She lost her mother. She lost her home. Now she’s expected to stay quiet.Eight‑year‑old Sydney Courbis is uprooted from everything she knows after her maman’s death. Forced into the care of Jack Livingstone — a man who wants guardianship more than he wants her — Sydney must adapt fast. From a custody meeting that shatters her last hope, to a boarding school filled with impossible expectations, she survives the only way she knows how: by watching, moving, and refusi...

THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE—IF IT DOESN’T KILL YOU FIRSTLara Jansen is a truthseeker, gifted—or cursed—with the magical ability to tell honesty from lies. Once she was a tailor in Boston, but now she has crossed from Earth to the Barrow-lands, a Faerie world embroiled in a bloody civil war between Seelie and Unseelie. Armed with an enchanted and malevolent staff which seeks to bend her to its dark will, and thrust into a deadly realm where it’s hard to distinguish friend from foe, ...

Lara Jansen is the world’s worst liar. Literally.Born with an uncanny gift to know when the truth is being spoken, Lara lives a quiet, risk-adverse life as a tailor. But when handsome, mysterious Dafydd ap Caerwyn enters her life and claims—truthfully—to be a prince of Faerie, Lara’s world is turned upside-down.Dafydd has traveled from his world—the Barrow-lands—in search of a ‘truthseeker’ to help untangle the truth around his brother’s murder, a crime which the warring fa...

Kidney Disease: From advanced disease to bereavement provides guidance to renal and palliative care professionals dealing with patients with advanced kidney disease, who are approaching end of life. The book describes the tools used to achieve a good death including advance care planning, symptom control law and ethics, recognizing dying, withdrawal of treatment, and a holistic approach to patient care. By using case histories, the book highlights how tofacilitate good communication betwee...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • The author of the international phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians takes us from Capri to NYC, where a young woman finds herself torn between two men—and two very different cultures."Another riveting tale of privilege, culture and romance ... extravagant fashion and deceit, resulting in one truly modern love story." —CNNOn her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, ...

The top ten bestselling series comes to London! As school trips go, this one is pretty awesome…When I was told we were going to London to study Living History, I thought they were joking. But here I am! Rafe Khatchadorian – global jetsetter!Now all I need to do is find a way of avoiding the school bully, getting Jeanne Galletta to talk to me, and try not to get lost in London.But things are never that simple. So fasten your seatbelts and hold on tight, beca...

'Intimate and urgent' Financial Times'A vivid portrait of a tumultuous 20th century life' Mail on Sunday'A rich and rewarding read' Daily Telegraph'I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it' PEGGY GUGGENHEIMVENICE, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. Hers has been a thrilling, tragic, near-i...

New York Times Bestseller“Into the blender go Anita Loos, Bridget Jones, Sex and the City, and Clueless; out comes a diabolically amusing concoction.” — New York TimesA 10th anniversary edition of New York Times bestselling author Plum Sykes’s sly and amusing satire, with a foreword by the author.Bergdorf Blondes are a thing, you know, a New York craz...

Harbor View Cozy Fantasy SeriesWelcome to Harbor View,where the gossip travels fast, the ghosts linger longer,and no secret stays hidden forever...When Skye Randall returns to her quirky New England hometown after her mother’s sudden death, she brings along her fifteen-year-old daughter, two weeks’ worth of plans, and absolutely no intention of staying. She’s here to settle the estate, sell ...

The no. 1 Sunday Times bestselling satire of New York high society from the wickedly funny pen of Plum Sykes, an addictive cocktail of parties, fashion and romance**'**Perfectly pitched – playful, funny, satirical and sweet. I laughed out loud many times' Anna Wintour, Vogue**'**Sykes has a distinctive, wily and well-deployed comic voice … Into the blender go Bridget Jones, Anita Loos, Sex and the City and Clueless...

From nationally bestselling, award-winning author Liam Callanan, the story of an opportunity to start over at midlife, a chance to save a struggling convent in the Eternal City, and the dramatic re-emergence of an old flame . . .Claire, fifty-two, desperately desires a fresh start. After decades as a real estate broker specializing in old religious properties, she’s looking for something new. And then, on the eve of her thirtieth college reunion, a call comes from ...

After her Aunt Penelope dies, historical researcher Penny Nichols is astonished to learn that not only is she a bona fide heiress-but she's also been invited to put her research skills to work. This time, the history she's researching happens to be her very own. What she discovers about Aunt Penelope-a pair of wills, double lives, secret histories, and a family tree of vultures-is about to sweep Penny and a long-lost relative across France, over the hills of Italy, and throughout half of E...