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| treat them mean keep keen: Flamingo Estate: The Guide to Becoming Alive Richard Christiansen, 2024-11-19 From inside the walls of Flamingo Estate—an abundant, visually rich guide to filling each day with radical pleasure, including wisdom on wellness, food, activism, design, nature, work, love, and more. Perched high above Los Angeles and nestled within a lush orchard and verdant gardens sits Flamingo Estate, a pleasure-filled enclave of nature worship, folk mythologies, and powerful healing remedies. At Flamingo, Mother Earth is the ultimate luxury and pleasure is a human right. Flamingo Estate’s founder, Richard Christiansen, invites you inside his renowned home and to meet his friends and heroes. Presenting fifteen pleasure principles inspired by nature's wisdom, Christiansen reveals how a deep relationship with nature offers a life of pleasure and joy. Discover how to flirt like an orchid, embrace winters like a plum tree, work like wisteria, and court your shadow like the fern. Combining hundreds of sumptuous images and luxurious rituals for well-being with stories from Christiansen’s own journey of awakening, Flamingo Estate: The Guide to Becoming Alive is a rousing call to reject a life of tedium and luxuriate in the radical pleasures of the natural world. Featuring conversations with luminaries from food, activism, wellness, and the arts, including: Jane Fonda Martha Stewart John Legend Chrissy Teigen Jane Goodall Alice Waters Kelly Wearstler David de Rothschild Elise Loehnen Erica Chidi Ellen DeGeneres Terry Tempest Williams Dr. Nigma Talib + More CELEBRATED AUTHOR AND BRAND: Richard Christiansen is a beloved and respected leader in food and wellness. His global brand, Flamingo Estate, has been covered by a wide range of outlets, including the New York Times, Architectural Digest, Food + Wine, Vogue, Oprah, goop, Forbes, and many others. He cultivates more than 150 varieties of flowers, fruits, and vegetables at Flamingo Estate and produces a range of luxury apothecary products, including candles, lotions, soaps, honey, and more—all celebrated for their quality and traceability. Perfect for: Fans of Flamingo Estate Food and wellness enthusiasts Anyone experiencing burnout or seeking stress relief Décor enthusiasts and readers of Architectural Digest and Oprah Fans of Kelly Wearstler and Martha Stewart People interested in slow living and sustainability Flower lovers and gardeners Mother's Day gift shoppers Readers of Michael Pollan, Peter Attia, Arthur C. Brooks, and Natalie Walton |
| treat them mean keep keen: Open Wounds Douglas Skelton, 2016-03-31 Davie McCall is tired. Tired of violence, tired of the Life. He's always managed to stay detached from the brutal nature of his line of work, but recently he has caught himself enjoying it. In the final instalment in the Davie McCall series old friends clash and long buried secrets are unearthed as McCall investigates a brutal five-year-old crime. Davie wants out, but the underbelly of Glasgow is all he has ever known. Will what he learns about his old ally Big Rab McClymont be enough to get him out of the Life? And could the mysterious woman who just moved in upstairs be just what he needs? |
| treat them mean keep keen: Birdy Jess Vallance, 2015-07-02 A darkly compulsive tale of friendship and obsession. Frances Bird has been a loner for so long that she's given up on ever finding real friendship. But then she's asked to show a new girl around school, and she begins to think her luck could finally be changing. Eccentric, talkative and just a little bit posh, Alberta is not at all how Frances imagined a best friend could be. But the two girls click immediately, and it's not long before they are inseparable. Frances could not be happier. As the weeks go on, Frances finds out more about her new best friend - her past, her secrets, her plans for the future - and she starts to examine their friendship more closely. Is it, perhaps, just too good to be true? |
| treat them mean keep keen: Girls, Boys, and Junior Sexualities Emma Renold, 2005 This book takes an unrelenting look at the hidden worlds of young children's sexualities. |
| treat them mean keep keen: Gaz (And My Parsnip) - The Autobiography of Geordie Shore's Ultimate Lad Gary Beadle, 2015-05-07 In 2011, loveable ladies magnet Gary Beadle was jobless and down to his last GBP20 when he was randomly asked to be in a reality TV show called Geordie Shore. He'd never heard of its American predecessor, Jersey Shore, but with his only prospects being his next dole check and swayed by the offer of free booze he signed himself up for the challenge. He could never have anticipated the insane new life he was about to lead. From a shy youngster at school, who was the captain of his football team, Gary also never expected the effect he would have on the British public especially its women. After leaving school at 16, Gary fell into a variety of jobs, even having a brief spell in the Royal Marines. Unfortunately, nothing stuck and, by the time he reached 22, he hadn't a clue what to do next until the night he was asked to join the cast of MTV's Geordie Shore. Now, for the first time, Gary reveals what growing up in his native Newcastle was like, explains his winning luck with the ladies, and offers up his much sought after tips on how to bag a bird on a night out: something he's proved he's pretty much an expert at. From job-hunting to making public appearances in front of thousands of screaming girls, Gary is secretly amazed by the change in his fortunes. He may be known for his crazy, fun-loving nature, but there's much more to Gary than girls, booze, and nights out. And it's all packed into this his autobiography. |
| treat them mean keep keen: Cat Counsellor Vicky Halls, 2011-08-31 If cats were asked how they would truly like their owners to show affection, what would they say? Are we giving them what they want? Is just loving them ever going to be enough? Can we love them too much? Vicky Halls, author of the bestselling CAT CONFIDENTIAL, has devoted her life to studying the human/feline relationship. In CAT COUNSELLOR she explores the origins of this emotional bond and shows how miraculous results can be achieved by merely changing the way we relate to our cats. CAT COUNSELLOR is packed with fascinating case studies and tips on every aspect of cat relationships, including those with all things furred and feathered. It also includes the fascinating results of the relationship survey, giving cat owners from all over the world the chance to share their feelings about their feline companions. If you have ever wondered why you love your cat so much, then this is the book for you! |
| treat them mean keep keen: London Patricia Evans, 2024-11-12 Bronwyn Charles had everything she’d always wanted: a handsome fiancée, the career in fine arts that she adored, and an enviable home in Notting Hill, London. Everything was perfect until she ran into Jaq Bailey, her first love, during a classmate’s wedding in the English countryside. Suddenly, her carefully constructed life started to seem like it belonged to someone else, and she’s forced to decide whether she’s brave enough to let herself remember how it felt to be truly loved. Jaq Bailey, a mathematics savant from a rundown trailer park in east Texas, attended Stratford Academy in London on a scholarship and fell in love with Bronwyn the moment they met. Despite being forced apart by Bronwyn’s wealthy family when their romance was discovered, Jaq never forgot her. After the wedding, their lives become entwined again as dangerous secrets emerge and Bronwyn’s seemingly perfect life starts to unravel. Are they strong enough to hold on to true love, or will they lose each other again, this time forever? |
| treat them mean keep keen: My Precious Melissa Joane Chatel, 2019-01-17 My brother, who was always the first to get away, kept his calm for once. I heard everyone arguing for a few minutes and the atmosphere seemed tense. My senses told me that something was wrong and prevented us from seeing clear. I could have said that an evil force had seized a few of us. I understood that we were far too close to our goal to drop everything in the water and return to our initial steps, as some had strongly advised. My sister, who had not heard me say a single word while the group was arguing, came closer to me . . . |
| treat them mean keep keen: Ovid and His Love Poetry Rebecca Armstrong, 2015-03-02 Ovid devoted about half of his poetic career to the production of several collections of amatory verse, all composed in elegiac couplets. Indeed, his irrepressible interest in love, sex and elegiac poetry is one of the defining features of his entire output. Here Rebecca Armstrong offers a thematic examination of some important aspects of the Amores, Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris. Starting from an investigation of the narrator's self-creation and presentation of other characters within his amatory verse, she assesses the importance of mythical and contemporary reference, as well as the influence of the erotic on Ovid's later works. By looking at the Ars and Remedia alongside the Amores, the continuities and contradictions in the poet's elegiac outlook are revealed, and a complex picture is formed of the Ovidian world of love. Ovid's erotic works present the reader with a glimpse inside the minds of both poets and lovers, mediated through eyes which are frequently inclined to comedy and even cynicism, but always sharp, perceptive and above all fascinated by human behaviour. |
| treat them mean keep keen: Feminism in the Wild Ambika Kamath, Melina Packer, 2025-03-11 How dominant culture—from sexism and homophobia to racism, capitalism, ableism, and more—has limited the science of animal behavior, and how we can free ourselves from these limited perspectives. In Feminism in the Wild, Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer reveal how scientists studying animal behavior have long projected human norms and values onto animals while seeking to understand them. When scientific studies conclude that these norms and values are natural in animals, it makes it easier to think of them as natural in humans too. And because scientists, historically and to this day, largely belong to elite, powerful segments of society, the norms and values embedded in animal behavior science match those of the already powerful. How can animal behavior science escape this trap of naturalizing dominant culture? Drawing from decades of feminist, antiracist, queer, disability justice, and Marxist contributions—including those of biologists—Kamath and Packer break down persistent assumptions in the status quo of animal behavior science and offer a multitude of alternative approaches. Core concepts in animal behavior science and evolutionary biology—from sex categories and sexual selection to fitness, adaptation, biological determinism, and more—are carefully contextualized and critically reexamined. This unique collaboration between an animal behavior scientist and a feminist science studies scholar is an illuminating and hopeful read for anyone who is curious about how animals behave, and anyone who wants to break free from scientific approaches that perpetuate systems of oppression. |
| treat them mean keep keen: The Sheikh's Impatient Virgin Kim Lawrence, 2010-03-01 Set up against her will as a potential Arabian queen for the notorious Sheikh Karim, unworldly Eva has a plan to deter the desert king. She will convince him she's a modern, sexually experienced woman—and definitely not marriage material—even though she is really still a virgin. However, the next thing she knows, Eva's become a bride! And her new husband is having a startling effect on her…. She finds herself increasingly impatient; could it be that shy Eva is curious about what lies ahead in the sheikh's marriage bed? |
| treat them mean keep keen: Tulip Taylor Anna Mainwaring, 2019-06-20 Challenged to go on a 'survival' reality TV show, fifteen-year-old make-up vlogger Tulip only accepts to escape her mother's money-making schemes and protect her younger brother and sister. Set up to fail, can she prove to the TV show, the cute but annoying boy who got her on there and – most importantly – to herself, that she's more than just a pretty face? |
| treat them mean keep keen: Abundantly Attractive Tonwand North, 2022-07-01 How Much is Love Truly Worth? Romantic Comedy | LGBTQ+ | British Humour Liam has a simple plan: find a wealthy wife and enjoy a luxurious life by the pool. He has the looks, the charm, and the confidence to pull it off. But when he lands the job as barman to the irresistible billionaire Lawrence Paul, his plan takes an unexpected turn. Suddenly, he’s not so opposed to the future Mrs Perry being a wealthy Mr Perry. But alas, bats, cats, rats, and reindeer are out to ruin his happily ever after! With an empty fridge, and rent due, he can’t afford to lose his heart or his job. Will Liam’s plan land him love and luxury, or will nature’s mischievous twists leave him broke, single, and questioning everything? Hilariously heartwarming romantic comedy with sizzling chemistry, and witty banter. |
| treat them mean keep keen: New Frontiers in Popular Romance Susan Fanetti, 2022-06-27 In the twenty-first century, the romance genre has gained a growing academic response, including the creation of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Popular romance has long been so ignored and maligned that seemingly every scholarly work on it opens with a lengthy defense of the genre and its value for academic study. Even the early scholarly works on the genre approach it in ways that, while primarily respectful, make sweeping generalizations about popular romance, its texts, and its readers. This essay collection examines the position of the romance genre in the twenty-first century, and the ways in which romance responds to and influences the culture and community in which it exists. Essays are divided into six sections, which cover the genre's relationship with masculinity, the importance of consent, historical romance, representation, social status and web-based romance fiction. |
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| treat them mean keep keen: Freedom Matt Bird, 2019-03-12 You may be struggling to earn a living, be a professional in a middle-income job or a ‘successful’ multi-millionaire. Being free from anxiety about money has nothing to do with how much you earn or own. Whatever your financial situation Freedom is written for you. Freedom will walk you through 10 Steps to ensure you can live your life for Jesus free from anxiety about money. Each Step includes a series of practical actions that you can immediately implement to ensure you are moving closer to living a life of financial freedom. |
| treat them mean keep keen: Toecap and the Fiddler Sid Wright, 2016-07-09 Toby Malloy fights for justice in Toecap and the Fiddler. Born and raised in the Lake District, Toby takes on a secret double life as a crime fighter Toecappitted against evil mastermind the Fiddler. |
| treat them mean keep keen: Her Forbidden Awakening in Greece Kim Lawrence, 2023-08-22 One passionate, off-limits encounter will unravel the nanny and her tempting billionaire in this workplace romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Kim Lawrence! She wants one forbidden night… with her Greek boss! Professional nanny Rose is taken by surprise when CEO Zac Adamos personally proposes a job in Greece, helping to look after his godson! She needs the outrageous paycheck he’s offering, but she doesn’t foresee a sizzling attraction making things all too complicated… Rose’s past has taught her that men only fill your head with false promises. Certain Zac must be the same, Rose can’t let herself get too close. But neither can the innocent walk away without exploring the passion Zac has awakened inside of her… From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all The Secret Twin Sisters books: Book 1: The Prince's Forbidden Cinderella Book 2: Her Forbidden Awakening in Greece |
| treat them mean keep keen: Three Cheers for the Shipyard Girls Nancy Revell, 2022-03-31 THE FINAL NOVEL IN THE *BESTSELLING* SHIPYARD GIRLS SERIES! January 1945. Spring is in the air. And so is victory. Wedding bells are ringing at long last for Gloria and her soon-to-be husband Jack. But she cannot rest until her youngest son is safely home. Head welder Rosie is delighted her own husband has returned from enemy territory. But the promise of victory brings more change. . . Her squad has come so far - what will happen when the war ends? Meanwhile Helen is caught between two men - but must hide her true feelings from the one she loves. Can her fellow women welders help Helen follow her heart? Only by working together will the Shipyard Girls win the day! ______________________________ Praise for Nancy Revell: 'Nancy Revell knows how to stir the passions and soothe the heart' Northern Echo 'Stirring and heartfelt storytelling' Peterborough Evening Telegraph |
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| treat them mean keep keen: The Single Mums Move On Janet Hoggarth, 2019-07-18 Can neighbours become more than good friends... After her fiancé left her, Ali and her daughter Grace enjoyed living in what became known as 'the Single Mums' Mansion'. However, with her best friends Amanda and Jacqui moving on, it's time for Ali and Grace to make their own way. Thankfully, a chance conversation leads to them moving into the infamous South London gated community known only as The Mews. In The Mews everyone lives in each other's pockets and curtain twitching is an Olympic sport. The neighbours are an eclectic bunch – from Nick the alleged spy, Carl the gorgeous but clearly troubled Idris Elba lookalike, to Debbie who is about to face the hardest fight of her life, and TV agent Samantha who is not as in control as she likes to pretend. Each day brings another drama, but along with the tears, real friendships grow. And her neighbours' problems might unlock the key to something Ali has yearned for all along... Will these single mums be able to move on from life in the mansion? Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella, Lindsey Kelk and Mhairi McFarlane. |
| treat them mean keep keen: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi, 2020-11-17 *NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER* *AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. Prepare to meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe’s time-travelling offer in order to: confront the man who left them receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by Alzheimer's see their sister one last time, and meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time? Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1) Tales from the Cafe (Book 2) Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3) Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4) Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5) Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3) |
| treat them mean keep keen: Business of the Heart Claire Forsythe, 2022-03-15 Abby Archer should be content. Her coffee shop, Haze, is thriving, and she has a great group of friends. There’s just one thing missing: love. Despite past betrayals, Abby hasn’t given up on finding the one, waiting with increasing impatience to experience the sparks she’s always dreamed of. Lexi Finn lives for her career. At least her job won’t break her heart. Unlike Abby, she’s most definitely not searching for the one or anyone for that matter. Avoiding relationships isn’t all that difficult when she’s become so skilled at keeping people at a distance. So imagine Lexi’s shock when, walking into Haze, she feels instant attraction and an unshakeable connection with Abby. Abby has a picture of her perfect woman in her mind, and it certainly isn’t the intolerable Lexi Finn. When a hopeless romantic meets a tough-as-nails cynic, they’ll need to overcome the wounds of the past to discover that their hearts are the most important business of all. |
| treat them mean keep keen: The Dead Ex Jane Corry, 2019-02-05 From the bestselling author of My Husband's Wife, one man's disappearance throws four women's lives into chaos--who will survive? Vicki works as an aromatherapist, healing her clients out of her home studio with her special blends of essential oils. She's just finishing a session when the police arrive on her doorstep--her ex-husband David has gone missing. Vicki insists she last saw him years ago when they divorced, but the police clearly don't believe her. And her memory's hardly reliable--what if she did have something to do with it? Meanwhile, Scarlet and her mother Zelda are down on their luck, and at eight years old, Scarlet's not old enough to know that the game her mother forces her to play is really just a twisted name for dealing drugs. Soon, Zelda is caught, and Scarlet is forced into years of foster care--an experience that will shape the rest of her life . . . David's new wife, Tanya, is the one who reported him missing, but what really happened on the night of David's disappearance? And how can Vicki prove her innocence, when she's not even sure of it herself? The answer lies in the connection among these four women--and the one person they can't escape. |
| treat them mean keep keen: Puppeteers: Acrobats Book 2 Jaspen Sage, 2022-09-06 Jorden's saga continues, introducing Anthony and other new puppets in the game called love. |
| treat them mean keep keen: Men in Women's Worlds Laura Coffey-Glover, 2018-12-13 This book presents an analysis of masculinity construction in a large corpus of women’s magazines, adopting a feminist Critical Stylistic approach to reveal how men are talked about and ‘sold’ to women as part of a successful performance of hegemonic femininity. This novel approach identifies women’s magazines as sites of ‘lad culture’ that perpetuate ideologies more commonly associated with the ‘laddism’ of male-targeted media. It examines how stereotypical images of men as naturally aggressive and obsessed with sex are promoted, as well as considering some of the ways in which women’s magazines contribute to the social construction of normative understandings of gender and sexuality more broadly. This engaging work will offer fresh insights to students and scholars of (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Stylistics, and Gender and Communication Studies. |
| treat them mean keep keen: It's All Sun and Games Portia MacIntosh, 2024-07-11 The laugh-out-loud, love triangle summer romantic comedy from MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Portia MacIntosh! When Robin finds out she's going on a work trip to Italy she can't wait for a week away in the sunshine, away from the daily grind. So what if there's a client pitch to do while they're there? The thing Robin is most excited about is the chance to show her work crush, James, what she's really like outside of work, and divert his attention from Liz, her work rival. To make things even better, Robin realises that the town they're going to in Italy is the same place that her childhood penpal, Andrea is from. So it's the perfect time to re-connect and finally meet her old friend over some delicious Italian food and wine (between work obviously...) But when Andrea doesn't turn out to be the person Robin thought, things get a little complicated... So it's set to be a week of all sun and games... Until someone falls in love of course! A friends-to-lovers, only-one-bed, fake dating romance from million-copy bestseller Portia MacIntosh. Praise for Portia MacIntosh: 'Smart, funny and always brilliantly entertaining, every book from Portia becomes my new favourite rom com.' Shari Low 'I laughed, I cried - I loved it.’ Holly Martin 'The queen of rom com!' Rebecca Raisin ‘This book made me laugh and kept me turning the pages.' Mandy Baggot 'A fun, fabulous 5 star rom com!' Sandy Barker on Your Place or Mine? 'Loved the book, it's everything you expect from the force that is Portia! A must read' Rachel Dove on Your Place or Mine? 'Fun and witty. Pure escapism!' Laura Carter on Fake It Or Leave It 'A hilarious, roaringly fun, feel good, sexy read. I LOVED it!' Holly Martin on Honeymoon For One 'A heartwarming, fun story, perfect for several hours of pure escapism.' Jessica Redland on Honeymoon for One 'A feel good, funny and well written book. I read it in 2 days and enjoyed every second!' A.L. Michael on Honeymoon for One 'Super-romantic and full of festive spirit. I loved it!' Mandy Baggot on Stuck On You |
| treat them mean keep keen: Harlequin Presents September 2023 - Box Set 1 of 2 Michelle Smart, Natalie Anderson, Kim Lawrence, Jane Holland, 2023-08-22 Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations. INNOCENT'S WEDDING DAY WITH THE ITALIAN by Michelle Smart Discovering that her billionaire fiancé, Enzo, will receive her inheritance if they wed, Rebecca leaves him at the altar and gives him twenty-four hours to explain himself. He vows his feelings are real, but dare Rebecca believe him and succumb to a passionate wedding night? BACK TO CLAIM HIS CROWN by Natalie Anderson Innocent Royal Runaways When Crown Prince Lucian returns from the dead to reclaim his throne, he stops his usurper’s wedding, creating a media frenzy! He's honor-bound to provide jilted Princess Zara with shelter, and the chemistry between the ruthless royal and the virgin princess sparks an urgent, irresistible desire… HER FORBIDDEN AWAKENING IN GREECE by Kim Lawrence The Secret Twin Sisters Nanny Rose Hill is surprised when irresistible CEO Zac Adamos personally proposes a job for her in Greece looking after his godson! She can’t let herself get too close, but can the innocent really walk away without exploring the unforeseen passion Zac has awakened inside her? HER CONVENIENT VOW TO THE BILLIONAIRE by Jane Holland When Sabrina Templeton returns to the orphanage from her childhood to stop her former sweetheart from tearing it down, playboy CEO Rafael Romano offers a shocking compromise… He’ll hand it over if Sabrina becomes his convenient bride! For more escapes to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds, look for Harlequin Presents September – Box Set 2 of 2 |
| treat them mean keep keen: The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook Matt Dunn, 2010-11-01 Funny, moving, and a guaranteed page-turner. Brilliant! —Mike Gayle, author of Mr. Commitment It's not me—it's you. After ten years, Jane's had enough of Edward Middleton. You've let yourself go, she tells him. So I'm letting you go too. Determined to get her back, Edward realizes he must learn how to make women want him again. But right now, he's the kind of man who puts the ex in sexy. One thing is certain: if he's going to be Jane's Mr. Right, he needs to turn himself around. From Atkins to Waxing, Edward begins working his way through the makeover alphabet. But is a change in appearance what Jane really wants? Can cuddly Teddy really become sexy Eddie? Or is there more to the dating game than meets the eye? [The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook] gives a real insight into the different ways men and women think. —Prima |
| treat them mean keep keen: Let's Talk Nihal Arthanayake, 2022-08-18 'Read this fascinating book and you'll become a better listener, a better conversationalist and better company' Adam Kay 'A brilliant book on the art of conversation' Matt Haig 'A compulsory book for these divided times' Sathnam Sanghera 'An intriguing exploration of the importance of a proper chinwag' Sara Cox 'A terrific book from a terrific broadcaster. Worryingly good'' Jeremy Vine 'An insightful, important read' Stacey Dooley 'A genuinely brilliant broadcaster' Matthew Syed 'Fascinating and thought-provoking' Jane Fallon 'Informed, open-minded, fair, astute, caring and funny' Ricky Gervais 'A grand theory of conversation' Dan Snow 'The conversation king' Laura Whitmore ... Conversations are broken. While effective dialogue is supposed to lead to greater fulfilment in our personal and professional lives, all the scientific evidence points towards us sharing fewer interactions than previous generations. From ever decreasing face-to-face meetings to echo chambers online, we no longer have the necessary tools to talk to each other. Nihal Arthanayake is bucking this trend. He wants to know what it really means to have a 'great conversation' and, most importantly, how he can teach us to have better interactions in our everyday lives. Let's Talk blends Nihal's experiences as an acclaimed interviewer with expert opinion on the secrets and psychology behind successful communication. From tracing the evolution of dialogue to discovering what lights up in the brain when we're enjoying a good discussion, Nihal speaks to conversational authorities including Lorraine Kelly, former president of Ireland Mary McAleese, Professor Tanya Byron, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari, Matthew Syed, and many more, to find out why good conversation has eroded over time and how we can fix it. Part how-to and part manifesto, Let's Talk is Nihal's accessible, anecdotal and invigorating toolkit to having better conversations with anyone, any time. |
| treat them mean keep keen: Life on the Edge: Four laugh-out-loud, romantic comedies Andrene Low, 2023-08-07 Have you ever wondered what happened to those characters that appear briefly in a series, only to then be left alone to get on with their lives? HEELS AND A TIARA Ever wondered what Brenda was up to before she joined forces with Sam and Jennie in Friday Night Fever? She was busy working as a bikini-clad Gold Coast Meter Maid. It’s only a stepping stone, but a big one. OUT OF BOUNDS We revisit Janey and Maria, those good Italian girls who helped Sam deal to ‘Salami Boy’ in Friday Night Fever. And with major consequences if their mama finds out the cops are after them. MAID IN CHELSEA Get to know Vivienne and find out why an intelligent woman is stuck working as a general dogsbody and nanny to a spoiled purple poodle. She’d have to be on the run from something truly terrible, wouldn’t she? GOLD DIGGER Join Stef as she puts all that training from Eadie to good use. Lucky for this strapping Cockney girl, she strikes it rich in more ways than one. And of course she takes care of her old mentor in the process. TRIGGER WARNING: Set in the seventies, the book contains swearing, drinking, and bad behaviour. Please do not read this novel if this will upset you and cause an adverse reaction. This series is full of bad language, bad behaviour and poorly executed Farrah Fawcett hairstyles. While laugh-out-loud at times, the books also touch on real life, making them raw in places. |
| treat them mean keep keen: The Trial of True Love William Nicholson, 2011-01-28 Fast-paced, beautifully crafted, and intellectually stimulating, The Trial of True Love is a captivating exploration of the nature of love, its elusiveness, and most of all, the universal human need to find it. Bron is a thirty-year-old writer living in London, a seemingly incurable heartbreaker and dodger of commitment. He is fascinated by the symbolist artist Paul Marotte and has made the artist the center of a book he is writing about love at first sight. On a visit to a friend’s country house, Bron encounters the beautiful, enigmatic Flora and suddenly the theme of his book takes on a completely new, intensely personal dimension. His pursuit of Flora takes him to Amsterdam, where a mysterious art collector offers to help him find the object of his desire, and the search for “true love” takes surprising twists. With the touch of a master, William Nicholson weaves thought-provoking reflections on art, literature, and human nature in a suspense-filled love story—a novel that touches both the heart and the mind. |
| treat them mean keep keen: House of Lies E. V. Seymour, 2017-03-24 ‘A wicked twist and a killer ending’ Publishers Weekly Somewhere in Vixenhead, I’m certain the truth lies... |
| treat them mean keep keen: Breaking Free GB Williams, 2022-04-27 For Elaine Blake, marriage was never a word, it was a sentence. For 25 years, they had all been lying to her. Now the liar in chief, her husband Jason, is reported dead. Information he was supposed to hand to his spy bosses is missing. Then, a phone call – a foster son in serious trouble. And news that her husband may not be dead after all. Jason doesn’t matter, but Elaine will do anything to save her son. Even if she has to race to Paris, dodge assassins and hunt for evidence the best of spies can’t find. |
| treat them mean keep keen: A Woman's Guide to Understanding Men Stephanie Kalatzis, 2015-03-18 Have you ever wondered why men are so different to you? Why they just quite don’t understand what you want? Well here it is! Get your hands on the blueprint of the male mind. This book will teach you how to think like a man. This simple guide for women will unravel all the mysterious workings of a man. Not only will it help you understand him, it will also act as a stepping stone toward having the most successful relationship possible. Leave your man shocked at how compatible you two become and how little you disagree with one another. With better communication, you will undoubtedly build a stronger and deeper love. >> YOUR FREE GIFT << http://www.kindlefreebies.com/go/understanding-men-2 As a special Thank You for purchasing this book – I have put together an exclusive 50 quick tips to understanding men - the should's and should not's every woman must know when dealing with men. Use the book and your 50 free tips cohesively to help you achieve the most satisfying and rewarding relationship with your man. |
| treat them mean keep keen: The Valtieri Marriage Deal Caroline Anderson, 2009-06-01 Midwife Isabelle Thompson is convinced it must have been a heady mix of the warm Tuscan sun and the powerful chemistry between herself and obstetrician Luca Valtieri that made her, for once, follow her heart. And it led her right into the gorgeous Italian's bed! Back in London, Isabelle vows never to contact Luca. How can she trust a man she barely knows? Then he arrives in town as her hospital's new obstetrician, and she discovers that their passionate night has left her pregnant! Luca promises Isabelle he can give her the life she's dreamed of...if she agrees to his deal. |
| treat them mean keep keen: The Ice Age Kirsten Reed, 2009-06-29 We stopped at a roadside diner. People asked if I was his daughter. They ask all the time. Hoping, accusing. We never say yes, and we never say no. We ate our food at a booth in a hungry, self-conscious rush, straight out of the wrappers. They didn't have plates. We left a tip, just change. The waitress scooped it up straight away as we slid out of the booth. She was middle-aged and bulgy, in a proper matronly waitress's dress. She shot us what I suppose was intended to be a look of gratitude. She really only managed a weak glare. I guess that's the countryside for you. People are a little edgy.' Across the heartless expanse of middle America, a teenaged girl is riding shotgun with an older man. She watches him; she sees her fascination tallied in the black looks of waitresses, the knowing smiles of motel clerks. The man can see no proper way of conducting this relationship but is bound to her by concern and tenderness; perhaps desire. The girl craves only closeness. She knows the Ice Age is coming, and we will need to huddle together for warmth. Kirsten Reed's debut novel, with its echoes of Nabokov, Kerouac and Bret Easton Ellis, captures the translucent moment at the end of childhood in all its awkwardness, sincerity and heedless vulnerability. In prose both lyrical and earthy, comic and darkly harrowing, this extraordinary young writer creates a journey of irresistible momentum and tragic possibility. It will leave you with the sense that you have met someone significant; and you will not soon forget her. |
| treat them mean keep keen: The A to Z of Us Hannah Doyle, 2021-06-11 ❤️Don't miss Hannah Doyle's hilarious new romcom THE PICK UP available in May❤️ ‘Brilliantly funny and sweet, so heartwarming and relatable. I couldn’t stop reading it!’ Lucy Vine |
| treat them mean keep keen: The Light Within Dion Myerscough, 2020-01-07 'Sometimes you have to go through the darkness to embrace the light.' In this first instalment of the Light Warriors Way, Joseph is pulled out of his normal life into a world where angels watch over us, spirits wander and demons roam. Through divine guidance, Joseph is directed on a path where he meets an exorcist, learns how to heal, discovers love, unlocks his psychic abilities and explores his past lives as he is drawn into a battle beyond that has raged on for thousands of years. From the internationally renowned healer, Dion Myerscough now brings you a journey of a lifetime as he reveals the keys to psychic development and astral exploration through his groundbreaking novel, The Light Within |
| treat them mean keep keen: Stand By Your Manhood Peter Lloyd, 2016-07-07 DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK Men must be the worst oppressors in history - we pay the most taxes, get the least support and play longer matches at Wimbledon for no extra money. We're also more likely to be homeless, circumcised, attacked, jailed, drafted, under-educated, short-changed in parenthood and shafted by divorce. Oh, and to top it all, we die sooner. Despite this, feminists still assert we live in a patriarchy and give us a hard time. Fortunately, Peter Lloyd is here to offer a reality check in this long-overdue lad bible. Part polemic, part toolkit for the modern man, Stand By Your Manhood answers all the burning questions facing the brotherhood today, including: Should we fund the first date? Is penis size a political issue? Are we sexist if we enjoy pornography? Why isn't there a men's minister? Politically incorrect, fearless and laugh-out-loud funny, this is the deliciously provocative book that gives blokes their balls back. |
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