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Georgie Payne is a janitor in the factory settlement of Skelm. After waiting months for Evie Anderson to rescue her and her family, she's all but given up hope of escaping.When Henrietta, a visiting scientist, discovers some frightening anomalies outside the city, it becomes clear that every...

Some games are played for victory. Others are played for healing.When Moose and Jonathan, infantry officers in the Canadian Army and best friends since meeting at Royal Roads Military College, deploy to Sarajevo as peacekeepers, they are thrust into the inferno of a genocidal war. Tasked with...

The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after Napoleon in 1814 is an astonishing period in world history. This era shook the foundations of the old world and marked a permanent shift for politics, religion, and society - not just for France, but for all of Europe. An account of the events alone reads like something out of a thrilling novel.

Is our destiny written inside our very DNA? Richard Rudd suggests that humanity is on the verge of a major shift in consciousness rooted in a new understanding of how our genes operate. He introduces this fantastic possibility, showing how the "gene keys" are an inner language designed to transform our core beliefs about ourselves and raise us to a higher level of awareness.

Are you indispensable... or invaluable?Many assistants (and those in a wide variety of other roles) have traditionally considered themselves indispensable. But learning the difference between these two mindsets is crucial to your success and job security in your role as an executive...

Can two hearts wounded by the past find the courage to love again? Beth Stanton has never been one to sit quietly on the sidelines. Warm-hearted, with a mind very much her own, she has returned to England for Christmas, only to find herself at odds with the infuriating Edwin Morton. Both have...

After years of quietly carrying physical suffering, grief, emotional exhaustion, and unanswered questions, one woman’s story in Scripture began to mirror Tabitha’s own in ways she never expected. In She Reached Anyway, Tabitha reflects on the woman in Mark 5 who reached through the crowd to...

In this candid and revealing memoir, a psychoanalyst struggles to free herself from the influence of her overbearing, Holocaust-haunted father. It is said that every memoir is an exorcism. With a Jewish psychoanalyst father who’d lost his entire family in the Holocaust and a non-Jewish...

Create your own guide to mastering the disciplines of organizational learning with this invaluable guide based on the national bestseller The Fifth Discipline. “The Fieldbook is a must read for anyone serious about building communities of common purpose, collective action, and continuous...

Créé le 23 janvier 1730 par les Comédiens Italiens, "Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard" était la onzième pièce que Marivaux confiait à cette compagnie. Au dire du Mercure, elle remporta un très grand succès. Sitôt après l'absorption du Théâtre-Italien par l'Opéra-Comique, comme "Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard" attirait encore des spectateurs, les Comédiens royaux décidèrent de le mettre à leur Affiche.

Dans un pays qui n'aime pas les femmes, trois jeunes filles prennent la route pour se rendre à la fête de la Vierge noire, 1 600 kilomètres au nord de la favela où elles ont grandi. Entre Santiago du Chili et le village d'Iquique, elles vont croiser des policiers véreux, les fantômes des victimes de Pinochet, des routiers menaçants, une Dame blanche, des prostituées sorcières, des voyous généreux, un serial killer, des pères en deuil et des mères qui ne pardonneront jamais.

A bewitching spy. A ruthless king. A love that could ignite a war. Amaia has worked hard to make her family proud. As the star apprentice to the pyroki master in Dothik, she's weeks away from inheriting her mentor's coveted post. But when her desperate brother begs her to take his place in the Heartstone Accords, a diplomatic exchange with their rival nation, she agrees to the unthinkable. Her mission? Cross the sea to Grym, secure work at the dragon hatchery, and spy for the throne. But Grym is nothing like she imagined—and neither is its formidable king.

A spellbinding rivalry unraveled by fate... A sapphic romance born from the ashes of prejudice… A Regency Era tale of lust and magic. Iona's magic thrives in ways that defy explanation. The threads of fate pull Iona to Lysander College, an illustrious school for aristocratic witches of great...

The system of “saving the world” is broken—and it’s time to call bullsit. After seeing good intentions lead to bad outcomes in 30 countries, international development veteran Susan M. Davis is challenging the sacred cows of the aid industrial complex. "Bullshit without Borders" is a provocative, self-implicating, and often hilarious exposé of the weird world of global aid. Drawing from three decades of experience—from a scrappy startup that became Water.

In the 1980s, countries across Asia stunned the world with meteoric economic growth—but when eyes turn to Africa today, it is often to lament corruption, violence, and poverty rather than to scout the next developmental frontrunners. Yet some African nations, even in the face of challenging geography and the crippling legacies of colonialism, have found remarkable success.

"[Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry] are both capable, likable narrators who are sincerely engaged with their subject matter...The performances of these two humanitarians make this a must-hear for anyone recovering from their traumatic past." —AudioFile This program is read by the authors. Our...

Fate stamped her file: rejected. Fawn Seaborne stamped it: watch me. After ten months at Pierce Charming Academy, Agent 555 has no mission, no rank, and a discharge letter sealed in gold. Her father —the general who rebuilt half of civilization —calls her a liability. Dom, the academy’s sharpest knife, calls her a scared little fawn. Fate, apparently, doesn’t want her at all. So she steals a seat on an alpha drop. The world waiting for her is no training sim. It is a cursed north of Viking kings, dragon witches, and a target everyone else was sent to seduce: Rok Magnus, Destroyer of Men.

Written for Virginia Woolf's friend, the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young 16th-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. A wry commentary on gender roles and modes of history, Orlando is also, in Woolf's own words, a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity and capriciousness.

Hanna Harp’s incendiary debut paranormal dark romance, perfect for fans of Sadie Kincaid’s Forged in Blood and Keri Lake’s Anathema, follows Cade, a devoted hunter fighting to shield his sister Callisto from a haunting generational curse, but when a mysterious spirit begins to break down...