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‘Incredible individual, incredible book, incredible story.’ CHRIS HEMSWORTH ‘A hero who is as humble as he is resilient… testament to a “never give up” spirit!’ BEAR GRYLLS ‘From reading this book, the message that comes shining through is this: you can achieve anything.’ ANT...

Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies...

This combination of serious artistic engagement with warmth and clarity of prose revels in the experiences and pleasures of art and the body, identity, and community.

When two enchanting women, or females as the old-fashioned Archie prefers, walk into Nero Wolfes office with a troublesome case, Wolfe initially wants nothing to do with it. However, when a murder occurs at the fencing academy where the women work and international complications arise, hes thrown into the thick of it. The mystery deepens as Wolfe endeavors to uncover who stole the col de mort from its glass case in the fencing salon. In this riveting tale, Wolfe finds himself entangled in a web of murder and international intrigue.

Elizabeth Banks believes that sex education is a lifelong pursuit and when done well, has the power to transform lives and society itself.

Whose Body? is the first of Dorothy Sayers’s famous Lord Peter Wimsey novels, introducing that nobleman, as well as his manservant and fellow-sleuth, Mervyn Bunter. Scotland Yard’s Inspector Charles Parker, who figures more or less prominently in later Wimsey novels, plays a central role in Whose Body? as well. As the book opens, a bashful Battersea architect has discovered a naked body in his bath, adorned with a gold pince nez. At the same time, we learn of the disappearance – under odd circumstances – of Sir Reuben Levy, a powerful financial magnate in The City. Not accepting the ...

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria. Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of...

Internationally bestselling author of The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz gives us a mystical tour of his life and calling as a “Nagual” in this gripping spiritual and autobiographical teaching novel. Internationally bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz became a trusted and well-known teacher...

Abridged CDs * 5 CDs, 6 hours From beloved American Idol judge Randy Jackson, a complete, inspiring wellness plan for taking control of your health...

Join Janelle Hardy, creator of transformational memoir-writing course, The Art of Personal Mythmaking as she talks to published memoirists, people in the middle of writing their memoirs, storytellers and embodied healers. She even tosses in the occasional body-based writing prompt, to give your stories some unexpected sparks. These are honest conversations of depth are good medicine – they're the antidote to feeling alone with creative and healing challenges.

Student of the Universe and HealingThey thought it would break me.They thought betrayal would finish what abuse, addiction, and abandonment had started.But instead…It awakened me.I’ve been a foster kid.I’ve survived addiction, childhood abuse, and sexual assault.I’ve buried people I loved and been betrayed by the ones I thought never would.Life tried to teach me pain, and hoped I’d learn to hate.But I didn’t.I am a student of the Universe.And the greatest lesson I’ve learned is this:Pain doesn’t have to poison you. It can purify you.When I was cracked open by betrayal and left ...