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'The Lion Handbook remains arguably the best single volume introduction to the Bible.' Andy BannisterThe Lion Handbook to the Bible was first published in 1973 and has been continuously in print ever since, selling over 3 million copies worldwide.This fascinating guide to the book that has intrigued and inspired millions of people for thousands of years comprises an authoritative yet accessible commentary on the Bible, book by book and chap...

Her new life wasn’t supposed to include him.Zoe's spent her life playing it safe, but when she inherits a tiny cabin in the Scottish Highlands, she decides it’s time to shake things up. Goodbye, boring London life. Hello, adventure! What could possibly go wrong?Only everything.Her 'cozy' new home has no running water or electricity, the roof leaks like a sieve, and the front door is... missing. And then there’s her new neighbor – Rory. A scorchingly...

In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it journey back in time, it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying on a sidewalk in Cambridge, England, and leads through layers of hell…back through crimes and misdemeanors, prison and homelessness, suicide attempts, violence, drugs, juvenile halls and special schools–to expose the smiling, gregarious thi...

One night destroyed everything I loved—my family, my peace, my future.Now baseball is the only thing keeping me together. It’s the one dream I refuse to lose, even if stepping onto the field means battling panic attacks, whispers from my past, and a teammate determined to see me fail.Then Kade Maxwell crashes into my world. Literally.One collision in the school parking lot. One heated moment in a janitor’s closet where his copper eyes lock on mine and the air crackl...

Named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, NPR, and Time, among many others, this essay collection from the author of The Queen of the Night explores how we form identities in life and in art.**As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times, and "brilliant" by the Washington Post. With his first coll...

Libby Fletcher’s life is a dumpster fire.No boyfriend, no roof over her head, and her acting career in tatters – Libby’s life is falling apart at the seams. So when grumpy Lord Henry Foxbrooke offers her the role of ‘fake girlfriend’ for his thirtieth birthday celebrations, she jumps at the chance.One weekend in the country, pretending to adore a ridiculously handsome, uptight heir? Easy, right?Wrong. Foxbrooke Manor is a real-life Downton Abbey on ...

Emily has the life every woman dreams of.At 29, she has two beautiful kids, a live-in nanny, housekeeper, cook, and every imaginable luxury in the posh Upper East Side townhouse she shares with her drop-dead gorgeous husband, Louis Bruel. His company, Bruel Industries, owns a big chunk of New York City’s most sought-after real estate, and together Emily and Louis embody the perfect hot fairy tale couple for ten happy years of marriage.But when Louis mysteriously starts push...

The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translationThrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas' epic tale of suffering and retribu...

Twin sisters. One dead, one living. But which is which in the latest horror novel from master storyteller K.R. Alexander.Chelsea has now traded places with her evil twin... and finds herself trapped in a ghost space while Angelica takes over. Is it possible for her to get her life back?

★★ A Readers' Favorite 2022 International Book Awards Gold Medal Winner ★★I hunt vampires for a living.Capture the target. Collect the money. Don’t get emotionally involved.Simple rules… until I meet Sam Mason.The powerful Vampire Navy SEAL is lethal, arrogant, and dangerously irresistible.One look into his hypnotic green eyes, and I know he’s the kind of enemy who doesn’t just kill—he consumes.Mind. Body. Soul.Every ...

Two owl detectives solve the mysteries in this charming early reader series, perfect for fans of the Owl Diaries.These best friends are partners in the Night Owl Detective Agency and work together to solve mysteries!Wallace and Grace meet a rabbit who is sure he saw a ghost! But the clues lead them in a different direction. Something is spooking the garden . . . Can Wallace and Grace solve this case?

In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but on a structural analysis, rooted in then-emerging insights from the fields of mathematics and cognition. Here, published again on its fiftieth anniversary, is Alexander’s classic text, together with new in...