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What do you eat when you're eating for two? Get the complete guide to pregnancy nutrition. Knowing what to eat during the different stages of your pregnancy can feel daunting, but The Whole 9 Months is here to ease your worries! Written by Dr. Jennifer Lang, an OB-GYN and mother of three, and with recipes from dietician Dana Angelo White, it's a friendly, simple, resource for eating with confidence while pregnant.

In the scorching summer of 1989, my second child, a son, entered the world, setting in motion a life-altering journey. Just four months later, a virus thrust him into a hospital, casting an uncertain shadow on our future.

The Lanterns of Lost Tomorrows is part of the Before Your Dream series—poetic sleep stories for grown-ups, designed to calm the breath, slow the heart, and ease the mind into rest. If you enjoy meditative fiction, calming bedtime listening, or emotionally grounded narratives without conflict or noise, this tranquil tale offers a quiet sanctuary.

A sleep story for adults — written to soften the breath, slow the heart, and invite stillness. Some letters are never lost. They wait quietly inside forgotten books, folded in silence, until the right reader finds them. On a rainy afternoon in an Oxford library, a scholar discovers an envelope with her name written in a hand from the year 1402. The seal has crumbled. The ink is warm brown. And the letter begins — not with urgency, but with care. As she follows its presence into deeper corridors and candle-lit rooms that shouldn’t exist, the past begins to unfold beside her.

The second adventure of Popysan the Green Dragon Popysan receives a mysterious golden artefact from a passing merchant, possibly part of the horn of an ancient Golden Unicorn. However, it is now believed no Golden Unicorns survive, as they lived on the earth, long before fish swam in the sea and birds flew in the air. Popysan sets out on an incredible adventure to try and find the Golden Unicorns and reunite the broken horn with its owner. Along the way she finds many new friends, crosses the great expanse and fights the evil grey Varger.

Across centuries and continents, real love stories unfolded quietly behind palace doors, in secret letters, and across battlefields unseen by history textbooks but etched in time. Scandalous and Sacred dives deep into the lives of real couples who dared to love beyond society’s rigid lines of race, class, gender, and religion.

The Bird That Dreamt in Colours is not a story to rush through; it is a story to settle into. Written in the meditative, lyrical style of literary short fiction, it has been crafted for slow listening, for quiet evenings and bedtime hours. With imagery that soothes and rhythms that calm, this tale is designed to help you pause, breathe, and feel the world soften around you.

The Lantern Lit Sanctuary is a gentle, atmospheric work of literary fiction for bedtime listening. It is crafted for those who love contemplative short stories, slow-living fiction set in poetic forests, and dreamlike prose where every detail glows softly in the mind. In a forest where the air carries the scent of cedar and old parchment, lanterns glow with quiet memory and time moves with unhurried grace. Travellers follow a winding path of light to a hidden wooden door, half-concealed by ivy.

In this gentle, poetic story, a solitary figure drifts across silver fields beneath a sky the colour of pewter. The grasses whisper lullabies as the last stars of evening pulse like soft companions. Drawn by a pull older than time, they arrive at a threshold where objects of completed lives rest quietly: a glove worn smooth, a sigh captured in glass, a bird that dreamed of flight. Each object belongs to someone who once sought peace here, and each carries the hush of release.

When Jenny and Greg stumble upon a mysterious crimson ornament, they unknowingly invite an ancient darkness into their home, a presence hungry for blood and steeped in centuries-old secrets. As the festive decorations around their tree twist into sinister forms, Jenny and Greg are thrust into a battle for their lives and their very souls. The ornament binds them to an ancient curse, where shadows take shape, whispers echo in the dark, and the spirit of Christmas is consumed by something far more malevolent.

Coup De’Estate Silas has been punished most of his life—for thinking too much, for standing too straight, for asking the wrong questions. Now the rules are changing. A new enforcer has taken over. The Mistress is climbing toward power. Corruption seeps through the estate like smoke—and Silas, along with his troublemaking friends, is somehow caught in the middle. Growing up was never supposed to be this complicated. Coup De’Estate is a sharp, darkly funny tale of boyhood, brutality, and the people power tries to break.