The Philosopher's Stone assembles various narrative stands into a cohesive and thought-provoking tale of our times. The trenchant criticism of continuous self-optimization and esoteric ideology are astonishingly subtle and reward repeated reading.

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death – who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumsta...

Updated to include Klopp’s final season at Anfield"It is the intensity of the football, of how the people live football in Liverpool, all the Liverpool fans around the world. It is not a normal club, it is a special club." Jürgen KloppJürgen Klopp’s decision to leave Liverpool after nine incredible years shocked the football community. His tactical acumen, motivational skills and ability to develop young talent were instrumental in Liverpool's resu...

Brought to you by Penguin.Updated to include the Champions League Victory 2019“It is the intensity of the football, of how the people live football in Liverpool, all the Liverpool fans around the world. It is not a normal club, it is a special club.” Jürgen KloppJürgen Klopp is the charismatic German manager who single-handedly overthrew the accepted order in German football, taking Borussia Dortmund from nowhere to back-to-back Bun...

SECOND in a new paranormal mystery series!When Tess Callahan, new owner of Dead End Pawn, meets her grandmother the banshee, life is about to get complicated. When Tess’s partner Jack Shepherd, tiger shapeshifter and P.I., gets involved to help them investigate a banshee-kidnapping spree, life is about to get deadly. Because nothing is ever simple in Dead End, Florida, and sometimes it takes a tiger’s eye to see the truth.This novel is a paranormal mystery ...

I was driving down a nearly deserted road. It was a shortcut I often took to get home from town. I'm not sure it was any shorter, but it was definitely quieter. A lot fewer cars came this way. Perhaps it was because most of the houses weren't out this direction. Maybe it was even because of the cemetery.I actually liked going by the cemetery. This was one of those older ones that had character, not just a bunch of the same plaques over and over. Some of these graves had statues of a...

This is a collection of intimate poems, originally titled My-ku. They were intended as a study in constrained free-verse associative thought, and of course they grew. Cycling, diving, life ... explored in four lines. These works were written between 2009 and 2012 in Victoria, B.C., Canada.

होरीराम ने दोनों बैलों को सानी-पानी दे कर अपनी स्त्री धनिया से कहा - गोबर को ऊख गोड़ने भेज देना। मैं न जाने कब लौटूँ। जरा मेरी लाठी दे दे। धनिया के दोनों हाथ गोबर से भरे थे। उपले पाथ कर आई थी। बोली - अरे, कुछ रस-पानी तो कर लो। ऐसी जल्दी क्या है? होरी ने अपने झुर्रियों से भरे हुए माथे को सिकोड़ कर कहा - तुझे रस-पानी की पड़ी है, मुझे यह चिंता है कि अबेर हो गई तो मालिक से भेंट न होगी। असनान-पूजा करने लगेंगे, तो घंटों बैठे बीत जायगा। 'इसी से तो कहती हूँ, कुछ जलपान कर लो और आज न जाओगे तो कौन हर...

Have you ever met someone new, and were completely stumped as to what to say? This short ebooklet is for you. Once you finish, you will never have that happen again. You will always be able to come up with witty conversation and interesting questions to get that person talking!

A hilarious, ingenious plot. Lovable characters. A barrel of laughs.A case of switched identity what would switching your life with your long lost friend feel like? And therein lies the humorous tale of Dhruv, the Inventor. Dhruv switches lives with his friend Mahesh due to a quirk of fate and inadvertently lands in an “I-am-you-and-you-are-me” situation where he doesn’t even know the way to the bathroom in his own house! Bringing up the rear is a crazy family - the harried wife, a philoso...

Loving - it is the seaLove can be sweet and bright as the sun sparkling on the waves, but under its surface lurk betrayal and despair in bottomless darkness.From innocent crush to losing a loved one, Matters of the Heart follows the ebb and flow of love and relationships through sweet and sour, and light and dark.______________collection of 30 poems