Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret.A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder. Now a USA Today bestseller!Lilian ("Lily") Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life. She is trapped between the oppressiveness of her father’s failing...

Bookbinder Lily Delaney must unravel a mystery involving a missing man, a long-ago secret society, a murder, and the supposedly mythical, heretical Liber Numerorum—The Book of Numbers—in this compelling sequel to the national bestseller, The Bookbinder's Secret.Read on if you dare!That is the epigraph in the hidden journal found by bookbinder Lilian "Lily" Delaney when her friend, mentor, and partner John Caxton disappears after a...

Before there was the Elf on the Shelf there was a young boy named Nicholas. . . .Shipwrecked in the Arctic Tundra, a young Nicholas and his loyal dog, Barry, stumble upon the enchanted and mysterious world of One True North—home to gnomes, fairies, and, of course, magical elves. This epic Santa Claus origin story shows how Nicholas discovers that these special creatures protect a powerful relic known as the Lumistella Stone, a shard of the Christmas star that fell to Earth thousand...

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearAn inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China’s political systemOn January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University—the first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China’s history. In The Dean of Shandong, Bell chronicles his experiences as what he calls “a minor b...

Karamojo Safari, first published in 1949, is a classic story of elephant hunting, safaris, native life, and the wilds of Uganda and Kenya in the late 1800s, at a time when the region (then known as "Karamojo") was completely unknown to the outside world. Walter Bell (1880-1954), known as Karamojo Bell, was a Scottish adventurer, big game hunter in East Africa, soldier, decorated fighter pilot, sailor, writer, and painter.Famous for being one of the most successful i...

Bookbinder Lily Delaney must unravel a mystery involving a missing man, a long-ago secret society, a murder, and the supposedly mythical, heretical Liber Numerorum—The Book of Numbers—in this compelling sequel to the national bestseller, The Bookbinder's Secret.Read on if you dare!That is the epigraph in the hidden journal found by bookbinder Lilian "Lily" Delaney when her friend, mentor, and partner John Caxton disappears after a...

Now a major motion picture (The Sheep Detectives with Hugh Jackman, Nicholas Galitzine, and Emma Thompson), this funny and surprising mystery stars a new breed of detectives you’ve got to read to baaaaa-lieve.This refreshed deluxe paperback features a foreword by internationally bestselling author A. J. Finn, discussion questions, and bonus materials.Something is not right with George the shepherd. His sheep have gathered around hi...

Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret.A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder.Lilian ("Lily") Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life. She is trapped between the oppressiveness of her father’s failing bookshop and still being an apprenti...

The best Science Fiction stories to come from such authors as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Poul Anderson. Originally a spinoff from the NBC radio show DIMENSION X, X MINUS ONE continued the tradition of outstanding writing, acting, and direction for three seasons from 1955 to 1958 on NBC radio.X MINUS ONE, VOLUME ONE contains all 31 half-hour episodes from the original radio broadcasts of the 1955 season, digitally remastered and commercial free.

The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter is the story of Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell, a famous big game hunter at the turn of the century in East Africa. 'Karamojo Bell, ' as he became known, devised many original techniques to seek out and capture his quarry, including a difficult rifle shot from a diagonal angle, later dubbed 'The Bell Shot.' Wanderings details Bell's ingenious ivory-hunting methodology, as well as his many memorable encounters on safari.This revised edit...

"A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel" (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history, UCLA).The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons, and sailing ships—in the age of Napoleon.In a sweeping, evo...

A Royal Palm Literary Award-winner.In a land where hope is the rarest resource, one woman becomes the only force standing between freedom and surrender.Alaska is in the grip of an unrelenting recession. In an attempt to reignite the economy, a deal is struck to supply natural gas to China, but the new pipeline will leave the state $50 billion in debt to the Chinese Communist Party and ultimately spawn a struggle for control of The Last Fron...