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Warned not to write—and certainly not to bite—these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. From the fourteenth century through to the present day, women who write have been understood as mad, undisciplined, or dangerous. Female writers have always had to find ways to overcome or challenge these beliefs. Some were cautious and discreet, some didn’t give a damn, but all lived complex, eventful, and often controversial lives.

A quest for a valuable manuscript turns into a hunt for its author’s killer. Meet Oxford’s Eve Brook, literary detective, as she tackles her first mystery. David Morrow, Oxford don and controversial media pundit, is found dead in his college rooms. Eve Brook is recruited to complete his latest book, a dazzling takedown of "woke" history. But the manuscript is missing, and everyone Eve meets seems to have something to hide—and a reason to want Morrow dead.

Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

This easy-to-understand book explains the standard process from start to finish - through being completely bowled over and convinced that one has found their true soul mate to the games and tests narcissists play once the partner has been successfully seduced. This is a form of narcissistic handbook, essential to keep close at hand when our head is saying one thing but our heart is saying another.

Ein Mann, eine Frau, ein Match, ein Date - soweit die Theorie. Was passiert aber, wenn Mann und Frau kein Match sind und sich trotzdem daten? Das Ergebnis ist eine Audio-Novela der Superlative: Mit Live-Aufnahmen in Berlin sprengt Audibles neue Dating-Serie die Grenzen zwischen Film und Hörspiel und wartet mit leidenschaftlicher Liebe, schlagfertigen Dialogen und einer großstädtischen Geräuschkulisse auf. Radiomoderator Jan (Richard Barenberg) wird von seinem Intendanten gezwungen, sich auf ein gewagtes Experiment einzulassen: Er meldet sich bei einem Datingportal an, um eine Frau zu suchen, die laut Dating-Algorithmus absolut kein Match ist.

Sir Walter Ralegh’s life is romantic, irresistible, and of central importance to our island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh’s famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents his stranger-than-fiction life in all its richness. How could a man once the Queen’s favorite find himself consigned to the Tower by her successor? Should his legacy be fame or infamy? Who was the real Sir Walter Ralegh?

The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare, offering listeners a biography that brings to the foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and family and asks important questions about the stories we tell about Shakespeare based on the evidence we actually have about the man himself.

He never wanted her to leave. She didn’t know how to come back… The first in a gritty, emotional, small-town romance series set on the windswept Cornish coast, where the waves may crash—but hearts begin to heal. When Hollywood actress Isla Quinn returns to Sea Salt Bay after exposing her...

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House...

When Tess Porter agrees to pick up her boyfriend’s college pal at the airport on a snowy December night, she has no idea she’s about to embark on the most dangerous ride of her life. Two days later, the seventeen-year-old wakes up in a hospital with broken bones, unable to remember how she got there. Her parents are acting strange, and neither James, her boyfriend, nor her best friend, Izzy, has visited. As she struggles to physically recover, Tess wrestles with haunting questions: What happened? Will her memory ever return? And what if she’s better off not recalling any of it?

The second in a gritty, emotional, small-town romance series set on the windswept Cornish coast, where the waves may crash—but hearts begin to heal. When a bitter family feud forces two fishing dynasties back into the same harbour in Sea Salt Bay, reluctant heir Jude Harding clashes with Brynn...

How to Be Human is a guide to exploring the common and often confusing themes of humanness including spirituality, connection, wellness, self-acceptance, and more. Host, Anna Toonk, uses humor, honesty, and intuition to discuss the unanswerable questions we all share. Join Anna as she searches for clarity in the most human way possible; together.

A love letter to pop music, American Spirits charts an icon’s fall—and an obsessive fangirl’s rise. Thirty-eight-year-old Blue Velour has finally achieved the critical acclaim she’s long been chasing. Over the last decade, she’s released six studio albums to mixed reviews, landing her...

Kaluszyn, 1939. Nine-year-old Joanna is determined to enjoy her childhood despite growing up without her mother. She is surrounded by her loving grandparents, sweet father, and loyal friend Aleksander. Together, Joanna and Aleksander navigate Kaluszyn and explore what life has to offer. However, neither of them can foresee a series of events that will shatter their lives.

Sophie ist wieder aufgetaucht und ist überhaupt nicht böse auf Jan - im Gegensatz zu Ludwig, der Unehrlichkeit hasst. Doch Sophie lässt sich von ihrem besten Freund nicht reinreden und will sogar bei der nächsten Sendung dabei sein, um über die Anti-Match-Dates zu sprechen. Jan findet es super, dass Sophie so entspannt mit seinem "Geheimnis" umgeht und freut sich, dass sie mit ihm ins Studio kommen will.

Jan ist zutiefst verletzt - Sophie hat ihre Affäre mit Mark vor ihm verheimlicht! Er zieht sich zurück, da steht eines Abends Katinka bei ihm vor der Tür: Wie soll das mit der Radioshow jetzt weitergehen? Obwohl Jan eigentlich lieber mit sich alleine wäre, lässt er seine Redakteurin rein... In der Zwischenzeit taucht Mark wie immer unangemeldet bei Sophie auf - doch die ist mit ihrem Kopf gerade ganz woanders.

Obwohl Jan eigentlich keinen Bock mehr hat, trifft er Sophie noch einmal. Bei diesem Date ist alles anders: Sophies bester Freund Ludwig hat sich einfach mit eingeladen. Jan und Ludwig verstehen sich von Anfang an super - was Sophie wenig begeistert, Jan aber davon überzeugt, am Ball zu bleiben. So kommt es zum dritten Date - doch auch dieses Mal werden die beiden Anti-Matches gestört.

1699. The salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D’Aulnoy invents a powerful weapon: ‘fairy tales’. When Marie Catherine’s daughter, Angelina, arrives in Paris she is swept up in the glamour and sensuality of the city, where a woman may live outside the confines of the church or marriage.

Brenna Carlsen (32) nearly died eight years ago in a car accident, but she hasn’t let a spinal cord injury or a wheelchair slow her down. She now runs her own successful architecture firm, specializing in accessible homes and renovations. Next up in her goals—a romantic relationship and intimacy.

Pewnego dnia Elli nagle znika, zostawiając pod opieką Sam dopiero co adoptowaną córeczkę. Trop wiedzie do podejrzanej organizacji coachingowej, na której czele stoi tajemnicza dr Cindy. Żeby dowiedzieć się, co stało się z siostrą, Sam będzie musiała zagrać swoją ostatnią, być może najważniejszą rolę–przyjąć tożsamość zaginionej Elli. W ich poplątanym życiu robiła to już wiele razy i zwykle z katastrofalnym skutkiem. Ale tym razem stawka jest nieporównanie wyższa…