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For the past several years, on a farm north of San Francisco, the celebrated writer Alice Walker has diligently cared for a flock of chickens. Over time, her blossoming relationship with “her girls” became a source of inspiration, strength, and spiritual discovery, and helped Walker connect more profoundly with her own past as a girl in rural Georgia. Walker has recorded this journey in The Chicken Chronicles, an extraordinary document of personal discovery, political commitment, and the joys of relating to animals.

Cerys leaves her life behind in a fiery wreck. Lily slips away from hers early one morning, silent as a shadow. Both are mothers, and both are desperate. When the two women are thrown into each other’s paths, they strike a tentative bond. Cerys is a mother with no children to care for anymore, and Lily is doing all she can to take care of a four-year-old on her own. But each keep secrets from the beginning—the scars, the loneliness, and, most importantly, who they actually are. They need to work together to survive, but how can they trust each other?

À San Francisco, au cœur de la Silicon Valley, Alain Damasio met à l'épreuve sa pensée technocritique, dans l'idée de changer d'axe et de regard. Il arpente « le centre du monde » et se laisse traverser par un réel qui le bouleverse. Composé de sept chroniques littéraires et d'une nouvelle de science-fiction inédite, Vallée du silicium déploie un essai technoppoétique troué par des visions qui entrelacent fascination, nostalgie et espoir.

Saga, a skeptical 35-year-old woman, consults a past-life regression therapist to confront the nebulous fear she carries. Why is she so intent on sabotaging her own life? During the initial session, Saga travels back to 1975 to rural Iowa where she embodies 18-year-old Fiona Dolan, a farm girl who has always felt like an outsider, even in her large, Irish Catholic family. Fiona has been labeled as a storyteller, but this is just another way to say they think she is a liar. Even her own mother thinks she's too smart for her own good.

"Les enfants, les bébés, ils les appellent les "petitous". Et c’est vrai qu’ils sont des petits touts. Qu’ils sont un peu de leur mère, un peu de leur père, un peu des grands-parents, un peu de ceux qui sont morts, il y a si longtemps. Tout ce qu’ils leur ont transmis, caché, inventé. Tout. C’est pas toujours facile d’être un petit tout, d’avoir en soi autant d’histoires, autant de gens, de réussir à les faire taire pour inventer encore une petite chose à soi."

Set in Sante Fe, NM this romantic thriller is about Niccola Amato, a classical violinist who crosses over into the popular music genre and is everyone’s darling. Add Reed Redman, a gorgeous computer genius who owns Redman Cyber Securities and Protection Agency, and you have the ingredients for an erupting volcano.

When a beautiful piece of music stirs mega-tycoon Maximilian West, he remembers the women who have loved him and shaped his life. So begins a dazzling tale, taking us from the streets of London to the suites of New York, from the rise of Nazi Germany to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Strong, powerful, enigmatic, aloof, and adoring - many women made Maximilian the man with everything, but there is only one woman who can make him feel truly alive.

Toni Windsor is trying to live a quiet life in the green and pleasant county of Staffordshire. She'd love to finally master the rules of croquet, acquire a decent boyfriend and make some commission as an estate agent. All that might have to wait, though, because there are zombies rising from their graves, vampires sneaking out of their coffins and a murder to solve. And it's all made rather more complicated by the fact that she's the one raising all the zombies.

On their mission to explore the Mariana Trench at the very bottom of the ocean, the deepest and most inhospitable place on Earth, the crew of the deep sea vehicle Erebus make an unusual and startling discovery. A battered blue police box. As the Doctor, Romana and K9 join them on their journey, the submariners soon discover that the TARDIS is not the only unusual find lurking on the sea floor.

Una giovane poetessa vince un concorso e diventa la paroliera ufficiale di una band di successo. Sarà l’inizio di un rapporto a dir poco burrascoso con l’affascinante frontman del gruppo... Ludovica adora la poesia e dà grande importanza alle parole. Quando diventa paroliera dei Sonder, la band del momento, sa di avere finalmente l’occasione di esprimersi a pieno. Tuttavia, l'acceso confronto col cantante Nico, la lascia confusa e piena di dubbi. Riusciranno a mettere da parte le loro differenze?

Je m'appelle Bridget, un prénom de célibataire... ce que je suis ! Je le vis plutôt bien en règle générale. Mais ce soir-là j'étais particulièrement déprimée et j'avais décidé de noyer mon désespoir dans une boîte branchée. C'est là que j'ai rencontré Chad, la star de l'équipe de baseball, un vrai tombeur. Malheureusement, les paparazzis s'en sont mêlés. Fatigué de ses frasques, son manager a posé un ultimatum : si Chad n'arrive pas à convaincre le monde entier que je suis sa petite amie - et pas seulement une conquête d'un soir - il peut dire adieu à son contrat juteux...

Humanity is a superior force that is no longer fragile; being a type 3 civilization. However a new alien threat arises. The new threat could very well, be a blessing in disguise, and could lead to something greater. How will humanity adapt to this? Listen and find out on this edition of The Colony.

La vita ci parla ogni giorno, ma non sempre siamo pronti ad ascoltarla. Ci perdiamo in ciò che non è andato come volevamo, ci aggrappiamo a relazioni che dovremmo lasciare andare, ci convinciamo di non essere abbastanza. E in questi giorni bui, nei periodi più confusi, nei momenti in cui ci sembra che vada tutto storto, cosa c'è di meglio di qualcuno che ci consola e ci tiene la mano? Di qualcuno che ci ricorda che il dolore passerà, che le risposte arriveranno, che troveremo il modo di guarire da ogni ferita?

Pour aller de l'avant, elles devront dessiner le passé... Stella, douce et rêveuse, est passionnée de peinture. Après avoir perdu son emploi, la jeune femme se réfugie chez sa grand-tante, Letizia, qui vit seule dans sa villa sur le lac de Garde. Suite à un étrange jeu de piste orchestré par son défunt grand-oncle, Stella découvre, cachés dans une valise, des dessins qui la bouleversent. Mais quand elle interroge Letizia, celle-ci s'enferme dans un silence obstiné.

Three years ago, Elle (the “E” in the self-proclaimed L.O.V.E. Club) disappeared from Calendula, an affluent Chinese American suburb in inland California. Soon afterward, Liberty and Vera (“L” and “V”) moved away, leaving O alone with her grief, abandonment, and confusion. . . until Liberty and Vera return for their senior year of high school. Though the L.O.V.E. Club’s three remaining members once bonded as outcasts and gamers, they can’t pick up the pieces of their friendship. But the girls are drawn back to their old clubhouse, where they discover, loaded for them to play, a new game.

Meet Brooklyn. She’s a single mother of two, and although she’s taken hits in her life, she’s gotten through them all. Meet Paige. She’s a single mother too, and she’s so overwhelmed that she’s contemplating ending it all. But in a last-ditch effort to find help, she goes to a support group for single parents. That’s where she meets Brooklyn—and through Brooklyn’s story, she finds a second chance at life.

Elloren Gardner e i suoi amici stavano solo cercando di riparare qualche torto quando hanno salvato una Selkie e liberato un drago militare. Non si sarebbero mai sognati di venire coinvolti in una resistenza clandestina contro l'avanzata gardneriana. Mentre la Resistenza si oppone alle dure decisioni del Concilio dei Maghi, i soldati gardneriani piombano sull'Università... guidati nientemeno che da Lukas Grey, ora comandante della vicina base militare.

Ghosted follows the journey of paranormal investigations from the Victorian era to the modern day, examining how our fascination with ghost hunting has changed alongside technology and culture. Where we once gathered around tables, observing and recording every movement of the medium, we now take electronic equipment and app-laden phones around haunted locations to catch ghosts digitally.

Eleonora stringe tra le mani un bauletto che custodisce ricette con ingredienti speciali: il Coraggio, la comprensione, la Fiducia in sé stessi, la Gentilezza… Basta usarne solo un pizzico per creare l'Amore, la Speranza, il Perdono. Ma dove trovarli? Eleonora non lo sa, eppure inizia a cercarli, perché quelle ricette sono l'ultimo ricordo della nonna Ernesta. È stata lei a insegnarle che cucinare è molto più che "far da mangiare": è anche un atto di guarigione, per gli altri e per sé stessi.

The Leadership Code: A Woman's Guide to Success by Devyani Patel is essential for women aspiring to leadership roles in today's complex corporate world. Drawing on her extensive international experience, Patel provides practical strategies and insights to help women navigate the unique challenges they face in the workplace and develop skills needed to succeed in a leadership role.