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In the quiet, forgotten corners of a small town, a dark legacy lies buried beneath centuries of secrets. When Clara Vanleigh uncovers the mysterious past of her family’s ancestral home, Vanleigh Manor, she is thrust into a world where the line between the living and the dead is thin, and ancient curses still hold sway.With her closest friend, Ruth, at her side, Clara embarks on a harrowing journey to break the curse that has haunted her bloodline for generations. As they delve deep...

When social worker Damon Shorter, once an aspiring jazz musician, hears one of his clients singing snatches of songs unlike anything he's heard before, their beauty captivates him. Erina has spent her early adulthood see-sawing between psychiatric wards and the streets. She tells him she never writes anything down and never tries to make these phrases into a whole song because every moment of life should exist only for itself.Damon starts getting visions of reviving his faltering s...

Set in southern Ontario during the 1980s, acclaimed poet Catherine Graham's debut novel is as layered as the open-pit mine for which it is named. Only child Caitlin Maharg lives with her parents beside a water-filled limestone quarry, but her idyllic upbringing collapses when she learns her mother is dying. After a series of family secrets emerges, she must confront the past and face her uncertain future. Lyrically charged, jewelled with images and at times darkly comic, Graham's prose wea...

“The most frightening novel of the year.” – The ScotsmanTodd, Randy, and Carter come across a boy while roaming the countryside near their town. They take him hostage in a cave in an abandoned quarry and consider what to do next.In Lord of the Flies, William Golding needed a plane crash and a desert island to bring out the capacity for violence and evil in his English schoolboys. Jane White, a mother and housewife living in Godalming when she wrote Qua...

If you are an intermediate or advanced learner, the Grammar Cubes Puzzle book offers you:• Clear grammar explanations and rules.• 10 cubes to solve for each Grammar Learning Objective.• Empty cube boards to make up new ones for each grammar learning objective.• Sentences to build and comprehend.• Vocabulary enrichment opportunities.• Answer sheet at the end of the book.• If you are an English teacher, then this book offers you the opportunity to incorporate the grammar cubes to curriculum ...

The world keeps changing.Alexander's world was upended three years ago when a spot of espionage had ripple effects that transformed every part of his life, even his relationship with his own magic. Now, he's compelled by politics to spend the summer of 1938 in America instead of with his family and friends. No problem, he can tend to loose ends, like a threat that's been looming over his chosen family for more than a decade.Alexander knows his duties and hi...

THE CRIME FICTION CLASSIC: Meet Quarry—an ex-Marine sniper and hired killer with a taste for justice—in this “fast-paced, sexy, violent, and entertaining” series kick-off (BookReporter).The assignment was simple: stake out the man’s home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay.The longest-running series from Max ...

When a shy young worker unexpectedly gets invited for drinks and girl talk by her department head, she ends up learning a lot more about her boss's life and loves than she really wants to know. And through the process, about her own.

It is said revenge is a dish best served cold. Follow Simon, a troubled youth, through a sordid tale of his short life, with an ending that will leave you questioning who's more twisted, Simon or this author?

Still waters run deep…Tommy's been away from his home in rural Somerset for three years. Long enough to sort out who he is, and to get over the feelings of confusion and shame that blighted his lifelong friendship with farmer's boy Rob. He's out and proud, now—and he's coming home to claim back what he lost.Rob's the one who stayed behind, working on the farm with little time for a social life. With Tommy coming back into his world, he could have a lot to gain—and everythin...

Hidden beneath the surface of an isolated landscape lies a mystery waiting to be uncovered in The Secret of the Quarry. When unusual events and puzzling discoveries begin to surround a seemingly abandoned site, curiosity quickly turns into a dangerous search for answers. What first appears to be a local curiosity soon reveals connections to long-buried secrets and motives that some are determined to keep hidden. Joseph Smith Fletcher masterfully builds suspense through intricate plotting, ...

Winner - Best Novel - British Science Fiction Association Awards, 2024The Green Man sends Daniel Mackmain to stop threats from folklore making trouble in the everyday world. Now a naiad and dryad want him to deal with the big cat they’ve seen prowling in their woods. Reports like this turn up in the tabloid press from time to time, though no one has ever caught such a cat, or even found evidence of a large carnivore’s kills.Can Dan discover the truth behind this modern myth...