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In 1920s England, private detective Henry Fleming is invited to spend the weekend at Watermead Manor to celebrate the marriage of Gerald and Ida Langley. The handsome millionaire had been instantly smitten with the glamorous Ida and, after a whirlwind romance, they had married in secret. Upon returning to England, however, it soon becomes apparent that not everyone is pleased or excited about the marriage and very soon accusations begin to fly about Ida's motives: Does she really love him, or is she just an opportunistic gold-digger?

Berlin, 1950. When Hanni Winter shows her new husband the heartbreaking photos she captured during the war, his reaction is unexpected. His face white, Freddy can’t take his eyes off the photo of a young girl around four years old.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Bath. Greater Than a Tourist – Bath Somerset United Kingdom by author Sami Cheung offers firsthand and personal insight into the best ways to visit the beautiful, historic city of Bath. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist.

In the novel A Democracy in Heaven, the four Americans making an interstellar journey to collect botanical samples from exoplanets beyond the Solar System discover a remarkably Earth-like world orbiting KW Sagittarii—Earth-like, with one crucial difference: The planet is populated exclusively by albinos, and they've never seen a person of the Black race—the race to which the head pilot of the interstellar ship, the Obama I, belongs.

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors. By his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune. Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of seven. His family settled in Dunedin on the South Island, but young Sam was sent away to boarding school in Christchurch, where he was hopeless at sports and discovered he enjoyed acting.

Jordan flees to the Greek Isles expecting to plot a new course in life aboard the Guinevere, hoping it will all be plain sailing. But she soon finds herself caught in the eye of the storm, trying to steer between the waves of two mad skippers, a heart-struck German admirer, and Wenzel, the tall, bronzed first mate who may, just may, be her only safe way back into port. A true tale of tavernas, tzatziki, and tempestuous tides.

A family joins the cult of a subterranean god. A demon invades a classroom. A married couple experiences the terror of nuclear annihilation. A rookie police officer solves a decades-old mystery.

Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, and Christopher Robin's adventures in the hundred acre wood are a timeless classic that has warmed the hearts and inspired the imaginations of countless people for nearly a hundred years. A.A.Milne has written, and Ernest Shepherd have drawn a world of childhood wonder that will no doubt last a hundred years more.

I’m not paranoid. There really is someone out to get me. I know, because they took my grandmother hostage. Now, to help her and reconnect with my fifth soulmate, I have to play along with Nana’s captors, despite my misgivings and those of my mates.

Jake Jessup thought the nightmares were over, that the secret government program to weaponize animals was just a horrible memory, until a new breed of monsters shows up in Memphis, his hometown, and it was again time to fight.

Hidden under Erf realms, mythical, magikal creatures, monstrous, evil tyrants...the fate of all worlds lies within the delicate shell of the last dragon’s egg.... Deep beneath the ground in the Erf’s Core, the Dragon Queen, Sivam Sivad, has just laid her third and final egg. As the unborn prince remains nestled in his shell, Morgrave, the Fire Worm Lord, lays siege to the kingdom in an underhanded attack.

Case of the Covered Hermit is a reverse-harem paranormal romance featuring multiple love interests, a slow burn focusing on emotional connections with a steamy fade to black, and the reincarnation of the oldest recorded reverse harem story in human history. Oh yeah, and lots of tarot cards.

Within the text of the Book of Isaiah, Isaiah himself is referred to as "the prophet", but the exact relationship between the Book of Isaiah and the actual prophet Isaiah is complicated. The traditional view is that all 66 chapters of the book of Isaiah were written by one man, Isaiah, possibly in two periods between 740 BC and c. 686 BC, separated by approximately 15 years, and that the book includes dramatic prophetic declarations of Cyrus the Great in the Bible, acting to restore the nation of Israel from Babylonian captivity.

Sam Delaney was Jack the Lad. He was confident, loud and funny; an absolute legend, to be honest. Or at least that was what he pretended to be. But when he reached his thirties, work, relationships and fatherhood started to take their toll. Like so many blokes who seemed to be totally fine, he often felt like a complete failure whose life was out of control; anxiety and depression had secretly plagued him for years. Turning to drink and drugs only made things worse.

I reconnected with two of my five soulmates from a previous lifetime 7000 years ago, so there are three more—somewhere, out there. While I help one soulmate clear up his past by talking to his dead ex-wife, I asked the cards to help us find my third soulmate.

The essential guide to veteran British indie favorites Saint Etienne—the story of how they made music out of memories, and how we made memories out of them. Saint Etienne have spent three decades making music out of memories for people who make memories out of music. How We Used Saint Etienne to Live is the story of that reciprocal process, told in the wrong order, but the right time.

Elliot longs for a story that excites him. After waking to find one at his doorstep, he must choose between answering a mysterious call for help, or staying in to battle the blank page. He soon realizes the adventure may entangle him in a web of manipulation and high-stakes games of risk and ruin.

The deal I'd made with the sea witch was supposed to be simple. She was to give me a ship that could travel between realms, and I was to capture a little mermaid by the name of Aurelia once I got to Neverland. The witch said she would come for her when she was ready. Except Aurelia wasn't little when I captured her. She was a beautiful young woman, and she was in my bed, in my quarters, taunting and tempting me with what I was sure were some type of siren powers.

An abridged version of Ignatius Schuster's Bible History.

If the saints have never made you laugh or drop your jaw, they will in this book. Best-selling author Shaun McAfee (Reform Yourself!, Filling Our Father’s House) and guest writers illustrate how the saints were not just stone-faced old men. Some of them had quirky habits and outrageous personalities and did breathtaking deeds...but they all had epic faith.