Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave.Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece and best-known work.‘Dazzling. . . Magica...

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio.Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes. In this way she dreams of becoming beautiful, of becoming someone – like her white schoolfellows – worthy of care and attention. Immersing us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression Ohio, Toni Morrison’s indelib...

Grace's husband is a senior firefighter away on a three-month adventure in Australia fighting bush fires. Grace's all alone in her home, but she's used to Reggie being away for months at a time.She's not entirely alone this trip, anyway. Reggie's brother's attending college in their city and he's been staying in their guest room.Adam is a shy young man; tall and good-looking. She jokes to her friends if Adam would just get out of his own way, he'd have all the girls at coll...

Susan Sullivan left everything behind — a husband, a city, a life that was slowly erasing her — to start over in Iron Creek, a village lost high in the Colorado Rockies. Between a classroom full of children and a rancher with too big a heart, she is finally learning to breathe again.But hundreds of miles away, a man has never accepted that she walked out. Travis is looking for her. And there is nothing — nothing — he won’t do to bring her back.When the fiercest storm of the...

When the author read what she had written on May 28, 2019, she couldn't believe her eyes. She had stated, "I know God always wins... but...I don't know if I am ready for the fight!"Is everything that has been recorded in this book over the last three years an answer to this very statement?Moved by Compassion chronicles Rona Morrison's often stunning journey in learning to hear God's voice and her experiences seeking to radically follow Him, even when it involves le...

Nour Sabran once had the finest nose in Grasse — and she used it to copy other people's perfumes instead of making her own. Disgraced and exiled, she lands in New Orleans with a job most people couldn't do: erasing the smell of the dead from the houses they leave behind, so their families can finally let go.Then a doctor finds a tumor growing out of the very tissue that gives her the gift. To live, she will have to lose her sense of smell completely, and forever. She has four month...

The most-heard voice on the planet belongs to a woman no one has ever seen.Hana Seo is "Mira": the voice inside eight hundred million devices, and the voice of a virtual idol who sells out arenas. Her contract forbids her from ever having a public face. She is everywhere — and no one, nowhere.Marcus Vlahos can't recognize a single face. He never could. In his Los Angeles shop, he brings dead machines back to life, and the voices they keep — the voices of the departed, that ...

Under the snow, something got cold enough to wake up.Haltia, Michigan. Eleven hundred people, an iron mine flooded for a century, and a winter that falls to thirty below. When the company pumps the old shafts dry to reach the nickel that fills electric batteries, eight hundred thousand bats flee the mountain in a single night — and freeze in midair over the rooftops.That is only the beginning.Far below, beneath the one level no one has reopened sinc...

'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter' New York TimesAs young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married.Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. Sula is a story of fear - the fear that traps us...

Teacher Toolkit Guides transform the theory of education into practical ideas for your classroom.Unlock the power of cognitive science in your classroom; from memory and metacognition to motivation and mental health!From Ross Morrison McGill, bestselling author of Mark. Plan. Teach. 2.0, this guide explores the intersection of neuroscience, psychology and education, supporting teachers with their understanding of how students learn best. D...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names A Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain] The Man Who Knew Too Much,The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [G.K Chesterton] The Hound of the Baskervilles,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Nebuly Coat [John Meade Falkner] The Chestermarke Instinct,The Middle of Things,The Orange-Yellow Diamond,The Paradise Mystery [Joseph Smith Fletcher] Helen Vardon's Confession,The Singing Bone{R. Austin Freem...

Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home.As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of a friend bent on racial revenge. Now comes Milkman’s chance to uncover his own path. Along the way, he will lose more than he could have ever imagined. Yet in return, he will discover something far more valuable than gold: his past, his true self, his life-long dream of...