The Veil has fallen. The truth has awakened. And Lyra must finally choose where she belongs.Lyra thought she had finally uncovered the secrets surrounding her mysterious powers, the cursed prince Kael, and the ancient Veil separating their worlds.She was wrong.When the First Gate awakens, Lyra discovers a truth that changes everything she believed about her past. The Heart of the Veil has always been connected to her—and powerful forces from the cel...

“Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.” — Richard RussoThe acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch ...

The first book of the much anticipated 1797 Club series from USA Today Bestselling author Jess Michaels. The Dukes are coming!The wild and charismatic Duke of Abernathe is the kind of friend anyone would wish to have. He even formed the 1797 Club, consisting of ten men who would all be dukes. But he has full-throatedly declared he will never marry and no one understands why.But Miss Emma Liston doesn’t care why. A longtime wallflower with an absentee father...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake"Searing and sublime … Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist with all of the ...

‘I was hooked in from the very first page of this gripping, fast-paced story of secrets, relationships and betrayals’ Nicki’s Life of Crime Three minutes. That’s all it takes for Meredith’s entire world to fall apart when she watches the videotape of her four-year-old self with Becca, the mother who abandoned her.Meredith can’t believe what her eyes have seen. Yet what if her memory has locked away the painful reality o...

A critical engagement with and interrogation of the dominant tropes of racial violenceThis volume brings together a diverse cohort of contributors working to trace the genealogies, geographies, and the entanglements of anti-Asian violence. Representing a range of critical perspectives, these essays—a collection of works by scholars, students, and community organizers—open up lines of inquiry that unsettle the taken-for-granted framings of anti-Asian violence as sim...

You trained for years to become a clinician. You learned to diagnose and treat patients, to perform under pressure, and to make decisions when the margin for error was zero. Nobody taught you how to lead people.The assumption - unstated but pervasive - is that physicians already know how to lead. They can hold authority without losing trust, navigate a team fracturing under chronic stress, and stay grounded in their values when it matters most. For most of us, leading did not come ...

* * * USA Today Bestselling Romance Author Jess Michaels presents all five of the hot historical romances in The Notorious Flynns series. * * *The Notorious Flynns Bundle:A new duke with an inherited bride, a lady with a secret desire and a gentleman determined to destroy himself. Along with their friends, the Flynns are not your average family. Pick up the bestselling series readers are raving about.The Other Duke:...

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION PICK 2026'A sumptuous Gothic mystery' NAT REEVE, author of NETTLEBLACK'Kidd has imagination to die for' Guardian'This tale of secrets and mysteries is steeped in atmospheric suspense. Gothic, yes, but galvanised by flashes of inventive wonder' Mail on Sunday**Wildly imaginative . . . [a] terrific steampunk tale' Daily Mai...

Journey into the micro life of Earth with Dr Jess French and discover the minuscule miracles that live all around you – unseen, unheard, and unexplored.The tenth book in the bestselling Children’s Anthologies series, An Anthology of Micro Life explores some of the most incredible miniature life forms on our planet.Children aged 7-9 can meet the weird and wonderful tardigrade or discover the tiny snail that lives in a house of glass in this impressi...

The New Sparkling Series from 10-Time USA Today Bestselling Author Jess MichaelsLady Marianne has been a wallflower since her disastrous debut, but because since she always had a friend, Claudia, along the wall, she never minded much. But when Claudia dies and leaves her a beautiful jewelry box, and a hidden list of things her friend wanted to do in her life, everything is turned on its head. Marianne begins to question what she knows about herself, her dreams and ...