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Gardening for Pollinators is a practical, inspiring guide to creating vibrant, nectar-rich habitats that support bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other essential pollinators from early spring through late fall.

Winter doesn’t have to slow you down—it can sharpen you. Cold Season Clarity is a powerful guide to mastering your mind, body, and habits during the coldest months of the year. Blending winter psychology, thermal regulation science, and habit design principles, this book reveals how cold environments can enhance focus, resilience, and performance when used intentionally. Instead of fighting winter fatigue, you’ll learn how to align with the season and turn it into a competitive advantage.

Watch your garden come alive—one sunflower at a time. From Seed to Sunburst is your complete, confidence-building guide to growing vibrant, healthy sunflowers from planting to harvest and beyond.

Dawn French, number one bestelling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous and one of Britain's best loved comic writers, returns with Oh Dear Silvia, a darkly comic pageturner that will have you hanging on her every word. Who is in Coma Suite Number 5? A matchless lover? A supreme egotist? A selfless...

Penguin presents the audiobook of My Sister Milly by Gemma Dowler, read by Ruby Thomas. This is Gemma Dowler's powerful account, as seen on The One Show and This Morning . . . 'My name is Gemma Dowler. On 21 March 2002, a serial killer named Levi Bellfield stole my sister and sent our family to...

Brought to you by Penguin. What if the person you love the most is the one you can’t have? Grace has loved Jackson since she was fifteen – when they spent every childhood summer exploring France's breathtaking Ardèche region together. They were best friends, until life took its course and...

Checking into a psychiatric institution wasn't exactly on Ruby Wax's agenda for 2022 - writing about it wasn't either, but here we are. These days, trying to stay sane in a completely chaotic world makes life incredibly difficult, especially if you're struggling with your mental health. While searching for inner peace and equanimity amidst global chaos, Ruby realises that, ultimately, the most challenging gauntlet we all must face is ourselves. I'm Not as Well as I Thought I Was is Ruby's most honest and raw book to date.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled, written and read by Ruby Wax. Five hundred years ago no-one died of stress: we have invented this concept and now we let it rule us. Rest has become a dirty word, and our idea of satisfaction is answering the last...

Written by sex educator and body-positivity advocate Ruby Rare, Sex Ed is the practical and fun guide to sex that you've always wanted - but never known how to ask for. This is the information you should have been taught at school: a no-holds-barred roadmap that covers everything from how the brain is the most important sex organ and how to communicate what you want to yourself and a partner, all the way down to the messy stuff - solo sex, orgasms, touching, kissing, blow jobs, cunnilingus, anal play, lube, toys, kegels.

It is 1917, and while war wages across Europe, in the heart of London, there is a place of hope and enchantment. The Emporium sells toys that capture the imagination of children and adults alike: patchwork dogs that seem alive, toy boxes that are bigger on the inside, soldiers that can fight battles of their own. Into this family business comes young Cathy Wray, running away from a shameful past. The Emporium takes her in, makes her one of its own.

This is Under Milk Wood as you've never heard it before. The last completely original audio-only production of Thomas' masterpiece, Under Milk Wood, was in 1954 (two months after Thomas's death). It has been reprised countless times since then for stage, TV, and in book form, but this wholly new version, headed by Iwan Rheon as First Voice, keeps Thomas' original script but brings a bold, modern soundscape and authentic Welsh voices to his vivid storytelling.

In this Audible Original, Ruby Wax hunts down her heroes - brain scientists - in the UK and across America, to learn more about what makes us tick: why we get stressed, how we feel pain, what makes us addicted - and has a lot of fun along the way. She faces death with Past Mortems author Carla Valentine, explores how video games affect our attention with gamification expert Gabe Zichermann, and discovers the benefits of vaginal smearing with Professor Tim Spector.

Azul is known in the streets for his ruthless ways, but most people don’t see the thorough woman he has just over his shoulder. He and Justice have been a team since the young age of fourteen. Some would call her the yin to his yang, while others would call her his shooter. It’s hard to get and keep a woman as gutta as Justice, and he has been doing it for over a decade. In this game, sacrifice is inevitable, and Justice understands that a little more than the next woman. Riding beside Azul becomes tiring after she is put on the back burner for his wife time and time again.

Ruby Wax - comedian, writer and mental health campaigner - shows us how our minds can jeopardize our sanity. With her own periods of depression and now a Masters from Oxford in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy to draw from, she explains how our busy, chattering, self-critical thoughts drive us to anxiety and stress. If we are to break the cycle, we need to understand how our brains work, rewire our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world.

Sometimes something comes along in your life that you know is wrong but you still want it anyway. It's exciting and hot, lighting a fire in you that had been dead for years. You can't resist it. Melissa, or Mrs. Roderick at her job, can't seem to stay away from her new student Dylan no matter how hard she pushes him away. He was absolutely gorgeous. Then one day comes where she finds that resisting him is going to be a lot harder than she thought.

To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research—specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.

In this upbeat "reset" guide from the author of Sober Curious, a leading voice in the new sobriety movement walks through 100 days of discovering the joys of an alcohol-free lifestyle. Ruby Warrington's 2019 book Sober Curious was an illuminating conversation starter that asked you to consider...

Arwen Valondale began life as no one, as nothing. But now she's risen to unimaginable heights, done astonishing deeds, and fallen in love . . . with her arch-nemesis, the compelling Kane Ravenwood. Kane stands for everything Arwen hates: confusion, uncertainty, darkness and fear. And yet, she can't seem to leave him behind - she's journeyed to the highest peaks, the most distant lands, even the depths of the seas, and Kane has always been there with her.

This workbook is a guide on how to drop anchor when life, and the world around you, gets too daunting. It's filled with exercises and information for when you're suddenly forced to confront the hard truths or as I like to call them, the BIG SIX realities - difficult emotions, uncertainty, loneliness, change, dissatisfaction and death. It isn't just about how to get through a pandemic.... Or the post-pandemic fall-out. It is a WAKE-UP call. One that will increase your awareness of every moment through mindfulness.

It’s Christmas break. Gorgeous Piper loves nerdy Jake’s passion for buying her clothes, but her intuition tells her he does it not only because he loves her so much but also because of his hidden desire to wear them himself. She buys her love everything needed for crossdressing and transforming Jake into Jackie, her girlfriend. That afternoon, she enlightens him in the nuances of presenting his feminine side and immerses him in the pleasures of catering to his feminine persona.