Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold“One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation” (Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times), Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history.Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse?...

**A fascinating new theory about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel."Riveting and illuminating." —Yuval Noah Harari**In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals h...

This Regency lady has a dangerous secret!It isn't Marianne Arnet's fault that her parents are reputed to be spies for Napoleon and have fled England. Now the handsome and powerful Lord Whitestone is threatening to bar her from the upcoming London Season and deny her a longed-for chance to mingle in the literary world.Lord Whitestone doesn't realise that Marianne is his secret correspondent, and that he's already half in love with her. Now she's determined to come to London,...

Hoping to reveal all shades of romance, we have gathered together ten authors from around the world, including Canada, England, Lithuania, and the United States, for this sweet romance anthology, A Season for Romance.In twenty stories, you will find true love in a variety of genres and styles, from first kisses to second chances, on epic journeys and in bittersweet moments. Nine of these stories feature main characters who identify as LGBTQ+.In this first flash fiction anth...

Close Relationships with Strangers follows a Las Vegas wildlife photographer who moves to Los Angeles to become a paparazzo and in the process loses his relationships, his morals, and eventually his tether to reality.Reviled by celebrities and the public, Ben is one of the last remaining paparazzi scouring the streets of Los Angeles. Amateurs with camera phones, social media, and a lack of bonafide stars have slowly killed a once essential...

The breathtakingly twisty new thriller – guaranteed to shock and surpriseI’m alive. But I can’t be saved …When a woman’s body is found submerged in icy water, police are shocked to find she is alive. But she won’t disclose her name, or what happened to her – even when a second body is discovered. And then she disappears from her hospital bed.Detectives Adrian Miles and Imogen Grey follow their only lead to the home of the Corrigans, looking...

Simone Brooks and Cameron Bennett should not be together. She’s a wealthy socialite looking for a suitable husband. A man with the right pedigree and an economic status that matches her own. He’s part owner of the hottest nightclub in Atlanta with his siblings. Someone who loves cooking, the outdoors, and women, not necessarily in that order.After one night together, their sizzling chemistry makes it difficult to stay away. Then comes the hard part—navigating their differences to s...

A surprise pregnancy... a mom-to-be in danger... a protector who must fight an elusive enemy while wrestling with his own inner demons.Eight months after his wife walked out on him, security consultant Jack Arnett gets an alarming call from her. Casey and her tenants at a small cluster of cabins in Tennessee are being menaced by a mysterious stalker.Jack drops everything and flies out from L.A. To his shock, his wife is pregnant with his child, from one last night together....

Gail wakes in the middle of the night to everyone’s worst nightmare.She can’t move, can’t speak and a stranger is standing over her. Then everything goes black.Gail knows she didn’t dream it. Or him. But the police don’t believe her.That was two years ago. She has tried to move on, forget what happened.Until she meets his next victim.This woman’s story is identical to hers. And the attack happened exactly one year la...

‘Stunningly brilliant… Full of more twists and turns than the best ever rollercoaster, with an epic ending’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐TRICK OR TREAT?When six-year-old Marcus is taken from outside his house on Halloween it shakes his quiet neighbourhood to the core.Everyone was ready for a night of trick-or-treating. Now the unthinkable has happened.TRUTH OR LIES?As Detective Imog...

Jill's orphaned nephew wants a daddy for Christmas—the fun-loving doctor next door!With Christmas approaching, Jill's busy preparing a holiday for the lonely five-year-old while juggling rival Santas at the mall she manages. Then a greedy relative seeks custody of Spike to claim his inheritance, and she needs a pretend fiancé. Luckily, there's a handsome candidate in the neighborhood—but will he leave them both behind once the holidays are gone?"I found this book a delightf...

**One Night in Italy is a charming, funny and heartwarming novel from Lucy Diamond, author of Anything Could Happen.'An absolute treat' – Katie Fforde, author of Island in the Sun**Is Italian really the language of love? A new class of students hopes to find out . . .Anna has recently been told the father she’s never met is Italian. Now she’s baking focaccia, whipping up tiramisu and swotting up on her vocabulary, determin...