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About Book 2: "Merrill's comic mystery featuring a curmudgeonly sleuth is even funnier than her first ... Readers who enjoy tongue-in-cheek whodunits will find themselves grinning frequently." –Publishers WeeklyYou know that eccentric great-aunt no one wants to sit beside at family functions? Or that neighbor who's just a little too strange? Or the pushy woman at the thrift store? Maybe you know Gertrude. If Miss Marple had 27 cats, a Maine accent, and absolutely no filter, she'd be Gertrude, Gumshoe. She's a smidge snarky. She's frightfully frugal. And she's fearless.

Aldric and his bonds completed their third year at the Academy, though it didn't go exactly as planned. They uncovered an insidious plot happening right below the Academy itself. There they found women taken from their villages for forced bonding, as well as mages who were being tortured and...

When the water rises, the truth does not disappear. It waits to be recorded. In the coastal town of Harwick, the Tidefields estate was sold as secure, protected by a flood defence promised to withstand the worst storm in a hundred years. Then the water comes. For barrister Lena Okafor, the flooded homes are more than a disaster. They are the beginning of a case. Tideborne Developments promised safety, residents kept records, and the walls still hold the marks of what happened. But tragedy is not enough in court.

Isidore, a veteran on the eve of battle, is visited by an angel. Angelia informs him that Death awaits and there is no escaping what if fated. Headed for the warrior's prison, Isidore will have to fight his way through hell to reach Paradise. Charon, the ferryman, will be waiting there to escort him over the River Styx as long as he makes it to the boat on time and has an oblation. Most souls never make it. Most go mad battling hordes of ghost men full of rage, grief and hopelessness. Most lose all purpose and reason. Will Isidore become one of the hopeless and lose his way?

The pulse-pounding psychological thriller from BESTSELLER M. A. Hunter. Five years after losing her baby son Josh during delivery, Abbie is finally ready to hope again. Now eight months pregnant, she and her husband Mark are cautiously rebuilding their lives, terrified of losing another child...

Tess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, where predatory birds hover over fields, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider, and no one looks like her. As Tess and Richard settle in, the...

A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children...

Learn powerful, science-based techniques to boost focus, drive and energy hour-by-hour throughout the day -- every day. As leadership consultants and executive trainers, Bonnie St. John and Allen P. Haines have heard the same complaints from clients for years; periodic burnout, lack of focus and...

Read by the author. Do your children know they are the boss of their thoughts? New York Times bestselling author Jennie Allen will help your kids realize that they don’t have to hang on to every scary, anxious, or mean thought that enters their heads (no matter how it gets there). Based on...

Gertrude is still feeling confident after her first gumshoe victory. So when she finds a murder victim at her local thrift store, she is excited to tell the Sheriff's Department everything she's learned at the scene of the crime. Unsurprisingly, they don't listen. So Gertrude must solve the mystery herself. And the only way she can figure to do this is to go undercover—as the Mattawooptock Thrifty-Help's newest team member. Anyone who knows Gertrude knows this probably isn't the best idea. She'll probably get fired. Or arrested.

Tricks, lies, and the will to survive. These are the tools in Lillian's heart, instilled in her by her father many cycles ago. Now that Wyran Emberlach has made a choice he cannot take back, the tables have turned and Lillian needs to make the ultimate decision: Should she pay Wyran back for the cruelty he unleashed upon her first? She's already broken the rules once before by telling the Tribe of Midnight sacred secrets of Dawn. She cannot disobey her High Court again.

The Metropolitan Police have an unsolvable problem: 'Lachy' Wilson is a ruthless and obscenely rich British drugs lord who has bought off dozens of their officers. Thanks to these informants, no one can lay a glove on Wilson and he is considered 'untouchable'. Wilson is dreaming of one last...

Some houses whisper. Others refuse to let go. As Carly Ravenspell grows more confident in her abilities, her grandmother’s stories take a chilling turn. The tale of her own home—a house where residents vanish every twenty-seven years—is the next fireside tale. But the past isn’t the only thing stirring. When the two turn their attention to Blackwood Manor, Carly finds herself investigating a haunting in the present day—one marked by strange occurrences, restless spirits, and a house that seems determined to reveal its secrets on its own terms.

A powerful contemporary British literary novel about autism, school, family love, SEND systems, safeguarding pressure and the moment a child stops being believed. Sarah and Daniel know the morning is wrong before the kettle clicks off. Their son Oliver is sitting on the stairs with one sock hidden under his pillow, school shoes waiting by the door, and a language of distress adults keep translating into the wrong words. School says he is polite, settled and fine. At home, he comes apart in ways no attendance register, parent voice form or meeting note can properly hold.

Taylor Rolley did not expect his old troll mask to become his ticket into the wildest fairy tale of his life. Curious, nervous, and more than a little out of his depth, Taylor follows his friend Lou to an invite-only erotic masquerade where secrecy is the rule, masks are mandatory, and fairy tales are the theme. His role? The Troll. The problem? No one warned him the party would be full of temptation, naked strangers, and one mysterious Goat who feels far too familiar. Then Taylor realizes the woman behind the mask may be Celeste —the crush he never got over.

From the bestselling author of The Cazelet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Getting It Right, a a touching comedy about a young man trying desperately to get it right. Winner of the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award Gavin - a sensitive, shy, hairdresser in the West End - is, at...

From singer, TikTok sensation, and trans activist Sasha Allen comes a moving picture book about how empowering it can be to look the way you feel inside. There once was a quiet street where all the houses were painted gray. Every house had a lush, blooming garden, except for one: house number 43...

Every shifter, man, and fae has a beast living inside them. Scratching for survival, to be heard, to be loved. Delphi's beast is about to meet its master. In the shadow of the cursed Mistwood, where magic bleeds through ancient trees and mist devours the unwary, Delphi hides her forbidden magic...

In Scenes from Prehistoric Life, the distinguished archaeologist Francis Pryor paints a vivid picture of British and Irish prehistory, from the Old Stone Age (about one million years ago) to the arrival of the Romans in AD 43, in a sequence of fifteen profiles of ancient landscapes. Whether writing about the early human family who trod the estuarine muds of Happisburgh in Norfolk c.

Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure is Frank Worsley's first-hand account of one of the greatest survival stories ever told. As captain of the Endurance, Worsley recounts Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctic expedition with remarkable clarity and immediacy, taking readers from the crushing grip of the pack ice to the extraordinary voyage that saved every member of the crew. Rich in detail and driven by the perspective of someone who lived through it, this is a gripping story of courage, leadership, and resilience in the face of overwhelming odds.