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Ian Brown, award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon and the memoir Sixty, now recounts his daily reckoning with the milestone age of seventy. Fearlessly candid, often funny and relentlessly real, Brown asks the terrifying questions we all have about growing old, even when he doesn’t want to...

"Seven narrators convincingly portray a dozen characters...By the surprise denouement, the listener is fully invested in their stories, and conflicted about a system that only occasionally metes out justice." -- AudioFile Magazine An electrifying, multi-voiced thriller tackling our criminal...

In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught betwixt and between. In America, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on-board: A British man named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters. Halfway across the world, Martin Hepton, an English ground control technician watches as they lose contact with the most advanced satellite in Europe. 

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“A heartfelt and heartwarming story about finding your own peace . . . charming and lovely.”—Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop A young aspiring scholar is sent to research the mysteries of an adventurer’s inn—only to uncover a centuries-old secret...

“Séamas O’Reilly has created a vast mosaic of voices, each sparkling with heartache and wit. I’m in love with every character in this novel, and like most prestige dramas, it ended far too soon.” —Caroline O'Donoghue, author of The Rachel Incident A dazzling novel about a community...

For decades, thousands of people have gathered in Omaha, Nebraska for the Berkshire Hathaway AGM, and quizzed Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on everything from the psychology of successful investors to the future of Coca-Cola and Apple. But unless you attended, for many years you only had...

We've all heard advice for physical longevity - the steps we can take with our nutrition, exercise and lifestyle choices to maximise our number of years on earth. But what about our mental longevity? How do we fill those years with a better understanding of who we are and how our mind works? How...

Ian Buruma’s spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures—a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur—who may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule, or true heroes, or something in between. On the face of it, the three characters in this...

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, CBC AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH New York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson, acclaimed for digging into the "wilderness of the human heart," is back after almost a decade with...

The fate of Primordia is under threat after a surprise attack by a group of sky pirates—an unscrupulous gang of pterosaur-riding thieves. Once again, the Knights of the Stone Table must embark on a dangerous quest to save the kingdom of Primordia from ultimate downfall. Can Moss, Princess Opal, Boggy, Snerd, and Kerang safely find their way to the Cloud Galleon floating high above the Moody Mountains to confront the enemy and seize back power?

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One Boy. Three Countries. A Thousand Reasons to Quit. In a world that often dismisses the pursuit of dreams as a mere luxury, for Junior, it was an all-out war between life and death. Growing up in the heart of poverty in Haiti, a world vividly described in this memoir, Junior embarked on an unprecedented journey—from surviving a heart-wrenching car crash to desperate street begging in the Dominican Republic. Then came the Haiti earthquake, a relentless force that snuffed out over 200k lives in less than 60 seconds.

Ce livre parle de la Bible chrétienne. Il examine comment les gens d'il y a 2 000 ans ont tenté d'expliquer la disparition du corps de Jésus et les témoignages d'apparitions survenues après sa crucifixion, en tenant compte des systèmes de croyances alors en vigueur chez les Grecs, les Romains et les Juifs. D'une manière très accessible, le livre explique pourquoi le christianisme était « inévitable » et pourquoi il est là pour durer.

Medieval fantasy collides with prehistoric peril in this roar-some series of high-interest chapter books packed with action, drama, and laugh-out-loud humor. The kingdom of Primordia is in terrible peril. Who will protect the innocent and trample on the forces of evil? The Knights of the Stone Table, that's who! Cheer as they charge into battle atop dinosaurs and mammoths. Can they prevail against treacherous knights, pterodactyl pirates, and dino-sorcerers?

Most books about anxiety are written by people who have it all figured out. This one isn't. Ian Kahler isn't a therapist or a Navy SEAL. He's a 21-year-old who used to have two or three panic attacks a day. As a kid, his anxiety got so bad he nearly failed the 7th grade just because walking into school felt dangerous. So when he writes about fear, it's not from a textbook. It's from the trenches.

Finn Bailey appears to be your average kid in a quiet town. He's not Mr. Popular or the next Olympic track star but he has a loving family, a tight group of friends and a good head on his shoulders. It is the last week before summer and as Finn and his best friend make their way to school a cold breeze and a dark presence lurking in the shadows finds them. Ghosts, windows into new worlds and creatures unlike anything he had ever thought was real await him as Finn is thrown into a mystery that changes everything.

"How was the bridge party last night?’‘ "It was fine until the police came and looked under the bridge!" Remember when comedians actually told jokes instead of just talking about themselves and their sex lives? This collection of gags in the style of radio comedians, vaudeville and music-hall turns from the old days will have you in stitches and will make you realize the old ones are still the best. If you like this book, why not try the others in the series—'The Old Fashioned Joke Book' 2 and 3

Six classic farces from the renowned comedy writer, with casts including Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Joan Hickson, Alex Jennings and Penelope Wilton In the 1920s and ’30s, Ben Travers proved himself a master of comic confusion with his hugely successful Aldwych farces. Featuring battle-axe...