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Part one of the bestselling saga of love and adventure on the high seas in the Pacific of the 1800s, by one of our leading historical novelists. When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies in 1838, her suddenly impoverished mother hopes her beautiful daughter might at least find a good husband...

She was Maori, aged anywhere between three and five years old. Her dirty, matted hair hung past her shoulders, and her sweet, heart-shaped little face was filthy. When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838, Kitty and her mother are left impoverished. After...

Kitty Farrell, popular heroine of two earlier books, goes to the Ballarat goldfields On the goldfields of Ballarat, vows are broken - can a wounded heart ever forgive?When the Yarrowee River bursts its banks, Rian Farrell, a dashing Irish sea captain and part-time gunrunner, disappears in the...

On the gold fields of the colonies, enemies are easily made. In the confines of a ship, they can turn deadly. For readers of Bryce Courtenay's POTATO FACTORY, Philippa Gregory and Tracy Chevalier. When Kitty and Rian Farrell sail their schooner Katipo III into Dunedin Harbour in 1863, they are...

Hugh’s fees are as formidable as his success rate. But even his reputation can’t help him with a widow who opposes him from day one and is clearly hiding crucial information. And if he can’t get her to open up, this high-profile case could destroy his lucrative career.

The bad*ss story of the female, queer, bi, and nonbinary skaters who charted a path to the Olympics and changed the face of skateboarding. Who gets to tell the story of skateboarding? Drop In is the first book to recognize and historicize the female, queer, bi, and nonbinary humans who blazed...

After the sudden death of his father, young Mark Vergara, the oldest son of immigrant parents, was thrust into the role of principal breadwinner, working hard in the beet fields of Colorado to support his family. After joining the Army Air Corps and flying dozens of combat missions, he bore the physical and emotional scars of his time in the service, yet he was satisfied he had fulfilled his father's final wish that he do right by his family.

Translated for the first time into English, The Salmon Who Dared To Leap Higher by Ahn Do-hyun is a multi-million copy bestselling modern fable about finding freedom and a harmony with nature we have either forgotten or lost in the binding realities of life. The life of the salmon is a...

In A Wife Turns Informant, Deborah Jones-Phoenix offers a raw, unfiltered memoir of strength in the face of devastating truth. This deeply personal autobiography traces her harrowing eight-year journey from devoted wife to police informant in a real-life criminal case that shook her to the core. Deb’s story begins like any classic love story—romantic first dates, a dream wedding, and a picture-perfect honeymoon. But under the surface of their life together, a chilling darkness was growing.

The expedition enters a no-man’s land formed 100 million years ago when Australia was still attached to Antarctica, and dinosaurs ruled the super-continent. But the canyon has more prehistoric and dangerous species than anyone could have possibly imagined. Trapped and terrified, unarmed and unable to communicate topside, the team’s extraction deadline is six long hours away.

It's hard. You struggle with your health. People tell you, “It's your genes.” Or they recommend medicine or surgery as your only options. Unfortunately, conventional medicine has ignored the basics of what it takes to build health and reverse disease, offering nothing more than medical interventions to control such problems, and nothing to reverse them. But no longer!

Maggie Bliss is the youngest of six children living in an idyllic, close-knit Denver neighborhood called the Valley. Maggie's siblings are all successful by society's standards while Maggie is a college-educated dog walker/house sitter with a side hustle delivering food on weekends.

Fairy tales...you've all read them. Cherished stories of magical characters, wicked stepmothers, enchantments, and adventure. But what if everything you believed to be good and true was a lie? What if the actual truth was an even greater tale? Listen to the accounts from those who lived them. Just how did Rumpelstiltskin turn straw into gold? Who was the giant in Jack’s story? Were Red Riding Hood and Alice really that innocent? Why did the Pied Piper lure the children away? And who is asking all the questions?

»Ja, Berlin war es, das neue Leben in Deutschland war es, der Grund, warum plötzlich all diese Fragen in mir aufzogen. Ich hatte mich vom Thema jüdischer Identität in der Gegenwart weitgehend verabschiedet, ich wollte nur Mensch unter Menschen sein, Berliner unter Berlinern. Wie weit ist mir das überhaupt gelungen? Wie habe ich es auszuwerten, dass dieses Deutschwerden, worum ich mich so fleißig bemüht habe, mich zu meinem Judentum wieder zurückschob wie zu einer unerfüllten Pflicht, die kein Vertagen mehr duldet?«

The Worry-Worry Whale and the Classroom Jitters features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of the classroom and the bubbles of their fishy friends! First introduced in The Pout-Pout Fish and the Worry-Worry Whale, Willa Whale is the...

After Deborah's success at the Ironman, she needed another challenge. However, what could she do next? A drunken conversation in a pub resulted in her signing up to an Ultra Marathon.

Retired and widowed librarian Merrill Connor is ready to fade quietly into the sunset. But her persistent friends refuse to let her give up on life. Because of their belief in her, she reinvents herself as a podcaster who eventually gains a passionate fan base. With her audience spurring her on, she resurrects the cold case of a local woman who vanished 20 years before. Merrill’s “deeper dive” into that mystery turns into a nightmare when her research leads her into the direct path of a killer.

When young, beautiful Cordelia Lawson left her civilized hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, to join her soldier husband in the wild frontier of Indian Territory, she couldn’t have imagined how her life would change. Caught between the love and respect for her husband and her newly found appreciation and concern for the Southern Cheyenne, her heart and mind are torn. Cordelia’s impulsiveness throws her into wild adventures she couldn’t have dreamed of as a girl in Baltimore. And her rescuer turns out to be the one person on earth she couldn’t stand.

The Woodsman pub and campsite is under new management, with new staff and improved facilities. The old gang, plus some additional characters, return by invitation to check it out, and the adventures begin: retaliating against marauding motorbikes in the middle of the night, enduring a bike tour to hell and back, watching Tel and Sophie jumping from a plane and witnessing Tel having some sort of nervous breakdown, fighting against the tyranny of Liv’s father and soon-to-be ex-husband, and almost losing a vastly expensive ring.

A group of strangers pitching up on a Cotswold caravan site is looking for rest and relaxation but instead encounters starvation, sleep deprivation, dehydration, motor bikers, drunken yummy-mummies, the police, shredded feet, unexpected nakedness, curries, the great loo run, and a line dancing barbecue. Oh, and the creepy guy in a tent at the bottom of the field. It's a camping trip like no other and it will change all their lives.