USA TODAY BESTSELLER"Irresistible!" — James PattersonA MISSING GIRL. AN ORPHANAGE FILLED WITH SECRETS.Hazel wants a new life.She's thirty years old, single, and her private investigation business is months away from folding.Her luck takes a turn when Madeline Hemsley, a mysterious socialite, pays Hazel a visit with an offer too enticing to resist. An orphan girl has disappeared from a childr...

Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden's The Housemaid, Riley Sager's The Only One Left and Alice Feeney's My Husband's Wife, this addictive psychological suspense-thriller is a must-read for anyone who loves dark secrets, isolated settings, and jaw-dropping twists.SOME MEMORIES WERE NEVER MEANT TO STAY BURIED.When Charlotte Hoffman's picture-perfect career implodes overnight, she retreats to the one place she swore ...

What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty households. It reveals the aspirations and frustrations, the tragedies and accomplishments that are played out behind the doors. It focuses on the things that matter to these people, which quite often turn out to be material things – their house, the dog, their music, the Christmas decorations. Th...

A murdered mathematician. A missing formula. A secret capable of controlling humankind.When Princeton logician Adam Shaw receives a cryptic message from his dying aunt, his life is thrown into chaos…sending him deep into secret archives and ancient texts in search of an encoded mathematical framework known only as the Tree of Knowledge. Joined by brilliant game theorist Ying Koh and Martin Turner, a man who's spent thirty years running from its shadow, Adam discove...

"I inhaled this book. With killer twist after twist, I defy you to predict where it's going." — John Marrs, international bestselling author of You Killed Me FirstA DEAD BODY. A BLOOD-RED LETTER. A KILLER WHO'S JUST GETTING STARTED.Hazel has everything she wants.He boutique PI firm is thriving. She's dating the man of her dreams. Even her perpetually skeptical mother seems impressed.But everything shatters when a be...

Overwhelmed by life's challenges, unpredictability, and uncertainty? Imagine waking up each day with less stress and more ease, confident that whatever challenges arise, you have the practical tools to transform obstacles into opportunities for growth.In The Way of the Wave: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents, best-selling author Daniel A. Miller (renowned for Losing Control, Finding Serenity and The Gifts of Acceptance) shows ...

This volume compiles a wealth of information on the composition, properties, utilization, and performance of major classes of additives while alerting formulators to potentially damaging interactions and challenges in the selection and testing of these materials. Completely revised and updated, the Handbook of Coatings Additives, Second Edition off

This illustrated children's book is for all little boys and girls who sometimes need help from a parent to figure out how to cure their boredom when they think there is nothing to do.

Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff.The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality as applied to clothing. It presents the theories that are required to understand the way we are created by material as well as...

The Taskmaster Shadow may be the most consequential book you have ever read. Within these pages you will be exposed to a truth forgotten by most but essential for the total fulfillment we all desire. Most of us go through life obtaining toys, people, things, all with a hope of a fulfilling an inner longing but all with an expiration date. At the end of life an unspoken but irritating question many deal with is, 'What was that all about, or is that all there is?'The operation of the...

Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of. Who are these au pairs, why do they come and what is their experience of this arrangement? Do they, for their part, find that they are treated as one of the family, and would they even want to be? After a year of careful research, this book shows how most of our assumptions and expectations about au pairs are wrong.This is the ...

This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town.Attending carefully to the everyday lives of these people, the ethnographic chapters examine topics ranging from freedom and inequality to the creation of community and the purpose of life. These chapters alternate with discussions of similar topics by a wide range of philosophe...