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Toni is grieving the loss of her roadie father and needing to figure out where her life will go from here - and she's desperate to get back to loving music. Olivia is a hopeless romantic whose heart has just taken a beating (again) and is beginning to feel like she'll always be a square peg in a round hole - but the Farmland Music and Arts Festival is a chance to find a place where she fits.

When a woman rekindles an early love in her late 30s her whole life changes. Deeply in love, she and her new husband want to have a child together, and they make an appointment at an IVF clinic. So begins this story, inspired by the writer Julia Leigh’s own personal memoir. This international co-production with the Barbican Theatre was praised as 'a must-hear story for our times' (Go London) on its UK premiere.

Liz Lighty has always believed she’s too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small Midwestern town. But it’s okay - Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor. But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz’s plans come crashing down...until she’s reminded of her school’s scholarship for prom king and queen.

'ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE' KATE SAWYER 'WILL GET UNDER YOUR SKIN AND LODGE ITSELF IN YOUR HEART' ERIN KELLY 'HEARTBREAKING AND LIFE-AFFIRMING' LOUISE HARE 'POWERFUL, TIMELY, IMPORTANT' BETH UNDERDOWN "BEAUTIFUL, COMPLEX AND MOVING' PLATINUM MAGAZINE 'POWERFUL AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' RED 'I URGE...

Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV's The Late Show to be the pick of "Dave's Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an...

SHOULD HE LIVE OR DIE? YOU DECIDE. Charlotte Goodwin looks directly at the camera and reveals a chilling truth to the thousands watching her Instagram Live broadcast. She has killed her ex-boyfriend's new partner in cold blood. But she is not finished yet. With bloodied hands she takes a calm...

Set in the mid-1930s, Filthy Sugar tells the story of Wanda Whittle, a 19-year-old dreamer who models fur coats in an uptown department store, but who lives in a crowded rooming house with her hard-working widowed mother and shrewd older sister, Evelyn, in the “slums” behind the city’s marketplace; a world where “death is always close but life is stubborn”. Bored with the daily grind and still in shock from the sudden death of her father, Wanda finds both escapism and inspiration in celluloid fantasies....

لقد تفشى الشذوذ في بعض المجتمعات القديمة وأقدم من مارس الشذوذ وعرفوا به هم قوم النبي لوط (عليه السلام). وموقف الدين من قضيتي اللواط والسحاق واضح فهو شذوذ يعاقب مرتكبوه أشد عقاب، وقد أورد الجاحظ في رسالته عدداً من الأحاديث والأخبار تدل على ذلك. أما المواقف الاجتماعية نحوهما فقد تغيرت على مسار القرون، من الرفض والاضطهاد الكامل إلى التقبل والاعتياد له وما بينهما.

Stell dir vor, du findest ein Stück eines geheimnisvollen Amuletts und entfesselst dadurch eine uralte Magie. Als Crystal nach dem Fund des rätselhaften Schmuckstücks an den Hof des Weißen Königs geladen wird, glaubt sie, ihr Leben sei perfekt. Doch hinter der glänzenden Fassade ihres neuen Zuhauses verbirgt sich ein düsteres Geheimnis. Crystal findet sich mitten in einem verwickelten Spiel um die Macht der alten Magie wieder. Sogar der Hauptmann der Königsgarde zeigt ein besonderes Interesse an ihr. Wird er ihr helfen, Antworten zu finden, oder verfolgt er nur seine eigenen Ziele?

Холли Ричмонд — психотерапевт, специалист по психосоматике, профессиональный сексолог, семейный терапевт. Она помогает людям, пережившим сексуальную травму, пройти через болезненные главы своей жизни и вернуть себе радость и удовольствие. Эта книга представляет собой новаторское исследование соматических (телесных) и психологических факторов в восстановлении сексуального здоровья "выживших". В ней предлагаются практические методы для развития чувства безопасности, надежности и доверия.

Un audiolibro para quienes creen en el amor, les han roto el corazón o usan apps de citas. Para quienes saben que el cariño es el regalo al que uno se aferra cuando aparecen obstáculos. Para quienes buscan amar a otras personas o a sí mismos, y tienen fe en que este siempre se presenta de maneras únicas e inesperadas en la vida. Una abogada bipolar experimenta altas y bajas en sus citas. Una madre trata de reconstruir la relación con el hijo que dio en adopción cuando ella era adolescente.

Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's genderfluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions—and expectations—of his politically connected family. This includes attendance at the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where his sister poured so much of her time. But with his grief still fresh, he insists on attending in her place.

The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, mothers describe firsthand the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering.

Jedes Jahr findet im Caesars Palace in Las Vegas die Verleihung der Adult Video News Awards statt, der Oscars der Pornoindustrie. Im Auftrag der Zeitschrift Premiere besucht David Foster Wallace 1998 die Preisverleihung sowie die zugehörige Pornomesse und lässt sich dort von Branchenjournalisten mit so schönen Namen wie Dick Filth die subtilen Hierarchien, erbittertsten Branchenfehden und wildesten Gerüchte dieser ziemlich flamboyanten Parallelkultur näherbringen.

Having submitted himself to Freudian psychoanalysis, the narrator keeps a diary with the aim of conquering his addiction to smoking. He describes his marriage to the woman he didn't want to marry, how he drives his business partner to despair, and how his "last cigarette" turns out to be one of many. Zeno is the classic "schlemiel"; his erratic foibles, his questionable logic, and his curious inclination to self sabotage help shine a light on human behavior in general, and reveal the many subtle half-truths people may tell themselves in order to defend their own actions and egos.

With two out of every three Americans overweight or obese, scientists are studying how excess fat changes physical and mental health, demographers are calculating how it's shortening life spans, and economists are debating the impact it has on America's productivity and global competitiveness. But how weight affects intimacy and sexuality is barely discussed. Yet, it's a question of high importance for the tens of millions of Americans who are overweight or obese and having difficulty sexually and romantically.

Ghostbelly is Elizabeth Heineman’s personal account of a home birth that goes tragically wrong—ending in a stillbirth—and the harrowing process of grief and questioning that follows. It’s also Heineman’s unexpected tale of the loss of a newborn: before burial, she brings the baby home for overnight stays.

Constanze O. Wilds Debüt ist eine der ehrlichsten Beichten sadomasochistischer Erlebnisse, die in Buchform erschienen sind. Mit einer entwaffnenden Offenheit gewährt sie dem Leser Einblicke in ihre Welt der Erniedrigung und des Schmerzes.