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From the award-winning co-writer of The Gone comes a gripping new crime thriller where the official story says accident – but the dead say otherwise.Chloe is about to have the worst day of her life.A rookie cop in Sydney, she responds to a call-out on a housing estate: reports of a gunman, a building in lockdown, backup still minutes away. Going in alone, Chloe is pulled upwards – floor by floor – ...

They had never expected the threat to come this way.With Noah, Fitz, and Daniel away on work that took them from the coast, the clinic is left in the hands of those who know it best. Penny, Anna, and Wendy face a challenge that does not rise from the ocean, but from human ambition corporate interests determined to claim what was built through care. Holding ground means more than defending a place; it means understanding what it asks of them in return.It is Lilibeth who finds ...

Winner of the Ngaio Marsh First Novel AwardAn absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand’s indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Māori screenwriter and directorA tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a ...

Plato said over 2,500 years ago that "an unexamined life for a man is not worth living." To examine one's life, on a regular basis, cannot but lead to a consideration of virtue, which in turn leads to a search for the Good, which both Plato and Plotinus say all men naturally seek. What we call a good informs the value system we live by, but a good can only reflect the Good, if it is good for our soul and the soul of our neighbor, any more than we can claim virtue with a mote in our eye. Ar...

From the Barry Award nominee and Ngaio Marsh Award winner of Better the Blood, a new thriller bringing danger ever closer to Hana WestermanWhen Detective Inspector Jaye Hamilton stops at an Auckland liquor store for a bottle of champagne, it is supposed to be celebratory: his daughter Addison has just gotten engaged. Instead, he is suddenly gunned down at the register by a balaclava-clad assailant in what appears at first to be a random act. The getaway ca...

From three-time Ngaio Marsh Award-winning author Michael Bennett comes a gripping new stand-alone crime thriller where the official story says accident, but the dead say otherwiseChloe Venosa is about to have the worst day of her life. A newly minted constable in Sydney during the hottest summer on record, she responds to reports of gunfire at a notorious housing estate. Backup still minutes away, Chloe disobeys orders and goes in alone, pulled upwards until she re...

This sports book, memoir, and manifesto from a Super Bowl Champion elucidates racism in the United States.Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, a grassroots philanthropist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most scathingly humorous athletes on the planet, and he wants to make you uncomfortable.Bennett adds his unmistakable voice to discussions of racism and police v...

From lost to loved the journey of gemma the service dog by Michael Bennett is a heartwarming story about a lovable Rottweiler pup named Gemma. Born on a ranch, she was not the most playful but the most affectionate of her litter. After her siblings found homes, Gemma finally gets adopted by a loving couple. However, an unexpected adventure leads her to become lost and eventually taken to an animal shelter. After months of waiting, she finds a second chance at a rescue facility where she is...

An in-depth, full-color, step-by-step guide to the new golf swing that has taken the PGA Tour by stormThe traditional golf swing requires a level of coordination that few golfers have. So it's no surprise that, despite huge advances in club and ball technology, the average golf handicap in America has dropped by only one stroke since 1990. Maverick golf instructors Michael Bennett and Andy Plummer spent a decade researching the swing, eventually combining physiolog...

Have you ever felt the sea pull at something deeper than memory?Across generations, one family rises and falls with the tide, their love for the ocean carried forward like a melody that refuses to end.Each life becomes a song - of courage, of inheritance, of promises kept across time.These are the Songs of the Caretakers.And somewhere beyond the horizon, the sea is still singing.

Michael Bennett provides the first history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenner's achievement in making cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. He explores the networks that took the vaccine around the world, and the reception and establishment of vaccination among peoples in all corners of the globe. His focus is on the human story of the horrors of smallpox, the hopes in...

A new town. A second chance. A calling he never saw coming.When Peter arrives in Port Redding to rebuild his life, he believes he's come to help, running a harbor rescue clinic along a coastline forever changed by the sea. But this is no ordinary place. Dolphins gather with purpose. Orcas watch from beyond the break. And the ocean is not silent. It's waiting.As the tides begin to shift in ways no one can explain, Peter realizes he is standing at the edge of something far grea...