Every girl loves ice cream, right?Not Sofia. She's tried all the flavours, but plain old Vanilla was her downfall.A trip to the Cayman Islands to give her ex what he deserves is made all the more complicated by her fear of water—not easy to handle at the best of times, but he’s taken up residence on a yacht.She cooks up a special recipe for revenge, and it’s a dish best served chilled. But will handsome stranger Leo add some unwanted heat into the kitchen?

The remarkable untold story of a miracle drug, the forgotten pioneer who discovered it, and the fight to bring lithium to the masses.The DNA double helix, penicillin, the X-ray, insulin—these are routinely cited as some of the most important medical discoveries of the twentieth century. And yet, the 1949 discovery of lithium as a cure for bipolar disorder is perhaps one of the most important—yet largely unsung—breakthroughs of the modern era. In Lithium, W...

Paul est un géologue quinquagénaire clairement en perte de vitesse. Installé à Nancy après avoir quitté Paris, il est englué dans une existence qu'il observe avec une douloureuse lucidité. Bipolaire stabilisé par le Lithium depuis plusieurs années, il décide de reprendre le fil de son existence en arrêtant son traitement. Soutenu dans l'aventure par Laura, son amie indéfectible, Paul part en quête de ses flamboyances passées mais devra aussi affronter les chaos de sa maladie.

Return to Self. Reclaim Your Power. Live Aligned & Free.In a world that glorifies doing, achieving, and comparing, Aligned & Free offers a sacred pause — a call back to your natural rhythm of being. Inspired by conscious living, this guide is a bridge between the spiritual and the practical; between the unseen alignment of the inner world and the tangible results of the outer.Through gentle yet profound insights, Alexander Thiong'o invites you to r...

A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes: ever-growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads, laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar panels on our roofs, all reliant on lithium-ion batteries. This revolution is happening at breath-taking speed, with the potential to completely transform key industries and the way we live. For the first time in history, we can now actually store this green energy we talk so much about. Often referred to as 'the new oil', l...

The voice that speaks to us in Lithium is that of a woman in her late twenties, compulsively determined to understand everything that's happening around her: a miscarriage, an absent lover, a bad drug trip, friends who come and go, horoscopes, life-as-a-trap, and hopes of an escape…Malén Denis’s Lithium is a novel about what cannot be fully named or pinned down. “Language in this book,” the author notes, “acts as a pharmakon—both poison a...

Psychopharmacology has certainly had the greatest impact on psy chiatric theory and practice since the psychoanalytic discoveries by Freud. Beginning more than 20 years ago, psychopharmacology has become a vigorous interdisciplinary science, and over the last 10 to 15 years has witnessed a tremendous growth both from a scientific and practical point of view. Lithium occupies a unique and central position in modern psycho pharmacology for several reasons. The introduction of the lithium ion...

“The last scene, seared in my mind, was that of a girl with long brown hair, gripping a wooden stake and upholding the honour of our race. We are what we are and she had just joined our fate. We are what we are. We are Vampire Slayers…”You might run but you cannot hide… Mya and Chrissie decide to leave Italy and move to Scotland, seeing in going to college the chance to escape the pain that threatens to drag them down. Yet they cannot know that the memories they are desperately try...

This poetry collection cuts through the themes of loss, love, grief and recovery. The first collection of Varnika Goel is a confession - how mental illness and grief can conquer every part of you and how it affects the daily life.These poems are a souvenir of hope and memento of survival. But most of all these are a small remembrance of an unforgettable trauma which is enfolded in each line of the poetry, with each poem. She writes in a vulnerable tone in the ending of one of her p...

Elle, vingt-trois ans, enfant de la consommation et des réseaux sociaux, noie ses craintes dans l'alcool, le sexe et la fête, sans se préoccuper du lendemain, un principe de vie. Il vient de terminer ses études et travaille sans passion dans une société où l'argent est roi. Pour eux, ni passé ni avenir. Perdus et désenchantés, deux jeunes d'aujourd'hui qui cherchent à se réinventer.Dans un texte crépusculaire, Aurélien Gougaud entremêle leurs voix, leurs errances,...

From insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration to exile, Walter Brown chronicles the troubling history of the diagnosis and (often ineffective) treatment of bipolar disorder through the centuries, before the publication of a groundbreaking research paper in 1949. Cade's "Lithium Salts in the Treatment of Psychotic Excitement" described, for the first time, lithium's astonishing efficacy at both treating and preventing the recurrence of manic-depressive episodes, and would eventually tran...

Do you like romance with thrilling twists? Do you want down-to-earth heroes and heroines you can root for?The Blackwood Elements series delivers all this and more with three full-length novels together in one volume.When tragedy strikes, Akari Takeda moves to Boston with her young son to follow her dream of becoming a pianist. But three men get in her way—Jansen, the skilled but uptight violinist, easygoing Jude, who understands how important coffee is to a girl, a...