When Jim Qwilleran's friend Polly decides to spend two weeks on vacation with an old girlfriend in Oregon, he finds himself at a loose end—but not for long. A visit from Nick Bamba brings news of a hotbed of mystery. Nick and his wife fear that their new venture, the Domino Inn, won't see out one summer season, let alone a lifetime. A series of fatal accidents on the recently developed Breakfast Island is beginning to deter further visitors, forcing Jim and his cats, Koko and Yum Yum, to s...

The Ozarks conveys a different mental image for everyone. Some visualize long black beards, moonshine whiskey, and corncob pipes, while others imagine canoe trips down clear, free-flowing, gravel-bottom streams, oak and hickory forests, a log cabin nestled in a wooded grove, and a wisp of blue-gray smoke floating above a native stone chimney. Life in the Missouri Ozarks was hard and taken seriously. At the same time, the folks who scratched out a living from the rocky ground never lost the...

**#1 New York Times bestseller“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress StudiesA pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller**Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aft...

**This novella is a fun, bonus, standalone prequel to the brand new Mafia Royals Romances for both fans and new readers.**The prequel to the much anticipated Mafia Royals Romances…Something dark this way comes.He's gorgeous, mean, and mine.He catches me dreaming about him, and then just like my dream, he decides to make me his.I should have said no when he asked me to swear fealty to him.The knife clued me in first.

Sci-fi to fall in love with…7 full-length novels that explore the future without forgetting that the most dangerous battles will always be within the human heart. Aliens, AI, cyborgs, galactic empires, space battles, and romance...you’ll find them all here, along with heroines and heroes you’ll cheer for.Space doesn’t have to be cold!Download Star Crossed today.About the Books:Blood Will Tell - Christine Pop...

Every blessing, every breakthrough, and every miracle can be traced back to the prayers that were prayed by you or for you. Join Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker,as he equips you to become an extraordinary influence in the lives of your children through one simple practice: praying for them.Praying Circles around Your Children combines timeless scriptures with stories of parents just like you, which wi...

"Alle ingrediënten voor een onmiddellijk succes zijn aanwezig: intriges, complotten, mysterie, dappere ridders en opbloeiende relaties vol gebroken harten, bedrog en verraad. Het zal je urenlang vermaken en lezers van alle leeftijden boeien. Een aanrader voor de vaste collectie van elke fantasylezer."--Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (over De Ring van de Tovenaar)"Het begin van iets buitengewoons tekent zich af."--San Francisco Book Review (over Een Zoektoch...

She went to research pirates... and found herself in their world.When museum historian Samantha Morrison takes a solo sailing trip while in the Caribbean, the last thing she expects is to be shipwrecked in 1690—smack in the middle of the Golden Age of Piracy. Rescued by the crew of the Sea Dancer, a privateer ship, Sam poses as a cabin boy to survive. But when her secret—and her future knowledge—are discovered, everything changes. Especially with the ship's rugged ...

'A powerful and absorbing story of friendship and courage, bringing to life a history that should never be forgotten. I could not put this book down, even as it broke my heart.' Kelly RimmerIn 1941, country girls Minnie Hodgson and Margot McNee set sail from Perth, Australia, for Singapore in search of adventure, full of excitement and keen to do their part working as nurses to the fallen soldiers in a time of war. What they encounter is an army of new friends and the terrors of a ...

Did you know there was a piano on the First Fleet? That the first convict artist was hanged for his trouble? That the first female author here started writing under a man's name? That the King owns the painting of our Federation? And did you know that there was a convict who wrote a dictionary of Australian slang? A man who was transported to Australia a record three times? And what about the world's first full-length feature film? Made in Australia, way back in 1906! These are just some o...

The Shadowed Door is a collection of fifty bone-chilling horror stories that will keep you up all night. From the supernatural to the psychological, these tales explore the darkest corners of the human experience. In these pages, you'll meet haunted dolls, vengeful spirits, and malevolent entities that lurk in the shadows. You'll witness the terrifying consequences of unchecked curiosity, and the horrifying outcomes of forbidden desires. Each story is carefully crafted to draw you in and k...

Burgundy is France's most prized and prestigious wine region today as well as being one of its oldest and most traded, if not always by the English. Its wines, to quote Jay McInerney who contributes, are ‘for lovers, lunatics and poets…’ and are the textbook definition of what terroir is all about. Villages mere metres apart produce wines of startlingly different personalities, and it is one of the rare regions in Europe whose red and white wines are equally celebrated. For all of its prec...