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'We're alive. So let's start living.' Two strangers. Jack was sporty and outgoing. Alice was bookish and introverted. Their lives were on completely different paths. One life-changing tragedy. That is before the day they were in the wrong place at the wrong time: before the day their lives were torn apart in a bombing. A hopeful new friendship. Struggling to cope with their new worlds, their unlikely new friendship helps them find hope. But can they help each other rebuild their lives and start again? Powerful and compelling After the Rain is the brand-new novel from Natalia Gomes, perfect for fans of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon.

The sequel to THE BETROTHED, a glittering royal romance, from New York Times bestselling author of the Selection series. She gave her heart away. Now she'll fight to get it back. Can you follow your heart when it's already broken? After fleeing the court of Coroa and leaving the memory of her beloved, the assassinated Silas Eastoffe, behind, Hollis is unsteadily adjusting to life with his family. The Eastoffe's affection is a balm on Hollis's weary spirt, though Etan, a surly cousin with a deep distate for Coroans, threatens to upset the uneasy peace that Hollis has found. While tensions at home are mounting, disquiet in the kingdom of Isolte is reaching fever pitch. The Eastoffes may have the power to unseat the tyrannical King Jameson, but only with Hollis's help. Can a girl who's lost it all put the fate of her adopted homeland over the secret longings of her heart?

B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider - a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete. Convinced that the film will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core, that it might possibly be the greatest movie ever made, B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: the film is destroyed, leaving him the sole witness to its inadvertently ephemeral genius. All that's left is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the work of art that just might be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter. Desperate to impose order on an increasingly nonsensical existence, trapped in a self-imposed prison of aspirational victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language, B. scrambles to re-create the lost masterwork while attempting to keep pace with an ever-fracturing culture of "likes" and arbitrary denunciations that are simultaneously his bete noire and his raison d'etre. A searing indictment of the modern world, Antkind is a richly layered meditation on art, time, memory, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself - the grain of truth at the heart of every joke.

The scuba-diving philosopher explores the origins of animal consciousness. Dip below the ocean's surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals and flower-like worms, whose rooted bodies and intricate geometry are more reminiscent of plant life than anything recognisably animal. Yet these creatures are our cousins. As fellow members of the animal kingdom - the Metazoa - they can teach us about the evolutionary origins of not only our bodies, but also our minds. In his acclaimed book, Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith explored the mind of the octopus - the closest thing to an intelligent alien on Earth. In Metazoa, he expands his inquiry to animals at large, investigating the evolution of experience with the assistance of far-flung species. Godfrey-Smith shows that the appearance of the first animal body form well over half a billion years ago was a profound innovation that set life upon a new path. He charts the ways that subsequent evolutionary developments - eyes that track, for example, and bodies that move through and manipulate the environment - shaped the lives of animals. Following the evolutionary paths of a glass sponge, soft coral, banded shrimp, octopus and fish, then moving onto land and the world of insects, birds and primates like ourselves, Metazoa gathers these stories together to bridge the gap between matter and mind and address one of the most important philosophical questions: what is the origin of consciousness? Combining vivid animal encounters with philosophy and biology, Metazoa reveals the impossibility of separating the evolution of our minds from the evolution of animals themselves.

The sequel to THE BETROTHED, a glittering royal romance, from New York Times bestselling author of the Selection series. She gave her heart away. Now she'll fight to get it back. Can you follow your heart when it's already broken? After fleeing the court of Coroa and leaving the memory of her beloved, the assassinated Silas Eastoffe, behind, Hollis is unsteadily adjusting to life with his family. The Eastoffe's affection is a balm on Hollis's weary spirt, though Etan, a surly cousin with a deep distate for Coroans, threatens to upset the uneasy peace that Hollis has found. While tensions at home are mounting, disquiet in the kingdom of Isolte is reaching fever pitch. The Eastoffes may have the power to unseat the tyrannical King Jameson, but only with Hollis's help. Can a girl who's lost it all put the fate of her adopted homeland over the secret longings of her heart?

Honest and hilarious - not your run-of-the-mill parenting book! If you have read parenting books or searched the Internet for parenting tips you have most likely stumbled across the mythical Unicorn Baby. This is the baby who feeds every four hours and sleeps through the night, sits at six months, pees pure gold and poops rainbows. Whether this baby exists or not does not matter. What matters is this: you did not get this baby. If you are looking to answer the question: "Is my baby normal?" then you are in the right place. Roxanne Atkinson uses her professional experience as an occupational therapist to identify and debunk ten modern parenting myths that cause all kinds of anxiety for new parents. The aim is to help parents understand why their baby may not be behaving as they were told they would. Acknowledging that every baby is unique, this book helps new parents navigate the first year and shares some fascinating stories of other real-life babies.

A gripping new novel from No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. She is safe... Faye Adelheim deserves the life she has. After fleeing from a violent marriage, she has built her business into a global brand and is living in a beautiful villa in Italy with her daughter. Or so she thought... But Faye's life is turned upside down when her murderous ex-husband escapes from prison. Faye has no choice but to return home to confront him. This will be the fight of her life... Faye will do anything to keep her family safe. But when the dark secrets of her childhood come back to haunt her, she will have to battle like never before to stop her deepest fears from coming true...

Když krásná a talentovaná architektka Silvia oznámí miliardáři Nicku Campbellovi, že s ním čeká dítě, je to pro něho šok. Vždyť spolu strávili pouze jednu jedinou noc! Nick však neskládá zbraně a rozhodne se uchopit svůj život opět pevně do svých rukou. Ze všeho nejdřív musí Silvii přesvědčit, aby si ho vzala. Silvia má však vlastní plány a sňatek z rozumu mezi ně opravdu nepatří. Chce buď skutečnou lásku, nebo nic!

Políbíte mě…? A ten polibek, ta chvíle, kdy se rty Matthieua a Marie dotkly, všechno zpečetila… dvě osamělá srdce, dvě duše nedůvěřující světu se našly. Jenže to ještě dlouho předlouho ani jeden z nich netušil. Oba měli za sebou rány a jizvy – některé viditelné, jiné skryté –, o nichž ani netušili, že by se daly léčit. Natožpak že by jim s jejich léčbou někdo mohl pomoci! A tak se museli učit. Učit se poznávat jeden druhého, učit se hodnotě podané ruky, úsměvu. Učit se lásce…

Bylo na ní něco tajemného. Něco před ním skrývala, Jake ale nebyl schopen přijít na to, co to bylo. Ale nakonec… podstatné byly jen dvě věci: že se dokáže postarat o jeho neteř… A že ho přitahuje. Hodně. Pro Caro bylo důležité tu práci získat, protože nebyl jiný způsob, jak dosáhnout toho, po čem v životě toužila nejvíce. Ale klamat Jakea jí vadilo!

Milionář Joshua Lowell je vyhlášený svou ledovou odtažitostí a arogantní pýchou, takže je pochopitelné, že nechce dopustit, aby krásná, ale i neústupná novinářka Sophie vytahovala na světlo temnou minulost jeho rodiny. Joshuova pýcha se však sváří s vášnivou touhou po Sophii, po jediné ženě, která by ho mohla zničit… nebo zachránit před ním samotným.  

Normálně to byl vždycky on, kdo se postaral o odcházení… Jenže s Linou nebylo nic „normálně“! S Linou se Salvatore poprvé v životě pustil do románku na jednu noc. Lina jako první odešla od něj. Po Lině jako po první ženě chtěl „vztah“. Lině poprvé ustoupil… a ustupoval. Ale když došlo na to opravdu podstatné, ustoupit neuměl. Jenže tím příběh nekončí – a tak jako Salvatore se svou Popelkou ze Sicílie žít nechce, bez ní žít už nedokáže!  

Jediné, co neuvěřitelně bohatému a úspěšnému Leonovi chybělo k dokonalosti… byla princezna – manželka s modrou krví! A naštěstí jedna taková princezna byla po ruce… Ellie sice vždycky věřila tomu, že se provdá z lásky, ale ještě před láskou kladla na první místo povinnost. A teď bylo její povinností provdat se za toho Řeka, který jí proti její vlastní vůli vstupoval do snů!  

Kassiani nehrála podle pravidel! Den před svatbou nahradila svou sestru, a rozhodně to tedy nebyla nevěsta, která měla na Damena čekat u oltáře. Ještě horší ale je, že se v žádném případě nehodlá smířit s rolí poslušné řecké manželky, jejíž jedinou ambicí je vykonat, co svému muži na očích vidí. A nejhorší je to, že naprosto jasně dala najevo, že si přeje, aby se nezkrotný Řek nechal zkrotit! A Damen má brzy zjistit, že spíše se bude planeta točit na opačnou stranu, než aby se Kassiani přizpůsobila jeho představám!

Stala se snoubenkou jeho otce… a pak i něčím mnohem více! Věřit Andreas Isle ale nemohl. A vlastně ani nechtěl! Zasnoubila se sice s Andreasovým otcem, ale Andreas byl jediný muž, o kterého Isla stála. Jediný, kterému byla ochotna dát všechno. Až na to, že on její dar odmítl! Aby se ukázalo, že žít bez něj je mnohem, mnohem těžší!    

Nicholas kdysi přísahal svému otci, že udělá cokoli, aby zachránil dům a splatil dluhy. Musel kvůli tomu opustit snoubenku a vydat se bojovat za svou rodinu. Myslel si, že bude pryč dva roky, ale nakonec z toho bylo dlouhých šest let, které mu zanechaly šrámy nejen na těle, ale i na duši. Matilda milovala jen jednoho muže – Nicholase, lorda z Mei Solis. Ale když se jí po odchodu z domova přestal ozývat, byla přinucena provdat se za jeho přítele Rogera. Jenže teď je manžel mrtvý a Nicholas je zpátky doma! Za tu dobu se oba změnili, ale jejich láska přetrvává dál…