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Meet Pip, Pod, and Pickle — three little goblins with ears as big as their grins — in a cozy, spooky-but-fun Halloween adventure for young readers and the grown-ups who read to them.In the crooked little village of Pumpkin Hollow, Halloween is the best night of the year. The Goblin Band is ready for the big concert, Willa the Witch has brewed her extra-sparkly Glowberry punch, and every jack-o'-lantern on the square is lit... until a big Halloween wind blows out all the lanterns! C...

He is Thames Barn — gentleman, ghost, and the last man you want on your trail. And this time, a princess's life is the stakes.A secret summons at his London club pulls Barn into a ruthless bargain: Princess Champagne of Velmarin has been abducted from her yacht in the Adriatic, and her captor — the cultured, ice-cold arms broker Anton Vayne — will trade her freedom for only one price: the Argus Dossier, a briefcase of war-strategy documents that could set a region ablaze in the wro...

He is Thames Barn — gentleman, ghost, and the last man you want on your trail. And this time, he is not working alone.A secret summons at his London club pulls Barn into the most ambitious theft in criminal history: the Obsidian Exchange, a shadow finance syndicate chaired by the cultured and ruthless Dorian Kaine, is assembling the Sovereign Key — five fragments scattered across the globe that, united, unlock the Argent Vault, a dormant war-chest of untraceable billions. In ten da...

Welcome to Willowmere — where the kettle is always on and there's always room for one more at the table.In this cozy cookbook, home cook Margaret Ellery of Rose Cottage opens her flour-dusted recipe box and shares 80 original recipes from the little English village readers fell in love with: creamy porridge with honeyed apples, hearty shepherd's pie, golden scones from the Copper Kettle Tea Room, Sunday roasts, garden-fresh sides, crumbles and trifles, village-bakery breads, and a ...

One book can buy a war. One man intends to stand in its way.The Khyber Ledger is the master index of the Argent Syndicate, the quiet brokers of terror for hire: every financier, every arms route, every safe house, and every blackmail file they hold on officials across three continents. Now a hardline Taliban faction is days from buying it. With the Ledger in their hands, they could swallow or blackmail every terror network on Earth. And if the Syndicate keeps it, the attacks simply...

Six stolen guidance cores. Ten days. One ghost with a crimson aeroplane.Thames Barn — gentleman, government troubleshooter, always immaculate in a Savile Row suit — is handed an impossible assignment. Vesper Kestrel, the legendary broker-pilot known as the Crimson Falcon, has lifted six Stormlance hypersonic guidance cores and is selling them one by one to private buyers across the globe. In ten days, six arsenals go live, and the map gets redrawn.At Barn's side is Trippany...

DRAKE CALLOWAY: The Himalayan CipherA Drake Calloway Adventureby Edward BrancoSome doors have been locked for a thousand years.Explorer Drake Calloway receives a charcoal rubbing from a Kathmandu museum — a bronze wheel with three rotating rings, covered in Tibetan script. In the margin, a note: "Where the white water falls, the stone breathes." The rubbing points to Tharlam, a cliffside monastery that doesn't exist on any map, and to a hidden valley that was ...

One ledger. Three nights. No second chances.Thames Barn — gentleman, government troubleshooter, always immaculate in a Savile Row suit — boards the Night Express, the great luxury sleeper running Istanbul to Venice, with a single impossible assignment. Somewhere aboard is the Bosphorus Ledger: a private banker's encrypted record of every bribed official, hidden account, and bought vote across a dozen European capitals. The Argent Circle, a discreet syndicate chaired by the silver-t...

A cipher that could crack the world's secrets — stolen from under the White House's own roof.During a glittering state dinner in Washington, D.C., the Halcyon Key — a next-generation quantum decryption device built under a classified White House program — vanishes from a secure vault. If it reaches the black market, every allied secret on earth is up for sale.Enter Scarlett Vale, field operative of the off-the-books Northlight Bureau. Armed with her wits, her 9mm, and an It...

Here it is:**THE WINTER LEDGER***A Thames Barn Novel*by Edward BrancoTen positions. Ten days. And a forest that is listening.Thames Barn's new mission takes him from London to Munich, across to Busan in Korea, and through the dark pine expanse of the Blackwood Forest — to a city that does not want him. Around the industrial city of Novokamensk, ten hidden military positions must be found, mapped, and reported. Barn and his co-director Trippany Sloane t...

DRAKE CALLOWAY: The Starfall ScrollA Drake Calloway Adventureby Edward BrancoSome maps were never meant to be found.Explorer Drake Calloway unearths a buried doorway in the Egyptian desert — and behind it, a sealed bronze case holding seven engraved plates: a star map corrected for the slow wobble of the heavens themselves. A map that points to something the world has been hunting for centuries.But Drake isn't the only one who knows what the plates are...

One device can light a village. In the wrong hands, it can be sold to darken the world.In a research station in southern Kenya, Dr. Amara Njoroge and her team have built the Helios cell — a clean-energy prototype small enough to hold in one hand, powerful enough to change who controls energy across the developing world. The international consortium that funded it intends to give the design away. A private broker named Silas Vane intends to auction it to the highest bidder instead —...