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Geeky introvert Tessa Rodriguez will do whatever it takes to get promoted to video game engineer - including create a fandom-based video game in just three weeks. The only problem is, she can't do it alone. Now, she needs to strong-arm, cajole, and otherwise socialize with her video game coworkers, especially her roommate, Adam, who's always been strictly business with her. The more they work together, though, the closer they get....

This substantive collection from noted scholar Serene Jones explores recent work in the field of trauma studies. Central to its overall theme is an investigation of how individual and collective violence affect one's capacity to remember, to act, and to love; how violence can challenge theological understandings of grace; and even how the traumatic experience of Jesus's death is remembered.

"Today I had word that my brother Ya'aqôb is dead." When this news reaches Mariam, living in exile in the province of Gaul, memories of her girlhood in faraway Palestine are painfully awakened. For years she has blocked them from her mind, but as illness and old age overtake her, she begins to relive the time when she defied all propriety and convention and followed her charismatic brother Yeshûa and her betrothed Yehûd'a in their daring but perilous adventure.

In a dying world, the Offset ceremony has been introduced to counteract and discourage procreation. It is a rule that is simultaneously accepted, celebrated, and abhorred. But in this world, survival demands sacrifice so for every birth, there must be a death. Professor Jac Boltanski is leading Project Salix, a ground-breaking new mission to save the world by replanting radioactive Greenland with genetically-modified willow trees. But things aren't working out and there are discrepancies in the data. Has someone intervened to sabotage her life's work?

Aurora’s life is perfectly mundane. She has a job she hates, an ex that ran her out of her hometown, and the highlight of her week is Monday breakfast with her best friend. That changes when Aurora starts dreaming of a woman. A woman who Aurora falls head over heels for. She knows the romance that develops between them isn’t real, but the dreams make life so much better that she hurries to bed every night…until she discovers that her dream woman isn’t imaginary. Her name is Leela and she is in a coma.

In a world where space travel is the ultimate frontier, one astronaut's mission to Mars becomes the catalyst for an unimaginable transformation. Tasked with helping to establish a new colony, he finds himself not only grappling with the isolation of space but also with a profound personal journey that challenges his very identity.

After having her travel papers stolen to research in India, Dr. Persephone "Perse" Teixeira succumbs to living in her sister's basement and working in retail. Just as she's about ready to hit rock bottom, Perse is offered an opportunity to teach anthropology and history at Chesapeake Bay University. Perse is thrilled; now her only worry is managing her anxiety. However, that changes once she meets a science professor, Dr. Stefanie "Stef" Blake.

Bienvenue dans les Pouilles, à Villa Gloria. Une maison d'hôtes pas comme les autres. À Villa Gloria, Iris et sa mère, qui a donné son nom à sa maison, veillent à ce que chaque client se sente comme chez lui. En cette semaine d'avril, les nouveaux venus promettent un cru d'exception. Gregorio est le roi des râleurs. Rien ne trouve grâce à ses yeux. Valentina et sa filleule, Bianca, ont l'air un peu cabossées – surtout la petite, légèrement obsessionnelle. Doria et Edoardo forment un couple très discret. À se demander ce qu'ils ont à cacher.

Six foyers, et un point commun : Eléonore, femme de ménage. Mais leur routine risque de se voir chamboulée... Lu par l'autrice. Lundi, dottore Di Martino. Veuf au cœur brisé. Mardi, signora Rizzo. La doyenne à l'esprit mal tourné. Mercredi, les Ferrara. Culs-bénits, autoritaires. Jeudi, signora Marino. Voyante : lit dans les cartes et les pensées. Vendredi matin, signor et signora Landi. Aisés, bronzés, désespérés... Vendredi après-midi, signor D'Amato. L'homme invisible !

Cela fait dix ans que je rêve de lire ces mots. Bien sûr, ils arrivent trop tard. Beaucoup trop tard. Parce que la vie, ce n'est pas une meuf ponctuelle. Lu par l'autrice. Juillet 2021. Deux couples d'amis se retrouvent à Procida, dans le sud de l'Italie. Alba, Valentin et leur bébé semblent former une famille heureuse. Mais, en plein post-partum, minée par ses nuits trop courtes, Alba ne sait plus bien qui elle est, ni ce qu'elle désire. D'autant que son ex choisit ce moment pour réapparaître sur l'île.

It is possible that you might be experiencing issues related to self-confidence and self-esteem. It is that you start taking advantage of the power of mindfulness and affirmations to start conditioning your amazing brain to think and consequently act differently. To reframe those sets of beliefs and unconscious conditioning that no longer serve you. It is time to set you free my darling.

Be brave to give yourself fierce self-compassion. A simple guide to discover the power of being compassionate to yourself with meditation and self-affirmations. Treat yourself with the same understanding and compassion with which you treat others. Everyone has heard the saying “you are your own worst critic”. But what happens when that critic becomes so loud, you cannot hear anything else?

English rose Eleanor Rigby has stared into the cold eyes of death more than once. To escape its icy grip, she flees as a mail-order bride to a new future with Samuel Johnson, a Western cowboy. But when a lost love returns from the grave to claim his broken bride, a fearful fight for Ellie's own life and sanity ensues. Can the bonds of true love bring her home, or will she be lost forever?

Un'anziana viene scippata e finisce in coma e un'emittente locale trasmetta la scena di un bambino che si contende del cibo con un cane fra montagne di spazzatura. Due vicende apparentemente scollegate che accendono una lucina nella mente di Mina Settembre, assistente sociale del Consultorio Quartieri Spagnoli Ovest, che decide di indagare con l'aiuto del bel ginecologo Mimmo Gammardella. Per fortuna, arriverà la Signora, uno dei personaggi più poetici di De Giovanni, a guidarla tra gli incanti delle troppe Sirene che tentano di stordirla.

Questa non è una guida turistica, non è la mappa per un percorso spirituale né vuole esserlo, questa è la storia di un'avventura. La cronaca onesta di un Cammino che troppo spesso viene idealizzato su youtube e dai racconti di lo ha fatto, un'esperienza bellissima ma anche faticosa e impegnativa.

Quando appare quella sottilissima linea rosa sul test di gravidanza, è lì che ha inizio il più grande e sconvolgente viaggio verso l'ignoto: l'arrivo di un figlio, che porta con sé emozioni incontrollabili e contrastanti. Lo sanno bene Mickol e Daniele Marzano, giovani genitori entusiasti della vita e innamorati dei loro tre bambini, che con una narrazione a due voci, sotto forma di lettera rivolta ai propri piccoli, raccontano le gioie e le paure dell'essere genitori con grande onestà, umorismo e un pizzico di poesia, tra un maldestro cambio di pannolino e una ninnananna intonata nel cuore della notte.

"Ferite a morte" nasce dal desiderio di raccontare le vittime di femminicidio. Ho letto decine di storie vere e ho immaginato un paradiso popolato da queste donne e dalla loro energia vitale. Sono mogli, ex mogli, sorelle, figlie, fidanzate, ex fidanzate che non sono state ai patti, che sono uscite dal solco delle regole assegnate dalla società, e che hanno pagato con la vita questa disubbidienza.

"Parfois, on pense trouver le soleil en août, mais c'est la lune qu'on trouve en mars." Luna arrive à Naples contre son gré : son père est gravement malade. Rien, ici, ne lui a manqué. Ses repères, ses amies, son amour sont désormais à Milan. Alors pourquoi revenir ? Pourquoi être au chevet de son "papà", au passé trouble, et avec lequel elle a coupé les ponts ? Mais Napoli est là, sous ses yeux : ses ruelles animées et sales, ses habitants souriants et intrusifs, sa "pizza fritta", délicieuse et tellement grasse, son Vésuve, beau et menaçant...

Set mostly in Iran, but making forays to London, Germany, and the transit area of a Ukrainian airport, the stories are brilliantly deft in summoning up the dilemmas of their protagonists, be they characters who are kicking against the confines of the society into which they are born, or characters wanting to embrace those confines.

In a world of online drama and screen interactions, Wahida Clark Presents is keepin’ it old-school with this brand-new collection of Thug Letters. This spin-off series of vignettes is taken from Wahida Clark’s Thug series, now compiled into one box set so you can get all the dramatic back-and-forth in one place! Dive into the heated correspondence between Trae, Tasha, Kyron, and Charli, where you’ll get all the devastating heartbreaks and steamy make-ups uninterrupted. This set includes “The Letter”, “The Response”, and much more! Get your collection today!