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\"Fiona Kidman, a poet, is a beautiful writer.\" --The Times\n\nIn 1952, war widow Irene takes her young daughter to start a new life in New Zealand's tobacco fields. But tragedy forces her into the arms of Jock, whose actions will haunt the lives of the couple's future children--though strong-willed Belinda will carve her own path through a changing world and seize a second chance. Dame Fiona Kidman OBE has published over thirty books, including novels, poetry, nonfiction, and a play. She is one of the most highly acclaimed writers in New Zealand.

Winner of The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019\n\n\nWinner of the Ngaio Marsh Crime Writing Awards 2019\n\n\nWinner of the New Zealand Booklovers Prize for Fiction 2019\n\n\nWinner of the NZ Heritage Book Awards 2018\n\n\nLonglisted for the International Dublin Literary Awards 2020\n\n\nThis multi-award winning novel explores the controversial topic of the death penalty with empathy and a probing eye for injustice.\n\n\n'Magnetic' New York Times \n\n\nThe offender is not one of ours. It is unfortunate that we got this undesirable from his homeland.\n\n\nAuckland, October 1955. If young Paddy Black sings to himself he can almost see himself back home in Belfast. Yet, less than two years after sailing across the globe in search of a better life, here he stands in a prison cell awaiting trial for murder. He pulled a knife at the jukebox that night, but should his actions lead him to the gallows? As his desperate mother waits on, Paddy must face a judge and jury unlikely to favour an outsider, as a wave of moral panic sweeps the island nation.\n\n\nFiona Kidman's powerful novel explores the controversial topic of the death penalty with characteristic empathy and a probing eye for injustice.

After breaking records and becoming an international icon in the 1930s, Batten suddenly slipped out of view, disappearing to the Caribbean with her mother and eventually dying in obscurity in Majorca, buried in a pauper's grave.The compelling behind-the-scenes story of 'the Garbo of the skies' is a fascinating insight into the early days of flying, of mothers and daughters, fame and secrecy.

A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from the award-winning author of This Mortal Boy.\n\n\nTwo mothers fight over who will wear a hat on their children's wedding day. A needle is lost somewhere inside a woman’s body. A writer waits with a suitcase for a man who never comes. \n\nThis collection brings together Fiona Kidman’s finest and most scandalous stories, vividly depicting the joys of female desire and the pain of heartbreak, the thrill of illicit liaisons and the twists and turns of unconventional love. \n\nSometimes joyful, often devastating and always beautiful, All the Way to Summer is a searing account of love and loss from a pioneering feminist icon.\n\n\n'Tales of loss and betrayal and twisted love abound in this perfect collection’ Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond

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Caldecott winner Beth Krommes and Newbery Honor-winning poet Joyce Sidman team up in this singular celebration of a beautiful, fascinating shape in nature. A nonfiction picture book companion to their acclaimed Swirl by Swirl.\n\nBranches are all around us: in butterfly wings, on gecko toes, in flowers, frost, and mud. Whether as electricity moving across the sky or rivers flowing to the sea, branches are nature's most efficient way to spread and to connect. They are even found inside our own bodies, helping us reach and grow with each breath and heartbeat.\n\nBranches-strong, hopeful, beautiful-are the shape of life. How many can you find?

Capturing the joy of finding a kindred spirit, this stunning picture book by Newbery Honor winning poet Joyce Sidman tells the story of a lonely girl moving into a new home and the little treefrog that helps her connect to the beautiful world around her. Perfect for fans of A Butterfly Is Patient and They Saw a Cat. I See You suddenly among the tangled green a tiny dollop of frog where before there was only leaf ...Are you new here too? When a shy girl moves to a strange new home, she discovers a treefrog perched in a secret spot nearby and learns that sometimes, all it takes to connect with the people and the world around us is a little patience, a curious mind, and a willingness to see the world through a different perspective than your own. With beautiful gouache illustrations by Diana Sudyka and magical, perceptive poems from Newbery Honor winning author Joyce Sidman, the lives of one tree frog and the girl who discovers it converge, bringing solace, courage, and joy in finding a kindred spirit. AGES: 4 to 7 AUTHOR: The Newbery Honor winner and Sibert Medalist Joyce Sidman is today's foremost nature poet for children. Accolades for her books include two Caldecott Honors, a Lee Bennet Hopkins Award, winner of the Claudia Lews Award, and many stars and best of lists. For her award-winning body of work, she won the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. She lives in Wayzata, Minnesota. Diana Sudyka's paintings are largely informed by a deep passion for the natural world. She has illustrated several volumes of the award-winning book series The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart and Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley, as well as the picture books Sometimes Rain by Meg Fleming, What Miss Mitchell Saw by Hayley Barrett, and How to Find a Bird by Jennifer Ward.

The master photographers making up this volume are Tim Laman (Lexington, MA), Brian Skerry (Uxbridge, MA), Steve Winter (Hoboken, NJ) Art Wolfe (Seattle), Hannu Hautala (Finland), Klaus Nigge (Germany), Thomas P. Peschak (Germany/South Africa), Tui de Roy (New Zealand), Cyril Ruoso (France), and Stefano Unterthiner (Italy). These influential artists provide us with insight into the natural world, from vast, beautiful landscapes and genuinely wild creatures in their natural habitat to spectacular shots of natural phenomena, groundbreaking underwater images and outstanding photojournalism. Each portfolio profiles the photographer their approach, influences and aims and displays 10 iconic images reflecting their work's range. The accompanying captions focus on why the images are special for the photographer as well as telling the stories behind their creation. Revealing the inspiration behind some of the world s most important nature photographs, this beautiful book will captivate art enthusiasts, photographers and all those with a passion for nature.\"

Nei momenti cruciali della vita, davanti ai soprusi dell’esistenza l’uomo si chiede fatalmente «Perché?» e la risposta più antica che avanza è: «Destino!», parola vuota e densa, cui ascrivere la durata della vita, la natura della morte, l’instabilità della fortuna, la diversità dei percorsi individuali. Il destino è inspiegabile quando distribuisce caratteristiche congenite, è assurdo quando uccide persone innocenti, è strapotente quando decreta rovine, è inflessibile quando vanifica i disegni dell’uomo. È di natura più che umana e d’abitudine è collocato «aldilà» dell’uomo: tessuto dagli dèi o scritto nelle stelle, pianificato da anime già morte o determinato da geni in esseri non ancora nati. L’idea di destino incontra l’ostilità di chi rivendica all’uomo la libertà di auto-determinarsi, di chi colloca dentro l’individuo il razionale della sua esistenza. Eppure, anche dentro l’uomo esiste un «aldilà» della coscienza, una dimensione inconscia che interviene nelle scelte dell’individuo, che è impenetrabile alla conoscenza e più potente delle sue intenzioni. Inconscio potrebbe essere un altro nome per indicare il destino. In esso è depositato un disegno evolutivo che si realizza negli intrecci di coincidenze significative, che sbaraglia ogni deliberazione cosciente, ma che esige sempre la partecipazione della coscienza. Perché la forza del destino è possente, ma lascia all’individuo margini di libertà tanto ampi da scegliere, perfino, tra la possibilità di vivere per niente o morire per qualcosa.

Invenzione delle più straordinarie nella storia dell'uomo e strumento dei più essenziali nella vita, il denaro costituisce un autentico mito che tanta parte giocò e ancora gioca nello strutturare l'identità degli uomini. Disconoscendone la natura autenticamente mitica o lo spessore primariamente simbolico, molti uomini idealizzano il denaro, facendone ordinariamente \"un mito\". Il denaro scade così dal piano simbolico a quello letterale e cessa di essere mezzo, per diventare fine. Le argomentazioni dell'autore dimostrano fino a che punto questa sia un'azione impropria. Il denaro che queste pagine riconsegnano è una vicenda dello spirito prima che dell'economia e una proprietà della psiche prima che della finanza. In un duetto costante tra queste due dimensioni, il denaro si svela essere energia individuativa che, attivando propensione ad arricchire, di fatto invoca l'arricchimento di sé. Solo chi riesce ad assumerlo a valore, e non come misura dei valori, si può servire del denaro in maniera davvero redditizia.

Suicide haunts our literature and our culture, claiming the lives of ordinary people and celebrities alike. It is now the third leading cause of death for fifteen- to twenty-four-year-olds in the United States, raising alarms across the nation about the rising tide of hopelessness seen in our young people. It is a taboo subtext to our successes and our happiness, a dark issue that is often euphemized, avoided, and little understood. In our century, psychology and psychiatry alike have attempted to understand, prevent, and medicalize these phenomena. But they have failed, argues Dr. Edwin Shneidman, because they have lost sight of the plain language, the ordinary everyday words, the pain and frustrated psychological needs of the suicidal individual.\n In The Suicidal Mind, Dr. Shneidman has written a groundbreaking work for every person who has ever thought about suicide or knows anybody who has contemplated it. The book brims with insight into the suicidal impulse and with helpful suggestions on how to counteract it. Shneidman presents a bold and simple premise: the main cause of suicide is psychological pain or \"psychache.\" Thus the key to preventing suicide is not so much the study of the structure of the brain, or the study of social statistics, or the study of mental diseases, as it is the direct study of human emotions. To treat a suicidal individual, we need to identify, address, and reduce the individual's psychache. Shneidman shares with the reader his knowledge, both as a clinician and researcher, of the psychological drama that plays itself out in the suicidal mind through the exploration of three moving case studies. We meet Ariel, who set herself on fire; Beatrice, who cut herself with the intent to die; and Castro, a young man who meant to shoot his brains out but survived, horribly disfigured. These cases are presented in the person's own words to reveal the details of the suicidal drama, to show that the purpose of suicide is to seek a solution, to illustrate the pain at the core of suicide, and to isolate the common stressor in suicide: frustrated psychological needs. Throughout, Shneidman offers practical, explicit maneuvers to assist in treating a suicidal individual--steps that can be taken by concerned friends or family and professionals alike.\n Suicide is an exclusively human response to extreme psychological pain, a lonely and desperate solution for the sufferer who can no longer see any alternatives. In this landmark and elegantly written book, Shneidman provides the language, not only for understanding the suicidal mind, but for understanding ourselves. Anyone who has ever considered suicide, or knows someone who has, will find here a wealth of insights to help understand and to prevent suicide.

Il gatto è una belva in miniatura. Due milioni di anni di vita selvatica, un passato da predatore solitario, un esasperato individualismo costituiscono il suo substrato più caratterizzante. Impersona aspetti sconcertanti della vita istintuale, che spaziano dalla sensualità più elegante alla crudeltà più indifferente e che gli conferiscono una raffinata sensorialità oltre a un proverbiale attaccamento alla vita. La convivenza con il gatto consente un confronto quotidiano e intrigante tra la sofisticata civilizzazione umana e la più pura istintualità animale; mostra all'uomo quale sia l'irrazionalità, ma anche la sapienza dell'istinto; gli ricorda in ogni istante cosa significhi davvero vivere in contatto con la natura esterna e rimanere fedeli alla propria natura interna. In pochi millenni di convivenza, il gatto è entrato non solo nella realtà, ma anche nell'immaginario dell'uomo dove si trasfigura in animale dalle molteplici valenze simboliche. Di volta in volta, egli è immagine di freddo opportunismo o di commovente tenerezza, di ostinata insubordinazione o di sensuale voluttuosità, di ritiro in sornione sonnolenze o di acuta, insonne vigilanza. Animale utilitaristicamente inutile, il gatto è insostituibile non per le sue prestazioni fisiche, ma per specifiche qualità psichiche, che fanno di lui il più diffuso animale d'affezione.

Moving, insightful, linked stories about the determination of Somali immigrants - despite duty, discrimination, and an ever-dissolving link to a war-torn homeland.\n\n\nIn the insular rooms of The Private Apartments, a cleaning lady marries her employer's nephew and then abandons him, a depressed young mother finds unlikely support in her community housing complex, a new bride attends weddings to escape her abusive marriage, and a failed nurse is sent to relatives in Dubai after a nervous breakdown. These captivating and compassionate stories eloquently showcase the intricate linkages of human experience and the ways in which Somalis, even as a diaspora, are indelibly connected.

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A MAJOR AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES RELEASING 24TH JANUARY 2024, STARRING NICOLE KIDMAN, SARAYU BLUE AND JI-YOUNG YOO.\n\nI raced through this enthralling story' Liane Moriarty\n\n'Brilliantly plotted and written, utterly absorbing' Daily Mail\n\n'An emotionally gripping page-turner' Elle\n\nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Teacher, a searing novel of marriage, motherhood and the search for connection far from home.\n\nExpats come to the glittering city of Hong Kong for myriad reasons - to find or lose themselves in a foreign place, and to forget or remake themselves far from home. Three women's lives to collide in ways that rewrite every assumption of their privileged world:\n\nMercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, once again finds herself compromised and adrift, trying to start her life anew.\n\nHilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, hoping to save her uncertain marriage.\n\nMargaret, once the enviable mother of three, tries to negotiate an existence that has become utterly unrecognizable after a catastrophic event. \n\nFaced with unthinkable choices, these three women form a profound connection that defies the norms of the sequestered community - finding in each other a strength borne of need, forgiveness, and ultimately hope. \n\nAtmospheric and utterly compelling, The Expatriates showcases Lee's exceptional talent as one of our keenest observers of women's inner lives.

The Joy of Photoshop is the long-awaited book from the social media sensation James Fridman.\n\nHave you ever taken a seemingly perfect picture only to have it ruined by one tiny detail? Photoshop master James Fridman is only too happy to help, even if he sometimes takes requests a little too literally.\n\nThe Joy of Photoshop contains James's best-loved and funniest image alterations. From the woman who wished to look like a mermaid, to super-fans who want to be edited into their favourite movies, his followers never get quite what they asked for. Including plenty of never-before-seen pictures, this meme-tastic book will have you in stitches!