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Brimming with intensity, shrewd psychological insight and quiet epiphanies, Bliss and Other Stories compellingly explores the emotional complexity lying just beneath the surface of day-to-day niceties. Mansfield’s flair and impressionistic prose provides a poignant lens into the inner worlds of her characters.

The Caregiver’s Advocate is authentic healing—real stories and insightful tools that get straight to the business of supporting the people taking care of those in need. From practical tools like music, eldercare planning, and legal knowledge to bathing and navigating vacations and sensory changes, this book will give you the hope, inspiration, and strategies to care and also keep yourself energized, happy, and sane.

Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happiness and hope and agree to go in search of these things together. But even after their children Selena, Tara and Rohan are grown up and have their own families, Bedi and Sushma are still searching. Years later, the siblings attempt to navigate life without their parents. As they travel to the Ganges to unite their father's ashes with the opaque water, it becomes clear that each of them has inherited the same desire to understand what makes a life happy.

Sara, a therapist, always thought her husband, Mike, died in Afghanistan - but when she learns he was actually killed in India, her desire to uncover the truth leads her to a clinic in New Delhi. Once in India Sara is dazzled by the country's culture and its people. At the clinic she grows close to both her patient Pritti and a bewitching, low-caste driver named Hemant. Yet Sara finds herself increasingly appalled at the treatment of women; in this country of old traditions and new opportunities, so much remains shocking or forbidden.

La calda estate di Hercule Poirot, ancora una volta si trasforma in una vicenda dai contorni oscuri. E pensare che tutto è iniziato con i migliori presupposti, sotto il sole scintillante dell'isola del Contrabbandiere. Il Jolly Hotel è il buon ritiro estivo del famoso investigatore, di un prete con problemi psichici, di un ricco faccendiere, di una famosa soubrette, di una famosa stilista, di una coppia di americani, e di diverse altre persone desiderose di trascorrere al meglio un periodo di relax.

Una crociera sul Nilo su un lussuoso battello è la vacanza che Poirot, il celebre investigatore belga...

With her marriage in tatters, Aruna suddenly left her adoring husband, Patrick, in the middle of breakfast, walked out of their London flat and caught a flight to her native Singapore. There she finds her former lover, Jazz, who has never stopped loving her. After years spent fleeing the ghosts of her past, Aruna is about to discover that running away is easy. It is coming home that is hard.

In 1950s Bengal, Henna Rub, a precocious, wayward teenager, brings off a brilliant marriage to a wealthy romantic, Ricky Karim, trapping him with a web of lies that she has spun with her wheeler-dealer father. And so on his wedding night, believing himself married to an educated, sonnet-reading, tennis-playing soul mate, Ricky is horrified to discover that his new bride is in fact a lazy, illiterate, shopkeeper's daughter.

La historia de Isabel, una joven romántica dispuesta a todo para reunir a su hermana Beatriz con el célebre escritor Mauricio de Viera, comienza como un plan inocente, pero rápidamente se convierte en una serie de eventos llenos de humor, pasión y sorpresas. En su intento por acercar a dos almas destinadas, Isabel termina secuestrando al escritor, desatando una espiral de situaciones imprevisibles. Mi enemigo y yo no solo es una comedia romántica; es una reflexión sobre la emancipación, el aprendizaje personal, las dificultades en tiempos de guerra y la búsqueda del amor verdadero.

Quando Lexi si sveglia in un letto d'ospedale, non ricorda proprio cosa le sia successo. È convinta di avere venticinque anni, di essere povera in canna, con una vita sentimentale disastrosa, i denti storti e le unghie mangiate... E invece eccola lì, fresca di parrucchiere, con una bocca perfetta, mani curatissime, un lavoro da super manager e... un sacco di soldi! Sì, perché oltretutto è sposata con un bellissimo miliardario. Ma com'è possibile?

Tiempo de arcángeles está escrito para ti: la creación más amada de Dios. Nadie está realmente solo. Es tiempo de que te dejes guiar por los poderosos arcángeles, ellos están dispuestos a prodigar su amor y protección trayendo nuevas alegrías a tu vida. Abre tu corazón: prepárate para conocer las distintas formas para conectar con cada arcángel.

A produção deste livro, voltado para professores e pesquisadores da área de ensino de português como língua estrangeira – PLE, nasceu da prática docente dos autores com alunos estrangeiros de diferentes nacionalidades, múltiplos interesses e variados níveis de domínio da Língua Portuguesa.

Neste livro, Rayane Freitas nos convida a refletir sobre as relações de trabalho nos ambientes gastronômicos, desnaturalizando práticas que perpetuam desigualdades raciais, de gênero e de classe. A cozinha, tradicionalmente ocupada por trabalhadores e trabalhadoras racializados, carrega marcas históricas do trabalho escravizado e precarizado — um espaço onde a desumanização ainda é uma realidade.

A Long Way Home is a reflection on the journey of returning to the heart — through childhood in New York City, journalism, travel, healing, and the quiet moments that shape who we become. This audiobook is recorded in my own voice and told in seven "flows," each one tracing a different chapter of the journey.

Enfant, Chris Hooper rêvait souvent de monstres. Mais dans le fin fond de l'espace, il n'a trouvé que la solitude et l'isolement. Une fois arrivés sur la planète LV178, Hooper et ses compagnons de bord ont découvert une terrible tempête de sable, un véritable enfer... et de la trimonite, la matière la plus dure connue de l'homme. Quand une navette s'écrase dans le vaisseau spatial le Marion, les mineurs installés sur la planète apprennent qu'il y avait bien plus que de la trimonite au fond des cavernes.

In a boxy apartment building in an Illinois university town, Romola Mitra, a newly arrived young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds that letter and thinks he has discovered his mother's secret. But secrets have their own secrets sometimes.

Para integrar la educación emocional en tus hijos, primero tendrás que hacerlo en ti. Solo de esta manera les proporcionarás las herramientas necesarias para conocer sus emociones, superar con resiliencia las adversidades, ser asertivos, respetarse a sí mismos y a los demás, disfrutar de la vida y hacer de la positividad, el respeto y la empatía piezas clave en sus relaciones....

Desire Jones is a young, hot-to-trot teen who lives life on the edge. Abandoned by her mother, she yearns for love and attention. Her uncle shelters her, but life is impossible to bear with his abusive wife. To make things worse, she gets involved with Malik, who shatters her hope and trust by leaving her pregnant and infected with HIV. Hurt and hardened, she decides to do the unspeakable - purposely infect people with her disease. Of course, no one knows of her intent, not even her best friend Jennifer, who unwittingly helps Desire find her victims.

Years ago, a vast and mysterious object known as the Anomaly was discovered in deep space. All missions to explore and explain it failed. Now, the Anomaly has almost reached Earth, threatening to swallow the planet whole. On an orbital research station, a team of scientists desperately search for a way to stop it or destroy it. One of the crew, Ali, has lost faith in the mission. Following the death of a close friend, her only interest is returning to the ground—to her young son. But strange events, both inside the station and in the void beyond, force Ali to pursue a new mystery.

They say there's no place like home. It's where the heart is....Meet the little boy who believes in miracles. Meet the mother who loves to bring babies home from the newborn aisle of her supermarket. Meet the husband who carves a longed-for baby out of ice as a gift for his wife. Meet the widow who is reminded of romance whilst standing at the kitchen sink. In this prize-winning short story collection, Carys Bray weaves together moments of joy, heartache, sadness and unwavering love as told through 17 very different notions of home.