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It kills me that the only way I can spend proper time with my son Toby is by helping out at his school camp. I sit under the emerald green pine trees and Toby’s little face lights up as he runs past me, joining the other chattering, happy children around us. Then I see my ex, David, glaring at me and my heart sinks. He may have full custody, but he’d love nothing more than for me to disappear. Forever.

May of Teck, only daughter of a noble family fallen from grace, has been selected to marry the troublesome Prince Eddy, heir to the British throne. Submitting to the wishes of Queen Victoria and under pressure from her family, young May agrees. But just as a spark of love and devotion arises between the young couple, Prince Eddy dies of influenza. To her horror, May discovers she is to be married to the brother, Georgie, instead, a cold and domineering man. But what can she do? A gripping account of the life of Queen Mary, one of the most formidable queens of Britain.

When a tumultuous past causes Alice Gray, the only woman Lou Pearson has ever loved, to leave her for good, she shrinks away from the world, trying to make amends. She dedicates years of her life to train service dogs and save rescues. Little did she know that a rescued dog would save her, too.

Athena Pappas is the head writer on one of the most popular sitcoms in television history. But when Vegas comedian Stephen Cosse is brought in to beef up the show's suddenly sagging ratings, she starts to worry about her job. Sparks fly as the competition - and attraction - between the two writers heats up. Athena has never had a problem scripting the romances of her characters. So why is her own love life so hard to script?

Grace Allen had always been a big fish growing up in a very small pond. Of course, just about any place was bigger than her tiny town of Chetwynd, nestled in the wildlands of northern Canada. So when she left to attend college in the states six years ago, she thought she’d never look back. That was until a terrifying breakdown brought her overly ambitious life crumbling down around her. Shiloh Pierce had always embraced her small town in Canada, with no intention of ever leaving. A quiet cabin and living off the land was all she really needed. Except six years ago her best friend and the love of her life moved thousands of miles away, leaving a gaping hole that she was unable to fill and throwing her entire world off of its axis.

Our Summer Together is an uplifting story about family, friendship and the happy surprise of finding love later in life. Caro knows how to be a mother - advising her grown-up daughters on career and relationship worries. She knows how to be a grandmother - enjoying the hectic energy of her three-year-old grandson. She knows how to be a daughter - helping her aging mother retain her independence.

In June of 1961, A. E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke: a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling Hemingway had spread over nearly a decade.

Most of the conventional productivity advice you'll find in the soft business section simply does not work for creative people. Surprisingly, to date there has not been a single book or audiobook that addresses the unique organisational challenges that artists face. This audiobook sets out to change that, and it addresses the myth that truly creative people are messy and that they need mess in order to create. Sheila Chandra applies her professional insights as a creative and organizing expert to the lives of other busy creative people in all disciplines.

He helped you move on... Until you discovered what he did. Louisa Adams has done her best to hold herself together in the years since she lost her husband in a car accident. But each morning she wakes up alone is more painful than the last. She hopes moving into the crumbling seaside guest house her daughter just bought in Devon will help put what’s left of her broken family back together... There, Louisa is offered a final chance to save her career by writing an article on a local sand artist, Isaac.

J.B. Morton took over the 'By The Way' column in the Daily Express in 1924 - succeeding his friend D.B. Wyndham-Lewis as Beachcomber - and continued writing it for over 50 years. Anarchic, absurdist and profoundly influential, it had a huge cult following, and paved the way for a great deal of modern humour.

The first Olympic women's marathon and the battle for the right to run.

When Elin receives a letter from her childhood friend Fredrik on the Swedish island of Gotland, memories come flooding back: of a past she has tried to forget and a terrible secret she has shared with nobody—a secret that made her flee the island and never return. Torn between past and present and afraid the truth will destroy her family, Elin sets out on a journey to another continent, but also to another time and another life.

Tia Morales is used to calling the shots. She's the director of the popular sitcom Stars Collide, and her life on set is calculated and orderly. Well, most of the time. But her life outside the studio is another matter. If only she could get her family to behave as well as her stars do! When she starts butting heads with handsome camera operator Jason Harris, it's enough to send a girl over the edge.

It's 1939 and little Dot May Dun is playing with her brothers in the quiet lanes of their Derbyshire village. The grown-ups' talk of war means very little to Dot but things are starting to change in the village, for good. When a prisoner of war camp is built close to Dot's village, and a Yankee base is stationed nearby, Dot makes friends with the most unlikely of soldiers. But her friendships are threatened when telegrams start to arrive in the village and the real impact of war bears heavily on this close-knit mining community.

1928. Agatha Christie leaves England for Baghdad, where two years ago, explorer and writer Gertrude Bell died from a drugs overdose. The authorities believed that Bell had taken her own life, but a letter now unearthed reveals she was afraid someone wanted to kill her. Bell writes that if she were to die, the best place to look for her murderer would be Ur, an archaeological site in Mesopotamia. Looking into Bell's death, Agatha discovers the mission is not without risk. She must use all her skills to try to outwit a killer who hides among the desert sands....

Al volver de su trabajo en una gestoría de mala muerte, donde se dedica a perseguir morosos por indicación de su jefe, Pablo Esteban, un treintañero al que la novia y la fortuna le acaban de abandonar a la vez, se encuentra en el metro con su mejor amigo de la adolescencia, Trendy, al que no veía desde hacía muchos años y al que asesinan en la calle horas después.

¿Quieres hacer salir el líder que llevas dentro? En tus manos tienes una guía para entender el mundo mutante que nos circunda y fabricar tu propia fórmula de éxito. El nuevo liderazgo ya no consiste en dar respuestas, como ocurría en la era de la industrialización, sino en saber despertar el mejor talento de cada individuo y retenerlo. La talentocracia es el nuevo paradigma de un liderazgo que permite crear un ambiente en el que las personas pueden realizarse y sentir que pertenecen a algo más grande que cada uno ellos.

Así habla el narrador de "Pacífico", testigo de una novela familiar en la que, de puertas adentro, mientras afuera se hace el primer trasplante de corazón o el hombre conquista la luna, se van acumulando desgracias. Si la intimidad es aquello que no se puede compartir, porque nos debilita, "Pacífico", es un relato íntimo que hurga en las entrañas de sus personajes con una delicadeza excepcional, hasta convertirlos en seres inolvidables, maltratados por la vida.

¡Hola! ¡Soy Agus Pianola! Si has leído ¡Llega el Sr. Flat!, tú y yo ya nos conocemos; y si no, aviso: vivo en una habitación llena de monstruos. ¿Que de dónde han salido? Pues del Libro de los monstruos, donde vivían hasta que el malvado Dr. Brot los echó. Ahora están aquí, pero lo peor de todo es que el Dr. Brot y su ayudante Nap también han venido, y de entrada se han propuesto hundir el restaurante Nautilus. Por suerte, el Cheff Roll, el monstruo de la cocina, nos ayudará a trazar un plan para que el Dr. Brot no se salga con la suya. ¡Aventuras y enredos asegurados!

Unleash the power of a new way of thinking about your investments with 60 easily adoptable ideas and case studies designed to encourage a more creative and financially literate mindset. Whether you're an investment veteran or just starting out, this collection of concise finance-focused lessons and case studies will encourage new ways of thinking about how you invest your money, helping you to achieve success in the markets.