Devastated and exhausted, Eden Lucas is the sole survivor of an unfathomable global catastrophe As she grapples with the question of whether to go on alone, a train arrives.It's not a normal train, that's the first thing she notices. For one thing, it's floating three feet off the ground in a supermarket parking lot. For another, there doesn't seem to be any place for the driver to go. Yet it seems to hint at possibilities. Maybe she's not the only one who was spar...

Professional mourner Inez Pike has spent six years grieving for strangers. When the wealthy Wren family offers her one hundred dollars to lament the death of Judge Thaddeus Wren, the money could finally purchase a proper grave marker for the husband and daughter she lost.But the assignment comes with unsettling rules.Inez must remain alone with the judge's body from sundown until sunrise. She must keep her veil lowered, leave every mirror covered, and never open the parlor ...

A blank canvas of skin. A burning tattoo that won't stop growing. And a ballerina who vanished into thin air.Valentina has no past. Waking up with total amnesia, her world is confined to a drafty, eccentric apartment above a historic theater and her grueling job as a low-level production assistant. She wants nothing more than to blend into the shadows, but the universe has a much more macabre script in mind. When the theater’s star ballerina vanishes without a trac...

"As I sat cradling the man's head, with his blood and brains sticking to my hands, I heard a voice - my own voice. It was asking me something. Asking how I had ended up like this, desperate and lost among people who thought nothing of caving in a man's head and then standing back to watch him die." Nick Bullock was a prison officer working in a maximum-security jail with some of Britain's most notorious criminals. Trapped in a world of aggression and fear, he felt frustrated and alone. The...

Life as the single mum of a child with a learning disability is tough. But the boundless love between Izzie and her sparky daughter, Jaya, has always been reward enough in itself. Now Jaya is 18 and, much to Izzie’s alarm, wants to get married and have a baby. Izzie eventually agrees to explore an arranged marriage, in line with her daughter’s mixed-race heritage. Together, they embark on an emotional and often humorous journey to find a suitable match, discovering that, on the subject of ...

**One of Vogue's most anticipated books of 2023.A quintessentially American fashion narrative about the rise and fall of the first lifestyle brand, J.Crew, and what the company’s fate means for the shifting landscape of the retail industry.Once upon a time, a no-frills J.Crew rollneck sweater held an almost mystical power—or at least it felt that way. The story of J.Crew is the story of the original “lifestyle brand,” whose evolution chart...

The beginnings of a haunting that would last for hundreds of years...Rayland March came to Mobile to film a documentary about the mysterious Beaumont family. She could not have predicted the heartache and terror she would experience when she learns the truth about the long-dead socialites--and her connection to them. Can dreamcatcher and ghost hunter Carrie Jo and Ashland Stuart help her? Or will she face the dead alone?In 1793, the Beaumonts, a wealthy yet...

Shepherd's Notes- Christian Classics Series is designed to give readers a quick, step by step overview of some of the enduring treasures of the Christian faith. They are designed to be used along side the classic itself- either in individual study or in a study group. The faithful of all generations have found spiritual nourishment in the Scriptures and in the works of Christians of earlier generations. Martin Luther and John Calvin would not have become who they were apart from their read...

Cookbooks with recipes for baking with sugar (in the oven), continue to top the bestseller lists. And yet, no one has set out to do a cookbook with recipes on cooking with sugar (on the stovetop)--until now. In Sugar Baby, Gesine Bullock-Prado offers totally unintimidating step-by-step advice; the simplest instructions; recipes for candy, confections, and treats that integrate stovetop work into finished desserts; and a hilarious voice. Organized by temperature and chemical stages, here ar...

King Arthur Is DeadLong Live the Undead Queen!Guinevere thought that her life was over, that she would spend the rest of her days in a convent or hidden away in Avalon, but she was wrong. Cursed by Morgan LeFay, Queen Guinevere is banished from Avalon and must face the ages alone, hiding in the shadows as a vampire. Through the centuries, she's watched Arthur return again and again, but her love and respect for her husband and king has kept her away.Until now.

Earth Twelve is not like the others.Eden and Lara have spent six months exploring a galaxy of Earth clones with little to tell them apart. Earth Twelve, however, appears to be a technological utopia with a curious obsession: space travel.As Lara explores, she begins to question the idyllic nature of the planet when she glimpses the city of Las Cruces — officially abandoned but still filled with people. Why focus on space when entire cities are being cast aside? What have th...

Winner: Mountain Literature Award, Banff Mountain Book Festival 2018 Shortlisted for the 2018 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small green van, flitting between Llanberis, Wales, and Chamonix in the French Alps. Tides, Nick's second book, is the much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut Echoes. Now retired from the strain of work as a prison officer, Nick is free to climb. A lot. Tides is a treasury of his antics and ...