New Achievement! Total, Utter Failure. You failed a quest less than five minutes after you received it. Now that’s talent. A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. It was supposed to be easy. One bubble. Four castles. Fifteen days. Capture each one, and the stairwell is unlocked. Here's the thing. It's never easy. Carl and his team can't go it alone. Not this time. They must rely on the help of the low-level, I-can't-believe-these-idiots-are-still-alive crawlers trapped in the bubble with them. But can they be trusted? Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the fifth floor of the dungeon.

A loving but humorous homage to the genres of romantasy and fantasy, The Heart of Faerie is a portal adventure for anyone who has ever wanted to get swept away in their favorite book, and for those who realize that maybe such a thing wouldn't work out quite so well in reality as it does for their favorite main character. It is coming of age story both for the 19 year old Vivi and also her 40 year old mother Jenn - because sometimes being 40 feels like just as much a moment to find and reinvent yourself as being 19 does. This book, meant for adults 18+, is the first of an already written, but not yet released trilogy which includes a HEA for all main characters by the end of the trilogy and wraps up at least one HEA for each individual book.The realm of Faerie has been slowly breaking apart under a curse for the last thousand years. It's a curse that only the chosen one of a prophecy can heal (isn't that always the way?), so playboy fae prince Alastair and his oldest friend, the stoic fae warrior Killian, go to the human realm to "retrieve" the Chosen One. In doing so they kidnap Vivi Rider, their last resort to save their world. Luckily for them, while Vivi may only be nineteen and a freshman in college, she is eagerly prepared to save Faerie. In fact, she's pretty sure she could also tame a dragon and help perform a coup, should the need arise. She has, after all, read every romantasy book she could ever get her hands on and is positive that she knows exactly what to expect.The only problem is that Vivi isn't the Chosen One. Her forty year old mother Jenn is actually the Chosen One and the fae men grabbed the wrong woman. Now instead of leading the charge to saving the world or being seduced by a handsome fae love interest, Vivi has to wrestle with the fact that her mother, with whom she already has a tense relationship, is actually the Main Character instead of her, that this isn't the first time Jenn's been to the realm of Faerie, and that maybe Vivi's books have gotten just a few things wrong.Meanwhile Jenn must contend with a return to the land that she equal part loves and hates, a prophecy that she was never able to fulfill, and two men with whom she has some very long unresolved issues. Unlike last time, she also has a lifetime of baggage to drag with her along with her daughter Vivi, who keeps talking about things like Only One Bed, and Sharing a Horse while Jenn just wants to finally save the world and get this over with.

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren't found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women​, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.

Een dakloze, borstvoedende moeder die niet terechtkan in de opvang, een patiënt die bijna overlijdt aan een makkelijk te verhelpen aandoening, en een man met hartfalen die van ziekenhuis naar ziekenhuis wordt gestuurd: straatarts Michelle van Tongerloo komt dit regelmatig tegen. De schrijnende gevallen op haar spreekuur zijn een spiegel van een land waarin bestaanszekerheid steeds minder vanzelfsprekend is. Werkenden kunnen geen woning vinden, patiënten verdwalen in een woud aan instanties en arbeidsmigranten krijgen niet de hulp waar ze recht op hebben. Zorg is een verdienmodel geworden, is Michelles confronterende diagnose, en het helpen van mensen is steeds ingewikkelder. Maar Michelle weet het medicijn.

Two strangers meet in Manhattan and spend a perfect night together. In Tokyo, they have seven days to see if that one night might mean something more. Landon’s living alone in Tokyo as a British ‘expat’, Louie’s visiting while he anxiously waits for approval on his US visa. Against the backdrop of a misty Tokyo Spring, their precious time together is spent wandering into side streets and coffee shops, sharing unmade beds and plates of food. But as the days tick by, Louie’s expectations start to overtake reality and he falls too deeply for a life that’s not yet his. Breathtakingly tender, Seven Days in Tokyo is an astonishing debut about the intricacies of desire and a search for belonging. It is a lyrical, immersive portrait of how some things, however beautiful and profound, are destined to be as short-lived as the cherry blossoms.