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Author
Publisher
Bright Light, Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From my head to my toes, I say what goes! is a light-hearted exploration of boundaries, nestled in a fun and lively story. The book discusses consent and control for a young audience, through a story that is bold and beautiful, loud and proud. With the feel-good factor turned up to eleven, it also celebrates individualism, inclusivity and empathy"--
"From My Head to My Toes, I Say What Goes! is a light-hearted exploration of boundaries, nestled...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From "a writer at the top of her game" (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh, quietly obtains an abortion without telling her husband,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A compelling memoir about opting for adventure instead of motherhood, and the lifelong outcomes of that choice. Instead captures Maria Coffey's adventurous life through her biggest decisions along the way, including the decision not to have children. It's a vivid travelogue, a love story, and a personal commentary on the risks and rewards of choosing unconventional paths. After two traumatic experiences during her twenties - a near-drowning in Morocco...
5) Dekalog
Series
Criterion collection volume 837
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Polish
Description
It focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Using the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, the ten hour-long films deftly grapple with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.
Originally made...
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"What does a gal have to do to get a good date in this town? Adele Harris can't even begin to answer that question. She's had so many lousy dates that she's sure she's cursed. Why else would every man she goes out with suddenly act like he's lost his mind—and his manners? Adele thought life couldn't get any more confusing . . . until she learns the marriage of her seemingly Miss Perfect sister is on the rocks. So she goes back to their hometown...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Maddie is determined to uncover the untold story about the town's sordid past—her past. As a child, Maddie lost everything, and now she's back at the scene of the scandal—a local establishment that's always belonged to the Hennessys—determined to uncover the truth, and nothing is going to stand in her way. Especially not a black-haired, blue-eyed Hennessy. Everyone in Truly knows that the Hennessy men are irresistible, and the current owner,...
8) Burning wild
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Billionaire and single father Jake Bannaconni hides the fact that he is a shape shifter from everyone he cares about, but when the beautiful Emma Reynolds turns Jake's life upside down, he wonders if she is the one who will be able to change his life forever.
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bring… Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can't help feeling something's missing. Is it a home to call her own? Travel? A more rewarding job? A relationship? Before she can work...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Salma, a Bedouin woman who was forced out of her village after giving birth to a child out of wedlock, creates a new identity in England, but soon becomes preoccupied with returning to her homeland to find the daughter who was taken from her.
Author
Series
Kilts and quilts volume 1
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the charming Scottish seaside town of Gandiegow? where two people have returned home for different reasons, but to find the same thing? Caitriona Macleod gave up her career as an investigative reporter for the role of perfect wife. But after her husband is found dead in his mistress's bed, a devastated Cait leaves Chicago for the birthplace she hasn't seen since she was a child. She's hoping to heal and to reconnect with her gran. The...
12) Miseria
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
LA CONSAGRACIÓN DE UNA DE LAS GRANDES SORPRESAS DE LA LITERATURA LATINOAMERICANA Por la autora de Cometierra, «una revelación lectora» (Babelia) y uno de los mejores libros del año para The New York Times, El País y El Cultural, traducido a doce idiomas. «La escritura de Dolores Reyes es visceral y urgente, pero también se inscribe en la tradición más poderosa del fantástico y el policial, al tiempo que piensa la violencia de género...
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