In the year 2045, climate change is killing people. Fifteen-year old Lily Star must use her power over water to save her family and thousands of refugees in the parched, superheated American West. She’s a powerful Diviner who can find and raise water from from deep underground. At Everspring, the family's only source, she's been raising water since she was thirteen, but now it's dying from climate change. The Star family must ration every drop to stay alive. Ash from forest fires falls lik...

What do you do when you're fat, 14, obsessed with the Catholic Church, with Doing the Right Thing, with scones and sweets, with other boys and their private parts? Well, if you're Benson, you panic and flee, hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery.Alas, St Finbar's monastery is as full of temptation as the grammar school he'd left behind. The devils of desire find Benson once again and throw him back into the world from which he’d tried to escape.Returned to school, Benson is stil...

Before taking off in a plane, the flight attendant tells you what to do if the aircraft loses cabin pressure. They remind you that if you’re traveling with a small child or someone needing assistance, you must secure your mask first before assisting others.It is essential to treat your health the same way. Your health impacts the quality of your life and those around you. Health must be about you first, then those around you, and then your community.In The Art of Health, auth...

He's been called the greatest actor of his generation. But Kevin Spacey is more than just an Academy Award winning icon and visionary behind House of Cards, the runaway hit Netflix original drama. Kevin Spacey is also an inspiring advocate for talent, a tireless proponent for the arts, and an undeniable man of mystery who keeps the tabloids buzzing.For the first time, go behind the man, myth and legend that is Kevin Spacey, with this unauthorized and unvarnished exploration of the ...

Prize-winning writer Sarah Laing has written a superb collection of stories that are beautifully written, vividly rendered and which stimulate and surprise. 'Imagine that you're a statistic,' says one of the characters in these quirky, haunting stories of people whose inner lives let them escape the boxes that others put them into. The single mum, the student working in the pie factory, the newborn baby, the dying woman, the Kiwi alone in New York and many others pass thr...

What happens when the lives of four individuals—all in pursuit of love, happiness, and success—collide and threaten to destroy everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve? Only the Truth knows.Markus, a rising executive and self-proclaimed “playboy” trades in his business meetings by day for roaming the clubs at night. But is he in search of the woman of his dreams or simply someone to keep his nightmares at bay?Brandon has big dreams of taking the music industry by storm ...

‘IF YOU READ ANY BOOK THIS YEAR, READ THIS ONE – MARTINA COLE‘A LIFE STORY FAR MORE INCREDIBLE THAN ANY BESTSELLER’ - JEFFREY ARCHER‘Sometimes today I still cry for the lonely, frightened little boy I was then – so unhappy and so longing for love – and marvel at not only surviving the brutality and the other appalling abuse but also, in the end, triumphing over it all.’Abused by those who were supposed to love and cherish him, Michael Seed had to fight for survival aga...

**A profoundly moving memoir of caregiving, mourning, and love between a mother and her son—and about the joy of reading, and the ways that joy is multiplied when we share it with others.“A graceful, affecting testament to a mother and a life well lived.” —Entertainment Weekly, Grade A**During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In what was formerly known as the United States, a military prodigy and the most wanted criminal in the land find themselves unexpectedly working together as they uncover their government’s sins.“Legend will give Hunger Games fans something worthwhile to read.”—VOYA“A romantic thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is what it seems.”—Kami Garcia, New York Times bestselling co-author o...

For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she has gotten her guests—often the biggest celebrities in the world—to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons. In turn, Oprah has repeatedly allowed her audience to share in her own life story, opening up about the sexual abuse in her pas...

Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile conducted interviews with hundreds of mothers while researching their best-selling book I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids. It didn't take long before these moms began to reveal their Dirty Little Secrets—surprising, thought-provoking, guilty confessions they hadn't told anyone else. Cringe-worthy moments ("I bit my daughter's finger trying to steal a bite of her cookie.") meet real insights ("I love my kids but I didn't always. It took time t...

A gripping new crime novel from the global bestseller Cathy Glass writing as Lisa Stone‘The Darkness Within hooked me from the start. Once you start you won't be able to stop!’ Katerina Diamond, No.1 bestselling author of The TeacherYou know your son better than anyone. Don’t you?When critically ill Jacob Wilson is given a life-saving heart transplant, his parents are relieved that their loving son...