A book about the relentless war of Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, one of the Mongol Emperors and brother of Kublai Khan, with Berke Khan and Baybars. The story of the destruction of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan, the massacre of millions of Arabs and Assassins, and the destruction of Alamut Castle, built with great effort by Hasan Sabbah...

When it comes to Christmas stories, one typically thinks of those that embody the spirit of the season, such as Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. The Yuletide-themed murder mystery is not usually the first thing that comes to mind.A classic country-house murder mystery, The Santa Klaus Murder begins with Aunt Mildred declaring that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gathering at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, i...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Despite its title, this British Library Crime Classics reissue of a 1936 novel isn't just an entertaining Christmas read. It's a fine example of the old-time country-house murder mystery, with loads of suspects, lots of period atmosphere, and much caustic wit." — BooklistAunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxme...

Sinead Nightshade never belonged not in her pack, not in the hunt, and certainly not in Alpha cian eyes. But when she enters Luna's Hunt, determined to prove her worth, everything changes. Betrayed by her closest friend and armed only with borrowed strength from a dangerous rogue named Lugh,sinead finds herself in the centre of a storm- torn between ambition, love, and a curse older than the forest itself.With the cursed relic stirring dark forces and Cian intentions revealing them...

Mavis Applewater's debut novel The Brass Ring is back. In the first Caitlin Calloway Mystery, med student Jamie Jameson meets a sexy policewoman Caitlin Calloway who turns her world upside down. The trouble begins when the relationship falls apart. Twelve years later the two are reunited. Haunted by the past and a danger that neither could have imagined they fight to find the love the have lost while fighting to stay alive.

The incredible story of El Patron Pablo Escobar, the world's richest and most powerful drug lord...Pablo Escobar's war against America and Colombia...

Open the Veil of Lilith inside you. Open it so the truth shines brightly.And this whole journey you will now witness on these pages will turn page by page from that first departure to the One. The words that are written in the pages breathe with the energy of Lilith, so as you read allow your hair to grow and curl, your teeth to get longer; let your womb remember her garden and allow the snakes to wander inside you.Come on.Are you ready?

This edited collection explores the question of how those with limited capacity are enabled to take their part as members of society within the context of both a legal framework and the expectations of their family and community.The book is divided into three parts, firstly looking at the current legal position on incapacity in a number of jurisdictions. It discusses the recent European project FLEUR, and the associated debates developing around whether legislation...

Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty. A displaced person turned French soldier in Algeria now makes a living as an actor in Paris. A group of selfish English expatriates on the Italian Riviera are incredulous that Mussolini and ...

Rebirth is a deeply reflective and transformative journey for anyone who has ever felt like they were living a life shaped more by survival than by true self-expression. It speaks to those who learned early how to adapt, to meet expectations, to carry silent burdens, and to become who they needed to be rather than who they truly are. This book gently acknowledges the quiet strength it takes to endure, while also inviting readers to consider that there is more to life than merely getting th...

An unpleasant spinster meets her end on the stairs of the Belsize Park Tube station.All of the residents of the Frampton Private Hotel in Hampstead knew that Euphemia Pongleton was in the habit of walking one stop closer to the center of London to save a penny's fare on the Underground. But they hardly expected to hear that she was found on the stairs at Belsize Park, strangled to death with her terrier's leash on her way to a dental appointment. Her death sends shock waves through...

In Home Truths, Mavis Gallant draws us into the tricky labyrinth of human behaviour, while offering readers her unique, clear-eyed vision of Canadians both at home and abroad. Ranging in time and place from small-town Quebec during the Depression, to Geneva and Paris in the 1950s, to contemporary Vancouver Island, these stories explore the remorseless cruelty of children, the tensions that affect all families, the dangerous but endearing naïveté of young girls in love with Europe,...