This guide is the relationship counselling session that many of us need, but never quite get to. People don’t often work on their relationships when they are flying high, but when love gets tough, help isn’t always readily accessible. Not just for lovers, this audiobook covers a wide range of relationships, from dating and marriages to friends, colleagues and family. When Love Goes South will create a new paradigm of relating, teaching you how to nurture healthy relationships with the peop...

Care is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices.Taking seriously the darker potentialities of care as a relation of exploitation and domination, this edited collection interrogates the social and governance infrastructures that variously shape, expropriate, necessitate and unravel care at the ‘private’ interpersonal level.Combining rich empirical analysis and theoretical rigour, the c...

enguin presents the audiobook edition of Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper.There was nothing to do but tell stories. Tell this story.And then? Asked Cora.And then everything, said Finn.Newfoundland, Canada, 1992. When all the fish vanish from the waters, and the cod industry abruptly collapses, it's not long before the people begin to disappear from the town of Big Running as well. As residents are forced to leave the island ...

A scrumptious, love-filled audiobook for preschoolers by bestselling novelist Emma Straub, just in time for Valentine's DayMama cuddle, Mama swing.Mama dance, Mama sing.Join this lovable Mama and baby for a joyful day of fun and snuggles. Bestselling author Emma Straub has created irresistible rhyming prose that mothers will delight in listening to with their little ones again and again. A wonderful baby shower gift and just right a...

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She’s working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA.Next thing she knows she’s in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile l...

From the bestselling author of The Piano Maker comes a stunning, profoundly moving story about motherhood, grief, marriage, and friendship. For fans of M. L. Stedman's The Light Between Oceans.Margaret Bradley is the most senior associate at a prestigious law firm, and she is on track to make partner. It is the 1970s; her climb up the career ladder in this male-dominated profession has been difficult, but with hard work she has made herself one of...

A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The Red Word is a campus novel like no other. As her sophomore year begins, Karen enters into the back-to-school revelry—particularly at a fraternity called GBC. When she wakes up one morning on the lawn of Raghurst, a house of radical feminists, she gets a crash course in the state of feminist activism on campus. GBC is notorious, she learns, nicknamed "Gang Bang Central" and a pr...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Once Upon a River, written by Diane Setterfield and read by Juliet Stevenson.THE LONG-AWAITED, SPELLBINDING NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING THE THIRTEENTH TALE, A 'MISTRESS OF THE CRAFT OF STORYTELLING' (Guardian).A dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the Thames. The regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open on an injured stranger. In his arm...

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Price’s aging cat, ...

In Shelley Wood’s fiction debut, listeners are taken inside the devastating true story of the Dionne Quintuplets, told from the perspective of one young woman who meets them at the moment of their birth.Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days and when the government decides to ...

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free.” —Vanity FairEleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, th...

**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS“A beautiful book . . . a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love.” —Wall Street Journal“A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory . . . Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” —NPR“Dry, allusive and charming . . . the comedy here writes itself.” *—*