A Star is Born meets Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words in this deeply romantic, emotionally sweeping novel about first love, fame, and the long road to finding yourself—even if it takes a lifetime.When the past collides with the present—literally—one woman must decide if the life she built is the one she truly wants, or just the one she chose.Vida Jamison favors the reliable and the unsurprising – the things she can count on...

A Star is Born meets Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words in this deeply romantic, emotionally sweeping novel about first love, fame, and the long road to finding yourself―even if it takes a lifetime.When the past collides with the present―literally―one woman must decide if the life she built is the one she truly wants, or just the one she chose.Vida Jamison favors the reliable and the unsurprising – the things she can count on. But all it takes is a winter storm, a chan...

Adele Spitzeder is not the kind of woman literary history usually rescues. She was a mediocre actress, a swindler, and, in a century that had no word for it, a woman who arranged her entire life around other women and never once explained why.In 1869 she borrowed a hundred gulden from a carpenter and promised him ten per cent a month. He told people. Within three years Munich had given her a fortune: laundresses, farmhands, servants, small farmers, village priests, whole parish cou...

The book delves into China's extension of its influence over global digital standards and governance.The author introduces the concept of normative power adapted for the digital domain and constructs a multi-level theory of normative diffusion, disaggregating mechanisms operating at bilateral, regional and international levels. The book examines bilateral dynamics through eight cases: Vietnam, Chile, Malaysia, Zambia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, the Philippines and Laos. At the regional lev...

Mama Darla's Secret is a heartwarming story inspired by the real deer who visit Deer Path.Mama Darla gently guides her two fawns, curious Brumble and quiet Sage, as they discover that trust doesn't happen all at once. It grows through patience, kindness, and one gentle moment at a time.Surrounded by wildflowers, hummingbirds, and the warmth of Deer Path, this tender story invites children to slow down, notice the world around them, and discover the quiet po...

Designed to link research with real world classroom applications, the In Action series provides an accessible outline of key theories which teachers can then apply to their practice in their own unique settings. The writers of each of the In Action books are all either serving teachers or teachers who have taught for many years; this means the books' focus are grounded in the reality of teaching children in real classrooms.Drawing on over 20 years of classroom exp...

Pain stops being just sensation when you realize it's been trying to tell you something for months-and the realcrisis isn't the flare-up, it's how long you've been ignoring the whisper. Vitality Reset's insightful book exploresthe gap between sensing something's wrong and understanding what your body is actually saying.When pain becomes chronic, it stops being an occasional inconvenience and becomes a communication systemyou haven't learned to read. Living w...

The body doesn't warn you before it rewrites the rules-it just starts speaking a language you haven't learnedyet, and most of what happens next depends on whether you decode the signals or keep managing symptomsyou don't understand. Part of the Vitality Reset series, this insightful book explores the confusion and self-doubtthat arise when familiar body systems behave unpredictably, and competent women find themselves buyingfans instead of answers.Wh...

SWEET DREAMS, HONEYWhat if sleep isn't an escape? What if the moment you close your eyes is when the real nightmare begins?Sweet Dreams, Honey is a dark anthology of nightmares, dream worlds, sleep paralysis, impossible awakenings, and horrors. Across 26 stories, the boundary between dreams and reality becomes dangerously thin, and sometimes there is no waking up.Enter dreams where the dead return. Follow characters into strange worlds hidden behind closed eyes. Fac...

For radio shock jock Nancy Neptune, life is just one big promotion. But when she's sent to work at a radio station near a polygamist compound in Utah, trouble comes in triplicate. In a land where one good wife deserves another, Nancy Neptune hooks up with a drag queen and a one-armed reporter to rescue a mentally challenged polygamist who is being abused by one of his nine mommies and neglected by the other eight.Quirky Twerky Radio is narrated through a series of news reports with ...

Get HOOKED on the brand-new cat-and-mouse thriller from the Number One international bestselling author Adele Parks!'Nobody creates – and unravels – a dysfunctional relationship quite like Adele Parks – I was hooked from the very first line' Louise Candlish‘Dances an exquisite line between a gripping psychological thriller and an intriguing family drama –terrifying, thrilling and touching. An absolute cracker of a book’ Louise Minchin

Get HOOKED on the brand-new cat-and-mouse thriller from the Number One international bestselling author Adele Parks!'Nobody creates – and unravels – a dysfunctional relationship quite like Adele Parks – I was hooked from the very first line' Louise Candlish‘Dances an exquisite line between a gripping psychological thriller and an intriguing family drama –terrifying, thrilling and touching. An absolute cracker of a book’ Louise Minchin