What if the antidote to our loneliness isn't found in another program or platform, but in something as simple and sacred as a table?We live in an age of distraction and disconnection. Many of us scroll endlessly, perform constantly, and ache quietly for real community. We're desperate for the simple joy that comes from sitting with a friend and engaging in life-giving conversation.The Bible gives us a model. Throughout Scripture, God does some of his most t...

Ava Lee is a young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant who works for an elderly Hong Kong-based "Uncle," who may or may not have ties to the Triads. At 115 lbs., she hardly seems a threat. But her razorsharp intellect and resourcefulness allows her to succeed where traditional methods have failed.In The Water Rat of Wanchai, Ava travels across continents to track $5 million owed by a seafood company. But it's in Guyana where she meets her match: Captain Robbins, a huge hulk of a man and g...

'Ian Rankin is an all-time, solid-gold UK crime fiction great - read The Heights and find out why'LEE CHILD*****MURDER COMES TO LONDON'S MOST LUXURIOUS HIGH-RISE: AND EVERY RESIDENT IS A SUSPECT.The Heights: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde Park. Newly built from steel and smoked glass, a billionaire's playground offering sumptuous suites for the global elite.But when...

Ian Brown, award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon and the memoir Sixty, now recounts his daily reckoning with the milestone age of seventy. Fearlessly candid, often funny and relentlessly real, Brown asks the terrifying questions we all have about growing old, even when he doesn’t want to know the answers.An acclaimed journalist and chronicler of contemporary life, seventy-year-old Ian Brown is not going gently into his eighth decade. The out...

The Death of a DoveMegan has always been the quiet girl—the one who keeps her head down, looks after everyone else, and hopes not to be noticed.Then Ryan notices her.Kind, charming, and older, Ryan makes Megan feel seen in a way she never has before. As his attention grows, so does her belief that she has finally found someone who understands her. While her overworked mother struggles to hold their lives together and her best friend Leah begins to q...

"Five engrossing, resonant stories" set in Edinburgh, written for this collection by Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith, Sara Sheridan, and more ( The Herald).Edinburgh is steeped in literary history. It's the birthplace of a beloved cast of fictional characters from Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter, and the home of the Writer's Museum, where quotes from writers of the past pave the steps leading up to the entrance. The Scottish capital is a...

When the bankrupt Hudson’s Bay Company closed its last department stores in 2025, ending a centuries-old Canadian tradition, Harold Daniel Timberlake survived as a link to the firm’s fur-trading origins. By then aged 91, Timberlake had worked at Bay posts in the Canadian Arctic during the 1950s, living among the Inuit whom he revered. He learned from them igloo-making and other survival skills, and trekked with them for days over the ice. He traded the pelts they hunted and carvings they c...

This authoritative and handsomely illustrated book is aimed at the general reader who wants to know about the mysterious people who inhabited Scotland from the Bronze Age onwards. They created wonderful works of art in gold and silver and their brochs and hillforts are scattered over the Scottish landscape. Many modern-day Scots are descended from them.Using the results of modern archaeology and historical sources, Ian Armit answers the key questions about who the Celts were, where...

In The Disciple of Las Vegas, forensic accountant Ava Lee is hired by the richest man in the Philippines to recover $50 million from a Canadian land swindle. With the billionaire's reputation on the line, she follows the money from Vancouver to Las Vegas, to the Costa Rican accounts of the Moneida, a First Nations band that owns The River, a poker web site. After uncovering an illegal online gambling ring, she confronts one of the world poker greats, David "The Disciple" Douglas, and his p...

Evil lurks behind a doll’s porcelain eyes and painted smile…Fiona Garris never believed in ghosts or evil spirits. A loner by nature, all she wants to do is complete her latest freelance assignment and retreat to her city apartment. But when she suddenly inherits the sprawling estate of an uncle she barely knew, Fiona soon discovers that the supernatural is all too real…Deep within her uncle’s mansion, a vault has been hidden away from prying eyes,...

Albert may have a little snow on the roof, but there's still some fire in the furnace. His thoughts are the worst, it's like he just can't deal with it. When a couple of young hotties turn up on his doorstep, they confront him with one or two issues, including his lonely and empty life. A short story.

This omnibus gathers the James Bond adventures into a single, sweeping encounter with Cold War espionage, imperial aftershocks, and the seductive rituals of danger. Fleming's prose is brisk, sensuous, and precise, combining journalistic detail with the heightened machinery of popular romance: casinos, Caribbean hideouts, lethal gadgets, and adversaries who embody geopolitical dread. Within mid-twentieth-century thriller fiction, Bond stands at the intersection of hardboiled masculinity, wa...