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What no one tells you about living with anxiety and depression—learned the hard way Maggy van Eijk knows the best place to cry in public. She also knows that eating super salty licorice or swimming in icy cold water are things that make you feel alive but, unlike self-harm, aren't bad for...

France, 1940. Nazi forces march towards Paris. Lili Rosenswig's wealthy and eccentric family is ensconced in their country chateau with their sumptuous collection of arts and antiques. The beloved Matisse portrait of Lili's mother has been brought from their Paris salon for safety. It is the day before young lovers Lili and Paul are to be married that they are forced to flee and their fortunes change irrevocably.

In a world invisible to human eyes, the enchanting Faery Realm exists. Entering a secret portal from the mundane to the magical begins Tansy WaterSprite's adventure of sparkling danger. Her evil guardian is stalking her with a different, dark agenda. Only "littles" who have been monitored since birth and passed secret tests are invited to attend the Faery Academy of QuillSnap, but not everyone gets to stay. Those who overcome the dangerous obstacles during the Night of the Purple Moon will determine who stays.

In Silence: The Psychology and the Craft for Emotional Wellbeing, the author―a psychotherapist, university professor, educator, and researcher―takes the listener into a thought-provoking and heartfelt journey. She offers original perspectives and vulnerable stories from her clients, students, and personal life. Drawing on, among others, ethnographic and autoethnographic accounts, Lehmann serves the listener with psychological insights, offering a timely, critical, and thorough viewpoint to contrast with an overload of misinformation about what silence is and how people should feel when quiet.

When six-year-old Cassie sneaks out to catch a mermaid, she finds something far more terrifying—a dead body by the lake. In the chaos that follows, Cassie and her older sister Emily vanish into hiding, leaving a shattered family and a secret no one dares speak aloud.

An aimless life. An unsettled conscience. Can the gentlewoman next door bring a new sense of purpose to this duke run aground in Derbyshire? Nigel Lymington, the new Duke of Warrenton, always played second fiddle to his elder brother’s wild exploits. After rising to the title himself, he tries to live up to his family’s rakish reputation, only to discover that he has neither the temperament nor the money to indulge in the wastrel Warrenton way of life.

A cozy seaside mystery and light-hearted British whodunit set on the idyllic Isle of Man. Ordinarily, there’s not too much crime to speak of in Port Erin, a sleepy seaside village on the Isle of Man. So when Quinn Flitcroft, working as an insurance fraud investigator in England, hears about a gruesome murder in her hometown, she is understandably horrified.

As a favor to their friend Sasha, Daniel and Mal are looking for the husband she fled so she can get a divorce and marry again. Instead of a husband, they find a mystery that could see Daniel charged with murder. It turns out the husband wasn't who he said he was, and anyway he's dead. So who is living in the former marital home, and why is Daniel attacked after they visit? Then one of the people they've talked to is murdered, and the body is dumped on Daniel's doorstep. Daniel is in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the local police have him in the frame for the killing.

Skater Girl Asha tells the TRUE story of how Asha, an Untouchable, broke courageously with the traditional conventions in her village and shaped her life ever since. She escaped her arranged marriage and found her passion and purpose through skateboarding. Today, Asha is a strong voice for all the girls in her village of Janwaar – and far beyond. “Before the skatepark started, I was very different. I didn’t know my own voice. I couldn’t talk to anyone. I couldn’t even make eye contact with anyone.

This is the story of Miss White, a woman who lived in the author’s village 80 years ago, a pioneer who realised her ambition to become a farmer during the Second World War, and how she worked to become accepted within this community. Nicola Chester, too, dreamed of becoming a farmer but working with horses was the only path open to her. Was it easier for women to become farmers in the 1940s than it is now?

Storie partigiane trattate con piglio disincantato, antireto- rico, talora epico-burlesco; storie di Alba e delle Langhe, vicende sanguigne e beffarde, drammi di miserie antiche e di speranze impossibili: con quel suo linguaggio crudo, privo di ostentazione, con quel suo stile asciutto ed esatto, Fenoglio restituisce le prime cronache veramente sincere delle contraddizioni vitali della Resistenza e penetra il «mistero» della spietatezza dei rapporti umani.

July 1905: A family holiday to the seaside, at Brighton’s most prestigious hotel, promises to be a grand affair. And bumping into an old friend adds to the excitement. But when a body is discovered in one of the beach's bathing machines, all plans are put on hold. Eliza needs to know what happened. Despite the police insisting the death was accidental, Eliza is convinced it’s more sinister, but when she suggests it was murder, they refuse to listen. Until they have no choice.

This clean and wholesome regency romance follows the adventures and exploits of a sensible widow, a managing earl, an absent-minded botanist, a high-strung heiress, a coldhearted guardian, and a villainous kidnapper.

A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she...

Martin Christmas is a local government worker in the Sanitation department, whose days are shaped by endless recycling initiatives and green league tables, and whose nights are shadowed by his failed relationships and curmudgeonly interior monologues. While Martin is trying to cultivate his inner peace, things keep getting in his way.

Miranda Parrish is a world-renowned veterinarian specialist with expertise in endangered species. She’s fearless and will go anywhere an animal is in need. But when she journeys to Katanga, an animal sanctuary in the heart of Botswana, she falls into a diamond smuggling operation and interferes with an undercover investigation. Special agent Matt Bennett’s parents were murdered by a ruthless arms dealer. He’s fiercely committed to avenging their deaths and curbing the cycle of violence threatening southern Africa. Diamonds always lead to weapons and he’d followed the trail straight to Katanga.

Ettore è il tipico disadattato che dalla guerra è uscito scontroso e insofferente, e non riesce a rassegnarsi alla modesta e tranquilla routine di un lavoro qualunque. Per questo decide di darsi ad affari poco puliti e molto redditizi, mettendo a frutto la sua grinta di «duro», di piccolo Humphrey Bogart di paese. Ma quando, costretto a metter su famiglia, si ritira e si mette in proprio con un lavoro onesto, uno stupido incidente volge l'epilogo in tragedia.

Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1954 nella collana dei «Gettoni», due anni dopo "I ventitre giorni della città di Alba", "La malora" fu presentato da Vittorini come un libro «per molti aspetti piú bello», in cui i rapporti umani sono «ridotti alla nuda spietatezza (anche tra marito e moglie, e anche tra padre e figli)». Una storia elementare di fatica e di silenzi, di dolore e di violenza che ci riporta al dramma della miseria contadina delle Langhe.

Schadet jede Trennung den Kindern? Mitnichten! Neueste Erkenntnisse der Forschung sowie Langzeitstudien belegen: Wie Kinder eine Trennung bewältigen, hat viel damit zu tun, wie friedlich wir Eltern unsere Konflikte austragen und wie gut wir für unsere Kinder da sind. Schritt für Schritt erklärt Nicola Schmidt, die Expertin für artgerechte Erziehung, wie Eltern und andere Bezugspersonen Kinder bedürfnisorientiert und achtsam durch diese Zeit bringen. Es fängt mit der Frage an, wie wir Kindern eine Trennung erklären, über die richtige Auswahl des Betreuungsmodells bis hin zum Kinder- und Gewaltschutz bei hochkonflikthaften Trennungen.

L'Advaita Vedanta è uno dei sistemi filosofici più importanti espressi dalla cultura indiana. Il saggio di Eliot Deutsch è una ricostruzione filosofica di questo sistema di pensiero, al cui centro risiede il concetto di non-dualità. Utilizzando gli strumenti della filosofia comparata, e muovendosi tra ontologia, epistemologia ed etica, Deutsch ricostruisce il complesso teorico dell'Advaita Vedānta facendone emergere i concetti filosofici universali.