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I've become my own worst nightmare. A trophy wife completely reliant on her husband. A stay-at-home mother of an infant. A bitter, quiet, resentful woman too tired to speak up for herself. My efforts to save my marriage and make my husband happy have overshadowed my own dreams and desires. Until a man in a brown uniform knocks on my door and delivers more than just the box in his hands. Every interaction with Hudson leaves me questioning my whole life. But what happens when the one who got away was someone you were never supposed to have in the first place?

‘April Ashley was born, aged twenty-five, on 12 May 1960. It was a difficult birth at the Clinique du Parc on rue Lapébie, a back street running parallel to the admired avenue d’Amade in Casablanca, on a day when the Moroccan sunshine was behaving the way the guidebooks say it should...

Joanna just wants to spend the holiday curled up with her coven of handsome professors, but family obligations wait for no one. Instead of wintery cuddles, she's up to her neck in the Pike brothers and their wives, a cast of political figures invited to their dinner parties and, worst of all, Callum's father, Duncan. Duncan Pike is a nasty piece of work - not only did he place a young Callum in the heart of an ugly war, he disapproves of Isaac and Aiden. 

From her first step onto Canderfey University's campus, Joanna Wick, the new librarian-in-training, is overwhelmed by the bustle of people and the wealth of magical information now available to her. Most overwhelming of all, she attracts the attention of three handsome professors. But Aiden King, Callum Pike, and Isaac Metclaffe are a coven waiting to find their fourth and complete their home, and Joanna knows she can't be that witch. She's barely magical. 

Una dura mirada al papel de la mujer, la maternidad y la fami­lia A sus setenta y seis años, la vida de María Claro esta­ba llena de rutinas. Instalada en Iowa, la tranquilidad de su vejez se ve trastocada cuando una de sus nietas logra dar con su paradero. Obligada a recordar una vida que...

Samuel Todd Francis (April 29, 1947-February 15, 2005), born in Chattanooga, TN, was an American writer, social commentator, and academic. He was a columnist and editor for the Washington Times. Francis would later become a "dominant force" on the Council of Conservative Citizens and the chief editor of the council's newsletter, Citizens Informer, until his death in 2005. Francis was called "the premier philosopher of White racial consciousness of our time." The following recording is from a speech Francis gave in 1994.

Neste segundo volume da trilogia biográfica de Lula, Fernando Morais reconstitui os anos finais da ditadura até a vitória do ex-líder sindical em 2002 como o primeiro presidente operário da história do Brasil. Mantendo o ritmo eletrizante do primeiro volume, no qual acompanhamos Lula até...

El documentalista Diego Morales acompaña a Michael en su investigación sobre la vida oculta de su padre. Mientras intentan descifrar las verdades y los mitos del secuestro del Lunik, descubren que la huella de Winston Scott en el país es mucho más profunda de lo que imaginaban.

'Bold, brilliant and brimming with imagination, Beast Mode is an unforgettable adventure filled with irresistibly relatable characters. And, like me, readers will be desperate to sink their teeth into the next book!' - A.F. Steadman, author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief 'A thrilling new...

Four plays by the award-winning Italian playwright and innovator Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer and winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. In the first performance of Six Characters in Search of an Author, an enraged Rome...

In Chocolate Girls, read by actress Frances Barber, three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work - and a child called David. Edie, the main character, marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at nineteen...

Abandoned at birth, little Mercy Hanley shows a fierce determination few others can match. Her inner fire burns brightly, even in the harsh conditions of turn-of-the-century Birmingham. For behind Mercy's pale and haunting face, there is a mind of steel, as her harsh foster mother, Mrs Gaskin...

The Winner by David Baldacci is the taut tale of a woman forced to take a gamble with her future, from one of the world's bestselling thriller writers. LuAnn Tyler is a single parent striving to escape a life of endless poverty. Then a mysterious Mr Jackson makes her an offer he thinks no one...

Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it is not quite what the police had expected. Dolores Claiborne has a confession to make . . . She will take her time. Won't be hurried. Will do it her way, sparing neither details nor feelings. Hers or anyone else's. This is the truth, the whole truth...

We are at a threshold. As we face uncertain futures, the familiar is falling away. This book invites us to embody new ways of being and connecting so we can navigate troubled times together From the bestselling author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow, a beautifully packaged collection of 17 essays on...

Colleen Hoover, un fenómeno imparable. Una novela conmovedora por la autora de Romper el círculo (It Ends with Us). «Con una habilidad especial para la novela de emociones de alto voltaje, Hoover ha vendido más de 20 millones de libros. Y lo ha hecho a su manera». The New York Times Para...

Avelyn Brocken is a Jesuit at the Vatican. Originally from the salt mining town of Hreodwater in East Anglia, his only ambition is never to go back. But when rumours of miracles being performed there are followed by a bizarre video showing that someone trying to leave then enclave has been turn...

'The perfect escape!' Jessica Redland Every book in the Brambleton series can be read as a standalone. Lauren Hope likes her life perfectly measured and ‘just so’. Running her cosy café in the idyllic Somerset village of Lower Brambleton provides all the fun and friendship she needs - from...

Bloomsbury presents The Salt King by Natasha Pulley, ready by Luke R. Francis An apocalyptic novel about belief, religion, and the power of myth that blends the gripping, end-of-the-world storytelling of The Passage with the biting wit and epic queer romance that makes Natasha Pulley’s books...

From the International Booker Shortlisted author of Still Born, a powerful collection of stories about characters coping with estrangement, isolation, and the unknown. Acclaimed for her piercing insights and razor-sharp prose, award winning author Guadalupe Nettel introduces us to eight...