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Mermaid in Manhattan
‘Completely addictive!’ ? reader review Iris loves being a mermaid. So, when her Mom, Queen of the Ocean, declares that she’s to be wed to a human, she’s furious. Finn wants to be the first human mayor of magical New York. He needs a magical wife as part of his PR strategy to win over his constituents, and he’s fine with a loveless marriage. But after his reluctant fiancé Iris douses him with seawater at their first meeting, Finn finds himself wanting this romance to be more than a business arrangement. Iris can’t stand Finn on principle, but no matter how far she pushes him, Finn just won’t break off their engagement. In fact, he keeps going out of his way to make her life easier. And soon, this mermaid is left wondering if life might be better in Manhattan than under the sea… Tropes: 👰 💐Arranged marriage 🛏? 🔥Only one bed 🧜 ?Romantasy 🥵 🌶?Spice Readers LOVE Mermaid in Manhattan! 'I was hooked from start to finish and never wanted to come up for air' Emma Lucy, bestselling author of Live, Ranch, Love 'An enchanting romp with all the charm of a classic rom-com!' A. T. Qureshi, USA Today bestselling author of The Baby Dragon Cafe 'Jessica Gadziala has mastered the magical romcom!' Grace Reilly, bestselling author of First Down 'Witty, swoony and completely bingeable' Nadia El-Fassi, bestselling author of Best Hex Ever 'I loved Finn and Iris…It’s a version of New York I would happily live in' Athena Carstairs, author of There's Pumpkin About You 'Utterly addictive' Annabelle Slator, author of The Launch Date ‘Completely addictive!’ ? reader review ‘Had me kicking my feet and screaming’ ? reader review
Little Kids First Big Book of The Ocean
The BIG fact book for LITTLE kids! Dive into Earth’s ocean with this delightful introduction to our watery world and some of its fascinating inhabitants. Discover more than 30 marine animals – from tiny corals to the largest animal on the planet: the blue whale. Inside you’ll find: Bright and bold illustrations and photographsSimple text for early readers, and fun facts on every pageQuestions to encourage interactive learningParent tips to support learningAnd much more! Collect the National Geographic Kids Little Kids First Big Books! DinosaursSpaceAnimalsOceanScienceWorldWhereWhyHow
Philosophy in the Reformation
In this latest volume of A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson presents a lively and accessible introduction to European philosophy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Philosophy in the Reformation focuses on the parallel and intertwining emergence of humanism and of religious reform, as figures like Erasmus, Luther, and Calvin remade the intellectual and spiritual life of Europe. In the first three parts of the book, philosophical developments in central Europe, France, and Britain are examined. A wide range of topics and controversies are discussed, from debates over free will to the legitimacy of tyrannicide. This was also the time of the Northern Renaissance, which saw a resurgence of ancient concepts like skepticism and atomist theories of matter. The volume''s final section charts the Catholic reaction to these epochal events in the Counter-Reformation, and especially the ideas of Spanish thinkers like Molina and Suárez. Quite a few familiar figures are discussed, such as Montaigne and Copernicus. But as always in this series, Adamson lavishes attention on fascinating figures who are often ignored in the history of philosophy, like John Dee, Robert Fludd, and Oliva Sabuco (who is just one of numerous women intellectuals covered). Another feature of the book is its attention to literature and the arts: the reader will learn how the achievements of Dürer, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, and Cervantes relate to philosophical currents of the time. The eighth volume in the A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series takes us to the threshold of the early modern era and sets the stage for the developments that unfolded during the Enlightenment.
Devotions
'Exhilarating, devastating, comforting, essential.' CLAIRE KILROY'These are stories which sing off the page.' JAN CARSON'Powerful, compelling and richly crafted.' MARY COSTELLO'Profoundly intimate.' TAHMIMA ANAMThe highly-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning author of Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings'There must be moments when we let go - let go of all that we do, all that we are.'A young Belfast theatre troupe brings its experimental production of Hamlet to New York. On a night-flight, travelling with a violin older than the United States, a professional musician slips through time. A man who loses all he thought he had, and finds himself haunted by all he never will, comes to a painful new understanding of what it might mean to love. Transporting and profound, these are stories of love, grief, longing, of new beginnings, and the ways we find shelter in each other. 'One of our best short story writers.' THE TIMES'[Caldwell] holds the reader right up against the tender humanity of her characters.' EIMEAR McBRIDE'A next-level author of short stories.' THE HERALD
Hungry
'Soaring with compassion, intelligence and hard-won wisdom. Ireland's most important contemporary voice.'LOUISE KENNEDY, author of Trespasses'Amazing. I couldn't put it down.'ELAINE FEENEY, author of As You Were'Every woman needs to read this book. Every man needs to read this book.'EDEL COFFEY, author of In Her Place~ ~ ~Hungry is the powerful new memoir from Number One bestselling author Katriona O'Sullivan - a raw, courageous exploration of survival, identity and the lifelong search for self-acceptance. Raised in a home marked by poverty, addiction and abuse, Katriona defied the odds: from teenage motherhood struggling with her own addictions to becoming a university professor and successful author. But beneath the achievements lay a more private struggle - with her body, her worth, and the unrelenting drive to be enough. In this fiercely honest memoir, she interrogates how trauma, class and gender shape the way women see themselves - and how society teaches them to measure their value. Told with stunning courage and vulnerability, Hungry is both a personal reckoning and a powerful reclaiming of body, voice and self. It is one woman's story - and a rallying cry for every woman who has ever felt she had to shrink to survive. MORE PRAISE FOR HUNGRY:'I tore through it.' - TANYA SWEENEY, journalist and author of Esther is Now Following You'As profound and honest as anything I have ever read' - LIZ NUGENT, author of Strange Sally Diamond'A beautiful telling of determination despite the odds' - Irish Times'Raw and remarkable' - Irish IndependentPRAISE FOR KATRIONA O'SULLIVAN:'One of the most remarkable people you will ever meet' - Guardian'Powerful - Katriona is a legend' - BARRY KEOGHAN'Raw, passionate and resolutely honest - I'll never forget it' - ANNIE MAC'Moving, uplifting, brave, heroic' - NUALA MCGOVERN, Woman's Hour, BBC Radio Four
The Mesopotamian Riddle
An “adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike” (The Washington Post) following three free-spirited Victorians on their twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. It was one of history’s great vanishing acts. Around 3,400 BCE, a scribe in the mud-walled city-state of Uruk picked up a reed stylus to press tiny symbols into clay. For the next three thousand years, wedge-shape cuneiform script would record the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and epic literature of the great kingdoms of Mesopotamia. And then…the meaning of the characters was lost. London, 1857. In an era obsessed with human progress, mysterious palaces emerging from the desert sands have captured the Victorian public’s imagination. Assyria, Babylon, the mighty Persian Empire… these civilizations had gone down in the annals as the great antagonists to ancient Greece and ancient Israel. What did these “bad guys” of Western history have to say for themselves? What were their values, their rituals, their understandings of their place in the universe? What was it like simply to be human at the dawn of recorded history? Enter a swashbuckling archaeologist, a suave military officer turned diplomat, and a cloistered Irish rector, all vying for glory in a race to decipher the script that would enable humans to peer farther back into our history than ever before. From the ruins of Persepolis to lawless outposts of the crumbling Ottoman Empire, let The Mesopotamian Riddle whisk you off on “an epic intellectual adventure” (The Wall Street Journal) through the golden age of archaeology in an epic quest to understand where we came from—and where we perhaps might go.
Event Horizon
Seventeen-year-old Milde is from the Outskirts, a place beyond the mountains where the dirt is corpse-rich, where mothers and daughters, banished from society, make their living – without rights, access to care or legal status. But Milde refuses to accept the order of things and, together with two friends, she revolts against the government’s injustice. Arrested, imprisoned and tortured, Milde is eventually presented with a stark choice: a public execution, or participation in an experimental mission that will send her into space, into a black hole known as the Mass. She chooses the Mass, opting to face its fathomless depth and loneliness rather than hurt the morale of her weary community back home. Collapsing and expanding myth and reality, Event Horizon is an exquisite existential novel, dark as deep space, and woven with reflections on oppression, solidarity, trauma and loss.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Being Grandma
What a wonderful gift for every grandmother, both new and experienced! Plenty of love, laughs, and lessons!These heartwarming, amusing, and inspirational stories were written by grandmothers, grandchildren, and everyone in between, about the amazing experience of being a grandma! You’ll read about: • becoming a new person — a grandmother • getting your grandma name • sharing advice... and also learning not to! • adventures and travel with the grandchildren • mutual, unconditional love • the wisdom of grandmas • the funny things that kids say and do • passing traditions and legacies through the generations • when grandmas and grandchildren are role models • technology, creativity, and modern grandparenting • and many more laughs and lessons!
Till Death Us Do Part
'A new star in the crime-writing firmament' Elly GriffthsThe charming and delightfully cosy debut crime novel from Reverend Penny Stephens. Weddings can be murder . . . Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull. But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time. As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person. She might not understand forensic testing and finger-tip searches, but if there's one thing Clare does know, it's people and the complexities of their emotional lives. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. However, investigating a murder is no mean feat and Clare soon finds herself embroiled in a complex web of family secrets and deceptions. Is she in way over her head or can she find the real killer before an innocent woman is sent down?
American Woman
A young fugitive is drawn into a group of revolutionaries in this absorbing novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author‘I couldn’t put American Woman down’ Joan Didion‘A fascinating portrait of dangerous fragility’ New York TimesOn the run after an act of violence against the American government, twenty-five-year-old Jenny Shimada is drawn into caring for three younger fugitives. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a San Francisco millionaire, has become a national celebrity for joining her captors’ revolutionary cell. Yet as Jenny and her charges pursue their destinies from an old farmhouse in upstate New York to California, isolation turns to paranoia and their radical ideals soon begin to fracture. ‘Beautiful… A work of real achievement’ Jennifer Egan‘Mesmerising’ Vanity Fair‘Riveting, deeply affecting’ Jhumpa Lahiri'Amazing…compelling’ Los Angeles Times
Frida
'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this' Grazia'Claire Berest writes as captivatingly and vividly as Frida Kahlo painted' Paris MatchWINNER OF ELLE FRANCE'S GRAND PRIX DES LECTRICES*This is the story of Diego and Frida who couldn't live without each other. They meet at a party. She knows everything about him, about his mythology, and he knows nothing of her, she is nobody. He is Mexico's greatest artist. She drinks like a sailor, wears flowers in her hair, talks openly about sex, loves attending protests and parties to wake the dead. She is from Coyoacán, twenty years his junior and with a broken spine to boot. Even when her body is wracked with pain, she paints. There were two great accidents in her life. The first was when that streetcar hit her . . . but by far the worst was meeting him. Translated into English for the first time, Claire Berest's award-winning novel is a striking and lyrical fictional imagining of the vibrant life and tumultuous marriage of one of the world's most enigmatic and beloved artists: Frida Kahlo. Perfect for fans of The Artist, The Safekeep, Tracy Chevalier and Ali Smith.
Dogsred, Vol. 5
Ice hockey action from the creator of Golden Kamuy!Rou once chased figure-skating glory. Now he chases redemption in the ice hockey rink!The practice game between the first-years at Oinokami and the bruisers of Sekka High starts off with a bang! Right from the puck drop, Little Genma is goaded into a penalty resulting in two minutes in the pig box. Sekka’s game plan is to pound Oinokami into submission, and if fear gets the better of Oinokami’s players, it’ll be over quick. The newbies look to Coach Nihei for guidance, but Coach’s cryptic muttering is no help. Still, Rou’s not going down without a fight—he’s going to show Sekka something they haven’t seen before...beautiful ice hockey!
A Notre-Dame asszonyai
A világ lélegzet-visszafojtva figyeli, ahogy a Notre-Dame lángokban áll.
A restaurátor Josie segít a katedrális helyreállításában. A munka során rábukkan egy titokzatos levélre és egy gyűrűre. A művészettörténész Antoine segít felderíteni a nyomokat, amelyek egészen a francia forradalomig vezetnek – Lucile történetéhez, aki forradalmár szerelméért harcol.
Ekkor Josie és Antione hirtelen ismét rátalálnak a Madonna-szoborra, amelyet Antoine a tűz éjszakáján kimentett a lángok közül, és egy újabb titokra bukkannak…
Eva-Maria Bast nagyszabású regénye a világ egyik legfontosabb építményének és egy mindent elsöprő szerelemnek a történetét meséli el.
Miranda In Retrograde - Tévelygő csillagok közöt
Miután Miranda élete fenekestül felfordul, úgy dönt, hogy egy évig kizárólag a horoszkópja alapján hozza meg döntéseit.
Miranda Reed, az egyetem legfiatalabb fizikaprofesszora szereti pontosan megtervezni az életét. Ám amikor elutasítják a kinevezését, és meghiúsul a biztosnak hitt előléptetés, addig kiszámítható élete hirtelen darabjaira hullik.
Miután derékba tört a karrierje, Miranda a csillagok felé fordul – ezúttal azonban nem fekete lyukakat keres. Mivel a tudományba vetett hite megrendült, olyan helyen kezdi keresni a választ, amit korábban teljesen abszurdnak tartott: az asztrológiában.
Elhatározza, hogy egy évig hagyja, hogy a horoszkópja irányítsa az életét. Ezért aztán lakásfelújításba kezd, új háziállatot fogad örökbe, és azt kutatja, mit mondanak a csillagok az ideális párkapcsolatról. A titokzatosan zárkózott művész a szomszédból? Szó sem lehet róla. A Kos energiái teljesen kizárják. Vagy új tanítványának sármos apja? Tökéletes Nyilas. Mintha neki teremtették volna… nem igaz?
Ahogy Miranda új szemszögből kezdi látni az életét, lassan ráébred, hogy sem a tudomány, sem a csillagok nem adnak választ minden kérdésére. És hogy a szerelemben néha jobb, ha egyszerűen csak a szívére hallgat az ember.
Fedezd fel, mit tartogatnak számodra a csillagok!
„Egy szívhez szóló regény az őszinteség és bizalom kozmikus erejéről.” – Apple Books Revie
Szereted az érzéki, de tartalmas könyveket? Vidd haza nyugodtan, tetszeni fog!
Fiatal nőknek, felső korhatár nélkül!
Escaping From Houdini - Houdini csapdájában - Hasfelmetsző Jack nyomában 3.
Egy luxushajóról nincs menekvés. A gyilkos pedig közelebb van, mint gondolnád.
Audrey Rose Wadsworth és elválaszthatatlan bűnüldöző társa, Thomas Cresswell egyhetes hajóútra indulnak a pompázatos RMS Etrurián, hogy átszeljék az Atlanti-óceánt. Az első osztály nagy örömére minden este cirkuszi előadók, jövendőmondók és egy felettébb karizmatikus ifjú szabadulóművész szórakoztatja őket.
Ám idővel ifjú úrihölgyek tűnnek el nyomtalanul, és könyörtelen gyilkosságok tartják rettegésben az egész hajót. A Holdfénykarnevál furcsa és felkavaró előadásai mindenkit megbabonáznak, a tettes pedig egyre nagyobb szörnyűségekre vetemedik.
Egyedül Audrey Rose és Thomas járhat a borzalmas ügy végére, mielőtt végleg elfogynának az utasok. Csakhogy minden nyom arról árulkodik, hogy a következő áldozat mindenkinél közelebb áll Audrey Rose-hoz.
Vajon sikerül kibogoznia a szálakat a rettentő finálé előtt?
Geronimo Stilton, a riporter 17: Tea a kifutón
Irány a divatbemutatók világa! Geronimo Stilton, a Rágcsáló Hírek főszerkesztője lehetőséget kap, hogy szigorú titoktartás terhe mellett megismerje a híres divattervező, Felipolino legújabb kreációját. Sajnos fő ellenlábasa, Rasmaussen Nelli hajlandó megtenni bármit a titok megszerzése érdekében, beleértve Geronimo jó hírének tönkretételét is. Tea, Trappola és Pandora beépülnek a divatvilágba, hogy segítsenek tisztázni Geronimót.
Vajon sikerül nekik? És Felipolino új kollekcióját vajon jól fogadja a közönség?
Boots Beneath Her Bed
Grace Underwood has been keeping a dark secret from the day her parents died. Only her ruthless uncle Bellamy knows the truth, and he’s been using it against her ever since.
When his cruelty pushes her too far, Grace decides to walk away from her family for good and take a job as a horse trainer at Halcyon Ranch. It’s a chance to start over. That is, if the owner’s son, Crew Caldwell, doesn’t stand in her way.
Crew doesn’t trust outsiders, especially one from Bellamy's bloodline. But Grace's undeniable gift with horses slowly wins over the other ranch hands and even Crew - the one man she shouldn’t want but can’t seem to ignore.
As the tension between them grows, so does the risk of Grace’s secret unravelling. And with her uncle's threats still looming, she’ll have to decide whether she’s willing to fight for the only place - and the only man - that’s ever felt like home.
MEDesque
Delicious and easy recipes to be cooked at home by anyone and everyone. Bring a touch of the Med to your table with iconic and inspired dishes including:
- Lamb, apricot and feta sausage rolls
- Gnocchi puttanesca
- Spiced lemony roast chicken with crushed baby potatoes
- One-pan 'nduja, pepper and three cheese lasagne
- Double chocolate pannacotta with cherries
- Salted honey butter madeleines
From weeknight dinners to weekend feasts, travel through Italy, Spain, the Middle East and beyond in your ownMEDesque kitchen with over 110 effortless, sensational recipes.
Haikyu!! (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 8
Shoyo Hinata is out to prove that in volleyball you don’t need to be tall to fly!Ever since he saw the legendary player known as “the Little Giant” compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else?The semifinals of the Tokyo Area Qualifiers for the Spring Tournament wrap up with Nekoma’s matches against Fukurodani and Nohebi! Will the Cats be able to take down the Owls and Snakes?! Meanwhile, with the Qualifiers out of the way, Kageyama has been invited to participate in the All-Japan Under 19 Youth Training Camp, while Tsukishima has been invited to a prefectural rookie training camp!
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