Lost Treasure. Desperate children. And one scary old woman. Let the adventure begin! Kate and her friends, Surjeet and Matthew, discover an old woman digging holes in the forest bordering their neighborhood park. Kate soon realizes Granny Crane is searching for something very important. Kate inspires the boys to help her solve this mystery. Caught in the act of spying by a furious Granny Crane, they run home terrified. Despite her fear, Kate's desperate financial situation drives her to fi...

When a freak accident claims the lives of his wife and young daughter, Will Brown slips away to a remote cabin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. After a near-death (but enlightening) experience involving depression and black bears, he decides to stay a bit longer—first just a month, and then an entire bitter-cold winter. After a number of escapades in the woods, including befriending a stray dog and stumbling upon a mortally injured hermit, his recreating expands to include more traditional p...

I paid the ultimate price when I took the gamble to save my mate's soul.FerryFerryman. The Grim Reaper. La Muerte. La Pelona. Shinigami. Charon.I've been called many names over the millennia, all thanks to my role in Hell—ferrying dead souls over the river Styx.Few know the demon behind the legend, how I came to be here, or the freedom I sacrificed to save the man I love.Now, I'm free to find him again. The problem? ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two sensational unsolved crimes—one in the past, another in the present—are linked by one man’s memory and self-deception in this “haunting [and] strikingly original” (The New York Times Book Review) novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon.“Ingenious . . . [Ill Will] walks along a garrote stretched taut between Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock.”—The Washington Post

A fire mage who believes he's broken. A vampire who believes he can fix him. A contract that's going to change everything.BlaiseI've never been good at doing the right thing.A series of bad choices have left my life in tatters. Everyone is telling me to move on, but how can I? What I did was unforgivable, even if some believe otherwise. My whole world imploded the night I left a human dying on a classroom floor.I don't deser...

Two commitment phobes. One ridiculous plan. A decision that changes everything…RileyIf a no-strings hookup is required, then I'm the perfect guy.When I meet Danny, I can't believe my luck. A sexy wolf shifter who's also a fireman? Who runs from relationships just as fast as I do? Sign me up.The night that follows is one for the history books and the best part? Neither of us is looking for a repeat.That doesn't mean w...

‘An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable resource’ Paul Gilroy, founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at UCL‘Hicks’ must-read book describes how it was possible for a human skull to be made into a drinking cup and used in a genteel Oxford college, well into the 21st ...

SebastianBlood. Torture. Murder. They've been my only companions for centuries. I haven't needed or wanted anything else.Until I see Matty smile. Then something in me, something that's been dormant for centuries, begins to reawaken.Matty doesn't belong in my world. He's loving, innocent, and full of joy. The darkness of my life would corrupt him in a heartbeat, but when he's dragged into it against his will, nothing can stop me from delivering my pe...

A house is more than just a place to lay your head at night.Sometimes, the walls remember.Gathering ten modern masters of the strange and unsettling, Unquiet Guests sets fire to the blueprints and reimagines the haunted house from the foundations up.From dreamlike visions of an abandoned future mansion to a sentient building grown tired of its owners, these rooms echo with whispers of the disenfranchised and the lost.

In rugged Calabria, historian Carmen Nero is drawn into a perilous hunt for the lost tomb of Alaric I, the Visigoth king who looted ancient Rome. But the ruthless Calabrian Mafia has its own deadly designs on the secrets buried beneath southern Italy.As Carmen teams up with Cesco Rossi, a charismatic conman with a fierce thirst for revenge against the same Mafia, their search draws the attention of Israeli archaeologist Zara Gold, determined to recover the fabled Menorah, rumoured ...

Warum halten wir die eigenen Ideen immer für die besten? Weshalb wirken sich hohe Boni nachteilig auf die Arbeitsleistung aus? Wieso folgen wir bei der Partnersuche nicht unserem Schönheitsideal? Und warum lassen sich Rachegefühle so schwer bezähmen? In seinem neuen Bestseller untersucht Dan Ariely unser Verhalten in der Arbeitswelt und in zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen. Sein ernüchternder Befund: Wir meinen zwar, Alltagssituationen vernünftig einschätzen zu können und Herr unserer Entsc...

A compelling essay on free will from an internationally recognized authority on atheism, and author of God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction.Do we have free will? And if we don’t, why do we feel as if we do? In a godless universe governed by impersonal laws of cause and effect, are you responsible for your actions? Former evangelical minister Dan Barker (God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction) unveils a novel soluti...