**“I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size.” —Jon StewartAlthough his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now.**Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch...

In this tale of hope and love, too-tall spinster Thea Coulson wants to be a mother to a child who arrives in Nebraska on an orphan train. When Booker Hayes shows up to take his niece, a marriage of convenience suits them both.Thea’s nights are filled with dreams of the tall, dark army major, but she guards her heart. Booker’s first taste of home and hearth has him longing for more, but first he must win the trust of his niece..and the heart of the sun-kissed farmer's daughter.

The cover photograph is of the author alongside 'a child of Noah'.Why? Because this statue at Purekireki Marae, Pirongia in theWaikato, depicts an ancestor of the Patupaiarehe people andNuku (Noah in the ancient language of New Zealand) is said to betheir founding father.So was Noah the first to find and settle this country?● The Patupaiarehe call him Ue-Nuku (the bow of Noah) andknew him as the 'rainbow god'.● The ancient nam...

1918: The end of the war to end all wars. The end of an era for victors and vanquished alike.When Germany launched the Ludendorf Offensives—the most massive military bombardment of World War I—they seemed certain to win. But when American troops began arriving in droves, the Allies' certain defeat became a decisive victory.No Man's Land takes us into the trenches, behind enemy lines, into military strategy sessions and through the corridors of power in Lond...

No Man's Land by David Baldacci is an exciting thriller featuring special investigator John Puller, who is pursuing a case that will send him deep into his own troubled past.One man demands justice . . .John Puller is the US Army's most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother's disappearance thirty years ago. New evidence has come to light suggesting that Puller's father – a highly decorate...

Shortlisted for Non-Fiction Book of The Year, Irish Book Awards 2025'An outstanding work' Michael D. Higgins'Explosive' Irish Times'An honest, uncompromising book that pulls no punches in identifying the powerful interests that are stymieing Ireland’s transition to a more equitable low carbon future for all. Essential reading for the public and policymakers alike.' Mary Robinson‘A profoundly important and extremely...

Deepen your knowledge of the geography of the Holy Land to enrich your study of the Bible· Includes full-color maps, illustrations, and photos· From a biblical scholar and experienced Holy Land guideThe stories we read in the Bible didn't happen in a vacuum or on a soundstage. They happened in real places, in real time, to real people--and those people were formed by the places they lived. Each subregion within the land of Israel shaped the human expe...

Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue . . .Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to her the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world.But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard . . .Now an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book w...

After his father is accused of murder, combat veteran and Special Agent John Puller must investigate his past and learn the truth about his mother in this New York Times bestselling thriller--but someone hiding in the shadows wants revenge.Two men. Thirty years.John Puller's mother, Jackie, vanished thirty years ago from Fort Monroe, Virginia, when Puller was just a boy. Paul Rogers has been in prison for ten years. But twenty years before that, he...

Spezialagent Puller ermittelt in seinem persönlichsten und schwersten FallDreißig Jahre ist es her, dass John Pullers Mutter spurlos verschwand. Der Fall wurde nie aufgeklärt. Doch nun tritt plötzlich eine frühere Freundin der Familie mit einer ungeheuerlichen Behauptung auf: Puller senior hätte damals seine eigene Frau ermordet. Tatsächlich zeigt sich, dass der Beschuldigte in der fraglichen Nacht nicht im Militäreinsatz war, wie stets behauptet, sondern heimlich ...

Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environmental effects and left a troubled legacy.When two mining companies in Yellowknife began processing gold ore in the 1940s, they did so with little or no pollution controls. Giant Mine spewed thousands of kilograms of arsenic trioxide from its roaster stack into the environment, causing ill...

'Het ijzige land' is deel 3 van de spannende internationale bestsellerserie 'De Grijze Jager' van John Flanagan. Alleen in Nederland en België zijn er van deze fantasyreeks al meer dan 1,5 miljoen boeken verkocht. Will en Evanlyn zijn in 'Het ijzige land' na een hevige strijd met hun vijand Morgarath gevangengenomen door Erak, de aanvoerder van de Skandiërs. Hij heeft hen ontvoerd naar het ijzige Skandia. Halt, de mysterieuze Grijze Jager, gaat Will en Evanlyn achterna en zet alles op alle...