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A devastating tsunami is heading towards the Cornish coast. With no early warning and limited means of escape, many people won’t get away in time. While the terrifying reality of the news hits home, one young woman posts a message on Facebook: ‘With nowhere to run to, I’m heading to my favourite beach to watch the sunset, who wants to join me?’ A small group of people follow her lead and head towards the beach; each of them are harbouring their own stories - and their own secrets.

Er könnte alles verlieren, auch sein Herz... Aiden Kelley ist ein milliardenschwerer CEO und liebt Planung über alles. Doch sein extravagantes Leben wird auf den Kopf gestellt, als seine Exfreundin mit einer Zehnjährigen auftaucht, die seine Tochter sein soll. Hilfe muss her, denn er weiß nicht, wie er sich plötzlich um ein Kind kümmern soll. Die einzige Frau, die Aiden helfen könnte, ist ausgerechnet seine persönliche Assistentin Chelsea Houston - die gerade gekündigt hat.

For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. The novel's use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives it an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.

‘For me these Ormond College women were, and are, the first voices of the revolution that is #MeToo in Australia.’ Twenty-five years ago, Australia was in the grip of another debate about sex and power. The Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne had been acquitted of...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Natalie Dormer, best known for her standout role as Queen Margaery in Game of Thrones, as well as her roles in The Hunger Games and Captain America: The First Avenger. A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College...

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M...

Christopher is the sort of guy that no one notices, yet when Air catches sight of him making intricate paper birds in the airport, she can’t look away. But their worlds are about to collide in ways they never expected. Someone they love is on Flight 0217 from London Heathrow. And it’s missing. Convinced that her brother was on a different flight, Air drives them hundreds of miles across the country, on a trip that will change their lives forever.

Before you say good night, snuggle your kids cozy close and enjoy favorite Bible stories for bedtime. Amy Parker, the author you know and love from the bestselling books Night Night, Farm and Night Night, Train, has released her first bedtime Bible storybook. Night Night Bible Stories includes...

Choosing a profession begins with imagining yourself in a career. Now New York Times best-selling author Virginia Morell dives into the adventures of a marine biologist team, allowing a much needed, in-depth look into the field. Becoming a Marine Biologist explores how successful marine biologists curated their careers and what they suggest to young people today who feel called to protect our oceans by studying the sea and its inhabitants.

Mr. og Mrs. Ramsay og deres åtte barn tilbringer sommerferiene i sommerhuset deres på øyen Skye, sammen med nære venner av familien. Første del beskriver det dagligdagse samværet med kjærlighet og konflikter, forholdet mellom kjønnene, ekteskap og barndom, gleder, lengsler og savn. Men tiden går og fører med seg krig, død og forfall. Mange år senere vender den gjenværende delen av familien og enkelte av vennene tilbake til sommerhuset.

Early one summer morning Isabel and her 11-year-old daughter, River, walk across Regent's Park. They come across a rain-soaked man sitting alone on a bench and ask him if he's okay. But he doesn't know. In fact he doesn't know the answer to any of their questions - not even his own name. Urged on by her daughter, Isabel takes the man to the hospital she works at, hoping that will be the end of it. But when the tests show there's nothing physically wrong with him, and yet he still can't remember who he is, she realises she can't walk away.

Med sine tanker om kvinnen som selvstendig individ med økonomisk og arbeidsmessig uavhengighet, fikk boken en banebrytende betydning for kvinnefrigjørelsen, og er fortsatt et sentralt verk i feminismen og den feministiske litteraturkritikken. Tankene hennes blir gjennom undersøkelser av natur og institusjoner, besøk og middager, lagt fram med humor, sinne, ironi og skarpsindighet, og den historiske gjennomgangen av kvinnelige forfattere blir blandet med fiktive forestillinger.

Unabridged CDs - 6 CDs, 8 hours An unexpected delight of a novel about letting go of youth and rejoicing in being the sassy curmudgeon you've become!...

A forthright investigation of human frailty and emotion with a plot that keeps you in its thrall until the last word. When Greer Gordon met Mischa Svoboda, a driven Czech-born refugee painter, he was unknown. His debut at the small art gallery where she worked created a sensation, and their explosive love affair caused Greer to abandon her husband and career and embark on a nomadic life with Mischa.

Now a major motion picture! Pablo Escobar was one of the most terrifying criminal minds of the last century. In the decade before his death in 1993, he reigned as the head of a multinational cocaine industry and brought the Colombian state to its knees, killing thousands of politicians, media...

“Mrs Dalloway sa at hun ville kjøpe blomstene selv.” Med denne senere så berømte setningen innledes romanen, som utspiller seg en sommerdag i London i juni 1923 hvor Clarissa Dalloway forbereder et middagsselskap. I løpet av dagen skjer det flere ting som fører til en rekke overveielser og assosiasjoner knyttet til tidligere begivenheter. Mannen hennes har, til hennes utilfredshet, blitt invitert til lunsj uten henne hos Lady Bruton, hvis animerte lunsjer er berømte i de høyere sosiale lag.

Der Beginn einer neuen sexuellen Ära.Aus Frust über die Gesellschaft, gründen die Freunde Lestad, Xuang und Salzar die Stadt Belgrame. Alle Bewohner der Stadt leben streng nach dem LeXuS - den Vorschriften und Lehren, die die drei Freunde ersonnen haben. In Belgrame wird alles kontrolliert - auch die Sexualität, die nach strikten Regel abläuft und nur bestimmten Gesellschaftsgruppen vorbehalten ist. Doch Lust kann man auf Dauer nicht verbieten.

Lust und Unterdrückung im fiktiven Belgrame... In Belgrame leben alle nach den strikten Regeln des LeXuS. Pold wächst zusammen mit Don auf. Beide tauschen sich ständig über den LeXuS und dessen Regeln aus, die ihrer Ansicht nach dem rechtsstaatlichen Prinzip von Belgrame widersprechen. Dies gilt besonders für die Regulation von Sexualität. Denn Lust kann man nicht verbieten. Als der Tag ihrer Zuordnung kommt, erhalten die, die seinem Urteil vertraut haben, die größte Überraschung ihres Lebens.

Lust kann man nicht unterdrücken... Axis sieht, wie seine Träume wahr werden: Er erreicht die für einen Arbeiter höchst-mögliche Stellung. Von nun an ist er für ihre Ausbildung zuständig und als Präsident des Ausbildungsinstituts steht er an der Spitze der erotischen Technologie. Endlich hat er die Mittel, die Arbeiter auf das höchste sexuelle Niveau zu heben, ihre Begabung für den Genuss zu perfektionieren und weiter zu gehen, als seine Vorgänger es je gewagt haben.

Welchen sexuellen Weg wirst du gehen? Mucha erfährt mit 21 Jahren endlich ihre Zuordnung. Und zu ihrer größten Freude wird sie zu einer Konsumentin, und damit dem Distrikt mit der größten Freiheit zugeordnet. Aber bald muss sie die ersten Entscheidungen treffen... Die Berufliche: Soll sie das Risiko eingehen, eine Ausbildung im Gesundheitsbereich zu machen, um Hoffnung auf eine wohlhabende Zukunft zu haben? Und vor allem über ihre Sexualität: Ohne ihre Vorlieben zu kennen muss sie eine Orientierung wählen, die sie niemals ändern darf.