'A tour de force' ANDY McGRATH'Every cyclist will see a part of themselves in these pages. Honest, insightful and impossible to put down!' PFEIFFER GEORGI'Cavell interrogates our collective motivations to ride, race and suffer… [and] skilfully weaves evolutionary science, expert analysis, pro racing anecdotes**' BIKE RADAR**'Superb is scarcely an adequate description.' THE WASHING MACHINE POSTFROM TH...

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...

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...

Lilisa Suzunomiya and her rock band are ready to make some noise, but the girls’ first battle of the bands might be their last! Facing off against the intimidating Bitter Ganache, Lilisa and the others have more than pride on the line—lose, and their bassist, Shiro, is gone for good. With their newest (and most nervous) member under pressure, can this rockin’ ensemble keep it together long enough to win over the audience? Or is the newborn band’s performance destined to fall flat?

Every hallelujah doesn’t have to be sung. Some hallelujahs are lived.What if understanding worship as our truest purpose could move us beyond a surface-level faith and into a life of true spiritual intimacy and joy with God?In Everyday Hallelujah singer-songwriter Phil Wickham invites us to see worship not as a Sunday-morning ritual but as a way of life, a way to receive and give God’s grace and to celebrate his faithfulness. With contagious passio...

A telegraph station on the edge of the Atlantic. A war that never quite arrives, and a silence that does.Silas Thorne is eighteen when he walks the last seven miles to Heart's Content, a cable station on the Newfoundland coast where the first message ever sent across the ocean floor came ashore. He expects to spend his war listening for U-boats. He doesn't expect Clara, already seated at her desk, already working, who will still be there twenty years later...

Language is messy. Idioms are worse. We use them recklessly without asking ourselves why we do it. We expect everyone to understand us, but many of these phrases have outlived the societies that created them. Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? Why do people throw salt over their shoulder? How can you drop the ball at work but still be left holding the ball, especially after your boss just threw you a curve ball?Sh*t People Don’t Know pulls back the curtain on a language that behaves l...

Welcome to the seventh volume of the Mindful Writers Retreat Anthology. This collection invites readers into the wonder and weirdness of the Halloween season. Authors use elements of Halloween as the lynchpin, backdrop, or to flavor their tale, poem, or essay. A wide range of genres are represented with the collection leaning more cozy and fun than gory.Ghost tales, romance, historical bits, fantasy, and more bring the perfect diversion for busy autumn days. The volume benefits the...

**"Through candor and comprehensiveness, Jackson writes a convincing revisionist take, in which he emerges as an excellent coach . . . highly readable . . . reflects Jackson’s polymathy." —The New York Times Book Review"Part sports memoir, part New Age spirit quest, part pseudo-management tract . . . But the primary thing with Jackson—as with all the old bards, who were also known for repeating themselves—is the voice." —Sam Anderson, The New York Times Magazine

In this essential handbook—a blend of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Happiness Project—the co-host of the wildly popular InvestED podcast shares her yearlong journey learning to invest, as taught to her by her father, investor and bestselling author Phil Town.Growing up, the words finance, savings, and portfolio made Danielle Town’s eyes glaze over, and the thought of stocks and financial statements shut down her brain. The daughter of a successful investor and bestse...