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At home, with a baby, no one can hear you scream. Most people think that once you’ve had your happy ever after, nothing can go wrong. But for Millie and Tom, their love did not have a fairy tale beginning. It was not love at first sight, at least not for Millie. When the strength of their love for each other finally brings them together, their marriage is a chance to heal the wounds of their past and build a brighter future. For Tom, the arrival of their daughter is everything he ever dreamed about. But for Millie, the reality of motherhood becomes a lot darker.

A family holiday to the seaside takes a dramatic turn when Lady Ottilia Fanshawe's young son Luke accidentally stumbles on a body in a cave. Lady Fan and her husband Francis quickly rush to the scene and find the corpse bound and blindfolded with a bullet hole in his head. It appears the man was executed, and with smugglers well-known to operate in the area, the local sergeant suggests it was a quarrel amongst the reprobates.

Barcelona, 1916. A sus veintisiete años, Frederic Mayol ha dejado atrás una vida cómoda en la esplendorosa Viena y la traumática participación en una guerra que sigue asolando Europa. Psiquiatra y seguidor de las teorías psicoanalíticas, se enfrenta a su futuro puesto en un sanatorio ubicado en un tranquilo pueblo pesquero cercano a Barcelona, un enclave perfecto para superar los horrores vividos en el frente.

On a bright summer's day in 2013, Freya Rivers disappears, leaving twin sister Imogen behind. Did Freya leave to travel alone without telling anyone? When friend Emily also disappears three days later, Imogen knows there's something dark lurking beneath the surface. Five years later, Imogen is living in Australia, having searched the world for her sister. So when her mother calls, she knows it's time to return home...because Emily is back and she has a child with her. Where has Emily been and why did she disappear? Does she know Freya’s whereabouts?

Once upon a time Gabrielle Price wrote and published an extraordinary novel. But 20 years on her literary star has dimmed, her "work of genius" is all but forgotten, and no further novels have materialised. She now lives an unremarkable life: middle-aged, living alone in the sleepy village she grew up in, and working as a housekeeper for the local vicar. Her lonely existence is dominated by memories of her best friend Madeleine, who died young, in tragic and mysterious circumstances.

Three steamy suspensive romances all in one place!

Un quarterback estrella. Una animadora irresistible. Un niño que es un gremlin con piernas. Y un Cupido con ganas de liarla a lo bestia. Levi Carter es el príncipe de los Dallas Cowboys y está a una temporada de jugarse el contrato. No es el mejor momento para que su vida dé un vuelco y le...

How can we think more deeply about our travels? This was the question that inspired Emily Thomas's journey into the philosophy of travel. Part philosophical ramble, part travelogue, The Meaning of Travel begins in the Age of Discovery, when philosophers first started taking travel seriously. It meanders forward to consider Montaigne on otherness, John Locke on cannibals, and Henry Thoreau on wilderness.  

Your artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involves profound but simple philosophical matters. As a human person, you are artful and philosophical, at the core of your being. Doorway to Artistry offers a playful, everyday philosophical approach necessary for life, integration, healing, and thriving in artistry. It reflects on the real and how we are involved with it, especially in our creative effort. In short, the real hospitably welcomes us, and in our artistry we reciprocate in noble courtesy.

Remembering Women argues that there is a historical precedent for a fairer society. From reappraisals of well-known objects such as the earliest human bone calendars from the Stone Age to revelatory findings of innovative bioarcheological methods used on human remains from Ancient Scythia, evidence is accumulating that there were places in the past where all women were allowed to thrive.

Get ready! It’s time to transform your little voice into a powerful roar! This is the book you’ll come back to over and over at any stage of your life and career.

Nephew Johnnie and friend Farah come to stay for Christmas and are naturally looking forward to having a fun, jolly festive season. Because the children are naughty Auntie Bertie bans Christmas! What with Rescue cats Georgie and Molly loitering around and a burglar in town events could quickly spiral out of control!

Candidato al Premio Strega 2023, "Cassandra a Mogadiscio" è uno struggente memoir dove affiorano e si intrecciano insieme la travagliata storia del popolo somalo e la storia familiare e autobiografica dell'autrice. Il risultato è un vero e proprio racconto intergenerazionale che parla di identità e colonialismo; dell'Italia e della Somalia e di un possibile, per quanto difficile, perdono.

Nueva Delhi, invierno, 3 de la madrugada. Un Mercedes que circula a toda velocidad invade la acera, atropellando y matando a cinco personas. Es el vehículo de un millonario, pero al volante solo encuentran a un criado en estado de conmoción, incapaz de explicar cómo o porqué ha cometido este crimen. Y tampoco puede prever el oscuro drama que está a punto de desencadenarse.

Con un tono empático muy particular, Esther Iturralde —life coach espiritual y creadora del podcast Reinvéntate— te tiende la mano para que el fracaso no te detenga.

'I will describe it as best I can. This is their story. Or perhaps just mine. Let us begin, again . . .' A vivid and inventive debut novel about four generations of women in a family, their past and their legacy, which evokes the work of Kate Atkinson, Tessa Hadley and Virginia Baily. On a brisk...

Eine unheilvolle Lüge, eine verbotene Sehnsucht, ein geheimes Verbrechen. England, Greenacres Farm 1961: Während einer Familienfeier am Flussufer beobachtet die junge Laurel, wie ein Fremder das Grundstück betritt und ihre Mutter aufsucht. Kurz darauf ist der idyllische Frieden des Ortes jäh zerstört. Erst fünfzig Jahre später gesteht sich Laurel beim Anblick eines alten Fotos ein, dass sie damals Zeugin eines Verbrechens wurde. Doch was genau geschah an jenem lang zurückliegenden Sommertag?

This episode of Bob Hope's classic NBC radio show originally aired on December 25, 1953.

Ein Haus. Neun Fremde. Zehn Tage, die alles verändern werden... In einem abgelegenen Ressort versammeln sich neun Menschen, die sich noch nie zuvor begegnet sind. Fünf Frauen und vier Männer, die eins gemeinsam haben: Jeder von ihnen steht an einem Punkt in seinem Leben, an dem klar ist, so kann es nicht mehr weitergehen. Frances, beispielsweise, ist einem Heiratsschwindler zum Opfer gefallen. Tony ist ehemaliger Footballstar und nun übergewichtig. Oder Carmel, die vierfache Mutter wurde von ihrem Mann verlassen. Im Luxus des Wellness-Komforts kommen Geheimnisse ans Licht.

Batrice Reyard has everything she's ever wanted - a fabulous job, an understanding mentor, and the freedom to be herself. Or so she thought.... Suddenly, she's being sent off to visit her ailing grandmother for the sake of keeping up appearances. Her grandmother is the last person she wishes to visit, especially with a collection of strange companions in tow. But she does love an adventure, so she sets off into the woods determined to find some excitement. She never bargained on the excitement finding her.