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From the acclaimed author of How to Be Eaten, a fresh take on the campus novel that follows an adjunct professor gigging her way through academia’s poor job market when she crosses paths with her old PhD adviser whose new novel might be about her—for readers of Worry, Vladimir, and Less. Meet Sam, an adjunct professor at a public university in Baltimore who takes a last-minute gig at the private liberal arts college down the road. Overworked and underpaid, her life is a blur of back-to-back classes, side hustles, and job applications as she attempts to claw her way toward a full-time position. But her already precarious existence is thrown into disarray when she runs into her former grad school adviser, Dr. Tom Sternberg, on campus. Tom and Sam have a complicated history, the lasting impact of which has haunted her academic career, and it’s the last thing she wants to think about as she navigates academic politics, institutional hurdles, and romantic entanglements with men and women that further complicate a sexuality not even she can define. Then she learns that Tom left his old job for undisclosed reasons—and his long-awaited second novel is about a professor’s reckoning with his checkered past. As whispers spread that Sam is the inspiration behind a central character, she fights to regain control of the story while questioning everything she thought she knew about her future—and herself. With biting humor and a keen eye for detail, Maria Adelmann offers a fresh twist on a tangled #MeToo story and turns Sam’s downward spiral into a searing critique of class and the hollow promises of the American dream. A hilarious yet sobering look at how hustle culture has come to define modern academia, The Adjunct asks: Who really controls the narratives of success, identity, and power?

Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, cloaked by the Force and riding with the hostile Sand People, have returned to the dunes of the desert planet Tatooine in hopes of finding what Luke so desperately seeks: contact with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke is hoping the old Jedi Knight's spirit will tell him how to help his love, Callista, regain her lost ability to use the Force. Tormented and haunted, Luke cannot rest until Callista is a Jedi in the fullest sense, for only then will the link between their minds and souls be restored. Yet brewing on Tatooine is news that will shake Luke and Han and threaten everything they value. The disturbing piece of information is that the evil Hutts, criminal warlords of the galaxy, are building a secret superweapon: a reconstruction of the original Death Star, to be named Darksaber. This planet-crushing power will be in the ruthless hands of Durga the Hutt -- a creature without conscience or mercy. But there is worse news yet: the Empire lives. The beautiful Admiral Daala, still very much alive and more driven than ever to destroy the Jedi, has joined forces with the defeated Pellaeon, former second in command to Grand Admiral Thrawn. Together they are marshaling Imperial forces to wipe out the New Republic. Now, as Luke, Han, Leia, Chewbacca, Artoo and Threepio regroup to face these threats, they are joined by new Jedi Knights and Callista. Together they must fight on two fronts, outshooting and outsmarting the most formidable enemies in the galaxy. In Darksaber the Jedi are heading for the ultimate test of their power--a test in which all the temptations of the dark side beckon. And Luke Skywalker must draw upon his innermost resources to fight for a world in which he can not only live, but dare to love. Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!

The Battle of Kursk was the largest tank battle in history and a turning point of World War II. In July 1943, German forces launched a massive attack that aimed to pinch off a bulge in the Soviets’ front line and regain the strategic upper hand on the Eastern Front after their disastrous defeat at Stalingrad. By the time the battle ended in Soviet victory six weeks later, more than 6,000 German and Soviet tanks had blasted each other near what is now the border between Russia and Ukraine. Most accounts of the Battle of Kursk focus on the armor clash at Prokhorovka – which military historian Christopher A. Lawrence has chronicled definitively in an earlier book – but pivotal fighting also took place west of Prokhorovka, where Soviet tanks counterattacked and stymied the German advance. Until now, this tide-turning episode of the Battle of Kursk has never received the attention it deserves. In a book ten years in the making, Lawrence reconstructs the action west of Prokhorovka and offers an entirely fresh look at the Battle of Kursk. A week after the Germans attacked, the Soviets struck back, taking advantage of a gap in the German line near the Tolstoye Woods. The Germans paused their advance and desperately attempted to counterattack and encircle the Soviets. They failed. They would not reach Kursk; they would not close off the salient. The Germans would never again hold the strategic initiative against the Red Army. Lawrence relies on unit records from both sides and fleshes out his meticulous narrative with firsthand accounts from German and Soviet soldiers. Combining detailed analysis with colorful eyewitness descriptions, this book covers the battle from the bottom up and the top down, highlighting strategic decisions, operational maneuvers, and tank-versus-tank contests, where soldiers inside Panther, Tiger, and T-34 tanks fought for their lives – with the outcome of World War II hanging in the balance.

In 2018, at the end of a speech Rod Dreher gave in Genoa, an artist gave him an engraving by his own hand. In broken English, the artist explained that he was in his studio that afternoon when the Holy Spirit told him that he should come hear Rod Dreher, and give him a particular drawing of an obscure medieval saint. None of this made sense to Dreher until two years later, lost in depression and confusion, the saint - a Tuscan hermit named Galgano - appeared in Dreher's life again under circumstances that did not at all seem coincidental, sending Dreher on a search for God's will for his life. A lifetime of experiencing mystical events and collecting stories from others has solidified Dreher's Christian faith, and convinced him that God reveals himself to us all the time - but we in the modern West have lost our capacity to sense God's presence. How did this happen to us, but not to other peoples in the world? Can it be reversed? If so, how? LIVING IN WONDER tells the story of how the West became "disenchanted", and gives practical advice - based on history, cultural anthropology, and neuroscience, as well as the testimonies of monks of the ancient Church - on how to regain one's sense of wonder and awareness of the divine. Told through real-life stories of people who experienced miracles, visitations by saints and angels, and in some cases wrestled with demons, this book will open your mind to the reality that the material world is not all there is, and that God is not as silent and as elusive as you might think. You just need to learn how to see with clear eyes. Join Rod Dreher as he explores why 'contemporary' Christianity seems so empty, and why so many young people are walking away from it. He argues that the enchanted sacramental vision of the church of the first millennium is still true, only hidden, and that the experience of God is something that can happen to anyone - if they are willing to take the risk.

Winner of the Swansea Dylan Thomas Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind The Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags. But America is stifling her—her willfulness, her sexuality, her principles. In an attempt to regain control, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness, and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her material and existential statelessness, and the narrator unravels spectacularly. “With biting humor and incisive prose” (Time), The Coin explores nature and civilization, beauty and justice, class and belonging—all while resisting easy moralizing. “Page-turning and delightful" (People), “sharp and disarming” (The Washington Post), “stunning and surreal” (Los Angeles Times), The Coin marks the arrival of a major new literary voice.

The Battle of Kursk was the largest tank battle in history and a turning point of World War II. In July 1943, German forces launched a massive attack that aimed to pinch off a bulge in the Soviets’ front line and regain the strategic upper hand on the Eastern Front after their disastrous defeat at Stalingrad. By the time the battle ended in Soviet victory six weeks later, more than 6,000 German and Soviet tanks had blasted each other near what is now the border between Russia and Ukraine. Most accounts of the Battle of Kursk focus on the armor clash at Prokhorovka – which military historian Christopher A. Lawrence has chronicled definitively in an earlier book – but pivotal fighting also took place west of Prokhorovka, where Soviet tanks counterattacked and stymied the German advance. Until now, this tide-turning episode of the Battle of Kursk has never received the attention it deserves. In a book ten years in the making, Lawrence reconstructs the action west of Prokhorovka and offers an entirely fresh look at the Battle of Kursk. A week after the Germans attacked, the Soviets struck back, taking advantage of a gap in the German line near the Tolstoye Woods. The Germans paused their advance and desperately attempted to counterattack and encircle the Soviets. They failed. They would not reach Kursk; they would not close off the salient. The Germans would never again hold the strategic initiative against the Red Army. Lawrence relies on unit records from both sides and fleshes out his meticulous narrative with firsthand accounts from German and Soviet soldiers. Combining detailed analysis with colorful eyewitness descriptions, this book covers the battle from the bottom up and the top down, highlighting strategic decisions, operational maneuvers, and tank-versus-tank contests, where soldiers inside Panther, Tiger, and T-34 tanks fought for their lives – with the outcome of World War II hanging in the balance.

Suspicious goings-on at a retirement home lead to an intriguing investigation in Date with Malice, the second cosy crime novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective series. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and M.C. Beaton. 'A Yorkshire Agatha Raisin' - Dalesman It's dark in the Dales this winter . . . When Mrs Shepherd arrives at the Dales Detective Agency, quite convinced that someone is trying to kill her, Samson O'Brien dismisses her fears as the ramblings of a confused elderly lady. But, after a series of disturbing incidents at Fellside Court retirement home, he begins to wonder if there is something to her claims after all . . . With Christmas around the corner, Samson is thrown into a complex investigation - one that will require him to regain the trust of the Dales community. Faced with no choice, he enlists the help of a local: the tempestuous Delilah Metcalfe. Against the backdrop of a Yorkshire winter, Samson and Delilah must work together once again if they are to uncover the malevolence threatening the elderly residents of Bruncliffe. Could the danger be perilously close to home? Filled with wit, warmth and a cast of charming characters, continue the crime capers of the Dale Detectives with Date with Mystery. Praise for The Dales Detective series: 'Enlivened with numerous subplots, the story moves at a cracking pace' - Daily Mail 'Bags of Yorkshire charm and wit' - Northern Echo 'A classic whodunnit' - Cath Staincliffe, author of Blue Murder 'Full of dry wit and clever plotting' - Countryside 'Chapman delivers on every level' - Lancashire Evening Post

Set before Mr. Bingley takes up residence at Netherfield Park, Elizabeth travels into Derbyshire with her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner. On a day when her relations are visiting with some of Mrs. Gardiner's childhood friends, Elizabeth decides to explore the small village instead. Without realizing it, she strays further and further from the village, unconsciously walking in the direction of Pemberley, the estate they visited two days prior. Lost in her thoughts and the beauty of the Derbyshire countryside, Elizabeth wanders further than she realizes and fails to notice the storm clouds building above her. With the first flash of lightning and peel of thunder, she seeks somewhere to shelter from the storm. Rushing for a dense tree line where she might stay dry from the impending rain, Elizabeth Bennet meets with a dreadful accident. Returning from business in London, Fitzwilliam Darcy races across the grounds of Pemberley trying to outrun the storm. Coming across a beautiful young woman who is injured, he takes her home so his staff can care for her. Darcy hopes her presence will help lift his mother's melancholy. When Elizabeth regains consciousness, she has no memory of her name or her past. During the many weeks of her recovery, Elizabeth grows close to Mr. Darcy and his mother, Lady Anne. When Elizabeth recovers enough to leave the estate, the Darcys decided she needs an identity that will protect her from gossip. And so, Miss Elizabeth Chamberlayne, a long-lost Darcy cousin is born. After receiving two requests, Darcy accepts an invitation to stay with his friend, Mr. Bingley, at Netherfield Park and the ladies will join him. What will happen when Elizabeth comes face to face with her family? Will she remember them, or will her memory still be a blank? All of the original characters of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice make an appearance. How will Elizabeth's lack of memory affect her interactions with them?

Suspicious goings-on at a retirement home lead to an intriguing investigation in Date with Malice, the second cosy crime novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective series. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and M.C. Beaton. 'A Yorkshire Agatha Raisin' - Dalesman It's dark in the Dales this winter . . . When Mrs Shepherd arrives at the Dales Detective Agency, quite convinced that someone is trying to kill her, Samson O'Brien dismisses her fears as the ramblings of a confused elderly lady. But, after a series of disturbing incidents at Fellside Court retirement home, he begins to wonder if there is something to her claims after all . . . With Christmas around the corner, Samson is thrown into a complex investigation - one that will require him to regain the trust of the Dales community. Faced with no choice, he enlists the help of a local: the tempestuous Delilah Metcalfe. Against the backdrop of a Yorkshire winter, Samson and Delilah must work together once again if they are to uncover the malevolence threatening the elderly residents of Bruncliffe. Could the danger be perilously close to home? Filled with wit, warmth and a cast of charming characters, continue the crime capers of the Dale Detectives with Date with Mystery. Praise for The Dales Detective series: 'Enlivened with numerous subplots, the story moves at a cracking pace' - Daily Mail 'Bags of Yorkshire charm and wit' - Northern Echo 'A classic whodunnit' - Cath Staincliffe, author of Blue Murder 'Full of dry wit and clever plotting' - Countryside 'Chapman delivers on every level' - Lancashire Evening Post

E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30 plus collections of short stories. Most of his tales are thrillers and espionage. The Great Impersonation was written following World War I and is considered by many to be perhaps his best novel. The story focuses on German espionage in England prior to the start of World War I. The tale centers on two characters that are almost identical in appearance. Indeed, while both attend the same school in England, they are often mistaken for one another. One character is Sir Everard Dominey, an English baronet who enjoys the "good life" but falls into disfavor when he is accused of murdering Roger Unthank. Unthank, of the same village, has an infatuation for Dominey's wife, Rosamund, and attacks Dominey. Dominey comes before his wife bloody and ragged after the struggle with Unthank. The spectacle renders her unbalanced. This is more than Dominey can bear and he goes on a long travel and drinking binge spanning years. Dominey's wife threatens to kill him if he ever returns. The second character is Baron Leopold von Ragastein, a German nobleman. Von Ragastein has fallen into disrespect with the Kaiser for his affair with a Hungarian princess and subsequent killing of her nobleman husband in a duel. He is banished to a minor government position in East Africa as punishment. A chance encounter between Dominey and von Ragastein in German East Africa sets the pretext for the story. Von Ragastein returns to England as Dominey, to regain his position in society, and serve Germany by influencing England to keep out of the coming conflict. There is one problem however: there are some, including Dominey's wife, who are not convinced that Sir Everard Dominey is really who he claims to be. You will need to listen to the end to determine the truth.

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How do today's most successful tech companies--Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla--design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently than the vast majority of tech companies. In INSPIRED, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides readers with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization, and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love--and that will work for your business.   With sections on assembling the right people and skillsets, discovering the right product, embracing an effective yet lightweight process, and creating a strong product culture, readers can take the information they learn and immediately leverage it within their own organizations--dramatically improving their own product efforts.   Whether you're an early stage startup working to get to product/market fit, or a growth-stage company working to scale your product organization, or a large, long-established company trying to regain your ability to consistently deliver new value for your customers, INSPIRED will take you and your product organization to a new level of customer engagement, consistent innovation, and business success.   Filled with the author's own personal stories--and profiles of some of today's most-successful product managers and technology-powered product companies, including Adobe, Apple, BBC, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix--INSPIRED will show you how to turn up the dial of your own product efforts, creating technology products your customers love.   The first edition of INSPIRED, published ten years ago, established itself as the primary reference for technology product managers, and can be found on the shelves of nearly every successful technology product company worldwide. This thoroughly updated second edition shares the same objective of being the most valuable resource for technology product managers, yet it is completely new--sharing the latest practices and techniques of today's most-successful tech product companies, and the men and women behind every great product.

"Filled to the brim with tenderness, yearning, and heart....Five effervescent stars!" -Brigitte Knightley, New York Times bestselling author A second-chance romance following a young woman who wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the past six years, only to find that she apparently married the one man she can't stand-her arrogant and infuriating former boarding school rival. Molly Graham's day can't possibly get any worse after she wakes up in a hospital bed with a head injury and amnesia. But then Aster Bishop-the Aster Bishop who made her life hell at boarding school-storms into her room calling her his wife. To Molly's shock, in the six years she no longer recalls, she somehow fell in love with a man she once despised. Persuaded by her lifelong friends to give her new reality a chance, she reluctantly returns to the home she and Aster share to try and piece together her life. So much has changed, not least the considerate and devastatingly handsome man who spends every night sleeping on the sofa to avoid making her uncomfortable. This Aster is nothing like the entitled boy she once knew. Their chemistry is undeniable-but he's distant with her, infuriatingly so. It's clear he has secrets, and Molly can't stand it. Especially knowing that she might never regain her memories. That she fell in love with Aster Bishop once is hard enough to believe. But to fall in love again? To promise a future, always, when she can't remember her past? It feels impossible when faced with a man she hardly knows and isn't sure she can trust. And yet... Tropes - Rivals to lovers - Forced proximity - Slow burn - Yearning (so much yearning) - Found family - Second-chance romance - Memory loss - There's only one bed and he takes the sofa like a boring, sensible man

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The principle of balance is not new. It forms the foundation of both Eastern and Western philosophies, from Aristotle to Confucius. As it relates to health, it has been around just as long, from the development of traditional Chinese medicine to the treatments used by Hippocrates and Galen. What is new, however, is a scientifically based application that can improve numerous disorders and maximize your health. Imagine that the human body has an internal mechanism that keeps two basic types of chemicals — acid and alkali — in balance. When your body becomes either too acidic or too alkaline, you become susceptible to a host of disorders. When balance is restored, however, so is your health. In this brilliant book, renowned health expert Alex Guerrero explains how you can become well — now and for an extended lifetime — by restoring your pH balance. The author first describes how you can assess your health. He then provides a plan, including a fourteen-day diet and a simple program of supplements, that will bring your body back into balance. You’ll even find a selection of recipes that will tempt your taste buds as you reclaim your health and well-being. Here is a book that will quickly capture the imagination of all those looking for a drug-free way to feel better. In Balance for Life offers an effective, easy-to-follow program that is bound to shake up your beliefs about your own body, and about the steps you can take to maintain or regain your well-being.

From the acclaimed author of How to Be Eaten, a fresh take on the campus novel that follows an adjunct professor gigging her way through academia’s poor job market when she crosses paths with her old PhD adviser whose new novel might be about her—for readers of Worry, Vladimir, and Less. Meet Sam, an adjunct professor at a public university in Baltimore who takes a last-minute gig at the private liberal arts college down the road. Overworked and underpaid, her life is a blur of back-to-back classes, side hustles, and job applications as she attempts to claw her way toward a full-time position. But her already precarious existence is thrown into disarray when she runs into her former grad school adviser, Dr. Tom Sternberg, on campus. Tom and Sam have a complicated history, the lasting impact of which has haunted her academic career, and it’s the last thing she wants to think about as she navigates academic politics, institutional hurdles, and romantic entanglements with men and women that further complicate a sexuality not even she can define. Then she learns that Tom left his old job for undisclosed reasons—and his long-awaited second novel is about a professor’s reckoning with his checkered past. As whispers spread that Sam is the inspiration behind a central character, she fights to regain control of the story while questioning everything she thought she knew about her future—and herself. With biting humor and a keen eye for detail, Maria Adelmann offers a fresh twist on a tangled #MeToo story and turns Sam’s downward spiral into a searing critique of class and the hollow promises of the American dream. A hilarious yet sobering look at how hustle culture has come to define modern academia, The Adjunct asks: Who really controls the narratives of success, identity, and power?

Cassandra Swann is about to find out. Because she and her sisters are 1/8th fairy - not enough to do any magic - just enough to get them a Fairy Godmother from hell whose reckless spells makes their lives miserable. When her older sister decides to take the FG to court, Cass gets caught in the crossfire. Hit by their godmother with a disastrous birthday wish, she is in danger of losing what she loves most - her ability to paint. Because the court is in the realm of the Fae, Cass and her sisters have a Court Appointed Elf who acts as their attorney slash bodyguard. But who ever heard of a 6 foot 4 muscular elf with coal-black hair and intense green eyes? Sparks fly the first minute Cass meets Jacobin O'Shea. She resents his high-handed ways and Jake thinks Cass is a spoiled human brat. But after he saves her from a soul-sucker and sees her art, things begin to change between them. But Cass's ability to paint is still screwed up. Every painting she attempts climbs off the canvas and makes trouble in the real world. When the Fae court assigns her a new Fairy Godmother, things get exponentially worse when her new wish multiplies her living art. To make matters even more difficult, Jake's ex-fiancée - a gorgeous, anorexiclly-thin fairy - has Cass in her crosshairs and is determined to ruin anything that might grow between them. And did we mention Cass's grandmother is going on disastrous dates that fill the house with Star Trek conventioneers, bikers, and nudists? It's a mess only magic could make...or fix. Will Cass and Jake ever get past their differences? Will Cass regain her ability to paint without every painting stepping off the canvas? (Really, Fairy Godmother?) And will Cass's grandmother find a man without burning down the house? You'll have to read Be Careful What You Wish For, the second book in the Swann Sisters Chronicles to find out.

The Sunday Times bestseller, read by the author.In his darkest depression, one idea brought Christian Lewis out of the depths – and into a new life. Finding Hildasay is a brutal and beautiful true story of mental health, survival, walking, and the meaning of home.'Now I was finally out of the force of the wind, my body began to warm – the part where the real pain sets in. I'd felt it plenty of times before on this journey, but this time it was different. As I began to regain feeling in my fingers and toes, it burned so strongly that I just sat in tears of pain.'Ex-paratrooper Christian Lewis had hit rock bottom, suffering with depression so severe he would shut himself in his bedroom for weeks. Then while surfing – his only respite – he cast his eyes along the coastline and realized it was the only place he really wanted to be.Making an impulsive decision to set himself a challenge – walk the entire coastline of the UK – Chris gave himself a few days to rustle up a tent and walking boots, then left for good with just a tenner in his pocket and two days' worth of food. Little did he know at the time just how long it would take to cross the finish line – and the encounters that lay ahead that would turn his life around.Five years later, Chris has navigated the West Coast, Northern Ireland, the hard-rock cliffs of Scotland and the perimeters of the Scottish Islands. He spent three months on an uninhabited island called Hildasay, where there was no fresh water or food. It was there, the most barren his route had become, that the more pride and respect he found within himself – and the more remarkable his journey became. Happiness and hope was just around the corner.'Exhilarating' – The Observer'The real journey here is one of self-discovery' – Mail on Sunday

A razor-sharp exploration of intimacy, non-monogamous desire, and motherhood 'A grieving woman opens her marriage after the death of her mother. It goes mostly well - until her husband falls in love with someone else...' NEW YORK TIMES, T he Novels Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer 'Deeply readable, this will be the hottest, sluttiest book of the summer' ALICE SLATER, AUTHOR OF LET THE BAD TIMES ROLL 'Novels about non-monogamy are hardly a novelty nowadays, but Skin Contact is a smart, involving debut written with an empathy and insight that ensures it never feels passé' DAILY MAIL 'A fresh take on making marriage work in the modern age . . . one not to miss' MARIE CLAIRE 'Acute and witty on female desire' FINANCIAL TIMES, Five of the Best Debut Novels Unmoored by her mother's sudden death, Frances has never felt so diminished, or so old. She's painfully aware that strangers no longer look at her the same way - and that she's now, at thirty-two, older than the great aunt for whom she was named, who was killed in the seventies under mysterious circumstances involving an extramarital affair. Her husband, Ben, will do anything to help Frances regain her vivacity and sense of purpose. So when Frances suggests that they open their marriage, Ben complies. Over the next two years, they explore their sexualities and latent kinks; they navigate jealousy, betrayal, desire, and obsession; they defend their choices - and their new identities - to confused friends. They do all of this together, as a team. But when Ben finds himself falling in love with another woman, just as Frances realizes she's ready to settle down and have a baby, they are forced to confront the consequences of their experiment.

"Filled to the brim with tenderness, yearning, and heart....Five effervescent stars!" -Brigitte Knightley, New York Times bestselling author A second-chance romance following a young woman who wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the past six years, only to find that she apparently married the one man she can't stand-her arrogant and infuriating former boarding school rival. Molly Graham's day can't possibly get any worse after she wakes up in a hospital bed with a head injury and amnesia. But then Aster Bishop-the Aster Bishop who made her life hell at boarding school-storms into her room calling her his wife. To Molly's shock, in the six years she no longer recalls, she somehow fell in love with a man she once despised. Persuaded by her lifelong friends to give her new reality a chance, she reluctantly returns to the home she and Aster share to try and piece together her life. So much has changed, not least the considerate and devastatingly handsome man who spends every night sleeping on the sofa to avoid making her uncomfortable. This Aster is nothing like the entitled boy she once knew. Their chemistry is undeniable-but he's distant with her, infuriatingly so. It's clear he has secrets, and Molly can't stand it. Especially knowing that she might never regain her memories. That she fell in love with Aster Bishop once is hard enough to believe. But to fall in love again? To promise a future, always, when she can't remember her past? It feels impossible when faced with a man she hardly knows and isn't sure she can trust. And yet… Tropes Rivals to lovers Forced proximity Slow burn Yearning (so much yearning) Found family Second-chance romance Memory loss There's only one bed and he takes the sofa like a boring, sensible man

London, 1847 . Ever since scarlet fever nearly claimed her life, Edith Eleanor Ashford has been trapped in a frail body and kept far from the life she longs for. There is only one person who can make her feel truly alive: Eirik Varg , the young Scandinavian who was taken in by her family when he was little more than an injured boy with no past. Eirik has loved her for years, but he refuses to acknowledge it. Edith belongs to a world of family name, wealth, and position; he has nothing but a fragmented history, a mysterious mark bearing the legacy of his Norse ancestry, and the fear that his past could destroy the woman he loves. When Edith leaves for France to regain her health, the two are separated. Two years later, Edith returns transformed. She is no longer the sickly young woman Eirik left behind. She has regained her strength, her independence, and her desire to live life to the fullest. But Eirik has become a harder man, determined to keep her far from his heart. And now another man is willing to offer her the future he believes he can never give her. As Edith struggles to decide what kind of life she wants, Eirik is finally forced to confront the secrets of his origins. Both will have to choose between the fear that has kept them apart and the love that has never stopped binding them together. Because discovering where Eirik comes from may reveal who he is. But only Edith can show him where he belongs. And after a long winter, they will both have to decide whether they dare to find their way home together.

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR*, ELSIE SILVER! SET IN THE SAME BELOVED UNIVERSE AS SMASH-HIT SERIES CHESTNUT SPRINGS: SMALL-TOWN, BIG CHARACTERS, FOUR ADDICTIVE LOVE STORIES . . . MEET THE SINGLE DADS OF ROSE HILL. 'Elsie Silver's writing is a true revelation!' ALI HAZELWOOD 'This book contains a hero to die for' TESSA BAILEY ---- A rugged mountain town seemed like the perfect escape from a life in shambles. But on day one, she ran full tilt into the world's hottest single dad, and now all her plans are ruined. As a chart-topping country singer with a recent streak of bad press, it's hard for Skylar Stone to find any peace. But she finds it in Rose Hill. With a little boy and a little girl who steal her heart just as thoroughly as their dad. Weston Belmont. The man is a shameless flirt. He oozes confidence and masculinity in a way that's downright distracting. And in bed? He's addictive. Everything with him is wild and impulsive, and Skylar is desperate to regain some control. But no one has supported her like West does. And no one has ever made her feel as loved as he does either. So, while Skylar's brain says settling down with a small-town horse trainer is impossible...her heart says she's right where she belongs. Still, her life as a celebrity haunts her. It has the power to pull she and West apart. She can see in his eyes that he wants her to stay. And she wants that too. But she knows better than anyone that you don't always get what you want. Readers can't get enough of the Rose Hill series . . . 'Billionaire romance but make it rustic . . . Elsie Silver just hits the mark every time' 'Hands-down my favorite book Elsie has written. HIGHLY recommend' 'Did I devour this in a single day? You bet I did!' 'Elsie Silver is the queen of small-town romances' 'The banter. The tension. The relationship between Ford & Rosie. The character development. Wow' 'I was hooked from the first chapter' *Wild Love was an instant Sunday Times bestseller in the second week of April 2024. Wild Eyes was an instant Sunday Times bestseller in the second week of September 2024.

Learn to design, build, and scale products consumers can't get enough of How do today's most successful tech companies¯Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla¯design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently than most tech companies. In INSPIRED, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides readers with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization, and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love¯and that will work for your business. With sections on assembling the right people and skillsets, discovering the right product, embracing an effective yet lightweight process, and creating a strong product culture, readers can take the information they learn and immediately leverage it within their own organizations¯dramatically improving their own product efforts. Whether you're an early-stage startup working to get to product/market fit, or a growth-stage company working to scale your product organization, or a large, long-established company trying to regain your ability to consistently deliver new value for your customers, INSPIRED will take you and your product organization to a new level of customer engagement, consistent innovation, and business success. Filled with the author's own personal stories¯and profiles of some of today's most-successful product managers and technology-powered product companies, including Adobe, Apple, BBC, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix¯INSPIRED will show you how to turn up the dial of your own product efforts, creating technology products your customers love. The first edition of INSPIRED, published ten years ago, established itself as the primary reference for technology product managers, and can be found on the shelves of nearly every successful technology product company worldwide. This thoroughly updated second edition shares the same objective of being the most valuable resource for technology product managers, yet it is completely new¯sharing the latest practices and techniques of today's most-successful tech product companies, and the men and women behind every great product.

'I saw firsthand how Dominic transformed his relationship with alcohol. This enabled him to become the best version of himself and inspired him to achieve his personal and business goals.' Steven Bartlett, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Investor, Author and the host of the UK's No.1 Podcast 'The Diary of a CEO' 'Like any drug, if not taken in moderation, alcohol is a poison and impacts every part of your system. Dominic McGregor saw this clearly on his own journey to change his relationship with alcohol, and interweaves his own personal challenges with practical advice and wisdom.' Professor Steve Peters, Consultant Psychiatrist and Bestselling Author of The Chimp Paradox Regain control. Embrace sober success. In today's society, the pressures of life and work can cause many people to turn to alcohol because it offers a tempting release. Dominic McGregor knows the struggle well. Before the age of 30, he built and scaled two international businesses-and hit rock bottom, thanks to alcohol addiction. In I'm Never Drinking Again, you'll learn to: Recognise how alcohol is holding you back Balance your mental health with your drive to succeed Break free from the cycle of addiction Achieve greater success with a healthier lifestyle I'm Never Drinking Again will prove invaluable for anyone who is 'sober-curious' and wishes to understand the effect alcohol may play in their lives. Whether you are battling addiction, questioning your relationship with alcohol, or just intrigued by the prospect of challenging yourself to go alcohol free, this book will empower you to strive for a better lifestyle.

Winner of the Swansea Dylan Thomas Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind The Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags. But America is stifling her—her willfulness, her sexuality, her principles. In an attempt to regain control, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness, and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her material and existential statelessness, and the narrator unravels spectacularly. “With biting humor and incisive prose” (Time), The Coin explores nature and civilization, beauty and justice, class and belonging—all while resisting easy moralizing. “Page-turning and delightful" (People), “sharp and disarming” (The Washington Post), “stunning and surreal” (Los Angeles Times), The Coin marks the arrival of a major new literary voice.

The sequel to Of Jade and Dragons, a thrilling and epic silkpunk fantasy inspired by the legendary Qing dynasty. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Lim and Xiran Jay Zhao. Two years after Ying leaves the Engineer’s Guild and the ghost of her father’s unjust death behind, life seems to regain a semblance of normalcy. But the winds of unrest continue to stir within the Nine Isles, and the aftermath of a horrific pirate attack by the mysterious Blood Phoenix fleet forces Ying back into the tense political world of the new High Commander, Ye-yang. And soon, Ying, Ye-yang and her former friends from the guild must work together to find a way to outsmart the cunning pirates who terrorise the straits—and the elusive mastermind who’s controlling them. Meanwhile, Ying’s sister, Nian, now lives in the capital, awaiting the day she will finally marry the High Commander. While her relationship with Ye-yang remains distant, she finds company in her friendship with the fourteenth prince, Ye-kan, and discovers her unexpected affinity for governance and strategy. But the capital is more dangerous than she expects, and when a dark conspiracy arises, Nian and Ye-kan must unravel the mystery in time to prevent the High Command from collapsing from within. New dangers arise at every moment, threatening to tear the Nine Isles apart. In order to sail through this storm, Ying and her loved ones must make difficult choices amidst terrible betrayals. With the world on the brink of destruction, will they find a way to defeat their enemies and survive? And will it be worth the cost?

WHAT IF YOUR MIND DOESN'T WORK THE WAY YOU THINK IT DOES? As you read these lines, there are only two options: close this book and continue with your life exactly as it is... or open it and change forever the way you understand reality and how your mind works. You don't know yourself as well as you think you do. Your thoughts are not entirely your own. Your decisions are not as free as you think. And what you call "perception" is, to a large extent, a construct of your brain: an illusion shaped by invisible biases, unconscious processes, and automatic mechanisms that operate constantly. Understanding them does not mean learning to control others, but rather preventing them from controlling you without your awareness. Learning to recognize our mental processes is the first step toward thinking with greater clarity, autonomy, and judgment. Javier Botía, world champion of mentalism and expert in human behavior, guides you through the territories where perception, suggestion, the subconscious, attention, and body language converge. Throughout these pages, you will discover how these factors silently influence your decisions and shape your experience of the world. This is not "dark psychology" or sensationalist promises, but rigorous dissemination based on the real mechanisms of human thought. Among other key points, you will discover: - How to interpret subconscious signals, dreams, and memory distortions. - What gestures, postures, and microexpressions really reveal in human communication. - How to identify cognitive biases, subtle influences, and mental self-deception. - How to recognize dynamics of psychological pressure and everyday persuasion. - How to strengthen critical thinking and regain control of your attention. - Where the spectacle of mentalism ends and the psychological science that underpins it begins. In short, this book invites you to question what you take for granted about the way you think and perceive, and to turn that critical eye into practical tools that you can apply in conversations, decisions, and real situations in your everyday life. And now the question remains the same: will you leave this book on the shelf... or will you open it and elevate your mind to another level?

How do today's most successful tech companies--Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla--design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently than the vast majority of tech companies. In INSPIRED, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides readers with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization, and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love--and that will work for your business. With sections on assembling the right people and skillsets, discovering the right product, embracing an effective yet lightweight process, and creating a strong product culture, readers can take the information they learn and immediately leverage it within their own organizations--dramatically improving their own product efforts. Whether you're an early stage startup working to get to product/market fit, or a growth-stage company working to scale your product organization, or a large, long-established company trying to regain your ability to consistently deliver new value for your customers, INSPIRED will take you and your product organization to a new level of customer engagement, consistent innovation, and business success. Filled with the author's own personal stories--and profiles of some of today's most-successful product managers and technology-powered product companies, including Adobe, Apple, BBC, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix--INSPIRED will show you how to turn up the dial of your own product efforts, creating technology products your customers love. The first edition of INSPIRED, published ten years ago, established itself as the primary reference for technology product managers, and can be found on the shelves of nearly every successful technology product company worldwide. This thoroughly updated second edition shares the same objective of being the most valuable resource for technology product managers, yet it is completely new--sharing the latest practices and techniques of today's most-successful tech product companies, and the men and women behind every great product.

"Filled to the brim with tenderness, yearning, and heart....Five effervescent stars!" -Brigitte Knightley, New York Times bestselling author A second-chance romance following a young woman who wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the past six years, only to find that she apparently married the one man she can't stand-her arrogant and infuriating former boarding school rival. Molly Graham's day can't possibly get any worse after she wakes up in a hospital bed with a head injury and amnesia. But then Aster Bishop-the Aster Bishop who made her life hell at boarding school-storms into her room calling her his wife. To Molly's shock, in the six years she no longer recalls, she somehow fell in love with a man she once despised. Persuaded by her lifelong friends to give her new reality a chance, she reluctantly returns to the home she and Aster share to try and piece together her life. So much has changed, not least the considerate and devastatingly handsome man who spends every night sleeping on the sofa to avoid making her uncomfortable. This Aster is nothing like the entitled boy she once knew. Their chemistry is undeniable-but he's distant with her, infuriatingly so. It's clear he has secrets, and Molly can't stand it. Especially knowing that she might never regain her memories. That she fell in love with Aster Bishop once is hard enough to believe. But to fall in love again? To promise a future, always, when she can't remember her past? It feels impossible when faced with a man she hardly knows and isn't sure she can trust. And yet... Tropes - Rivals to lovers - Forced proximity - Slow burn - Yearning (so much yearning) - Found family - Second-chance romance - Memory loss - There's only one bed and he takes the sofa like a boring, sensible man

This is how the super successful make it look so easy... Are you sick and tired of feeling like your life isn't going in the direction you want it to? Day after day, week after week, year after year... Do you constantly wonder how it's possible that, although you have such good intentions, you still never get all the things done you want to? Constantly, you keep telling yourself you're going to do better, work harder, and finally make those dreams of yours come to life? Do you feel like you are existing, but not really living? Do you want to play a more active, conscious role in your own life and achieve your goals? Regardless of your story, we've all been there. The feeling that you should be accomplishing more, as though you are capable of more, but you still just can't seem to get it together. It's not as hard as you may think. Just keep reading. Did you know that 45 percent of your activity is habitual or automated? This means that even though you have beautiful and powerful conscious intentions, your subconscious mind will take over nearly half of the time and automatically guide you towards instant gratification over long term satisfaction. This doesn't have to be a bad thing, though. You can train your subconscious mind to operate differently. Through a change of your small daily habits, you can change your entire life for the better. In Little Habit Mastery, you will discover: ¿ The 7 step path to creating healthy habits that will last a lifetime ¿ The #1 reason why old habits die hard ¿ Why the 2 most commonly used tools to resist temptation won't work in the long run ¿ Ways in which delayed gratification can be much more rewarding than instant pleasure ¿ 3 of the most powerful ways to break bad habits and never again think twice about them ¿ How focusing on one tiny little new habit can deliver a more profound change than overhauling your entire life ¿ A strategic and applicable timeframe for learning new habits (hint: it's much shorter than you think!) ¿ 7 Worksheets with actionable advice for what you learn ¿ Long-lasting strategies for adding new healthy habits to your current habit stockpile, enhancing your quality of life And much more! Correcting your bad habits and replacing them with powerful good habits for productivity, health, and happiness doesn't have to be an exhausting affair. You don't have to struggle with harmful bad habits any longer. The success you've been waiting for is right around the corner. No matter where you're starting from or what your current situation is, every one of us has what it takes to form new habits and completely recreate your entire life as a result. If you want to become a master of your daily schedule, and regain control over your life, all by harnessing the power of habit, then scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button right now.