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Coercive control is a form of domestic violence experienced by millions of children. It involves a perpetrator using a range of tactics to intimidate, humiliate, degrade, exploit, isolate, and control a partner or family member. Some coercive control perpetrators use violence, others do not. Drawing on interviews with children and mothers who have experienced coercive control-based domestic violence, this book sheds light on the impacts of coercive control on children, how it is perpetrators who must be held accountable for those impacts, and how resistance by children and mothers occurs.

Suspend your disbelief and embark on a journey through time and space, stepping into a world of Norse magic, paganism, runes, mythology, and mystery. Have you always been fascinated by Norse mythology and its myriad of powerful gods—including Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya, and Baldur? Have the Norse runes always mystified you, and would you love to know more about their history, symbolism, and usage? Would you like to harness the power of Norse magic, rites, and rituals, so you can connect with the extraordinary Norse gods and goddesses?

The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes that she has spent the last four years trying so hard to be a Good Kid for her mom that she has no idea who she really is anymore. The solution? Pack her bags and move to New York for the summer to stay with her best friend Tom and do everything on The Getaway List. Riley isn't sure what to expect from Tom, who has been distant since he moved away. But when she arrives in the city, their reconnection is effortless.

For too long, parents have been given an impossible task: keep your kid from getting too fat, while making sure they love their body. In this practical and essential book, body-confidence parenting coach Emma Wright uses current research to put an end to fights at the dinner table, and shows how you can teach your child or teen to step away from expectations that leave them anxious about food. Emma addresses the root causes of society's current obsession with healthy food and explores overlooked factors that impact on our kids' self-image.

When Maddy Wight is hired to ghostwrite the memoir of world-renowned cosmetic surgeon Dr. Angela Reynolds, she thinks it might just be her chance to get her career back on track. She travels to Angela’s remote estate in the Scottish Highlands to hunker down and learn everything she can. But the deeper she digs, the more elusive the doctor becomes. Is there more hidden beneath the surface of the kaleidoscopic beauty industry than Angela wants to reveal? Sharing the estate is Angela’s business partner, Scott, whose mercurial moods change as quickly as the conditions on the darkening moors.

Kyra has always made it a habit to follow the rules. Or, more specifically, she has done so in hopes of staying out of sight and out of mind to those around her. Ever since she was taken prisoner, even with the feelings she's kept towards those responsible for killing her mother, she's never had an issue keeping her head down. That is, until she and her entire prison sector are relocated, and those feelings begin to bubble to the surface as tensions grow.

Enter a world where kids can learn facts, all while being on the edge of there seats. Each chapter will bring them into a different world, where learning will be brought to life! This book is different from other books you've listened to. There are dangers, choices, adventures, and consequences ahead of you, and only you can decide what happens next. Beware...your kids will be learning trivia along the way!

Alles ist lebendig und in Bewegung, mit Stimmen und Gelächter – aber niemand weiß, was sie tun. Das ist ihr verbotenes Geheimnis. Der Rock verdeckt ihre Mitte und sie bewegt sich ganz, ganz sanft, sodass man extra stehenbleiben und genau hinsehen müsste, um zu verstehen, was das vor sich geht. Und das macht keiner, alle Menschen sind mit sich selbst beschäftigt.

Alisado. Estigmatizado. «Domado». Celebrado. Borrado. Gestionado. Apropiado. Siempre incomprendido. El pelo negro nunca es «solo pelo». Este libro trata de por qué el cabello negro es importante y de cómo puede considerarse un modelo de descolonización. A lo largo de una serie de ensayos irónicos e informados, Emma Dabiri nos lleva desde el África precolonial, pasando por el Renacimiento de Harlem, el Black Power y hasta el actual movimiento del pelo natural, la apropiación cultural y más allá.

June and Levi were best friends as teenagers—until the day they weren’t. Now June is struggling to make rent on her beachside tea shop, Levi is living a New York cliché as a disillusioned hedge fund manager and failed novelist, and they've barely spoken in years. But after they both experience public, humiliating break-ups with their exes that spread like wildfire across TikTok rabbit holes and daytime talk shows alike, they accidentally make some juicy gossip of their own—a photo of them together has the internet convinced they're a couple.

Get ready for fun and lots of laughter. Written by the author at age seven, this delightful take on the traditional song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is the funniest, furriest, freshest way to laugh through the holidays. Each day in the song reflects a different breed of dog and contains original photography of snoring sheepdogs, chomping Chihuahuas, and even dancing Dalmatians.

Will I have the chance to explain to little Erin why I had to go? Even if I do find the strength to return, what will my mother have told her? Only one person really knows what happened and why I had to do what I did. I know the truth will come out some day. I don’t expect forgiveness. The only thing I hope is that my family can survive the fallout....

El concepto de mindfulness se ha puesto en boga las últimas décadas en el ámbito de la investigación médica y psicológica, gracias a su contrastada efectividad para mejorar el equilibrio emocional, el sistema inmunológico y la salud neurológica y aun corporal de quienes lo practican. Hace referencia a una forma de afrontar nuestra cotidianidad basada en el cultivo de la atención plena, con el propósito de vivir realmente el momento, a menudo soslayado por las obligaciones, el ritmo acelerado de la vida moderna, el estrés o la tendencia de nuestra mente a proyectarse hacia el pasado o hacia el futuro.

London, 1815. Cassandra Hazeldon is on the run. Under duress to marry a repellent friend of her uncle, Cassandra has made her escape, but now she is very much alone. With luck and quick thinking, she finds a refuge in a grand mansion in Mayfair, and a protector in Lord Irlam, or Hal to his friends. Posing as a friend of Hal’s sister, Cassandra is swept up into the social whirl of a Brighton summer. But the attraction between her and Hal is starting to scorch, and when jealousy is added to the mix, things are set to reach boiling point.

This book is your portal into the magic of Norse Pagan holidays and festivals, and it’ll take you by the hand into a world that is deeply entwined with the power of nature, with countless blessings of Norse gods and goddesses.

Bücher, in Blut geschrieben. Spiegel, durch die mysteriöse Verfolger jeden Schritt beobachten. Und eine magische Bibliothek voller Geheimnisse. Seit Generationen hütet die Familie Kalotay eine Sammlung alter und seltener Bücher. Bücher, mit denen man Magie wirken kann – vorausgesetzt, man zahlt den Preis in Blut. Ein solches Buch hat Abe Kalotay das Leben gekostet, und seine Tochter Joanna setzt alles daran, herauszufinden, warum.

When Maddy Wight is suddenly tapped to ghostwrite the memoir of the world-renowned cosmetic surgeon Dr. Angela Reynolds, she thinks it might just be the thing to get her career back on track. She travels to Angela's remote estate in the Scottish highlands to hunker down and learn everything she can about her incredibly enigmatic new boss, and the kaleidoscopic beauty industry she leads. As Maddy learns more about her subject, she begins to notice strange gaps in the details of Angela's life.

Claudia's life imploded ten years ago when she was convicted of the murder of her child. Now she has done the unthinkable and confessed to manslaughter in order to be granted parole - her only hope of finding out what really happened to Tilly. Sara is married to Joe, Claudia's ex-husband, and they have a young child together. She finally has everything she ever wanted, but Claudia's release threatens the perfect life she has created.

Chief Inspector Sara Vallén receives a tip that could help solve a 20-year-old cold case about a two-year-old boy who disappeared from his preschool without a trace. Meanwhile, Sara’s daughters Klara and Bella are being harassed by a group of young Nazi sympathisers for starting a student association supporting unaccompanied refugee youths. One of these youths, Reza, is found dead in Höje with a swastika carved into his forehead. A hunt for the killer begins while Vallén and her colleague, Torsten Venngren, follow up on the new lead on the missing toddler.

Mittsommer in Lillaström - rund um den Maibaum gibt es weitaus mehr als nur Elche und Erdbeerkuchen, nämlich Herzklopfen, liebenswert-skurrile Dorfbewohner und jede Menge Gefühlschaos. Von wegen "Halbgott in Weiß" – "Vollidiot in Grün" trifft es eher! Diese Meinung hat jedenfalls Ida von Finn, dem neuen jungen Arzt in Lillaström. Er scheint sich eine Menge auf sein – zugegebenermaßen leider sehr gutes – Aussehen einzubilden, ist arrogant und ihr gegenüber obendrein schroff. Nichts in der Welt hätte sie weniger erwartet, als dass ausgerechnet er sie nach einem Date fragt.