She thinks of blue mountain, her favourite place. 'We're going somewhere where we can be safe. We never have to come back here.'As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car. This is the moment she knew must come, when they will walk out on her husband Leon and a marriage in ruins since his return from Vietnam. Together, she and Amy will journey to blue mountain, a place ...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionHaunting, gripping and gorgeously written, SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE by Sarah Schmidt is a re-imagining of the unsolved American true crime case of the Lizzie Borden murders, for fans of MONSTER and MAKING A MURDERER.'Eerie and compelling' Paula Hawkins'Stunning' Sunday Times'Gripping... outstanding' Observer'Glittering' Irish Times

Emma is getting ready with the rest of her choirmates for another night of caroling. They have been hired by a company to celebrate Saint Lucia. But the choir in which Emma sings is not just any choir, it is a more... spicy choir. Dressed only in a light white nightgown and with nothing underneath, the girls go out to sing while searching with their eyes for their companions for the night. And Emma quickly finds one. The young singer will live a night full of carols and passionate sex.

From the Women's Prize longlisted author of SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE comes a masterful reworking of the road novel into a portrait of the complex relationship between mothers and daughters.She thinks of blue mountain, her favourite place. 'We're going somewhere where we can be safe. We never have to come back here.'As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car. This i...

"When Susan's son cancels this year's Christmas celebrations for the sake of his partner's family, she decides to take charge of her own happiness. She stumbles across an opportunity to order home both a Christmas buffet and some Christmas company, but she probably couldn't have guessed that such a hunk would show up ...'A Special Christmas Delivery' is a Christmas story about grabbing the gifts of life, and Santa's ..."

"I slowly lift up the duvet and tilt my head to see what Lisa has hidden underneath – there is a dildo. Lisa's juices are glistening on its surface." – ´My Roommate's Toy´Part of the erotic alphabet series, 'L is for Love-toys - 10 Erotic Short Stories' is a collection of erotica that does exactly what the title suggests; pleasures you with tales of sex toys. From playing in public or using a roommate's toy to the pleasures of vibrators and love eggs, bringing some help into the be...

Embark on an enlightening journey of discovery and faith with Lea and Jakob.In Lea and Jakob, sibling protagonists endure a challenging day that tests their timeliness, teamwork, and their special bond as brother and sister. Their father guides them, sharing the biblical tale of Moses and the burning bush, emphasizing the importance of curiosity and the appreciation of life's beauty.The story of Lea and Jakob's trials and triumphs provides...

God and the Self in Hegel proposes a reconstruction of Hegel’s conception of God and analyzes the significance of this reading for Hegel’s idealistic metaphysics. Paolo Diego Bubbio argues that in Hegel’s view, subjectivism—the tenet that there is no underlying “true” reality that exists independently of the activity of the cognitive agent—can be avoided, and content can be restored to religion, only to the extent that God is understood in God’s relation to human beings, and human...

It takes one smart sheep to escape from a piano movers’ van and find his way home in this humorous friendship story for emerging and newly independent readers by beloved, award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt and coauthor Elizabeth Stickney.Wilson is a curious sheep, and after he foolishly climbs into the back of a piano movers' truck, he ends up alone in the big city, far from the farm. But Wilson is also one smart sheep, and soon enough he's finding his way home t...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Thoracic Image Analysis, TIA 2020, held in Lima, Peru, in October 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. COVID-19 infection has brought a lot of attention to lung imaging and the role of CT imaging in the diagnostic workflow of COVID-19 suspects is an important topic.The 14 full papers presented deal with all aspects of image analysis of thoracic data, including: image acquisitio...

This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the topic of social justice. Each essay mines the major themes present in Augustine's extensive corpus of writings—from his Confessions to the City of God— with an eye to the following question: how can this early church father so foundational to Christian doctrine and teaching inform our twenty-f...