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Based on a true story, The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep is a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies. 'We're waiting. I squeeze my eyes shut and dig my fingers into Masha's neck where I'm holding her. She digs hers into mine. The curtains slowly open. I can't see anything because the spotlight is on us, bright as anything and blinding me, but I can hear the gasp go up. They always gasp.'

How do we give a voice to those who so often remain unheard? Will You Read This, Please is a frank and impactful collection of twelve stories as told to our best British writers, based on the lived experience of people who have faced mental illness in the UK. Edited by Joanna Cannon, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Three Things About Elsie and A Tidy Ending, the stories told here are powerful, resonant and heart-breaking. This is a ground-breaking and unforgettable collection, shining a light on the stigma and isolation of living with mental illness.

Spanning from the birth of Ulysses S. Grant until his victory over the Confederacy, You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant gives us an honest portrait of an American hero who struggled to balance love, soldiering, and the attainment of the American Dream.

For most of his 76 years, Bill Smith preferred solitude over socialising, horses over people and confidentiality over confidantes. As a jockey, he was known for always turning up already fully kitted out in his silks. But now, in his advancing years, a fall lands him in full-time care and it becomes impossible to maintain his privacy. Nurse Maureen Bannon resents having to look after ‘the geries', especially grumpy old buggers like Mr Smith, but when she discovers Bill's secret an unlikely alliance is formed. Bill was assigned female at birth.

The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary’s fierce determination wavers.

AARON IS A WIND TURBINE APPRENTICE and now works 100m up in the air in remote wind farms in Scotland, Texas and Australia. He falls out of a wind turbine, crashes company cars, almost drowns, stops a turbine with a shotgun, escapes lightning storms and has to share his cramped work environment with his colleague's bowel movements. And that's just the day job.

Caught in the hook of love, a young woman marries a dashing university professor. She moves to a rain-washed coastal town to be with him, but behind closed doors she discovers that her perfect husband is a perfect monster. As he sets about battering her into obedience, and as her family pressures her to stay in the marriage, she swears to fight back - a resistance that will either kill her or set her free.

American-born Catherine knows little of her Croatian mother's early life. When Marijana dies of ovarian cancer, 22-year-old Catherine finds herself cut off from the past she never really knew. As Catherine searches for clues to her mother's elusive history, she discovers that Marijana was orphaned during WWII, nearly died as a teenager, and escaped from Communist Yugoslavia to Rome, and then South America. Through travel and memory, history and imagination, Catherine resurrects the relatives she's never known.

Mummy Where Are You? is the horrifying tale of one woman's attempt to protect her child from child abuse and the extraordinary lengths she goes to keep her child safe. When Charlotte's son tells her what Daddy is doing, a Kafkaesque nightmare begins as she leaves all she knows and loves in an instant, clutching her child's hand and crossing oceans.

Der Roman über John Lennons erste Liebe und die Geburtsstunde der Beatles. Liverpool, 1957: Der durch den Unfalltod seiner Mutter traumatisierte junge John Lennon rebelliert gegen alles - und will doch nur Musik machen. Dann begegnet er der schönen, stillen Cynthia, die von seinem düsteren Charisma sofort in den Bann gezogen wird. An ihrer Seite erlebt John jene Beständigkeit und Liebe, die er in seiner Familie nie erfahren hat. Gemeinsam mit Paul McCartney schreibt er nun die ersten eigenen Songs, und schon bald sind die Bühnenauftritte von The Silver Beatles legendär.

You never ride alone ist der erste Teil der Thunder H. Crimson Trilogie, in dem Thunder nach einer jahrelangen Odyssee als Söldner endlich die Rückkehr nach Deutschland gelungen ist. Die zurückgewonnene Freiheit beginnt mit einer ausschweifenden Motorradtour zur Super Rally des Harley Davidson Clubs Brno in Tschechien. Auf dieser - für jeden Motorradfahrer empfehlenswerten - Strecke genießt Thunder jeden Kilometer im Kreise seiner außergewöhnlichen Freunde.

Taking the company into the 21st century was not going to be easy for Mr. Blue, Jr. His Chief of Staff, B.B. Queen, seemed to be getting with the program, while other sales executives were lagging behind. Faced with constant threats from those challenging his authority and the voice of Mr. Blue, Sr. echoing in his head, he and others find themselves involved in a series of games with plots and twists that keep them all on their toes, everyone vying for the prize. Who will advance? And who will be sent packing?

The old saying, “It takes a village to raise a child” rings true in this autobiographical novel. Houshang Moradi Kermani grew up in the village of Sirch to become Iran’s eminent author of fiction for children and young adults. These are the many true events of his life that became the inspiration for his books, several of which have been made into television serials and feature films. With a mother who died in his infancy and a father who suffers from a mental illness, young Hooshoo is raised by his grandmother, Nanehbaba, and his grandfather, Aghbaba.

After escaping the mental and physical abuse of life under Saddam Hussein's dictatorial regime, Adam's dream of starting a new life in the land of opportunities has been realized. But his bloody past lives on as internalized scares of sadness, and Adam is held captive by them, unable to move on, ultimately attempting to take his own life. After Adam's near miss with death, Jon, Adam's best friend asks Adam to write a series of letters about the worst event that ever happened in his life-- a last-ditch effort by Jon to help his struggling friend.

In 2000, Douglas A. Martin burst onto the American literary scene with his sexy debut novel, Outline of My Lover. Following up with three more books, including Branwell, a novel of the Bront brother, Martin has established himself as an acclaimed and distinctive American writer of the new century. His semi-autobiographical novel Once You Go Back is about growing up in a strained working-class household transplanted to the South.

Joseph is a Christian man with a phenomenal life. Paul is a tortured soul who succumbs to addiction, ultimately betraying his wife and family. After their lives fatefully collide, the challenge is to find redemption and salvage relationships with family and friends. Is that even possible? Based on a true story, Joseph and Paul navigate healing, hypocrisy, accountability, belief, and forgiveness. Written for the thousands who suffer silently, this story shows that there is always a way back.

En esta biografía novelada se cuenta, además de la apasionante vida de Jorge Isaacs, el siglo XIX colombiano. De una manera original, dándole la voz narrativa a su esposa Felisa González, descubrimos las facetas de Isaacs como minero, hacendado, general, gobernante, explorador, entre otros, más allá de su fama como autor de María (1867).

Ser niño es entender que el que lleva al infierno es un camino corto. Se llega sin saber, se escapa sin pensar, se vuelve sin querer. El niño de esta historia se resiste a contarla. Antes que darle un sitio en su memoria, preferiría darle sepultura. Cuando menos lo espera, ya está inmerso en un juego trepidante que le permite todo... menos dejar morir una historia. Se trata de salvarla, ése es el juego. No es que la infancia sea en sí difícil, sino que sus fantasmas resultan invencibles y sus muros—horror—inexpugnables.

Manuela Espinal Solano tenía cuatro años cuando escribió su primera canción. En su casa la música crecía como las plantas: Espinal veía a sus abuelos cantar, a su mamá cantar, a su tía cantar e iba grabando melodías que se le ocurrían de repente. Quería ser cantante, sospecharon todos. Pero la misión de los hijos es defraudar a los padres, y a los dieciocho años la autora publicó su primera novela, Quisiera que oyeran la canción que escucho cuando escribo esto, que tiene mucho de autobiográfico pero es ficción y que trata, sobre todo, del rechazo a un don.

Yellow fever is ravaging the Florida frontier in 1888, killing thousands of people and destroying the dreams of thousands more. Sally Ann and Lanier Walton are struggling to stay afloat on their ranch, what with the theft of cattle, chickens, and garden foods. Many of the ranch hands have departed, some who will likely be killed by the epidemic. It’s a time of great panic, but the family has a plan to safely guide them through the danger. The story moves through time until 1897 and centers largely around the children of the ranch, especially Sarah, who is Sally’s granddaughter.