'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTShortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner of Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and a BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club pick'Miraculous'SUNDAY TIMES'Gorgeous and life-affirming'R. F. KUANG'A ma...

The second Ciaphas Cain omnibusConfronted with the powers of Chaos and hordes of alien foes, our intrepid commissar seeks to sidestep danger and talk his way out of trouble.READ IT BECAUSEThe Imperial hero returns in a second set of tongue-in-cheek memoirs relating his greatest victories against savage greenskins, monstrous tyranids and the greatest Chaos invasion in ten thousand years…DESCRIPTIONThe l...

After working at a small Manhattan clothing boutique for a little over a year, Torry Hansen requested permission from the owners to let her design the window displays. It was not easy for her to ask for what she wanted, particularly since she had pushed away her love for fashion after her mother had died in a tragic accident. All her life she had yielded to others, stuffing down her desires so as not to jeopardize her relationships. She became increasingly dissatisfied with her life, strug...

A comparative study of a literary friendshipC. S. Lewis and Austin Farrer were friends and fellow academics for more than 20 years, sharing both their Anglican faith and similar concerns about their modern world. Lewis, as Christian apologist and popular novelist, and Farrer, as philosophical theologian and college priest, sought to defend a metaphysically thick universe in contrast to the increasingly secular culture all about them, and this defense was o...

Following the 1957 season, two of baseball’s most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants,left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers went to Los Angeles and the Giants to San Francisco. Those events have entered baseball lore, and indeed the larger culture, as acts of betrayal committed by greedy owners Walter O’Malley of the Dodgers and Horace Stoneham of the Giants. The departure of these two teams, but especially the Dodgers...

On an outpost Imperial world on the fringes of Tau space, Ciaphas Cain and his regiment of Valhallan Guard, find themselves in the middle of a war. As the Imperial Guard struggle to contain worldwide civil insurrection, can the wily Commissar Cain identify the real villain before the planet is lost to the Imperium forever?Read it becauseIt's your introduction to the unique hero that is Commissar Cain, and his trusty Valhallans, including such memorable chara...

She came home with nothing but her daughter and a broken heart.After her husband ends their marriage, Avery Brown packs up six-year-old Sophia and drives to Sunset Cove. It's the only safe place she knows. Her grandfather's old Victorian home needs work, but she can start fresh here with her daughter.Then Grant Danielson crashes back into her life.He was her closest friend in high school. While Avery was gone, Grant built a steady life in Sunset Cov...

Facing eviction, an artist begins an unlicensed massage practice out of his home. The money helps-but it's the people who change him: clients who speak honestly, making him an intimate partner in their healing journey, and who pull him into a new way of understanding the body, intimacy, and love. When one of his clients dies, she leaves him a mysterious gift. More than a financial legacy, his inheritance sends him on an explicit, sex-filled, personal-growth-adventure that fills his heart, ...

In the era of Bettie Page and big-band music, rationing and war, every person has a story. This work of fiction shows the blossoming romance between two American soldiers in a time when every tomorrow is an uncertainty.

Cheated on…Battered by emotion…You don't know where to turn.You feel betrayed, devastated, embarrassed, angry, and completely heartbroken.You ask yourself,"How can I stop infidelity from ruining my life?""How do I cope with this nightmare?You don't realize there is a roadmap that explains what you are going through. That roadmap is Cheating in a Nutshell.Knowledge is Power and Understanding is Liberatin...

Into the queer new yonder!To conclude the trio of anthologies that started with critically acclaimed All Out and Out Now, Out There features seventeen original short stories set in the future from fantastic queer YA authors.Explore new and familiar worlds where the human consciousness can be uploaded into a body on Mars…an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels…two teens get stu...

The Fireless Cook Book: A Manual of the Construction and Use of Appliances for Cooking by Retained Heat, with 250 Recipes, by Margaret J. Mitchell, is a comprehensive guide to the innovative method of fireless cooking, a technique that revolutionized early 20th-century kitchens by allowing meals to be prepared with minimal fuel and effort. This detailed manual provides step-by-step instructions for constructing and using various fireless cookers—insulated containers that retain heat and co...