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My life was complicated enough with family expectations and boundaries I couldn’t cross. I didn’t need more on my plate, but I couldn’t resist. The only plan was to help their daughter learn to skate and give them a helping hand with an extra nanny gig, filling my time with people who made me happy. Nothing else was supposed to happen. We all made that very clear. But biology had other ideas…

Leaving behind the people she loves most in the world, Ashen sets off into the wilderness in hopes of finding the elusive group of rebels know as the "Consortium". But, when she finds herself among strangers in the former ski town locals have named the "Bastille", secrets begin to reveal themselves, friendships prove as fragile as glass, and Ashen begins to understand just how powerful her enemy really is. When her brother, Kel, goes missing, Ashen is forced to return to the place she despises...where she's faced with a cruel and brutal choice that will break her heart.

In Woke, Titania McGrath demonstrates how everybody can play their part in the pursuit of social justice. As a millennial icon on the forefront of online activism, Titania is uniquely placed to guide her listeners through the often bewildering array of terminology and concepts that constitute 21st-century 'wokeness'. These new ideas often leave the general public bemused, particularly if they don't read the Guardian. Being woke is actually much easier than people think. As Titania demonstrates, anyone can be an activist. 

Research suggests that the first six months of life are the most critical to a child’s development of language skills. For an individual to become sufficiently skilled in any language, they must be exposed to the language as early as possible, preferably before school age.

Handling conflict well is the most neglected but most transformative professional skill of all–here’s the blueprint for doing it better.

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings...

Lundi 28 avril 2025. L'Espagne est paralysée par la plus grande panne électrique de son histoire. Directrice de la filiale espagnole de StarCo, Emma Bosch se précipite au chevet de son père, dont la vie dépend d'un respirateur artificiel. Aux États-Unis, les corps sans vie de plusieurs collaboratrices du célèbre milliardaire Milton Gail, le fantasque et génial fondateur de StarCo, sont retrouvés.

For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity. Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong. The notion that...

From the very beginning of its two-decade run on radio, Suspense was tops in thriller entertainment! Its first year on the air brought together stories from such outstanding masters of the genre as John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, and Edgar Allan Poe! Tune in to 20 tense classics from Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills - starring Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Susan Hayward, Richard Dix, Lou Merrill, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Readick, Alice Frost, and more.

Alice Cooper reflects on his extraordinary career, the shock-rock legacy that changed live performance, and how artists like Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson carried that spirit into a new era. He explains why his own style was always about entertainment, storytelling, and leaving audiences thrilled. He also dives into the dark themes of Brutal Planet, revisits classics like I'm Eighteen and School's Out, and pays tribute to producer Bob Ezrin. Most powerfully, Alice speaks candidly about overcoming alcoholism and how recovery made him stronger on every level.

Hysteria! presents tales of howling nuns, fainting schoolgirls, witches, wombs, online panics and threats – both imagined and real. Crossing decades and continents, and from personal panics to societal scares, Alice Lowe explores hysterical behaviour. Come join the delirium....

Alice Fraser has a special place in her heart for the sweeping silliness of romance novels. The journey to reach a believable Happily Ever After can go via an unbelievable rollercoaster of intensity, through wildly entertaining twists and unlikely turns. To celebrate the unparalleled joy this genre can bring to listeners and defy its oft maligned status, Alice has created the author, D'Ancey LaGuarde, the ineffably mysterious, outrageously prolific, undisputed regent of the art of romance.

Six highly placed matrons mourn their lack of daughters until they devise a scheme to launch eligible girls in need of assistance, and so The Society of Sponsoring Ladies is born. Miss Georgiana Wilcox, eldest daughter of the sixteenth Baron of Manley, has done what she liked in her little corner of England. She is not unaware that her family’s fortunes have been dwindling for the past three generations, nor that her upbringing has not been up to snuff.

A hungry Fox. A proud Crow. And the cleverest trick in the forest. When the Fox spots a Crow perched high in a tree with the most tempting meal he has ever seen, he knows that jumping, climbing, and chasing will get him nowhere. So he does something far more devious. He starts talking. With nothing but well-placed compliments and a sly smile, the Fox sets a trap that the Crow never sees coming, and the lesson that follows is one young listeners will never forget. A timeless fable for a new generation.

After the success of her debut Woke: A Guide to Social Justice, radical slam poet and intersectional feminist Titania McGrath has turned her talents to the realm of children's non-fiction. Aimed at activists from the age of six months to six years, Titania's book will help cultivate a new progressive generation. In a series of groundbreaking and poignant chapters, she will take you on a journey with some of the most inspiring individuals in history, such as Emmeline Pankhurst, Meghan Markle, Nelson Mandela, Hillary Clinton and Joseph Stalin.

La nouvelle enquête de Lucia Guerrero ! Deux tueurs. Deux mondes. Et pour Lucia, une double menace. Dans cette nouvelle aventure, la lieutenante Lucia Guerrero ne connaîtra aucun répit. Elle va devoir enquêter sur non pas une, mais deux affaires bien différentes. La première en Galice sur la piste d'un mystérieux tueur en série qui s'en prend à des femmes se levant tôt pour aller travailler, la seconde à Madrid où un Robin des bois attaquent les ultra-riches déclenchant la panique au sein des plus hautes institutions du pays.

Billion-dollar bargain… for an on-paper wife! Odysseus Diamides never expects a warm welcome at his family's imposing estate. Until he's greeted by maid Grace Foster—who spent last night in his bed! He can't allow her life to be ruined by his controlling grandfather, so the Greek barters for her freedom by making Grace his convenient bride… Odysseus's diamond is the lifeline Grace requires. She can escape her boss and ensure her grandmother is cared for. Yet after their idyllic island wedding Grace realizes just how cynical Odysseus truly is.

Wuthering Heights meets The Cruel Prince in this epic love story woven with fae magic and wild nature. Rose has spent her life being told cautionary tales about faeries and mists and moons and those who stray on to the moors after dark. But she can't resist the call of the Crag's wild beauty...

The official novelization of the blockbuster film! Months after the dramatic events seen in the 2009 blockbuster film Star Trek, the crew of the USS Enterprise—including Captain James T. Kirk, First Officer Spock, Doctor Leonard McCoy, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott...

Six highly placed matrons mourn their lack of daughters until they devise a scheme to launch eligible girls in need of assistance, and so The Society of Sponsoring Ladies is born. Lady Easton had her plans well in hand before her lord suddenly decided to have ideas and opinions. Now, Lord Easton has decided who she will sponsor, and he’s decided on the daughter of a horseracing crony. Worse, Lady Easton is expected to launch the girl in Brighton, of all places.