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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a colloquial new translation by Susan Sauve Meyer that makes Aristotle's timeless insights about how to lead a good life more engaging and accessible than ever before.

A Hitch in Time is a banquet of entertaining stories ranging from his thoughts on Salman Rushdie to being spanked by Margaret Thatcher in The House of Lords, and the night he took his son to the Oscars. Along with an introduction by James Wolcott, A Hitch in Time recaptures the brilliance of Hitchens–barnstorming, cauterizing, and ultimately uncontainable.

Alex Sinclair enjoyed a simple and safe life, until a chance meeting with a mysterious woman changed things forever. Gifted with immortallity and plunged into the complex world of the undead, Alex finds himself drawn into a centuries-old conflict, forcing him and his friends into a fight for survival.

As a child Adelaide Barnes felt sure she wouldn’t live to be an adult. However, she was wrong. She’s grown into a beautiful and ambitious young woman. What began as journal writing became a fictionalized manuscript about her family. Will she have the courage to pursue publication?

When Detective Chief Inspector John Shadow is called to Kirkdale Castle to investigate the death of a handsome racehorse trainer during a shooting party, he’s immersed in painful childhood memories. His father had been shot in the line of duty at Kirkdale, but his killer was never apprehended. Shadow suspects the two deaths may be linked and is determined to discover the truth, but dealing with the aristocracy is more complicated than he bargained for and the inhabitants of Kirkdale Castle are as unhelpful as ever.

Robert Stephenson burns zombies for a living. It's a profession that pays the bills and plays tricks on the mind. Still, his life is routine until his four-year-old son becomes stranded in a quarantined zone, teeming with rotters.

Thirteen year old Ivy Armstrong's sick of life in Little Puddington. She's sick of the Festival of Love & Sweet Tidings, her lovestruck parents, and especially sick of the repulsive syrupy poems left on her doorstep each morning.

Strange, scary rumors are flying about the tiny, snowy town below the mountains. Some say a tiger sprang loose from a circus train and roams the snowy meadows. Some say it stalks in the wintry forests. Some say it’s a monster.

It’s the most magical time of the year again. The snow is falling, the evenings are drawing in, the secret Post Office is open for business and the Christmas Letter Getters are out in force. Among them is Finley Stark, a small elf with big problems. He doesn’t know it yet, but there’s sinister forces at play.

The dark October night is bitter cold as Jake Shillingsworth, serving boy in London's most notorious inn, The Tattered Crow, discovers a terrible truth. That the hidden eyes he’s felt watching from hidden rooms are real. As is the blood curdling scratching coming from the attic during the dead of night.

It's All Hallow's Eve and Owen Weeks is not having a good day. Something's stirring in the lake by his house, the dead leaves beneath this shoes crunch like bones, and even the brambles seem to twitch when he's not looking.

Trixie's Moon's life is going from bad to worse. First there's the black eye, and then there's the even blacker cloud hanging over the fields over her tiny countryside cottage. A strange force rustles in the trees, and something long forgotten stirs in the shadows beneath the old bridge.

Professor Thistlequick, also known as The Clockwork Magician, is having the strangest day. His otherworld-seeker just found a brand new dimension, but it's stopped working and the only way of powering it back up is by finding highly forbidden ingredients.

Dive into Eldritch Black’s Spooky Stories and venture into a wondrous collection of astonishing tales. Within this book, you’ll find seven eerie stories and oddities that will sweep you away to other worlds.

When Eliza Winter discovers the hidden room in her missing grandfather’s Gothic house, it turns her world upside down. She knows she shouldn’t read the strange, sinister book of fairy tales she found, but somewhere inside it are the answers to her darkest suspicions and the key to a whole other world. A secret, midnight world.

When Eliza Winter discovers the hidden room in her missing grandfather’s Gothic house, it turns her world upside down. She knows she shouldn’t read the strange, sinister book she found, but somewhere inside it is the answer to everything she’s been searching for her entire life.

Gabrielle Greene has just been crowned the worst girl who ever lived, and she doesn’t know it yet but she’s leaped to the top of Krampus’ naughty list. Krampus, the mysterious sinister Winter King. Krampus the warden of Christmas who comes calling once a year seeking wicked children to haul back to his snowy lands.

It’s a cold winter’s night when Jake Shillingsworth, serving boy at The Tattered Crow, finds himself running a task for his monstrous master Silas Grumble. Jake’s errands are never fun, but this one is worse than most. This one’s for a witch….

When Helsing XII, the latest in the long and illustrious line of brave demon-hunters dies in combat, no-one would have expected his ring of power to be handed down to an idiot. Least of all said idiot; Brian Trelawney, the most hapless car salesman in the whole of Cornwall.

Returning home through a bog late one night, 16-year-old Dick Dodds passes a trail that for some reason sends a chill up his spine. He feels the same inexplicable terror the next day when he explores the trail further and meets a girl, Helen Johnson, who saw something that looked like a man with no arms or legs moving and gliding across the landscape.