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A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of accusations against her professor husband by former students—a situation that becomes more complicated when she herself develops an obsession of her own.

When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me. And so we meet our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose husband, a charismatic professor at the same small liberal arts college, is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extramarital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life has become far less comfortable for them both.

Several years ago, Julia Jones was searching through long-forgotten items stored at her house and discovered some suitcases of old written material, which turned out to be accounts by her father of his experiences in the RNVSR (Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve). She realised that as a child she’d met some of the people mentioned, and although she was too young to truly know them, these youthful impressions spurred her on to rediscovery and understanding. In this absorbing book, Julia tells the compelling stories of the yachtsmen.

Klug, scharf und provokativ. Sie ist Ende fünfzig, Literaturprofessorin an einem kleinen College an der amerikanischen Ostküste und beliebt bei ihren Studierenden. Seit dreißig Jahren mit John verheiratet, der am selben College unterrichtet wie sie, war sie immer stolz darauf, eine offene Beziehung zu führen, intellektuell und finanziell unabhängig zu sein. Doch dann strengt eine Studentin, mit der John eine Affäre hatte, ein Verfahren gegen ihn an und auch die Welt der Ich-Erzählerin gerät aus den Fugen.

No Harm Done contains three ensemble performances of plays by Eugene Stickland about medical conditions ­- Closer and Closer Apart, Alzheimer's disease; Fade to Light, Stargardt, a form of blindness; and The Last Dance, Parkinson's disease. The first section of the audiobook contains the plays themselves and Stickland’s introductions to them, supplemented by commentaries by medical experts and spokespersons.

In thinking about her native land, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These juxtapositions are, for Julia Reed, the soul of the South and in her warmhearted and funny new audiobook, South Toward Home, she chronicles her adventures through the highs and the lows of Southern life - the Delta hot tamale festival, a masked ball, a rollicking party in a boat on a sand bar, scary Christian billboards, and the southern affection for the lowly possum.

In 1945, two brothers die in the icy Barents Sea and a book is all that survives of them. More than 60 years later, Donny and his mother set out for Suffolk to meet his mysterious great aunt. There is an accident and Donny is taken into care. But are the officials all that they seem and why won't they believe Donny's story? Soon he discovers that his life has been built on a lie.

Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis reveals hard truths—powerful findings on the role of racism, coercion, inadequate prenatal care, the pressures undermining breastfeeding, and the lack of access to alternatives to a broken maternal health-care system as key threads of black women's birth experiences.

"A través del borde de mi ropa interior, trazó la línea de mis labios mayores, casi haciendo que me viniera en el momento. Debe haber sentido la descarga de corriente que corrió́ por mi sistema cuando me tocó, tiene que haberla sentido…” – Todo está en las manos Si te gusta explorar tus límites sexuales y llevarlos más allá, estos relatos calientes están hechos para ti. Estos relatos te hacen participar de un trío en un club erótico así como seguir de cerca a una mujer deseosa que se arquea de placer entre manos expertas. De pronto, aparecerás en medio de una fantasía de ninfas y faunos.