Galien de Coudre, scholarly third son in a family of minor nobility, comes of age in the perilous world of late 11th century France, where powerful noblemen massacre the other and innocents in unending petty warfare over lands and silver, despite the efforts of the Church to control their violence.Galien, educated for the priesthood, trained at arms and horse by his father and older brothers, all knights, finds his once-certain future as a high Church official compromised by family...

Have you ever been locked in a cooler with piles of decomposing humans for so long that you had to shave all the hair off your body in order to get rid of the smell? Joseph Scott Morgan did. Have you ever lit a Marlboro from the ignited gas of a bloated dead man's belly? Joseph Scott Morgan has. Have you ever wept over a dead dog while not giving a shit about the dead owner laying next him? Morgan did. Were you named after a murder victim? Joseph Scott Morgan was.This isn't Hollywo...

Meet Charlie One November, a lovable little airplane who dreams of soaring high but is terrified of the sky. Thunder makes him tremble. Flying feels impossible. While other airplanes race into the clouds, Charlie stays behind-rolling slowly on the runway, wishing he were braver.Then one unforgettable day, Charlie meets Bird, a wise and unexpected friend who teaches him a life-changing lesson:Believe in yourself.With bright illustrations, fun rhymes, and a powerful m...

Most capable leaders don't stall because they lack talent, discipline, or ambition.They stall because the environments they're in no longer force better thinking.ASCENT is about the invisible gap that forms between what you're capable of and the progress you're actually making, and why that gap has far less to do with effort than with the rooms you operate in.This book is not about motivation, productivity, or tactics. It's about how environments sh...

Chaos Reborn - The Audio AdventuresChaos Reborn - The Audio Adventures is the exciting new videogame adaptation from the producers of Elite: Escape Velocity. Featuring Andy Secombe (Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace) and Samantha Béart (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) and based on Julian Gollop's game of Wizard battles.Episode One - A Unicorn MurderThe wizard, Dagan, is continually defeated in his attempts to rid the realm of a cruel master. Broke and desperat...

American Indian business is booming. The number of American Indian– and Alaska Native–owned businesses increased by 15.3 percent from 2007 to 2012—a time when the total number of US businesses increased by just 2 percent—and receipts grew from $34.4 million in 2002 to $8.8 billion in 2012. Despite this impressive growth, there is an absence of small businesses on reservations, and Native Americans own private businesses at the lowest rate per capita for any ethnic or racial group in the Un...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Doll's House, the third instalment of the Detective Inspector Helen Grace series by M. J. Arlidge, read by Elizabeth Bower and Scott Joseph.Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller The Doll's House is the new twisting and terrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector Helen Grace series from M.J. Arlidge. Arlidge is the author of Eeny Meeny and Pop Goes the Weasel...

"Certainly! "Alcibiades I", also known as "First Alcibiades", is a dialogue ascribed to Plato. In this engaging conversation, Socrates interacts with the ambitious young man Alcibiades. Let's explore the essence of this dialogue: Dramatis personae Dramatis Personae: Alcibiades: An ambitious youth eager to enter public life. He boasts of his good looks, noble birth, numerous friends, possessions, and connection to Pericles, the Athenian leader. Socrates: The older philosopher who engages Al...

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Pop Goes The Weasel - the furiously fast-paced new thriller from M J Arlidge, read by Elizabeth Bower.The body of a middle-aged man is discovered in Southampton's red light district - horrifically mutilated, with his heart removed.Hours later - and barely cold - the heart arrives with his wife and children by courier.A pattern emerges when another male victim is found dead and eviscerated, his heart delivere...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Liar, Liar by M. J Arlidge, read by Elizabeth Bower.In the dead of night, three raging fires light up the city skies. It's more than a tragic coincidence. For DI Helen Grace the flames announce the arrival of an evil she has never encountered before.Because this is no firestarter seeking sick thrills, but something more chilling: a series of careful, calculating acts of murder.But why were the victi...

'This is going to be as big as Jo Nesbo' Judy Finnigan'What a great premise!' Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Skin Collector and Solitude CreekEeny Meeny is the rocket-paced serial-killer thriller debut from M. J. Arlidge. Eeny Meeny was a Richard and Judy Book Club Summer 2014 pick.********The girl emerged from the woods, barely alive. Her story was beyond belief. But it ...

No two victims are alike. DI Marnie Rome knows this better than most. Five years ago, her family home was the scene of a shocking and bloody crime that left her parents dead and her foster brother in prison. Marnie doesn't talk much about her personal life—not even her partner, DS Noah Jake, knows much about Marnie's past. Now Marnie and Noah are tackling a case of domestic violence and a different brand of victim.Hope Proctor stabbed her husband in desperate self-defense. A crowd ...