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This audiobook is an awakening to us. Learning what diet and plan can make us lose weight is refreshing and rewarding. Knowing what is best for you is very helpful. Most of us have our dilemmas about losing weight and come to the point that some think it's too late and when some illness occurs already. Honestly, some have to lose weight to gain confidence, impress someone, or find love again. But the truth is, it is wise to be healthy and physically fit. This audiobook is for desperate people who want to be beneficial in all aspects of their life.

Described at 'the new Bridget Jones' and the 'funniest book of the year' - this is the very funny, very silly tale of Tracie Martin - Wag extraordinaire - who gets herself into the most astonishing amount of trouble when she moves to Los Angeles. It's a laugh-out-loud, funny, tender and ridiculous tale featuring Victoria Beckham, David Beckham, L.A. gangsters, and an encounter with a film crew...as well as the usual ludicrous amounts of fake tan, shoes, dresses, and lipstick.

A daughter lost. A truth far darker. Ten years ago, Rose vanished. Today, her mother swears she’s come home. After a fire destroys the house where her toddler daughter disappeared, Julia and her family move into a creaking Victorian across town. To everyone else, it’s a fresh start. To Julia, it’s a sign. Then—snow on the ground. Footprints leading to her front door. A glimpse of movement in the neighbor’s basement. And a name whispered into the winter air: Rose. Her husband says she’s unraveling. Her children are embarrassed. The neighbors call her dangerous. But Julia knows what she saw.

What if your soulmate died…and then came back to help you find love again? Alison and Bhima found true, once-in-a-lifetime love for the first time in their 50’s. It was the kind of love that changes everything. Then he died. Six weeks later, Bhima appeared at Alison’s kitchen table, as charming as ever, with one clear purpose: to help her find love again. It's imaginary of course. Or is it?

Magic can be a blessing or a curse. Emma Ayers is about to discover the biggest secret of her life - she's a witch. When tragedy upends Emma's idyllic life, she is taken in by a mysterious woman - the matriarch to Hell's Belles, a secret society of debutante witches in the historic city of Charleston. With Emma's help, they'll try to defeat an enemy that wants all the powers the Belles are gifted with - and who will stop at nothing to get them. Even if it means destroying everyone in the path, including the city they protect. 

Since its inception in 1987 the rugby union World Cup has gone from being a cheerful, amateurish kickabout to one of the world's premier sporting events, third only to the football World Cup and the Olympics in terms of global reach. Along the way it has mirrored the sport's occasionally painful march into the professional era, with commensurate advances in the standard of play but also, some would argue, a loss of innocence as the marketing men have moved in on an increasingly lucrative property. But the competition is still - mostly - about the game itself.

This is your space to unwind. The Carers’ Meditation Podcast offers short guided meditations designed for those caring for someone living with dementia. Take a few quiet moments for yourself — to rest, reconnect, and restore your energy.

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A sensational celebration of Annie Ernaux's work—featuring collected writing by critics, journalists, and 24 previously unpublished pieces by the Nobel Prize winner herself—offering a full view of the author's life, writing style, reception by...

From the author of the Read with Jenna pick The Wedding People, a ruefully funny coming-of-age novel that deftly dissects matters of the heart and captures the lives of children and adults as they come to terms with life, death, and love. At the center of this affluent Connecticut suburban...

Chicago-born Armstrong Tom is fifteen, black and unused to the segregated ways of the Deep South when his mother sends him to spend the summer with relatives in her native rural Mississippi. For speaking a few innocuous words in French to a white woman, Armstrong pays the ultimate price when her...

As a quirky writer who fell head over heels for her Middle Eastern prince, Farmer offers a personal narrative filled with anecdotes, lessons, and real-life experiences. From the delicate art of Middle Eastern compliments to navigating the nuances of tradition at a big fat wedding, this book isn't just about dating—it's about understanding, adapting, and above all, embracing love in all its complexity.

Welcome to Functional Wellness with Dr. Alison, where we decode the language of your symptoms and discover the root causes conventional medicine misses. I'm Dr. Alison DiBarto Goggin, a functional medicine physician who's been serving families since 2009. Over the past 15 years, I've helped thousands of people finally get answers after years of being told "your labs are fine" or "it's just stress." As both a functional medicine doctor and shamanic practitioner, I bridge the gap between scientific precision and intuitive wisdom. Symptoms aren't problems to suppress; they're information to ...

After a life marbled with exploration, academia, and domesticity, the writer Valerie Lester retired to a residential hospice and set about enjoying the final act of her life. Yes. Enjoying. She knew just where she wanted to be, with whom, doing what, and she communicated this to her family and friends with clarity and consistency. She died nine weeks later, having engaged in dying with equanimity, curiosity, and even amusement.

Stronger Than Before is the first complete guide to supporting yourself through breast cancer: physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Divided into three parts, this audiobook is the self-care bible for breast cancer, written by a breast cancer survivor. Part One introduces readers to...

In this sweet romance, baker Leah Martin stumbles into a fake-engagement with a handsome stranger after he defends her from her mother's harsh judgement—but how long can they keep up the act before real feelings start to get in the way? The rules of (fake) engagement ... Leah Martin has spent...

When I find a little girl standing on my doorstep, I don't know what to do. But as I take her small hand in mine, she whispers words that will change my life. "Mummy said you'd look after me." As I tuck the children into bed, I feel a familiar longing stirring in my heart. I press a gentle kiss onto their foreheads, then remind myself that they are not mine. So why are they here?

A deadly curse. A legendary detective. A mystery on the misty moors. This groundbreaking new recording, performed by Golden Voice narrator Simon Jones, brings Conan Doyle’s haunting masterpiece to life with wit, warmth, and spine-tingling precision. After the story, enjoy two unique extras: A Student Guide, as if told by Sherlock Holmes himself—witty, insightful, and full of deductive brilliance.

When the Reverend Elaine Metcalfe is inducted as the vicar of Pontvale, she hopes the job will have more to it than lending out spare sets of keys. She soon discovers there's plenty of challenges in her new home - not least the daily needs of her parishioners, which range from community theatre productions, arranging a wedding and a funeral for the same day, and local scandal over the vicar's culottes.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Signalman by Charles Dickens, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dracula by Bram Stoker, and a bonus story, "The Monkey’s Paw" by W.W. Jacobs. More than 30 hours of great classic horror is brought to haunting new life by three A-list narrators whose performances are nothing short of electrifying.

Two years after her husband's death, kindergarten teacher Brooklyn Harvey is leaving Hope Springs for her in-laws' vineyard in Italy - with no plans of coming back. That is, until she meets a disarmingly sexy biker-turned-chocolatier. He might be the man of her dreams, but he's also the father of one of her students; as such, he's strictly off-limits.