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This is the story of a beautiful, young woman — a talented athlete and musician, raised in a loving home, surrounded by friends — undermined by a ruthless inner voice that claimed her body and her spirit. Emilee: The Story of a Girl and Her Family Hijacked by Anorexia reveals the cracks in our health care system, the institutions we are taught to trust, as well as our own prejudices and misinformation about eating disorders, mental illness, and addiction.

The spotlight doesn't only shine. Sometimes it burns. Being the bad-boy bassist for the world's hottest band has earned Griffin Hancock some perks: a big house, a fast car, and, most importantly, his incredible wife, Anna. The one thing it hasn't brought him is the spotlight. Anna tells him to be patient, but he's tired of waiting. Griffin is no longer waiting for permission to shine. Without warning, he makes a shocking decision and takes the gamble of a lifetime.

On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of WWII, the US unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in New Mexico. In The First Atomic Bomb Janet Farrell Brodie explores the history of the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely been discussed—the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test—as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of radiation.

These feel-good guided meditations combine positive imagery and affirmations with gentle self-coaching to induce inner well-being, develop self-esteem, and raise levels of endorphins (naturally occurring mood enhancers and pain-relieving opiates). Linda Hall, inspirational meditation teacher and personal development coach, has 20 years’ experience in stress management. Set to gentle background music, the supportive nature of this audio session is designed to promote states of inner happiness.

Queen Marguerite de Navarre was one of the most powerful women of her age. Her masterpiece, The Heptameron, is a collection of some 72 stories told by five gentlemen and five ladies who find themselves stranded in an abbey. Proposed as an edifying way of passing the time while a bridge is being repaired, the tale-telling - as well as the conversations that follow each story - quickly becomes a battle of wits between the sexes, with tales concerning illicit lovers, romantic conquests, lecherous monks, manly honor, and women's virtue.

The Double X Economy describes both the shocking gender inequalities built into the global economy and the collective power of women that could be harnessed to turn these around and combat humankind's most pressing problems. Promoting women's economic empowerment will dramatically boost social, financial and environmental conditions for everybody around the world. Provocative, accessible and game-changing, The Double X Economy is at once an expert analysis and an urgent call to action.

Breathing techniques to enhance well-being and induce deep relaxation. Learn how to calm your system through mindfulness meditation breathing exercises combined with positive visualisation and affirmations. Linda Hall, inspirational meditation teacher and personal development coach, has twenty years experience in stress management. Do you tend to hold on to your breath or take short shallow breaths, and does the way you breathe sometimes make you feel more anxious?

This audiobook will help you learn how to modulate your voice, use pauses for a dramatic effect, and make your speech sound powerful. This is a practical training manual for public-speaking skills. This audiobook is based on a tried-and-trusted method used in London drama schools for decades.

Cobra ist der Thronfolger und ihm wurde ein Ultimatum gestellt. Forme ein Rudel … oder sonst. Jetzt kämpfen wir um unser Leben und umeinander. Werden Jax, Xerxes, Ascher und Cobra unter diesem Druck auseinanderbrechen? Wird Sadie stark genug sein, um mit dem fertigzuwerden, was sie wollen? Wird ihre Spannung in Hass umschlagen? Oder in Liebe?

Greta Counts believes the power of self-love is powerful. This book offers a holistic approach to build a loving relationship with the most important person you will ever meet—you.

A Woman of No Importance takes place in a 24-hour period during a house party hosted by Lady Hunstanton at her country estate. The upper echelons of English society mix, mingle and flirt, including Lady Caroline Pontefract (who is on her fourth husband), the witty and ironic Mrs. Allonby and the dandyish Lord Illingworth. Wilde balances these worldly characters with a visiting young American woman, Hester Worsley.

Forty years of research has shown that patients who are psychologically prepared for surgery have vastly improved outcomes. It has all been shown that self-hypnosis, when used in addition to anesthesia, can decrease anxiety and pain and hasten healing. Hypnotically prepared patients are shown to have shorter hospital stays, less post-operative pain and nausea, need fewer pain medications, and suffer less anxiety and blood loss than patients who receive routine care.

In January 1817, Jane Austen began work on Sanditon, but died a few months later, leaving it unfinished. The surviving fragment begins the story of Charlotte Heywood, a sheltered young woman who is invited to the up-and-coming resort town of Sanditon. While there, she meets a host of memorable characters, drawn with Austen's classic wit and insight, including a fortune-hunting fop, a domineering dowager, and a hoard of hypochondriacs.

A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover; a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as “mother.” In the collection’s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with “drafts” of his own suicide.

Addiction starts like a sweet lullaby sung by a trusted loved one. It washes away the pains of the day and wraps you in the warmness of the womb where nothing hurts and every dream is possible. Yet soon enough, this warm state of bliss becomes a cold shiver, the ecstasy and dreams become nightmares, yet we can't stop listening to the lullaby. We crave to hear the siren song as it rips us apart.

This is the story of the dramatic final 24 hours of the life of Anne Boleyn. The story is told in a compelling minute by minute countdown which ends with her final walk to the scaffold, and her beheading by the hangman of Calais' sword. The book describes the actions and thoughts of some the leading players during those final 24 hours including Thomas Cranmer, Chapuys, Jane Seymour, Lady Mary, Sir William Kingston, Thomas Wyatt and, of course, the three principle players.

An "ominous and persuasive" study of when violence starts in child development—and the preventive measures to stop it (The New York Times Book Review).

Willkommen im Empire Club! Hier werden deine dunkelsten Träume wahr und deine tiefsten Begierden gestillt. Ihre Abende verbringt Ruby Monroe am liebsten in einem Plüschoverall vor dem PC. Von Männern hält sie nicht viel. Bis sie eine Einladung für den legendären Empire Club erhält. Angeblich fallen dort ab Mitternacht alle Hüllen. Als sie auf Alexander Black trifft, gerät ihre Meinung über Männer ins Wanken. Er weiß, was er will, und das ist abseits jeder Norm. Aber vor allem will er Ruby.

Linda Hall combines her experience as a gifted meditation teacher and practitioner of NLP and clinical hypnotherapy; her voice has a warm quality that is deeply relaxing to listen to. The un-intrusive background music is specifically designed to lead the mind towards a good night’s sleep. The first track may be used to help you relax deeply any time during the day or directly before going to bed. The last two tracks are designed to help you fall soundly asleep or go back to sleep should you wake in the night.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Great Economists written and read by Linda Yueh. What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time? Since the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but...