Jessie had said they should go at midnight. 'It’s the gods’ time,' she said, narrowing her eyes dramatically. 'Anything could happen.’It’s the 1980s, and in their small coastal town, Ali and her best friend, Jessie, are on the cusp. With ‘The Golden Book’, a journal of incantation and risk taking as their record, they begin to chafe at the restrictions put on them by teachers, parents, each other. Then Jessie suffers a devastating accident, and both their lives are forever changed....

We live in a two-handed world. Following a stroke or limb injury the transition from managing life with two hands to surviving with one can seem almost impossible.This handbook provides step by step instructions for doing practical everyday life skills and recreational activities. The easy tools provided are simple to implement with the primary aim to live once again with confidence and independence in the real world.'Beyond Stroke: Living Independently with One Arm' is an ...

Set in 1949 Paris, Slim Moran runs the Pitchipoi Agency with her Nazi Hunter boyfriend, Daniel. Their specialty: to find those lost in the last war. After a couple of easy cases, business has ground to halt and Daniel has just gone on another manhunt this time to find the Nazi Butcher of Lyon, Klaus Barbie. Slim is bored until a British spymistress asks her to find a missing woman spy long presumed dead. Set against the ruins of post-war Germany and France, Slim quickly learns that the sco...

Abby, insomniac, and owner of a successful comic book store meets Jasper, a narcoleptic science fiction author. Can it possibly work?After Abby's last relationship ended, she focused on her business and herself. She runs a successful business, has a fantastic studio apartment above her store, and lives in a picturesque seaside town. Life is perfect unless you count insomnia and dealing with the fact that dating options in this town were limited. So a few little bum...

Love your cat?Julia had the worst luck in men. It didn’t help that as a waitress in a small coastal town she encountered more fish than decent guys. Her last boyfriend, an edgy metal artist, turned out unfaithful.A witch cursed Tom, turning him into an orange tom cat. Her sense of humor. He became a stray, moving along the coast from one seaside town to the next, avoiding any attachments. The last thing he needs is to end up at the vet as an unfixed stray!

**A FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF 2024'**The abiding question posed by Character Limit is this: is Elon Musk secretly 13 years old?' Private Eye'[Conger and Mac are] scoop magnets . . . A dramatic, fly-on-the-wall narrative . . . offers insights into how Musk might approach his job helping to run Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency' New York Times...

Their divorce never finalized. Neither did their feelings.The discovery that I was still legally married — years after I thought my divorce was final — was supposed to be the worst thing to happen to me this fall.It wasn’t.Because apparently the state of Vermont believes in closure. And no regrets. And court-ordered thirty-day reconciliation efforts. So now, in order to fast-track my divorce from Bennett Walker—my high school sweetheart and the man ...

Unusual Stories, Unusually Told celebrates some of the boldest contemporary American voices with seven plays from Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks. Spanning 2001 to 2019 and accompanied by artist interviews and reflections on the work, this anthology presents a vital survey of formally inventive 21st century playwriting, and is a perfect collection for study and performance.U.S. Dragby Gina GionfriddoA serial killer named Ed stalks the city, lurin...

Brought to you by Penguin.In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost?This is the story of the showdown between Elon Musk and Twitter and how the richest man on earth suddenly came to control one of the most powerful media platforms in the world. In Character Limit, award-winning reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac draw on exclusive interviews, unrep...

Getting snowed in with her ex was NOT on Andi’s holiday wish list.After being stood up on her wedding day, Andi escapes to her father’s quaint mountain resort, just in time for a blizzard and a surprise reunion with her ex from three years ago--Devin. Stranded together in a tiny cabin, they can't ignore their past chemistry bubbling like a fresh batch of gingerbread dough. But Devin’s surprise plan, which revives the painful memory of him ...

The action-packed conclusion to the epic fantasy romance trilogy full of dangerous magic and star-crossed love.KeeraAs she faces the devastating consequences of trusting the wrong person, there is no escaping the fate of the desert—and the weight of every life tied to it. Now, Keera must choose between freeing the city she swore to protect from a cruel tyrant or crossing the desert to heal her broken Heart.As the magic of the desert...

The Hunters of Infinity have been protecting the Daharian galaxy for years, but there has never been a female Hunter-until now. In a seedy bar in the shadowy corners of Daharia, Jessop comes to the rescue of young Hunter Kohl O'Hanlon. Impressed by her remarkable sword-wielding skills, the Hunters invite her to their training facility, the Glass Blade, though not all are pleased with the intrusion. But they soon discover that Jessop learned to fight from the rogue leader of the Shadow City...