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Bloomsbury presents A Method, A Path written and read by Rowan Evans. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2023** An award-winning poet explodes the notion of translation, showing us the poem in a supple, malleable form 'Formally inventive, rich in aslant borrowings...

Kyna, a retired nurse and grandmother, meets Kal through an internet dating site. What begins next is a whirlwind introduction to BDSM and love.

From the bestselling author of Love Lives Here, a deeply personal memoir about facing life-long trauma head-on, and bravely healing the scars that endure. For writer and human rights advocate Rowan Jetté Knox, the inspiring story of his family’s journey of love and acceptance, when both his...

The beautiful Gina Huxtable has it all: power, money, a successful business and an exquisite estate, Ashby Manor, in Northern England. She also has a staff of young girls who double as a harem of willing slaves, ready at her beck and call. However what Gina really wants still eludes her.

Anoushka wants to be the kinkiest dominatrix there ever was. Now that her husband is gone, the curvaceous vamp plans to make up for the wasted years and have all her BDSM dreams come true. The raven-haired beauty, with a wardrobe of fabulous fetish wear, will do anything, with men or women alike, to feed her kinky cravings. But there’s one serious downside. She’s made herself a widow, and her need to sate her hunger for unnatural lust has just begun.

Sophie Brancelli, the orphaned illegitimate child of a duke’s daughter, must ensure her marriage to a suitable gentleman of the ton before her 21st birthday, or she’ll be destitute. Her grandmother, the duchess, provided her with a huge inheritance, but with strings attached.

If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement of science, what would you do? It's an unimaginably large sum, yet it's only around one per cent of world GDP, and about the valuation of Google, Microsoft or Amazon. It's a much smaller sum than the world found to bail out its banks in 2008 or deal with Covid-19. But what could you achieve with $1 trillion? You could solve the problem of the pandemic, for one, and eradicate malaria, and maybe cure all disease. You could end global poverty.

At first I was gullible. I was so naïve getting mixed up with Kyle. Things just got out of control. Didn't matter what time of day and where. Things just happened between me and Kyle. Now, I must play savior to get him off this life sentence. The evidence is heavily stacked against him. Kyle, during our court-appointed meetings, often reminds me of our heated exchanges, but I have to stay focused for his sake. I can't let Kyle take me there again. And the worst part? I know he's guilty, but a big part of me knows I cannot survive without Michael Kyle Hansberry.

Tell a New Story offers an easy-to-follow, five-step approach using the STORY acronym to help uncover your patterns and transform the way you think and talk about yourself. Rowan weaves a tapestry of powerful emotions through personal storytelling. She expounds on struggles that teach lessons on how to dissolve the habits that hold you back from living your dream life. Rowan will help you recognize the patterns that are keeping you stuck in the same old story, and instead, guide you to rewrite a new and empowering version of yourself that you love.

Crossing Borders and Cultural Divides is set in Europe in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, a time when it became easier to cross European borders and settle in another country. It is based on my life growing up in a French village, then working in England, and finally discovering Germany. Tradition, wine, and oysters? Rock ’n’ roll, tea, and fish and chips? Or politics, beer, and sausages? That is a testing choice and conundrum for Mimi. Can she settle for a traditional teacher’s fate, absorbed by her native culture?

Before the Kings came, the People of the Land had an agreement with the Dragons negotiated by the Dragon Priestesses, who could communicate with those fearsome beasts through their familiars, the Little Dragons. The Kings, however, knew only the way of the sword. In their war against the Dragons, they killed their smaller cousins as well, along with the Priestesses who cared for them. The revenge of the Dragons was disastrous for both peoples, forcing everyone to live their lives at night, when the Dragons sleep in their caves in the mountains.

Before the kings came, the people of the land had an agreement with the dragons. It was negotiated by the dragon priestesses, who could communicate with those fearsome beasts through their familiars, the Little Dragons. The kings, however, knew only the way of the sword. In their war against the dragons, they killed their smaller cousins as well, along with the priestesses who cared for them. The revenge of the dragons was disastrous for both people, forcing everyone to live their lives at night, when the dragons sleep in their caves in the mountains.

Sarah Segal tells the horrific tale of the Holocaust, the gripping story of her family and her ravaged home. She relates the story of a family member who served in the special Sonderkommando unit in Auschwitz, who spent six years in the Holocaust with death breathing down his neck. She describes how this brave group of strong Jewish men were forced to aid the Nazis in carrying out the Final Solution to the Jewish problem. How these prisoners of Auschwitz managed to go on after sending their victims to the gas chambers and then to the crematoriums. 

One more step, and the watchtower will send Cregann to a world where he has only seen battlefields and despair. Ella and his fellow Guardians will be at his side on this journey through Terthian. But is the world of humans and its inhabitants truly as corrupt as he remembers? After facing a devastating betrayal in their own midst, the company needs to fight against the devious plans of the mages. But not only Blake stands in their way; an even crueler force emerges from the Dark Realms.

The world of humans and the world of the Fae have been separated. The song has been sung and fate shall take its course. Cregann, the Guardian of Jorygald has sworn to protect his Realm, but with Ella’s sudden appearance in the forest, his homeland is invaded by a force that was believed to be long gone. Once more, Naviira, a world unseen and almost forgotten by humans, faces the threat of mages’ Order. The Guardians of the portals must unite. As history is about to repeat itself, they must stand against the threat of the Order.

In 1372, on the desolate North Sea shore of England, a small community of nuns inherit a deserted medieval castle. As the sisters settle in to their new abbey, they must unearth the horrific secrets that lay buried in the castle's past and that now threaten the lives and sanity of all the sisters.

Are you frustrated, fed up, and fatigued? Most doctors are. Dr. Jeff Moody was. The demands of being a doctor combined with the pressure to perform regardless of any issues - or risk losing his medical license - left Dr. Moody feeling trapped, hopeless, and powerless. When he stopped to consider why he was feeling such despair, he realized the truth: He was suffering from burnout. As burned out as you may be, it is not hopeless and you are not powerless. You have options, which Dr. Moody will show you.

After Marianne discovers that her bankrupt stepfather sold her into marriage to the highest bidder, she flees Philadelphia and heads west to start a new life. Unfortunately for her, danger follows. First, a stage coach accident leaves her stranded in the middle of nowhere - with an injured driver. And henchmen hired by her spurned would-be husband are hot on her trail, threatening to return her to Philadelphia and the man who is determined to own her. Just when things seem hopeless, Marianne is rescued by a handsome cowboy who offers temporary refuge.

Fueled by shifting political tides in Rome, the Triumvir Marc Antony disrupts the longstanding Maccabee Dynasty of Judea when he crowns Mariamne's new husband, Herod the Great, as King, setting off a firestorm of power-grabbing, betrayal, and tragedy in the quest for the ultimate prize: the throne. Mariamne never surrenders her belief that her brother Aris, scion of the royal line descending from King David, is the rightful King of Judea.

Ella Kanner grew up as a secular Jew until age 18. Today, she is Orthodox, with insight into both sides of the Jewish experience. Her book reveals the emotional and spiritual response of different women to the inner sanctity of the Mikveh, the Jewish ritual of purification and one of Judaism’s oldest and most special ceremonies. Body of Her Own presents absorbing monologues by women of various ages, localities, and levels of society.