The Ultimate Retreat Effect: Bond and Beyond is a heartwarming, inspiring, and transformative collection of stories from women who said "yes" to pressing pause on their busy lives and embracing the magic of retreat. Hosted by Natasa Denman, this life-changing experience brings together authors, entrepreneurs, and creatives from around the world to connect, reflect, and recharge in the paradise of Bintan, Indonesia.Each chapter offers a unique perspective-raw, real,...

He shone the torch into the depths of the well. There was water at the foot of the shaft. Something dark and mis-shapen was huddled against the brickwork.What Old Heatherington doesn’t know about bee-keeping isn’t worth knowing. But the behaviour of the bees that day was extraordinary—they swarmed to a new hive where no hive should have been, and which was damp to boot. There was the smell of cyanide; and in an abandoned well below the hive, was discovered the dead body of...

INTRIGUE. TENSION. LOVE AFFAIRS:In The Historical Romance series, a set of stand-alone novels, Vivian Stuart builds her compelling narratives around the dramatic lives of sea captains, nurses, surgeons, and members of the aristocracy.Stuart takes us back to the societies of the 20th century, drawing on her own experience of places across Australia, India, East Asia, and the Middle East.Young Doctor Mason was dedicated, sympathetic, a...

A “state of the field” collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic from a range of disciplinesCOVID Studies is a “state of the field” collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic from a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, public policy, political science, history, and science and technology studies. Though varied in their methodologies, whether ethnography, data analysis, or archival...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Kingston Daley has done everything right.Top of his class. Years of relentless climbing. Campaigns praised in the conference room and credited to someone else in the boardroom. As one of the few Black men at his level inside a corporation that speaks the language of inclusion and practices the opposite, Kingston has become an expert at being twice as prepared and half as visible — and it has cost him more than he will ever say o...