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A mosaic of human connections in all their sexy and shameless shades - from breaking up to making out, quiet contentment to agonising loneliness, sexting to ghosting, friendships to 'fuckboys', pregnancy loss to profound fulfilment.

'🤌' - Maya Jama

'Utterly fascinating' - Bernardine Evaristo

'Dolly Alderton for people who don't just do missionary' - Anon

'Obsessed' - Diana Vickers

If you've ever checked your ex's social media at 2am - or their new partner's LinkedIn (because it's the only social profile you can access) - or if everyone thinks you're the perfect couple but you've been drifting apart for years - then you've probably felt a smarting of shame. But let me tell you something radical: your darkest secrets, your most repulsively shameful thoughts, feelings, and behaviours: you're not alone.

Featuring 250 tantalising, unfiltered anonymous confessions, this book slips beneath the surface of modern relationships to reveal the raw hidden truths behind their most intimate layers.

These aren't love stories - they're stories about love.

When it comes to career planning, the best time to start is now!

Have you ever wondered why so many adults dread their 9-to-5? Do you worry about spending decades in a job that doesn't inspire you? Are you hesitant to follow a career path just because others say it's "perfect for you"-when you're not even sure what "perfect" means yet?

If you're asking these questions, you're already thinking ahead-and that's a smart move.

Here's the truth: research by Gallup shows that 85% of people worldwide feel disengaged at work, and 90% of adults regret their career choices.

That's a massive wake-up call. Most people end up stuck in jobs they dislike because they never took the time to explore their options or discover their strengths and passions early enough.

This book was written to ensure that doesn't happen to you. By following its proven method of self-discovery and growth, you can join the 10% who truly love what they do-who find fulfillment, motivation, and purpose in their careers.

Here's what makes Future Ready different: there's no fluff, no lectures. This is an interactive guide designed to help you with the most important part of career planning: knowing yourself.

It's packed with strategies, exercises, and real-life case studies of teens and young adults who carved their own path and succeeded before 21. You'll learn the steps they took and the lessons they discovered-so you can do the same.

���� Inside you'll find:

● Strategies to uncover your unique interests, values, and strengths-so you never live under someone else's expectations.

● Dream jobs and unconventional career paths-with practical advice for breaking into them.

● A complete overview of education options: college, trade schools, online courses, and how to plan without drowning in debt.

● The 5 skills every employer is hiring for right now-and how to start building them today.

● Proven ways to overcome doubts, fears, and family pressure when making career decisions.

● Steps for exploring careers, tracking trends, using digital tools, and building your online identity.

● Guidance on staying flexible, adapting to change, and setting SMART goals to stay ahead in a competitive job market.

● How to gain real-world experience through internships, mentorships, and even turning hobbies into opportunities.

And much more.

Whether you're excited about the future or overwhelmed by it, Future Ready gives you clarity, direction, and confidence. With proven goal-setting methods, journaling prompts, and practical exercises, this book helps you define your strengths, uncover your passions, and create a plan that fits your vision for life.

It won't push you into one career path. Instead, it helps you discover your potential-so you can design a career you'll love so much it won't feel like work.

If you're ready to stop guessing and start building a future that excites you, scroll up and click "Add to Cart" today.

Unveil the hidden drama of heaven and earth with The Book of the Watchers, the ancient text that expands the story of Genesis 6 and reveals the mysterious angels who descended to guide-and corrupt-humanity. This accessible edition delivers a faithful translation enriched with clear historical context and insightful commentary, making complex prophecy and supernatural events easy to grasp. Whether you're a seeker of biblical truth, a student of ancient history, or simply curious about the origins of spiritual warfare, this book offers a trustworthy gateway to the forbidden knowledge that has fascinated readers for centuries.

The second book in the magical Faraway Tree seriesby one of the world's most popular children's authors, Enid Blyton.

Joe, Beth and Frannie's cousin Rick comes to stay, reluctant at first to share in their adventures at the top of the Faraway Tree. Join them and their friends Moonface, Saucepan Man and Silky the fairy as they discover which new land is at the top of the Faraway Tree. Will it be the Land of Dreams or the Land of Topsy-Turvy? Discover the magic!

First published in 1943, this edition contains the original text. Cover and inside illustrations are by Mark Beech.

Goodnight Hobbiton is a warm, whimsical parody bedtime story inspired by the unforgettable night when thirteen unexpected Dwarves arrived at a cozy home in Hobbiton. Written in the nostalgic rhythm of classic bedtime books, this playful retelling invites readers to revisit a beloved fantasy world with gentle humor and charm. Perfect for adult fans, gift-givers, and families who enjoy parody picture books, Goodnight Hobbiton celebrates the magic, mischief, and unforgettable characters of that legendary evening.
This book is a parody and has not been prepared, approved, or authorized by the creators of Goodnight Moon or The Hobbit, their heirs, or representatives. You can check out other books by Steven Giesbrecht @ mrgpublishing.com

A hilarious illustrated guide to the pickleball lifestyle, including the needlessly complex rules, the fashions, etiquette, gear, injuries, post-game snacks, and much more, for players of all ages, skill levels, and fitness ability.

The Pickleball Handbook is your ultimate guide to surviving and thriving in the world's fastest-growing obsession. Whether you're a pickleball newbie who got ambushed by an overly enthusiastic friend or a seasoned player who has more than one custom game shirt, this book is for you.

You'll learn:

• The rules, which are both overly complicated and oddly arbitrary.
• The essential (and often unnecessary) gear you need to fit in.
• The many, many types of pickleball players, including the tournament junkie and the person who is mostly here for selfies and social hour (and all the ways these players will humble you along your pickleball journey).
• The secret language of pickleball, from "dink" to "Nasty Nelson."
• How to know when you've crossed over from casual player to full-blown addict (Hint: if you own a custom paddle, it's too late).

If you want to understand the glorious absurdity of a sport that has somehow become the defining activity of a generation, then grab your paddle and let's get started. (Maybe also grab a knee brace or two, just to be safe.) Packed with full-color illustrations and helpful infographics, this humorous handbook is a perfect gift for all the picklers in your life.

After his dad's diagnosis forces the family to downsize, Max is determined to bulk up--fast. He's haunted by the middle school bullies he left behind, the friends who stopped texting, and the image of the man his father used to be. Now in high school, Max chases size, strength, and social media validation until his obsession with perfection leads him to steroids. At first, the results are everything he wanted. But when a roid rage incident spirals out of control, Max must face the damage he's done and ask: What does it really mean to be strong?

Embark on a musical journey with "Harmonica for Beginners" by Oliver Dalton, an immersive guide designed to transform complete beginners into harmonica enthusiasts. This book is not just an instruction manual; it's a comprehensive learning experience that combines interactive sheet music, engaging audio examples, and detailed narrations.

Key Features:

1. Step-by-Step Learning: Structured to guide beginners from the basics to more complex techniques, ensuring a solid foundation in harmonica playing.
2. Interactive Sheet Music: Includes innovative, easy-to-follow sheet music designed to facilitate hands-on learning.
3. Over 20 Engaging Audio Guides: Each lesson is accompanied by high-quality audio guides, making learning more engaging and effective.
4. Comprehensive Narrations: Detailed narrations accompany each lesson, providing context, tips, and tricks to enhance your learning experience.
5. Diverse Music Genres: Explore various music genres, from blues and folk to contemporary styles, expanding your musical repertoire.
6. Practical Exercises: Engage in exercises and practice routines that reinforce learning and improve skill.

"Harmonica for Beginners" is perfect for:

1. Absolute beginners with no prior experience in playing the harmonica.
2. Music enthusiasts looking for a new hobby.
3. Teachers seeking a comprehensive guide for instructing students.

Why Choose This Book:

1. Written by Oliver Dalton, a renowned harmonica instructor with years of teaching experience.
2. Unique blend of theoretical knowledge and practical application.
3. Accessible and enjoyable learning approach, suitable for all ages.

Discover the joy of playing the harmonica with "Harmonica for Beginners". Whether you're looking to play for leisure, join a band, or simply enjoy the sweet melodies of this unique instrument, this book will be your constant companion. Get your copy today and start your musical adventure!

Unlock the full power of DSM-5-TR with a reference designed for today's busy clinician.

The DSM-5-Tr Clinician's Pocket Guide streamlines diagnostic decision-making, coding accuracy, and treatment planning into bite-sized chapters you can deploy at the bedside or in the classroom. Crafted by an expert clinician-educator, this desk reference consolidates essential criteria, severity specifiers, rapid assessment flows, and crosswalks to ICD-10-CM and ICD-11-all in a modular format that adapts to your workflow.

Whether you're a psychiatrist, psychologist, nurse practitioner, social worker, or mental-health educator, you'll find everything you need to:

• Navigate DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria with clear, concise language
• Cross-reference ICD-10-CM and ICD-11 codes for seamless billing and documentation
• Apply severity specifiers and course descriptors to guide personalized treatment
• Use quick-scan tables and algorithms for differential diagnosis in real time
• Access patient-education handouts and interactive digital tools via companion platforms

Why This Desk Companion Stands Out

• Modular Design breaks down complex diagnostic chapters into independent, indexable modules for rapid lookup
• Clinical Scaffolds feature flowcharts and decision trees in every chapter to distinguish similar presentations in seconds
• Coding Crosswalks offer side-by-side ICD-10-CM and ICD-11 mappings, eliminating guesswork and reducing administrative burden
• Practical Protocols include ready-to-print patient handouts, risk-management guidelines, and evidence-based intervention checklists

Who Should Read This Book

• Mental-health clinicians seeking a faster, more accurate diagnostic workflow
• Educators building courses around DSM-5-TR content and assessments
• Residents, fellows, and trainees who need a portable, user-friendly reference
• Administrators and coders charged with compliance, billing, and quality metrics

Transform how you apply DSM-5-TR in every clinical encounter. Elevate your diagnostic confidence, accelerate your coding accuracy, and deliver patient-centered care with the DSM-5-Tr Clinician's Pocket Guide.

Add this essential clinical tool to your library today-because every minute you save diagnosing and coding is more time you can spend helping patients!

DISCLAIMER: This handbook is intended for educational and informational purposes only. It is designed to support academic study and structured diagnostic practice. It does not replace formal clinical training, professional supervision, or independent clinical judgment in real-world settings.

Modern cars are no longer defined only by pistons and gears - they are dominated by electronics, sensors, and control systems that govern performance, reliability, and safety. Advanced Engine Electronics & Diagnostics is your complete guide to understanding and mastering these systems.

Inside you'll discover:

• How modern ECUs control fueling, ignition, boost, and variable valve timing.
• The full range of sensors and actuators - from airflow and oxygen to throttle, ignition, speed, and transmission sensors.
• How to interpret OBD-II and OBD-III fault codes, freeze-frame data, and live monitoring streams.
• Advanced diagnostic strategies and predictive maintenance techniques that prevent failures before they happen.
• Real-world case studies showing step-by-step troubleshooting for misfires, turbocharger issues, CVT slip, ABS faults, and more.
• The future of automotive electronics - AI-driven predictive diagnostics, connected cars, OTA updates, and cybersecurity challenges.

Whether you are a professional mechanic, tuner, engineering student, or passionate enthusiast, this book gives you the tools to navigate the electronic heart of today's vehicles with clarity and confidence.

About the Author:
Dr. Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman is a mechanical engineer with advanced degrees in industrial and systems engineering, a tuner since 1998, and an autocross racing participant in Egypt. He has tuned five of his own cars and shares his passion for performance and reliability on his CarTuningLovers YouTube channel.

Everyone has something to recover from.

A Vision of Hope: A Story of Redemption and Purpose is part memoir, part mirror-a deeply personal story that begins in the darkest places and rises into a message of resilience, faith, and possibility. Written behind bars and finished just minutes before release, Andrew Drasen's memoir is a raw and unflinching account of addiction, incarceration, and self-destruction-but it is also a record of the quiet, spiritual war that played out inside him along the way.

This is not just a book about prison, or recovery, or even personal redemption. It is a story about what it means to lose everything, confront the deepest truths of identity and shame, and begin the slow process of rebuilding a life when the world has written you off. From chow times and lockdowns to the silence of solitary nights, Drasen captures the painful honesty of those moments when a person wonders if they have already gone too far, and whether change is still possible.

Through confessions, lessons, warnings, and prayers, he documents the thoughts that haunted him: questions about who he was, whether forgiveness was real, and what purpose might look like after so much damage had been done. Woven through the narrative is the constant tension between despair and hope, between the belief that he was beyond saving and the quiet whisper that there might still be a way forward.

At its heart, A Vision of Hope is for anyone who has ever felt trapped by their past or wondered if it was too late to change. It speaks to people facing addiction, those navigating reentry after incarceration, families impacted by loss, and anyone who feels like they can't find the strength to keep going. It is a reminder that transformation is not only possible, but urgent-and that as long as there is air in your lungs, there is still hope.

But this book is more than one man's story. It is also a resource for communities. The memoir is designed to pair seamlessly with its companion volumes-A Vision of Hope: Reflections and A Vision of Hope: Workbook-to provide a complete 90-day curriculum for treatment centers, recovery programs, reentry initiatives, and educational settings. Together, these resources create a framework for personal reflection, group discussion, journaling, and capstone projects that challenge participants to envision a healthier future and take tangible steps toward it.

For libraries, universities, and professionals working in criminal justice reform, addiction counseling, or social work, A Vision of Hope offers both an authentic first-person perspective and a structured pathway to curriculum adoption. It speaks with equal force to the general reader who wants an inspiring true story of transformation, and to the institutional buyer searching for a text that can function as a recovery curriculum, reentry guide, or counseling resource.

Blending memoir, self-help, and social commentary, Drasen's work joins the tradition of recovery narratives that do more than recount the past-they open a door for others to walk through. This book is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, the reality of forgiveness, and the power of purpose discovered in the unlikeliest of places.

For readers of memoirs like A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, or The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, A Vision of Hope offers a unique perspective that bridges personal redemption with systemic awareness. It speaks equally to those seeking inspiration in their own recovery journey and to professionals searching for tools that can be integrated into counseling programs, adult education, treatment centers, and university classrooms.

Get a free eBook (PDF or ePub) from Manning as well as access to the online liveBook format (and its AI assistant that will answer your questions in any language) when you purchase the print book.

AI-powered applications are rapidly becoming the new normal. Personal productivity assistants, coding agents, smarter search, and automated reporting tools are popping up everywhere. The LangChain ecosystem, and standards like MCP are driving this new gold rush. This book helps you claim your spot.

This is your hands-on guide to creating real, production-ready language model solutions. With LangChain and LangGraph, you'll orchestrate powerful agentic workflows and build dynamic tool-based agents that can search, summarize, reason, and act. You'll move from essential prompt engineering to advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and finally to deploying multi-agent systems using modern integration standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

In AI Agents and Applications: With LangChain, LangGraph and MCP, you'll discover:

- Prompt and context engineering for accurate, hallucination-resistant systems
- Advanced RAG for summarization, semantic search, and reliable Q&A
- Structured, multi-step agentic workflows with LangGraph
- Tool-based agents that adapt in real time
- Multi-agent systems for complex, real-world tasks
- MCP integration to expose, compose, and consume plug-and-play tools

About the technology

This book teaches you to design reliable LLM-powered systems by focusing on the concepts, architectures, and design patterns that will stay stable even as models and APIs change. You'll learn to structure prompts, compose modular chains, and build RAG pipelines that ingest documents, split them into chunks, embed them, retrieve the right context, and ground answers to elliminate (or vastly reduce) hallucinations.

About the book

Along the way you'll build concrete applications--summarization and Q&A engines, context-aware chatbots with memory, and tool-using AI agents that orchestrate multi-step workflows with branching logic. For the examples, the book uses Python, LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith, but you'll be able to generalize to other frameworks. You'll understand with clarity and confidence how to keep integrations maintainable, manage context limits and cost/latency tradeoffs, and evaluate, debug, and monitor behavior so your systems work in production.

About the author

Roberto Infante is an AI innovator with deep FinTech experience, working for a London-based hedge fund. He specializes in building agentic systems for both plain vanilla and exotic quantitative analysis.

Table of Contents

Part 1
1 Introduction to AI agents and applications
2 Executing prompts programmatically
Part 2
3 Summarizing text using LangChain
4 Building a research summarization engine
5 Agentic workflows with LangGraph
Part 3
6 RAG fundamentals with ChromaDB
7 Q&A chatbots with LangChain and LangSmith
Part 4
8 Advanced indexing
9 Question transformations
10 Query generation, routing, and retrieval postprocessing
Part 5
11 Building tool-based agents with LangGraph
12 Multi-agent systems
13 Building and consuming MCP servers
14 Productionizing AI agents: Memory, guardrails, and beyond
Appendixes
A: Trying out LangChain
B: Setting up a Jupyter Notebook environment
C: Choosing an LLM
D: Installing SQLite on Windows
E: Open source LLMs

Color By Number Coloring Book of Amazing Designs!

• This 101 Color By Number Coloring Book is great for adults, and seniors who love to color easy illustrations for stress relief and relaxation. Spend hours of fun coloring beautiful illustrations of animals, landscapes, nature scenes, flowers, birds and more.

Each beautiful Color By Numbers picture is printed on its own Large Print 8.5 x 11 inch page, with a color guide on the opposite side. Make one of the best decisions this year and get your copy of this fantastic 101 Color By Number Coloring

This sweet companion to David Ezra Stein's award-winning Leaves celebrates the joy of savoring something you love.

Bear is ravenous when he wakes up from his winter sleep and has one thing on his mind: honey! Alas, it is too soon for honey, so Bear tries hard to be patient. The world around him is waking up, too, and he soon remembers all the other things he loves, like warm grass, berries, and rain. He's almost content, until, one day, he hears a welcome buzzing sound . . . and finally it is time for Bear to delight in the thing he relishes above all others--and it is as warm, golden, sweet, and good as he remembered.

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From bestselling author Talia Hibbert comes a story of wicked royals, fake engagements, and the fed-up office worker trapped in the midst of it all.

Cherry Neita is thirty, flirty, and done with men. As far as she can tell, they're overrated, overpaid, and underperforming--in every area of life. But a girl has needs, and the smoking-hot stranger she just met at the office seems like the perfect one-night stand...

Prince Ruben of Helgmøre is reckless, dominant, and famously filthy. The outcast royal is rebuilding his reputation--all for a good cause--but he can't resist a pretty face. And bossy whirlwind Cherry's got the face, the body, and the attitude to make Ruben's convictions crumble. Even better, when she propositions him, she has no idea who he really is.

But when paparazzi catch the pair, erm, kissing in an alleyway, Ruben's anonymity disappears faster than Cherry's knickers. Now the press is in uproar, the palace is outraged, and Ruben's reputation is back in the gutter. There's only one way to turn this disaster around--and it involves Cherry, some big fat lies, and a flashy diamond ring. On her left hand.

Unfortunately, Cherry isn't pleased with Ruben's "fake engagement" scheme...and neither is the king.