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Now, in audio for the first time, The Birth Partner remains the definitive guide to helping a woman through labor and birth. The Birth Partner includes thorough information on preparing for labor and knowing when it has begun; normal labor and how to help the woman every step of the way; epidurals and other medications for labor; pitocin and other means, including natural ones, to induce or speed up labor; non-drug techniques for easing labor pain; and more.

The Last Bear meets The Life of Pi in this beautifully-written survival story set on a Cambodian island, following a ship-wrecked girl named Lark, and a baby gibbon who becomes her companion. Together, they must evade poachers and find their way home. 'If you're reading this, hopefully you've...

An ode to the quiet joy of collecting more books than we could ever possibly read - and loving them all the same... Drawing on the evocative Japanese term tsundoku - first coined in the Meiji era to describe the growing stacks of unread books that accumulate around devoted readers - this...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, read by Rina Takasaki. Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her...

Wheeler-dealer snooker club owner Geoff Bryant and his wife Jenny have recently moved onto a new estate in Whittleshulme, Cheshire. Described in the brochure as an 'exclusive village development', it's squarely aimed at yuppies, the nouveau-riche and high-fliers. The trouble is, there are no local teenagers to babysit, leaving the residents to juggle careers and kids as best they can. So when local bigwig Julian Percival sets up a babysitting circle, it seems like the ideal solution.

Este audiolibro ofrece historias simples y entretenidas para estudiantes hispanohablantes interesados en aprender japones de manera gradual y natural. Cada relato corto utiliza lenguaje claro, expresiones comunes y situaciones cotidianas para desarrollar comprension auditiva y familiaridad con...

RINAによる「オオカミと７匹の子供ヤギ」朗読です

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Nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal, joint winner of the UKLA 11-14 Book Award 2021 and winner of the Warwickshire Schools Library Award. 'I loved this book ... Kerry's writing is beautiful, lyrical and poetic and has created a story that manages to be heart-warming and life-affirming...

Ulitka i rozovyj kust" i "Shtopal'naja igla" - dve zamechatel'nye skazki genial'nogo datskogo pisatelja Gansa Hristiana Andersena (1805-1875). Velikij skazochnik sumel sozdat' volshebnyj mir, polnyj ljubvi, svetlyh chuvstv i dobra. Vse ego personazhi: rastenija i predmety - otlichajutsja osobym harakterom, maneroj rechi, jumorom, kaprizami i prichudami.

Loss is difficult...and universal. What do we say? What do we do? Part how-to guide, part hopeful manifesto, Cultivating the Doula Heart provides a clear framework for supporting those facing hardship, grief, and loss. Succinct and straightforward, this work of heart covers: Components of Doula Care, Aspects of Loss, Ways of Being/Ways of Doing, Grief Support, and Contemplative Exercises.

In this fun-filled dive into the wellness industry, journalist Rina Raphael looks at the roots of a sector that is now worth $4.5 trillion dollars and explores why it's been so alluring to women all over the globe, promising health and vitality in the most fashionable package. At times both fun and funny, from interviews with leading players in the industry to adventures in more bizarre practices, The Gospel of Wellness reveals how its growth is a direct result of gender inequalities and structural sexism within medicine and society.