*GOLD AWARD WINNER* -- Nonfiction Authors Association★★★★★ -- Readers' Favorite"Lively, appealing, and instructive; perfectly targeted to the millennial demographic." -- Kirkus Review"Be HAPPY"Find your inner happiness!Are you tired of people telling you to "be happy"? Are you exhausted from dating ap...

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."Thomas Mann's acclaimed novel, The Magic Mountain, is a dizzyingly rich novel of ideas in which a Swiss sanatorium becomes a microcosm of pre-First World War Europe, playing with the elasticity of time, engaging in philosophical dialogue and ideological discourse, and blending personal growth with historical tragedy.Hans Castorp, a young German engineer, arrives at a luxurious Alpine sanatorium to visit h...

The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series.How far would you run to escape your past?Venice Beach, Los Angeles. A paradise on earth.Tourists flock to the golden coast and the promise of Hollywood.But for eight strangers at a beach front hostel, there is far more on their mind than an extended vacation.All of them are running from something. And they all have secrets they’d ...

*GOLD AWARD WINNER* -- Nonfiction Authors Association★★★★★ -- Readers' Favorite"Lively, appealing, and instructive; perfectly targeted to the millennial demographic." -- Kirkus Review"Be HAPPY"Find your inner happiness!Are you tired of people telling you to "be happy"? Are you exhausted from dating ap...

Inspired by the heroic war time escapades of his father, as well as drawing on his own experiences in the special forces, acclaimed adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes thrillingly explores the history of elite military units, from ancient Sparta to the War on Terror.Elite military units have frequently been immortalised on the big screen, and in computer games, for their daring deeds. Whether it be fighting on the battlefield, storming castles, rescuing hostages, high stakes reconnaissa...

From Boston Globe**–**Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes.Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they’re on crashes and the pilot dies upon landing. For days they survive alone, until Fred finds a map that leads them to a ruined city, and to ...

Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.After an introduction by the editors, Paul B. Kane and Marie O’Regan, this collection includes the following stories:“The Bully” by Jeffery Deaver“Dead Weight” by Fiona Cummins“Like a Glass Jaw” by Mark Billingham“On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man

When wounded, grieving war-hero Jack Fiskardo arrives in the London of 1639 from the battlefields of Europe, a veteran not just of conflict but of tragedy, his only wish is to make a life for himself and his two sons different to any he has known. But in an England on the verge of civil war, and a city full of bitter rivalries and deadly secrets, a soldier's past cannot be so easily forgotten.As the country pulls itself apart there are battles to be fought of the heart and mind as ...

Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Stalingrad by Antony Beevor, read by Peter Noble.Antony Beevor's Stalingrad is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest moments.In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'.The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determinati...

**‘The very grubby coalface of foreign policy … I found the entire book most horribly addictive’ Independent‘One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into undermining the other’ SpectatorA fascinating insight into the untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East.**In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two men sec...

The inspiration for a film directed, written and produced by Baltasar Kormákur, co-written by Olaf Olafsson.""Delicate, absorbing...as satisfying as it is moving."" — VogueA mesmerizing, panoramic story of one man’s search to find a lover who suddenly disappeared decades beforeWhen the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even...

Before iron helmets and steel swords, when dragons roamed the world, was an age of bronze and stone, when the Gods walked the earth, and people lived in terror.A scribe, a warlord, a dancer, a mute insect and a child should have no chance against the might of the bickering gods and their cruel games. But the gods themselves are old, addicted to their own games of power, and now their fates may lie in the hands of mere mortals . . .By divine plan a plague of cannibals has be...