A domestic novel focusing on personal growth, emotional resilience, and moral integrity.

Hazel Bloom by Julia Carter Aldrich is a heartfelt and engaging tale that intertwines human emotion, personal growth, and the beauty of everyday life. This audiobook invites listeners into a narrative rich with character development, emotional depth, and vivid storytelling, making it a timeless exploration of the human experience.Aldrich’s narrative centers on Hazel Bloom, whose journey of self-discovery, resilience, and connection with those aroun...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.She documented everything. It wasn't enough.In September 2023, Kristil Krug began receiving messages from a man she hadn't seen in twenty years. An ex-boyfriend from high school. The messages knew where she'd been, what she was wearing, the route she drove her children to school. They grew explicit, then threatening. Kristil did what experts advise: she kept records. Forty-seven entries in a color-coded spreadsheet, eac...

'History is crucial. We need to know that treating women as decorations, subordinates and playthings, even and sometimes especially in our houses of power, is not new. We know that from the moment women walked into parliament and took up space alongside men, they have been treated as objects ... When men were featured often in the press, they were rising stars. When women were featured often in the press, they were media tarts.' Julia Baird's seminal work, Media Tarts, was originally publi...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Imagine meeting Jesus face-to-face.Discover the inspiring stories of nine ordinary women from the Bible whose lives were forever changed by His love and compassion.Relate to their struggles: These women faced challenges just like you do, from fear and doubt to heartbreak and loss.Witness their unwavering faith:

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Do You Know Who Are You as a Child of God?This book offers seven powerful affirmations to remind you who you really are according to God’s Word. These truths will strengthen your faith, uplift your heart, and reduce anxiety.Perfect for Christian women in need of daily encouragement, this book is a powerful tool to reset your spirit and grow closer to the Father’s heart.Also available in audio for...

This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of ‘tradition’ and ‘modern’. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-invented; how meaning can leak from past to present; the ways in which people’s agencies differ as they make decisions; and the process of bricolage in making new arrangements. These themes are illustrated through a variety of case studies, ranging...

This book addresses the nature of intimacy and relationships in a time of what Eva Illouz characterizes as ‘cold intimacies’. The contributors to this collection highlight the ambivalence and tensions contained in ‘intimacy’ by uncovering a nuanced and complex dynamic, in which interpersonal relations and the public sphere are mutually constituted. A range of topics areexplored, including the new conditions of ‘choice’, the abundance of partners, class and emotional competence, rational de...

Take a trip though the chilling history of one of Baltimore's most interesting neighborhoods and discover the eerie ends of Fell's Points departed souls.The narrow streets and ancient pubs of historic Fells Point are filled with the spirits of the past. Pirates, privateers, sailors, smugglers and a host of others refused to let death change their address. Walk with Edward Fell in the town he founded in 1760 or flirt with the "ladies" at the Cat's Eye Pub. Climb the...

Julia McKenzie and Simon Carter star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E Nesbit’s much-loved children’s novel.‘an enchanting adaptation’ Independent on SundayOn a hot, Edwardian summer’s day, five children are playing in a gravel pit when they dig up something very peculiar: a funny, furry, fat litte creature with the feet of a monkey and bat’s ears! The Psammead is a magical sand fairy who has the power to grant wishes: but the children can only have ...

A brilliant collection of bestselling stories from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, read aloud by stars Imelda Staunton, Jim Carter and Steven Pacey – perfect for listening to at home, in the car, at bedtime or any time at all!Go 'Grrrr . . .' with the Gruffalo, sing along with the Smartest Giant, help Monkey search for his mum and see if the little old lady can make some room in her house! The Gruffalo and Other Stories is brilliantly ...

Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson and stunningly illustrated by the award-winning Sara Ogilvie, Gozzle is a funny and heartwarming story about family, growing up – and a very cute little gosling!It's springtime. Bear has woken up hungry and finds a lost egg outside his cave. Breakfast? No! Out hatches Gozzle, a very sweet little gosling who is convinced that Bear must be her daddy – and that she should be able to climb, dig and eat honey just like him.Follow...