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National Bestseller A New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by NPR, TIME, LitHub, Paste, and PopVerse One of PEOPLE'S Best Books of August 2025 The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this haunting debut about five sisters in a small village in...

Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was a supreme networker. He also set a gold standard for conflicts of interest, working variously for the BBC, MI5, MI6, the War Office, the Ministry of Information and the KGB. Yet Burgess was never challenged by Britain's spy catchers: his superiors were convinced he was too much of a liability to have been recruited by Moscow. Now, with a major new release of hundreds of files into the National Archives, Purvis and Hulbert reveal just how this charming establishment insider was able to fool everyone for so long.

The Insecure Girl's Handbook will guide you through your insecurity no matter what life stage you're at, pointing out the pitfalls of people pleasing, negative backchat and crippling comparison along the way. It's a carefully curated toolkit of tried and tested mechanisms and small pearls of wisdom to start combatting that feeling that holds us back from speaking up, from following our dreams or even feeling that our dreams aren't good or big enough. I hope it will provide you with a comforting hug and pep talk, from one insecure girl to another.

The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, present unique challenges. Welcoming these children into your family - and addressing their special needs - requires care, consideration, and compassion.

Jim Wekle's first day as a trooper on an island in Alaska could have gone better. It was raining, the coffee was bad, and within hours of stepping off the seaplane, he found a bikini-clad girl floating in a kelp bed. As Jim investigates who might have put the bullet in her back, he stumbles across a uniquely diverse and extraordinarily hilarious batch of island inhabitants. Puffing on his imported cigars, Jim soon learns that no one on the island is more unique, diverse, or hilarious than his unlikely counterpart: a man simply known as Kram.

Renowned child-development expert Dr. Karyn Purvis gives you practical advice and powerful tools you can use to encourage secure attachment in your family. You will benefit from Karyn’s decades of clinical research and real-world experience. Coauthor Lisa Qualls demonstrates how you can successfully implement these strategies in your home, just as she did in hers. You will learn how to simplify your approach using scripts, nurture your child, combat chronic fear, teach respect, and develop other valuable tools to facilitate a healing connection with your child.

In this anthology, everybody is Black. Filled with epic battles, complicated families, soft kisses, and sharpened blades, Magic in the Melanin is an adult fantasy anthology that showcases Black authors who write magical stories of all kinds.

When a dip-net fisherman hauls in a severed human foot, Lieutenant Jim Wekle is thrown into another whodunit on his remote island. Alaskan mayhem ensues with a rogue gang of elderly women on ATVs, a Planet Patrol environmental boat with an oil leak, and an influx of tourists, each clutching a fresh copy of a book titled, Muskeg Mama. Kram is in rare form as he decides to enter the local work force by applying his unique perspective to a series of part-time jobs.

Cast out of his apprenticeship at the caravanserai, Telvi takes to the road with a group of orcish mercenaries, whose needs at camp he now services. Can he find respect, love, and fulfillment in this new life of travel and adventure?

Jim and Kram are back in their second hilarious romp around their secluded Southeast Alaskan island. With a serial killer at large (a cereal serial killer, to be more accurate), an unlucky entrepreneur with an out-of-control facial tic, and the nephew of a notorious crime boss setting up shop on the island, Lieutenant Jim Wekle will have his work cut out for him.

Somewhere between hunting for gold in Latin America as a geologist and getting married to a new husband, 33-year-old Susan Purvis loses her way. Susan comes to believe that a puppy and working on ski patrol at the last great ski town in Colorado will improve her life. When she learns about avalanches that bury people without warning, she challenges herself: "What if I teach a dog to save lives?" This quest propels her to train the best possible search dog, vowing to never leave anyone behind.

Diana's family is nothing like other families. In this funny science-fiction story, this young girl, who is brought up by a robot family, discovers that she's able to return to her human family.

In 2020, engineering firm Velentium faced an unprecedented ask: partner with a small medical device company and a very large vehicle manufacturer to increase emergency ventilator production from hundreds per month to thousands per week—in just twenty-eight days.

Tyler Madden used to have everything. He was captain of the football team, popular, a high achiever set to have a successful career. But one secret made all that disappear. Now he's reclusive, sarcastic, morbid and is stuck in one of the most dangerous jobs there is for an eighteen-year-old. He...

Sixteen-year-old Alesea thinks her sole extraordinary trait is her musical talent. That changes when foreign Watchers invade her tiny island on the night of her professional debut. She alone escapes, unwittingly using the powers of a Knower.

Welcome to the "Rants of a Desi Girl". A pro comedy podcast in Hindi. A funny podcast where we will talk and gossip about random and interesting topics. We will do the roasting of various stuffs. We will have girls talk, boys talk, Q and A sessions. Lots of possiblities. I am Purvi, a girl from Mumbai / Gujarat living in Delhi NCR. You can Join me on instagram.com/musicianpurvi You can also mail me at desigirlpurvi@gmail.com for any queries.

Middle school is tough. But Jenn does not make it any easier for Melissa when she begins whispering about her to other students.

Welcome to the "Rants of a Desi Girl". A pro comedy podcast in Hindi. A funny podcast where we will talk and gossip about random and interesting topics. We will do the roasting of various stuffs. We will have girls talk, boys talk, Q and A sessions. Lots of possiblities. I am Purvi, a girl from Mumbai / Gujarat living in Delhi NCR. You can Join me on instagram.com/musicianpurvi You can also mail me at desigirlpurvi@gmail.com for any queries.

Pals Liv Purvis and Charlotte Jacklin, a self-professed pair of out-of-touch early grandmas, navigate their way through the wins and the wobbles of millennial life.But where might you know Liv and Charlotte from, I hear you ask? Well, Liv is the creator of the fashion/lifestyle/travel blog What Olivia Did, and Charlotte is a fashion and lifestyle blogger who founded Betty Magazine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mission Hill Church is a multicultural, multigenerational, multiplying church from Tampa, Florida that recognizes our one mission: no matter where we are, we shine the light and love of Jesus Christ like a city on a hill. Join Pastor Paul Purvis as we strive to LOVE GOD Passionately and LOVE OTHERS Intentionally.