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THE HOUSE IS WAITING FOR YOU.From a bold new Palestinian voice comes Our Cut of Salt- an unflinching, sinister and moving take on the haunted house novel, perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians and The Haunting of Hill House.'The essential haunted house story of our moment in history' Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Black FlameThere is someth...

"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?"– Epictetus, Stoic philosopherWhere can you find joy? Gain strength? How should we face our fears? Deal with the death of a loved one? And what about those reoccurring depressing thoughts?While traditional schooling doesn't address such questions, it's exactly what ancient schools of philosophy were all about: They taught you how to live. Even though these schools don't exist an...

Flying too close to love could get her heart burned.FBI Agent Trevor Steele is used to tackling impossible missions. But taking a leave of absence to take care of his little sister after their mother’s death is making him long for the days when the hardest thing about his day was having a gun pointed at his head. Once his sister is finished with school, he’s getting the hell out of Pilots Point and getting back to his real life.Callie Baker is drowning in debt. The former b...

Jonas Jonasson is back with another irresistible adventure, this time set in nineteenth century Sweden.After his father’s death is caused by the greedy and cunning Count Bielkegren, Algot Olsson is left with nothing to his name, except for a potato field and a homemade still to make liquor. But Algot is smart, ambitious and resourceful, and it’s not long before he masters the lucrative art of distilling spirits. When his schnapps become a sensation, he finds his su...

The brand-new adventure from the beloved author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna.It doesn’t occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be e...

A beautifully photographed, in-depth guide to the fundamental techniques used to create exquisite bonsai, from the author of The Little Book of Bonsai and the Bonsai Tonight blog.“Anyone working and living with these little trees will find essential guidance for making beautiful bonsai!”—Tyler Sherrod, bonsai artist and teacherIn The Essential Bonsai Book, trusted educator Jonas Dupuich provides a framework for building a ...

The sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and DisappearedIt all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they’re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nu...

A RACE AGAINST TIME TO PULL OFF THE ULTIMATE HEIST.A gripping thriller perfect for fans of Lee Child and Harlan Coben, and ba****sed on an incredible true story*Soon to be a major Netflix feature starring Jake Gyllenhaal*Four men gather in Stockholm. Each has existed on the fringes of Stockholm society. Each has a past that just won't let them go.Then a plan falls into their laps. A plan to steal millions fr...

The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity

At first glance, twenty-one-year-old Jan Weston has it all: a gorgeous boyfriend, fun friends, and wealthy parents who take care of all those pesky credit card bills.Then her boyfriend dumps her, her friendships fall apart, and her parents cut her off. Suddenly without money, without a man, and without a plan, it's time for Jan to grow up.Determined to get her life back on track, Jan decides it's time to make it on her own. Can she find her way as a single lady in San Diego...

A refugee from post–World War II Europe who immigrated to the US in 1949, Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) became one of America's foremost champions of independent cinema and one of its most innovative filmmakers. An admired poet in his native Lithuania, Mekas began recording his life on film shortly after his arrival in New York. Through his work as the author of the Village Voice’s “Movie Journal” column, editor of Film Culture magazine, and founder of Anthology Film Archives a...

Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize: A 'profoundly moving chronicle' (Observer) that tells the story of Ravensbrück, the only concentration camp designed specifically for women, using new testimony from survivorsOn a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant g...