**Meet Bibsy Cross, the precocious eight-year-old heroine of this charming chapter book series, as she navigates a relationship with a teacher who thinks that Bibsy is just too much.A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR**Most things are easy-peasy, regular-pegular for Bibsy Cross. She loves her parents, her cat, her best friend, Natia. And she loves going to school. She might just love that most of all!This year, Bibsy has Mrs. Stumper fo...

Managing Your Scarcest ResourcesBusiness leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of advantage. The truly scarce resources now are the time, the talent, and the energy of the people in your organization--resources that are too often squandered. There's plenty of advice about how to manage th...

**Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize 2024****A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of FreeDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and t...

Four teens. One cursed town. And a time portal straight to 1689—where witchcraft isn't a secret, it's a death sentence! Marcus Ballantyne the rebel with a sharp tongue, Chad Zuzansky the tech wizard, Jillian Marshall the beauty with the brains, and Peyton Sansavong the rich girl with an attitude, are four modern day teens who are dragged into a world of witches, whisperings and curses. Each must overcome their own personal demons by travelling back to history's darkest hour, for the sake o...

Jim Garton has compiled substantial proof to demonstrate the Book of Enoch is not an inspired text and was never part of the biblical canon of mainstream Judaism or Christianity. Internal and external evidence will be presented that shatters every claim that Enoch authored or contributed to the Book of Enoch. Prophecies in the text will be revealed as failed predictions and dangerous messages. Popular church doctrines connected to the Book of Enoch will be uncovered and solid arguments wil...

As the old world order crumbles, it has never been more important to understand the rich and fascinating story of Europe – the smallest and largest, oldest and newest continent. But what is Europe?Drawing on a lifetime of study, travel and writing about Europe, Timothy Garton Ash tells its epic story in 160 pages fizzing with anecdote and expertise.Europe is vast – its coastline is longer than the circumference of the Earth – and intricate: you can have bre...

Four teens. One cursed town. And a time portal straight to 1689—where witchcraft isn’t a secret, it’s a death sentence! Marcus Ballantyne the rebel with a sharp tongue, Chad Zuzansky the tech wizard, Jillian Marshall the beauty with the brains, and Peyton Sansavong the rich girl with an attitude, are four modern day teens who are dragged into a world of witches, whisperings and curses. Each must overcome their own personal demons by travelling back to history’s darkest hour, for the sake o...

The Book of Enoch is an ancient text that many are convinced should be considered scripture. Some even claim the Book of Enoch was once in the Bible and advocate for its acceptance as God's inspired word. Are these advocates right? Is the Book of Enoch inspired scripture? Should the Book of Enoch be in the Bible? In The Bible vs. The Book of Enoch, we will compare teachings found in the Book of Enoch against teachings/doctrines found in the Bible to see if the two agree. The Bible vs. the ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZEIn 1978 Timothy Garton Ash went to live in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later, by then internationally famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central Europe, he returned to look at his Stasi file which bore the code-name 'Romeo'. Compiled by the East German secret police, with the assistance of both professional spies and ordinary people turned informer, it contained a...

When Christians are faced with government, corporate, or organizational mandates, they need to turn to the Bible for guidance and for the appropriate response. This book brings biblical clarity to the current issues facing the church concerning lockdowns, mask mandates, closing churches, debt, business, vaccines, Romans 13, love for neighbor, standing up for your rights, and protesting oppressive government actions.Don't try to figure all this out for yourself based on popular publ...

From Richard ChizmarManuscripts found in a dark corner of his office, from a time long forgotten–the Eighties. Revived at the hand of two horror masters, these stories are a slice of the past brought into the present.The SculptorWith Ray GartonAn artist finds a block of stone in his home, ready to be carved. A creative dry spell now broken, but at what cost?Roses and RaindropsWith Brian KeeneA delivery to the old house on the edge of to...

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.Retirement is not the end of your working years but rather the start of something new. With more time on your hands than ever before, filling your days may seem harder than you expected and can leave you wondering 'exactly what do I do now?' This book provides a wide range of upbeat suggestions on ways to luxuriate in your new-found time. Whether it is learning a new lang...