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Escape to the gorgeous island of Corfu with this wonderfully uplifting romantic comedy, the third in a brand-new series from the author of The Cornish Confetti Agency and Villa Limoncello. Welcome to the Hummingbird Hotel! When Corfu’s newest hotelier Abbie Coleman is asked to host a...

Escape to the sun-drenched island of Corfu this summer with this gorgeously uplifting romantic comedy, the second book in a brand-new series from the author of the Cornish Confetti Agency series. Welcome to the Hummingbird Hotel! When Abbie Coleman is asked to host a relaxing wellbeing retreat...

In this delightfully zany yet heartwarming novel, a young girl and her friends take Paris by storm. Edie Berger is a prankster, the daughter of activists, and a revolutionary in her own right. Paris is Edie's home and her favorite place in the world. But when her parents decide to travel the...

When you and your partner are prioritizing your careers and your family, every day can feel like a series of small and large negotiations. But it is possible to support your family, your children, your careers, and your relationship without collapsing into a heap every Friday night. In Two-Career Families, experts provide answers to the challenges you face as a working parent partner from negotiating responsibilities at home to making career decisions to supporting each other's growth.

It's autumn on the Sonoma Coast, and Claudia Simcoe is sure that the gourmet harvest dinner will wipe away any memories of the unpleasantness last summer. But then the newly installed video surveillance system shows local lawyer Clark Gowan removing something from a hidden compartment in the marketplace walls...and Claudia's visit to his office the next day reveals that he's dead, shot with one of his own vintage guns.

As a single parent, your life is different from the other working parents around you. With the pressure to perform well at work and no partner to assist with tasks at home, you likely find yourself with many responsibilities but little support. It's a heavy weight to bear. Doing It All as a Solo Parent helps you to lighten the load. Drawing on the expertise from experts and parents alike, it provides practical tips and advice catered to your unique challenges as a solo parent. 

Just when you're starting to figure out this parent thing, wham, your leave is over. Take a deep breath, you'll get through it. The first few weeks and months as a working parent are hard, but they can be truly affirming, too. People want to see you succeed, they'll support you if you ask, and you'll find you have energy stores and resources you didn't know existed. You can make great strides forward in your career as a new parent. Succeeding as a First-Time Parent can help.

Lady Arabella Allington longs for freedom from the stifling expectations of Regency society. When her bold attempts to escape her aristocratic life backfire, she finds herself under the strict guardianship of her brother and in the eye of the Ton. Enter a charming suitor who may be more than he appears, leaving Arabella torn between her desire for independence and her heart.

In contrast to many other healthy eating and weight-loss regimes for women, an intermittent fasting diet does not need the participant to choose their meals. It allows people to continue eating the foods they like while following a dietary plan, making it a popular weight-loss strategy. It is possible to do this via various methods, all of which include intervals of fasting and eating. During fasting hours, you are not permitted to consume any food. In this book, many kinds of intermittent fasting techniques are available.

Introverts gather around! A solution to your small-talk woes is imminent. The most famous introverts in the world - among them Eleanor Roosevelt, Gandhi, and even Elon Musk - have known the secret to building connections while staying true to yourself, and now, it is your turn. In Networking for Introverts, we will present the solution to annoying small talk with people you have just met and introduce you to the power of using vulnerability and curiosity in networking.

As a working mother you often draw the short straw. Bosses and coworkers assume that since you're focused on your family, you don't prioritize work, and they give crucial opportunities to those around you. Advice for Working Moms can help you alleviate this stress. Drawing on the wisdom of experts and parents alike, it will help you strike the right balance between family and work, all while navigating the long-standing bias against mothers and, more broadly, women in the workforce.

It's Christmas time with our favourite Bomb Girls at the Phoenix Munitions Factory . . . with trouble ahead can their wishes still come true? The festive season is approaching and the Bomb Girls are determined to make this a year to remember. With Myrtle's health in decline, Edna's love life...

As WWII rolls across Europe, Kitty boards a ship set for England. Money is what she really needs right now, especially with tiny baby Billy back in Dublin. In Lancashire, Kitty settles into the hard work and soon makes new friends, playing in the Bomb Girls Swing Band by night. Life seems to be...

It's 1941 and Britain is at war. For the aristocratic Walsingham family this means their grand home being taken over by the armed forces. But for newcomers Ava, Maudie and Bella, this is a chance for something more. Each is ready to do their part for the war effort and soon become firm friends...

Lillian is distraught - she must register for compulsory war work. Emily is also furious - her dream job as a chef will have to be put on hold, whilst Alice must abandon her plans of college. Staring at an identical letter, Elsie feels a kindling of hope and down in London, Agnes is packing her...

From an award-winning talent comes a mesmeric debut novel about a young woman falling under the spell of an older man. Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that...

A fizzingly funny, heartfelt novel about a resourceful girl, her impractical mother and a kidnapping mystery Some stories are about adventure. Some are about heroes. Some are about ducks. This one is about all three. Calla North and her mum Elizabeth live a life that’s far from normal. There...

The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street). In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy...

When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his 37-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder's notebooks - filled with pearls of wisdom - and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire.

Everyone says beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sheila's eyes are focused on her dreams. With her sights set on opening the hottest beauty parlor in the city and a $100,000 grant on the line, Sheila doesn't have time for distractions. Especially not from Shi'zad, the persistently charming but aesthetically challenged man who keeps popping up everywhere she goes. Her relationship with Shareef might be circling the drain, but that doesn't mean she's looking for a replacement – least of all someone who looks like a darkroom experiment gone wrong.