Florence Montfort remembers dying at five years old — and she remembers the fountain that saved her, and the woman who carried her back from the edge and asked nothing in return.She has spent the twenty-five years since then trying not to remember anything else.Alone in the walled city of Carcassonne, drowning her nightly visions in wine, Florence receives a call from an ocean away: a man investigating a death that makes no sense, at a house that has stood empty and watched...

Botanica Fantastica brings to life the astonishing fictional plant creations of some of the world's favourite authors and creators.Featuring over 100 illustrations, specially drawn by artist Emma Tudor-Bloch to visualise these species as if real, this book will combine expert analysis of these iconic creations and the worlds they inhabit, as well as exploration of the real-life species that inspired the authors. From Middle Earth and Hogwarts to Buffy ...

Noah Lorenz is shy and easily scared, always hiding his true self. He tries to be the perfect student, focusing on his studies to become a vet. But underneath it all, he is a caring and curious young man who wants to stand up for what is right. And what he wants more than anything is to be free from his anxieties and be himself.Enter Rafael Silva, who appears in Noah’s life during a rainy night, barely lit by the moon. He is a new student who moved...

Tudor Parfitt tells the extraordinary story of a Jewish child who survived the Holocaust in Slovakia by an almost impossible chain of events. In 1942, Vera, eight, was on a train from the concentration camp at Sered, in western Slovakia, bound for Auschwitz. Had she arrived there, she would certainly have been murdered. Instead, close to the holding camp at Ž ilina, she escaped. He reconstructs Vera' s story and, through it, the wider history of Slovak Jewry 1939 – 1945: the destruction of...

Bay is making some questionable life choices.She’s quitting a stable job.She’s opening a coffee shop in the storage space at the back of the Tack n’ Feed.She thinks her dentist is sexy.Inconveniently, Dr. Owen is also her boss.After years of taking care of everyone else, Bay is finally choosing things because she wants them. The coffee shop is one of those things.Owen might be another.Owen is kind, funny, dependable, ...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

NB: There are Video Tutorials supporting this eBook. Links to video tutorials are there inside this eBook!This course features tons of tips to make Excel for MacBook users more proficient and productive with the popular spreadsheet program. Learn the top shortcuts, find out how to most efficiently navigate and control the display, and discover the best ways to select, enter, and format data. The course also includes ways to leverage drag-and-drop features, shortcut...

We all have times in our lives when we stop and contemplate our walk with Christ and question whether or not we are living the blessed life God intended. Often we find dissatisfaction or unfulfilled destiny and wonder if something is missing in us or if God has forsaken us. In this exciting book, The Spirit of Honor, Bishop Tudor Bismark shows us that God is always faithful. However, people perish because of the lack of knowledge and many suffer because dishonour is present in their lives....

The book provides an engaging and educational account of the World's Fair, designed to captivate young readers. It covers various aspects of the exposition, including the innovative exhibits, the architecture, and the cultural displays from around the world.The narrative is structured to both inform and entertain, with a mix of storytelling and factual content. It highlights the excitement and significance of the fair, showcasing the technological advancements, artistic achievements, and i...

She left a slave. She returns a conqueror.As an Adept, Reiva blasts fire from her hands and leaps over walls. But when her first solo mission leaves her half-dead amidst a heap of massacred allies, she gets just one chance at redemption.The Empire orders her to crush the one kingdom she thought she would never see again: Talynis, the land of her birth, the land she left in chains.Standing in her way is the Wolf, a vicious assassin hellbent on killin...

An unconventional vicar must exorcise the dark past of a remote village haunted by death and disappearances in this explosive and unsettling thriller from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man.**SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL SERIES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL“Hypnotic and horrifying . . . Without doubt Tudor’s best yet, The Burning Girls left me sleeping with the...

It is only a cycle. That's the only thing that matters. It doesn't matter the cogs that push the flow - they change, rust, get replaced or eventually, the whole system becomes better. Or worse.Lavrik is part of a new species. everybody is willing to give everything for survival or sacrifice their souls for 'pure' comfort. He stands on the most fragile thread amidst these extremes as a contractor, someone willing to take the dirtiest possible jobs to maintain peace for everyone, or t...