This riveting suspense thriller explores the special bond between a brother and sister when Richard Baimbridge rushes back to his coastal hometown of Wilmington, NC, to assist with his sister's recovery after she's brutally attacked and crippled investigating the rape of a 13-year-old. Coming face to face with his tormented past and a dark family secret, he fights to stay above the flood of childhood trauma and, serving as his sister's legs, is drawn into the dark underside of this quiet c...

WINNER: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR BIOGRAPHY 2016Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation’s heart and became the bestselling travel book ...

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite; a military hero whose dying wish was ...

International bestseller Bill Bryson brings us this brilliantly readable biography of the world’s greatest playwright, William Shakespeare.Join Bill as he takes you on a journey through Elizabethan England, tackling the myths, half-truths and downright lies to make sense of the man behind the masterpieces.Revel in this glorious celebration of the life of Shakespeare from the much-loved author of ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ and ‘Notes from a Small Island’.

Some people are born lucky, chosen to receive power and riches beyond imagination, but Gongja Kim? He’s a total loser with a completely useless ability: duplicating others’ skills—that is, after they kill him. Gongja’s all but given up…until he witnesses the strongest hunter in the world and his idol, Flame Emperor, committing murder and is slaughtered in cold blood! But who knew his former idol was hiding just the skill he needed to turn his fortune around? Now practically unstoppable, Go...

Leading an army to victory is a piece of cake for someone with the right skillset, like Gongja! Following their success, the top ten ranked hunters are unexpectedly summoned to a different place to choose between rewards from the goddess and the Demon King. However, Gongja’s got more urgent things to take care of. A gathering of the top hunters means facing the Sword Emperor, so forget making the right choice–will Gongja manage to get out of this alive?

The reverberations of the rifle shots that killed four students on May 4, 1970 echoed across the nation and beyond. Nowhere, perhaps, did they echo with more persistence and poignancy than at the place where it happened, the Kent State University campus. For more than ten years the university's name has been a symbol of the Sixties protest movements as the causes of the event were debated, lawsuits embroiled participants and victims, and concerned people struggled for appropriate means for...

Bill is a story of the author's life as he has lived it. He is a boy who has experienced life as a member of a family that was poor but faithful to one another. He has gone through boyhood and into manhood, living life to the fullest and experiencing two marriages and two divorces and with the honor of having a son born on his birthday by his second wife. His son continues to make his life worthwhile with each passing day.

Carden Bottoms was a community at the west base of Petit Jean Mountain and east of Holla Bend, near the Arkansas River.Now the foundation of the once popular school is the only evidence to be found that it ever existed. The structure and its gym no longer mark the community as a proud structure. The gym collapsed and the school building was destroyed by an arsonist.What used to be a bustling little community is now full of ghosts and memories, with some of those memories be...

Blurred Images is a fictional story of Tommy Owens, a Marine Corps decorated sniper from the Vietnam War area.The story begins with his enlistment, initial training, and his assignments with the CIA.Tommy rotates back to the United States after setting several records for the number of kills and the longest kill by a Marine sniper. He accepts work for the CIA as a sniper and gets sent to Iraq, where he loses his sight in an ambush and roadside bomb.After being rotated...

In 1955 Russian American writer Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita, a novel about a older man’s fascination and subsequent involvement with a flirtatious twelve year old girl who is as scheming as she is beautiful. Fiction? Non-Fiction? Fantasy? Reality? Who can say? I guess that every older guy has a secret wish to meet a younger woman who is attracted to him; but not necessarily one that is underage.The most commonly held belief regarding age and romance is that young girls would not ...

Baba's Love is a story about a family's journey of adoption. Baba is referred to as father in some parts of Africa. By surrendering to the will of God, they learned of a father's love. Walking by faith through the emotional process, they laughed and cried together. It is a true story of suffering, perseverance, and love. Relationships with the beautiful people in Central Nigeria are of valued gifts given to the authors. While living in a different culture, they learned about their own cult...