A missing shipment of weapons for China and the murder of an aspiring scientist kick-start a madcap dash through the world of seances, prizefighting, cutting-edge technology, Holmesian cameos, and many disguises.London, 1924. Judge Cheng Gao Shang has been sent by Sun Yat Sen’s government to look into the death of Dee Ren Jie, the larger-than-life investigator who had kept the local Chinese community safe. But Dee isn’t dead; he’s hiding out with his friends Lao Sh...

Everyone warned Lennon Vale about the house on Penny Lane. No one warned her about the man inside it.When twenty-six-year-old Lennon inherits her grandmother's Victorian home at 13 Penny Lane, the inheritance comes with one unsettling condition: she must live there for twelve consecutive months before she can sell it.She expects dust, bad memories, and a year she'll spend counting down the days.Instead, the house begins giving up secrets.Foo...

Proudly written without the use of AI.Inspired by the music of Hozier, S.J. Pehrson's debut novel drops you right into the action and refuses to let go. 'I hold no grudge, Clancy Parrows. That word is too small. What I hold is a promise. A promise stained with the blood of every Mariner, their names carved into the very stone I am left with where once I had a heart.'The war never ended for Alvi Daine. Haunted by the voices of his traumatic past, he is left alone to...

Alex Rider for a new generation.When Zac and the other agents of Python infiltrate an exclusive birthday party on Italy's Amalfi Coast, they expect to be laying low and gathering intelligence. Instead, they find themselves wrapped up in a plot to murder the guest of honour.Stuck between two rival families, Zac, Jameela, Ted and Nikos must identify and stop the potential killer before midnight, or risk triggering an all-out gang war.But with danger c...

Explores the great diversity of Catholic people and musical styles in the early American Republic from the wilderness of Maine, through the bustling cities of Boston to Baltimore, among immigrants from France and Haiti, to the rolling hills of KentuckyAs the first comprehensive look at Early American Catholic musical culture, The Wilderness and Cities Raise Their Voices provides a broader perspective than earlier studies of specific hymn collections. It th...

THE ROYALLY PAGE-TURNING SEVENTH BOOK IN THE HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN INVESTIGATES MYSTERY SERIES - NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER IN HARDBACK, EBOOK & AUDIOBOOK!A British spy is on holiday in the summer of 2017 when he sees something that makes him fearful. Only the shortest of messages makes it through: 'Elizabeth R.'In a febrile political atmosphere, politicians and bureaucrats are being targeted around Europe. Is it possible that the Queen could be a ...

Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus, but it was his successors who cemented the order’s place in history.In The Second Jesuits, Thomas Flowers, S.J., argues that the Society of Jesus’s survival and global identity depended on its second generation, a group of twenty men he labels the “Second Jesuits.” Following the death of Ignatius in 1556, the order entered a period of profound vulnerability because its constitutions had not yet been approved...

Brooke has known what she wants for a long time.A business of her own. A life she’s built for herself.And Brody Sheridan.The only problem is that she first fell for Brody when she was seventeen and he was twenty-eight—old enough to know better, decent enough to keep his distance, and far too aware of her protective older brother to make an already complicated situation worse.That was years ago.Brooke isn’t seventeen anymore, and Brody isn’t pretendin...

Join the Myth Makers on their first high-stakes mission to save the legends of Ancient Greece!When Poseidon’s powerful trident is stolen by the villainous trickster Notoria, the world’s oceans descend into chaos. Giant sea monsters are washed ashore, and a terrifying storm threatens to drown the city of white temples and olive groves.Chosen by the goddess Athena, young heroes Quill and Bard must leave their home of Mythos to put things right. Armed with the...

The first collection of late philosopher William J. Richardson’s essays, underscoring his deep and expansive scholarly interests in continental philosophy, and containing his interpretation of key issues in phenomenology, the philosophy of religion, and psychoanalysis.Being, Desire, and God brings together the scholarly articles of William J. Richardson in one place for the first time. Richardson maintained a reputation as a foremost scholar of Heidegger’s...

There's nothing more exclusive than murder.Tommy Baxter arrives on an exclusive island in the Caribbean ready for a week of extreme luxury and unrivalled pleasures. He’s part of a very select, international group of teens whose close-knit families are the world’s most elite … and most powerful.Except he’s not really Tommy Baxter. He’s a con artist looking to uncover dirt on these glitterati so he can extort them for big money. But “Tommy” soon real...

Christine Lucas once woke every morning with no memory of the day before.Her name, her past, her family – all of it vanished overnight. Every morning, she had to piece together her life again, never knowing what to trust, never realising the danger was far closer than she could ever imagine.She survived. Just.Now, years later, Christine is living under an assumed name, in an isolated cottage where no one can find her. She tells herself she is safe. She tells herself...