The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas• Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize •Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The Oprah Magazine• A New York Times Notable Book • An American Library Association Notable Book • Winner of the World Fantasy Award

She thought she knew what betrayal looked like until the man she loved made her feel like a secret in the world he asked her to stand beside. Nina Serrano built her life with her own hands, restoring damaged leather, protecting her craft, and refusing to let anyone decide her worth. But when the truth behind her relationship with a powerful biker is exposed, she walks away from the only man who ever made her feel chosen.Callan Rennick has spent his life protecting people with silen...

A Ciaphas Cain omnibusThe tyranids may just be the greatest threat the Imperium has ever faced, voracious extragalactic monsters intent on devouring all life… but they've never had to contend with Commissar Cain! These three novels tell tales of Cain vs the tyranids plus there are t'au and zombies too!READ IT BECAUSEThese outrageous adventures of the Imperium's most heroic Commissar have never been collected in an omnibus before so i...

A comparative study of a literary friendshipC. S. Lewis and Austin Farrer were friends and fellow academics for more than 20 years, sharing both their Anglican faith and similar concerns about their modern world. Lewis, as Christian apologist and popular novelist, and Farrer, as philosophical theologian and college priest, sought to defend a metaphysically thick universe in contrast to the increasingly secular culture all about them, and this defense was o...

The second Ciaphas Cain omnibusConfronted with the powers of Chaos and hordes of alien foes, our intrepid commissar seeks to sidestep danger and talk his way out of trouble.READ IT BECAUSEThe Imperial hero returns in a second set of tongue-in-cheek memoirs relating his greatest victories against savage greenskins, monstrous tyranids and the greatest Chaos invasion in ten thousand years…DESCRIPTIONThe l...

Following the 1957 season, two of baseball’s most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants,left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers went to Los Angeles and the Giants to San Francisco. Those events have entered baseball lore, and indeed the larger culture, as acts of betrayal committed by greedy owners Walter O’Malley of the Dodgers and Horace Stoneham of the Giants. The departure of these two teams, but especially the Dodgers...

On the night of 30 October 2002, eight bomb blasts tore through Soweto, leaving one woman dead and damaging vital infrastructure. The bombs were the work of a far-right white Afrikaner separatist group called the Boeremag, whose stated aim was to overthrow the ruling ANC government, rid the country of black people and reinstate a new Boer-administered republic. For months before the bombings, police had been investigating the terror group and had made several arrests. In December, after an...

"If Mr. Mitchell gives an eloquent account of the effects of Job's poetry in his introduction, in the translation itself he does even better: he makes those effects come alive. Writing with three insistent beats to the line, and hammering home a succession of boldly defined images, he achieves a rare degree of vehemence and concentration." — John Cross, New York TimesA timeless work of wisdom literature, Book of Job, The pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual ins...

Mitchell Hogan, an imaginative new talent, makes his debut with the acclaimed first installment in the epic Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, A Crucible of Souls, a mesmerizing tale of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery**.**When young Caldan’s parents are brutally slain, the boy is raised by monks who initiate him into the arcane mysteries of sorcery.Growing up plagued by questions about his past, Caldan vows to discover who his p...

Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War (1861–1865) and the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) that followed the war. The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States (the "Union") and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy"). A dispute over states' rights has arisen involving enslaved African p...

She saw a murder. Now the ghost won't let her forget—and the killer won't let her live.Philadelphia, 1841. Seventeen-year-old Annis Hargrave is running from a nightmare. She and her brother have fled New York, burdened by secrets, grief, and the cursed blue pearl that may have brought death in its wake. But the past refuses to stay buried.Offered work as a medical illustrator by the enigmatic Dr. Thomas Mütter, Annis enters a world of surgical marvels and gro...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book explores the extraordinary life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian ruler who reshaped the ancient world before the age of thirty.From his early education under Aristotle to his rise as king of Macedon, the narrative follows his relentless ambition to conquer the mighty Persian Empire and expand his influence across three continents. Blending military history with political insight, this book reveal...