**Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey First Novel Dagger** An Australian bestseller!Geopolitics and espionage collide in this explosive espionage thriller.'Hands down the best debut of the year' Tim Shipman'My favourite debut novel of 2025’ Antonia SeniorTHREE WORDS IN MANDARIN.THAT’S ALL IT TAKES TO END THE WORLD.Planes circle, unable to land. The phone lines are down. The power is out....

**Shortlisted for Book of the Year – Children’s Non-Fiction or Illustrated at British Book Awards 2026****Shortlisted for Picture Book Category at The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2026**In March 2026, Selina was named as the inaugural National Reading Hero recipient of the Queen’s Reading Room medal, a new literary award unveiled by Queen Camilla.Join Shane and friends as they attempt to settle the age-old que...

The Family GhostBy: Max BrownThe troubled Darwin family moves to a small New Hampshire town to start their lives over and leave their past behind. They soon discover their beautiful new home is not as empty as it appears. They find they have a ghostly occupant of a teenage boy named Michael Daniels, whose own past mistakes led to his own troubled end. Through his sage advice, words of wisdom, and understanding on the importance of family, the Darwins slowly begin to recover...

Join Karina and Shona as they embark on an epic adventure through their granny’s house to save the day in time for Saturday Soup.As the sound of reggae music, big belly laughter and the sensational smell of Saturday Soup fills every corner of Granny’s house, Karina and Shona cannot wait to see what’s bubbling in the pot. Granny asks them both to help find fifteen bowls for lunch. But what will they do when catastrophe strikes and there aren’t enough to go around?

Khin's sister Theda has a strange illness and a euthanasia drug locked in a box under her bed. Her doctor thinks her problem is purely physical, and so does she, but Khin is not so sure. He knows what they both went through growing up in Perth – it wasn't welcoming back then for a Burmese-Australian family. With Theda's condition getting worse, Khin heads off to the United States. He needs to sort things out with his ex-partner. Once there, events take a very odd turn, and he finds himself...

Three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address the causes and circumstances behind the rise of autocracies and oligarchies.Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only on the far fringes through most ...

Over the past few decades, there’s been an exponential rise in the number of books and studies on leadership and what we need to do to ensure organizational success in today’s increasingly complex and interconnected global market. And yet, year after year, we continue to see research that shows employee engagement and morale levels plateauing on the low end of the scale. Why is this? Why are we unable to move the needle and create the kind of working conditions that not only allow our empl...

The Whumpy Printing Press presents: High Stakes and Bloody BusinessFrom bloodthirsty monsters to misunderstood victims, this anthology brings together thirty vampire stories. The vampires in these stories are sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always hungry.So sink your teeth into this collection to satisfy your (fictional) bloodlust.Included authors: Kailey Alessi, Ennis Rook Bashe, Max Browne, Mill Cohen, Alfie Court, Megan Renee Doyle, Booker G. ...

The first comprehensive, fully-illustrated approach to the voice that explains the anatomy and mechanics in detailed yet down-to-earth terms, for voice users and professionals of all kindsThis book is the first to explain, in clear and concise language, the anatomy and mechanics of the mysterious and complex bodily system we call the voice. Beautifully illustrated with more than 100 detailed images, Anatomy of the Voice guides voice teachers and students, ...

E. E. Brown's "Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes" offers a comprehensive exploration of the life and career of one of America's most distinguished literary figures and jurists. Utilizing a blend of biographical narrative and critical analysis, Brown's meticulous research sheds light on Holmes' contributions to literature and law, illustrating how these domains intricately intersect. The prose is characterized by its clarity and depth, capturing the philosophical nuances that underpin Holmes' t...

The Tales of the Thames gathers Max Pemberton's river-centered tales of intrigue, pursuit, disguise, and peril, using London's great waterway as both setting and symbolic artery of empire, commerce, and criminal secrecy. Written in the brisk, atmospheric manner of late-Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction, the collection blends thriller mechanics with action-adventure spectacle: fogbound wharves, sudden reversals, social masquerade, and the uneasy proximity of respectability and danger....

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