Resultado narrado por "Jasmine Brown" em Todas as categorias

There comes an undeniable moment when you approach a fork in the road. You are faced with the reality of your situation, and the next decision you make will have an enormous impact on your life. For Reibira Aaron, a flustered and insecure executive assistant who has always dreamed of bigger, she has approached this moment.

On a misty Monday - 21st June 1948 - the MV Empire Windrush sailed up the Thames and anchored at Tilbury Dock, London. There were a total of 1,027 passengers on board with 802 passengers from British Colonies in the West Indies. The infamous images of the passengers walking down the gangplank the next morning would be the moment the Windrush Generation was born. A Circle of Five reflects on the stories of the 300,000 or so making the same journey between 1948 and 1971 by showcasing the voices of five Jamaican women, Evelyn, Emma, Irene, Ivy and Melissa.

*Includes the story “Cat Person”—now a major film* A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny—connections between gender, sex, and power across genres. “These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and...

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world.

Petra Godfellow is ready - a little nervous, but ready - to grow up and leave home. She doesn't know the family secret - about the man who once loved her mother, who refused to accept that it was over between them... Who's crazy enough to believe that he's the king of Faerie. As Petra begins her first semester at Lightfoot College, she'll be forced to navigate her own doubts when people she respects reveal their beliefs in the absurd and impossible.