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Lottie and Theo are the envy of their friends. The only couple to have met in real life, they have careers they love, a beautiful house, two adorable puppies. But after seven years of marriage, what was once spontaneous and thrilling has been replaced by doomscrolling, falling asleep in front of Netflix and trying (read failing) to conceive. Then Lottie calls in to her favorite podcast (The Cliterati, hosted by ever-relatable Tilly Cooper) and her anonymous confession turns into a viral sensation, with thousands of women confessing their own tales of romance gone lukewarm.

Gender issues are stark at sea. Historically a ship’s crew is all male, and although vessels are referred to as ‘she’, women’s contributions to sailing have been largely ignored, if not actively opposed. Today’s sailing legends such as Tracy Edwards and Ellen MacArthur compete with men on equal terms, but they stand on the shoulders of many women before them, who had to challenge preconceptions, prejudice and even the law in their wish to sail.

Several years ago, Julia Jones was searching through long-forgotten items stored at her house and discovered some suitcases of old written material, which turned out to be accounts by her father of his experiences in the RNVSR (Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve). She realised that as a child she’d met some of the people mentioned, and although she was too young to truly know them, these youthful impressions spurred her on to rediscovery and understanding. In this absorbing book, Julia tells the compelling stories of the yachtsmen.

In 1945, two brothers die in the icy Barents Sea and a book is all that survives of them. More than 60 years later, Donny and his mother set out for Suffolk to meet his mysterious great aunt. There is an accident and Donny is taken into care. But are the officials all that they seem and why won't they believe Donny's story? Soon he discovers that his life has been built on a lie.

"A través del borde de mi ropa interior, trazó la línea de mis labios mayores, casi haciendo que me viniera en el momento. Debe haber sentido la descarga de corriente que corrió́ por mi sistema cuando me tocó, tiene que haberla sentido…” – Todo está en las manos Si te gusta explorar tus límites sexuales y llevarlos más allá, estos relatos calientes están hechos para ti. Estos relatos te hacen participar de un trío en un club erótico así como seguir de cerca a una mujer deseosa que se arquea de placer entre manos expertas. De pronto, aparecerás en medio de una fantasía de ninfas y faunos.

Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis reveals hard truths—powerful findings on the role of racism, coercion, inadequate prenatal care, the pressures undermining breastfeeding, and the lack of access to alternatives to a broken maternal health-care system as key threads of black women's birth experiences.