And his wife heard it.At a memorial ride packed with bikers, engines, brothers, and old ladies watching from the edges, one careless sentence exposes a betrayal that was never careless at all. The man she wore a chain for—the dangerous biker who once swore no woman would ever stand beside his bike but her—stays silent while another woman wears his leather, claims his softness, and occupies the place his wife built with years of loyalty, sacrifice, and blood-stained patience.B...

Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation.The author takes us from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America. Against these historical backgrounds he sketches an extraordinary cast of characters -- the men and women w...

Six years ago, Matteo Romano destroyed Valentina Moretti in front of the entire underworld.He chose another woman.He chose the crown.He let Valentina walk away broken.But she did not leave empty-handed.She disappeared with his son.Now Valentina is back—not as the girl he betrayed, but as the woman powerful enough to ruin his empire. She controls money, secrets, and enemies who fear her name. Matteo wants answers. Valentina wants revenge.Then...

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“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!”After retiring from the Bank of England in 1908, Scottish writer Kenneth Grahame went on to create one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. The banks of the Thames near his childhood home inspired the setting of The Wind in the Willows, and Mr. Toad has become a beloved character in children’s literature, first appe...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.’A timeless and celebrated children’s classic, Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows has delighted for nearly 100 years. In the idyllic English countryside, Mole, Badger, Rat and Toad encounter adventure at every turn – whether it’s gipsy caravans, Rat’s love for the river, or Toads passion for motorcars, th...

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. With this breakthrough study, leading economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff definitively prove them wrong. Covering sixty-six cou...

Know what the Bible says. Understand why the Bible matters.This stunning, full-color study Bible answers your pressing questions with just the right amount of information, placed in just the right location.With its decades-long legacy of helping readers grasp the Bible’s meaning, the NIV Study Bible embodies the mission of the NIV translation to be an accurate, readable, and clear guide into Scripture. Specifically designed to expand upon the NIV, ...

From scary to heartwarming and hilarious, an assortment of behind-the-scenes, true stories about life as an undertaker.From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell—and a special way of telling them.In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death’s do...

Qigong is an integrated mind-body healing method that has been practiced with remarkable results in China for thousands of years. The Chinese have long treasured qigong for its effectiveness both in healing and in preventing disease, and more recently they have used it in conjunction with modern medicine to cure cancer, immune system disorders, and other life-threatening conditions. Now in this fascinating, comprehensive volume, renowned qigong master and China scholar Kenneth S. Cohen exp...

The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames valley.In 1908, Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Berkshire, where he had...