So, how did a slightly bonkers misfit with anorexia, bulimia and anxiety decide to solve their problems? I became a model. As you do.Charli Howard had always wanted to be normal - but for some reason, she couldn't quite find out how to do it. As a teenager, she felt like the only one who struggled with anxiety and self-esteem issues when everyone around her seemed to fit in. So she tried to embrace standing out: by becoming a model. Believing it would make her happy and envied, she set out single-mindedly to make it - and she achieved her dream. But the reality wasn't quite as glamorous as she'd hoped. The pressure on Charli to look a certain way took an extreme toll on her body and self-image, and no matter how thin she got, she was never thin enough.When Charli, though medically underweight, was fired by her modelling agency for being too big, she decided she'd had enough. She used her platform for good and spoke out about the insane standards of the... Views: 25
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is the first anthology to broadly collect solarpunk short stories, artwork, and poetry. A new genre for the 21st Century, solarpunk is a revolution against despair. Focusing on solutions to environmental disasters, solarpunk envisions a future of green, sustainable energy used by societies that value inclusiveness, cooperation, and personal freedom. Edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland and containing work by Kristine Ong Muslim, Daniel José Older, Nisi Shawl, A.C. Wise, and more, Sunvault focuses on the stories of those inhabiting the crucial moments when great change can be made by people with the right tools; stories of people living during tipping points, and the spaces before and after them; and stories of those who fight to effect change and seek solutions to ecological disruption. Views: 25
Published for the first time in digital, a classic spy story from the bestselling thriller writer Derek Lambert. Views: 25
Greek and Norse mythology meet in this new adventure starring Demon, the half-god Beast Keeper of Mount Olympus!Mount Olympus is preparing for the arrival of some special guests: the mighty gods from Asgard in the North. And it seems that Odin, the ruler of the Asgardians, has an important mission for Demon. Goldbristle, the gods' prized shining boar, is losing his light. Now Demon must travel north and search this cold, snowy land for anything that might cure him. The latest installment in this chapter book series by Lucy Coats blends elements of mythology, fantasy, animals, and adventure with plenty of humor and heart. Views: 25
Bianca Mattos is a young archaeologist who has never left Brazil, until she travels to Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, where she will visit her sister Brenda.
A day after arriving in Qatar, Bianca is mistakenly abducted by a leftist government group led by the king of a neighbouring country, Caliph Nahan Zayn Asi Tarif. King Nahan, known as the Dictator of Bahrain, he is a man who knows no emotions.
His ability to feel, was lost with the death of his beloved wife and daughter, in a terrorist attack orchestrated by his enemy, the ruler of Qatar.
In retaliation, he will take hostage a member of the Royal family of Qatar, but his plans do not go according to the plans.
Nahan is now the kidnapper of this sweet girl, who will shake all the structures of his kingdom and his heart. Unexpectedly he rediscovers the desire, Nahan wants Bianca as his concubine, the source of his pleasure.
And all that the Dictator of the desert wants, he gets. Views: 25
A beautiful gift edition of this cult classic of supernatural fiction.The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow.These four macabre, uncanny and unsettling stories are some of the most thrilling ever written in the field of weird fiction, and since their first publication in 1895 have become a cult classic, influencing many writers from the renowned master of cosmic horror H.P Lovecraft to the creators of HBO's True Detective. Views: 25
