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Tina Brown has been observing and chronicling the British monarchy for three decades, and her sweeping account is full of powerful revelations, newly reported details, and searing insight gleaned from remarkable access to royal insiders. Stylish, witty, and erudite, The Palace Papers will irrevoca­bly change how the world perceives and under­stands the royal family.

'Never again', became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Diana's death. More specifically, there could never be 'another Diana'—a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy. Picking up where The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana's blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet.

Fake marriage with my brother’s best friend, I’m no longer thinking rationally… Richard Hollis III is a CEO legend in the body of a Greek God and my brother’s best friend. He has been getting on my nerves ever since I was ten. When his father passes away and leaves him everything, he has to get married to see a single dime of it. So, he asks me to pretend to be his fiancée. He gets his inheritance, and I get a fat payout to pay my bills. There is only one rule. It’ll be a fake marriage with no real feelings. But the rules were meant to be broken. Despite our best efforts, we ...

From New York Times best-selling author Kevin Hearne comes Paper and Blood, the second book in his hugely entertaining new Ink and Sigil series. Set in the world of the Iron Druid Chronicles, it follows Al MacBharrais - an eccentric master of magic solving uncanny mysteries in Scotland.

Equally broke and futureless 28-year-old James Brooke, a graduate architect, coffee-addict, and self-described average nobody, has returned to his small hometown in West Ohio. Torn between his fanciful dreams and the need to pay off bills, he struggles to find his own identity while facing a harder than ever reality. But living under his father’s rooftop while keeping his head in the clouds soon turns out to be a bad combination, and the mounting student debt forces him to settle for any job he can find.

This extraordinary guidebook offers a satisfying new approach to raising confident, healthy, whole human beings, from toddler to teen. Groundbreaking in both its scope and methodology, ParentShift challenges some of our most popular disciplinary tools - including punishments, threats, bribery, and rewards - all of which, science has shown, sabotage so many of the long-term goals we have for our kids.

Over 50 years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture. Some 20 years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. Here, 33 writers and artists reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture.

Su Lin is doing her dream job: assistant at Singapore's brand-new detective agency. Until Bald Bernie decides a 'local girl' can't be trusted with private investigations and replaces her with a new secretary - pretty, privileged, and white. So Su Lin's not the only person finding it hard to mourn Bernie after he's found dead in the filing room. And when her best friend's dad is accused, she gets up to some sleuthing work of her own in a bid to clear his name. 

Christie Chapman is a single mum who spends her days commuting to her secretarial job in London and looking after her teenage son, Finn. It's not an easy life but Christie finds comfort in her love of crafting, and spends her spare time working on her beautiful creations. From intricately designed cards to personalised gifts, Christie's flair for the handmade knows no bounds and it's not long before opportunity comes knocking.

Join your host Tren while she discusses topics that you always wanted to know but were too afraid to ask. She gives insightful and funny dialogue about the ups and downs of navigating adulthood the good, the bad, and the ugly or taboo. She also wants to know What's in your bag?

Gifts in Brown Paper Packages (Gifts) is a coming-of-age story commencing the night New York City teenager Kyrie Graves impulsively flees the verbal and physical abuse prevalent in her childhood home to tackle life and adulthood with no plan except survival. The night that Kyrie decides to exit her bedroom window one final time changes the course of her life.

Trove is the story of a woman whose life is up-ended when she begins an armchair treasure hunt—a search for $10,000 worth of gold coins buried in New York City, of all places—with a man who, as she points out, is not her husband. In this eloquent, hilarious, sharply realized memoir, Sandra A. Miller grapples with the regret and confusion that so often accompanies middle age, and the shame of craving something more when she has so much already.

How powerful of an effect does colorism have on twin brothers Malcolm and Luther King? They’re from Compton, California, where beating the odds is hard to do. Colorism is at the center of personal dysfunction and unbelievable self-hatred on a level you’ve not seen in a while! These people are real as can be, but express their stories in extraordinary ways.

This is the Gurucave—man journal...it's a journal...who gives a shit? I'm just speaking my mind ...thats it.

Welcome to the Brown Paper Bag podcast this is a Journal where the guru caveman shares his stories, thoughts, feelings and frustrations. This is not a reflection of beliefs but rather a part of a process in which personal beliefs get enriched or disintegrated through personal reflections, questions, observations and all things in everyday life, good, bad, funny and ugly. All these things shape our personal truth. And if we don’t address them head to head, asking ourselves difficult questions and being objective and critical then we risk being woken by personal and political truths negating ...

In the midst of a pandemic toilet paper panic, Sam embarks on a quest to procure his own stash of the coveted white gold in this parody of a children's book adventure, written by Hollywood filmmaker and showbiz biographer Sam Irvin (director of ELVIRA'S HAUNTED HILLS, co-executive producer of GODS AND MONSTERS, author of KAY THOMPSON: FROM FUNNY FACE TO ELOISE).

More than 50 years ago, Willie Nelson's beloved Christmas song, "Pretty Paper", first hit the airwaves. And for all these years, Willie has wondered about the real-life Texas street vendor, selling wrappings and ribbons, who inspired his song. Who was this poor soul? What did his painful trials say about our loves, our hopes, our dreams in this holiday season - and in the rest of our lives?

Sharing business tools, methods, and other knowledge to make your business run smoother, so you can grow with more ease, or take that extra time to do something else. Instead of fighting, being frustrated, being confused, or missing sales opportunities.

A show about media, culture, and the modern condition hosted by James Brown. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

London was all on edge and astir to have in its midst the exquisite Princess Felicity of Brasnia. What scandal would ensue should society discover that the bejeweled heir to a royal throne was in truth Miss Felicity Channing of Cornwall, fleeing a match she did not want and that had been arranged by her conniving stepfather! But how long could Felicity carry off this lively masquerade before she would falter?