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Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat...but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the blue curtain at Christmastime. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck, at the most wonderful time of the year.

London takes us back to the Pleistocene when we still lived in the trees. Written in the first-person, the story revolves around the vivid, interlocking dreams from childhood that involve racial memories and the knowledge of his prior existence as a man-like creature named Big Tooth.

At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly 2000 pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Five years later, Random House published Juneteenth, drawn from the central narrative of Ellison’s unfinished epic. Three Days Before the Shooting... gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published.

"Do Adama" (angl. Before Adam) — povest' amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona. Vpervye opublikovana v zhurnale Everybody's Magazine v techenie 1906—1907 godov. Sjuzhet povesti osnovan na sushhestvovavshem v to vremja predstavlenii ob jevoljucii cheloveka. Al'ter-jego glavnogo geroja — podrostok plemeni peshhernyh ljudej. V proizvedenii takzhe prisutstvujut bolee razvitoe plemja ljudej ognja i menee razvitoe plemja drevesnyh ljudej, sablezubye koshki i Krasnoglazyj — zhestokij «atavizm», terrorizirujushhij plemja geroja.

Before Adam is a mixture of sound science and sci-fi speculation. It is based around Darwin's theory of evolution and the idea of racial memory. The main character lives in the current world but has dreams and nightmares that he relives the pre-stone age life of one of his proto-human ancestors. Those who are scientifically inclined may enjoy this novel more than fans of "standard" science fiction such as Edgar Rice Burroughs. (Summary by Tom Weiss)

Can you define your life by a single song? Adam Sharp - former pianist in a hip Melbourne bar, now a respectable IT consultant in Norwich - can. And it's 'You're Going to Lose That Girl'.... On the cusp of 50 and a happy introvert, Adam is content. He's the music expert at his local pub quiz, and he and his partner, Claire, rumble along. Life may not be rock n' roll, but neither is it easy listening. Yet something has always felt off-key.

What would have happened if the Animorphs had never existed? If Jake and the others had taken the long way home from the mall that night, instead of cutting through the abandoned construction site? If they'd never met Elfangor. Never rescued Ax. Never heard of the Yeerks.... Jake's finally weakened. After one particularly grisly battle, the Drode hits him when he's down and offers the Animorphs' leader an escape from the terrifying pressure. He'll take Jake back to the mall and reverse the decision that started the Animorphs. It's an offer Jake's too tired to refuse.

Holistic health coach and recovery expert Joe Baldizzone knows first-hand what it's like to live with depression and how to recover from debilitating panic, as well as addiction. In this book you will find simple strategies to help you get started on your own path to recovery. Do you feel anxious most of the time? Are you overwhelmed with persistent worries? Is depression keeping you in the house? Have you reached for drugs and alcohol to cope? Are you considering going to see a psychiatrist, but scared of being put on medication?

BEFORE THE BREAK is a podcast for actors by actors, and everyone really. Each week, Tom Downing and Adam DeCarlo will sit down with a working actor to discuss the ups, the downs, the trials, and tribulations of the journey that led them to their big break. Guests will include names you're sure to recognize, as well as up and coming actors from various facets of the performing arts.

This audiobook presentation on the biblical "Genesis Gap" study, also referred to as "The PreAdamic Creation", is presented in terms that can be understood by theologians and laypersons alike. It is a highly intriguing Bible subject - one of the most interesting contained within The Holy Scriptures. Why is the study important? Because it lends greatly to an understanding of what the evil spirits called "devils" are (the tempters of mankind) and where they came from.

Evil became miracles. I just had to not give up - and not quit - before the miracles manifested. Abuse, rape, family suicide, and drug abuse and alcoholism: Every one of them could’ve done in Jeannie Lynch. But they didn’t. Somehow, some way, God took every hurtful event, every horror, and turned them around. He didn’t create them. But he made each one of them stories and lessons that could be used for her good - so that he could use her to bring others to a place of freedom.

Povest' populyarnogo amerikanskogo pisatelya Dzheka Londona "Do Adama" predstavlyaet soboy original'nye vospominaniya sovremennogo cheloveka o svoem doistoricheskom proshlom, kogda on nahodilsya na stadii perekhoda ot obez'yany k cheloveku. ZHizn' ehtogo strannogo dikogo sushchestva pokazana stol' potryasayushche yarko i hudozhestvenno dostoverno, chto ona ne mozhet ne vyzvat' interesa u ego dalekih potomkov.

My one night stand? He’s sitting behind the headmaster’s desk. We met at a truck stop. The chemistry was immediate, and we both do something out of character: one night, no explanations. The next day, I arrive at my new private school. Now I’m the off-limits forbidden temptation Sebastian Craig can’t forget, and we both try our best to behave. It works for a few weeks… until our secret cravings come tumbling out in the library after hours. How will we keep our private connection hidden until the end of the term?

Couples have to liѕtеn and communicate еmоtiоnаllу tо each оthеr. Yоur interpretation оf уоur раrtnеr'ѕ actions mау bе wrоng, ѕо ask for сlаrifiсаtiоn. Thiѕ iѕ a rеаllу intеrеѕting audiobook full of practical information to hеlр the twо оf you gеt bасk tо being "bеѕt friеndѕ". It is very muсh worth the listen.