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If it weren't for bad luck, Stephanie Combes would have no luck at all.On top of stealing her identity and ruining her credit, Stephie’s ex-boyfriend has shamed her in the most unexpected way. As a card dealer, she’s determined to make a fresh start in Biloxi where the tips are better and she can climb out from under her shame and debt. Running into her long-lost stepbrother and his sexy-as-sin best friend wasn’t in the cards, but that was her bum-luck rearing its ugly head. The la...

**“Food Intelligence dispels many popular myths we have about weight loss and breaks down the real drivers of the obesity crisis based on decades of research. I really hope everyone gets a chance to read this book." —Sanjay Gupta, MD, Chief Medical Correspondent at CNN and host of Chasing LifeThe essential guide for understanding what you’re eating, and the forces that are driving you to eat it.**AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR****Nutrition isn’t roc...

The sexy, action-packed first book in the Riot MC Biloxi series from Karen Renee.If it weren't for bad luck, Stephanie Combes would have no luck at all.On top of stealing her identity and ruining her credit, Stephie's ex-boyfriend has shamed her in the most unexpected way. As a card dealer, she's determined to make a fresh start in Biloxi where the tips are better and she can climb out from under her shame and debt. Running into her long-lost stepbrother and his sexy-as-sin...

The unprecedented mainstreaming of the global pornography industry is transforming the sexual politics of intimate and public life, popularizing new forms of hardcore misogyny, and strongly contributing to the sexualization of children. Yet, challenges to the industry continue to be dismissed as uncool, antisex, and moral panic. Unmasking the lies behind the selling of porn as entertainment, this book reveals the shocking truths of an industry that trades in violence, crime, and degradatio...

‘Traces how both the state and white feminist practices consistently vilify and dismiss Muslim women’ Koa Beck, the author of White Feminism‘Lays out the deep entanglement between white feminism and Islamophobia’ Nafisa Bakkar, co-founder and CEO of Amaliah‘A vital contribution to the feminist conversation – one that tears through the myth of universal sisterhood’ Alya Mooro, author of The Greater Freedom

In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system. Is there some way we can get our minds around these disparate global upheavals, to gr...

He chose porn over me. Porn killed my marriage. It killed my trust. It destroyed my sense of self and understanding of true intimacy -Courtney Shattering the popular myth that porn is harmless, the personal accounts of 25 brave women in He Chose Porn over Me reveal the real-life trauma experienced by women at the hands of their porn-consuming partners – men who were supposed to care for them. This confronting but necessary book dares to tell the truth about pornography's destructive impact...

Frontline work is full of situations where there isn't a perfect answer.Someone refuses help. A conversation starts to escalate. A client returns in crisis. You need to hold a boundary that feels uncomfortable. You leave work wondering whether you helped or made things worse.The Field Guide to Frontline Care is a practical resource for people working in homelessness, substance use and harm reduction. Written by physician and social worker Marcus Greatheart, it offers practi...

*CHECK OUT JACK JORDAN’S CONVICTION, SOON TO BE A HULU TELEVISION SERIES STARRING ELISABETH MOSS*A surgeon faces an impossible choice: save a patient, or lose her son in this pulse-pounding international bestselling thriller from the master of the moral dilemmaThe man lies on the table in front of me. As a surgeon, it’s my job to save him. As a mother, I know I must kill him.You might think that I’m a monster. But there rea...

Cut through diet myths, nutrition misinformation and wellness trends with the empowering, evidence-based guide from NHS doctor and nutritionist Joshua Wolrich.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Excellent - I couldn't put it down' Jameela Jamil'A beacon of truth in a sea of misinformation' Alice Liveing---Does sugar cause type 2 diabetes? Are vegan diets always healthier? Is weight the main driver of...

'Enthralling' Guardian'A superb achievement' Ian McEwan'Incredibly absorbing . . . astonishingly candid' Bill BrysonWinner of the PEN Ackerley Prize and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for LiteratureWhat is it like to be a brain surgeon?How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason?How do you li...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBuilding on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.**In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressiv...