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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
From pasties to postpartum and everything in between
No one said motherhood would be easy. For Adiba Nelson, the journey to parenthood started with a big bang and continues with a breakdown (or two) and several "why?" questions for God.
Witty and bold, Afro-Latina Adiba grew up in survival mode. Her sometimes complicated relationship with her strong-willed, vibrant, religious mother marked her views of mothering and love. When a chance encounter with...
Author
Publisher
Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
From conducting top-secret missions to making Australian submarine history, Commodore Peter Scott depicts what it takes to be a Submariner. Over a decorated 34-year career, Commodore Scott served in 10 submarines, passed the most demanding military command course in the world and served as the Head of Profession of the Submarine Arm of the Royal Australian Navy. During that time his character was forged by the challenges of naval service, success...
4) Minnie: The remarkable story of a true trailblazer who found freedom and adventure in the outback
Author
Publisher
Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The inspiring story of a feisty pioneering woman who sought freedom and adventure in the outback and became the first woman to work as an opal miner in Australia.
People always asked her if she was ever afraid, living out in the desert alone with all those rough and scruffy men. But Minnie Berrington was not the faint-hearted type, and never had been. Being tough came naturally to her, growing up with three brothers and a family that went from riches...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Newly Reissued
New York Times Bestselling Author
When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers. With Paula, Allende has written a powerful...
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Language
English
Description
“The Education of Kendrick Perkins” is an intimate memoir about race, fatherhood, and basketball, from former NBA player and outspoken cultural critic, Kendrick "Perk" Perkins.
At age eighteen, Kendrick Perkins left his grandparents' run-down yellow house in Beaumont, Texas for the last time. Sure, he'd traveled the country for camps and tournaments. He'd banged and bruised with the biggest and most skilled players the amateur basketball world...
Author
Publisher
Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you have to face up to your own addictions? Mental illnesses rain down on those you love? Parents die, careers end, love is found in unexpected places.
As a journalist, Kate Legge often sought answers to how people reckon with bad hands dealt or bad decisions. Then came her own search when faced with her husband's affair that unearthed a fault line of unfaithfulness running through...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Dinero, drogas y cárteles: eso es lo que el novato agente del FBI esperaba tener cuando lo enviaron al pueblo fronterizo de Laredo; pero en cambio, se encontró con una tarea sedentaria, redactando reportes de inteligencia acerca de la guerra contra el narcotráfico. Hasta que, un día, le piden a Lawson que chequee una pista anónima: un caballo que se vendió en una subasta en Oklahoma por un precio mucho más elevado de lo usual, y el comprador...
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Deutsch
Description
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) ist der Schöpfer des monumentalen Romans "Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit", eines der bedeutendsten erzählenden Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts. Proust schrieb auch Gesellschaftskolumnen und gewann als Salonlöwe Einblicke in das mondäne Leben, das er später in seinem Meisterwerk so treffend beschrieb. Engagiert, originell und höchst persönlich führt C. Bernd Sucher, der bekannte Kritiker und Journalist, zusammen...
11) Black Magic
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Language
English
Description
A powerful exploration of Black achievement in a white world based on honest, provocative, and moving interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists, and champions.
"I remember the day I realized I couldn't play a white guy as well as a white guy. It felt like a death sentence for my career."
When Chad Sanders landed his first job in lily-white Silicon Valley, he quickly realized that to be successful at work meant playing a certain...
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Deutsch
Description
Am 30. August 2015 feiert Helge Schneider seinen 60. Geburtstag. Der Komiker, Kabarettist, Buchautor, Schauspieler und Multiinstrumentalist wuchs in Mülheim an der Ruhr auf. Seinen Durchbruch hatte Helge Schneider 1992 mit seinem Album Guten Tach, 1994 stürmte sein Hit Katzenklo die Charts. In den Folgejahren drehte er fünf eigene Kinofilme, u. a. die 00 Schneider-Filme, spielte in diversen Filmproduktionen, schrieb Bücher und veröffentlichte...
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English
Description
An investigation into the failings of Australia's mental healthcare system, grounded in a personal story of a mother–daughter relationship
Journalist Elfy Scott grew up in a household where her mother's schizophrenia was rarely, if ever, spoken about. They navigated this silence outside the family home too; for many years, this complex mental health condition was treated as an open secret.
Over the past two decades, we have started talking more...
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English
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A heart-warming journey with parents of a certain age and a son who thinks he knows best.
Of course, we love our parents. Even if they do so many things that drive us bonkers.
Like how a mother - for argument's sake, let's say mine - taps her fingernails on the car window whenever she sees a place of interest (seven taps for a regular haunt, up to twenty for somewhere fascinating). Or the way a father - let's call him Dad - practises deafness but...
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English
Description
If Crazy Rich Asians and a Greek tragedy had a literary offspring, it would be the spitting image of Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? The true story of resolute immigration lawyer and activist Loida Lewis, Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? begins with Loida's adventure-packed Philippine upbringing. A torrid love affair with brilliant, irascible financier Reginald Lewis follows, as does regal living in Manhattan and Paris, and gut-wrenching loss,...
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English
Description
For fans of Really Good Actually and I'm Glad My Mom Died
'A deftness that catches your breath' - Fern Brady
'An incredible piece of writing' - Brett Goldstein
'Interrogates moments of trauma with insight, kindness and humanity' - John Robins
This is a book about mistakes. And why we should de-flower shame in all its messy, complicated glory...
Hello!
It's Lou here...
I've poured my heart and guts on to the page and shared my soul in this...
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English
Description
Ever wondered what it's like to be a supply teacher? This is the book for you! Artist and illustrator Guy Newmountain, a time-served teacher at the chalk-face for 25 years and a familiar sight to thousands of pupils across the spectrum from nursery to sixth form, tells a succession of school-related anecdotes with a healthy dose of self-deprecating humour. Some are hysterically funny and a few sad; others heart-stopping and deadly serious…
Guy...
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Deutsch
Description
Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945) ist vor allem als Lyrikerin bekannt. Aber neben ihren Gedichten sind es die Theaterstücke, die sie berühmt gemacht haben, allen voran das Drama "Die Wupper". Sie schrieb zunächst schwärmerisch und visionär, wurde aber zunehmend schwermütig. Nicht nur in ihren Dichtungen, auch in ihrem Leben. Aus einer unziemlich verrückten Bohemienne wurde eine depressive, einsame Frau, die aber eine Hoffnung nie aufgab: gerettet...
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Deutsch
Description
Heiner Lauterbach zählt zu Deutschlands beliebtesten und meistbeschäftigten Film- und Fernsehstars. In den letzten Jahren vollzog der einstige Macho vom Dienst eine rigorose Wandlung. Er hat sich im besten Sinne neu erfunden: Als
Schauspieler, als Mann und Familienvater, als Mensch und Partner. Der Mann, der lange im Leben nichts ausgelassen und dafür manche Quittung verpasst bekommen hat, blickt zu seinem 60 Geburtstag gelassener und selbstkritischer...
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Deutsch
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Die wilde Karriere der ROLLING STONES - jetzt zum ersten Mal als Audiostory! Vor 50 Jahren standen sie zum ersten Mal auf der Bühne. Damit sind sie die dienstälteste Rock-Band der Welt. Die Audiostory erzählt, wie Mick, Keith und Co. zusammenfanden und ihr Manager sie zum bösen Gegenstück der braven Beatles machte. Wie sich die Band trotz Krisen und Drogen-Exzessen immer wieder aufraffte und neu erfand wird ebenso detailliert beschrieben wie...
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