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It's that week between Christmas and New Year, and sisters Kate and Selena, and their friend Paisley, are meeting for an all-girls mini-break - no men allowed. But Affie, Carlos and Joseph have a similar idea, involving a sports channel, plenty of beer, and absolutely no women. Somehow, there's been a double booking. Can the six of them find a way to navigate nearly a week together? Can the past be left behind and a new future found?

Set against the romantic backdrops of Rome and Petworth, Bound by Desire weaves a tale of unexpected passion between two individuals from vastly different worlds. Lord Damian, a charismatic nobleman poised to inherit his family's prestigious estate in Petworth and assume the title of Earl, finds his carefully structured life overturned by a chance encounter. His attraction to Isabella, a sharp and sophisticated investment banker, is immediate and undeniable. Isabella, equally captivated by Damian's charm, finds herself drawn into a whirlwind romance that defies her pragmatic nature.

Nelle aule del tribunale di Firenze si celebra il processo dell'anno. Attilio Bergamini, amministratore delegato della Safe Word, è accusato di bancarotta fraudolenta. Quel giorno a sostenere l'accusa c'è Valeria Parri, pubblico ministero divisa tra una professione che la consuma e la fragile salute del figlio appena nato. Con lei ci sono Giulia Gori, giornalista d'inchiesta pronta a tutto, Monica Giusti, commercialista brillante segnata da relazioni tumultuose, ed Erika Martini, poliziotta determinata a far luce sulla sparatoria.

Giulia Zollino ha vissuto questa educazione - o, sarebbe meglio dire, diseducazione - sulla propria pelle. Poi, però, ha incontrato il femminismo. È successo a Bologna, durante gli anni burrascosi dell'università, tra gruppi di discussione, letture e orgasmi. Ed è stato amore a prima vista. Questo incontro ha segnato uno spartiacque tra un prima e un dopo, da qui è partito il suo percorso di ribellione e riscoperta di sé. Il femminismo le ha insegnato a distruggere i miti nocivi, come quello della bellezza, permettendole di accettare e riappropriarsi del suo corpo.

Courtney is a worrier - she's worried about everything, from her mum and dad's constant fights, to her Gran being ill, to the fact that her best friend, Lois, suddenly seems to be more interested in growing up and hanging out with mean girl Bex than with her. But then one day, during a particularly bad argument kicked off by her dad's discovery of a pig in their lounge (don't ask...), Courtney begins to feel a bit funny...a bit woozy...a bit like a dream is coming on - and then when she wakes up everything is better!

This third volume in The Princess Rules series sees the feisty princess take her baby brother and best friend, Bennett, on another round of adventures together. Can they rescue their new-found friend, the sea serpent, from a travelling circus? And hold back the pirate, Five-fathom Freida. Or will Florizella’s worst fairy godmother prove that in a fairytale world, you really do have to be careful what you wish for?

As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one-year-old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through. As the threat of another Zeppelin attack grows by the day, Ruby cannot ignore the abandoned animals scavenging the local streets. She rescues a stray kitten, Tess, and takes in an injured terrier Mac, but when all the local cats mysteriously disappear, she knows she needs to do more, and with the help of her friends plans to open a weekly animal clinic.

It’s 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, dogged by grief, adrift in a hostile rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that stare into the yard. Despite the lack of privacy, she fills its rooms with an unlikely group of residents looking for communal belonging: zine maker, activist, disaffected artist, part-time rugby league player – each looking to build a future, each haunted by their recent past. But if a rented house in Sydney could ever promise salvation, it would come with a coating of black mould.

Mulberry Hotel, perched on a clifftop above a sweeping bay, was once the heart and soul of pretty seaside town Mulberry Bay. Run by the Harte family for years, the place itself is almost as beloved as cheery landlady Anna. The hotel was also once home to 30-something sisters Eleanor and Penny, and while youngest sister Penny still lives close by, it's been some time since Elle has visited. But following a family tragedy, Elle is forced to return from her busy London life and reassess her past.

Le bambine e i bambini, nati in Italia nel 2018 grazie alle tecniche di Procreazione medicalmente assistita (Pma), sono il 3,2%. Vuol dire che esistono oltre 14.000 figlie e figli di persone che hanno affrontato questi percorsi. Allargando la fotografia a tutte quelle donne che decidono di avere un figlio da sole o con un'altra donna in una coppia lesbica, ovvero alle soggettività che non rientrano nella visione normativa della legge 40 del 2004, i numeri crescono ancora.

The Magpie Wing is set on football fields, in sharehouses, at punk gigs and in dilapidated and gentrifying pubs. Max Easton’s debut novel moves from the nineties to the present, and between the suburbs and the inner city, exploring how communities that appear worlds apart—underground music scenes, rugby league clubs, communist splinter groups—often share unexpected roots.

La Tina no recorda res del seu passat. Acaba de despertar amb un cos adolorit i ple de cicatrius i l'única veritat que coneix és la de la seva tieta, que la cuidada durant la convalescència. Però els secrets a poc a poc es van desenredant, ja que, a mesura que la Tina va recuperant-se de les ferides, les preguntes es fan més i més intenses. Qui és la seva tieta realment? On són els seus pares? Però la pregunta que més ronda pel seu cap, que no la deixa descansar, és: qui és ella realment?

"Vents més salvatges" és una col·lecció de relats lleugers i, a la vegada, profunds. Contes que parlen de nenes, de mares, de tietes i d'àvies, que parlen de dones de l'actualitat i dones que van viure en temps passats. La prosa elegant de la Bel Olid s'endinsa en el conflicte personal i social i obre una finestra a diferents realitats. Parla de la foscor més intensa, de l'abús de poder, la violència i les forces institucionals que afecten els grups socials més marginats.

Isabelle, a young university researcher, is sent to a country manor house deep in the heart of rural England to verify an ancient object that the family has discovered during the renovation of their home. While Isabelle sets to work verifying its authenticity, she becomes the obsession of the owner’s strange but beautiful daughter, and they develop a dangerous attraction.

"Follem?" és un assaig que examina la sexualitat i el plaer i ho fa des d'una exploració més enllà dels clixés i els tabús. Aquest audiollibre parteix d'un nou inici per mirar la sexualitat sense la vergonya, les imatges preconcebudes o els papers autoimposats. És una nova manera de mirar cap a l'interior del desig i dels cossos humans i també cap a l'exterior, cap a les persones amb les qui compartim aquest anhel. Escoltar al cos, a l'ànima i no fer cas a tot el que s'ha imposat per defecte.

Sisters Spel and Egg grew up in Mistress Mouldheels’ School for Wicked Girls believing they were the daughters of criminals, until they discovered the truth: They are witches. And after always being in the shadow of her big sister, Spel discovered that she was a Shadowborn Witch—the only one who can step between portals to other worlds. Now in a coven with their schoolmates and part of the alliance against the Hunt, the sisters try to master their new powers. But the Hunt is rising, the witches are in danger and when a new portal opens the whole world is under threat.

Carlotta, ragazza veneta primogenita di quattro figli, viveva serenamente la sua vita finché a 17 anni la morte del padre precipitò la sua famiglia in gravi difficoltà economiche. Sua madre decise allora di emigrare con i figli in Brasile per sfuggire alla fame e alla miseria. Carlotta dovette così lasciare il giovane fidanzato che stava facendo il militare. All'addio si fecero la promessa, difficile da mantenere, di ricongiungersi dopo che fossero cresciuti i fratellini di lei. Si imbarcarono su un piroscafo nel 1881 e dopo un viaggio avventuroso arrivarono a destinazione.

Read by Gemma Chua-Tran, known for Netflix's Heartbreak High. A must-listen for young readers passionate about making a difference. In a world full of challenges, sometimes the biggest impact comes from standing up for what you believe in, even in the smallest corners. This was meant to be...

La "senyora del dimarts" és l’única clienta fidel que li queda a Bonamente Fanzago, Zagor, després de posar fi a la seva carrera d’èxits en el món del cinema per a adults. És gigoló tant a la gran pantalla com a la vida real, però un ictus l’obliga a deixar els seus encontres sexuals i la seva vida anterior. Amb Nanà, de qui no se sap gaire res, es troben cada dimarts a la mateixa hora en una pensió de poc glamur. Qui és, però, aquesta dona que fa perdre el cap al protagonista? D’on ha sortit i què busca?

When Frankie’s mother dies, he tells his teacher. But he can't seem to get anyone at his school in southern England to listen to him. So the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station and ask the officers to ring his father. Thus a stowaway’s view of the sea opens Pauline Holdstock’s eighth novel, narrated in turns by Frankie - who likes cheese, numbers, the sea when it’s pink, and being alone when he feels bad - and a cast of characters that includes his worried Gran, his callous teacher and his not-so-reliable father.