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Seventeen-year-old Maddie has always felt a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape. When she comes across the world of “thinspiration” websites, where young people encourage each other in their mission to lose weight, she quickly becomes addicted. Finally, she has found a place where she is understood and where she can belong.

As a financial journalist and educator, Dana Miranda is on a mission to liberate listeners from budget culture: the damaging set of beliefs around money that rely on restriction, shame, and greed—much like diet culture does for food and bodies. In this long-overdue alternative to traditional budgeting advice, Miranda offers a new approach that makes money easy for everyone, regardless of the numbers in their bank account.

Spring Break is on the horizon, and if the PSU crew thought last year was crazy, they have no idea what’s in store for them this time. Adam and Cassie face a whole new set of challenges that will define their relationship once and for all. Ashlei makes an enemy at her internship that could cost her everything. Bear tries online dating while Jess looks for a distraction from her heartbreak.

Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novella introduced the world to Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant consulting detective, as portrayed through the eyes of his friend and colleague Dr. John Watson, a retired army physician. In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson take on their first case together, involving a body discovered in an abandoned London house with a bloody message scrawled on the wall above.

In 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, the author's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the South of France. Five years later, Anna packed her bags and walked out on Armand, taking the typewriter and their children. Aside from one brief encounter, the two never saw or spoke to each other again, never remarried, and never revealed what had divided them forever.

She was given a second chance to prove that she could manifest her powers. She had no idea she’d have to hide them. Ever since Rayah could remember, she had always been different from everyone else. Not only was she the prized daughter of the greatest collectors known to history, but she was also branded a null. To the students of Monroe Academy, Rayah was a privileged failure. A lightless lighter. A worthless Lytonian. And if it weren’t for her parents, they would have been calling her a slave years ago.

Erin fights for justice while Bear continues to fight his demons in order to be the man he wants to be for the woman he loves. Skyler considers what will come after graduation—and whether or not Kip will be a part of the plan. Cassie and Adam navigate their newfound long distance relationship, and find the path to be bumpier than expected.

Spring Break always means chaos for the Palm South University crew, but this year is a little different...for many reasons. After the shocking discovery last semester, Jess finds herself torn between what feels like an impossible choice, and she's not the only one. Some hearts break while others are made whole in the most explosive season of Palm South University yet.

Cassie faces a ghost from her past in her new Genetics class while Adam fights for his brothers’ respect as second-term president. Jess has some fun with her latest distraction, Erin discovers an unexpected friend at therapy, Ashlei deals with a threatening new intern, and Skyler balances her new job with her new long-distance relationship.

Nakkiah and Miranda are angry, young, vocal, Aboriginal and very, very funny. Join them on their journey, starting with a lesson on teatime etiquette in London where it all began, as they follow the debutante trail and discover that First Nations women across the globe have made this tradition their own. Nakkiah and Miranda ask: can beauty, poise and politeness actually empower them? Or is it better to get angry and start shouting?

Lilyth the Red, an elite assassin, made a promise to her family. She failed to keep it. Now, she will stop at nothing to hunt down the pirates who wronged her—even posing as the champion of a goddess, brainwashing an army of cultists, and igniting a war so ruthless that it threatens to awaken the ancient horrors of the Drowned Sea. Erin Rose, a street urchin, only ever cared about picking pockets with her father. But that’s no longer an option. Alone, the price of survival is costly, paid in flesh and brutality.

Everyone has a mental health. So we asked: what does yours mean to you? The result is extraordinary. Over 60 people have shared their stories. Powerful, funny, moving, this book is here to tell you: it's OK.

If we were looking at the whole picture, I was not a catch. Men didn't want someone difficult like me. They didn't have the patience or the will and I didn't blame them. A boring relationship with a guy that tolerated me was the best I could hope for. That was exactly who I'd been with for the past two years; a boyfriend that was kind of an asshole and barely acknowledged my existence. Then... he showed up. Two years and an ocean had separated us, but now he was back and it seemed like he was on a mission to pull me back into his orbit.

When Miranda Sawyer interviewed Liam Gallagher in 1994, his gag wishing Damon Albarn would die of AIDS became front-page news all over the world. This fascinating pop history, exploring the moment British music suddenly meant everything, explains why. Picking out twenty key songs, delving into the surprising stories behind them and their unlikely creators, UNCOMMON PEOPLE takes us back to when Jarvis Cocker became a national hero, films like Trainspotting were international hits, rave became what everybody did - and it felt like the revolution was happening.

Newly graduated from university, Alex Fisher returns home depressed and suffering from existential angst. But when his father encourages him to make himself useful by killing the snails in the garden Alex has an epiphany. Instead of murdering them, he will save them – and soon, he has a whole escargatoire of snails, all named after celebrities, crawling over the carpet, climbing the walls and hanging off the lampshades.

When it comes to psychedelics, the concept of microdosing brings about the opening of doors to a realm that is both delicate and transformative. Because of the high concentration of the chemical psilocybin that they contain, psilocybin mushrooms are commonly used as the focal point of this fascinating activity. This activity invites individuals to study the possibilities that are given by sub-perceptual amounts of psychedelic drugs.

Life is a challenge for everyone and it's our close connections and relationships with each other that make the journey worthwhile. We sometimes recognize their value in their absence. This book, The Degrees of Wellness: Six Rules to Creating a Healthy Union Through Self-Discovery and Personal Growth, narrates all of the important aspects that can help us maintain healthier bonds with the people in our lives. The tips within this book serve as a guide to enhance relationships by learning about ourselves and growing into the best versions of who we're meant to be in life.

Spy. Fighter. Zorian. Can one girl and her comrades bring about the salvation of two kingdoms? Tanner, the youngest spy on the magical island of Zora, receives orders from the Zorian king to gather information on Viggo, the King of the Outlands—England. However, her team's espionage plans are violently disrupted by Gordon—a man sworn to kill all Zorians. His determination to avenge his daughter's death knows no bounds, as he rallies Outlanders to his cause and searches the seas for Zora.

March, 1945. The ravaged face of London will soon be painted with victory, but for Sylvie, the private battle for peace is just beginning. A Small Dark Quiet follows a mother as she struggles to find the courage to rebuild her life and care for an orphan whom she and her husband, Gerald, adopt two years later. Born in a concentration camp, the orphan’s early years appear punctuated with frail speculations, opening up a haunting space that draws Sylvie to bring him into parallel with the child she lost.

Bindi and her South African friend, Hannah, are on a horse-riding trek of a lifetime in South Africa, when they discover that the supposed breeding sanctuary for the giant sable antelope is actually looking more like a game reserve for rich tourists with big guns. But the girls get found out spying, and may not get a chance to tell anyone what's really going on!