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Living and working in Rumania, Guy and Harriet Pringle are forced to evacuate to Greece before the steady advance of the German army. The Balkan Trilogy is the remarkable portrait of their marriage, a haunting evocation of a vanished way of life and a delightfully ironic comedy of manners in a breaking world.

Jane Austen – novelist, forthright letter writer, daughter and sister of Anglican clergy – had a rarely-matched insight into human character. Like Lent itself, she exposes frailty, caprice and pomposity without losing a profound and compassionate understanding of human nature. Her life was profoundly shaped by the church and Christian spirituality, making her writings an ideal accompaniment for the 40 days of Lent. Rachel Mann introduces Jane Austen, her world and her ideas, and, for each ...

Chuck Aldrin has spent his working life building the power generating business that supplies more than half of Voltaire's energy. Now he just wants to finish building his boat and go sailing.But others have plans for the nuclear facility and when Nick Aldrin discovers something strange is going on he and his father are faced with trying to stop a terrorist conspiracy wanting to take control of their fledgling colony world.Instead of a summer sailing around the islands the A...

ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVINGEvery Tuesday, Rufus Manning reports to the Job Centre with a diary full of jobs he never applied for, interviews he never attended, and an adviser who believes every word of it.Every other day belongs to someone else.Alone on the twenty-first floor of a crumbling tower block, Rufus has built a world to survive in: Earl Grey becomes an uninvited aristocratic guest. His mouldering chair becomes Charlie, a coward and deserter. Hi...

'Deeply satisfying and impossible to put down' Santa Montefiore'Fascinating . . . a gripping story of love and war' Rachel Hore'An absorbing, unconventional love story' Woman & Home'Highly absorbing and atmospheric' StylistAfter the Last Dance is an extraordinary and vivid story of two women, separated by time but connected by fate, that w...

Wildlife photographer Hannah gets more than she bargained for when she camps alone in the wilderness and stumbles upon werewolves Logan and Nathan skinny dipping in an isolated lake.Caught spying on the pair's private moment together, she is unable to evade capture. Confronted by the alpha Logan, her fear and arousal is unmistakable, triggering a blazing desire in the two men.Before she knows it, Hannah finds herself exposed before them--stuffed and...

Your views and perceptions of many things will change after reading this book. In very simple and clear terms, it explains how you are able to read life like a book. You will be able to understand many things by paying closer attention to your environment and the nature of your fellow human beings, especially the workings of the mind. The human mind operates like a command and control center by receiving external impressions and processing them for all action and inaction.The autho...

“Immersive…awe-inspiring.” —The New York Times “An epic story of love, hope, and perseverance.” — #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker KlineThis “stellar read” (Los Angeles Times) is an exhilarating tale of an unforgettable young woman who bravely exposes the corruption that enriched her father’s employers in early 1900s Colorado.In a voice infused with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving ...

**“Brennan Manning does a masterful job of blowing the dust off of shop-worn theology and allowing God’s grace to do what only God’s grace can do—amaze.”—Max LucadoAre you bedraggled, beat-up, burnt-out?**Most of us believe in God’s grace—in theory. But somehow we can’t seem to apply it in our daily lives. We continue to see Him as a small-minded bookkeeper, tallying our failures and successes on a score sheet.Yet God gives us His grace, willingly, no matter what we...

In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure dome decreeKublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. He inherited the second largest land empire in history from his grandfather, Genghis Khan. He promptly set about extending this into the biggest empire the world has ever seen, extending his rule from China to ...

In Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City, two moms living in the bluest of cities offer practical guidance, parenting strategies, and humorous commentary to help parents immunize their children against Woke infection. In whichever zip code or tax bracket you dwell, there's hope for parents who seek to indoctrinate their kids into conservatism—that is, kids who understand historical, economic, and biological reality. This book coaches parents in the how, when, and who of teaching childre...

Intrepid reporter Charlotte "Charlie" James arrives in Paris in 1938 eager to make a fresh start, but little does she know the trouble that awaits her...Charlie James is chasing her first big scoop as correspondent for British-based newspaper The Times, and she needs to prove to her boss that she can do this job as well, if not better, than her male counterparts. The best way to forge the necessary contacts quickly is to make well-connected British expats,...