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"We live so far in the backwoods, we have to pump sunshine through hollow logs," young Susanette's daddy says, when asked where the Howell family lives. Their cracker house, which has never been slapped by a loaded paintbrush, sits on a small tobacco farm near the Suwannee River in North Florida, 18 miles from the small town of Live Oak - a town that was, at the turn of the 19th century, the fifth largest town in Florida and the largest inland city in the state.

When Jo Brand hosted Have I Got News For You late last year, her calm explanation of the effects of sexism on women to a bemused all-male cast turned into a viral phenomenon. There has been a whole tradition of books over hundreds of years where a father shares his wisdom with his son - started by Lord Chesterfield in the 18th century - while women have been silent (aka bullied into thinking their advice wasn't worth writing down). This book puts a stop to all that.

Thinking of going vegan but afraid to make the first step? If so, then Vegan Diet for Beginners is the right book for you! What's a vegan diet? A vegan diet means that you eat no animal products containing dairy products. Eradicating what makes up the majority of foods used in the typical American diet can be extremely overwhelming. My first suggestion is to transition in steps, and don't do it all at once. Take a slow start.

When a string of bodies are discovered high up in the branches of trees near the Canadian border, FBI Special Agent Katie Winter is called in to hunt down the killer responsible for the bizarre crime. What can his signature mean? And where will he strike again?

The warm weather brings brief but welcome relief to the unforgiving Canadian terrain—but with the melting of the snow comes a horrifying discovery. FBI Special Agent Katie Winter follows the killer down a dark and dangerous path—but can she solve the case before it swallows her whole?

For all professionals, knowledge of the key elements of high-quality leadership is vital, whether they are existing managers, taking on additional managerial responsibilities, or looking ahead to their career goals. This base of knowledge stretches from the individual - leading yourself - to the group, leading teams and even entire organizations. In tackling all these key aspects, the audiobook equips individuals to progress in any area of leadership and management, from team-building to strategic planning.

For most of human history, we have led not just an earthly existence but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are - our religious beliefs, power structures, scientific advances and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us. And that disconnect comes at a cost. In The Human Cosmos, Jo Marchant takes us on a tour through the history of humanity's relationship with the heavens.

This is the story of the final 24 hours of the life Mary, Queen of Scots. From the news that after 19 years in prison she would be finally going to her death, to the final moments of drama on the scaffold at Fotheringhay. The story is told in a dramatic minute by minute countdown which ends with the botched blows of the executioner.

When we learn, we change what we believe and how we interact with the world. This changes who we are as people and what we can achieve. Many people grow up being told they are ‘not a maths person’ or perhaps ‘not smart’. They come to believe their potential is limited. Now, however, the latest science has revealed that our identities are constantly in flux; when we learn new things, we can change our identities, increase our potential and broaden our capacity to receive new information.

Gwendolyn Roth has always been a good girl. As the heiress to her family's billion-dollar real estate fortune, she'd never questioned the expectations she must uphold . . . until she'd found herself in bed with Declan Murphy for her one and only one night stand.

Three years after Daniel was killed by a senseless act of violence, all his sisters have left of him are their memories - and responsibility for Daniel's mischievous dachshund John Thomas. Daniel donated his organs, his death facilitating life-saving miracles for other families, while his own loved ones struggle to come to terms with their devastating loss, each at a crossroads of her own.

These alphas are here to claim their fated mates. If you love possessive shifters, fated mates, and super steamy scenes, then you will love this collection!

Roman is the CEO of Alpha Cybersecurity. He gave up finding his fated mate long ago, so imagine his surprise when he catches scent of the new analyst. He’s even more surprised when his advances are meant with a cold shoulder. Doesn’t she feel this between them? Roman didn’t get to where he is by giving up, though, so he hatches a new plan and makes Kiera his assistant. He figures spending all day together will help him figure out how she can reject him and that he’ll make her his in no time.

You are being scammed by a system that promises quick fixes that fix nothing and sells you money-sucking programs that do nothing but fuel overeating. At each meal, 93 million overweight American adults and 14 million overweight children and adolescents risk their lives. More than 300,000 die unnecessarily every year from obesity-related diseases. Hazel Dixon-Cooper was a size-22 woman in a size-two world until she dumped the weight-loss industry, discovered how food companies lie, and learned that doctors rarely know more about nutrition than we do.

In the jungle cities of the Amazon, thousands of tribal descendants suddenly drop dead at the exact same moment for no apparent reason. Strange truths start to emerge that lead respected ecologist, Antonio Medina, into the deepest reaches of the rain forest, to a tribe that has seen virtually zero contact with the outside world. On the other side of the planet, in the Indian Ocean, anthropologist Stel Foster is on a similar quest.

I’m not supposed to be here. That’s what I keep telling everyone but no one will listen. I just wanted to see the castle nestled deep in the woods. Instead, I end up getting kidnapped.

Stryker isn’t like most Shifters. He never went out looking for his fated mate. He never wants to find her. All he wants is to be left alone. Then Peyton starts working at Leader of the Pack Marketing and he knows that he’s screwed. The pull between them is so much stronger than he ever anticipated, but he didn’t get to be Alpha of his own company by giving into his urges. When the full moon comes, will this Billionaire Shifter Alpha be able to resist his true mate?

Sayer is used to getting what he wants. He's got more money and power than most and he's used it to get to where he is today. Now that he's settled, he's looking for the missing piece of his life. His mate. When he catches her scent, he figures that mating her will be as easy as everything else in his life. He was wrong.

Jax has more money than he knows what to do with, but it's not enough to make him happy. He wants his mate. And he knows exactly who it is. Too bad for him; he knows that her family will never let them meet, let alone mate.

Birk and Heath have always been inseparable. Then Ivy moves to town. Now they’ve got bigger problems than graduating and finding their place in the pack. They need to figure out how to tell Ivy about shifters and wait until she comes of age so that they can see if she’s the fated mate to either of them. When Ivy and Heath go hiking one day and she falls and hurts herself, badly, he has a decision to make. Hope that she can survive the trip back to town, or bite her, forcing a mating but saving her life in the process.