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"Che Diva sei? È la domanda per 'indossare' la propria maschera, e in ogni sembianza, sotto ogni copertura, ridisegnare i generi o fluttuarvi delicatamente da un lato all'altro. Dive e Divine insegnano a smantellare i 'tipi' di donne (e di uomini), divise in categorie, classificate a seconda del fascino e della bellezza, ma come scrive Francis Scott Fitzgerald: 'Lui voleva fare di me una Dea, invece io voglio essere Mickey Mouse'."

Famiglie, coppie in crisi, omicidi e amici: storie di verità taciute che assumono, senza volerlo, le sembianze di una bugia. Tradimenti e paure alimentati da vecchi rancori o da accadimenti fortuiti, fraintendimenti e rimpianti serbati per anni che arrivano improvvisi a scompaginare le carte, a scrivere da capo un inizio o una fine, mandando all'aria ogni morale.

In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and to mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour and frustration, wisdom and sacrifice the role brings to both parent and child. A star-studded cast of readers brings the letters to life, with contributions from Louise Brealey, Simon Callow, Crystal Clarke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Adrian Edmondson, Neil Gaiman, Toby Jones, Ferdinand Kingsley, Jude Law, Helen McCrory, Natascha McElhone, Miriam Margolyes, Clarke Peters, Juliet Stevenson and Meera Syal.

In Letters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions. A star-studded cast of readers brings the letters to life, with contributions from Sanjeev Bhaskar, Louise Brealey, Simon Callow, Benedict Cumberbatch, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Danny Huston, Toby Jones, Ferdinand Kingsley, Helen McCrory, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Mangan, Miriam Margolyes, Clarke Peters, Juliet Stevenson, Mark Strong and Meera Syal.

I fell in love with him when I was seven. I scraped my knee, and he helped carry me inside. Our love story was the talk of the town until a woman told everyone she was pregnant with his baby. The only rational solution was to high-tail it out of town and never come back. My best friend needed a place to hide, and you can’t get much more covert than my family farm, so I came back. For her. It was supposed to be temporary, and I wasn’t supposed to see him, but that’s what happens when you live in a small town where everyone knows each other.

Un Alquimista Emocional es quien descubre cómo transformar los problemas en oportunidades y el dolor en crecimiento. "TODOS, absolutamente todos en esta vida pasamos por momentos difíciles...", una afirmación que compartimos y difícilmente alguien se atrevería a refutar. La pregunta central planteada: ¿Cómo puedo vivir con gozo a pesar de lo que suceda en mi vida? Se resuelve al recordarnos que no somos víctimas de las circunstancias externas, sufrir a fin de cuentas es una decisión más a la que nos enfrentamos en la vida.

When you find out that your fiancé is arrested for swindling more than 10 million dollars from his clients, you do what any sane woman would do. You escape reality and go undercover, trading in your city-girl Louboutins for country-pumpkin cowboy boots. It wasn't a forever change - it was temporary. I only had to stay here until things back home got straightened out, or so I thought.

I'm the one who broke up the golden couple - the woman people still whisper about, point at, and give dirty looks to. Did I sleep with the prom king? No. Did I sleep with the town's golden boy on vacation from college? Yes. Did I believe that he was going to marry me? Wholeheartedly. Did he? Not even close. He got engaged right in front of me, and then his father threw $200 at me and told me to take the trash out.

In this book, gifted clairvoyant and spiritual teacher Marisa Moris introduces you to the Creator Self, your highest state of individual consciousness and awareness from Source. Using a teaching she calls the Soul House, she takes you through the different layers of your soul to discover who you are on all levels. Through practical and easy visualizations, you will learn to use your quantum nature to cleanse your mind, body, and soul with Spirit. The clear connection you will acquire to your Spirit through these tools will deepen your understanding of your extrasensory gifts.

Katie Carmichael may not be a scary badass dragon capable of toasting her enemies to a crisp, but that doesn’t mean she’s a pushover. And sure, the roaring, fire-breathing hottie is, uh, hot, but she’s a chick with a plan. A plan that includes a secluded old farmhouse and doesn’t include a tall, heavily muscled, and totally delicious weredragon.

Eugene Schieffelin es rico, singular y aficionado a los pájaros. Su hermana y su mujer, devotas amantes de Shakespeare. Sus amigos, miembros de una Sociedad más desfasada que científica que sueña con llenar los cielos neoyorquinos de pájaros europeos. Nueva York, una ciudad que aún no se parece a ella misma, el escenario ideal para cualquier locura, por descabellada que sea.

El doctor Oldfield tiene un problema grave del que no sabe cómo deshacerse. Su esposa murió hace aproximadamente un año, y los chismes abundan: muchos en el pequeño pueblo creen que mató a su esposa para casarse con su médico. Oldfield, por lo tanto, le pide a Poirot que lo ayude.

Inversiones en tiempos de crisis es una guía práctica para tomar buenas decisiones de inversión, aun cuando las cosas en nuestro entorno no parecen ser del todo buenas.

Tras el centenario de Proust, la tercera entrega del ciclo "A la busca del tiempo perdido", en una edición para hacer ya ineludible este verdadero reto lector. Guiados por la edición de Mauro Armiño, que culmina su trabajo de treinta años sobre este clásico, presentamos esta edición totalmente puesta al día del ciclo A la busca del tiempo perdido, de Marcel Proust, considerado una de las cimas de la literatura universal.

Ao longo das gerações, as mulheres têm se esforçado intensamente para emagrecer, buscando uma silhueta mais esbelta, e nesse caminho somos bombardeadas com informações sobre emagrecimento, às vezes opostas ou contraditórias, que mudam com o passar do tempo. Contudo, muitas dietas desregulam o organismo, e a maioria ignora a diferença entre homens e mulheres, especialmente em um aspecto fundamental para as mulheres: os hormônios.

Il fascino della lontana cultura nipponica emerge prepotente in questo esilarante e spietato romanzo di ispirazione autobiografica, che segue la parabola discendente di una giovane donna occidentale all'interno di una multinazionale giapponese. Animata dalle migliori intenzioni ma ignara delle regole, Amélie inanella gaffes su gaffes e resiste ostinata alla progressiva retrocessione che la porterà a scendere fino all'ultimo gradino della scala gerarchica.

Twenty-one original stories of dangerous women by top genre writers, brought together in a new anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Intrepid warriors, far-ranging spacewomen, formidable superheroines, hard-living bad girls, embattled survivors, private investigators, seductive femmes fatale and haughty queens; as Gardner Dubois writes in his introduction, 'if you want to tie any of these women to the railway tracks, you'll have a real fight on your hands!'

Hotel 81 is commonly thought of by Singaporeans as a cheap love-hotel chain in Geylang, frequented by horny, old men with their "girlfriends". But though that might've been the case a long time ago, up until today, it's less-than-stellar reputation remains difficult to shake off. Take a peek at the hotel's esteemed clientele through the eyes of Rice Media.

At just 10-years-old, Maya was raped by a stranger. At 18, her grandmother passed away, leaving her alone with her step-grandfather who then kicked her out of the house after an incident. Since she had already begun doing sex work at around 16 or 17 years of age, she then moved into one of the brothels in Geylang... Here she tells us what goes on in a typical night of work in Geylang.

A few years ago, a picture of a cow entering a HDB lift in Yishun went viral. Many Singaporeans didn't understand that this was a Hindu ritual. Even fewer understood what the ritual was for. Rice Media's quest to find out for themselves led them to Durga and Rani, just 2 of the 60 cows that belong to the Viknesh Dairy Farm.