Why are 20-somethings delaying adulthood? The media have flooded us with negative headlines about this generation, from their sense of entitlement to their immaturity. Drawing on almost a decade of cutting-edge research and nearly five hundred interviews with young people, Richard Settersten, Ph.D., and Barbara E. Ray shatter these stereotypes, revealing an unexpected truth: A slower path to adulthood is good for all of us. Their surprising findings include• Young adults who finish...

Gripping Classic of Suspense, Survival, and Moral TensionThe Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is one of the most famous and influential short stories of twentieth-century American fiction, a fast-moving tale of danger, survival, and psychological suspense.First published in 1924, the story also appeared under the title The Hounds of Zaroff. Its central character is Sanger Rainsford, an experienced big-game hunter from New York who is...

Early-stage Qigong practitioners often find it difficult to establish a daily Qigong practice. This useful handbook teaches simple Qigong exercises that can be easily practised in the home every day.The book provides guidance for a series of warm-ups and exercises which are easy to learn, very effective and all based on ancient and traditional practice. These include refreshing Early Morning Meditations; the classic Eight-Sectioned Brocade; the dynamic Three Circles Posture; the Te...

Friends will become enemies.Mina has been tasked with stopping Lord D’Lance, but that’s easier said than done. With dark magic and an army at his command, he’s practically untouchable.To add to her problems, she realizes Caden is bonded to a dragon as well, one that seeks the destruction of everything in her path.If Mina can’t find a way to stop them both, all will be lost to flame and ash.Wrath of the Dragon is the fourth episode in the...

Some bonds are forged in the heat of adversity.Mina has been granted an audience with the Enclave, and she’s determined to keep war from happening between dragons and humans.But some things are easier said than done.To gain the Enclave’s trust, she must prove herself a warrior worthy of being a dragon rider.And if she fails ... then the world will burn.

The true story of how a small Seder dinner on the campaign trail inspired Barack Obama to bring the tradition into the White House and host the first ever Presidential Passover celebration.In 1800, President John Adams held the first formal Christmas dinner atthe newly built White House. In 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayesobserved Easter with a public “Egg Roll." But it wasn’t until 2009 that a US president officially celebrated Passover.A ...

First published in 1897, Richard Marsh's The Beetle is a sensational Gothic novel of pursuit, possession, and imperial dread. Its shape-shifting Egyptian antagonist invades late-Victorian London, unsettling boundaries of gender, race, class, and rational authority. Told through multiple narrators, the novel combines melodrama, detective fiction, occult horror, and fin-de-siècle anxieties, standing in provocative dialogue with Bram Stoker's Dracula, which appeared the same year. Richard Mar...

Some curses are the instruments of destiny.After saving Lord Klodian’s life, Mina is elevated above servanthood—but life isn’t as simple as she expected. Her last encounter with a dragon has her questioning everything she’s ever known, and now she’s determined to find the truth.Mina’s quest takes her into The Long Sands, where she comes face to face with her greatest enemy … and an unlikely ally.Egg of the Dragon is the second episode in the ser...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.International money laundering syndicates; ruthless criminals; armed robberies; violent murders and sophisticated planning and execution all demand specialised policing, particularly when they come together and drive colossal insurance liabilities on the one hand and unspeakable trauma and fear through the underworld on the other.It takes an exceptional talent with considerable courage and tenacity, to break through the virtuall...

"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff" is the classic horror yarn about big-game hunter Sanger Rainsford, from New York City, who falls off a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Caribbean, where a sadistic Russian aristocrat hunts humans for sport. Rainsford must fight for his life. The thrill-packed story was inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wea...

NOW STARRING IN BBC1'S CELEBRITY TRAITORS'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these diaries. I cannot remember being so moved by a book' Dolly Alderton'Fascinating, funny and heart wrenching' Dame Julie Walters'An emotional rollercoaster - profoundly moving and wonderfully ent...

A body buried in the dunes.A killer with a deadly pattern.Can DCI Walker catch them before the cycle starts again?When a young woman’s body is discovered in the windswept sand dunes of Lytham St Annes, Detective Walker is assigned to the cold case. The victim’s connection to a former Chief Constable puts the investigation under intense scrutiny from Walker’s current boss, the formidable Chief Constable Sarah Harriet...