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The Breastfeeding Survival Guide: How to feel confident looking after your baby (and yourself)
by Danielle Facey'This is the book I wish I’d had during my own breastfeeding journey.' – Sophie Harris, postpartum and motherhood therapist @looking_after_mum'This book is a great resource for expectant parents and parents breastfeeding or pumping. It’s easy to read and ideal for referring to throughout your entire feeding journey.' – Ruth Watts @ahealthvisitorYou're looking after your baby ... who's looking after you?Feeding your baby is supposed to feel natural – but for so many of us, it doesn't. Between the hormones, birth recovery and the pressure to 'get it right', breastfeeding can feel overwhelming, isolating and impossibly hard. Enter Danielle Facey, The Breastfeeding Mentor, with this no-judgement, evidence-based guide to help you start – and end – your breastfeeding/pumping journey feeling fully informed and supported.The Breastfeeding Survival Guide will help you:Feel confident about your choicesUnderstand and navigate the challenges of establishing feeding, and overcome common problemsPlan your return to work if you want to keep breastfeedingWean your baby or toddler in a gentle way when it's time to stopWhether your breastfeeding journey lasts three weeks or three years, this book will remind you that you're not alone – and that your needs matter too. With warmth, wisdom and heart, Danielle helps you not only survive, but thrive.
Rush: A Fast-Paced F1 Romance Full of Rivalry, Fake Dating, and True Feelings - For Fans of Liz Tomforde and Emily Rath
by Emilee CarterShe’s Racing for the Win, But Who’s Taking Pole Position in Her Heart?--Revolution Racing has its first all female team. Rookie Savannah Hart is ready to prove herself.Even though Savi grew up on a ranch in Wyoming, she’s happiest on the racetrackHer secret relationship with country music star Jesse Motalvo could ruin everything. Can she stay focused and win the championship?Enter Marco De Luca: an all-star driver and a hopeless romantic.He agrees to fake-date Savi to keep the press off her famous boyfriend’s trail.But falling for her for real was not part of the plan.When things go wrong with Jesse, Marco is there to steer her right.Will Savi see that she and Marco make a winning team on and off the track?Tropes:Fake datingSecret relationshipSports romanceHe falls firstWorkplace romance
Homo Criminalis: How crime organises the world
by Mark Galeotti'Glittering... the author’s obvious enthusiasm for the subject is matched by impressive erudition' The Spectator'The readable, scary, fun beach read of new crime literature' Financial TimesWhen does a bandit become a monarch? When does a gang become a government? And is organised crime at the heart of every modern state?On a thrilling whistle-stop tour of how the world's criminal underbelly has shaped state-making, capitalism, globalisation and all forms of so-called legitimate power, Homo Criminalis shows the emergence of modern society through the evolution of the underworld and its crimes. From Chinese banditry and eighteenth-century English tea smuggling to today's cocaine submarines and the high-tech crimes of tomorrow, this book shows us how the world's dark underbelly shapes us, no matter how we try to outpace it.Entertaining, engaging and packed full of fascinating stories, Homo Criminalis is a book for those who want to see our grand story of progress through the surprising and subversive new lens of organised crime.
The Good Decision Diary: Your daily guide to making better decisions, more of the time
by Anna Mathur'A guiding star in a world filled with infinite choices' - Emma Reed TurrellThe gentle guide to getting where you want to go, without beating yourself up on the way there.I'll never eat sugar again!I’ll work out every single morning!I will never, ever shout at my kids!Sound familiar? Anna Mathur, Sunday Times bestselling author and psychotherapist, has been there too. In The Good Decision Diary, Anna introduces a compassionate and realistic alternative to unsustainable promises. This isn’t about perfection - it’s about progress.The journey begins with 21 days of reflection and observation, where Anna shares her own experiences and equips you with tools to approach change with kindness and curiosity.From there, she gently guides you through a 14-day practice of questioning behaviours, challenging long-held beliefs about change, and identifying patterns of self-sabotage. You’ll discover how a decision that nurtures you one day can hinder you the next - and how to tell the difference in the moment.The Good Decision Diary will help you make better decisions, not all of the time, but more of the time.'An essential companion' - Zoe Blaskey'Compassionate, real, and quietly powerful' - Simon Gilham
The Moonlighters: A magical new story from the bestselling author of The Last Firefox
by Lee NewberyPeter Pan meets Oliver Twist in the magical new book by rising star Lee Newbery, author of Waterstones Children's Book of the Month, The Last Firefox.When ten-year-old Theo runs off from a school trip to London's Natural History Museum and decides to pay his gran a surprise visit, he discovers the surprise is on him - his gran is on holiday and Theo finds himself alone in the big city with nowhere to turn.Enter Alistair Goodfellow, a mysterious, flamboyant young person with a charismatic twinkle in their eye. Alistair offers Theo a room at the Casablanca Lily - by day, a run-down and unloved hotel; by night, a palace of magical wonders.Each night, Alistair sends their found family of runaways and ne'er-do-wells, the Moonlighters, out into London in search of lost magical artefacts, gifting them their own magical powers as a reward.Theo is quickly enthralled, but there is more to Alistair than meets the eye, and soon Theo comes to realize that the items Alistair is hunting could be more dangerous than he'd ever imagined . . .'A thrilling and enchanting adventure, humming with magic, fizzing with fun and friendship . . . a delight from start to finish.' Lancaster Guardian
Tot Op Het Bot
by Jan Coffey May McGoldrickVan USA Today-bestsellerauteur Jan Coffey komt een meeslepend verhaal over verraad en moord. Een vrouw rent door de schitterende straten van Newport met moordenaars op haar hielen. Ze heeft hulp nodig. Ze heeft iemand nodig die ze kan vertrouwen... Advocate Sarah Rand dacht dat ze het gevaar achter zich had gelaten, totdat ze thuiskwam en ontdekte dat ze dood was verklaard. Na haar terugkeer van een reis naar het buitenland ontdekt Sarah dat de kranten vol staan met verslagen over een moord - op haar! Verbijsterd stelt ze vast dat het echte slachtoffer een vriendin is die tijdens haar afwezigheid in haar appartement logeerde. Niemand weet dat Sarah nog in leven is... behalve de moordenaars. Ten einde raad zoekt Sarah antwoorden op haar vragen. Waarom wordt haar baas, een vooraanstaand rechter, de moord in de schoenen geschoven? Wat heeft zij, of weet zij in hemelsnaam dat zo belangrijk is dat iemand haar ervoor wil vermoorden? Welke rol speelt haar ex-verloofde in dit angstaanjagende spel? Terwijl het gevaar steeds dichterbij komt, wordt Sarah gedwongen de hulp van Owen Dean in te roepen, een man die ze nauwelijks kent en die zijn eigen geheimen heeft. Maar als ze in leven wil blijven, heeft ze iemand nodig die ze kan vertrouwen...
Edge of Worlds (The Books of the Raksura)
by Martha WellsAn expedition of groundlings from the Empire of Kish have traveled through the Three Worlds to the Indigo Cloud court of the Raksura, shape-shifting creatures of flight that live in large family groups. The groundlings have found a sealed ancient city at the edge of the shallow seas, near the deeps of the impassable Ocean. They believe it to be the last home of their ancestors and ask for help getting inside. But the Raksura fear it was built by their own distant ancestors, the Forerunners, and the last sealed Forerunner city they encountered was a prison for an unstoppable evil.Prior to the groundlings&’ arrival, the Indigo Cloud court had been plagued by visions of a disaster that could destroy all the courts in the Reaches. Now, the court&’s mentors believe the ancient city is connected to the foretold danger. A small group of warriors, including consort Moon, an orphan new to the colony and the Raksura&’s idea of family, and sister queen Jade, agree to go with the groundling expedition to investigate. But the predatory Fell have found the city too, and in the race to keep the danger contained, the Raksura may be the ones who inadvertently release it.The Edge of Worlds, from celebrated fantasy author Martha Wells, returns to the fascinating world of The Cloud Roads for the first book in a new series of strange lands, uncanny beings, dead cities, and ancient danger.
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
by Laird BarronOver the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with hardboiled noir, espionage, and a scientific backbone, Barron&’s stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year&’s best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards.Barron returns with his third collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. Collecting interlinking tales of sublime cosmic horror, including &“Blackwood&’s Baby,&” &“The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven,&” and &“The Men from Porlock,&” The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All delivers enough spine-chilling horror to satisfy even the most jaded reader.
Black and Deep Desires: William Shakespeare, Vampire Hunter
by Graham HoldernessWho was the real architect of the Gunpowder Plot? Who was the first person to wear a Guy Fawkes mask? Why was Shakespeare&’s Dark Lady dark? These and many other questions are answered in Graham Holderness&’s new novel, which combines historical fiction, psychological mystery and supernatural thriller in a highly original and imaginative re-telling of the Gunpowder Plot. It is 1604. The Gunpowder Plotters are tunnelling under the palace of Westminster, and confront an immovable obstacle. Guy Fawkes travels to Europe to fetch help, and brings back more than he bargained for. Who is the mysterious Dark Lady? Who is the man in the mask? Why is London over-run by a plague of vampires, and who is going to defeat them? From a Westminster vault to a Transylvanian mine, from the crypt of Lambeth Palace to the under-stage of the Globe theatre, Black and Deep Desires takes the reader on a tour of historical, psychological and mythical underworlds, delving deep into some of history&’s unexplored corridors, into the secret thoughts of Catholic terrorists, and into the dark wellsprings of Shakespeare&’s poetry. In Black and Deep Desires Graham Holderness combines the expertise of an internationally-recognised Shakespeare scholar, the narrative flair of his 2001 novel The Prince of Denmark, and the poetic sensibility that won his verse collection Craeft a Poetry Book Society award.
The Senator's Assignment
by Joan E. HistonBeing trusted by a Caesar makes him an enemy of the Roman who crucified Jesus Christ, and puts him under threat from Rome itself… Rome 30 AD. A Senator is plunged into the dark heart of the Roman Empire, sent to investigate the corrupt practices of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem by Caesar Tiberius. In this tense historical thriller can Senator Vivius Marcianus outmanoeuvre charges of treason, devastating secrets resurfaced from his own troubled past, and the political snake pit of Rome to save himself and the woman he loves?
Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters
by Ben Burgis'Burgis offers a fascinating and nuanced dive into the life, work, and political views of Christopher Hitchens. It&’s rare to come across a book that manages to combine an enjoyable and informative mix of history, philosophy, religion, and biography. Burgis accomplishes this difficult task well, and also helps the reader to interpret today&’s political climate.' Ana Kasparian, host and executive producer, The Young TurksWhile his post-9/11 turn to the right has defined Christopher Hitchens for the last two decades, we may now be in a position to rehabilitate his long pre-9/11 career as a left-wing polemicist. Burgis reminds readers about what was best in Hitchens's writings and helps us gain a better understanding of how someone whose whole political life was animated by the values of the socialist left could have ended up holding grotesque positions on Iraq and the War on Terror. Burgis' book makes a case for the enduring importance of engaging with Hitchen's complicated legacy.
The Voyage of the Sable Keech (Spatterjay)
by Neal AsherSable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus, or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater? Tracing the man's last-known seaborne journey, Taylor Bloc wants to know the truth. He also wants so much else – adulation, power, control – and will go to any lengths to achieve them. An ancient hive mind, almost incomprehensible to the human race, has sent an agent to this uncertain world. Does it simply want to obtain the poison 'sprine' that is crucial to immortality – and, if so, maybe Janer must find it and stop it. Meanwhile, still faced with the ennui of immortality, Erlin has her solitude rudely interrupted by a very angry whelkus titanicus, and begins the strangest of journeys. Deep in the ocean the Spatterjay virus has wrought a terrible change that will affect them all. Something dormant for ten years is breaking free, and once again the aftershocks of an ancient war will focus on this watery world. And Sniper, for ten years the Warden of Spatterjay, finally takes delivery of his new drone shell. It's much better than his old one: powerful engines, more lethal weapons, thicker armour. He's going to need them.
Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society: Grassroots Strategies for Social Change
by Yavor TarinskiYavor Tarinski examines the fundamental conflict between democratic aspirations and the imposed norms of capitalism, the potential for directly democratic and ecologically designed cities, the imperative to renew the commons, and the prospects for a genuine solidarity economy to overturn the ravages of capitalist economic growth. It critiques bureaucratic, technocratic and conspiracist tendencies both in mainstream discourse and on the Left, and offers a compelling and uplifting vision of a thoroughly transformed social order.
Scratching the Surface: Posties, Privatisation and Strikes in the Royal Mail
by Phil ChadwickSince 2000, there has been an ideologically driven experiment carried out in the UK to change the postal service provided by Royal Mail, to one beholden to the mantra of competition, profit and privatisation. This is the story of those in the frontline of change.
How I Left The National Grid: A Post-Punk Novel
by Guy MankowskiIn the 1980s Robert Wardner, eccentric frontman of post-punk band &‘The National Grid&’ became famous overnight after committing an act on Top Of The Pops that shocked a nation. But a year later he had vanished, leaving a 'masterpiece' record abandoned in his wake. More darkly, rumours grew that his disappearance was due to him having brutally murdered an obsessed young fan. Twenty-five years later word has spread that the singer is alive and scheming to re-emerge. Sam, a journalist who helped first bring his band to the public eye, is commissioned to track Wardner down so he will at last tell his story for a book. Finding Wardner is the only way for Sam to save his collapsed career and relationship. But it gradually becomes apparent that by cornering his quarry Sam may in fact be planning his own murder.
The Books of the Raksura
by Martha WellsThe Complete Raksura Series, by Martha Wells. Containing Cloud Roads (2011), The Serpent Sea (2012), The Siren Depths (2013).
A Left for Itself: Left-wing Hobbyists and Performative Radicalism
by David SwiftIn the first full length analysis of the rise of left-wing hobbyists, performative radicals and the 'Identity Left', A Left for Itself interrogates the connection between socio-economic realities and politico-cultural views and boldly asks what is a worthy politics, one for the follower count or one for effecting change.
Unlock Your Psychic Powers
by Richard LawrenceEveryone can be psychic. There&’s nothing strange about it. It&’s just another part of being human… I wasn&’t born with any &‘gift&’ - I learnt from scratch. SO CAN YOU! Richard Lawrence. Psychic touch, clairvoyance and channelling really work. This new, improved edition, containing eleven additional exercises, used over many years by thousands of people around the world with outstanding results, also contains a Foreword by legendary rock musician Dave Davies of The Kinks, who describes Richard as …a powerful psychic… a wonderful healer and an outstanding spiritual teacher…
Deadroads
by Robin RiopelleThe Sarrazins have always stood apart from the rest of their Bayou-born neighbors. Almost as far apart as they prefer to stand from each other. Blessed—or cursed—with the uncanny ability to see beyond the spectral plain, Aurie has raised his children, Sol, Baz, and Lutie, in the tradition of the traiteur, finding wayward spirits and using his special gift to release them along Deadroads into the afterworld. The family, however, fractured by their clashing egos, drifted apart, scattered high and low across the continent.But tragedy serves to bring them together. When Aurie, while investigating a series of ghastly (and ghostly) murders, is himself killed by a devil, Sol, EMT by day and traiteur by night, Baz, a travelling musician with a truly spiritual voice, and Lutie, combating her eerie visions with antipsychotics, are thrown headlong into a world of gory spirits, brilliant angels, and nefarious demons—small potatoes compared to reconciling their familial differences.From the Louisiana swamps to the snowfields of the north and everywhere in between, Deadroads summons you onto a mysterious trail of paranormal proportions.
Grendel's Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife
by Susan Signe MorrisonAn amber bead. A gold and glass drinking horn. A ring engraved with Thor&’s hammer – all artifacts from a Germanic tribe that carved a space for itself through brutality and violence on a windswept land . Brimhild weaves peace and conveys culture to the kingdom, until the secret of her birth threatens to tear apart the fragile political stability. This is her story – the tale of Grendel&’s Mother. She is no monster as portrayed in the Old English epic, Beowulf. We learn her side of the story and that of her defamed child. We see the many passages of her life: the brine-baby who floated mysteriously to shore; the hall-queen presiding over the triumphant building of the golden hall Heorot and victim of sexual and political betrayal; the exiled mere-wife, who ekes out a marginal life by an uncanny bog as a healer and contends with the menacing Beowulf; and the seer, who prophesizes what will occur to her adopted people. We learn how the invasion by brutal men is not a fairy tale, but a disaster doomed to cycle relentlessly through human history. Only the surviving women can sing poignant laments, preserve a glittering culture, and provide hope for the future.
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year
by Jonathan StrahanThe depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.
Because I Had To
by David Bulitt"... Don't miss this keenly observed, smart, funny, and well-crafted book!"-Lyric Winik, NYT Award Winning WriterJess Porter spent her childhood bouncing from therapist to therapist and prescription to prescription. An outcast at school and a misfit at home, the only solace she ever found was in her relationship with her dad, Tom. Now he's dead. Feeling rejected by her adopted mom and her biological twin sister, Jess runs off to South Florida. But she can't outrun her old life. Watching the blood drip down her arm after her latest round of self-inflicted cutting, she decides her only choice is to find and face what frightens her most. Because I Had To takes the reader inside the worlds of adoption, teen therapy, family law, and the search for a biological family. With a cast of finely drawn, complicated characters, it asks us to consider: can the present ever heal the past?
Politics by Other Means: Selected Criticism from Review 31
by Houman Barekat and Alison HugillLaunched in October 2011, the online literary journal Review 31 - www.review31.co.uk - enjoys a growing reputation as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful literary resources on the web. Publishing accessible and informed reviews of the most interesting new titles, Review 31 covers non-fiction books on politics, history, art & culture, as well as literary fiction. This volume is a collection of the site&’s very best reviews on art, culture & theory. Contributors include Nina Power, Benjamin Noys, Ian Birchall, Gee Williams, Robert Barry and Sebastian Truskolaski. The volume covers an expansive array of topics from hipsterism and digital technology to the rise of what Neal Curtis calls &‘idiotism&’ in contemporary culture, through literary theory, architecture and continental philosophy. The title - a nod, of course, to Clausewitz&’s famous dictum that war is &‘politics by other means&’ - is an acknowledgement of the radical political current that informs much of the criticism in these pages.
Dead People
by Morgan Meis Stefany Anne GolbergDead People is a book of eulogies, written for an eclectic assortment of famous and interesting people who died in recent years. The essays were written by Stefany Anne Golberg and 2013 Whiting Award winner Morgan Meis. The book covers twenty-eight dead people in all, including intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Christopher Hitchens and Eric Hobsbawn; musicians like Sun Ra, MCA (Beastie Boys) and Kurt Cobain; writers like David Foster Wallace, John Updike and Tom Clancy; artists like Thomas Kinkade and Robert Rauschenberg; and controversial political figures like Osama bin Laden and Mikhail Kalashnikov.
Bio-Politicizing Cary Grant: Pressing Race, Class and Ethnicity into Service in "Amerika"
by Joshua David GonsalvesWho will Cary Grant have been when the future runs out? In the atrocity-rich wake of Hiroshima, Cold War America is enriched beyond belief. Hollywood radiates, in turn, images of a consumer utopia criss-crossed by segregation, social mobility, racial passing, anxieties about ethnicity and &“white panic&”. Cary Grant&’s class-less classiness seems to denote this (sub)urban leisure class without an effort, yet he signifies more than this: ambivalent, bi-sex&’d, inter-sected by the biopolitics of racialization, the policing of sexual agency and stereotypical ethnic identifications (including the invisible Anglo instanced by the high-angle shot). If biopolitics signifies the individuated control of populations, Bio-Politicizing Cary Grant: Pressing Race, Class and Ethnicity into Service in Amerika locates this anxious racialization of service persons, interracial sexuality and social mobility (passing) in an Americanized simulacrum of the Mediterranean world in To Catch a Thief (1955) and in a New York/Northeast-centered USA in North by Northwest (1959). Bio-Politicizing Cary Grant queries the criticism of Alfred J. Hitchcock&’s films so as to historically situate one of the first free agents in Hollywood. Yet this semblance of freedom pays a price in meat, murder, massification and the organized homicide of Cold War geopolitics. The book explicates, in sum, the ethnic, racial and sexual ambiguity of Cary Grant&’s star persona as both an inculcation of (and resistance to) biopolitical imperatives in fifties-era &“America&”.