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Veteran science journalist Caroline Williams explores the cutting-edge research behind brain health and physical activity, interviewing scientists from around the world to completely reframe our relationship to movement. Along the way she reveals easy tricks that we could all use to improve our memory, maximize our creativity, strengthen our emotional literacy and more. A welcome counterpoint to the current mindfulness craze, Move offers a more stimulating and productive way of freeing our caged minds to live our best life.

Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviator candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into fashion or filmmaking, and yet she went on to become an F/A-18 Super Hornet Weapons System Operator. She was one of the first women to fly a combat mission over Iraq since 2011, and she was the first woman to drop bombs on ISIS. Jet Girl tells the remarkable story of the women fighting at the forefront in a military system that allows them to reach the highest peaks and yet is in many respects still a fraternity.

New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend, Monk Adams.

Did you know that walking can improve your cognitive skills? That strengthening your muscular core reduces anxiety? That light stretching can combat a whole host of mental and bodily ailments, from stress to inflammation? We all know that exercise changes the way you think and feel. But scientists are just starting to discover exactly how it works. In Move!, Caroline Williams explores the emerging science of how movement opens up a hotline to our minds. Interviewing researchers and practitioners around the world, she reveals how you can work your body to improve your mind.

After extensive original research and a decade as the world's highest-paid performance coach, Brendon Burchard finally reveals the most effective habits for reaching long-term success. Based on one of the largest surveys ever conducted on high performers, it turns out that just six habits move the needle the most in helping you succeed. Adopt these six habits and you win. Neglect them and life is a never-ending struggle. We all want to be high performing in every area of our lives. But how?

Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is known for providing unparalleled resources on the craft, art, and business of storytelling, helping writers of all levels improve their skills for nearly a century. Now, this new handbook helps authors navigate the ever-shifting publishing landscape - from pacing, plotting, the business side of publishing, to the current demand for diversity and inclusivity across all genres, and more.

Fibromyalgia is characterised by fatigue, muscle aches, wandering chronic pains, depression, and anxiety. It often develops slowly, usually over several years. This book will help you to understand the symptoms of fibromyalgia and provides tools you can use to feel better.

An irresistible novel brimming with wit, warmth, and Irish humor, about the married owners of a friendly tavern in Belfast and the intimate lives of the customers and employees who band together to save it from demolition.

Whale Nation is a hymn to the beauty, intelligence, and majesty of the largest mammal on earth. A "green classic" read with natural resonance by its author, it rarely fails to strike a chord in the hearts of those concerned with the abuse of our planet.

Having returned from World War II, Eugene Jerome and his brother Stanley pair up to break into the world of professional comedy writing. Inspiration strikes when they aim their sights on their dysfunctional family - and the network broadcasts it nationwide!

If your mind has a mind of its own, this is the audiobook that will teach you how to discipline it and stop it wandering off.... Can you really rewire an adult brain? In theory the answer is yes, but there's a problem: no one seems to know exactly how to do it. In Override, science journalist Caroline Williams sets off on a mission for the answer. Delving into the latest studies on brain plasticity, she tries to square her findings with brain plasticity - that the brain adapts physically as we learn something new.

This podcast is just about a Librarian talking about the life of a full time working mom with kids and a husband. I mean, sounds boring, but it's actually quite entertaining! I'm not your average Librarian that you think about with glasses and a bun on top. I'm more of the kind who dances, sings, acts, and more, all while doing my side job as a human taxi for my kids! Take a listen!

One magical Christmas Eve... Caught in a blizzard, Georgia Beckett is forced down a narrow lane she'd hoped to avoid...and not just because of the snow! The road takes her past the beautiful abandoned house of her youth-the new residence of her childhood sweetheart. Sebastian Corder's shocked to hear the doorbell ring-he never expected to see Georgia again. Nine years ago, both chasing different dreams, they went their separate ways. Now Sebastian's hand hesitates. Is he ready to open the door to the past?

Meet women who fanned flames and forged their metal through adversity. Dive deeper for more proficiency in emotional aquatics and self-sufficiency. Dissolve heartaches. Discover how word magic, notes, tones, and phonetics affect your life. Supercharge your intuitive abilities, and speak to power. Get grounded and improve back pain as you align your spine with the divine.

After Mallory Shields graduates from college in her idyllic Midwestern hometown, she embarks on an adventure with her best friend Jenna, taking a gap year to explore the other side of the world. Their journey quickly takes an unexpected turn, and the two young women find themselves in danger and exposed to crime, abuse, and the most dehumanizing conditions possible.

Silver Screen Kisses is a collection of stories inspired by movies that are on every favorite-movie list. Written by award-winning and best-selling authors, these contemporary romances take the listener back to Echo Ridge in the spring, when the promise of new love is budding just like the tulips around the Emerald Inn Bed & Breakfast.

With a host of memorable characters and catchphrases, The Fast Show was one of the most popular BBC TV comedy shows ever. The talents of Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Caroline Aherne, Simon Day and many more come together in this collection of selected TV episodes and special edition of The Fast Show Live.

Alice, Maria, Nadia et Thérèse, alias Les Panthères grises, préfèrent de loin leur cours de théâtre au club du troisième âge du quartier. C'est même la consécration quand Alice est choisie pour jouer le rôle de la victime lors d'une reconstitution organisée par la police - la vraie ! Mais lorsqu'elle se fait étrangler - pour de faux ! - par le suspect qui clame son innocence, les Panthères grises, piquées par la curiosité et le désir de vérité, s'embarquent dans une aventure policière rocambolesque.

Les Panthères grises organisent une fête surprise pour l'anniversaire de leur copine Alice, dévastée par un chagrin d'amour. Au programme des réjouissances : le strip-tease d'un Chippendale. Mais voilà que la police décide de s'installer chez Alice pour espionner le voisin d'en face. Mauvaise idée... nos Panthères grises s'emparent de l'enquête non sans avoir martyrisé les policiers qui s'immiscent, avec plus ou moins de bonheur, dans la vie tumultueuse de ces drôles de dames.

L'été s'annonce chaud pour les Panthères grises ! Lorsque Maria, la croqueuse d'hommes de la bande, est contactée par Henri, son premier amour, elle voit déjà se raviver une ancienne flamme... que nenni ! Henri a simplement besoin de son aide pour retrouver sa femme portée disparue depuis quelques jours sur l'île de Noirmoutier. Autant dire que cette proposition tombe à pic pour Maria qui entraîne aussitôt ses copines dans une nouvelle enquête. Ravies de quitter la morosité parisienne, les Panthères rejoignent l'île sans se douter des surprises qui les attendent...