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‘One of only two novels I've ever loved whose main characters are not human’ BARBARA KINGSOLVERFor fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock.‘By far my favourite book of of the year’ GuardianOne cold night, two newcomers emerge onto the streets of 1899 New York, and it is never the same again.But these two are more than strangers to this land, they are strangers to ...

"Add the voice of Helen Tursten to the list of mystery writers who know how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural."—Philadelphia Inquirer"An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels currently being written by Englishwomen Val McDermid and Liza Cody, and our own Sara Paretsky."—Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air," Washington Post Book World"The picture Tursten provides of Sweden’s growing anti-im...

How to be a winner—in the contests you enter or in the game of life.Who says you can’t win’em all?!Helene Hadsell was 'the woman who won every contest prize she desired.' In Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game, she shares her winning secrets in the vibrant, warm, and folksy manner that was uniquely her.In this updated 3rd Edition, you will learn the nuts and bolts of the hobby. From the contest mechanics to how to create a winning entry and, most importantly, ho...

"Wecker is a marvelous storyteller.”—USA Today“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle.”— Entertainment WeeklyThe long-awaited final installment in the award-winning, bestselling Golem and the Jinni trilogy.At the beginning of The Hidden Palace, the second book in Helene Wecker’s Golem and Jinni trilogy, Ahmad the jinni travels to...

Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenbur...

‘One of only two novels I've ever loved whose main characters are not human’ BARBARA KINGSOLVERFor fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock.‘By far my favourite book of of the year’ GuardianOne cold night, two newcomers emerge onto the streets of 1899 New York, and it is never the same again.But these two are more than strangers to this land, they are strangers to ...

Based on her work with over a thousand women across the country, psychologist Helene G. Brenner has learned that women feel the impulse to accommodate, adapt and mold themselves to serve others at their own expense. Her solution is an invigorating new approach to women's psychology.The key to transformation, she explains, is not self-improvement, but self-acceptance—affirming and validating what we truly feel and experience and who we already are. Dr. Brenner shows...

An astrophysicist recounts how her team of researchers surfed the cosmos to map our local universe—and discovered the Laniakea supercluster, home of the Milky Way.You are here: on Earth, which is part of the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is within the extragalactic supercluster Laniakea. And how can we pinpoint our location so precisely? For 20 years, astrophysicist Hélène Courtois surfed the cosmos with international teams of researc...

Join Helene Hadsell each day as she has breakfast, goes about her morning routine, and regales you, dear reader, with her serious, silly, and sermonish observations about the GLAD-SAD-MAD of life in her third book of wit and wisdom. She shares her secrets in a vibrant, warm, and folksy manner, unique only to her.GLAD - Helene was grateful for every moment her life held. All of them. She was GLAD she was blessed to experience all the ups, downs, and all arounds.SAD - Helene ...

"Richly nuanced and beautiful. . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope.” (Buzzfeed)“A layered novel of many complex characters…To keep their worlds safe, Chava and Ahmad must access both their greatest supernatural powers and their deepest human impulses.” (Historical Novels Review)In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I— the ...

This book is not intended to be a clinical account of menopause, rather a result of a survey I did with post menopausal women. These beautiful women gave me valuable information about their experiences both physical and emotional and highlighted many other idiosyncrasies that we would never have connected with menopause.This little book tells it how it is; not how the books say it is!It was written as a conversation with you, giving brief explanations of symptoms with suggest...

BEST BOOKS of 2017 SELECTION by * THE WASHINGTON POST * NEW YORK POST *The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished a barrier few thought possible, obliterating centuries of patriarcha...