When four-year-old Daisy goes missing, DCI Dylan faces his most harrowing case yet. All leads point to Jeffery, a seemingly unassuming suburban resident whose cold, calculating demeanor hides unspeakable horrors. As the clock ticks, Dylan struggles to crack Jeffery's sinister mind games, battling against his own frustration and moral boundaries. But when conventional methods fail, an unconventional force steps in, blurring the lines between justice and vengeance. In a tale of psychological...

A dark, twisted psychological crime thrillerWhen a privileged student stumbles home covered in blood, urine, and bruises, he claims a teacher attacked him. The media explodes. The police are called. Careers are threatened.But DCI David Riley isn't convinced.Miss Fleming has a spotless record. Sebastian McBride has none. His wealthy father wants justice, or revenge, and he knows how to pull strings. But as Riley digs deeper, the story begins to unrav...

Best friends Bryan and Tyson are out for a night in Toronto before Bryan leaves for Vancouver in the morning. But when they miss the late-night bus with a six-pack in tow, everything the two men have bottled up about their friendship starts pouring out—like Bryan’s struggles as a husband and father or Tyson’s volatile outbursts since he got out of prison. As their moonlit vigil unfolds and an ominous police cruiser circles nearby, the ramifications of Bryan’s departure become heartbreaking...

For three decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific—or as paradoxical—as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) through Celebrity (1998) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Allen has produced an average of one film a year, yet in many of these films Allen reveals a progressively skeptical attitude toward both the value of art and the cultural contributions of artists.In examining Allen's filmmaking career, The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Alle...

An inspiring model and guide to navigating your personal heroic journey.Undeniably, the world and its people desperately need more hope. Our friends, foes, family, and fellows are all experiencing challenging times and fighting their own battles, and author Peter Bailey is no exception. From his current vantage point as a successful influence in the leadership and human improvement field, one might assume he looks back on his life (the addiction, the recovery, the ...

When Dr. Pemberton and his team tear a hole through reality, they expect to glimpse distant stars—or nothing at all. Instead, they find a desolate version of Earth, eerily similar yet catastrophically different. In a parallel London, Frank and his family struggle to survive amid the collapse of society, where hunger and desperation threaten to strip humanity of its last shreds of decency.As two worlds collide through an impossible portal a fragile alliance forms. Frank's family cli...

Matthew is just trying to hold the wreckage of his life together after his girlfriend left him for another woman. A chance to review a West End play seems like a lucky break, until it turns into an X-rated nightmare. The next day London tears itself apart, people make love in the streets and kill each other over a dirty sandwich. Overnight everything changes, the city is very quiet, people smile and nod, but what they smile and nod at is only visible to them.The only other normal p...

"Peter's thoughtful model will hopefully enable future practitioners of medicine to argue against any retrograde move towards paternalism and authoritarianism."- Jonathan Silverman, author of Skills for Communicating with Patients, from the Foreword. This inspirational guide provides an innovative framework for understanding the consultation. It is concise, easy-to-read and highly accessible, presenting a simple and easily remembered non-linear diagram which facilitates the understanding o...

Seeking to turn the clock back several centuries, a dedicated group of intellectuals and servicemen set out to restore English royal prerogatives and regain lost colonies and dominions by taking advantage of political unrest in a number of countries. Through intrigue, guile, patronage, flattery and inducements they achieve some of their aims, but emotional problems frustrates others and personal ambitions intrude fatally. The tense action is gripping, unpredictable and exciting. Women read...

When Mark lost his job, he also lost his mind, and he descends into a fantasy world of H.P.Lovecraft and Nazi aliens at the North pole. The shadows on the walls tell him that everything is false, and you can change reality just as easily as opening a door. Of course, this is all the product of a broken mind. Things like this do not really exist, do they?

First published in 2006. Part of the Studies in Social History series, this volume looks at leisure and class in Victorian England, 1830-85, including topics of popular recreation, middle class and working class differences and rational recreation for the masses and the case of Victorian Music Halls in the entertainment industry.

For five decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific—or as paradoxical—as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) to Midnight in Paris (2011) and Blue Jasmine (2013), Allen has produced an average of one film a year; yet in many of these movies Allen reveals a progressively skeptical attitude toward both the value of art and the cultural contributions of artists.In this second edition Peter J. Bailey extends his classic study to consider Allen...