In a nameless Hungarian town, teenagers on a competitive swim team occupy their after-training hours with hard drinking and fast cars, hash cigarettes and marathons of Grand Theft Auto, the meaningless sex and late-night exploits of a world defined by self-gratification and all its attendant recklessness. Invisible to their parents and subject to the whims of an abusive coach, the crucible of competition pushes them again and again into dangerous choices. When a deadly accident le...

B.R.A.G. Medallion honoree.A man running from his past. A woman fighting for her future.In what world could the two of them ever connect? Not this one.Richard is certain small-town Summitville, North Carolina is a safe haven from his demons…until a woman with stunning green eyes resurrects the protective instinct that once cost him everything. And rattles the walls of his armored heart.Noémie knows her place in this prejudi...

Si siempre has querido sentir abundancia y valor, pero a menudo sientes confusión y temor, sigue leyendo.¿Sientes la necesidad de transformar tu vida, pero parece que no puedes hacerlo por tu cuenta? ¿Quieres sentirte libre de preocupaciones, ser valiente y audaz y tener sabiduría para tomar las decisiones correctas? ¿Quieres decirle adiós de una vez por todas a una vida de miedos, escasez y soledad y descubrir lo que sí funciona para ti? Lograr una vida de sanación, abundancia y felicidad...

The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 reverberated across the Middle East and Europe and ushered in a new era for the Ottoman Empire. The initial military uprising in the Balkans triggered a constitutional revolution, in which social mobilization and the political aspirations of the Young Turks played a crucial role. The Young Turk Revolution and the Ottoman Empire provides a newanalysis of this process in the Balkans and the Anatolian provinces, outlining the transition from revolutionary eup...

Si anhelas la vida de tus sueños pero te sientes atrapada en la mediocridad y la decepción, sigue leyendo.Incluye dos títulos: Manifestación Para Mujeres y Despierta Tu Energía Femenina.¿Estás cansada de sentirte perdida en la vida y de ver que todos los que te rodean tienen éxito, mientras tú te quedas atrás: sin dinero, en un trabajo que odias, en una relación tóxica o atrapada en un cuerpo con el que no eres feliz? Verás, manifestar todos tus deseos y anhelos no tiene que ser difícil, i...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What happens when your fiercest rival becomes your fake girlfriend…. and then something real?Sloane Carter and Rhiannon Boyd have spent a year making each other's lives hell. England's ice-cold striker versus Scotland's fiery midfielder. Their viral shoving match at Hampden Park made them enemies. Now the FA is forcing them onto the same team…. and into the same hotel room.When paparazzi catch them looki...

Zadie Smith’s fiction reimagines subjectivity, relationality, and the conditions of contemporary life.This book offers a timely reassessment of her work, addressing identity, urban experience, and the category of the human. Moving beyond postcolonial and multiculturalist readings, it brings psychoanalytic, historical, symptomatic, and cultural materialist perspectives to bear across her novels, stories, essays, and plays. The collection explores how Smith’s characters, shaped by di...

This anthology seeks to explore the complex, varied, and sometimes contradictory intersections between mothers, mothering, and environmental activism in discourse and in lived experiences. It is intended to look critically, and yet hopefully, at the ways in which feminist, Indigenous, and environmentalist challenges to the western, capitalist moral imagination are linked. It explores the reach of rape culture and the ways in which a capitalist, patriarchal society interacts with the earth ...

A missing princess is found dead in the forest shortly after her 16th birthday. The murder weapon? A spindle, just as the dark fairy, Ravenshade, forebode at the christening. The dark fairy is arrested, however, Ravenshade adamantly professes her innocence and seeks out Aryssa Thornhart for help.Fairy Godmother turned detective, Aryssa Thornhart, is hesitant to take the case until she discovers the royal family's secrets and finds the facts don't line up. Can the Thornhart Detectiv...

What if you were the only hope for a strange world? Emma thought she was an ordinary girl until a mysterious griffin appeared in her dreams and summoned her to the magical planet Coruscum. Darkness and fear have reigned there since the cruel Dracon sought to seize power. Only the mysterious "eighth magic" can stop him, and it is said that Emma possesses it. Together with courageous mythical creatures, such as Edward the Griffin, the enigmatic Darko, and the proud Phoenix Leyla, Emma embark...

**A collection of testimonies from midwives in El Salvador who delivered babies during the twelve-year-long civil war and today fight to protect their ancestral role to care for the reproductive health of their communities.This bilingual edition includes thirty color photographs and five black-and-white illustrations.**“An inspiring testament to the indispensable role of midwives in safeguarding life, culture, and community even against formidable odds.” —Dorothy Ro...

FEARS, TEARS & HEALS is a raw and deeply personal memoir of survival, loss, and resilience.At just twelve years old, Noemi Vargas's life changed forever after a tragic accident took her younger brother. What followed was not just grief-but years of silent suffering, trauma, and emotional wounds that would shape her adolescence and adulthood.From crossing borders in search of a better life, to navigating abuse, poverty, motherhood at a young age, and the cha...