"Assured and alluring, this beautiful tale of women, witchcraft and the fight against power is a delight." —Jessie Burton, New York Times–bestselling authorIn 1612 Lancaster, England, the hunt for witches has reached a fever pitch . . .But in a time of suspicion and accusation, to be a woman may be the greatest risk of all.Fleetwood Shuttleworth, the mistress of Pendle Hill's Gawthorpe Hall, is with child. Anxious to produce an heir, she is di...

Chronicles of the Triarchs: The Phoenix is a saga that will draw you into a world rich in mythology, friendship, and sacrifice, where every choice has weight and every truth hides a price to pay. Get ready to immerse yourself in adventures that combine the charm of legends with the fun, epic nature, and nostalgic flavor of the most classic role-playing games and legendary fantasy sagas.- Gungsang had thrown himself into his antagonist's lair of his own free wil...

Here's the full book description, ready to paste into IngramSpark's "Full Description" field (300 words, comfortably under any typical limit):Sisyphus pushing his boulder up the same hill, forever. Icarus falling from the sky, and the father left behind who must decide whether to build with wax and feather again. Penelope at her loom, unweaving each night what she wove by day, while everyone around her mistakes her stillness for surrender. The old myths are usually told with the ha...

**A Sunday Times bestseller!"Highly atmospheric and tense."--Richard Osman, New YorkTimes bestselling author of The Thursday Murder ClubSimmering with slow-burning menace, Mrs. England is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, an enthralling tale of men and women, power and control, courage, truth and the very darkest deception.**West Yorkshire, 1904. When recently graduated Ruby May takes a nanny position looking after the children...

A Sunday Times bestseller!Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . .London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she ...

People often wait for a feeling of readiness before they act. That strategy works well enough when motivation rises and falls naturally - but it becomes unreliable once depression, anxiety, burnout, avoidance, perfectionism, or prolonged stress have already changed what effort feels like and what the future seems likely to contain. Waiting, in those conditions, doesn't lead to readiness. It leads to more waiting.The Nike Principle - named for the Greek personification of v...

The Trapped Loop: Why We Get Stuck - and How to Help the Brain Find a Way OutWhy do you keep ending up in the same place - the same panic, the same shutdown, the same argument - even when you understand exactly what is happening?The Trapped Loop offers an answer grounded in contemporary neuroscience: the brain is a prediction machine, not a passive recorder of experience. It uses past learning to anticipate what's about to happen, prepares the body...

Hindsight to Foresight: How the Stories We Tell About the Past Shape the Futures We Can ImagineWe usually imagine the past as fixed and the future as open. The brain doesn't organise experience quite so neatly. Remembering and imagining draw on much of the same constructive machinery - so much so that people who lose the ability to recall their past in detail often lose, at the same time, the ability to picture their future in detail. The two are not separate syste...

Human beings live prospectively. Even memory, on close inspection, is in service of anticipation - the brain uses the past to estimate what's about to happen, prepares the body accordingly, and treats the resulting experience as evidence for the next prediction. The Predictive Life develops this single mechanism across a full clinical and conceptual arc: how old learning becomes prediction, how prediction organises attention and bodily preparation, how behaviour changes the eviden...

Unstuck: A Companion Guide pairs each of the twelve myths in Unstuck: A Mythology of Moving Forward with a short, plain-language explanation of what the story is really pointing at, a set of reflection questions, and one small, concrete step.You don't need to work through all twelve. Most people find that one or two of these stories describe their own situation almost exactly, while the others simply don't fit right now - and that's fine. Read the one that matches...

Embrace the Gritty Reality of TrainingEver watched half your class stomp out on you? Fallen asleep facilitating a creativity workshop? Planned a bulletproof lesson plan, then dropped it 10 minutes after you started? Don’t worry—it’s fine to confess.If you have faced a surprise in the training room, chances are Jonathan Halls has seen it, too. As a result, he doesn’t pretend to be a shiny happy trainer anymore; his 25-plus years of training and facilitating in 25 countries h...

Learn how much there is to love about horses—for kids ages 6 to 9Do you know a young horse lover who dreams of riding a horse? Or loves to learn about what it takes to care for one? All About Horses can teach them! They'll saddle up and become a horse expert as they read up on what horses eat, all the gear that keeps horses strong and healthy, and how to get started with riding.With detailed chapters and gorgeous illustrations, kids will take a loo...