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Twelve classic Horrid Henry stories - perfect lockdown listening for children who love mischief and mayhem! Horrid Henry has been up to no good in these 12 mischievous stories. He's planned a not-so-great escape, started a money-making scheme, outwitted a demon dinner lady and annoyed his little brother!

After the loss of her mother, a woman returns to the San Fernando Valley only to uncover a haunting secret about her childhood friend. A visiting professor at a charming but strange California liberal arts college must face her past in order to protect her son. A sister, lost in the woods, confronts the dangerous truth about her brother, her stepmother, and herself. Rose's dog Wolfie has died, and three seductive women offer to help return him to her. But only if she will pay the price.

Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, written by 12 best-selling young adult writers and edited by international best-selling author Stephanie Perkins, will have you dreaming of sunset strolls by the lake. So set out your beach chair, and grab your sunglasses. You have 12 reasons this summer to soak up the sun and fall in love.

Salento, 1959. Lorenzo e Agnese hanno perso tutto. E lo capiscono quando, con gli occhi tristi che si porta dietro da una vita, il padre annuncia di aver venduto il saponificio di famiglia, un’eredità che lui ha vissuto come una condanna. Per Lorenzo e Agnese, invece, quella fabbrica che il nonno ha creato dal nulla, che profuma di talco, di essenze floreali e di oli vegetali, e che occupa ogni loro pensiero, era la certezza di un presente sereno e la promessa di un futuro da tracciare insieme, uniti. Quindi l’idea di rimanere lì come semplici operai sotto un nuovo, arrogante padrone è devastante per entrambi.

A weekly caucus of progressive comics, activists and thinkers hosted by Francesca Fiorentini

*This is a kisses-only sports romantic comedy.* The day Brodie Kent kissed me was the beginning but also the end. Heartbroken and angry doesn’t come close to how I felt when he left town, and me, to pursue his football dreams. Fine. Good. He has his life. And I have mine. Except, Brodie’s mega-star, hard-partying player’s flirty love-life is all over the news and social media channels. He’s pretty hard to ignore. Annoyingly, his boyish good looks are on every screen and other people’s phones. Then, years after Our Kiss, and out of the blue, Brodie is back in Oak River. Cool. I can...

Set in France and England at the end of the twelfth century, the moving story of a spirited, questing young woman, Isabelle, who defies convention to forge a remarkable life, one profoundly influenced by the fabled queen she idolizes and comes to know – Eleanor of Aquitaine

If you are preparing for the end of life—or simply looking to bring more meaning to the here and now—The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared imparts valuable insight to nurture clarity and your internal strength on your journey. This workbook is a first-of-its-kind publication that invites you to process your life and legacy, create remembrance projects, build connections to vital supports, and draft informative wishes and plans for your last chapter.

Salento, giugno 1934. A Lizzanello, un paesino di poche migliaia di anime, una corriera si ferma nella piazza principale. Ne scende una coppia: lui, Carlo, è un figlio del Sud, ed è felice di essere tornato a casa; lei, Anna, sua moglie, è bella come una statua greca, ma triste e preoccupata: quale vita la attende in quella terra sconosciuta? Persino a trent’anni da quel giorno, Anna rimarrà per tutti «la forestiera», quella venuta dal Nord, quella diversa, che non va in chiesa, che dice sempre quello che pensa.

Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she’s worked for begins to crumble. In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, anonymous creator of a popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea. With millions of followers and fans throughout the world, Eliza’s persona is popular. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves her digital community.

La novela ganadora del premio de los libreros independientes italianos. El libro revelación del año en Italia con más de 450.000 ejemplares vendidos. Una saga familiar con una protagonista inolvidable: una mujer fuerte e independiente que se enfrenta a una realidad hostil. Una apasionante historia de coraje y emancipación femenina. En Lizzanello, un pueblecito de unos pocos miles de almas, un autobús de línea se detiene en la plaza mayor y baja una pareja: él, Carlo, es hijo del sur y está contento de regresar a casa; ella, Anna, su esposa, nacida en el norte, está triste y preocupada.

***Ain't no spice here. This is a kisses-only romcom*** I’m teamed up with a man I hate on a scoop that could be my Big Break. Years ago, Blake McGregor sabotaged my career, robbing me of the interview that would change my life. Absolute humiliation. Comically, on the long drive to our assignment, I eventually recognize my nemesis sitting beside me. But tragically, the penny drops only after I begin to catch feelings for my back-stabbing cameraman. I grit my teeth and focus on the brief: report the story about Boston Bullets’ bad boy for News Breaks International, then get back to base ...

Francesca Gino has been studying rebels in life and in the workplace for more than 15 years. She has discovered that rebels - those who practice "positive deviance" at work - are harder to manage, but they are good for the bottom line: their passion, drive, curiosity, and creativity raise the entire organization to a new level. And she has found that at home, rebels are more engaged partners, parents, and friends. Packed with strategies for embracing rebellion at work and in life, Rebel Talent encourages all of us to rebel against what’s comfortable, so that we can thrive.

As Cady struggles under the enormous pressure at Harvard, she investigates her brother’s final year, armed only with a blue notebook of Eric’s cryptic scribblings. She knew he had been struggling with paranoia, delusions, and illusory enemies - but what tipped him over the edge? Voices fill her head, seemingly belonging to three ghosts who passed through the university in life, or death, and whose voices, dreams, and terrors still echo the halls. Among them is a person whose name has been buried for centuries, and another whose name mankind will never forget.

Reeling from a breakup and overlooked at her job as a lighting designer, Iris Sunnegren finds herself stuck, disconnected, and lonely in crowded New York City. Her wealthy friends are married and having babies, while she’s trying to pay for freezing her eggs. And the future she longs for feels out of reach. Then, a mysterious neighbor, an older Frenchwoman, makes her a gift: a bespoke perfume. One spritz, a dab behind the ears, and Iris feels like a different woman. Suddenly, she is the object of every man’s desire, and she can satisfy her own hungers for sex, love, and ambition.

Passionate about conservation and fleeing an argument with her mother, newly qualified London vet Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the tiny South Atlantic island of Tuga de Oro to study the endangered gold coin tortoises in the jungle interior. She can claim the best of reasons for this year in paradise—What better motivation than to save a species?—but the reality is more complex. For Charlotte has secretly come to believe that she has her own connection to this remote and eccentric community, and she is finally determined to solve the mystery that has dominated her life.

The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty—four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers whose motto was “Never copy, only create” and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary talents.

Four new stories in which Horrid Henry terrorizes his classmates at a school sleepover in the museum; plays with Perfect Peter and tricks him into handing over all his money; gets out of writing his own story for Miss Battle-Axe by adapting one of Peter's; and meets the Nudie Foodie, a celebrity chef, who comes to the school to improve school dinners. No more burgers! No more chips!

We all know dating sucks. It hasn't gotten any easier since it was invented—in fact, some might say the advent of online dating, apps like Tinder and Hinge, and now AI has made it nearly impossible to find love even thought we're more connected than ever. And yet, as challenging as it is to meet someone, we're all still desirous of love, because we're humans, and we're facing a loneliness epidemic. With How to Find True Love, Francesca Hogi provides a better plan for finding true love. Hogi seeks to bring purpose to modern dating and optimism to the hearts of cynical daters everywhere.

Dive into the captivating world of "The Bench: A Parable About Life, Death, and Beyond" by Francesca Flood, Ed.D., where five strangers' lives become intertwined by fate, trauma, and a mysterious bench that holds the key to their darkest moments. In this riveting novella, the author explores the depths of human experience, the thin line between life and the afterlife, and the eternal search for understanding humankind's true meaning.