Libraries and archives are liminal spaces between what once was and what might be remembered.This edited collection explores this dynamic through international case studies, theoretical discussions and practical guidance, considering how these spaces activate moments of grief through preservation and documentation. Drawing on cultural, personal and literary perspectives, this volume examines grief across temporalities and the ephemerality of digital and material memory spaces....

Resilience in Emergency Management: Core Concepts and Practical Applications delivers essential knowledge and practical tools for navigating the complexities of emergency management and resilience.This comprehensive handbook provides readers with the tools to understand and apply core concepts of resilience and emergency management, including societal resilience, crisis communications, recovery strategies, and the integration of innovative technologies like VR and AI. It o...

From Edgar Wallace's relentless pacing to John Buchan's espionage classic The Thirty-Nine Steps, this sweeping collection gathers thirty stories of danger, pursuit, and hidden agendas. Erskine Childers's proto-spy intrigue, Louis Joseph Vance's gentleman-crook capers, Mary Roberts Rinehart's had-I-but-known suspense, and William Le Queux's invasion thrillers sit alongside contributions from Henry Rider Haggard, G. K. Chesterton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, tracing the suspense and thriller s...

Autographs for Freedom is a stirring anti-slavery gift book that gathers essays, poems, letters, and testimony from leading American reformers, writers, and public figures in a united moral assault on slavery. Led by Harriet Beecher Stowe and supported by a Rochester ladies' society, the volume presents abolition as a Christian duty and a national necessity, warning that slavery endangers the United States politically, socially, and spiritually while offering hope through truth, sympathy, ...

Allie Jones loves her cosy cottage café in the picturesque village of Heatherlea. She has her independence, two grown-up children and two cute cats. Life is settled and she thinks she's happy.Author Chris Monroe has it all. Critical success, a luxurious London apartment, and the kind of jet-set lifestyle most people dream of having. But something's missing.When a family bereavement throws these two old friends together, they begin to question the true meaning of happiness.

**Dive into a laugh-out-loud adventure with You and Me and the Gigantic Knucklehead - the third book in the action packed, hilarious, highly-illustrated You and Me series.From the author behind the multi-million bestselling Treehouse series, Andy Griffiths, this book puts YOU the reader right into the middle of the adventure!This book is highly illustrated by Bill Hope in a comic book style, perfect for fans of Dogman and Bunny vs Monkey. What are...

Prepare for danger, deception, and unforgettable twists. 30 Suspense & Thriller Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die brings together a thrilling collection of classic literature designed to keep readers turning the pages. These stories explore the darker and more exciting sides of fiction, where danger can emerge without warning and nothing is quite what it seems. Inside, readers will encounter mysterious disappearances, dangerous secrets, criminal schemes, psychological tension, d...

A FESTIVE MURDER MYSTERY NOVELLA FEATURING ALI DAWSON'Most writers of popular fiction would love to invoke the spirit of Dickens at Christmas but Elly Griffiths does this like literally no one else' Rev. Richard Coles'Mulled Wine Crime - warming and intoxicating' Ian Moore'Dickens and Dawson make a great sleuthing combination' Lucinda HawksleyNo-one is more surprised than time-travelling det...

Andy and Terry live in a treehouse. But it's not just any old treehouse, it's the most amazing treehouse in the world!This treehouse has thirteen stories, a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a secret underground laboratory, and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots marshmallows into your mouth whenever you are hungry.Life would be perfect for Andy and Terry if it wasn't for the fact that they have to write their next book, which is...

**The 13-Storey Treehouse is the first book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky million-copy bestselling Treehouse adventures series, packed full of comic book style illustrations!Perfect for fans of Dog Man and Bunny vs. Monkey, this book will make you laugh-out-loud on every page.**'The kind of book I would have loved as a kid' - Tom Fletcher, author of Space BandAndy and Terry live in the WORLD'S BEST tr...

When locum doctor Jess Miller starts a new post at a hospital, she never expects to be held at knifepoint by a man who mistakes her for Zoe Furniss, the consultant she's covering.Shaken but determined, Jess accepts an offer to stay with Zoe, a brilliant but enigmatic paediatrician whose past is linked to a tragic event at a previous hospital twenty years earlier.Inside the impressive home of Zoe and her husband Scott, Jess senses tension, mistrust and something dangerous lu...

A stunning new volume from a poet who insists that light and joy can be gathered from grief and trauma.Reflecting on the near-loss of her husband and the death of her mother and a beloved friend, Rachel Eliza Griffiths calls upon some of her most beloved poets—Federico García Lorca, Henry Dumas, Slyvia Plath, Sonia Sanchez, and others—to guide her through a scarred wilderness in search of wonder, love, and companionship. In Born Among Mirrors, she gathers ...