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Lamento
Lamento is a love story that questions the possibility of reconciling the magic of infatuation with everyday life. The story begins with a fire – an image which permeates the novel. The narrator, a writer, meets a theatre artist; their love feels ecstatic and utopian, completely untouched by the outside world.But with the birth of a child, the weight of the everyday turns their passion destructive. The woman fights for every minute she can to write, while the man abandons family life to focus on his art. Their private drama is further confronted by the jagged realities of colonialism and injustice, forcing them to see themselves as part of a violent history they cannot escape. As love turns to hate, we follow their restless search to understand the enigma of love.In a startling act of reverse auto-fiction, Madame Nielsen – a legendary figure of the Danish avant-garde – inhabits the voice of the woman she once loved to interrogate the man she once was. The result is an unsparing reconciliation of gender and memory, a lament that strips away self-pity to expose the narcissistic cost of creative obsession, and a meditation on how gender alters our experience of the world.
Tree of Knowledge
A poet watches the limbs of a eucalyptus tree get sawed off: the image persists, recurring across poems of art, language, selfhood, memory, and lossJoan Mitchell said, When I talk about love, I mean loving a tree. When I talk about love, I mean loving where a tree used to be.Men assess the eucalyptus tree growing on the poet''s street; a crane arrives. The sound of a chainsaw rings in the air and branches begin to fall. This tree-cutting haunts the poet, and refracts across the remarkable work collected in Tree of Knowledge as Chang turns her thoughts to artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Mitchell and Hilma af Klint.Roving, evocative, and intricate, Tree of Knowledge is rooted in Victoria Chang''s crystalline voice and generous, probing gaze, and by certain images ? trees, a hanging figure, a branch, fingertips, a briefcase ? that resurface like apparitions.
Ten Steps to Prevent World War Three
<p><b>An urgent call-to-action outlining how we can prevent a global conflict in the near-future from Tobias Ellwood, former Defence Minister and Chair of the House of Commons Defence Committee.</b><br><br>We are in a cold war, but one unlike anything we've seen before. Influence, ignorance and ideology have been weaponised, with USA and China fighting on the global battleground to push their rival visions of the future.<br><br>The world is splintering into two competing spheres of influence and it's no exaggeration to say that we are potentially looking down the barrel of a gun towards global armageddon. Western leaders can no longer be complacent or passive, allowing foreign actors chip away at our political infrastructure and national security.<br><br>The stakes could not be higher, but there is a path towards a brighter future. <i>Ten Steps to Prevent World War Three </i>draws on a blend of big ideas, personal narrative, lessons from history and geopolitical insights to uncover the mindset and strategies that can build a peaceful global future.</p>
Three Widows
She kissed her daughter, turned out the light and entered her own room. Too late to run, she stood frozen as a figure stepped out from behind the door and a hand covered her mouth. Fear was a bomb in her chest ready to explode. Her children. They'd already lost their daddy; they couldn't lose her too. When young widow Éilis disappears in the middle of the night, it is a chilling case for Detective Lottie Parker. Since her husband's death, Éilis is all her children have, and Lottie is terrified for the mother's safety. Then Éilis's body is found wrapped in an unfamiliar yellow dress, and Lottie's fears are confirmed. Desperate for answers, Lottie discovers that Éilis was a member of a support group for widows. And when Jennifer, a friend of Éilis's from the group, is found on a rubbish heap, Lottie vows to get justice. Lottie learns that Jennifer had lived a reclusive life since her husband died, emerging only for group meetings. But when Lottie questions the other women about Jennifer they fall silent. Lottie knows the widows are hiding something. Can she uncover the truth?If you love Karin Slaughter, Robert Dugoni and Rachel Caine, you'll be hooked by this heart-stopping thriller from Patricia Gibney. Three Widows will have you gripped until the very last page. 'Patricia Gibney has never let me down. If you want a thrilling no holds barred read then this is for you.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A compelling and fast paced read that had me gripped right from the very start and unable to put it down. It was twisty and unpredictable
Stranger Inside
''Sublime storytelling'' ANDREA MARAYou''re behind bars, framed for a crime you didn''t commit.Midwife Ciara Duffy goes to sleep and wakes in the small hours to find her husband beside her stabbed through the heart. Soon she is arrested and charged with his murder.You get one chance to run.Ciara knows she is innocent. She has no one to rely on. Meanwhile, her young daughter is gravely ill. Ciara has to fight by any means necessary.Do you take it?The day comes when getting out might be possible. But Ciara''s choices are bleak: hope justice prevails and she gets to her daughter in time. Or become a fugitive on the hunt for a killer.A compulsive thriller that grips and never lets go from the Irish Times bestseller. Perfect for fans of Andrea Mara, Catherine Ryan Howard and Lisa Jewell.Praise for Amanda Cassidy''Grips and won''t let go'' CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD''Will keep you hooked to the twisty last page'' SAM BLAKE''Propulsive plotting, beautiful prose the perfect read'' LIZZY BARBERWhat readers are saying about The Stranger Inside''A brilliant book with cliffhangers at every turn'' ''A fast-paced, gripping read full of uncertainty and suspense'' ''WOW this novel has left me stunned. My jaw is still on the floor! The perfect one-sitting read'' ''I couldn''t read this quick enough! Action-packed and heart-racing. One of the best, most fast-paced books I have read in a while''''A must-read I was engrossed from start to finish. It had many jaw-dropping twists prepare to be on the edge of your seat until the very end as I was!''
Food Allergies For Dummies, All New Edition
Navigate food allergies with confidence Living with food allergies shouldn’t mean living in fear. Food Allergies For Dummies puts you back in control with the practical knowledge you need to protect yourself and your loved ones while reclaiming your peace of mind. You’ll finally understand what’s really happening in your body, learn to spot warning signs before they escalate, and gain the confidence to handle everything from grocery shopping to dining out. Get insider knowledge on reading labels like a pro, avoiding cross-contamination traps, and having productive conversations with your doctor about your specific needs. Plus, you'll discover how to cut through the noise and focus on what actually works. Find step-by-step instructions for handling allergic reactions and medical emergenciesGet evidence-based insight into causes, symptoms, and treatment options Adopt strategies for mitigating allergy risks in everyday situations No more walking on eggshells around food. This is your roadmap to living safely without sacrificing the experiences that matter most.
Children of the Third Reich
The Third Reich cast a long shadow, not least over those born in Germany at that time. Whether the children of Nazi perpetrators or Holocaust survivors, they all had to come to terms with their dark past, based on an inhuman racial ideology. Renate was born in 1941, the daughter of an unknown SS General and Nazi war criminal who fathered her as part of his racial duty to produce 'A Child for Hitler.' Joe was born in 1946 in a Displaced Persons camp for Holocaust survivors. Dan was born in Haifa in 1938 to German Jewish immigrant parents. Then it was Palestine, later Israel, and Dan was a proud Israeli, until he wasn't so sure any more. All three grew up surrounded by silence and secrets, because their parents wanted to protect them from the horrors of the dark Nazi past which had devastated their lives. Decades later the three met, each trying to come to terms with their legacies of silence, secrets and pain. In Children of the Third Reich, acclaimed historian Catrine Clay traces their stories from Germany to the United States and Israel, confronting their dark pasts in order to find ways to a better future.
Crash Into Me
A BRAND NEW LOVE AFFAIR FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND SMASH-HIT MOVIE THE IDEA OF YOU'An edge of your seat story about love, betrayal, secrets, and learning to inhabit your own self. I was gripped' Ellie Levenson, author of Room 706'Sensual, captivating. I pushed “pause” on my entire life to read it. Robinne Lee has created magic, once again' Tia Williams, author of Seven Days in June'Rarely does a novel move with such intoxicating confidence. A gorgeously written, utterly propulsive read' Laura Jane Williams, author of Our Stop'Glittery and sensuous' Time MagazineLOS ANGELES, 2015When Cecilia Chen is involved in a car accident soon after moving to LA with her husband and children, she’s stunned to recognise the other driver: Anouk Ferrand – a woman she hasn’t seen in twenty years, yet has never been able to forget.MEXICO, 1996Cecilia was a young photographer’s assistant; Anouk, an unknown model on the cusp of becoming a sensation. For a few brief days on the wild Mexican coast, their worlds collided with an intensity that altered the course of Cecilia’s life – though she never knew whether Anouk felt it, or even remembered her.Now Anouk is impossible to ignore: magnetic, accomplished, and suddenly back in Cecilia’s orbit. And as the spark between them reignites into an irresistible affair, Cecilia is forced to confront everything she knew about desire, devotion and the life she has built.Some affairs are decades in the making – and this one is about to change everything. Praise for The Idea of You: 'This slayed me' Taylor Jenkins Reid'Summer's sauciest, sexiest read' Red'I'm madly in love with this novel' Curtis Sittenfeld
Your OCD Will Hate This Book
Do you have unwanted thoughts or urges? Do you feel driven to do things just to feel okay? And is all of this taking up way too much of your time?
Welcome to the OCD club nobody wants to join. But the good news is there is a way out and this book will show you how. Drawing on a highly effective treatment called Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), you’ll be introduced to a step-by-step plan that has helped thousands of people to take their life back – and now you can too. You’ll discover:
How OCD works on the brain so you are one step ahead
Worksheets to understand what you’re dealing with
What your core fear is and how to connect to your values
Self-compassion strategies to manage setbacks
See this book as your own OCD therapist, supporting you every step of the way throughout your recovery. It’s time to stop living by OCD’s rule and break free.
Entryways of Milan. Ingressi di Milano. 45th Ed.
First impressions count, especially in Milano. In this unprecedented photographic journey, editor Karl Kolbitz opens the door to 144 of the city's most sumptuous entrance halls, captivating in their diversity and splendor. These vibrant Milanese entryways, until now hidden away behind often restrained façades, are revealed as dazzling examples of Italian modernism, mediating public and private space with vivid configurations of color and form, from floors of juxtaposed stones to murals of minimalist geometry.
The collection spans buildings from 1920 to 1970 and showcases the work of some of the city's most illustrious architects and designers, including Giovanni Muzio, Gio Ponti, Piero Portaluppi, and Luigi Caccia Dominioni, as well as non-pedigreed architecture of equal impact and interest. The photographs for the publication were exclusively shot by Delfino Sisto Legnani, Paola Pansini, and Matthew Billings, each evoking the entryways with individual sensibility and a stylistic interplay of detail shots-such as stones, door handles, and handrails-with larger architectural views.
The images are accompanied by concise contributions from Penny Sparke, Fabrizio Ballabio, Lisa Hockemeyer, Daniel Sherer, Brian Kish, and Grazia Signori, together bringing a wealth of architecture, design, and natural stone expertise to guide the reader through the applied materials and fittings as well as the art-historical and social implications of each of the ingressi. As much an architectural city guide as an aesthetic study, the book provides the exact address and an annotated Milan map for all featured entryways, as well as the architect name and date of construction.
In the well-documented realm of 20th-century Italian design, Kolbitz has stepped over the threshold and delivered a brand new area of inquiry in Milanese modernism. With the rigor of its multifaceted research, poised photography, and breadth of its featured hallways, this is an invigorating new reference work and an inside look at the city's design DNA across high to low architecture.
Beautiful Family
*A New York Times Best Thriller *‘Atmospheric, disturbing and beautifully evoked’ – Daily Mail‘Page-turning . . . I absolutely loved this’ – Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of Here One Moment‘Riveting . . . it held me captive’ – Hannah Kent, bestselling author of DevotionIn the past, we had always spent our summer holidays in remote places. That had always been my mother’s preference. This year was different . . .Ten-year-old Alex thought this holiday would be fun, but now everyone in her family is being boring. Her mother needs to finish her novel, her dad wants to watch cricket and her older sister only has eyes for the local lifeguard.Then her new friend, Kahu, tells her a secret. Two years ago, a girl went missing and everyone said she drowned. But what if the adults are wrong? What if she’s waiting to be found?As Alex and Kahu hunt for clues, childhood curiosity soon gives way to a darker reality. As the summer heat peaks, one terrifying question remains: did the missing girl really drown, or is a predator hiding in plain sight?Brilliantly page-turning and tensely atmospheric, A Beautiful Family will leave a lump in your throat and a hole in your heart.‘Immersive . . . Alix grasps at the truth of things, but her perspective means only the reader parses the more adult story unravelling around her . . . as the underlying narratives coalesce’ – The Guardian
Babylon, Albion
Whoever said nature is still has not borne witness to the migration of the seasons.In this lyrical enquiry, Dalia Al-Dujaili considers what it means to belong in your land. She traces the rich heritage of the earth beneath our feet and the wildlife that call it home – from the oak tree and date palm to fairytale creatures, such as dragons, unicorns and the ancient Lamassu. Weaving together Arab and Islamic mythology with the English and Christian pastoral, Al-Dujaili unmasks the communal lush, familiar and, at times, dark places we share.A love song to Britain, Iraq and the body of earth we hold in common, Babylon, Albion is a compelling re-imagining of what it means to be native.
Stage Fright! (SpongeBob SquarePants Mysteries #3)
In David Lewman’s Stage Fright, the third funny book in the SpongeBob SquarePants Mystery middle-grade series, SpongeBob is back with a new partner and a new case that will take them through the mysterious corners of Bikini Bottom’s theater world. The Drippy Lane Theater is on its last legs. Luckily, an eccentric director comes to town to stage a new play, sure to grab everyone’s attention—even King Neptune’s! If the show is a success, the theater is bound to be saved. But when a series of disastrous mishaps occur, the stage is set . . . for a mystery!Enter Detective SpongeBob SquarePants and his new partner, Sandy Cheeks. In order to crack this case, they’ll have to step out of the spotlight and into the shadows to discover just who is responsible for all this drama. Can they solve the case before the theater is closed for goo? nergetic and fast-paced with plenty of kid-friendly humor, Stage Fright, the third in the SpongeBob SquarePants Mysteries series, is a great read for new and longtime fans of the hit TV series. Featuring charming and funny illustrations by award-winning and New York Times bestselling creator Francesco Francavilla.
Hope and Despair
A frank assessment of Israel’s uncertain place in a region scarred by conflict and insecurity. Where can the country and its people go from here? Days before his country signed a deal to normalise ties with Israel, the Emirati Ambassador to the US penned an article in Hebrew, directly addressing Israelis. Israel, he argued, faced a choice between engagement with the rest of the region, or isolation. His words struck a chord then, and will continue to ring true in the decades to come. Michael A. Horowitz tells the unfolding story of this decision: of tension between the hope ushered in by the normalisation agreements, and the enduring despair both Israelis and Palestinians feel about the waning prospects of peace. Rather than examining the past, Horowitz looks to Israel’s future—one marked by new opportunities, but also tremendous challenges, as the country tries to find its place in a region trying to find itself. Israel is a ship in a storm, navigating a ‘new’ Middle East where unfinished revolutions, regional competition, perceived US disengagement and an unstable but menacing Iran all warrant caution. In the ‘promised land’ itself, existing gaps are widening, and the space for optimism is shrinking. Hope and Despair is a brutally honest exploration of what lies ahead for Israel: the waves, the winds, and the ray of light above the clouds.
Rozčulovadlo v hlavnej úlohe
Niektoré knihy potrebujú riadny kúsok odvahy. A viete prečo? Pretože v nich nájdete odraz toho, čo sa deje vo vašej vlastnej rodine. Taká je aj táto knižka. O kom? O čom? Možno o vás a možno o niekom inom. V každom prípade to bude o milej rodinke, v ktorej riadny vietor robí jedno Rožčuľovadlo
“V zásuvke medzi ceruzkami, fixkami, plastelínou a pastel kami bol neobvyklý ruch. Šramot, či dokonca až rámus. Znelo to podobne, ako keď sa v nich niekto premŕva rukou a nevie, ktorú farbu vybrať. Šuplík sa triasol. Celá skrinka nadskakovala. Dvierka na nej sa otvárali a zatvárali. Niekto by sa domnieval, že tam straší. Zvnútra bolo počuť šušťanie, lomoz a buchot. Nahliadnuť dovnútra zásuvky a tiež do tejto knihy vyžaduje poriadnu dávku odvahy. Ak sa nebojíte, tak ju spoločne otvoríme a zistíme, kto to tam vystrája.”
Bůh koná
Jádro křesťanské víry spočívá v tom, že Ježíš byl vzkříšen, je živý a mocí Ducha svatého působí ve světě i dnes. Tato kniha je sbírkou pětatřiceti skutečných příběhů, které dosvědčují znamení živé Boží přítomnosti uprostřed tohoto světa. Náš nebeský Otec si ze všeho nejvíc přeje, abychom uvěřili v jeho Lásku k nám. Cílem křesťanské víry není vidět znamení všude a ve všem, rozhodně nejde o jediný projev Božího působení. Jsou však „záchytnými body“, které nás mohou otevřít a vést k tomu, abychom vírou objevili živého Boha tam, kde ho zatím nevnímáme. Chci vám nyní vyprávět o událostech, které před několika lety změnily můj život. Díky nim jsem začal úplně jinak vnímat Boží přítomnost ve svém životě i všude kolem. (z úvodu autora, kněze a misionáře pařížské diecéze
Song of the Saltings
On the isolated island of Brack, the people live by an ancient bargain: every year, a sacrifice must be made to the Glimm, the creature that haunts the salt marshes. Once, it demanded children. Eight years ago, it should have taken Lotta. Instead, the monster spared her and claimed her pony, shattering tradition and anointing her both folk hero and object of suspicion. Now sixteen, Lotta tends the Council’s sacrificial horses, keeping her distance from the islanders who whisper about her fate. But something is stirring. The island hums beneath her feet, and a song threads through her dreams. Is the Glimm calling Lotta bac? hen she crosses paths with Moss—a boy once hidden from sacrifice—a daring bog rescue sparks a chain of events that forces them both to question the Council’s rule and the lore that binds their people. As crops and animals are blighted and uncanny weather plagues the community, Lotta and Moss must decide whether to obey the Council or risk everything to uncover the island’s deepest secrets. Because on Brack, monsters come in many forms.
A Year with the Seals
With their large, strangely human eyes or their dog-like playfulness, but seals have long captured people's interest and affection. Alix Morris spends a year with these magnetic creatures and brings them to life, season by season, as she learns about their intelligence, their relationships with each other, their ecosystems, and the changing climate.
Along with the seals themselves, Morris explores the competing interests in the debate about newly recovered seal populations in our coastal waters: from local fisherman whose catch is often diminished by savvy seals, to tribes who once relied on seal-hunting for food, clothing, and medicine, this is a rare look at what happens when conservation efforts actually work, and how human tampering with ecosystems continues to have unexpected consequences.
Animal
Scientific precision and visual poetry combine in this stunningly beautiful book, brought to life by laser cut-outs and flaps.
Here are animals as you've never seen them before! Hél?ne Druvert's clever lasercuts and dazzling illustrations take you on a trip to meet some of the most fascinating members of the animal kingdom, from the tiniest insects to majestic whales. Learn how fireflies find a mate, which birds build the biggest nests, how an octopus deals with danger and why sloths have green fur.
This fascinating, well-documented book takes the reader on a journey to meet species of different colours and sizes, where familiar creatures rub shoulders with rare and mysterious fauna, and where all living environments are represented. Births and metamorphoses, skeletons and ornaments, defence and seduction strategies, the arts of hunting and communication... this is the infinite wealth of biodiversity that unfolds in striking thematic double-page spreads.
With remarkable attention to detail and a unique aesthetic, Hél?ne Druvert highlights the beauty of this precious animal world, to help readers of all ages learn more and encourage its preservation.
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