What do you do when someone who broke your heart wants back into your life?Whether it's an ex-partner, a friend who abandoned you, or any relationship that ended in pain, their return creates one of life's most emotionally challenging situations. Hope, fear, anger, and confusion all collide—leaving you wondering: Should I give them another chance?This book isn't about playing games or seeking revenge. It's about something far more valuable:...

'Laugh-out-loud hilarious, moving and life affirming. How can one book be so many things? I couldn't put this fabulous, first class, five star read down.' JANICE HALLETT'Hilarious, life-affirming and compulsively readable all at once' THE OBSERVER'A triumph...there are also moving moments amid the hilarity' DAILY MIRRORHello? Can you hear me? Probably not. I'm Dr Miriam Price . . . and I'm dead....

Growing up in a small village in the Rhymney Valley, Luke's life was shaped by his Jehovah's Witness upbringing, a path he'd eventually navigate to come out to his parents, knowing he risked losing them. In his raw and honest account, he shares his struggles of always feeling different and being bullied as a child, and his brave decision to leave home at just seventeen, searching for a new life and a place where he truly belonged.Starring first on the West End stages in iconic prod...

Take-no-prisoners trivia-offs. Pill-fueled Twilight Zone marathons. Fan interventions. Here is the ultimate word on the fugly side of fandom, collecting every Eltingville story from the Dork, House of Fun, and The Eltingville Club #1-2, comics three of which won the Eisner Award for Best Short Story. Also features the Northwest Comix Collective alt-comics smackdown and an afterword about the 2002 Adult Swim animated pilot. Definitive, complete and unasha...

In 'Fogel Grip: Noir of Lies, Legacy & Lost Souls!', dive into the thrilling discovery of an ancient ship beneath the World Trade Center that catapults a drug-addicted reporter into the heart of America's shadowy beginnings. Nadia, driven by an insatiable quest for truth, uncovers the obscured legacy of New Sweden-a forgotten colony that challenges everything we thought we knew about William Penn and the untamed lands of American folklore.Nadia's investigation into Gertrude Svensdo...

Sea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval battle ever fought.Told from both the American and Japanese sides, through the eyes of commanders and sailors of both navies, Thomas's history adds an important new dimension to our understanding of World War II.Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japa...

The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names.From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names going - now described and explained in one humorous and fascinating book.Australia's vast spaces and irreverent, larrikin history have given us some of the best place name...

The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy.John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re...

Along with thousands of his compatriots, Wladyslaw Anders was imprisoned by the Soviets when they attacked Poland with their German allies in 1939. They endured terrible treatment until the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 suddenly put Stalin in the Allied camp, after which they were evacuated to Iran and formed into the Polish Second Corps under Anders command.Once equipped and trained, the corps was eventually committed to the Italian campaign, notably at Monte Cassino. The au...

A mystical artifact from ancient times, known only as the Mask, will give whoever dons it near limitless power.With the mask on, there is nothing beyond your ability, which explains why every crook, criminal, and lowlife is itching to get their hands on it. The hunt for the mask goes from sea to shining sea, involving voodoo, Amazonian tribesmen, ninjas, Mafiosi, Crypto-Nazis...and the barded Thespian Club!This Omnibus edition collects over 375 story pages!...

Alessia Cavalii is a rising star in the competitive international wine scene, and one of only twenty-six female master sommeliers in the world. Her home is a gorgeous, renovated winery on the sun-soaked southern coast of Italy, she has a career she adores, and she has finally managed to end a long-term toxic relationship. But Alessia is hiding a dangerous secret—and she’s edging dangerously closer to losing the beautiful life she’s worked so hard to create.Parker Haven is a captain...

Parker Mandli arrives in Mayville with fresh wounds and a litany of failures. Determined to put those mistakes behind her and start a new venture, she opens a shoe store in the artsy Tomlinson Street neighborhood—right across the street from Fire Station Two.Cate Wildman is a no-nonsense, by-the-book firefighter dedicated to her job with precious little time for romance. But when she shows up to conduct a fire inspection in Parker’s new store, Cate’s carefully curated life is throw...