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Social media stars of @WhatAboutBunny, Alexis Devine and Bunny the "talking" dog, deliver a memoir loaded with wit and passion for animals, as well as the vulnerability and authenticity of a woman who learned to take care of herself by learning to talk to her dog When Bunny, a fluffy...

Los héroes de los antiguos mitos de las diferentes culturas ya recorrieron el camino; su itinerario es conocido, solo hay que seguir su huella. Tras sus gestas, aventuras y descubrimientos, surge tanto aquello que hace avanzar las civilizaciones como lo que conduce a la conquista de uno mismo. El autor nos explica el ciclo iniciático del héroe expuesto por Joseph Campbell y nos muestra su desarrollo en libros y películas contemporáneos.

Coroner Fenway Stevenson thought she was beginning to find her footing in Estancia. The coastal California town still sees her as an outsider—especially with her powerful father pulling strings behind the scenes—but she's starting to earn the trust of her team. Then the mayor is found dead in a run-down motel room, and everything changes. As she digs into the investigation, Fenway finds herself stonewalled by those who once supported her. Political tensions simmer beneath the surface, and her father is quietly pressuring her to back his preferred candidate for the next coroner election.

Big Mama in the critically acclaimed The 12 Days of a Soul Food Christmas has a daughter named Emma Jean who loves to sew. After finding a forgotten treasure, Emma Jean discovers her true passion by teaching herself how to sew.

It’s a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken. Over the course of a day and night in an uncannily depopulated public park, he will sift through the pieces and traverse the baroque landscape of his own thoughts: the theology of nosiness, the beauty of the arbutus tree, the pathos of Gene Hackman, the theory of quantum immortality, Louis Riel’s letter to an Irish newspaper, the baleful influence of Calvinism on the Scottish working class, the sea, the CIA, and, ultimately, thinking itself and how it may be represented in writing.

The acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” (The Washington Post) and Good Morning America book club pick We Are Not Like Them return with this moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on a collision course with her...

Everyone is welcome at Big Mama's house for the holidays! Come in and celebrate with Big Mama's family and enjoy a tasty new tradition of mouthwatering main courses and scrumptious side dishes shared with smiles and seconds everyone!

Forced to spend her summer in her aunt's strange small town, a teen girl discovers dark secrets hidden in the woods. From the author of Bad Witch Burning comes another pulse-pounding novel perfect for fans of Supernatural and Lovecraft Country. Don't go outside past dark. Come straight home...

Dans cette fable sur l’épreuve, deux frères, le Grand et le Petit, sont au fond d’un puits. Rien à boire, rien à manger, seul un sac les accompagne et l’ombre d’une mère. La fraternité se résume à l’essentiel : le Grand protège le Petit, le Petit donne au Grand une raison de vivre. La force vitale de ces deux enfants qui ne veulent pas mourir et s’accrochent au destin traverse le lecteur, marqué à tout jamais par les images et les mots de la hantise.

Bianca Bridge has always dreamt of becoming a writer. But Trinidadian high society can be unforgiving, and having an affair with a married government minister is a sure-fire way to ruin your prospects. When Obadiah Cortland, make-up artist and legend in the island's beauty scene, offers her a job as a lowly assistant, Bianca reluctantly accepts that working on his beauty magazine is the closest to her dreams she's going to get. But Obadiah has a reputation for being aloof and tyrannical, and it will take all the strength her mother taught her to endure it.

Cunning, gorgeous, and wickedly possessive, Akim could have any woman in the world…but he chose me. I thought I’d be able to get away from him eventually, that I could mend my heart and start over, but I was wrong. Fate has sealed us with an unbreakable bond.

Thoughts and moods are chemical reactions in your brain that you might think you are powerless to control. But modern science has shown beyond doubt that changing your behaviour and thought patterns can rewire the neurological pathways of your brain to literally change how you think, feel and view yourself. In The Neuroscience of Self-Love, Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa takes the theory out of neuroscience and gives you practical tools and exercises to create a new self that is happier, more balanced and less dependent on others for validation.

A timely, colorful, and cinematic memoir chronicling one woman’s journey to rediscover her own power, resilience, and happiness “Joy Hunter gives us all permission to be human and invites us to radically love ourselves for exactly who we are.”—KRISTEN BELL I took a bone-deep breath as we...

As the dead leaves were shedding from the trees, they were not the only part of nature in transition. Leaving behind that which once brought them life, Amelia Cavanaugh was leaving a life that once brought her joy, peace, and comfort. Heading out to Deer Creek State Park deep in the Colorado mountains, she was returning to a cabin where she knew love once lived. The love of her grandparents and, most recently, her grandmother. Upon her passing, Amelia inherited this cabin full of memories and, for Amelia, hope for a new future.

With eyes like a storm and a heart twice as vicious, Vasya came to me like lightning, shattering every expectation I had and setting me ablaze with lust. Over the desk, in the dark, and swept up in a dangerous fantasy, I quickly became blind to reason, spiraling down into what would ultimately ruin my chances of ever having a normal life. An unexpected pregnancy with the most dangerous man in the country. But a secret is hard to keep. And three? Well, that’s nearly impossible.

An NPR best book of the year and recommended by Oprah Daily, Good Housekeeping, Zibby Mag, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, and Katie Couric Media! "A summer read with bite.”—NPR Disgraced model-writer Bianca Bridge can’t stand hotshot makeup maven Obadiah Cortland. And he lets her know the feeling...

For weeks, she’s been working on a prototype enlarging ray. Her entire lab thinks they are weeks from getting it working, but she’s been sabotaging progress at every turn. At night, she fixes the machine and plugs in her working code. It feels so good to grow. But on a night when everyone should be gone, she discovers there are two people still in the lab. She’s already zapped herself, and with 10 minutes remaining until she starts to grow, she knows she’ll need to come clean.

The story begins in the wonderful '80s, a time filled with great music, alcohol, cruising, and sex. She was 15 years younger than he was. Although he had a problem with the age difference, she never did. Married three times, twice to the same woman and barely escaped a third round with her. This is a story about the multiple marriages. She also married two other men between these marriages and had an affair with Jim during both. Call it magnetism, a strange attraction, or plain old stupidity; you be the judge.

Vampire hunter Anita Blake is no stranger to killing monsters. It’s part of her job as a Preternatural U.S. Marshal, after all. But even her experience isn’t enough to stop something that is bent on destroying everything—and everyone—she loves. Anita Blake is engaged to Jean-Claude, the...

Der Apotheker Duncan ist einem Herzinfarkt nahe. In seinem ganzen Berufsleben ist dem gewissenhaften Mann nie auch nur der kleinste Fehler unterlaufen. Doch an diesem Tag geschieht das Unvorstellbare - er verwechselt die Päckchen zweier Kunden, deren Adressen er nicht kennt. Eines der Päckchen enthält das todbringende Gift Arsen. Völlig aufgelöst spricht er bei Sherlock Holmes vor. Aber wie sollen Holmes und Watson den irrtümlichen Käufer des Arsens in der anonymen Großstadt London finden? Holmes weiß, gelingt es ihm nicht, dann wird eine ahnungslose Frau qualvoll sterben.