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, ...

She's destined to protect the world.But what if destiny got it wrong?When Ariella, reluctant heir and failed witch, is banished to the bustling city of Pyscoria, she dreads being pulled into the power games of the Blood. She knows it's only a matter of time until someone discovers the secret of her missing magic.Even worse, she'll have to mingle.When help comes from an unexpected quarter, Ariella discovers the first real family she's ever kno...

Start right here! Discover the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and become obsessed with one of the most popular crime series in Britain.'Galloway now seems as real as Marple and Morse' The TimesDr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near a prehistoric site on the north Norfolk salt marshes. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier - or are the bones much older?DCI Harry Ne...

Elle has a plan.Step one: Get through her fake betrothal ceremonyStep two: Avoid killing her mother-in-law — at least until she finally gets the secret locations of the GodstarsStep three: Bond the Godstars (and their magic!) without killing anyone else…But even the best laid plans don’t work out, and when Elle is betrayed on the eve on her betrothal, she discovers just how wrong things can go.Things that weren’t in Elle’s plan:

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...

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.

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...

A TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR. THE RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK.'Goose-bump spooky, smart, and haunting' LOUISE PENNYA dark story has been brought to terrifying life. Can the ending be rewritten in time?This is what the police know: English teacher Clare Cassidy's friend Ella has just been murdered. Clare and Ella had recently fallen out. Found beside the body was a line ...

Magic, murder and a mystery rooted in a murky wartime past. Meet DI Stephens and Max MephistoBrighton, 1950.When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl.The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old friend of Edgar's. They served together in the war as part of a shadowy unit called the Magic Men.Max is still on the circuit, touring seaside towns in th...