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The official origin story of LiS fan-favourite Steph Gingrich featuring LGBTQ+ romance, inevitable heartbreak, and the punk-rock beginnings of Drugstore Makeup.Setting the stage for her appearance in Life is Strange: True Colors, this official Steph Gingrich novel sheds light on the Drugstore Makeup years and the story of how Steph crash-landed in Haven Springs, Colorado.Steph Gingrich has finally run out of couches to surf. Now shes back at her dads place in Seattle to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life.When running an RPG session for her local gamer cafe, Steph meets Izzie. Izzie is electric: a punk, a girl who likes girls, and a hella good guitarist. Steph finds the punk life is exactly what she needs, she loves the music, the art and the fashion, but most of all she likes the girl. Entranced, she offers to drum for Izzie, forming the band Drugstore Makeup.A hit in more ways than one, Drugstore Makeup compete in a battle of the bands before deciding to tour the offbeat punk venues of America. But Steph and Izzie soon find themselves on different wavelengths, unable to communicate, and wanting different things.

A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo café, sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever … a captivating, masterful novel with an ex

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for understanding, she spent a year initiating intimate conversations with nineteen acquaintances of a range of ages, genders and sexualities about everything and anything related to porn: watching habits, emotions and feelings of guilt, embarrassment, disgust and shame, fantasy and desire. Soon, unfolding before her, was exactly the book that she had been longing to encounter not a traditional history, but the raw, honest truth about what we arent saying. A landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn, Porn is a thrilling, thought-provoking, revelatory, revealing, joyfully informative and informal exploration of a subject that has always retained an element of the taboo.

Largentea luce della luna, del secolo che il Romanticismo, delicato nel suo abbraccio cinge, lorigine della lingua di Flora? Forsema non soloQualcosaAncoraUna stella cadenteUna scintillaUn raggio, rapito dalloblio, di quella luna eterna, celato, come un tesoro prezioso, tra le sabbie del tempotra le ombre della memoriaquando lesistenza umana ancora non era storiaIl linguaggio dei fiori. La sua storia. Tra realta e sogno, e lincanto splendente ella conversazione floreale. Florigrafia. Scrivere con i fiori. La sua grammatica, dei significati il dizionario dei fiori, luci dellanima, messaggeri del cuore e , del fascino romantico della lingua d Flora.

A ruthless international cartel seeks world dominationFramed in the doorway of Poirots bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The mans gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about Number Four. From The Queen of Crime Agathe Christie.

When Akuany and her brother are orphaned in a village raid, theyre taken in by a young merchant Yaseen who promises to care for them, a vow that tethers him to Akuany through their adulthood. As revolution begins to brew, led by the self-proclaimed Mahdi, Sudan begins to prise itself from Ottoman rule, and everyone must choose a side.Yaseen feels beholden to stand against this false Mahdi, a decision that threatens to splinter his family. Meanwhile, Akuany moves through her young adulthood and across the country alone, sold and traded from house to house, with only Yaseen as her intermittent lifeline. Their struggle mirrors the increasingly bloody struggle for Sudan itself - for freedom, safety and the possibility of love.River Spirit illuminates a fraught and bloody reckoning with the history of a people caught in the crosshairs of imperialism. This is a powerful tale of corruption, coming of age and unshakeable devotion - to a cause, to ones faith and to the people who become family.

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes. Includes an introduction from acclaimed bestselling author Chuck Wendig.Eight stories of dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose. A woman imagines horrific scenarios whilst caring for her infant niece; on-line posts chronicle a cancer diagnosis; a couple in the park with their small child encounter a stranger with horrific consequences; a toxic relationship reaches a terrifying resolutionA beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram Stoker Awards finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes.

Maria Valéria Rezende mostra a beleza e a profundidade da vida de pessoas comuns, que se transformam ao compartilhar suas histórias em um mundo onde a comunicação é sempre difícil.Rosálio, pedreiro e

Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction 2023A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2023Not since Aravind Adigas The White Tiger has the rotten core of modern India been exposed in quite such blackly antic fashion as Parini Shroff manages here in this intermittently absurd, feminist revenge caper about a group of snarky, much-abused, predominantly Hindu wives...sheer gutsy verve.The TimesA darkly funny revenge drama rooted in the reality of rural India . . . [A] vivid, unsentimental story that succeeds in being both satirical and moving.GuardianA radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of unsinkable women - New York TimesMordantly humoured, pacey feminist revenge thriller - The Sunday Times__________________________________For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife...Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too.Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband - a rumour she hasnt bothered trying to correct, because a reputation like that can keep a single woman safe in rural India. But when shes approached for help in ridding another wife of her abusive drunk of a husband, her reluctant agreement sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of all the women in the village....A darkly irreverent and fresh take on a feminist revenge thriller, perfect for readers of My Sister the Serial Killer, How To Kidnap The Rich and the Sharon Horgan series Bad Sisters.Tender, unpredictable, brimming with laugh-out-loud moments Tea Obreht, author of THE TIGERS WIFEOriginal, memorable, and endearing Charmaine Wilkerson, author of BLACK CAKEA rollicking mash-up of adventure story, thriller, dark revenge, and comedy Cristina Garcia, author of DREAMING IN CUBAN

When three people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake completely recovered, theyre convinced their ordeal is connected to the alien creature discovered on a nearby beach an adrenaline-soaked, deeply humane, life-affirming first-contact novel from one of Scotlands most revered authors**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023**All the drive, curiosity and wonder of his crime and mystery novels science fiction gains a new authorDerek B MillerIf you read one life-affirming book this year, make sure its this oneNina Pottell, PrimaThe main characters, their lives and their struggles, are portrayed very vividly. I was straight into this, just like a thrillerIvo Graham on Between the CoversConnecting will change everythingLennox is a troubled teenager with no family. Ava is eight months pregnant and fleeing her abusive husband. Heather is a grieving mother and cancer sufferer. They dont know each other, but when a meteor streaks over Edinburgh, all three suffer instant, catastrophic strokes......only to wake up the following day in hospital, miraculously recovered.When news reaches them of an octopus-like creature washed up on the shore near where the meteor came to earth, Lennox senses that some extra-terrestrial force is at play. With the help of Ava, Heather and a journalist, Ewan, he rescues the creature they call Sandy and goes on the run.But they arent the only ones with an interest in the alien close behind are Avas husband, the police and a government unit who wants to capture the creature, at all costs. And Sandys arrival may have implications beyond anything anyone could imagineAll the makings of a film such relatable charactersSunetra Sarker on Between the CoversSo readable and accessible I was really rooting for the charactersAlan Davies on Between the CoversA gateway book to SciFi I loved itSara Cox on Between the CoversA moving as it is magical and mysterious. Doug Johnstone has hit it out of the park againMark BillinghamA delicious, demanding departure from Doug JohnstoneVal McDermidPrioritising pace, tension and high stakes a plea for empathy, compassion and perspective shot through with vivid characters and a sense of wonderHerald ScotlandAn entertaining, fast-paced story of first contact an emotionally engaging readGuardianA gloriously hopeful story and a perfect road trip movie just waiting to be madeJames OswaldAn adrenaline-filled ride of a novel, laced with empathy and understandingRachelle AtallaPay attention, Steven Spielberg! This could be your next filmMarnie RichesClever and unusual I was on a journey with these characters, and completely transfixedSusi HollidayA mesmerising tale of wonder and hopeMarion ToddWhat readers are saying*****I wish I could adequately convey how much I loved this bookA beautiful story it brought me to tears

A bloody and unforgettable tale of transformation and survival, told by three women surviving in a world devastated by a disastrous transformation from multiple Bram Stoker Award-winner.Humanity has been irrevocably changed by a virus that radically alters its victims...yet life goes on.Three women must band together to try to survive. Erin and Savannah are helping usher in the new world, while Mareva has been burdened with a very special task one shes too horrified to even acknowledge.A beautifully written, cosmically horrifying, wholly unique story that examines the roots of our belief systems and completely defies all expectations.

A brand-new novella from the New York Times bestseller of Divergent.A thrilling, profoundly moving science fiction retelling of the Greek tragedy Antigone filled with inevitable doom, heart-break and one final act of courage.Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the Archive, where the genes of the dead are stored, humanity will end.Antigones parents Oedipus and Jocasta are dead. Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration, but with her militant uncle Kreon rising to claim her fathers vacant throne, all Antigone feels is rage.When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion, Antigone sees it for what it really is: a gilded cage, where she is a captive as well as a guest.But her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable. And neither is he.

This edition brings to you the most powerful voices of women who survived slavery in 18th and 19th century. Their life stories, their actions and their truth had an impact on the expansion of anti-slavery movement in the Northern States of America and British Empire and the subsequent abolition of slavery. Today, in our "modern" society, there are over 30 million girls and women who are victims of slavery. Some of the survivors are trying to fight with their voices. However, in this era - everybody is listening, but sadly nobody is reacting. This collection includes:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern SlaveThe History of Mary PrinceBehind The Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley)A Slave Girls Story (Kate Drumgoold)From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom (Lucy A. Delaney)Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley (Margaretta Matilda Odell)Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed (Emma and Lloyd Ray)Memories of Childhoods Slavery Days (Annie L. Burton)Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave (Nina Hill Robinson)Autobiography of a Female Slave (Martha Griffith Browne)

Meet James Bond, the worlds most famous spy.The last collection of James Bond adventures from Ian Fleming, Octopussy and The Living Daylights features four tales of intrigue that push 007 to the limit and find the secret agent questioning where he can go from there...In "Octopussy," a former operative in the Second World War must face the consequences of past sins when James Bond knocks on the door of his Caribbean fortress, and in "The Property of a Lady" Bond deciphersthe elaborate codes of a Sothebys bidding war in order to catch a KGB agent. "007 in New York" takes Bond to the titular city to warn an ex_x0002_agent of her boyfriends secret KGB affiliation. And "The Living Daylights" sends Bond to Berlin to protect a British agent before an assassin strikes.

Meet James Bond, the worlds most famous spy.Upon Ms insistence, James Bond takes a two-week respite in a secluded natural health spa. But amid the bland teas, tasteless yogurts, and the spine stretcher the guests lovingly call "The Rack," Bond stumbles onto the trail of a lethal man with ties to a new secret organisation called SPECTRE. When SPECTRE hijacks two A-bombs, a frantic global search for the weapons ensues, and Ms hunch that the plane containing the bombs will make a clean drop into the ocean sends Bond to the Bahamas to investigate.On the island paradise, 007 finds a wealthy pleasure seekers treasure hunt and meets Domino Vitali, the gorgeous mistress of Emilio Largo, otherwise known as SPECTREs Number 1. But as powerful as Number 1 is, he works for someone else: Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a peculiar man with a deadly creative mind.The ninth novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series, Thunderball marks the beginnings of one of the most iconic villains in history, and the only match for the wits of James Bond.

Meet James Bond, the worlds most famous spy.A collection of both classic intrigue and intrepid self-examination, For Your Eyes Only packs full, vibrant worlds into five classic tales."From a View to a Kill" whisks Bond to the French countryside where he must go undercover to expose a deadly secret-intelligence plot, and in "For Your Eyes Only," 007 is absorbed into a private vendetta of Ms, blurring the lines between the personal and professional. In "Quantum of Solace," Bond attends a dinner party in the Bahamas and learns how passion can soon twist into cruelty, while "Risico" forces the secret agent to fight for the lesser of two evils in a smuggling war set amid the Mediterranean. Finally, "The Hildebrand Rarity" lands 007 in an old-fashioned murder mystery at sea, where even he has a secret to keep.

Meet James Bond, the worlds most famous spy.Bond may have a license to kill, but "Pistols" Scaramanga has a talent for it. Hes a KGB-trained assassin whos left a trail of dead British Secret Service agents in his wake. His weapon of choice? A gold-plated Colt .45.In the aftermath of his brainwashing by the Soviets, Bond is given one last chance to win back Ms trust: terminate Scaramanga before he strikes MI6 again. Traveling to Jamaica under an assumed name, Bond manages to infiltrate Scaramangas organisation and soon discovers that the hit mans criminal ambitions have expanded to include arson, drug smuggling, and industrial sabotage. Worst of all for Bond, Scaramanga has a golden bullet inscribed with the numbers 007 and hes eager to put it to use.Under the heat of the Caribbean sun, Bond faces a seemingly impossible task: win a duel against the Man with the Golden Gun.

Meet James Bond, the worlds most famous spy.The tragic end to James Bonds last mission - courtesy of Ernst StavroBlofeld - has left 007 a broken man and of little use to the British Secret Service. At his wits end, M decides that the only way to snap his best agent out of his torpor is to send him on an impossible diplomatic mission to Japan. Bonds contact there is the formidable Japanese spymaster Tiger Tanaka, who agrees to do business with the West if Bond will assassinate one of his enemies: a mysterious Swiss botanist named Dr. Guntram Shatterhand.Shatterhand is not who he seems, however, and his impregnable fortress - known to the locals as the "Castle of Death" - is a gauntlet of traps no gaijin has ever penetrated. But through rigorous ninja training, and with some help from the beautiful and able Kissy Suzuki, Bond manages to gain access to Shatterhands lair. Inside lurks certain doom at the hands of 007s bitterest foe - or a final chance to exact ultimate vengeance.

Meet James Bond, the worlds most famous spy.In the aftermath of Operation Thunderball, Ernst Stavro Blofelds trailhas gone coldand so has 007s love for his job. The only thing that can rekindle his passion is Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo, a troubled young woman who shares his taste for fast cars and danger. Shes the daughter of a powerful crime boss, and he thinks Bonds hand in marriage may be the solution to all her problems. Bonds not ready to settle downyetbut he soon finds himself falling for the enigmatic Tracy.After finally tracking the SPECTRE chief to a stronghold in the Swiss Alps, Bond uncovers the details of Blofelds latest plot: a biological warfare scheme more audacious than anything the fiend has tried before. Now Bond must save the world once againand survive Blofelds last, very personal, act of vengeance.

Meet James Bond, the worlds most famous spy.Set apart from the other books in Ian Flemings James Bond series,The Spy Who Loved Me is told from the perspective of a femme fatale in the making - a victim of circumstance with a wounded heart.Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United Kingdom, seems a foreigner in every land. With only a supercharged Vespa and a handful of American dollars, she travels down winding roads into the pine forests of the Adirondacks. After stopping at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court and being coerced into caretaking at the vacant motel for the night, Viv opens the door to two armed mobsters and realizes being a woman alone is no easy task. But when a third stranger shows - a confident Englishman with a keen sense for sizing things up - the tables are turned.Still reeling in the wake of Operation Thunderball, Bond had planned for his jaunt through the Adirondacks to be a period of rest before his return to Europe. But that all changes when his tire goes flat in front of a certain motel...