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NO LOST CAUSES CLUB PB
Part confessional memoir, part vital guide, No Lost Causes Club is a compassionate exploration of what navigating sobriety looks like in our modern world, from the author behind the popular Instagram account @brutalrecovery. When she was told that her life expectancy could be as low as twenty-five if she did not stop drinking, Lauren felt absolutely nothing – then the sparks of despair. How was she here? Surely, sobriety was for middle-aged divorcées who’d lost everything, not young, struggling singers who didn’t have anything to lose in the first place? Besides, when alcohol is the only medicine that makes the world feel bearable, how can you possibly stop taking it? Six years later, Lauren has found her way to an intricate answer. Entwining practical, empathetic suggestions with intimate memoir, No Lost Causes Club is an intrinsically vulnerable and brutally honest exploration of what living a full life after you get clean looks like. From delving into the social complexities that often leave people hopelessly dependent on alcohol, to centring the struggles of those newly navigating sobriety, this book is a soothing balm for anyone wondering how to carve a beautiful life from a world that never made sense before.
The Gilded Blade
*THE EXPLOSIVE CONCLUSION TO THE ADDICTIVE, ROMANTIC AND TWIST-FILLED SERIES THAT HAS SOLD MILLONS OF COPIES AROUND THE WORLD*EVERY CLUE, EVERY KISS, EVERY SECRET HAS LED TO THIS. NOW, ALL WILL BE REVEALED . . . ‘One of the greatest series in recent history’ Cosmopolitan.com‘Impossible to put down’ BuzzfeedEveryone is a player. In the grandest of games, there is everything to win – money, love, power, revenge – and even more to lose. Every clue pulls them deeper. From Texas to Prague to London and beyond, the Hawthorne family and their allies old and new are drawn into a web of centuries old secrets and mind-bending puzzles. Every answer demands a price. To survive, they must unravel the mysteries that bind them together . . . but some truths are deadly. EVERY GAME MUST END. BUT CAN LOVE CONQUER AL? atch every thrilling twist and turn of The Inheritance Games Saga:The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games #1) The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games #2) The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games #3) The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games #4) Games Untold The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game #1) Glorious Rivals (The Grandest Game #2) The Gilded Blade (The Grandest Game #3) The Same Backward as Forward *Looking for more unputdownable reads from Jennifer Lynn Barnes? Check out The Debutantes duology (Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals), and the thrilling Fixer duology (The Ruling Class and Lesson in Power).
Catch the Devil
The gripping true story of a serial con man whose lies condemned a man to death row by award-winning New York Times Magazine writer Pamela Colloff.For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the southern states of America lying about who he was. He passed himself off as a fighter pilot, a high-rolling oilman, a criminal defense attorney, an undercover agent, and a terminal cancer patient. In these guises he married nine women-some at the same time - and scammed them out of their money.When Skalnik got caught, as he invariably did, he would run a different con. Locked up with other men awaiting trial, he claimed they confessed their crimes to him. Then he peddled those stories to prosecutors. In Florida, he became a frequent witness for the state, thinking nothing of exaggerating men''s wrongdoing or implicating the innocent to help prosecutors win convictions. In return, the state rewarded him with his freedom, fueling his growing sense of invincibility. Soon he was not just committing fraud; he was preying on girls in their teens or barely into adolescence.In 1985, Jim Dailey, a down-on-his-luck Vietnam veteran, was implicated in the murder of a 14-year-old girl and landed in jail with Skalnik. Despite a total lack of forensic evidence, Skalnik''s account of Dailey''s "confession" was enough to put Dailey on death row where he still waits, four decades later.In this mesmerizing debut, Pamela Colloff spins a dark tale of a remorseless and brilliant liar made lethal by a system more concerned with winning convictions than finding the truth.
FIRES IN NIGHT HB
‘Cinematic, suspenseful, totally immersive’ ZOË SCHLANGER‘Explosive … fascinating’ RENI EDDO-LODGE‘Riveting’ ERIC KLINENBERGThe explosive true story of a secret group of radicals who launched a clandestine battle to save the planet, and what their legacy illuminates about the future of our climate crisis.In the early hours of October 28, 1996, a driver in rural Oregon spotted flames rising from a federal ranger station. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, but not before discovering a cryptic phrase spray-painted nearby: “EARTH LIBERATION FRONT.” Over the next decade, the Earth Liberation Front would carry out the most audacious politically motivated arsons in US history. Targeting car dealerships, lumber companies and a $20 million ski resort, they wanted to send a message: if the government wouldn’t halt the destruction of the natural world, they would. Despite causing no deaths, the ELF was branded the nation’s foremost domestic terrorism threat and became the target of one of the FBI’s largest ever investigations.Fires in the Night is the definitive story of the ELF’s rise and unravelling. For years, members of ELF, many of them close friends, led double lives, meticulously planning and staging their attacks while trying to manage personal frictions and stay one step ahead of the government. Drawing on years of original reporting and interviews, including with reclusive activists breaking their silence for the first time, journalist Matthew Wolfe offers a thrilling, intimate account of a moment when the actions of radical environmentalists challenged mainstream complacency.As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, Wolfe asks the most pressing question of our time: facing the end of the world as we know it, exactly what kind of resistance is justified?‘A larger story of the questions surrounding radical resistance, both during the late 1990s and today’NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW‘At once a cinematically propulsive narrative, a herculean feat of reporting and a sweeping work of modern environmental history’ ROBERT MOOR, author of On Trails‘A brilliant meditation on how a social movement draws its own moral lines’ ERIC KLINENBERG, author of Palaces for the People‘Masterful reporting. As riveting as any thriller’ SETH HARP, author of The Fort Bragg Cartel
SAS Great Escapes Four
'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildFIVE DARING ESCAPES CARRIED OUT BY THE FAMOUS FIGHTING FORCE DURING WWIIFrom the infamous 1944 desert campaign to the unforgiving terrain of the Vosges Mountains; from a perilous escape across Europe aided by Resistance networks to three Captains fleeing an Italian Prisoner of War camp in 1943, and a death-defying return to Britain via boat, tunnel and train. These inspirational true stories bring to life the do-or-die spirit of the SAS, as they faced an enemy hell-bent on wreaking vengeance. Damien Lewis has worked closely with World War Two veterans and the families of those portrayed, accessing never-before-seen wartime diaries, letters, mission reports, interrogation transcripts and more, to reveal terrifying yet astounding feats of survival from the band of elite soldiers. If you like Great Escapes Four, why not go back and discover the previous instalments in this bestselling series: Great Escapes, Great Escapes Two and Great Escapes Three.
Hekaté – A boszorkány (Az Alvilág istennői 1.)
Hekaté egy lángokban álló, háború sújtotta világba születik.
A titánok és az új istenek, az Olümposz urai készülnek a végső összecsapásra. Mivel szülei a vesztes oldalra álltak, Hekaté anyjával együtt menekülni kényszerül. Hogy megóvja lányát az őket üldöző Zeusztól és Poszeidóntól, Asztéria leszáll vele az Alvilágba, ahol Sztüx istennő és Hadész király gondjaira bízza.
Hekaté árván, magányosan, az Alvilág csodái és borzalmai között cseperedik fel, miközben kétségbeesetten kutatja isteni célját és helyét a holtak világában.
Végül felfedi valódi képességeit, és istennői rangra emelkedik, ám rá kell ébrednie, hogy még a leghatalmasabb olümposziak is rettegnek tőle. Amikor azonban egy újabb háború előszele azzal fenyeget, hogy mindent elsöpör az Olümposz hegyvonulataitól egészen az Alvilágig, a boszorkányság és a fekete mágia istennője az egyetlen, aki véget vethet a halálos küzdelemnek…
„Csodálatos! Ez a mitológia színtiszta esszenciája, ékkőként tündöklő prózába csomagolva.” – Luna McNamara, a Pszükhé és Erósz szerzője –
„Ez a vad feminizmussal átitatott újragondolása egy kevésbé ismert istennő történetének az elejétől a végéig sistereg a mágiától.” – Kirkus – Engedd, hogy Hekaté hangja vezessen végig az Alvilágon!
Szereted a fantáziadús, érzéki, tartalmas könyveket? Vidd haza nyugodtan, tetszeni fog!
Fiatal nőknek, felső korhatár nélkül!
Turtle Island and the Tradition of Giants
The story of giants in the Indigenous prehistory of the Americas• Covers the secret history of an ancient race of giants that inhabited the Americas long before European contact• Presents accounts of these beings from Native American sources, legends, and oral traditions, correlated with archeological reports• Examines the Smithsonian’s role in covering up records of the skeletal remains of giants in the Americas, looking particularly at John Wesley Powell and Aleš HrdlickaWriter and researcher Ross Hamilton uses Indigenous voices, beliefs, and oral traditions to reconstruct the origin and secret history of an ancient race of giants that inhabited the continent long before European contact with the Americas. Hamilton reaches deep into North American antiquity to identify a people originally from the Arctic known as the Tall Ones. These beings lived alongside the tribes of the Americas and even bred with them. As he uncovers the story, Hamilton presents the ancient Turtle Island culture of the nation of Manitouba, a once-great civilization that stretched across much of the contemporary United States and Canada and maintained an advanced system of arts and sciences before being called back to the mysterious North. Along with examining the ways in which archaeological history was suppressed by premier American institutions such as Harvard and the Smithsonian, Hamilton revisits critical primary sources, including the Lenape accounts made by early American missionary John Heckewelder. With this research and the contributions of tribal elder Vine Deloria Jr., Hamilton unpacks long-misunderstood Indigenous myths and history to reveal a time when Earth met sky and men walked with gods.
Eat The Food You Buy
The last cookbook you will ever need!
'A brilliantly useful book to help you breathe new, delicious life into every corner of your fridge' Ben LippettYou open the fridge after a long day and are faced with a few limp carrots and a sad looking onion, but before you reach for that takeaway menu, STOP! Eat the Food You Buy will show you how to turn the most wasted household ingredients into banging meals.With ten chapters on veg, five on meat and fish, plus a whole treasure trove of recipes using cupboard essentials, this book is sure to inspire you no matter how bare your fridge looks.Those sad, bendy carrots are about to have a glow-up in a Som-Tum-Style Salad
Wrinkly potatoes (we all have them!) can be boiled, kept in the fridge and ready to turn into The Ultimate Rostiwhenever you’re out of ideas
Last Sunday’s roast beef? Hellooo Philly Cheese Steak
And you can whip up Martyn’s ridiculously tasty Harissa Beans with just a few jars and tinsNot only will this cookbook make your shopping go further, it will slash your reliance on processed foods and pricey takeaways, help reduce food waste and prove that cooking with simple ingredients can be absolutely delicious.
The BFG: The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection
Discover The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection, a stunning hardback collection of Roald Dahl's most beloved titles.‘Obviously it was not a human. But it was definitely a person.A giant person, perhaps.'One dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant.Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant (the BFG), who is no ordinary bone-crunching giant, but instead prefers snozzcumbers and frobscottle to children.But there are other giants in Giant Country. And those giants have a plan to gallop far and wide to find some tasty human beans to eat.Can Sophie and the BFG stop them?The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection uses the versions of Dahl's books that were published before the 2022 Puffin editions.
The Witches: The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection
Discover The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection, a stunning hardback collection of Roald Dahl's most beloved titles.‘Her witch stories, unlike most of the others, were not imaginary tales.'This is a story about REAL WITCHES.The Grand High Witch, leader of all the witches, has a plan to make each and every child disappear.That is, unless one boy and his grandmother can stop her...The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection uses the versions of Dahl's books that were published before the 2022 Puffin editions.
PALE MISTRESS HB
“Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, all, cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak…” Cyprus, 16th century. Murder, lies and vengeance has left lovers dead, promises broken and no one to trust. Only one woman survives, Bianca. The slain? History knows their names: Emilia, Desdemona, Othello. But why do we not know Bianca? Who was the pale mistress? Liar or lied to? Instigator or victim? In telling one woman’s story, Naomi Kelsey dazzlingly recasts a Shakespearean tragedy as a psychological thriller of jealousy and gaslighting, ambition and envy, and the making and breaking of one of Shakespeare’s most notorious villains, Iago.
Beirut Fragments
''An impassioned cry against indifference'' - New York Times''Stunning and forensic, witnessing everyday life in the midst of siege'' Tareq Baconi, author of Fire in Every DirectionWith an introduction by susan abulhawa''Beirut was a city like any other. What happened here could, I think, happen anywhere''Jean Said Makdisi arrived in Beirut as an outsider: a Palestinian refugee who had escaped Jerusalem in 1948 and had grown up across Egypt and America. But in 1975, as Lebanon''s capital became the locus of a ferocious civil war, Jean decided to stay. As sectarian violence mounted and the city collapsed around her, she documented it all: the cars that exploded in the street; the high-rise buildings that turned to dust; the museums that became military checkpoints; the bifurcation of the city; and the brutality of the Israeli siege in 1982.Taking in the fourteen years of civil war, Makdisi lays bare the violent face of conflict, meticulously documenting its impact on every aspect of civilian life - from the fearsome whistle of shellfire, to the mundanity of queuing for food, to the constant, wandering search for lost loved ones.Intimate and profound, Beirut Fragments is a heartbreaking memoir of a city under siege and an impassioned defence of collective humanity. With vivid insight and urgency, Makdisi records civilian life brought to its limits and reconstructs the image of a place - and its people - that emerged from the ashes.
Long and Speaking Silence, A
"Nghi Vo is so good."—NPR on The Brides of High HillEvery story begins somewhere.On the banks of the Ya-lé River, the town of Luntien gathers to celebrate the start of the rainy season, but the celebration is marred by the arrival of refugees from the sea. Everyone has a story about the foreigners newly in their midst—lazy, violent, unwanted—while the refugees themselves grieve the loss of the home they loved.Cleric Chih, very recently still Novice Chih, is also a stranger in Luntien. A moment of carelessness and bad luck leaves them waiting tables as they struggle to establish themself as a real cleric. A cleric’s job is to listen andrecord, but the stories emerging in Luntien are ugly and violent, as hard to predict as the river itself. With their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant by their side, Chih must help the refugees while also unraveling a mystery that may have roots in their own faraway home in the abbey of Singing Hills.In the seventh entry of the award-winning Singing Hills series, we meet Chih and Almost Brilliant just beginning their journey together as Chih assumes their place on the road and in the world.The novellas of the Singing Hills series are standalone stories linked by the Cleric Chih, and may be read in any order.The Empress of Salt and FortuneWhen the Tiger Came Down the MountainInto the RiverlandsMammoths at the GatesThe Brides of High HillA Mouthful of Dust
Peekaboo Party
With 10 easy-to-use sliders to push, pull or turn in every book and a surprise mirror ending, this bestselling series is perfect for babies and toddlers!Play peekaboo with this interactive board book to engage and stimulate even the youngest of readers. Peekaboo Party is stylish, sturdy and sprinkled with birthday magic and friendly faces to spot!Connecting with faces and playing peekaboo is one of the first games that babies learn to play and that''s why they will want to read this book again and again. Moving the pop-ups will help babies develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, while turning the chunky pages will build their book confidence, all while rewarding their curiosity with fun peekaboo surprises. From Ingela P Arrhenius, the illustrator behind the award-winning Felt Flaps: Where''s Mr/Mrs? series.Includes a FREE Nosy Crow Stories Aloud® audiobook. Scan the code, hear the story! Read, play and discover - start your reading journey with Peekaboo today!Also available:Peekaboo ZooPeekaboo LovePeekaboo PumpkinPeekaboo Dog
Summerween - Halloween Town 1
Halloween just got hotter…
Welcome to Solstice Springs-where it's Halloween year-round, pink skeletons wear beachwear, and the town's biggest debate is whether the ghosts are real or just good for business
Wren Dunlop's summer plan was simple:
Hide from viral infamy
Drink rosé by the lake
Avoid all men forever
Too bad her godmother (part-time witch and full-time Mayor) has other ideas.
Now Wren's teaching dance for the Summerween spectacular, in a studio that might be haunted, and trying very hard not to notice the mysterious new guy in town, Dane Trafford.
Between bonfire wishes and midnight confessions, fairy lights and watermelon jack-o-lanterns, Wren and Dane might just discover that Solstice Springs' real magic isn't supernatural…
Tropes:
Friends to lovers
Forced proximity
Halloween in summer
Small-town setting
Wench
Maid Marian's life is over.
Her cowardly father has betrothed her to the most reviled man in the land: the Sheriff of Nottingham. Devastated, she's sent on the quickest path to meet her husband, through the fae-infested Sherwood Forest.
But everything changes when her carriage is attacked by the most feared fae of all: the Merry Men, followers of the infamous Robin Hood. Kidnapped and waiting on the Sheriff's rescue, Marian finds herself surrounded by the magical creatures she's been raised to fear. But the more time she spends in their presence, Marian realises that not everything she's been taught by her family is true.
And Marian can't help but find herself drawn to her captor - the sinfully handsome Robin, who stands between her and returning to life amongst the humans.
As the Sheriff's men close in on Marian's location, she will soon be faced with the ultimate choice: the family she's always known, or the love she can choose for herself…
A breathtaking debut romantasy novel for lovers of Robin Hood, The Knight and the Moth and Heavenly Bodies.
Throne of Ice and Blood - Flame and Thorns 2
The second book in the riveting and sexy romantasy series, perfect for fans of Fourth Wing and Powerless.
After her win at the Atonement Trials, Selina is trying to navigate life outside of the Seelie court, but her mission remains the same: work with the resistance and takedown the Iceheart Dynasty.
But that path yet again sets her on a collision course with the ruthless commander of the dragon shifter army; Draven Ryat.
With dangerous secrets threatening to be uncovered, the pair must each decide if they are willing to doom one another in order to achieve their own goals. If not, their tangled feelings for each other might destroy them both.
This gripping and sexy fantasy romance series is perfect for readers who love:
A strong heroine
A morally grey hunk
Deadly trials
Forced proximity
Enemies to lovers
Wicked banter
Sizzling spice
Průvodce zralého muže
Průvodce zralého muže je komplexní příručka pro muže v období andropauzy, která vám nabídne cestu k řešení mnoha náročných výzev středního věku a pomůže vám znovu najít chuť do života. Kniha se zdaleka nevěnuje jen fyzickým projevům andropauzy, jako je utlumené libido a menší vitalita, ale i emočním a psychickým výzvám středního věku.
Kniha stojí na nejnovějších poznatcích a k andropauze přistupuje celostně – kromě teoretické části v ní najdete i praktický 30denní program, plný rad o tom, jak se zdravě stravovat, cvičit a pečovat o duševní zdraví. Navede vás správným směrem, ať už se zrovna potýkáte s chronickou únavou, výkyvy nálad či prožíváte krizi ve vztazích. Veškeré strategie a postupy jsou praktické a pomáhají mužům střední věk nejen přežít, ale zejména si ho užít. Mužům ve věku přes 40 let i jejich blízkým poskytuje znalosti a dovednosti, díky kterým mohou období krize proměnit v období nových příležitostí, zdraví i radosti.
Nursing Aids at War
Nursing Aids at War: The Australian Army Medical Women's Service in the Second World War explores the chronological history of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) and challenges our understanding of servicewomen and gendered work in the Australian Army. Arranged in three parts, the book first introduces the nursing aid and how the Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) became intertwined with the nursing service in the First and Second World Wars. It then investigates disruptions, tensions and controversies faced by the VAD as they transitioned into the AAMWS; in particular, the training schemes for AAMWS to become professionally trained nurses in military hospitals. Lastly, the book explores and challenges representations and reflections of the VAD and AAMWS, including building a national identity separate to practising nurses, and acknowledging their history as largely being forgotten amongst discussion of Australia's wider military history.
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