Unpacking Russian-Japanese relations from 2000-2016, Peter W. Richardson explores the challenges to, and lack of incentives for, enduring reconciliation between the two countries in relation to the Southern Kuril Islands.Paradoxically, Russia and Japan consistently proclaimed commitment to political resolution of the territorial and peace treaty issues and yet habitually engaged in behavior that provoked sensitivities to the contested islands ownership and a stagna...

Everyone is fighting a battle no one else can see.In this deeply personal, faith-centered book, I invite you into the real, unfiltered journey of walking through pain while holding on to belief - the hidden grief carried behind a smile, the wounds I've experienced even within church walls, and the disorienting seasons of waiting when God's timing doesn't match our own.Structured around three central themes - the hidden battles we carry, the process of healing and rebuilding...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

When girl meets geek, the fur’s gonna fly!Dewi Bleacke is a no-nonsense Prime Alpha wolf. As head Enforcer of the Targhee Pack, she’s in charge of Florida. Her assignment is to kill a dirtbag who sold his daughter. She doesn’t expect to find her handsome, albeit geeky, soulmate in the process.Dr. Heathcliff McKenzie Ethelbert lives a quiet, boring life. A professor at USF, he has no girlfriend, no car, and is a devout vegetarian. So when a mysterio...

Ten full-length erotic romance novels that put Highland warriors, exacting professors, and doctors with very thorough hands in charge of what happens next. Wedding night examinations, office hour tutorials, and library deflowerings all run on the same current: an older authority who names the terms, and a woman who wants them named.This scorching hot bundle contains the following full length erotic novels:Ravaged By The Highland WarriorShe runs from one laird straigh...

MEET THE GOVERNOR—He kneels for only one man.I kneel for only one man—Carter Wilson, my best friend, chief of staff, and bastard extraordinaire.It's a price I willingly pay to be owned by Her.His wife.Who is also, as of when we were sworn in this morning, my lieutenant governor.I am Owen Taylor, governor of the great state of Florida.Book 1 of the Governor Trilogy, and the book that kicks off the ent...

Claire Melbourne is a steely newspaper editor who’s just lost the biggest scoop of her career, thanks to her naïve intern’s mistake. Firing the young Ellie Kirkland for the offense was a no-brainer.But when fate brings the two women together again, Claire finds herself questioning everything she thought she was—especially her cynical, take-no-prisoners approach to life. When she’s not breaking stories or breaking in reporters, Claire’s one outlet is to lose herself in Motown music ...

From high school student to Queen of the Fae…When a dragon bulldozes through a portal and into the grounds of her Texas school, Ophelia Monroe can barely believe her eyes. Dragons and magic are just fairy tales, right?Then the dragon bonds with her to spite a Fae prince, and suddenly Ophelia is dragged into a different realm: a world of Fae intrigue and deception where, as Prince Corrin informs her, her dragon bond has made her Queen of the Fae....

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2026'I really cannot overstate how fabulous this book is' DAILY MAIL'Dazzling... This is biography of great brilliance and rare resonance' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A pulsating, vivid life of a true historical titan' DAN JONES'A splendid book, lively, erudite... where myth and heroism meet' RORY STEWARTA stunningly writt...

THE BOOK THOSE IN THE KNOW ARE CALLING THE BEST SPY NOVEL OF THE YEAR*** One of the 50 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR in the Daily Telegraph ****** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ****** A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR ***‘Superbly constructed in an elaborate twisty spy yarn. It's highly unlikely that there will be a better espionage novel this year’ THE SUNDAY TIMES'A breathta...

The thrilling novel of espionage and murder set in the dark heart of Westminster, from the UK's most exciting new spy writerA Russian defector is found brutally murdered in a London hotel.Only four people knew he had turned - the four most important and powerful figures in Whitehall.There's only one conclusion:A mole has infiltrated the highest levels of the nation's security.Operating in secret fro...

Passion and patriotism sizzle on the ice at the Winter Olympics.It’s been a dozen years since two of the world’s best women hockey players, Niki Hartling and Eva Caruso, first competed against each other in the Olympic Games.The pressure of the intense USA–Canada rivalry forced an end to their love affair, and both women moved on—Niki to coach and to marry, Eva to stretch out a playing career that her ravaged body can barely sustain anymore.The Games are upon them o...