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A brand new collection of specially commissioned stories from the very best names in female fiction, including Cecelia Ahern, Wendy Holden, Santa Montefiore, Freya North, Meg Cabot and many more.There are over thirty writers donating stories to this collection and they are among the best known, bestselling female fiction authors writing today. This is the perfect Christmas paperback for anyone who cannot wait for the next fix from their favourite author.The list of contributors comprises: Jessica Adams, Cecelia Ahern, Maggie Alderson, Lisa Armstrong, Tilly Bagshawe, Faith Bleasdale, Elizabeth Buchan, Meg Cabot, Jill Davis, Stella Duffy, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Harriet Evans, Mike Gayle, Kristin Gore, Wendy Holden, Belinda Jones, Louise Kean, Cathy Kelly, Helen Lederer, Kathy Lette, Gay Longworth, Chris Manby, Carole Matthews, Anna Maxted, Karen Moline, Santa Montefiore, Elizabeth Noble, Freya North, Adele Parks, Victoria Routledge, Louise Voss, Fiona Walker, Daisy Waugh, Isabel Wolff and Deborah Wright.All the writers involved have donated their stories for free. HarperCollins will donate at least £1 to War Child and No Strings for every copy sold, continuing the amazing work for children in war zones whose lives have been torn apart by conflict.

An unparalleled collection of stories by some of the best female writers commissioned specially for this collection, with royalties supporting War Child, the charity dedicated to alleviating the suffering of children affected by war.A collection of short stories from some of the biggest names in fiction: bestselling authors Jessica Adams, Fiona Walker and Chrissie Manby commissioned 31 stories which are combined here in a fabulous anthology in aid of War Child. Contributors include Candace Bushnell (Sex in the City), Jenny Colgan, Freya North, Marian Keyes, Jane Green, Lisa Jewell, Wendy Holden, Isabel Wolff, Fiona Walker, Cathy Kelly, Polly Samson, Helen Lederer and Patricia Scanlan.All royalties from the publication go to War Child.

The Underground Toy Society helps toys find new homes. Sometimes finding new homes is not easy. When Murry Mole takes a wrong turn and digs a tunnel to a toy store, they thought the toy donation bin would help toys find homes easier and faster. However, only new toys were allowed in the toy bin. How will forgotten toys find a home in time for Christmas?

In Bed With is an often wicked and totally sizzling collection of unashamedly sexy stories by bestselling, award-winning and well-known novelists - writing under their x-rated pseudonyms. Entertaining and erotic, In Bed With is a delicious collection of fiction provocateur. So what are you waiting for? Slip under the covers with a good book. Satisfaction guaranteed. Featuring Jessica Adams, Maggie Alderson, Emma Darwin, Louise Doughty, Stella Duffy, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Esther Freud, Joanne Harris, Rachel Johnson, Kathy Lette, Chris Manby, Jane Moore, Adele Parks, Justine Picardie, Bella Pollen, Santa Sebag-Montefiore, Ali Smith, Joan Smith, Daisy Waugh and Fay Weldon.

Discover the magic and meaning of the day you were born with Your Birthday, a captivating and comprehensive guide to personality and destiny. Renowned astrologer Jessica Adams, along with Sunday Times bestselling author Rachel Wells, provide a global exploration of birthdays, drawing on Tarot, Western Astrology, Eastern Astrology, Vedic Astrology, Numerology, and more for all 365 days of the year. What does the day of your birth mean-for your life, your personality, your strengths, and your dreams? What does your Indian moon sign tell you about your destiny? What does folklore and history say about the day you were born?Uncover the answers within Your Birthday, your complete resource for understanding the role your birth date plays in every facet of life, using:- Sun Signs in Western Astrology- Asian Zodiac Signs- Ancient Egyptian Decans- Vedic Astrology- Numerology- Tarot ReadingThe book's first half incorporates monthly and day-by-day chapters, allowing for the study of birthdays from all angles. Each date-based entry also touches on the significance of the day in popular culture, showing not just the mystical but the social resonances of birthdays. Readers will discover celebrities who share their birthday month, day, and sign, as well as in-depth discussions of birthstones, birth flowers, emblematic animals, and Native American Moon correspondences for each month. In the second half of the book, readers will gain a wholly unique understanding of their birthday through a nuanced and specific discussion of tarot. Each of the 78 cards is explored in-depth and contextualized within its appearance within birthday-specific tarot spreads. Further parallels are drawn between birthday readings and the specific imagery and history of Pamela Colman Smith's iconic Rider-Waite-Smith deck. Anyone looking to understand themselves, their friends, family, co-workers, and more will find endless insights within Your Birthday.

From Storyville brothels and narratives of turn-of-the-century New Orleans to plantation tours, Bette Davis films, Elvis memorials, Willa Cather's fiction, and the annual prison rodeo held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Jessica Adams considers spatial and ideological evolutions of southern plantations after slavery. In ""Wounds of Returning"", Adams shows that the slave past returns to inhabit plantation landscapes that have been radically transformed by tourism, consumer culture, and modern modes of punishment - even those landscapes from which slavery has supposedly been banished completely. Adams explores how the commodification of black bodies during slavery did not disappear with abolition - rather, the same principle was transformed into modern consumer capitalism. As Adams demonstrates, however, counter-narratives and unexpected cultural hybrids erupt out of attempts to re-create the plantation as an uncomplicated scene of racial relationships or a signifier of national unity. Peeling back the layers of plantation landscapes, Adams reveals connections between seemingly disparate features of modern culture, suggesting that they remain haunted by the force of the unnatural equation of people as property.

Just Below South is the first book to examine the U.S. South and the Caribbean as a ""regional interculture"" shaped by performance - as a space defined not so much by a shared set of geographical boundaries or by a single, common culture as by the weave of performances and identities moving across and throughout it. By offering fresh ways for thinking about region, language, and performance, the volume helps to reimagine the possibilities for American Studies. It advances beyond current analyses of historical or literary commonalities between the South and the Caribbean to explore startling and significant connections between a range of performances, including Trinidadian carnival, Civil War reenactments, the Martinican dance form kalenda, dramatic adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin, rituals of spirit possession, the teaching of Haitian Kreyol, the translation of Louisiana Creole, and the imaginative ""travels"" of southern and Caribbean writers. While generating textual conversations among scholars of Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone literature and culture and forging innovative ties between cultural studies, performance studies, linguistics, literary analysis, and studies of the African diaspora, these essays raise provocative new questions about race, ethnicity, gender, class, and nationality.

Peggy remembers a time when she was the only baby doll in the house. Janice loved Peggy so much, but as all little girls do, Janice grew up. Peggy was passed down to Janice's two daughters, Jessica and Jennifer. Peggy had to learn to share her time with other toys.After the two girls grew up, and Janice passed away, Peggy was forgotten. What will happen to Peggy? How will she ever find children to love her again?How does The Underground Toy Society help kids? By helping them to learn to be responsible, think of others, help others, and appreciate what they have. How does The Underground Toy Society help parents? By helping kids learn that their toys want to be loved and cleaned up, not all over the floor.

The Underground Toy Society helps toys find new homes. Sometimes finding new homes is not easy. When Murry Mole took a wrong turn and dug a tunnel to a toy store, they thought the toy bin would help toys find homes faster and easier. However, only new toys were allowed in the toy bin. How will forgotten toys find a home in time for Christmas?This is the original version of the book with illustrations drawn by my kids. The new edition is called Annual Toy Drive: The Underground Toy Society.How does The Underground Toy Society help kids? By helping them to learn to be responsible, think of others, help others, and appreciate what they have. How does The Underground Toy Society help parents? By helping kids learn that their toys want to be loved and cleaned up, not all over the floor.

Saturday night is a nightmare when you're single. Saturday night is for couples and everyone knows it. Victoria 'Total Bloody Relationships Disaster' Shepworth is single and knows all about Saturday nights alone. A broken relationship with the guy she thought was 'the one' has led to a string of disastrous dates. Now she's fed-up with being on her own and is once again in search of the man of her dreams. But life begins to look decidedly more interesting when she becomes involved in an internet romance with glamorous Frenchman, Pierre Dubois. Little does she know he could be closer than she thinks...

When Richard, a divorced but desirable vet from Tasmania, proposes to Sarah, an English Rose, she decides to accept and start a whole new life with him down under. The only problem is, though, that days before the wedding Sarah falls in love with Richard's best man, Tom, who's living with a much older woman. Meanwhile, Bronte, Richard's first wife, a Features Editor on a woman's magazine in Sydney is trying to cope with the news that her ex is marrying again. And Harry, Richard's younger brother, who has never got over his obsession with Blondie, is spending all his time chasing after the wrong women.Tom, Dick and Debbie Harry is a witty and, at times, hilarious contemporary novel about weddings, relationships, finding the right partner, shenanigans amongst friends and Australian eccentricity.

TAKE A SPACE RIDE with Teaco and Icesickle as they were suddenly taken from their planet and crashed into the scary world of Mars. An adventure worth wild with long crazy halls and strange creatures around every corner. Travel along with these two silly friends as they attempt to escape the clutches of the Martians. Will they make it back home to Earth, or will this be the last we hear of these two heroes?

This book explores the humanities as an insightful platform for understanding and responding to the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, other manifestations of “Guantánamo,” and the contested place of freedom in American Empire. It presents the work of scholars and writers based in Cuba’s Guantánamo Province and various parts of the US. Its essays, short stories, poetry, and other texts engage the far-reaching meaning and significance of Gitmo by bringing together what happens on the U.S. side of the fence—or “la cerca,” as it is called in Cuba—with perspectives from the outside world. Chapters include critiques of artistic renderings of the Guantánamo region; historical narratives contemplating the significance of freedom; analyses of the ways the base and region inform the Cuban imaginary; and fiction and poetry published for the first time in English. Not simply a critique of imperialism, this volume presents politically engaged commentary that suggests a way forward for a site of global contact and conflict.

This book explores the humanities as an insightful platform for understanding and responding to the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, other manifestations of “Guantánamo,” and the contested place of freedom in American Empire. It presents the work of scholars and writers based in Cuba’s Guantánamo Province and various parts of the US. Its essays, short stories, poetry, and other texts engage the far-reaching meaning and significance of Gitmo by bringing together what happens on the U.S. side of the fence—or “la cerca,” as it is called in Cuba—with perspectives from the outside world. Chapters include critiques of artistic renderings of the Guantánamo region; historical narratives contemplating the significance of freedom; analyses of the ways the base and region inform the Cuban imaginary; and fiction and poetry published for the first time in English. Not simply a critique of imperialism, this volume presents politically engaged commentary that suggests a way forward for a site of global contact and conflict.

Traumhochzeit in Australien oder Gefühlschaos im Outback? Die Liebeskomödie »Meine Chaos-Hochzeit in Australien« von Jessica Adams als eBook bei dotbooks.Es gibt geeignetere Orte, um den eigenen Hochzeitstag zu beginnen, als auf dem Boden eines blauen Dixi-Klos im Nirgendwo Australiens. Dort sitzt die Londonerin Sarah und weiß einfach nicht weiter: Für Richard hat sie den Ozean überquert und sich ein neues Leben im fernen Australien aufgebaut. Doch ihr Herz hat, ohne zu fragen, ein anderer geraubt … ihr Trauzeuge Tom. Sarah steht zwischen allen Stühlen – und das ausgerechnet am Tag ihrer Hochzeit! Aber auch Harry, Richards unglücklich verliebter Bruder, und Bronté, Richards Exfrau, haben es nicht leichter, wenn es um die Sache mit der Liebe geht. Vor der irrwitzigen Achterbahn der Gefühle bleibt keiner verschont …»Sexy, turbulent und hinreißend!« Cosmopolitan»Herrlich witzig – und so richtig wahr!« Daily TelegraphJetzt als eBook kaufen und genießen: Der humorvolle Liebesroman »Meine Chaos-Hochzeit in Australien« von Jessica Adams. Wer liest, hat mehr vom Leben: dotbooks – der eBook-Verlag.

Niemand hat gesagt, die Suche nach Mr Right sei leicht: Die australische Liebeskomödie »Outback Love Story« von Jessica Adams als eBook bei dotbooks.Es kann doch nicht nur an ihr liegen, oder? Die junge Werbetexterin Victoria hat schon wieder Schiffbruch in Sachen Liebe erlitten – spinnen die Männer in Sydney eigentlich alle? Zum Glück ist Australien ein großes Land, und so beschließt Victoria, ihren Traumprinz nicht mehr nur in der Nachbarschaft zu suchen, sondern via Internet. Womit sie nicht rechnet: Am nächsten Morgen wird ihr Posteingang regelrecht geflutet! Vom charmanten Schönling bis zum niedlichen Nerd ist wirklich alles dabei, sogar – oh, là là! – ein Franzose aus Paris, der Stadt der Liebe. Halten die Bewerber, was sie blumig versprechen? Vor Victoria liegt ein aufregender Sommer voller Dates, jeder Menge Chaos und ungeahnter Überraschungen … aber wartet am Ende wirklich das große Glück auf sie?»Sexy, turbulent und hinreißend! Für jeden, der jemals ein Single war – oder gerade ist.« Cosmopolitan»Herrlich witzig – und so richtig wahr!« Daily TelegraphJetzt als eBook kaufen und genießen: Die unterhaltsame Feel-Good-Liebeskomödie »Outback Love Story« von Jessica Adams. Wer liest, hat mehr vom Leben: dotbooks – der eBook-Verlag.

Eric is so excited to take his favorite stuffed toy Liam along to the Bloomsburg Fair. The only problem is, he forgot that his mom won't allow toys to go on long trips because they always seem to end up going missing. Will Liam be allowed to go to the fair? And if he does, will he become a lost toy, forever?