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The New York Times Bestseller! After decades of silence, Robyn Crawford, close friend, collaborator, and confidante of Whitney Houston, shares her story. Whitney Houston is as big a superstar as the music business has ever known. She exploded on the scene in 1985 with her debut album and spent...

In a crawlspace at the offices of Switchboard, a queer helpline in operation since 1974, lie dozens of log books kept by volunteers describing the phone calls they had taken: a teenager kicked out of home for dressing as the wrong gender; a lesbian terrified of having her baby taken away from her; a man arrested for chatting up another man; a young person wanting to know how to come out. These logs documented traces of tens of thousands of queer lives, captured by people who lent an ear to those in need.

Time doesn’t heal trauma — it buries it alive. If you’ve ever felt hypervigilant no matter how safe you are, battled an inner critic that never sleeps, or longed for intimacy yet found it unsafe — you are not broken. These patterns aren’t weakness or flaws. They are survival strategies that once protected you but now keep you trapped. You don’t need more surface fixes — you need a full-system reset. Most recovery approaches treat only one layer.

Each chapter has a new piece of background music designed to help lull you to sleep. And whether you know this classic novel by heart or it's your first time, you're in for a treat.

In the year leading up to the First World War, four people’s lives intertwine, only to be pulled apart. A landmark of gay and pacifist literature, Rose Allatini’s story foregrounding conscientious objectors and queer love amidst wartime turmoil was banned months after its publication. At a...

Brought to you by Penguin. A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes. When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations. What befell them is unknown. All Home knows is...

Melody Bryant has heard it all before. Sure, she's the epitome of the stereotype for a librarian. Loves order. Loves rules and deadlines. Loves books. But what she doesn't love is still being a virgin at 24. Unfortunately, the only guy she's ever been interested in turned her down flat. And then left town. Eight. Years. Ago. Ugh.

Are you burned out, emotionally drained, or constantly overwhelmed—no matter how much you try to “push through”? Do you lie awake with racing thoughts, snap at people you love, or feel like you’ve lost yourself in the chaos of everyday life? What if just five minutes a day could help you reset your nervous system, breathe again, and feel like yourself—for real this time? You give your time to everything else—why not give yourself five minutes? The Burnout Reset is a soothing, practical audiobook that delivers exactly what your mind and body have been craving: a daily dose of emotional freedom.

Bringing a dog into your life can be a rewarding experience, but it can also come with challenges. Transforming Your Dog’s Behavior: Practical Tips and Strategies for Aggressive Behavior and More is a comprehensive guide that explores the psychology behind canine aggression, offers step-by-step training strategies, and provides actionable tips for everyday scenarios.

This book is for people living with real, ongoing pain who are ready to try something different. Not another prescription. Not another specialist. Just a few minutes a day, using your own hands and breath, to begin shifting how you carry the emotional weight of chronic pain.

Soft-spoken, deeply honest, and quietly profound, The Great In-Between is the companion people will be giving their friends who “just quit,” “just got divorced,” “just burned out,” or “just woke up and realized they don’t know who they are anymore” for the next decade. You are not behind. You are becoming.

You are tired of feeling busy but empty. You are tired of starting the day with good intentions and ending it in a blur of tabs, notifications, and half-finished thoughts. You are tired of reaching for your phone the way a smoker reaches for a cigarette—knowing it won’t fix anything, but hoping it will quiet the itch for just a second.

Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, Elle, and Marie Claire “Ada Calhoun writes with absolute clarity about the giddiest and most destabilizing feeling—the crush. This novel made me feel dizzy and I loved every second. Calhoun can seduce me any day of the week.” —Emma Straub, New York...

Dream Bold, Act With Consistency is a practical guide for anyone who wants to turn big ambitions into tangible, lasting results. Many people dream of extraordinary achievements—starting a business, writing a book, mastering a skill, or transforming their lives—but struggle to move from inspiration to execution. This audiobook provides the roadmap for bridging that gap, showing how to dream courageously while building the consistent habits and systems necessary to achieve those dreams.

In an era of endless notifications, infinite scrolls, and constant digital noise, Coming Home to Yourself offers a gentle, practical path back to presence, focus, and inner peace. Through personal stories, quiet revelations, and simple daily practices, Rafael Jordi reveals how distraction isn’t just stealing your time it’s eroding your ability to feel, think, and live deeply.

This down-to-earth guide is for anybody who wants to know more about gender, from its biology, history and sociology, to how it plays a role in our relationships and interactions with family, friends, partners and strangers. It looks at practical ways people can express their own gender and will help you to understand people whose gender might be different from your own. With activities and points for reflection throughout, this book will help people of all genders engage with gender diversity and explore the ideas in the book in relation to their own lived experiences.

You are stuck. The Crossroads Protocol is your way out. At 3:00 AM, staring at the ceiling, you're paralyzed by a life-altering choice—quit the job, end the relationship, make the move. The fear of regret keeps you frozen, drifting through life instead of shaping it.

The Yoruba people come from an ancient culture whose homeland lies in present-day Nigeria. In their religion, numerous deities are present and active in our daily lives, like the supreme being Olodumare and the divine Orishas. Authenticity, sincerity, discipline, and respect are of utmost importance, and spirits speak directly to us in their own metaphorical language.

You’re 25 - 40, ambitious, and chained to the digital rhythm’s 24/7 ping. The hustle that once fueled you now triggers cynicism, 3 AM cortisol spikes, and a gray-blob emotional fog. Burnout isn’t stress it’s sympathetic overload, fragmented attention, and a meaning-action chasm that hollows your core.

You are not lazy. You are not weak. You are simply running on a fuel tank the world keeps trying to empty. If you wake up already tired… If “I’m fine” has become your automatic lie… If you can’t remember the last time you felt truly alive instead of just “getting through”…… this book is your permission to stop. The Burnout Breakthrough is not another hustle-hard manifesto disguised as self-help. It is a quiet revolution written by someone who hit the wall so hard he forgot what joy felt like—and discovered the way back.