An authoritative, in-depth study on the character, legacy, and trajectory of the UK-US allianceAfter the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, many observers declared the UK-US alliance—often dubbed "the special relationship"—dead. Yet this was hardly the first time the partnership was read its last rites. Indeed, one of its defining characteristics is its resilience in the face of political volatility and geopolitical shifts.Transatlantic Storms...

You know that you have an important message to share. People need your help and are searching for your guidance right now. So why haven't you written that book yet?"Everybody Has a Book Except You" finally reveals the REAL reasons people get stuck and fail to write the books they so desperately want. After 14 years of working with over 1,000 authors, book publisher and author Suzanne Doyle-Ingram has figured it out – people simply overcomplicate the process and sta...

Une ombre sur le passé, Stephanie DoyleEt si son mari n’était qu’un parfait inconnu ?Quand Caroline Sommerville apprend que Dominic, son mari, est accusé de meurtre, le doute s’installe en elle. Après tout, elle n’a épousé Dominic que quelques semaines plus tôt, et sur un coup de tête. Se pourrait-il que cet homme dont elle ne sait presque rien lui ait menti sur son passé ? Refusant de croire à cette trahison, et convaincue au plus profond...

The bravery displayed by our soldiers at war is commonly recognized. However, often forgotten is the courage required by veterans when they return home and suddenly face reintegration into their families, workplaces, and communities. Authored by three mental health professionals with many years of experience counseling veterans, Courage After Fire provides strategies and techniques for this challenging journey home.Courage After Fire offers soldiers and their famil...

From the bestselling author of The Social Affair and HER comes an intense and deadly provocative thriller which follows a woman who, in a fight for survival, realizes her job may cost more than it pays.Several times a week, Charlotte Jones leaves suburbia behind and boards a chartered flight to parts unknown, where she wraps her hands around the necks of marks for just as long as she has to.Then she goes back to domestic life with a payche...

War has been an ever-present feature of human existence. The analysis of wars has tended to focus on either their causes or the military and strategic consequences of a conflict. This book argues that war can have a much wider impact across layers of society that go beyond international boundaries. It presents a heuristic multi-disciplinary framework for analysing the ripple and backwash effects across five connected analytical layers around the world: material; human capabilities; economi...

Prepare to be captivated by a literary tapestry woven by master storytellers in Short Story Collection Vol. 078. From the enigmatic tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the poignant prose of O. Henry, this anthology transports you to realms of mystery, adventure, and human emotion. Each story is a gem, polished to perfection, leaving an indelible mark on your imagination. Immerse yourself in worlds where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the boundaries of reality blur.

Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is a ‘wild-seeded’ collection of short stories, poems, memoirs and environmental articles from 49 unique contributors, all concerned with showing the positive side of our relationship with the earth.Thanks to funding from Portsmouth Creates, this audiobook features 50 different voices from across the Portsmouth community and beyond. Our readers range from teenagers to those in their nineties, including experienced actors, writers and volunteers from the pub...

Here are sixteen chilling, never-before-published tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, coedited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.In addition to stories about scheming jack-o’-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties gone bad, cult Halloween m...

Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience.In 1855, an answer came with Leaves of Grass.Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America’s greatest poets—an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done. Walt Whitman was a singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordi...