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The Big PictureHow did I get here?It's a question I've asked myself more than once, standing in the middle of a freezing blizzard on a mountain with my children, with visibility barely twenty feet... or sitting across from companypresidents in countries I had only once seen on a map.The truth is, there was no single moment that brought me here.It was a series of choices.Some small. Some life-changing. Some made without much t...

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known just as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. The novel is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. First published on 28 February 1749 in London, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel, and is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book "Great Novelists and Their Novels" among the ten best novels of the world. Totaling 346,747 wor...

Bridget Jones is back and her life is as chaotic as ever in The Edge of Reason, the number one bestseller from Helen Fielding and the major motion picture starring Renée Zellweger.'Could The Edge of Reason really be as funny as its predecessor? The answer is yes . . . Bridget, the original Singleton, is on ripping form' - Daily ExpressBridget Jones has finally found love with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. The Wild...

According to Wikipedia: "Sarah Fielding (8 November 1710 9 April 1768) was a British author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She was the author of The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749), which was the first novel in English written especially for children (children's literature), and had earlier achieved success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple (1744)."

Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. Attacked at the time as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery', it overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough notes, ma...

**From a New York Times–bestseller, a "suburban supermom in peril, from a master of the supermom-in-peril genre...Domestic menace at its most menacing" ( Kirkus Reviews)."You're in danger. You and Amanda."The warning draws Bonnie Wheeler to a place she has never been:To the brutally slain body of her husband's ex-wife . . .To the shattering of her perfect world by a murdered woman's secrets . . .To a place where every truth beco...

"You're in danger. You and Amanda."Hours after receiving this message from her husband's ex-wife, the caller ends up dead.And Bonnie becomes the number one suspect in a murder investigation.Fighting to prove her innocence and to keep herself and her daughter safe, Bonnie attempts to track down the killer.But while Bonnie gets closer to the truth, the killer is getting closer to Bonnie . . .Tense, dark and packed with twists, ...

Get hooked on the first book in the Edinburgh-set DI Luc Callanach series from the million-copy internationally bestselling author.‘I love, love, LOVE Perfect Remains!’ Reader review‘A superb debut!’ Reader review‘Without doubt, this is one of the best first detective series I have ever read.’ Woman’s Way MagazineOn a remote Highland mountain, the body of Elaine Buxton is burning. ...

A Stars from Peril NovelPainting themselves a life together will be a royal ordeal.Small-town boy Cal Walters doesn't know whether he owes his phenomenal success as an artist to talent or to his connections to famous people. Doubt leaves him secluded—until a lost bet lands him on yet another blind date. But this one is different.To Teofilo Vabriga-Kastav, playboy prince of the tiny nation of Porvunia and passionate art lover, Cal's painting...

"One of the great books of the Second World War"—Antony Beevor"Hide and Seek, first published in 1954 and unavailable for many years, is surely among the best wartime memoirs. It is narrated in a vivid close-up style…by a man who spent two years in caves and other hideouts in the White Mountains, venturing to the coast only to guide a supply submarine with flashing torch, or to smuggle endangered or exhausted colleagues to safety in Cairo…It is remarkable that he lived to tell the ...

Earth was never invited. It was selected.After surviving a near midair collision, airline pilot Kup Winston rescues the commander of a crippled alien spacecraft and uncovers a conspiracy that will turn Earth into a prison colony for hundreds of thousands of violent alien convicts.Now he's being hunted. Only he can stop Earth from becoming someone else's prison.A gripping first-contact techno-thriller blending re...

King Brey and Queen Ethel were once in love—until they became husband and wife.While Brey was instantly infatuated upon meeting his betrothed, the arrangement made by her father was an unwelcome surprise for Ethel. Forced to surrender all she knew, Ethel did so reluctantly, and her torn heart broke her husband’s.Now, the two live lazily in a palace too small for their bitter feelings and venomous words.But their reign of indulgence has been costly, and they must fina...