The End is Here, in a Fiery Cosmic Apocalypse!Gwen Lark knows how to Qualify, Compete, and Win…The time has come to Survive.The Games of the Atlantis Grail have come to a ground-shaking halt and Gwen Lark, nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl, survived the remarkable ordeal, for the time being.But the worst is yet to come!Now, both the colony planet Atlantis and Earth ...

A Lesson in Dying is the first mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.Who hung the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Halloween Party?Almost everyone in Heppleburn either hated or feared the viper-tongued Harold Medburn. Inspector Ramsay is convinced it was the headmaster’s enigmatic wife but Jack Robson, school governor and caretaker, is determined to ...

A Spicy Alien Honeymoon Travelogue of Atlantis!Fans of The Atlantis Grail have asked for a spicy story of Gwen and Aeson’s honeymoon in all its glorious detail, and here it is….Amrevet Days is the Atlantean equivalent of a honeymoon, but taken approximately eight months after the wedding. By custom, the newlyweds must escape to a secret location to enjoy each other.Now that Gwen is the Imperatris, married t...

From #1 New York Times bestseller Julie Murphy comes a heartfelt and hilarious tale of a woman who thinks life and love have passed her by until she’s thrown into her grandmother’s quirky world of octogenarian free love and gets a second chance with the one man she never expected to see again. Perhaps it’s never too late to play the opening credits…Welcome to Starlight Palms, a favorite retirement facility among Hollywood ...

Silent Voices is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope detective series – which is now a major ITV crime drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera.No murder is ever simple . . .When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, at first, she thinks it is a death from natural causes. But then Vera spots ligature marks around the victim’s throat and has another murder case on her hands.Th...

It's 1481, and as seen from the centers of power in Rome and Venice, the cultures of Europe are under threat from the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. When the exalted Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror dies his eldest son, Bayezid, takes the throne. However, discontented factions within the Ottoman army urge Mehmed's second son, Cem, a well-educated and experienced warrior, to oppose his brother's ascension, setting off a ruthless power struggle and forcing Cem into long years of exile, a pawn f...

Let your imagination take flight with the first volume of this groundbreaking graphic novel fantasy anthology series, featuring short stories from some of today’s most legendary artists, including the series editor, Amulet creator Kazu Kibuishi!“Most of the stories in this gorgeous color anthology are about flying, but the title also refers to its contributors starting to take wing. . . . As Scott McCloud notes in his afterword, they’re the future of comics...

Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915.This selection of letters, written between 1913 & 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her brother Edward and their close friends Victor Richardson & Geoffrey Thurlow present a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total war....

A life-transforming meditation on Christ’s presence in the Bible and in our lives. “Father, you talk about Jesus as if he was here. If Jesus dwells among us, then where is he?” Father Veras artfully answers this question with biblical texts that show how God chooses to manifest himself through his people—from Old Testament foreshadowing of the Incarnation to New Testament encounters with Jesus that turn ordinary men and women into missionary disciples. In his heartwarming style, Father Ver...

I was thrilled when my brother Don asked me to help him finish a manuscript he had been working on for 8 years. Ive never worked on a novel, so this task will be outside the box for me. Im used to writing religious and childrens books. The events are true but the names have been changed to protect those who have risked their lives working behind the scenes for the security of our country. This book was written to illustrate and document the experience of a common US citizen being brought i...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In a land of golden sand and blazing sunshine, where most camels walked with noble pride and serious faces, one camel was entirely different. His name was Chuckle, and he had something the desert had never seen before—a grin that wouldn’t stop. With his crooked smile, clumsy steps, and cheerful jokes, Chuckle turned the silent desert into a stage filled with laughter and play.Across ten heartwarming and hilarious chapters, you’l...

When Ivan walks out the door to face Stalin's war, Anna makes him a promise: she will raise their children in faith, no matter what comes.What comes is worse than she ever imagined.Famine strips her family to nothing. A visitor in the night forces her to face the truth about the husband she loved. A wealthy stranger dangles her own daughter in front of her like a bargaining chip. And just when peace seems within reach, her son is taken from her for the crime of reading Scri...