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MICHAEL OWEN'S new autobiography will enable him to open up about his football life for the first time and set the record straight once and for all. It promises to make for an explosive read and one of the most hotly anticipated football books of the year. The legendary striker published his...

1561. Europe is a house of cards, shaken by a religious upheaval that threatens to topple the existing structures of power entirely. France, long a force of strength in the known world, has lost two kings in as many years. Holding the country together by a thread is Catherine de Medici, Queen...

It’s 1739. An abused girl accused of witchcraft is rescued by a Scottish lawyer married to an actual witch. William MacLeod, a fierce Scottish lawyer, takes on a daunting task—rescue young Annaliese from her tormentors in Virginia colony and deliver her to her aristocratic father in London...

It’s the fall of 1954; eight-year-old Lily and her two-year-old brother are playing on the porch of an isolated farmhouse in rural California. They suddenly hear the reverberating boom of a shotgun in the house. Lily rushes inside and watches in horror as she sees her mother, Ellen, bleeding from a shotgun wound to the abdomen. No one is prepared for the burden of having to care for Ellen’s three children, and after Ellen’s death, Lily is sent to live with her grandmother, and her two half-siblings are orphaned off to whichever of their father’s relatives agree to “keep” them.

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and the star-crossed pair fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.

An inspiring story of a modern American icon, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller’s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago’s largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton University and Harvard Law School during the racially charged 1980s and the dilemmas she faced in Chicago.

I hate you, Fuller James. I hate your floppy hair and your lopsided grin and those laughing blue eyes that always seem to be laughing at me. I hate that you're the most popular guy in school and I'm still the girl who sneezed and spit out her retainer on someone at a middle school dance. It's just such a cliché. I hate that I'm being forced to tutor you in English and keep it a secret from everyone. Because otherwise it might put our basketball team's chances at winning State in jeopardy, and even though I hate you, I love basketball.

Ruth "Ruthless" Harper is on the verge of becoming managing partner at her all-male consulting firm and she won't let anything stand in her way. That includes men, relationships, and that dreaded F word, feelings - distractions she eliminated long ago. After the worst day ever (a near-death experience and a public wedgie, for starters), Ruth realizes she doesn't want to live and die alone. She puts together a business plan to find the perfect man and dives head first into the murky online dating pool.

Louisiana, 1875: in the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest. Louisiana, 1987: Arriving in Augustine, Louisiana, first-year teacher Benedetta Silva finds herself teaching students whose poverty-stricken lives she can scarcely comprehend. The town is impossibly set in its ways, suspicious of new ideas and new people. But amid the gnarled live oaks and ancient plantation homes lies the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey and a hidden book that could change everything.

A USA TODAY Bestseller From the author of Look Closer comes a new domestic thriller about betrayal and murder inside one twisted family. “David Ellis is a master of layered, complex thrillers. A fast-paced, twisty, wild ride.” —Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of It’s Not...

This series follows a new god as he forges his own path and redefines what it means to be divine. His journey will take him across the upper and lower realms, where he will cultivate unimaginable power, forge deep bonds of friendship and love, face formidable enemies, and inspire unwavering devotion among those who choose to follow him. But divinity is more than strength.

Detective Jane Munro must investigate her own past in a riveting true crime–inspired novel by Loreth Anne White, the award-winning author of The Maid’s Diary. On a crisp June night, a powerful explosion rips through the chic Yaletown area of Vancouver, killing a top prosecutor. Before dawn...

Explore the Nine Realms and Gain a Clear Understanding of Norse Mythology. Norse mythology is more than a collection of ancient tales: it is a structured body of stories that has profoundly shaped modern fantasy and pop culture. This audiobook offers an organized path into that world, giving you a rich repertoire of narratives, symbols, and characters to enjoy or draw on for study, writing, teaching, and creative work. Norse Mythology: The Definitive Collection brings together the most popular myths of the Nine Realms in a single, accessible work.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries...

Since his return from war, the Earl of Stanford's life has been anything but simple. A meddling older brother, a raucous group of friends, a crumbling estate, and an injury that forever changed him. The most infamous landscape architect in England arriving on his doorstep to restore his ruined gardens and his ruined heart. He's content to hide in the country, a lost soul.

**Read by author Robin Arzón** Ultramarathoner, running coach, VP/Head Instructor at Peloton and Founder of Swagger Society, Robin Arzón, teaches you to “shut up and run” in her inspirational and interactive fitness guide/journal—now with a brand-new introduction by the author. For Robin...

France, 1755. William and Jeanne Neilson, together at last, are living in the deep country and are happier than either ever expected to be. Their children, the foundling Marie-Ange and young William, are growing up. Jeanne devotes her mornings to scientific research while William has exchanged...

The astonishing story of William Neilson continues. New Year's Eve, 1746. A castle in the depths of France. A thunderstorm. A pair of lovers in a hay-loft. A wounded soldier toppling from his horse. So begins the second instalment of the life of William Neilson, Scottish soldier in French...

One of Britain's outstanding historical writers delivers a romantic and picaresque masterpiece that tells the fascinating story of William Neilson. In 1720, the young William Neilson leaves Edinburgh to make his fortune in Europe, first sailing to Rotterdam and then on foot to Paris, where he...

From its modest beginnings in the 1960s in a Harlem church basement, to its meteoric rise to international fame, the Dance Theatre of Harlem ignited the world with one simple, still-revolutionary statement: All can do ballet. Into the 21st century, as the world, and the country, continue their historical struggles and triumphs, the story of this haven for dancers of all colors and backgrounds resonates more than ever. Here is the definitive portrait of the one-of-a-kind dance company that reflected—and shaped—our times, and whose enduring principle continues to inspire the future.