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Old Town sounds different after dark. A footstep travels along a wooden gallery. Beyond a cemetery wall, a marker interrupts the sidewalk. On Presidio Hill, the trees stir above ground that holds centuries of memory.Follow a trail of restless stories through twelve stops in Old Town and Presidio...

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

Ce livre est un guide essentiel pour toute personne souhaitant surmonter les traumatismes de l’enfance et trouver un équilibre émotionnel durable. Écrit par un expert en gestion du stress et en guérison des traumatismes, ce livre vous offre des outils pratiques et des techniques éprouvées pour transformer votre vie.

Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future. Twelve months of confusion later, journalist Matilda embarked on an epic voyage to figure out what's...

They’re known as the bebés robados, or “stolen babies”–children stolen at birth from their mothers and sold to wealthy families around Spain. For decades, European reporters and activists have tried to penetrate the secretive networks responsible for the crimes, typically with little success. Until now. In The Lost, veteran journalists Matteo Fagotto and Matilde Gattoni investigate the story of a woman named Ana Belén Pintado, a middle-aged woman from a small village in Central Spain.

At just under five feet tall, Virginia Prodan was no match for the towering six-foot-ten-inch, gun-wielding assassin the Romanian government sent to her office to take her life. It was not the first time her life had been threatened - nor would it be the last. As a young attorney under Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal communist regime, Virginia had spent her entire life searching for the truth.

Sig nej med stil, klag over kold kaffe uden tøven og tag kontrollen i små og store situationer uden at krybe langs væggene. Er du træt af at nikke og smile, mens du ignorerer dine egne behov? Har du lyst til at sige fra uden dårlig samvittighed? Her er din invitation til at slippe...

Serima, år 162. Aksa och Nell bor i byn Serima där den ena dagen är den andra lik. Byn styrs av färgstarka ledare som håller invånarnas liv i schack. Detta förändras när de båda vännerna upptäcker något mystiskt i skogen och börjar undersöka det närmare. Kan det vara så att allt...

Solrosdalen är en vacker plats där näktergalarna sjunger och kvittrar. Zelle och Lena älskar sin dal. Höken Ivan, som bor på berget bredvid, tycker inte om sången och bestämmer sig för att tysta den. Men kan en fågel verkligen bestämma över andra? Kan man göra en plats till sin...

Hvert år oplever 20.000 danske kvinder et graviditetstab. Alligevel taler vi næsten ikke om det. Sorgen bliver ofte båret i stilhed, omgivet af skam, skyld og følelsen af at stå helt alene. I I stedet for blomster deler Matilde Trobeck sine egne erfaringer fra et årti med gentagne...

The boat was supposed to come back. Five people abandoned in the open ocean. No land in sight. Sharks circling below. And survival might cost more than any of them are willing to pay. When Julie's dream diving trip to the Great Barrier Reef becomesturns into a nightmare, she discovers that the...

What do a bunch of well-seasoned river gals do on river trips without their men? Everything you might imagine, and more. These stories invite you to relive experiences of women who have been running rivers for decades and find themselves back out on whitewater year after year. You'll find tales of difficult rescues and the kind of unexpected adventures western river runners love to share. Through a variety of stories, haikus, poems, and essays, this anthology goes deeper.

Persephone spends six months of the year under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, goddess of the harvest. It has been this way for 9000 years, since the deal was struck. But when she resurfaces this spring, something is different. Rains lash the land, crops grow out of season or not at all, there are people trying to build a road through the woods, and her mother does not seem able to stop them. The natural world is changing rapidly and even the gods have lost control.

Ever since he fell off the stage live on Question Time, Labour MP Duncan Stonebridge has been stuck in political limbo. Struggling with a tiny majority and a career that's going nowhere, he's caught between the impossible demands of his constituents and the dictates of Westminster—and constantly afflicted by the bane of all politicians: events. Whether he's getting wound up about a wind farm, saving his party agent from a rabid Russian oligarch, fending off accusations or losing a laptop full of reports, life never runs smoothly for the beleaguered backbencher. 

Die Elfe, die nicht fliegen konnte: Die kleine Elfe Mari kann nicht fliegen bis ihre Eltern auf eine sonderliche aber weise Hummel stoßen. Sie versucht Mari an die Macht ihrer Gedanken zu erinnern. "Wenn du es träumen kannst, kannst du es auch tun." - Walt Disney.

Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canada’s most respected and eagerly read journalists. Her vivid prose, her unmistakable voice, her ability to connect emotionally with her subjects and...

Four "delightfully twisted" scripted stories by Erin Mallon are now available as a bundle.

Un oscuro arqueólogo alemán convence a la joven Luciana Bo para que se sume a una expedición en busca del legendario “Corazón de Adán”, una piedra preciosa de incalculable valor, siguiendo unas pistas que solamente ella podría descifrar. Antes de morir, el padre de Hammet, que trabajaba para el Tercer Reich, legó a su hijo un manuscrito misterioso de un historiador hebreo donde cuenta de la existencia de tres figuras, tres caballos - uno de cobre, otro de plata y otro de oro- en el que en uno de ellos se esconde el “Corazón de Adán”.

Two rooftops in suburban Ohio. A 75-year-old man and a nine-year-old girl sit on houses full of secrets. Literally. Bernard wants nothing more than to enjoy his beer (and perhaps kill a few sparrows), but Rory next door has different plans for him. With six decades between them and only four chance encounters to connect, these unlikely new friends unearth what's buried in each other and find new ground.

Der Kindergarten feiert ein Sommerfest. Es soll Essen aus aller Welt geben und wer will, kann beim Kartoffellaufen sein Glück versuchen. Die Igelgruppe will das Märchen "Schneewittchen" aufführen. Aber wer wird die Hauptrolle spielen? Conni, Jolanda oder Julia? Die Vorbereitungen sind genauso aufregend wie das Fest selbst. Kostüme werden ausgesucht und Kulissen gebaut. Und Proben können ganz schön anstrengend sein!