged the Crown. Divided by time...

Jess and Laura might be sisters, but they’re very different. Laura is laid-back, eats cheese in bed and takes life as it comes. Jess, meanwhile, is the classic overachiever. They’re family, but they’re not exactly friends. When their mum dies, the sisters struggle to agree on anything, from where to scatter the ashes to whether 'passed away' is an acceptable term. But as life forces them together, Laura and Jess realise: the only way through this is as a team. After all, they’re stuck with each other - and drinking wine is more fun as a pair.... 

Jerusalem — a city on edge. Empires collide, faiths clash, and one execution will alter the fate of the world. But this isn’t the story you think you know. In The Roads to Golgotha, the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth forms the backdrop to an epic human drama. Through the eyes of six ordinary people, we witness history unfolding — not in prophecy or miracle, but in duty, politics, and survival.

Als Hexenmeisterin und Magus ihres Clans scheint Zonyas größtes Problem die bevorstehende Hochzeit mit Xalus zu sein – bis sie von ihrer Vergangenheit eingeholt wird. Der Fremde, mit dem sie vor vier Jahren so ziemlich alle Sittsamkeitsregeln ihres Clans gebrochen hat, steht plötzlich vor ihr und bringt sie gehörig durcheinander – obwohl sich alles in ihr dagegen sträubt. Zonya zweifelt an ihren eigenen Empfindungen und fühlt sich zwischen Xalus und dem Fremden hin- und hergerissen. Währenddessen versucht sie mit aller Macht, ihrer Aufgabe als Magus gerecht zu werden und Konstanz zu schützen.

A gripping new emotional saga from the author of A Sister's Dream. 1950: Seventeen-year-old Josephine Cliffe and her younger sister, Eliza, have the perfect lives, wanting for nothing in the huge house they live in with their parents in Sydney, Australia. But when her father's mining company...

In December 1872, HMS Challenger embarked on the first round-the-world oceanographic expedition. Its goal: to shine a light on the mysteries of the deep sea. For the next four years, Challenger's naturalists explored the oceans, encountering never-before-seen marvels of marine life. The expedition’s achievements are the stuff of legend. It identified major ocean currents and defining features of the seafloor. It measured worldwide sea temperatures and chemistry. And, most spectacularly of all, it collected nearly five thousand sea creatures and plants new to science.

The TV show, The Great Big Thank You, is feel-good, family entertainment, in which Good Samaritans are reunited with those whose lives they saved. But Christian Tidy - media star and champion of re-wilding - is on a social media collision course with Martha McCann, a woman who talks to her beans and wants to restore her local allotments instead.

Qui n'a jamais perdu foi en l'existence ? Qui n'a jamais été épuisé – voire écœuré – au point de douter de la valeur même de la vie ? Lily en est là. Une rupture, beaucoup de désillusions… mais ce n'est pas cette part de son histoire qui nous intéresse. Grâce à Mère-Grand et au Petit Poucet, Lily va découvrir un autre chemin. Loin d'un conte de fées, c'est une renaissance, aux antipodes des faux-semblants et des égoïsmes. Les Heureux Hasards vont la conduire jusqu'à la face cachée du monde tel qu'on ne le montre jamais.

England im Jahr 1840. Zwei Jahrzehnte sind vergangen, seit Cassandra Austen von ihrer geliebten Schwester Jane Abschied nehmen musste, und noch immer vergeht kein Tag, an dem sie sich nicht um das Andenken der berühmten Schriftstellerin sorgt. Als sie das Haus ihrer gemeinsamen Freundin Eliza Fowle besucht, stößt sie auf einen verborgenen Schatz: Janes Briefe.

An Athlete. A Therapist. A Murder. A Medal. Siana Singh can run fast; she is just slow in discovering where she belongs, wedged between her traditional Punjabi family and her western beliefs. She clashes with her father on everything from ripped pants to life goals until she can no more. Dr. Silverstone is a therapist whose primary purpose has been one of being an exemplary mother. Living her life guided by deep faith, she has lost her daughter to 9/11 and her living son is behind bars. She understands loss well and is eager to help her patient Siana.

They don’t love you. They use you. Narcissists follow the same script: love bomb, confuse, gaslight, discard. You didn’t imagine it. You didn’t cause it. And you’re not alone. Whether you’re still entangled, healing after the discard, or building the strength to protect yourself in future, The Narcissist Handbook gives you the clarity and confidence to break free.

" Ne disait-on pas dans l’Égypte ancienne que l’âme d’un mort vivrait aussi longtemps qu’on citerait son nom ? Je crois également que quand un mort a un nom, il a une âme." Pendant trente ans, Gilles Reix, technicien de scène de crime, participe à des missions d’identification. À chaque intervention, un seul objectif l’anime : la quête de la vérité pour rendre justice aux victimes et à leurs proches. Des souvenirs, il en a de nombreux, et aujourd’hui, il choisit de nous les faire partager.

Be yourself, people say. But the last person Clare Palmer wants to be is herself—she's lost everything she once had and now can barely get through a bus ride without wanting to thump someone. (People who don't wear headphones, sniffers, fried chicken guzzlers). So when she discovers her resemblance to beloved reality TV presenter Jenna Cox, Clare jumps at the chance to become a lookalike, earn some cash, and get her life back together.

Best known for his hysterically funny and often scathing restaurant reviews for the London Sunday Times, journalist Adrian Gill writes about his near-fatal alcoholism in this extraordinary lucid memoir. By his early 20s, at London's prestigious Saint Martin's art school, Gill was entrenched in his addiction. He writes from the handful of memories that remain, of drunken conquests with anonymous women, of waking to morbid hallucinations, of emptying jacket pockets that "were like tiny crime scenes".

1925, Parigi. Quando l’uomo entra nel ristorante, il maître col monocolo fissa con sospetto la sua camicia mal stirata, la giacca con le toppe ai gomiti da cui spunta una mano sola, le scarpe lucidate ma col fango sotto la suola. Chi ha combattuto si porta la guerra addosso, sotto la pelle, per sempre. Ed è stata una guerra feroce, tremendissima, quella che a lui ha strappato una mano, alle famiglie ha strappato padri, fratelli, figli.

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Watch out! Some animals make it clear for others to stay away by how they protect themselves. Other animals have more subtle ways of defending themselves. Find out how different animals use their bodies and behaviors in order to survive.