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Presents an argument that likens overeating to an addiction intended to numb painful emotions, and counsels readers to eat in accordance with seven key guidelines and with a greater awareness of actual needs.

Three American women, new friends, all older single women, have taken a lease on a stone manse in Tuscany. They are escaping, reinventing, and reevaluating the fates expected of them as aging women in America. They are novices in a foreign culture, figuring out the day to day, but what they share...

Most castles are protected by men. This one is protected by women. A founding mother ... 1774. ently-bred noblewoman Adrienne Lafayette becomes her husband, the Marquis de Lafayette’s, political partner in the fight for American independence. But when their idealism sparks revolution in Fr...

In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their ...

On an ordinary day? at an air show like that in any small town? a plane crashes into a crowd of spectators. After the dust clears? a thirteen-year-old girl named Ava is found huddled beneath the rubble with her best friend? who is injured and bleeding. When Ava places her hands over him? his woun...

The Somme, 1916. James Falconer, once a barrow boy on a London market, stands in the trenches, awaiting the command to go over the top. Away from his business empire in London, he is simply a soldier, war the great leveller. But, unlike his men, and unknown to them, deep down, Falconer doesn't ca...

January 1830, and one of the hardest winters in memory. The prime minister, the Iron Duke, is resisting growing calls for parliamentary reform, provoking scenes of violent unrest in the countryside. Against this backdrop, Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey takes command of his regiment, the 6th Li...

Working Class Boy is a powerful reflection on a traumatic and violent childhood, which fuelled the excess and recklessness that would define, but almost destroy, the rock'n'roll legend. This is the story of how James Swan became Jimmy Barnes. It is a memoir burning with the frustration and frenet...