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For Richer, For Poorer is the tenth novel from the million-copy bestselling author Kerry Wilkinson, read aloud by Becky Hindley. Three houses have been burgled in five weeks. The robbers barge in through the back, disable any way to contact the outside world, and then ransack everything - before...

This audio edition is narrated with dazzling enthusiasm by the author, Dr Becky Smethurst. Right now, you are orbiting a black hole. The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole, the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy...

In bestselling crime author Kerry Wilkinson's Eye for an Eye, DI Jessica Daniel is tasked with multiple investigations while facing demons from her past. Seventeen years ago, Damian Walker abducted five women because the voices in his head told him to. Now he has been declared sane and is about...

From the big bang to black holes, this fast-paced tour of time and space for the astro-curious unlocks the science of the stars to reveal fascinating theories, surprising discoveries, and ongoing mysteries in modern astronomy and astrophysics. Before the big bang, time, space, and matter didn't...

Dive into an exhilirating true crime narrative of an unsolved 1969 murder at Harvard and an obsession and love for a girl who dreamt of rising among men. "A tour de force of investigative reporting." —Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton "Exhilarating and seductive...

What makes a princess excellent? Eager to learn the answer, an enchantress casts her magic mirror into our universe. Reflected in it are princesses from around the world and across centuries who refuse to be pretty, polite, and obedient. Princess Leila of the desert protects her people from the...

A boy is taken from the world he was born into and delivered to strangers. He learns their language better than his own, submits to their law, is fed and taught and even loved. He becomes the most gifted creature in the household. And then, at the end, he is told to leave — because whatever else he is, he is not one of them, and never was. He goes back to his own kind and discovers that he does not fit there either.

THE WATER TABLE is a quiet disaster novel about what happens when a town’s most invisible system fails. When a regional power outage disables a rural Colorado town’s water treatment plant, hydrological engineer Carmen Silva calculates the unthinkable: the municipal water supply will be gone in less than two days. No violence. No explosions. Just arithmetic. As officials hesitate and residents cling to routine, Carmen must choose whether to respect authority —or act before it’s too late.

Following his bestselling sensation, Locked In, Vigliante is Kerry Wilkinson's unputdownable second book in the Jessica Daniel series. Dead bodies are piling up for Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel. Usually when a serial killer is on the loose, the pressure would be building to find the...

In the winter of 1437, on a ship crawling home from Constantinople, a German churchman was struck by an idea so strange that he spent the rest of his life defending it: the highest form of knowledge is knowing, with precision, what you cannot know. His name was Nicholas of Cusa, and he was, by turns, a boatman's son, a lawyer, a cardinal, a mathematician, a failed reformer, an accused heretic, and quite possibly the most modern mind of the fifteenth century. Five hundred years before relativity, he argued that the universe has no center and that all motion is relative.

Sometimes you must believe in yourself and your dream. And in thousand-year-old prophecies. The Song of Teaching has been sung. The people of Lrakira and Teramar have discovered they are not who they thought they were and begin to embrace their shared identity. While all the others are awash in...

One Thursday in June of 1904, a middle-aged advertising canvasser named Leopold Bloom walked around Dublin. He bought a kidney for breakfast, fed the cat, attended a funeral, ate a cheese sandwich, dodged a man he did not wish to meet, and came home in the small hours to a wife who had not, that particular afternoon, been entirely faithful. Almost nothing happened. James Joyce spent seven years and seven hundred pages on it, and called the result his damned monster-novel. Why would anyone do that?

Eight years ago, Sydney Patterson’s ex-husband used threats and fear to coerce her teenage daughter into the unthinkable. Haunted by guilt and condemned by her in-laws, she flees to Garfield Oklahoma to build a new life. Now, with a new job, new friends, and a new commitment to Christ, Syd is rebuilding, confident that no one ever needs to know a thing about her humiliating and shameful past.

What if you do not have to wait until you feel ready? So many people wait for the perfect moment, the perfect plan, the perfect confidence, or the perfect version of themselves before they begin. But what if beginning is what creates the readiness? In Begin Before You Feel Ready, Becky Vannes shares the deeply personal stories behind her 100-day workbook, What Future Are You Willing To Wake Up To?

For two thousand years, faith has carried a quarrel inside it that no council ever settled and no creed ever named outright: the war between the body and the soul. Somewhere along the way, the flesh became the enemy. Desire became danger. The bed, the womb, the smell of bread, the warmth of a hand on a sleeping child’s back — all of it was filed under suspicion, something to be disciplined, confessed, and overcome on the way to God.

Seventy years ago, Simone de Beauvoir wrote that one is not born a woman but becomes one. It was meant as a liberation. It became a prophecy whose second half no one had read aloud. We have spent three generations dismantling the cage of the eternal feminine, only to discover that freedom, when it finally arrives, does not feel like the morning after a revolution. It feels like standing alone in a very large room with no instructions on the wall. This book reads Beauvoir as she deserves to be read: not as a banner but as a skeptic, a witness so honest she indicted even the women she defended.

Christina has always wanted her movie-perfect meet cute. Surely this would mean he was The One? She is shocked and amazed when one day, she has very own meet-cute - sadly, the guy is most definitely NOT The One. Over the weeks that follow, Christina finds herself encountering meet-cutes...

Two best friends. One messy love story. After another horrendous first date, Lizzie is DONE with the apps. No more swiping. No more small talk. Instead, she’s hatching a plan so brilliantly chaotic that her two best gal pals can’t say no: the ex-swap. It’s genius, each woman nominates her...

Set amidst the turbulence of WW1, Mary Wood’s evocative historical saga The Abandoned Daughter follows Ella, a voluntary nurse tormented by soldiers' cries and the wound of a shattered trust. As her friendships teeter, exacerbated by the strains of war, Ella's isolation deepens. Within the...

The Forgotten Daughter by Mary Wood is the gripping first book in The Girls Who Went To War series. From a tender age, Flora felt unloved and unwanted by her parents, but she finds safety in the arms of caring nanny Pru. But when Pru is cast out of the family home, under a shadow of secrets, and...