Love & Profanity features more than forty brief, brilliant, and unforgettable true stories from writers both renowned and on the rise. Discover strange and surprising scenes of people coming of age amidst the everyday intensity of teenage life. Witness transformative moments arising from the mundane. Behold the young adult in full splendor and horror, bursting with love and profanity.

From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a confession and Julie Myerson remembers how her career began beside the shelves. Using memoir, history, polemic and some short ...

Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites of media production. The book's chapters also question the role that film and television industries and local and regional governments play in broader economic develop and tax incentive...

The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water quality.Biodiversity and Human Health brings together leading thinkers on the globa...

When the past refuses to stay buried, James Moran is the one who faces what lingers…At Moran & Moran, James Moran trades in relics that pulse with the echoes of the past. When the dead refuse to let go, he is the one who must uncover why.Join James as he delves into the chilling secrets of a collector’s cursed artifacts, crosses paths with a spirit who won’t rest, and fights to survive a violent entity that turns his shop into a war zone. Each ca...

James Moran knows that some antiques hold more than history…At Moran and Moran, haunted relics whisper secrets of the past, drawing James into a world where spirits refuse to rest. Each one tests his resolve as he faces vengeful entities, cursed objects, and echoes of his own family’s past.Join James as he investigates a cursed money clip that brings fortune at a deadly price, searches for answers after his father's passing, and confronts a spiri...

You cant succeed without making a plan. Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. The authors have found that annual goals and plans create unforeseen barriers to achieving the best results. This is too short. Instead, a 12 Week Year captures the energy of year-end, and avoids the pitfalls of low productivity annualized thinking. With the traditional annual execution cycle there is an illusion that there is a lot of ti...

Inheriting his family’s legacy proves more perilous than precious for James Moran…Haunted relics hide chilling secrets in Moran & Moran, a family-owned antique shop where the past refuses to stay buried. Each meticulously chosen artifact throbs with a supernatural presence, beckoning to a world where spirits linger.Follow James as he embarks on a dangerous family mission against a vengeful spirit, deciphers cryptic warnings from a restless spirit...

From the bestselling author of ‘The Necromancer’ comes a terrifying tale of gothic horror. Perfect for fans of Stephen King, ‘The Haunting of Hill House,’ and ‘Carmilla.’Some hungers never dieFor over a year, Rosewood has slept. Beneath cold grey skies, mist coils across its coastal grounds like a living thing. Dead trees stir in a wind nobody feels. And something watches.When 22-year-old singer Brie Holloway moves in with ...

Who is Jimmy Moran? It starts with a lucky penny. Then a muse who bestows a mystical gift. Or maybe a curse? Family, friends, and fights abound as Jimmy breaks the law, looks for love in all the wrong places and experiences loss that transforms him. A mischievous Bronx boy becomes a man in his search for the love of his life. This is the coming-of-age story of the character we meet in the Claire Trilogy, who becomes a mob lawyer, Claire the mule's best friend, and the leader of the motley ...

As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of a police coverup ran rampant, and the case went unsolved along with the murders of several other...

Una nueva adaptación del cuento clásico, desde la perspectiva de un joven inmigrante mexicano; un niño de madera que emprende un viaje para encontrarse a sí mismo, mientras lucha por no perder sus raíces latinas en una tierra nueva y diferente.Basado en la producción de la compañía de teatro Teatro SEA, este audiolibro bilingüe está narrado por un elenco completo e incluye música y efectos de sonido.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThe heart-warming retelling of ...