Simmering resentment in a small coastal town. A missing manuscript. A dark family secret.Scott Drayco isn’t a typical detective: a former concert pianist with synesthesia, he turned to law enforcement after a violent attack put an end to his music career.After Drayco inherits a rundown Opera House in a Virginia seaside town after a particularly brutal case, he just wants to arrange a quick sale for the unwanted “gift” while nursing his battered sou...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

"Carter's writing is on target." - Publishers WeeklyA curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That's how people describe Garrison Gage, and that's when they're being charitable.After his wife's brutal murder in New York, and Gage himself is beaten nearly to death, the crippled private investigator retreats three thousand miles to the quaint coastal town of Barnacle Bluffs, Oregon. He spends the next five years in a convalescent stupor, content to bide ...

Harry Lenga was born to a family of Chassidic Jews in Kozhnitz, Poland. The proud sons of a watchmaker, Harry and his two brothers, Mailekh and Moishe, studied their father's trade at a young age. Upon the German invasion of Poland, when the Lenga family was upended, Harry and his brothers never anticipated that the tools acquired from their father would be the key to their survival.Under the most devastating conditions imaginable—with death always imminent—fixing watches for the G...

From New York Times Bestselling Author Laura Scott!Search and rescue and love…Hunted by a serial killer…After Alexis Sullivan and her cadaver K9 Denali find the body of a dead woman in the mountains, she soon realizes she’s become the killer’s next target. And when she finds a second body, just two hundred yards away, she’s horrified to realize they’re dealing with a serial killer.FBI Agent Griffin Flannery has alr...

Five BBC Radio adaptations of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray - plus bonus featuresBest known today for his comic masterpiece, Vanity Fair, W. M. Thackeray was regarded in his time as the only rival to his contemporary, Charles Dickens. This collection includes a selection of his finest satirical fiction, as well as two fascinating programmes exploring his life and writings.Vanity Fair - Set against the backdrop o...

Shortlisted for The Business Book Awards and the Fingerprint AwardsThe indispensable Sunday Times bestselling guide to succeeding in negotiations where failure is not an option, from one of the world's most experienced kidnap for ransom negotiators.Scott Walker has probably one of the most difficult jobs in the world. When pirates have hijacked a ship, when a criminal gang has kidnapped someone, when an en...

INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAn elite secret society of killers has controlled the world’s treasures for hundreds of years…until one member tears himself free to salvage his soul and protect his daughter’s life in this “astoundingly original, relentlessly paced, and purely authentic” (Jack Carr) debut.The single greatest work of art in the world is not in the Louvre or The Met, or in any private collection. In fact, its whereabouts ar...

While visiting the charming small town Snowy Falls, Hil, a girl who has never successfully boiled an egg, finds herself in an unexpected role: managing a family-run bed n' breakfast.Passing through with no intention to stay, sunshine-filled Hil can't help but lend a hand when she sees brooding college football player Cali struggling in the wake of his mother's sudden accident. It has nothing to do with the gorgeous Adonis having dimples for days. She just wants to help.But ...

Napoleon is determined to conquer the world with his steam-powered weapons. Nothing in England can stop him … except two young lady inventors.In 1819, France is surrounded by armies. With Russia in the north, the Karlsruhe Confederacy in the east, and a pirate kingdom in the south, Napoleon cannot break out, nor can the English Navy seem to break in. Europe teeters on the edge of a sword. Whichever side rules the air will win.Celeste Blanchard, daughter of the Empe...

In the thrilling second installment of the Briardark series, three paths diverge, uncovering revelations buried within an impossible wilderness.Separated from her team and haunted by grief, Siena Dupont claws her way through the lightless Briardark in search of an escape. The final threads of her sanity unravel when she realizes The Shadow isn’t the only thing stalking her through the forest’s darkest depths.Cameron Yarrow has long abandoned her team in pur...

Travel through a multitude of exciting worlds and adventures in this collection of innovative and thought-provoking science fiction and fantasy short stories.How does a scientist and a band of corporate superheroes escape an eternal time-loop? What does a "real" mermaid do when she's held captive by a spoiled short-sighted prince? Why does a young woman find herself compelled to portray a trope character in a LitRPG? These and a multitude of other questions are ans...