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Today, we’re constantly being bombarded with pictures of perfection, so it’s easy to think that there’s something wrong with you. But what if instead of comparing yourself to all the people who have bigger houses, more money, more friends, more sex—in other words, things you can’t control—you could re-focus on the things you can do something about?

Picture the scene. You've returned from yet another medical appointment, and things haven't gone according to plan. Worse. You're told to simply 'manage your symptoms'. You're stuck and wish you could make a change. Your world is shrinking; anxiety is at an all-time high, and performing everyday tasks feels overwhelming. What if I told you there was an alternative? That there are resources within you which are capable of bringing healing? Resources unique to you? Powerful resources you were born with?

Melody Bryant has heard it all before. Sure, she's the epitome of the stereotype for a librarian. Loves order. Loves rules and deadlines. Loves books. But what she doesn't love is still being a virgin at 24. Unfortunately, the only guy she's ever been interested in turned her down flat. And then left town. Eight. Years. Ago. Ugh.

Part two of Borderline takes place one year later, amid the pandemic of 2020 and civil unrest in the United States. Not only has the current political climate affected Natasha’s mental health, but so has the mandatory isolation caused by being in quarantine. While briefly abandoning her therapy sessions, Natasha struggles to bridge a relationship with her siblings and mentally ill mother. As if all the chaos in her world isn’t enough, Natasha regresses to her old unhealthy habits, including entertaining the wrong men.

If you've been feeling stiff, unemotional, closed off to others, lacking self-esteem, or have even found yourself in an abusive relationship, then you might have a blocked energy center unbalancing the flow of all the other energy centers in your body or chakras. We have seven chakras located at different areas in the body that are responsible for our health and general wellbeing - for us to be healthy, those energies need to flow unhindered along our spine.

When Robyn was promoted to manager of the Montana Beach Pier amusement park, she helped save it from near extinction. But her employees are still having a hard time adjusting to her new leadership role. With her father gone and only a few friends in Montana Beach, the stress at work carries over to the rest of her life. That is, until her newest employee steps through the door. Jaden’s just looking for a summer job until he can find something more stable in the fall. Montana Beach might be a slower pace than his hometown, but his new boss and the romance that sparks between them makes the sleepy little town exciting.

While Emma Abram prepares for Christmas, her husband, Chris, frets about starvation and societal collapse. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Chris has turned off the heating. He treks his sons across the Moss in the drubbing rain. And he has other plans that, if voiced, Emma would surely veto. But it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Dede Sooyoo was just a normal college student when she was whisked away from her home in Ghana and planted in the last place she ever expected: Maryland. There, armed with nothing but an iron will and an endless sense of optimism, she dove enthusiastically into the corporate world. Follow Dede's sometimes hilarious, sometimes harrowing journey as she endured years of bullying and prejudice, only to end up with a nightmarish boss who tried to get rid of her using everything from theft to voodoo magic.

Luna Valencia is the founder of the hottest artificial intelligence startup in history. She's about to become incredibly rich and powerful. But just when she's about to take her company public, her world begins to fall apart. On the day of her startup's IPO, a stock exchange shooter plummets Luna into a downward spiral toward a threat more menacing than she ever imagined possible. Faced with losing her company, her entire world, Luna searches for answers to a series of terrifying accusations.

This book delves into another portal of awareness. Discover how the term original purpose is not referring to just another way to say life purpose. A life purpose exists independently for each embodiment and is quite simply a component of the bigger, broader, more comprehensive one. Imagine, too, as you step from this lifetime into the transitory one that this transitional space is where you make plans to embody yet again. It is during this time that you devise many of the components found within your next incarnation.

Kate Rowland is the happily married wife of a US Marine. Unlike the stereotype of a military wife she leads a professional life independent of her husband's career. Everything is going well until the fateful night that will change their lives forever. Accompanied by her best friend Tricia and their buddy Rashon, Kate faces the challenges of a new life, a new career, and a past that will always haunt her.

Since vegetables are rich in anti-toxins, fiber, important vitamins, and nutrients, as well as more readily absorbed and metabolized than meats, veganism has numerous health benefits, including better mental and physical health. But even though many see the benefits and strive to "become vegan," many give up because they don't know exactly how or believe that it is too hard or inconvenient.

We're joined by Robyn Young, the historical fiction author best known for her Brethren trilogy, the first book of which went straight into the Sunday Times Top Ten and became a bestselling hardback debut. Robyn's latest series is called New World Rising and follows the period of the Wars of the Roses through to Renaissance Europe. Robyn talks about the first book in that series, Sons of the Blood.

On a bright summer day in 1989 New England, Abi, three years old, vanishes from her aunt’s secluded home. Upstairs, her young cousins are looking out of the window. Something is unfolding in the distance at the edge of the forest – something sinister that is watching them back.

Sami’s childhood is much like any other - an innocent blend of family and school, of friends and relations and pets (including stray cats and dogs and the turtle he keeps on the roof). But growing up in one of the largest cities in Syria, with his country at war with itself, means that nothing is really normal. And Sami’s hopes for a better future are ripped away when he is conscripted into the military and forced to train as a map maker.

When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, renowned artist, musician, and author of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. These letters soon grew into a powerful exchange about where we go from here.

This city-based series of outstanding erotic stories moves on to Dublin, the birthplace of Guinness, James Joyce, and so much more. Here's a glittering array of tales guaranteed to titillate, shock, and delight as listenersjourney across the Liffey and the streets of the Irish capital. Brand new stories from authors Ken Bruen, Sean Black, Colin Bateman, Stella Duffy, Shelley Silas, Nikki Magennis, and many others are collected here to celebrate and eroticise Dublin.

Skye and Jordan must learn to get along as they set out to get Jordan into shape to come out of retirement. While Skye puts Jordan through a rigorous training routine and keeps his spirits up, Jordan finds himself becoming more and more enamored with her. Can he break down the walls she has built around her heart and show her that not all sportsmen are the same and get her to trust him again to win his greatest prize ever?

Meet Gosia. She's a sensitive soul with a filthy mind and problems with intimacy. Between shifts in a well-lit budget supermarket and nights in a badly lit Zone 3 flatshare, she spends hours inside her own head. That is, until a chance encounter snaps her out of her reverie. Propelled into a series of mediocre jobs, lousy dates and even worse sex, the prickly yet warm-hearted Gosia begins her excavation of the 'perfect' life so many dream of. After all, could there be more to it than she imagined?

After thirty-five years as an “on-again, off-again, uncoached closet pianist,” poet and writer Robyn Sarah picked up the phone one day and called her old piano teacher, whom she had last seen in her early twenties. Music, Late and Soon is the story of her return to studying piano with the mentor of her youth. In tandem, she reflects on a previously unexamined musical past: a decade spent at Quebec’s Conservatoire de Musique, studying clarinet—ostensibly headed for a career as an orchestral musician, but already a writer at heart.