The definitive biography of Charles Darwin—now in one abridged and fully updated volumeBased on the two-volume National Book Critics Circle Award–winning biography hailed as “the definitive Darwin biography” (Newsday) • “a wonderful and well-rounded portrait” (The Washington Post) • and “magnificent” and “irresistible” (The Sunday Times)Janet Browne’s award-winning, two-volume biography of Charles Darwin has been ...

She’s your oldest friend and you tell each other everything. So you’d know if she’d done something terrible, wouldn’t you? Maddie and Kiara have been best friends since they met on their first day at university. They have always shared everything with each other, everything except one big secret, which Kiara knows would tear them apart…When the police knock on Maddie’s front door as she and husband Nick are getting ready for the morning school...

I'm ashamed of what I did but everyone makes mistakes, right?Academic overachiever Abbie Cooper is determined to become a top neurosurgeon one day. She just needs to be admitted into her dream college, Princeton University. But at St. Matthews Academy, nothing is ever simple. The pressure is overwhelming, the secrets are dirty, and the games are wicked.When a mysterious stalker known as The Avenger threatens to expose the dark secre...

She told my little boy a secret and now he’s gone…Tucking her little boy Ollie into bed one night, Sarah notices his beloved teddy bear, which she bought him when he was born, is missing and in its place is a new toy given to him by her ex-husband’s new girlfriend, Laura. When she asks Ollie about it, he begins to shift uncomfortably, before whispering ‘Laura told me a big secret and she said I can never tell you’.Sarah’s heart sinks. But when she raises he...

Kaitlin has been looking forward to her engagement party for weeks. She’s finally introducing her fiancé Greg to her best friend Zoe, but as the champagne corks pop, her dream party soon becomes her worst nightmare… Staring at the stunning diamond solitaire on her finger, Kaitlin knows her relationship has been a whirlwind… but Greg looks after her, and he loves playing dad to her young daughter. How could she refuse when he’s already planned their romantic elopem...

Emily and Jake are the perfect couple. Or so everyone says. But Emily just read a letter that has shattered her perfect world. Now she only has one thing on her mind… which one of her friends is sleeping with her husband? Emily watches Jake as he makes small talk with their children, still the perfect man she married years ago. But when the phone rings and he answers before quickly putting it down again, she sees the look on her husband’s face – guilt. She knows the sig...

I’ll do anything to protect my daughter…When I pick my beloved daughter Poppy up from school one afternoon, my mind races when I see the little girl holding Poppy’s hand. With the same heart-shaped face, long brown hair and dark eyes, the two girls look identical. In fact, they look like sisters.Is the secret I’ve been holding on to for so long about to be revealed? That night, I cuddle Poppy even harder, desperately trying to dec...

The world has become a scary place - religious wars, global terrorism, genocide. The Information Age has transported us into the Anxiety Age. Everyone is on edge, wondering what is coming next. People want answers to the following:* Was the 2020 worldwide Coronavirus outbreak foretold?* What do all the great prophecies mean - Nostradamus and the Book of Revelation among them?* What will happen in the next 50 years? The next 100 years?* If the world is going to ...

From the author of the acclaimed Cherry Beach comes a thrilling exploration of love and desire — obsessive, all-consuming, and impossible to look away from.On an ordinary day, two women meet on a train.Heloise — the older woman — lives with her boyfriend in Melbourne.Lacey — the other woman — is from Aotearoa and studies the clouds.What follows is anything but ordinary, a passionate affair that will consume them both in mismatched a...

A quaint Irish village, a klutzy Dublin single mum, and a handsome former flame...In this charming romantic comedy, twenty-six-year-old Aislin Moore is at a crossroads: a lot of her life needs improvement, but what she really needs is a father. Not for herself, mind, but for her young son, daddy-hungry Kevin--she’s determined to succeed at motherhood, if nothing else. So Aislin follows the mad impulse to track down the perfect father-figure for her little boy.Ben C...

Interested in growing your own food? From the author of the award-winning Little Farm in the Foothills homesteading memoir comes a friendly, down-to-earth little guide for starting and maintaining a thriving food garden. In Little Farm in the Garden, Susan Colleen Browne shares the evolution of her own homestead garden with warmth and humor.Whether you’re starting with a pot, a small plot, or dedicated garden beds...

In this award-winning, true-life tale for gardeners, nature-lovers, and dreamers of all ages, Little Farm in the Foothills follows a midlife couple’s pursuit of the “new” Great American Dream—living closer to the land—as Susan and her husband John start growing their own organic food, living more simply, and transforming an old clearcut into a little homestead.For the fifty-somethings, figuring out how to raise food on their logging slash-covered property seemed like a mod...