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Inspired by a famed correspondence handbook penned by a persnickety Victorian who had strong opinions on how to lick a stamp, cultural critic Rachel Syme has rewritten the staid letter-writing rules of yore for the letter writers of today. Syme insists you must stuff your envelopes with flat frivolities (and includes guides for how to press flowers and make a matchbook-mark), teaches you how to perfume a parcel, and encourages you to cultivate your own ritual around keeping up with your correspondence.

Wenn man von Kindesmissbrauch hört, fragt man sich zuerst, was einen Erwachsenen dazu bewegt, dies einem Kind anzutun. Die Gefühle der erlebten Momente aus der Perspektive des Opfers zu spüren, sich die Angst, Verzweiflung und die Scham dieser Momente vorzustellen, sind fast unmöglich. Sie sind etwas, das die meisten Menschen verdrängen, aus Angst davor, zu erfahren, was ein Kind in diesen Momenten der Machtlosigkeit empfindet. Ausgeliefert und allein ohne die Hilfe einer geliebten Person, oder oft sogar in dieser Situation mit einem nahestehenden Menschen.

Parents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles. The authors chronicle parents' path-breaking advocacy in arenas such as the right to education and to liberty via deinstitutionalization as well as how they engaged in legal and political advocacy.

Single dad, Joel Grainger, is devoted to his little girl, Imogen, doing all he can to be a key part of her life. But with Imogen’s mum being ever more difficult and Joel’s job suddenly in doubt, he’s worried that everything is about to change. Joel has given everything to Imogen, and he doesn’t regret it, but maybe he’s lost himself along the way… Since her dad’s heart-breaking dementia diagnosis, Poppy Wells has been struggling and desperately needs a break. An opportunity to stay in gorgeous Whisperwood Farmhouse couldn’t be more perfect.

In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping.

To Viggo, the veil was simply a landmark. Crossing it was considered suicide, and he'd never given much thought to what might lay beyond. Then, his life collapsed around him. Ejected from the military academy that was to have marked the start of his career, disowned by his family, passed over by the gods themselves, Viggo's last chance lay beyond the veil. Yet, from the very beginning, something was deeply troubling about the realm from whence the gods came. Its cities lay in ruins, its lands peopled by lunatics locked into tasks they could not escape.

Seit Jahrhunderten lastet ein Fluch auf der Familie Everly: Ihre schönsten und klügsten Kinder werden von der mysteriösen Penelope mitgenommen, als Sühne für ein Verbrechen, an das sich niemand mehr erinnern kann. Violet Everly war zehn, als ihre Mutter Marianne verschwand. Nicht einmal Penelope kann sie aufspüren, und so stellt sie Violet ein Ultimatum: Sie hat zehn Jahre Zeit, um Marianne zu finden. Schafft sie es nicht, holt sich Penelope stattdessen Violet. Ihre Suche führt Violet durch ganz Europa – und in eine andere, geheime, magische Welt voller Götter und Monster.

This book is designed to show you how reading can make your life better in many ways. It’s perfect for people who love books but struggle to find time to read or those who want to enjoy a good laugh while learning something new.

Sommer in London: Die Schwedin Sam, impulsiv und leicht chaotisch, ist vorübergehend für ein Praktikum bei einer hippen Agentur in die Stadt gekommen. Auf einer Party trifft sie den idealistischen Luc, der nach der Uni noch nicht so recht seinen Platz in der Welt gefunden hat. Die beiden verlieben sich - im vollen Bewusstsein, dass ihre Verbindung aufgrund der Umstände nur von kurzer Dauer sein kann.

Imagine meeting up with some of your favorite fairy tale characters in an enchanted forest that casts a spell of mayhem, mischief, magic and fun.

With secrets unraveling, friends and enemies creeping out of the shadows, and a terrifying past coming to light, Lyric is faced with a decision that could decide the fate of the world. Trusting others has never been a problem for her. It’s why she’s in this mess, but believing in herself enough to unlock the magic of her destiny? That’s a different story. If her own mother abandoned her with a twelve-year-old, how “special” could she really be?

With the pirates closer to finding the power to take Skyla and an ancient temple trial looming above Lyric and her friends, things couldn’t get much more ominous. Add unresolved feelings for someone who should be an enemy and so many internal doubts it’s suffocating, and Lyric’s life couldn’t get more stressful. Until the very battle she went to Neverland to stop appears on her doorstep. When everything she tried to save slips through her fingers, Hook seals his fate. She won’t rest until he’s defeated, even if it means leaving Skyla behind. Again.

Rachel Cohen's A Chance Meeting is a dazzling group portrait that offers a striking new vision of the making and remaking of the American mind and imagination from the Civil War to the Vietnam War. How does the happenstance of daily life become history? Cohen shows us, describing a series of, now boldly, now subtly, transformative encounters between a wide and surprising range of Americans.

With everything Lyric loves gone or at risk, she has no choice but to follow Bay on a mission to stop the pirates before they take all of Skyla. Their destination? Neverland. From the moment she steps foot on the island, Lyric can’t help but feel like she knows the magical world in the stars, but she has very little time to dwell on that sensation. With krakens, sirens, and the very island itself trying to swallow her, she has to focus. Get to the pirates. Defeat the pirates. Save her home. Or die trying.

1894, Echuca, Victoria: Tess Hawthorn is a woman on the run from her abusive husband. All she has to do is get on the riverboat Victor and she will be free. But with tensions at an all-time high between unionist shearers and Scabs, Tess isn't the only person trying to board a boat under the cover of night. When a brawl erupts between the union and non-union men, Tess is mistaken as a fellow Scab and in the chaos pulled aboard the PS Rodney - the same boat heading up the Darling River that her husband was bound for.

Accidents happen, no matter how careful or well-intentioned you are. Psychiatrist Eve Thayer frequently reassures her patients of that fact. There are even times when accidents have good consequences—like when Eve met her now-husband, Nathan, at his collision shop after another car ran her off the road. After a whirlwind courtship, Nathan and Eve have settled into domestic life. They have a lovely home on a quiet street, a beautiful baby girl, and even the perfect babysitter to care for her. And yet, something isn’t quite right.

Skyla is my home. It has always been my home. But will it always be my prison? As long as I can remember, Peter has told me I’m Skyla’s good luck charm, but with that title, he refuses to let me leave the floating islands and go on adventures like he does. I spend my days exploring one island after another, after another...and while I may stumble upon a magical cove now and then, when you’ve seen one floating patch of dirt, you’ve seen them all.

When Pigeon finds a delicious hot dog, he can hardly wait to shove the entire thing in his beak. But . . . then a very sly and hungry duckling enters the scene and wants a bite. Who will be the more clever bird? In this hilarious follow-up to the acclaimed Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Mo Willems has created another avian adventure that encourages children to share even their most prized processed foods. Mo Willems is a six-time Emmy Award-winning writer and animator for Sesame Street and the head writer of Cartoon Network's Code Name: Kids Next Door.

Meet Fleck Parker: Mother, Crafter and Amateur Detective. Fleck loves a good puzzle. She spends most of her time feeling invisible, caring for three small children and that's fine, really. But it does make her brain itch occasionally. When Trixie, fellow school-mum and avid crafter, is accused of stealing money from Many Hands, the women's charity known for its charming store full of handmade crafts, Fleck feels compelled to investigate and clear Trixie's name.

All Charlie Masterson wants is to graduate Oxford. With a first, obviously. But then his life gets turned upside down when Evie Waters waltzes into his philosophy class. Evie Waters, the one-time, very careless owner of his heart. A heart he has no intention of giving away ever again, therefore he needs to come up with a plan to make sure that doesn’t happen. As Charlie and Violet spend more time together, it soon becomes hard to tell where the acting ends and real life begins, especially when Charlie starts looking at Violet the way she’s always looked at him.