This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Two Happy Years in Ceylon opens with a chorus of contemporary praise for C. F. Gordon Cumming's vivid, authoritative travel writing, then invites readers into a richly illustrated journey through an island of palm-fringed coasts, ruined cities, shrines, mountains, and bustling ports. Drawing on her own sketches and a life shaped by travel and colonial family ties, Gordon Cumming recalls a joyful but comparat...

Seven girls. Seven scars.Seven stories that refuse to stay silent.In a world of pain, loss, bullying, secrets, and survival, these girls are more than broken-they are fighters. The Looking Girls is a dark, emotional journey through trauma, truth, and resilience, where every scar tells a story and every survivor refuses to be forgotten.If they can survive what tried to destroy them, they can become something stronger than fear."A haunting story of survival, s...

Son of the village leader and prophesied to wield the goddess' sword, Rucus feels nothing but pressure. Nightmares haunt him from witnessing the murder of his father, expectations weigh on him, and he still knows nothing of the sword's mysterious power. But what is even worse is the secrecy. Something is happening in his village and no one will tell him what. Is it a series of coincidences or is it all connected? How does his mother's past play into his future? And when the time comes, wil...

Squid Game meets The Hunger Games in the final gripping instalment of a fast-paced, action-packed Scottish thriller series where recruits compete in a fight to the death in the streets of Edinburgh.THE GAMEFrom the beginning, The Pantheon has been a secret society of bloodshed and order. Modern-day gladiators abandon their lives, fall into rank and battle to the death – cheered on and funded by online watchers.

The last thing rock star Harper Cushing needs right now is this attraction to her grandmother’s helper, Frankie, even if she is sneaky-good on the guitar. Returning to her favorite childhood spot, Gram’s nostalgic general store, Harper confronts life-altering decisions: Gram’s future welfare, selling the store, and reassessing her own fast-paced “high life.” If only she could pull it all off without breaking everyone’s heart—including her own.Having made her own life-altering decis...

For Stick “Mac” McLaughlin, it’s all about family: the stalwart friends, her former gang of bootlegging hijackers, and, above all, her lover and their daughter. So when New York mobsters begin squeezing the livelihood of new friend Rey, a veteran rumrunner on rural Lake George, Mac lends Rey resources but remains safely distant from enemies of the past.Grateful for help, Rey opens her backwoods life to Mac’s seasoned, gun-toting crew, but never expects it to include the likes of pe...

'Punks In The Willows' is a colourful guide to the punk rock community, told through the lives of animals.This forty page collection of illustrations depicts the creativity, music, social justice and above all, friendship that is found in punk.With verses suitable for readers of any age, and gorgeous artwork that brings the animals to life as alternative kids and punk rockers, this is a real keepsake book.

Jean-Luc Persecuted follows the ill-fated life of an unhappily married man. When Jean-Luc’s wife pursues an affair and leaves him with their child, Jean-Luc’s behavior becomes more and more erratic. He falls to drinking, behaving recklessly, and squandering his money. The narrative follows the explosive downfall of a lone man and his unstoppable mental collapse, surrounded by villagers unable to effect real change. This novel, never before translated, exemplifies the earthy, realistic, oft...

In February 1946, Anna Klein and her boss Henry Cooper face major changes at the Monuments Men Collecting Point. With Cooper's dreaded re-deployment looming and their feelings for each other intensifying, Anna has to decide between him, her family, and her marriage. A future with Cooper means giving up everything she knows and running away from her own past, which isn't at all what it seemed. Meanwhile, a destitute artist asks for her help in finding paintings he sold before the war. But h...

It is August 1945 in Wiesbaden, Germany. With the country in ruins, Anna Klein, displaced and separated from her beloved husband, struggles to support herself and her six-year-old daughter, Amalia. Her job typing forms at the Collecting Point for the US Army's Monuments Men is the only thing keeping her afloat. Charged with securing Nazi-looted art and rebuilding Germany's monuments, the Americans are on the hunt for stolen treasures. But after the horrors of the war, Anna wants only to hi...

Disguised as her late brother, Cooper, in the 19th Massachusetts Volunteers, Catherine Samson fights to quell the Confederate rebellion and preserve her nation’s unity. She believes the Constitution’s declarations of equality and freedom apply to everyone, and dreams that someday they will extend to her own pursuit of happiness with a woman.Helping her father raise her siblings on their Gettysburg farm, Sophie Bauer likewise clings to hope for a woman to love, but when she serves a...

Who in her right mind inserts a popular laid-back chef into the top paranormal show on television? What a ridiculous idea. Granted, TV crossover shows boost ratings, but the respective stars have no interest in the other’s genre and spatter like water in hot oil. The only thing that home-spun chef Ronnie Smart and tenacious paranormal investigator Peyton Stanford agree on is the idiocy of their network’s demand. They have practically nothing in common, and it shows.But the show goe...