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Til trods for en hård opvækst har Nick nogenlunde styr på livet: Arbejde på værkstedet, byture med vennerne, ikke for meget hash, løs aftale med Emma om sex. Så møder han Isabelle. Hun er alt for god til ham, det kan han se med det samme. For smuk, for rig, for intelligent – for god...

Best Stories is a podcast about the people who work closest to other humans — bartenders, nurses, teachers, flight attendants, funeral directors, you name it — and what those jobs have taught them about who we really are.Every episode, we go deep into the wild, the weird, and the wonderfully strange behaviors they encounter every single day. Then we ask the question they've been waiting to answer: What's your best story?The one that still makes them laugh. The one they've told a hundred times. The one that stops a room.Best Stories. Everyone's got one. What's yours?

Nel vasto mondo asiatico, il diario di Aya Kitō ha conosciuto un successo inarrestabile: pubblicato sul finire degli anni Ottanta in Giappone, ha venduto oltre un milione di copie. Una platea affollata per il racconto in prima persona di una ragazzina quindicenne che ha ispirato e incantato un intero continente. Aya racconta dieci anni della propria vita, racconta adolescenza e inizio dell'età adulta, una vita come tante, ma senza prospettiva, un'esistenza minata dalla malattia, ecco la differenza.

He's my old teammate. My new rival. And the guy I can't stop imagining against the glass. Hockey captain? That's me. Closeted? Also me. Totally losing my mind because my old high school teammate just transferred to my college team and looks way too good in those stupid tight pads? …Yeah...

As the sheltered princess of Sector One, Maricela's life is defined by duty: to her people and to her family. Her wealth and influence have allowed her to build a better world, but they come with a price - the responsibility to secure political stability with a practical marriage. Maricela cherishes the idea of marrying for love, but there's not much romance in the endless line of suitors interested only in prestige and power. And her handsome, brooding new bodyguard isn't helping the situation.  

A grumpy trainer. A rookie goalie. One blizzard, one bed, and way too many Christmas lights. The rookie goalie with the Christmas-movie smile was never supposed to get under my skin. He's loud, relentless, and far too good at seeing through the walls I've spent years building. I only agreed to...

I matched with a stranger on a queer hookup app. He's bold. Filthy. Addictive in a way that makes me forget everything else. I don't know his name. He doesn't know mine. But when I'm at lunch with my girlfriend and see Micah Blackman standing there—my ex-best friend, the boy I kissed and then...

For Alfonso, family feels like a cage. For Philadelphia, it feels like home at last. Alfonso came to the Weaver farm in 1874 with six of his siblings after a seventh—his older sister Bella—became a mail-order bride. Eight years later, he's still there—and wishes he weren’t. But two...

After Harry Jones takes his life in the chilling waters of Vixens Mere, not one body is found by the police rescue team, but two. "A darkly humorous and deeply moving tale of community" - Ruth Hogan Tucked away in the English countryside, the run-down marina at Vixens Mere hosts a ragtag...

"Timely and essential, this is great storytelling."—Hugh Aldersey-Williams, bestselling author of Periodic Tales 3,000 years ago, on the banks of the Tigris in what is now known as Iraq, a woman perfumer named Tappūtī mastered the control of temperature and the arts of distillation...

Aleksi, the charming and charismatic god of love, is dying. But nothing can stop the Lover from completing his final quest: a dangerous diplomatic visit to a former adversary. Setting sail for a mystical kingdom of ice, Aleksi is joined by Einar the Kraken, infamous pirate lord, and Naia, a sweet young water nymph. Intoxicated by the pair’s electric connection, Aleksi vows to enjoy his last days by playing matchmaker, pushing away his own desires for the sake of theirs. But he’s unexpectedly caught up in a raging game of seduction.

Dinah's whole world is upside down, dead things and angry men and cuts all over her head that are beginning to sting.... Seventeen-year-old Dinah needs to leave her home, the weird commune where she grew up. She needs a whole new identity, starting with how she looks, starting with shaving off her hair, her 'crowning glory'. She has to do it quickly, because she has to go now. 

Du bor högst upp i ett höghus, och varje morgon vaknar du med en överväldigande längtan efter havet – en längtan så stark att den nästan river sönder bröstet. Men staden håller dig fången, långt från vågorna och saltvattnet. Tills en dag då det dyker upp en handskriven lapp i...

A light weekly podcast covering the history of India, from 6th century B.C. onwards. Enjoying the Podcast? Please consider donating to the Snehal Sidhu-Patrick Memorial Fund (http://tinyurl.com/prkvwll)

There is a hole at the top of the cinema where the movies come from. Join Georgia Humphreys and Kit Finnie as they broadcast from the rewind room of the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford. Each episode we unspool a film from our current programme, resurrect the ghosts of media past, and splice in some of our own frames of reference.

Mamma försöker ställa sig mellan Valle och Chefen. Men han är snabb och knuffar till henne så att hon ramlar på golvet. Raseriet lyser i hans ögon när han böjer sig fram mot Valle. Han vill blunda, men kan inte. Han kan bara stirra på Chefens finger runt pistolen. Snart får jag en...

Was haben sri-lankische Stahlschmiede, ein giftmordender Papst, deutsche Bergbauarbeiter und ein urinkochender Hamburger Apotheker gemeinsam? Sie alle haben zur Entstehung der Chemie als Wissenschaft beigetragen – einer Geschichte, die bisher kaum erzählt ist. Denn anders als meist dargestellt, wurde die moderne Chemie nicht in der Aufklärung von weißen Männern mit gepuderten Perücken „erfunden".

A “vivid, wide-ranging, and delightful guide” (bestselling author Tim Harford) for understanding how and why predictions go wrong, with practical tips to give you a better chance of getting them right How can you be 100 percent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeians stay put...

A “vital” (New York Times Book Review), groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to...

Brilliant and entertaining mathematician Kit Yates illuminates seven mathematical concepts that shape our daily lives. From birthdays to birth rates to how we perceive the passing of time, mathematical patterns shape our lives. But for those of us who left math behind in high school, the numbers...