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Isabel is having an existential crisis. She’s three years into high school, and everything she’s learned has only shaken her faith in humanity. Late one night, she finds herself drawn to a niche corner of the internet—a forum whose members believe firmly in one thing: that there are indeed people out in the world quietly performing impossible acts of heroism. You might even call them supers. No, not in the comic book sense—these are real people, just like each of us, but who happen to have a power or two.

A step-by-step audio guide to gardening in lockdown. Gardener and journalist Alice Vincent talks you through turning a handful of seeds into your very first plants. Whether you've got a north-facing balcony, a sunny windowsill or a shaded nook, Alice will help you bring a little bit of green into your life. With clear instructions and expert insight, Alice will illuminate, engage and reassure first-time gardeners, whether you're confined to the indoors or just want to get in touch with the earth.

Cosa succede quando a essere accusato di stupro è un attivista, agitatore culturale, alleato femminista, ed è il tuo migliore amico? E cosa succede se la sua comunità decide di rifiutare l’intervento della polizia e del sistema di giustizia dello Stato per iniziare un percorso di riparazione del danno e di trasformazione? Giusi è appena arrivata a Barcellona quando incontra Bernat: in poco tempo diventa per lei un confidente, un mediatore prezioso, un amico. Fino al giorno in cui viene accusato di violenza sessuale, e tutte le certezze vacillano.

From number one best-selling lesbian author Erin Wade comes a love story that will make you laugh, cry, and cheer for Cam Norse and Kylie Whitaker as they navigate the pitfalls of moving into adulthood.

Torino, 1935. Il lunedì di lavoro di Anita inizia con una novità: Leo Luminari, il più grande regista italiano, vuole portare sul grande schermo uno dei racconti gialli pubblicati su «Saturnalia», la rivista per cui lei lavora come dattilografa. Il che significa poter curiosa - re dietro le quinte, intervistare gli attori e realizzare un numero speciale. Anita, che subisce il fascino della settima arte, non sta nella pelle. L’entusiasmo, però, dura solo pochi giorni, finché il corpo senza vita del regista viene ritrovato in una camera d’albergo.

It began with a key. One afternoon in 1956, in the home of the Hitchings family in Battersea, south London, a small silver key appeared on Shirley Hitchings's bed. This seemingly insignificant event heralded the beginning of one of the most terrifying, incredible and mysterious hauntings in British history. The spirit, who quickly became known as 'Donald', began to communicate, initially via tapping sounds, but over time - and with the encouragement of psychical researcher Harold Chibbett, whose case-files appear here - by learning to write.

Join radio's most popular crime-solving couple, Mr. & Mrs. North, in 12 episodes of mayhem and murder - with a light touch. The Norths aren't your standard detectives: husband Jerry is a book publisher by day, and wife Pam is his stay-at-home better half and most often the catalyst for their exploits when death falls in their laps!

Come attraversare i grandi cambiamenti del nostro tempo e uscirne rigenerati? Servono nuove ali per trasformarci in farfalle. Dopo "Biologia della gentilezza", Daniel Lumera e Immaculata De Vivo tornano con un'opera in cui, ancora una volta, la scienza incontra la spiritualità per guidarci verso una nuova frontiera del benessere: individuale, relazionale e collettivo. Un libro che ci insegna ad affrontare i piccoli e grandi cambiamenti della nostra vita e a trasformarli in un motore straordinario di salute, realizzazione e rinascita.

In 1916, on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, comes home to the three women who have shaped his life. Will these three strong and devoted women help him regain his memory and his sense of purpose and send him back to the front; or will he descend further into the catacombs of oblivion?

The book behind the hit BBC series. "Any other year, summer arrived with the swallows. But this year, the broken body of a bird, left on the porch, serves as an omen of deception, a shadow cast over the days to come"... Beth March’s life seems unexceptional: She and her husband, David, have a conventional, quiet marriage. The opening morning of the nightmare seems like just another day, aside from the unexpected body of the bird...but while Beth showers and prepares for the day, David drives his car at full speed into the path of a lorry.

John Dolittle, MD. is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his sister in the small English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. His love of animals grows over the years and his household menagerie eventually scares off his human customers, leading to loss of wealth. But after learning the secrets of speaking to all animals from his parrot Polynesia, he takes up veterinary practice.

Alzi la mano chi non ha mai dovuto superare un momento difficile o la fine di una storia d’amore, chi non si è mai sentito scoraggiato, demotivato o insicuro, chi non si è mai chiesto come smettere di crearsi problemi e poter finalmente raggiungere la felicità. La soluzione è più semplice di quanto si potrebbe credere: secondo la seguitissima giornalista Brianna Wiest, il trucco è ribaltare la prospettiva, imparando a vedere le difficoltà e gli ostacoli come opportunità di crescita e di conoscenza di sé.

Four romance writers. Four failed marriages. Can they create the perfect man? Romance writers should be experts on love, but that’s not the case with Libby Day and her friends. Although they can come up with great stories on the page, their relationships in real life are all miserable failures. While on a writing retreat in the mountains, they decide to try to pen the perfect man—the kind that only exists in a novel.

Loss and adversity are part of the human condition, but an imperfect past isn’t always an indicator of what’s to come. This book traces a pattern: why is it that often the people with the hardest beginnings in life—children who experience displacement, disease, financial ruin, abandonment or bereavement—become the most successful adults? And is there something to learn from those people, who perhaps have the strongest sense of what matters most?

Sam Green's life is in danger of imploding. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after horrific injuries and personal tragedy in Afghanistan, she escapes to the Isle of Mull hoping to convalesce. A chance find on the island's shores interrupts her rehabilitation and launches her on a journey to West Africa and on a collision course with forces and adversaries she cannot begin to comprehend. Meanwhile in London, MI6/SIS is facing down a biological threat that could kill thousands and inflame an already smouldering religious war.

Our heroine Kate is madly in love with her fiancé. She is planning their wedding and future life together... Unfortunately, she discovers a secret that he has that will forever change what she thinks of him. With this new insight, she toils with her desire to be morally accountable, and for him to "do the right thing". Much later in life, she finds herself in a very similar situation, only this time with her own son... A gripping and fascinating novella about the so called "Gilded Age", by one of the true masters of the genre.

Nicks Costello takes the reader with him from his hard-working roots in the Liberties of Dublin on a search for enlightenment that took him half way around the world to Hong Kong. There he discovered the human face of the Buddha in the friendliness and compassion of everyday people who were quietly and unobtrusively practising ancient eastern traditions of spirit, mind and body, cultivating a connection to the soul of the universe that exists in all of us and giving freely of their knowledge to all who ask so that the healing benefits can be experienced by everyone.

I was more than happy to leave my complicated life behind, because living in the pack, not letting anyone get close but my brothers, and keeping my identity a secret for over five years meant I was safe. That was until I met her—my little Firecracker.

Is there a God? Can I see Him? Where do I look?" In one fashion or another such questions arise from the simplicity of a child's heart. Lil’ Kid even wonders how to talk to God. Should he shout since God seems to be far, far away? Will his questions be answered when Lil' Kid meets a man standing on a corner talking about God?

Langhe, 1935. La fuliggine delle fabbriche lascia il posto al dolce profilo delle colline infiammate dai colori dell’autunno. Mentre guarda il paesaggio che scorre dal finestrino del treno, Anita sa che ad attenderla non è una vacanza, ma una trasferta di lavoro per la rivista di gialli «Saturnalia», in compagnia dell’immancabile Sebastiano Satta Ascona. Per lei è così raro lasciare Torino che tutto le sembra meraviglioso. Inoltre è il periodo della vendemmia, il momento ideale per visitare le Langhe.