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In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. Startling narratives map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited on their bodies, both in myth and in practice.

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Each chapter views the relationship through a different lens, as Machado holds events up to the light and examines them from distinct angles.

THE SLEEP CURE is an immersive 8-hour deep sleep soundscape designed to gently guide your mind and body into profound relaxation, peaceful dreams, and uninterrupted rest. Created for those who struggle with insomnia, racing thoughts, stress, or restless nights, this all-night audio experience helps your nervous system slow down and your mind drift into calm stillness. At the heart of this sound journey lies the 432 Hz frequency, a tone widely associated with relaxation and emotional harmony.

This collection brings together 22 unique spiritual sound baths from the Nepal Sessions, created with authentic Himalayan singing bowls, quartz crystal singing bowls, sacred mantras, and healing frequencies from the Himalayas. Each soundscape is designed to support deep meditation, stress relief, nervous system balance, and restful sleep. These ancient vibrational tones are widely used in meditation and sound healing practices because they help quiet an overactive mind, release emotional tension, and guide the body into the slow rhythms of deep relaxation.

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing - and recovering -their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different" - claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. This book proves that premise wrong.

Milano, 1939. Bianca è solo una bambina quando osserva con occhi pieni di meraviglia l'eleganza della famiglia Colombo. Ma la spensieratezza dell'infanzia è destinata a soccombere sotto il peso della Storia. Sullo sfondo di un'Italia divisa tra due guerre, quella ufficiale degli eserciti e quella clandestina dei partigiani, per Bianca l'unica possibilità di sopravvivere è rendersi autonoma e imparare a contare solo su sé stessa, ma per riuscirci deve mettere in discussione ogni verità, ogni affetto e ogni ricordo che credeva immutabile.

Pavia, dopoguerra. Bianca è cresciuta, lavora come cameriera nella casa della signora Cattaneo e nel tempo libero frequenta un corso di taglio e cucito. L'incontro al mercato con Arturo, un ragazzo dal sorriso aperto e l'ottimismo contagioso, sembra finalmente regalarle la promessa di una vita felice. Innamorati e carichi di speranza, i due decidono di lasciarsi l'Italia alle spalle per cercare fortuna in Svizzera, verso un lavoro sicuro e la possibilità di formare una famiglia. Ma la serenità conquistata con fatica deve fare i conti con la dura realtà dell'emigrazione.

Pavia, anni Sessanta. Bianca è tornata in Italia e, grazie alla determinazione e all'eredità della signora Cattaneo, ha trasformato il suo sogno in realtà: un laboratorio di pizzi e merletti. Al suo fianco c'è Virginia e, finalmente, anche la madre Giovanna, che dopo aver recuperato la memoria cerca di ricucire il tempo perduto. Il suo obiettivo è ambizioso: trasformare la bottega artigianale in una vera casa di moda. Tuttavia, il successo ha un prezzo e la strada verso l'emancipazione è piena di insidie.

After Victoria's best friend dies, everything around her ceases to exist. Victoria has to marry under the Order's rules by the time she graduates from Kenyan, and her father has chosen her husband—her ex-boyfriend's rival. Alaric is the eldest of the sons of Kenyan, but he is darker. When he discovers who she is marrying, revenge has never tasted so sweet. Alaric has plans for her. But what if he was wrong for letting her go, and now it's too late?

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Tess Simpson needs a break. No one appreciates her at home. No one appreciates her at work. And now her dog has died. She’s had enough! Maybe what she really needs is a break from hopeless husband, Dave, the ungrateful ‘kidults’ and the lacklustre job.

Art dealer Lorenzo Baldi will lose his prestigious career if his anarchist father's paintings are revealed to the art world. He's determined to persuade the paintings' eccentric owner to sell them to him, even if to pull it off, he'll have to blackmail his daughter's nanny—a woman with the sexy curves of a Botticelli masterpiece—into being his fake fiance. The gorgeous island of Capri inspires some major misbehaving. But even as the loan shark breathes down Alice's neck and the paintings move closer to the art scene, Lorenzo drops one more bomb that will change everything.

Many experts have offered techniques on how to improve your own memory, but not how to influence other people's memory. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Impossible to Ignore is a practical step-by-step guide that will show you how to control the 10 percent that your audiences do remember by creating content that attracts attention, sharpens recall, and guides behavior toward a desired action. 

Since it was first published in its pocket-size 1692 edition, Brother Lawrence's spiritual classic has remained in print, beloved by people of varying spiritual paths and religious traditions. With this new translation, award-winning translator Carmen Acevedo Butcher frees it from its centuries-long prison of dogmatic, binary language and brings fresh, inclusive treatment that listeners are sure to find transformational.

He is a sinner and never a saint. His words drip with lust. His touch... sinful. That is what girls whisper after one night with him. He even has scratches to prove it. He is powerful, dangerous, and never backs down from a challenge. The pawn? The new girl. He can smell her innocent nature like a piranha smelling blood and won't be satisfied until he has a taste. The problem? He isn't the only one who wants it.

Shortly after moving into their new home, the Snedeker family is assaulted by a sinister presence that preys one-by-one on their family. Exhausting all other resources, they call up the world-renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, who have never encountered a case as frightening as this.