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More than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.

Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic - and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.

A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest.

Island of the Blue Dolphins is the remarkable story of a strange and beautiful Indian girl who lives a serene and courageous life as the solitary survivor on an island off the California coast. Left behind when the rest of her tribe fled, she waits, year after year, for a ship to come for her. She fights for her very survival, building a shelter, hunting for food, and making weapons to stave off her enemies, the wild dogs who took her brother.

Considered “perhaps the most important American play of this century” by The Daily Telegraph, the Tony Award-winning Best Play has arrived on Audible. Based on Howards End by E.M. Forster, The Inheritance takes place in New York City decades after the AIDS epidemic. Eric Glass is a political activist engaged to his writer boyfriend, Toby Darling. When two strangers enter their lives—an older man and a younger one—their futures suddenly become uncertain as they begin to chart divergent paths.

Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means. Allie, Carter's mother, is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother. Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her join her ancestors in the Afterlife. And Geneviève is determined to conquer her demons before the fire inside burns her up, wih the thelp of the sister she lost but has never been without.

An extraordinary compilation of legends and rituals about nature's ever-present signs. From the birds that soar above us to the insects beneath our feet, Native American healer Bobby Lake-Thom shows how the creatures of the earth can aid us in healing and self-knowledge.

More than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets.

The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.

A grieving mother calls out to her faraway son. A student forgoes the lurid appeal of dating apps in exchange for a painter’s love. The anonymous voices of queer native men converge amid violent eroticism. A man just out of prison balances the uneasy weight of family and freedom, while a professor returns home to conduct research only to be haunted by a dark specter. The stories and voices in Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut story collection are buoyed by philosophical undergirding, poetic demand, and the complex relationship between aesthetics and ethics.

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan offers a powerful, universal message on God’s grace and the healing power of Jesus to get us through tough and turbulent times. Drawn from sermons and writings offered during the early days of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, I Am with You provides solace, hope, and healing for anyone suffering through illness, grief, job loss, isolation, or anxiety.

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive....

Indigenous peoples have faced the end of the world before. Now, humankind is on a collective march toward the abyss. Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene. From Brazil comes Ailton Krenak, renowned Indigenous activist and leader, who demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society’s flawed concept of “humanity” - that human beings are superior to other forms of nature and are justified in exploiting it as we please.

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Sie möchte sich das erste Mal verlieben, er will von der Liebe nichts wissen. Als die 19-jährige Farrah Lin ihr Auslandssemester in Shanghai beginnt, weiß sie genau, dass sie sich dort zum ersten Mal verlieben wird. Das Problem ist nur, dass der, dem Farrah ihr Herz schenken will, leider schon vergeben ist - und das ausgerechnet an ihre neu gewonnene Freundin. Doch dann trifft sie auf Blake Ryan, und alles, was sie über die Liebe zu wissen glaubte, ändert sich schlagartig. Der ehemalige College-Football-Star, der in Shanghai seinem alten Leben entkommen will, geht ihr nicht mehr aus dem Kopf.

Another collection of eight books which contain 18 stories. Dante writes raw and personal stories about real people, husband and wife sharing, wife watching, BDSM, cuckold, swinger and fetish clubs, dogging, Asian wives, ladyboys and many other fetishes...

Sie sind Todfeinde - Und die Einzige Hoffnung für ihre Welt. Talasyn ist ein Findelkind und kannte bisher nur den alles verzehrenden Krieg gegen das Nachtimperium. Als einzige noch lebende Lichtweberin kämpft sie mit ihrer Magie an vorderster Front. Eines Tages kreuzt sich ihre Klinge mit der von Alaric, dem Kronprinzen des Nachtimperiums. Obwohl sie erbitterte Feinde sind, springt ein Funke zwischen ihnen über und beide schrecken vor dem letzten tödlichen Schlag zurück.

Was dich liebt, vernichtet dich. In jedem deiner Leben. Evelyn kann sich an jedes ihrer früheren Leben erinnern. Auch daran, dass sie in jedem einzelnen davon ihren 18. Geburtstag nicht erlebt hat – und schuld daran ist jedes Mal ihre große Liebe, der sie unerklärlicherweise nicht entrinnen kann. Nur dass sie ihr aktuelles Leben gerade sehr mag und, noch wichtiger, dass ihre Schwester sie für eine Knochenmarktransplantation braucht. Wenn sie ihre Schwester retten und den tragischen Verlauf ihrer Zeit und Raum überdauernden Liebesgeschichte aufhalten will, muss Evelyn: 1.

Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing. This extraordinary novel, told by a chorus of vividly realized, funny, wise, confused, struggling characters—including descendants of the bison that once freely roamed the land—heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.

Die Fortsetzung des weltweiten Bestsellers "Things We Never Got Over" endlich als Hörbuch. Polizeichef Nash Morgen ist für zwei Dinge bekannt: Er ist ein guter Kerl und seine Uniformhose sitzt wie angegossen. Doch seit Nash im Dienst schwer verwundet wurde, leidet er unter PTBS und Depressionen. Denn er hat versagt. Er konnte seinen Bruder nicht schützen. Und alles war seine Schuld, davon ist er fest überzeugt. Obendrein muss er sich mit einer Stadt voller Bürger herumschlagen, die das Gesetz eher als einen "Leitfaden" betrachten.