Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility investigates the philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism and their implications. Skepticism about free will and moral responsibility has been on the rise in recent years. In fact, a significant number of philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists now either doubt or outright deny the existence of free will and/or moral responsibility—and the list of prominent skeptics appears to grow by the day. Give...

What happens to a child when love comes with conditions — and truth arrives too late?Faith has always known something was wrong with her life, but she's never been able to name it. While her younger sister basks in their mother's warmth, Faith lives across town with her grandparents—an arrangement no one ever explains. She watches from the sidelines as her sister gets birthday parties, bedtime stories, and the kind of unconditional love that Faith only dreams about. The unspoken ru...

My life is a maze with only one way out. Until you find the way out you experience a lot of negative and positive curves. It’s what you make of those curves that makes a difference in your life. Read the book and see how my life ended up through the hardships and decisions to get out of them, and how it changed my life.Everything that happens to us changes the course of your life path. I hope you enjoy the book, it is all true, only the names have been changed. I have probably forgo...

Being Fatherless and the In-Laws is a poignant and raw narrative by Maureen Siwela that explores the multi-generational impact of abandonment, the harsh realities of growing up without a father's protection, and the toxic dynamics of a hostile extended family.The story begins with Palesa, a young woman in 1969 Johannesburg whose life is upended when her partner, Robert, disappears upon learning of her pregnancy. This act of cowardice sets off a chain reaction of hardship f...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER | 2025 Housatonic Book Award Finalist"The must-read book of the summer" (Megyn Kelly) from New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan: a "harrowing, incendiary" exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family’s generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem (Karen Abbott).The Kennedy name has long be...

New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller!In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel in the Truly Devious series, there are more twists and turns than Stevie Bell can imagine. No answer is given freely, and someone will pay for the truth with their life.The Truly Devious case—an unsolved kidnapping and triple murder that rocked Ellingham Academy in 1936—has consumed Stevie for years....

Return to the world of Truly Devious as Stevie Bell and her friends travel to New York to solve a murder in the next standalone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.Stevie might be the greatest teenage detective Ellingham Academy and the world has ever seen, but even she can’t figure out what happened with her boyfriend, David. What she needs is a distraction: a good old-fashioned murder. Stevie is much happier dealing with dead p...

Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious, and now she’s taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England. Another pulse-pounding and laugh-out-loud stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn’t going well. Her boyfriend, David, is studying in London. Her friends are obsessed with college applications. With the cold case of th...

A strange letter and code propels the circus into a tour they will never forget.The mysterious Puzzle Master has invited Circus Charles to once again compete to find the best circus in the world. But not everyone wants them to win.Will they be stopped like last time?Join Kestrel and Skye on a circus tour filled with codes, villains, and DANGER.The Circus Quest Series follows a traveling circus on tour as they hunt down and s...

**The novel that sparked the hugely popular Murdoch Mysteries television series celebrates its 25th anniversary.Includes a new introduction and a previously unpublished short story featuring the young Detective Murdoch.**In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a young woman is found naked and frozen in a quiet laneway. Acting Detective William Murdoch, driven by pity for the girl and the desire to secure his promotion, is determined to pursue every l...

**In this thrilling reimagining of Jack the Ripper, a young girl discovers her own shocking abilities amidst a series of brutal murders in modern-day London.“A gorgeously written, chilling, atmospheric thriller. The streets of London have never been so sinister or so romantic.”—Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mortal Instruments series“This book made me want to give up everything, move to London, and fight ghosts.”—Holly Black, #1 Ne...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited.It...