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A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair. For the pioneers of the Windrush generation, Britain was 'the Mother Country'. They made the long journey across the sea, expecting to find a place where they would be be welcomed with open arms; a land in which you were free to build a new life, eight thousand miles away from home.

Una lectura cálida, intensa y con un sabor que nos devuelve a la tierra del origen del té. Capaz de combinar belleza poética con tramas cautivadoras, Lisa See ha ido construyendo en sus novelas, desde El abanico de seda hasta El círculo de mujeres de la doctora Tan, un fascinante universo literario en torno a la historia y la cultura chinas. En La joven del té, vuelve a sorprendernos con un relato conmovedor sobre familia, identidad y maternidad.

One version of Murphy’s Law says: If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong. If you’ve stepped on bubble gum, or if you’ve ever dropped an ice cream cone, you learned Murphy’s Law. Crying over dropped ice cream does not help you. Laughing at your mistakes helps you feel better. Try to learn from your mistakes and be more careful. But being careful does not always work. Understanding Murphy’s Law can be helpful to you and others.

A searing and romantic fantasy adventure about an oligarchic state on the verge of a magical industrial revolution—perfect for fans of Arcane, Wicked, and Iron Widow! Josephine Haven is about to find out exactly where she fits into the march of Progress. Her outbursts are infamous at the House...

Mit diesen Worten veränderte Gisèle Pelicot 2024 die Welt. Sie verzichtete im Prozess gegen ihren Ex-Mann und über 50 weitere Täter auf Anonymität – und wurde zur Stimme von Millionen. Ihr Mut löste internationale Debatten aus, brachte Gesetze ins Wanken und gab Betroffenen weltweit neue Kraft. Die Frau, die die ganze Welt inspiriert. Das Hörbuch von Gisèle Pelicot ist ein beeindruckendes Porträt einer Frau, die das Schweigen überwindet, Gerechtigkeit einfordert und dabei allen Widerständen zum Trotz nie den Glauben an die Liebe verliert.

A Western terrorist organization targets Muslims around the world, and FBI agent John Savas must put aside the loss of his son and work with a man who symbolizes all he has come to hate. Both are drawn into a race against time to stop the plot of an American bin Laden and prevent a global catastrophe.

Con "La rabbia e l'orgoglio" (2001), Oriana Fallaci rompe un silenzio durato dieci anni, dalla pubblicazione di "Insciallah", epico romanzo sulla missione occidentale di pace nella Beirut dilaniata dallo scontro tra cristiani e musulmani e dalle faide con Israele. Dieci anni in cui la Fallaci sceglie di vivere ritirata nella sua casa newyorchese, come in esilio, a combattere il cancro. Ma non smette mai di lavorare al testo narrativo dedicato alla sua famiglia, quello che lei chiama "il-mio-bambino", pubblicato postumo nel 2008, "Un cappello pieno di ciliege".

Having spent over twenty years building her hugely successful beauty empire, Maria Hatzistefanis managed to achieve all her childhood dreams and goals. Whilst this life of glamour and success is exhilarating, Maria is shocked to find that the happiness it brings is fleeting. This leads her to realize that her life needs a new focus. In this easy-to-follow guide, Maria asks the fundamental question: "What is happiness?" Brimming with good sense, great advice and clear tips, How to Live Your Best Life will equip you with the tools you need to be in control of your own destiny.

Do your emotions hijack your time? Does stress make everything feel urgent, heavy, and harder than it should be? Do you have too much to do, and too little time to do it in? Do anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional overload leave you feeling trapped in a life that moves too fast when you need peace, and too slow when you need relief? In Be Fearless in Chaos, you'll discover a powerful truth: this chaos is not just something happening around you. It is created by the hidden way your brain waves shape your emotion and your experience of time.

Klassenfahrt nach Kalifornien! Hai-Wandler Tiago, Delfinmädchen Shari und ihre Freundinnen und Freunde von der Blue Reef High können es kaum erwarten, die Gestaltwandler an der Pazifikküste kennenzulernen. Nur Python-Wandlerin Ella darf nicht mitfahren und soll die Schule sogar ganz verlassen! Tiago, Shari und Co verbringen eine tolle Zeit an der Westküste – bis sich bei einem Ausflug nach San Francisco die Ereignisse gefährlich zuspitzen. Kriminelle Tierschmuggler scheinen es auf sie abgesehen zu haben!

Random House presents the audiobook edition of How to Be an Overnight Success by Maria Hatzistefanis, read by Janice Vee and with an introduction read by the author. "You are not born an entrepreneur. It's a skill that you learn along the way." When the skincare company Rodial launched its cult...

New York Times bestseller (The Biggest Buff, The Confidence Game, Mastermind) and New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova delves into the mysterious ailment that she and 39 million others suffer from in the U.S. alone: Migraine, a disease that is still little understood, yet debilitating to its sufferers.

In this audiobook Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry. Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it...

Gillian Anderson präsentiert in WANT eine spektakuläre Bestandsaufnahme der weiblichen Sexualität – mit Stimmen von Frauen aus der ganzen Welt! Diese bahnbrechende und sensationelle Erkundung stellt Fragen – und liefert Antworten. - Was wollen Sie, wenn niemand zuschaut? - Was wollen Sie, wenn die Lichter aus sind? - Was wollen Sie, wenn Sie niemand verurteilt für das, was Sie sich wünschen?

My name is Cassia. A war between demons and angels will determine the fate of humanity, and my sister and I are right in the middle of it. Our enemy is an insane angel determined to bring hell straight to Earth. We are fighting a battle we cannot win. Death is fated.

Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in Berkeley with her grandparents. When her grandfather dies of cancer, Maya's life collapses, and she finds herself in a downward spiral that eventually bottoms out in Las Vegas. Lost in a dangerous underworld, she is caught in the cross­hairs of warring forces. As she tries to make sense of the past, she unravels myste­rious truths about life and about her family, and embarks on her greatest adventure: the journey into her own soul.

Jude Portman pronto aprendió a hacerse invisible para sobrevivir. Hija de una estrella de la música que se apagó con su nacimiento, creció bajo la sombra de una leyenda rota… y bajo las miradas de un pueblo convencido de que traía mala suerte. Hasta que llegó Isaac, un chico que veía la vida en colores, pensaba con canciones y convertía el mundo gris de Jude en un lugar habitable. Con él, Jude descubrió algo que nunca habría imaginado:la posibilidad de mirarse sin miedo.

Jessica verbringt ihren Hochzeitstag auf einer Kanutour im Spreewald – umgeben von der geliebten Schwiegerfamilie und sommerlicher Hitze. Doch als sie einen Anruf bekommt, löst sich die Gegenwart vom Idyll: Der Tod ihres Vaters führt sie zurück in die Heimat, zu einer Familie, die von Schweigen, Verletzungen und verpassten Chancen geprägt ist. Wie tief reichen Wunden aus der Kindheit? Petra Hucke erzählt poetisch und intensiv von einer Frau, die Antworten auf alte Fragen sucht – ein Roman voller Atmosphäre und Emotion über die befreiende Kraft, sich selbst neu zu begegnen.

Der Mord an einem alten Bekannten führt Edgar Allan Poes und Auguste Dupins Ermittlungen in dem Fall der drei ermordeten Witwen in eine völlig neue Richtung und zwingt sie dazu, ihre bisherigen Theorien noch einmal zu überdenken. Gibt es möglicherweise einen Zusammenhang zwischen den vier Mordfällen, oder haben die beiden einen entscheidenden Hinweis die ganze Zeit lang übersehen?