Florence Montfort remembers dying at five years old — and she remembers the fountain that saved her, and the woman who carried her back from the edge and asked nothing in return.She has spent the twenty-five years since then trying not to remember anything else.Alone in the walled city of Carcassonne, drowning her nightly visions in wine, Florence receives a call from an ocean away: a man investigating a death that makes no sense, at a house that has stood empty and watched...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

Everyone needs something from Jack.Evie doesn't.Well, except a donkey.She blows into Bridlewood Creek like a force of nature—energetic, impulsive, and apparently incapable of holding her tongue. Jack has enough to deal with already. A farm. A teenage sister to raise. And some days, simply getting out of bed.But Evie isn't nearly as fearless as she looks. Her sixty-year-old aunt has a better love life than sh...

Discreet liaisons and steamy connections in hotel rooms: ten original erotica stories from Mischief, featuring Rachel Kramer Bussell, Flora Dain, Elizabeth Coldwell, Tabitha Kitten, Rose de Fer and many more.The evening with Mr Alpha in a luxury suite is already intense, but when the hot barman from downstairs is also invited to the private party, the passion enters unchartered territory.The idea of reviving a spark of romance at an ice hotel, might seem like an instant fre...

A riveting and brilliantly plotted psychological suspense, this razor-sharp debut will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking ending.In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code; little chalk stick figures they leave for each other as messages only they can understand. ...

A hilariously tempting picture book treat, perfect for fans of Jon Klassen and Please, Mr. Panda!I found a cookie.It's just sitting there, all alone.Poor cookie.Poor lonely yummy cookie.When a bear finds a cookie just sitting there, all alone, what is he to do? Should he pass up this tasty treat, or will he give in to temptation? Or is there someone else who wants the cookie even more?!

Botanica Fantastica brings to life the astonishing fictional plant creations of some of the world's favourite authors and creators.Featuring over 100 illustrations, specially drawn by artist Emma Tudor-Bloch to visualise these species as if real, this book will combine expert analysis of these iconic creations and the worlds they inhabit, as well as exploration of the real-life species that inspired the authors. From Middle Earth and Hogwarts to Buffy ...

Noah Lorenz is shy and easily scared, always hiding his true self. He tries to be the perfect student, focusing on his studies to become a vet. But underneath it all, he is a caring and curious young man who wants to stand up for what is right. And what he wants more than anything is to be free from his anxieties and be himself.Enter Rafael Silva, who appears in Noah’s life during a rainy night, barely lit by the moon. He is a new student who moved...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...

She left a slave. She returns a conqueror.As an Adept, Reiva blasts fire from her hands and leaps over walls. But when her first solo mission leaves her half-dead amidst a heap of massacred allies, she gets just one chance at redemption.The Empire orders her to crush the one kingdom she thought she would never see again: Talynis, the land of her birth, the land she left in chains.Standing in her way is the Wolf, a vicious assassin hellbent on killin...

Tudor Parfitt tells the extraordinary story of a Jewish child who survived the Holocaust in Slovakia by an almost impossible chain of events. In 1942, Vera, eight, was on a train from the concentration camp at Sered, in western Slovakia, bound for Auschwitz. Had she arrived there, she would certainly have been murdered. Instead, close to the holding camp at Ž ilina, she escaped. He reconstructs Vera' s story and, through it, the wider history of Slovak Jewry 1939 – 1945: the destruction of...