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One Day meets Up: The House That Made Us is a love story - and a life story - told through a series of photographs and based on a true story When Mac and Marie marry and find a home of their own, Mac takes a snap of themselves outside their newbuild bungalow,...
Under the Whispering Door is a contemporary fantasy with TJ Klune's signature "quirk and charm" ( PW ) about a ghost who refuses to cross over and the ferryman he falls in love with When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace...
The true threat has finally been revealed. An ancient order of heretics known as the Shadebinders has been revived, and their dark influence has spread beyond the borders of Kaldan. In the aftermath of their mission to the festering depths of Shadowmine, Lux...
The story of an English princess, a Danish king, and a wall. Before she became a legend she was just known as Thyra, the unimportant daughter of the English king. She was no fool and knew what her future held for her: marriage or a nunnery. Neither option...
Human, or elf? A normal person, or an elven heiress? Aella thinks she's leading a normal life in LA, making ends meet as a waitress. Until she finds something she wasn't meant to; A dragon's egg. Now on the run from secret government agents and protecting the...
Trust is made to be broken. After returning from a successful mission to stop the Attetsian uprising, Lux and Lia find themselves under threat once again, this time at the hands of their newest ally. With the full force of King Virram's Trinity Guard set...
Welcome to Pepper Bay. A small close-knit community where you'll find chocolate box cottages, quaint shops, love, drama, and a happily ever after. Anna Cooper and Jake Reynolds both live at a luxury London building. The only difference is that Jake lives in...
All of the stories you've heard are wrong. They always tell you that starting a new life in a fantasy world is an amazing experience, full of magic, adventure, and true love ... but they never tell you what happens when it's over. They don't tell you that it...
People always seem to talk about fate like a benevolent, guiding force that one can put their trust in. Those people clearly haven't been dragged through multiple lives without a choice. Fate is the reason Lux finds himself in the back of a prisoner wagon,...
The resourceful and intrepid Rosalind Thorne, a heroine after Jane Austen's heart, returns to solve another mystery within Regency-era high society in the latest novel in Darcie Wilde's nationally bestselling historical series. Ideal for fans of Amanda Quick,...
The spiritual successor to KPIs (key performance indicators), OKRs, or objectives and key results, are rapidly gaining popularity and helping some of the world's most successful businesses solve their strategic execution problems. However, some companies...
From the author of the bestselling Mill Grange series ... It has always been Maddie Willand's dream to take over her father's plant nursery. But after his sudden death, she is devastated to discover that she might lose The Potting Shed forever. Maddie's bossy...
It is hard to imagine that the busy townscape of South London was once a great wood, stretching almost seven miles from Croydon to Deptford or that, scattered through the suburbs, from Dulwich to Norwood, a number of oak woodlands have survived since before...
Escape to the sun-drenched island of Corfu this summer with this gorgeously uplifting romantic comedy, the first in a brand-new series from the author of The Cornish Confetti Agency and Villa Limoncello. Welcome to the Hummingbird Hotel! When...
Life has taught me that I can't trust anyone. Not friends, not family. In the worst, darkest moments, no one can be counted on to have your back. Even a billion miles away from Earth, on a remote icy planet, I still feel alone. The only consolation? I haven't...
Spell in haste, repent at leisure ... Middle-aged witch Quinn Callahan agrees to hold a book launch for the bestselling but recently dead author Bartholomew Branson. It's a small favor for the new vampire. Unfortunately, things get out of hand when the author...
Imbued with longing, erudition and hard-earned wisdom, Heartbroken dares to delve into a universal ordeal--perhaps the one that makes us the most human of all. When Laura Pratt's long-distance partner of six years tells her "it's over" at a busy downtown train...
Witness the fate of beloved heroes and notorious foes in the heart-stopping conclusion to V.E. Schwab's New York Times bestselling Shades of Magic trilogy. The precarious equilibrium among the four Londons has reached its breaking point. Once brimming with the...
A time-traveling woolly mammoth finds refuge and rescue at the unlikely hands of a possum and his community of woodland friends in this humorous middle grade for fans of The Secret Lake and The Wild Robot. Features charming black-and-white interior...
A young woman's carefully constructed fantasy world implodes in this brilliantly conceived novel that blurs distinctions between right and wrong, comedy and tragedy, imagination and reality: "Surreal . . . leaves you with the creeping certainty that there is a...
Real or imaginary, geekdom is where it's at in this multi-genre YA anthology that celebrates "the geek," with stories by some of today's top bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors. Contributors include Amerie, Kalynn Bayron, Terry J. Benton-Walker,...
"Wow! This book kept me on the edge of my seat and every time I thought I knew what was going to happen there was another fabulous twist. I loved it.' Reader review 'Well! I HORSED through The Nurse, pure HORSED! Tense, pacey, unpudownable."--MARIAN KEYES...
Dissociation 101: The go-to guide for understanding your dissociative disorder, breaking the stigma, and healing from trauma-related dissociation. Guided by psychologist Jamie Marich--a trauma-informed clinician living with a dissociative disorder...
MONEY & LOVE: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life's Biggest Decisions is a guide for navigating life's most consequential and daunting decisions using research-based insights road-tested in a popular Stanford University course.Should I move in with this person?...
From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural communes to academic philosophy departments, a seemingly inconceivable idea is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity's reign on earth is imminent, and that we should welcome it. Anthropocene antihumanism...
An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgroundsIn this emotionally powerful and intellectually provocative blend of memoir, cultural...
From the bestselling author of the The House of God comes an ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death ... Settled into a relationship with an Italian yoga...
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to another utterly irresistible branch on her beloved Cynster family tree ... Never settle for less than magic.the only thing more troublesome than a Cynster man ... is a Cynster lady who believes...
Be thrilled by this classic romantic suspense! Reformed cat burglar Clea Rice has witnessed enough crime to put her on the straight and narrow. But little does she suspect that her search for justice will land her in the arms of a wealthy English gentleman. As...
Innocent young women, a sadistic serial killing duo and ... the true story as revealed by the lead detective. Australia's most prolific serial sexual killers met in prison. They were a complete contrast: Christopher Worrell, the charismatic psychopathic...
There were a lot of things you could call Stacey Evans. And many of them would be true. And unprintable. But did she deserve to be murdered? DI Winter Meadows has no doubt of the answer when he takes on the case. The crime was violent. The victim helpless. But...
Novak and Mitchell are close to exposing a Russian spy in Congress. But a ruthless assassin and a deep-state organization will do anything to stop them. In Washington, D.C., Russian reporter Andrei Rublov has uncovered the biggest story of his career: a US...
Ninth-century Norway, the dawn of the Viking era-a land shattered into thirty warring kingdoms. A woman could seize power, if she was bold enough. Daughter of a Norse king, fifteen-year-old Åsa dreams of becoming a shield-maiden. When she spurns a powerful...
When secrets come to light. On the run and looking for the invisible, Aella and her dragon are fugitives once more. With nothing but a glowing orb to guide them and the few friends they have left in the world, they embark on the road trip of a lifetime. But is...
Land. Power. Influence. Mary O'Malley knows these are the only things that matter in her war-torn country. Determined to win back her ancestral home, she must embark on a journey across the Atlantic disguised as a cabin boy. But her ruse brings her under the...
It's not over. Despite revealing the existence of the mythicals to the world, Aella is still hunted by the agency and Jacobs. The Sanctuary isn't fairing much better either. With almost as many problems and the media scrutiny on top of it, Aella has to decide...
"We were a doomed race. With our bloodstained hands we conquered, we loved and we fell." Thessaloniki lived in a time when Alexander the Great was racing across the known world conquering all in his path. She was his half-sister living the privileged life of a...
All things come to an end. Hiding in the shadows works for Aella and her dragon for a while, but dragons grow. With the world still in the dark about the existence of anything mythical, Aella must try and keep out of sight. But she's living in one of the...
From the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Ilona Andrews, comes a fun and action-packed new adventure in the Innkeeper Chronicles! We invite you to relax, enjoy yourself, and above all, remember the one rule all visitors must obey: the humans must never...
An intimate, candid memoir about a lifelong struggle to speak."Soulful...Profoundly moving."--Esquire"Life On Delay brims with empathy and honesty ... It moved me in ways that I haven't experienced before. It's fantastic."--Clint Smith, author of How the Word...
Christopher finally uncovers the Raven's identity in this sixth novel of the award-winning Blackthorn Key series. The stakes are higher than ever when the Raven sets Christopher up for a horrible crime, leading him to be locked away in London's most notorious...
Tanita S. Davis, author of Partly Cloudy and Serena Says, has written another funny, warm story featuring middle school and family life--all about the complex calculations it takes for everyone to balance the equations of their lives and what it takes to be...
Kapoor, a brilliant scientist with relentless business instincts, was eager to make the most of his innovation. But there was a problem: the drug was a niche product, approved only for cancer patients in dire condition. So he recruited an avaricious team, who...
Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they...
On 17th November, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. A vicious storm killed his engine and the current dragged his boat out to sea. The storm picked up and carried him West, deeper into the heart of the Pacific Ocean....
The heartbreaking, inspiring true story of a girl sent to Auschwitz who survived Mengele's evil experiments. With a foreword written by His Holiness Pope Francis. Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother,...
Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces. Former spy Professor Tom Wilde is enjoying peacetime in Cambridge, settling back into teaching and family life. Until a call from...
Zara has always felt a little ordinary next to her spirited best friend Ivy. Even her dreams seem mundane: a boyfriend, marriage, children... Besides, who would pick her when they could choose Ivy? So when Zara meets Henry and there's an instant spark, she...
My name is Nora Logue. You've probably heard of me - most people have. I am the mother of Daisy Logue. Seven years ago, I took her for a walk in the woods. Only I came out. I have no memory of what happened that day. I have tried to rebuild my life. Met a man,...
I feel like when you get a divorce everyone's wondering how you ruined it all, what made you so unbearable to be with. If your husband dies, at least people feel bad for you. Maggie's marriage has ended just 608 days after it started, but she's fine - she's...
Can you find love where you least expect it? Stella Shakespeare isn't having a good day - or month, come to think of it. She's been unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend, cut off from the bank of dad and, at 32 years old, she doesn't know what she's doing...
Her dream job just became her worst nightmare ... My name is Rose, and I work for one of the country's biggest newspapers. I was the Day Editor. Will Frost was the Night Editor. When I got to the office, Will had already left. When I left, Will arrived. We...
You are not welcome here, godkiller. Kissen's family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enjoys it. That is, until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, has somehow bound himself to a young...
As the bombs fall, the race to save her son begins. Liverpool, 1940. Journalist Ruth Holt is struggling in the terror of the Blitz when her young son is suddenly snatched away in broad daylight. Soon after, the kidnappers' demands arrive. They are working with...
The dynamics are simple in the Wolf family. They eat you if you let them. Joe Wolf has raised his children to have the same cut-throat mentality that built his own California business empire: kill or be killed. When Joe's body is discovered adrift in the San...
'One of the most exciting original thriller writers' Simon Kernick What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey? Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society's ills - the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively...
An introduction to the most enduring ideas on management from Harvard Business Review Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. These are the ten seminal articles by management's most...
At long last, a final reckoning is coming for Frieda Klein ... In a north London high street, a runaway vehicle crashes to a halt. The man in the driving seat was murdered a week earlier. On Hampstead Heath, a bonfire blazes: in the flames lies the next...
Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds. If you read (or listen) to nothing else on building better teams, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important...
"The story of two Indian women, one a victim of a brutal crime and the other an Americanized journalist returning to India to cover the story, and the courage they inspire in each other"--
The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spookyCrater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps "Deliciously scary and hilarious comedy-horror, perfectly pitched for eight-plus." The Guardian "Jennifer Killick's talent for...
This self growth focused motivational book teaches you how to find yourself. Target harmful patterns. Surrounded by the pressures of society, we often measure ourselves by impossible standards, causing us to doubt ourselves. When this causes negative...
Psychology underpins everything we do, determining the decisions we make, the relationships we build, the roles we play and the places we live, and our behaviour is further influenced by the changing seasons, encouraging many of us to fall into unhelpful...
A story about education and teachers that takes place in an elementary school classroom.
It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her - and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it. 1902. Romaine Brooks sails for...
Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for...
Can we promise future generations a life free of sexual violence, in which their sexual wellbeing will be protected? Is this a promise we can keep? As a sexual offences prosecutor, Katrina Marson works for an institution that can only respond, one case at a...
Contrary to popular assumption, Arab women were instrumental in shaping world history. Between Rome's intervention in the Arabian Peninsula and the Arab conquests, noblewomen ruled independently, conducting trade and making war. Their power was often...
Biography of Jack Spot, king of the 1950s London underworld who inspired both the Krays and the Richardsons. One time king of the underworld, Jack Spot was known as one of the most powerful criminals in Britain - amassing incredible wealth, and being...
A pulse-pounding and gripping crime thriller, for fans of B A Paris and Fiona Barton ___________ WHERE IS?STEF?CAMPBELL? AND WHO CAN BE TRUSTED TO BRING HER HOME?? Paramedic Andy Campbell has a secret he can't tell anyone, not least the police. But when his...
An exhilarating spy thriller inspired by a true story about the precious secrets up for grabs just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On a chilly early morning walk in Berlin, Emil Grimm finds the body of his neighbor, a fellow Stasi officer named Lothar, with...
How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts;...
In an era of deregulation when consumers have never been more vulnerable to corporate surveillance, unsafe food, and dangerously faulty products, the president and CEO of Consumer Reports gives us a playbook to put the power back in our hands. You've been...
He only had to do one thing. Love her family ... Matt Walker was a chancer; he'd spent his entire profession chasing the next job. His personal life took on a similar mantra; a succession of one-night stands and brief relationships. Life was slowly drifting...
Based on a true story For decades the Texas plains ran with the blood of natives and settlers, as pioneers carved out ranch land from ancient Indian hunting grounds and the U.S. Army turned the tide of battle. Now the Civil War has begun, and the Army is...
Erica Cantelli has found her Mr. Right. Hasn't she...? After a long overdue divorce, Erica has finally made it to Italy with her two children and, amazingly, her now dreamy fiancé Julian Foxham. The plan was to start fresh and for Erica to run a country B&B,...
The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of Crater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps. There's a new craze at Dread Wood High. Flinch is a game of fear. The more you scare your friends, the more points on the app you get. At...
"This book will give you the tools to take the reins and steer your brain towards your goals. Informed by neuroscience and psychology, Braintenance aims to explain the inner workings of your brain to enable you to get your master controller onside when...
Kate on the case: "Young reporter-in-training Kate and her mouse-accomplice Rupert are on board a train, to visit Kate's mum in the Arctic. But as soon as the train departs, mysterious things start happening. A packet of ginger nuts goes missing... A...
Following a tragedy, Zoe flees Australia and makes a life for herself in the UK. Two years later, working as a care nurse in Bath and knowing just how much comfort last words can bring, Zoe has taken it upon herself to become a notekeeper - writing down the...
Amy Perry is ambitious and proudly unromantic, perfectly happy to be more passionate about her publishing career than the wealthy, good looking boyfriend she works with. That's until he proposes, at 1,000 feet, in a hot air balloon. To Amy's horror. In the...
In this sequel to The Mistress of Auschwitz, the story continues with Eleonore as she struggles to cope with the impact of her harrowing detainment at the notorious concentration camp. Although she has been liberated by the Allies, she is not yet free from the...
I like my women like I like my whiskey: embroiled in a magical war. Ten years ago I fought for the Witch Queen of London in a mystical showdown against a King Arthur wannabe with a shaved head and a shotgun. Back then, the law did for him before he could do...
One Master survived the inferno that destroyed the Order of the Illuminati. He may know that I survived, but does he suspect that I betrayed the Order? Rudolf Heine has sent Hunters flooding into Westport, wreaking carnage on vampires, shifters, and mages....
A woman moves to a town where she becomes obsessed with watching the lives of her neighbors while stuck in a house that refuses to let her leave in this first ever short story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. Is there...
In this final chapter to The Mistress of Auschwitz, Eleonore struggles with the consequences of her actions at Mrs. Meyers's manor. While in a foreign land, Eleonore begins to hope for what she thought had been lost forever. She begins to find healing through...
Buttoned-up lawyer meets down-and-dirty biker ... What could possibly go wrong? Ember I've had enough trouble with men to last me a lifetime. All I want is to live my life, build my law practice, and focus on my career. Then everything changes when I'm hired...
"People come as well as go. Twelve years ago, Edwin Tully came to Oxford and fell in love with a boy named Marius. He was brilliant. An artist. It was going to be forever. Two years ago, it ended. Now Edwin lives alone in the house they used to share. He tends...
Sometimes life comes at you like a freight train. One moment, my only priorities are my bike, my club, and my freedom. The next, my ex dumps a little girl off on my doorstep with a note saying she's mine. Then, everything goes to hell in the MC, when an...
I like my women like I like my whiskey: liable to kill me. The two parts of being a paranormal private investigator I could really do without are being forced to eat bananas by an animated statue with a potassium fixation, and being put on trial for murder by...
Just when DI Tom Mariner seems to be settling down with his new girlfriend ... everything kicks off. First, a badly decomposed body of a young woman is found in a Birmingham sewer. The police can't identify her and dub her "Madeleine." Then an important...
What is our species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of our past achievements and those we still aspire to is language. Language is the ultimate invention of Homo sapiens--one that has...
From the author of Boyfriend Material and Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake comes a cozy mystery that revisits the Golden Age of detective fiction, starring a heroine who's more podcaster than private eye and topped with a lethal dose of parody--perfect for fans...
Quinten Aspinall is determined to fulfill a promise he made to his deceased father to keep his family together. To do so, he must travel to Canada to find his younger siblings, who were sent there as indentured workers while Quinn was away at war. He's also...
As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only survivors. Guided by their beloved young mistress, Lady Anne, they wait,...
Debbie Ford explains that the dark side of our personality should not be hidden. By denying our dark side, we reject these aspects of our true natures rather than giving ourselves the freedom to live authentically. Here she shows that it is possible to...
Based on the harrowing life of Eleonore Hodys, The Mistress of Auschwitz follows the true story of a political prisoner detained in the notorious concentration camp. While experiencing all the horrors of the holocaust, Eleonore turns to friendship for...
Two teenagers go missing on the same day. Just a coincidence? They are from very different backgrounds: Yasmin is the talented, grammar-school-educated daughter of devout Muslim professionals. Ricky disappears after storming out of his council house after an...
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