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Jessa Tamson desperately needs a win. Her three-year relationship ended in heartbreak, her dream job evaporated, her car was stolen, and her rent just skyrocketed. She's about ready to tell the universe exactly where to go—until a strange tarot card dating app starts popping up on her phone. It's persistent, mysterious, and downright annoying, but when it promises an escape from her current mess of a life, she decides to take a leap of faith—and a flight to Scotland.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Anna Karenina, a literary masterpiece by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.

M.R. James had a great, and simple, formula for writing ghost stories. Establish the mundane and everyday detail (which is heightened by the Victorian academic settings), and then introduce, briefly, the supernatural, which cracks the surface of everything normal that has been so carefully established.

In a world where revolution ignites the flames of change, the true price of war is exacted upon both oppressors and the oppressed, engulfing the righteous and the morally compromised alike. In Stand, Damien Flynn finds himself thrust into the eye of this relentless storm, where the boundaries between justice and tyranny grow increasingly indistinguishable.

For decades, Alex Hunt, Matt Salem, and the Behaviorally team have partnered with world-leading brands to apply behavioral research to consumer decision-making. In unPACKED, they spill industry secrets for creating value in the most important moment in marketing: the purchase transaction. Through real-world case studies and practical frameworks, unPACKED equips you to make smarter decisions and maximize your packaging’s potential. Acquire invaluable benchmarks for setting expectations. Learn how to achieve packaging effectiveness with confidence and precision.

In a world born from shadow and dream, the realms of men, gods, beasts, and forgotten ones are bound by myth and mystery. The Tredaphor—a mythical weapon of faith—emerges not as a tool of war, but as a riddle that challenges fate and perception. It exists in the space between reality and illusion, where prophecy whispers and truth hides in paradox. A watcher, cloaked in secrecy, warns of the Day of Brothers True, a prophecy that foretells two brothers destined to reshape the fate of eight kingdoms. Their rivalry is not just for a crown or throne, but for a legacy that transcends power.

In the dark and rainy dystopian megacity of Utopia, a journalist blunders into the heart of a shadow war raging between rival entities. Going undercover in the rival Commune, journalist George Mason must navigate political espionage and terrorism all under the threat of death or lobotomisation. Inside the colossal city walls, anything is possible and everything is permitted, provided you can pay the price.

Five chilling words flashed on Jack Stevens' screen—an anonymous message that shattered his fragile world. Again. A year has passed since his wife, Lisa, was brutally murdered—a case abandoned by the police due to lack of evidence. The lone clue: a haunting photograph found pinned to her lifeless body. Jack, an investigative journalist teetering on the edge of despair, finds new fire in those cryptic words. Determined to uncover the truth, Jack must wrestle with uncomfortable truths: Could these words hold the key to uncovering why Lisa was killed?

A fragile peace teeters on the brink of collapse; new players threaten the colonial world order in this award-winning debut historical fantasy novel. Damien Flynn is going to die. And it’s going to happen because he finally stood up for what’s right. After years of observing and taking part in the enduring corruption and oppression of the Ricchan people, Damien Flynn’s conscience wakes. He pushes for the Ricchan right to a vote, for control of their own destiny. He soon learns that bleeding hearts don’t make for good politics, exchanging quills for shackles.

Why, many have wondered, did Emperor Franz Joseph not enlist the services of the noted English detective Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of the heir to the Hapsburg throne? In fact, Holmes was in Vienna at the request of the Emperor, although neither could have predicted the tragedy that was about to occur. In this newly discovered manuscript, John H. Watson, MD, reveals, for the first time, the integral—and until now—unheralded role of the world’s first private consulting detective in solving The Affair at Mayerling Lodge.

Sherlock Holmes —the name immediately brings to mind an image of the great detective sitting in his rooms in 221B Baker street, his fingers steepled before his hawkish nose, his sharp grey eyes focused on the client who has brought a little puzzle for him to solve. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said when one reads the names of the other literary detectives of the time period, sometimes referred to as the rivals of Sherlock Holmes.

Never Wager with a Wallflower is the third and final delightful installment in the Merriwell Sister's Regency rom-com series. Miss Venus Merriwell has been waiting for her prince to come since the tender age of fourteen. She wants a man who is selfless, academic like her, and free from all the...

Public City/Public Sex examines how the notion that male sexual desire required suitable outlets shaped urban policing and development. Ross traces the struggle to control sex in public and argues that it was the very effort to police the city that created new opportunities for women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men. Placing public sex at the center of urban history, Ross shows how those who used public spaces played a central role in defining the way the city was understood.

“Shiveringly Gothic.”—New York Times Book Review A PopSugar and BookBub Best Romance of 2022! A London heiress rides out to the wilds of the English countryside to honor a marriage of convenience with a mysterious and reclusive stranger. Tall, dark, and dour, the notorious Captain Jasper...

Christ Church Priory, Canterbury, 990 AD. Orphaned by Vikings, Folcwin and his elder brother, Aelfwynn, have become excellent scribes. Their lives, enlivened by sibling rivalry, are upset by a competition to illuminate a commissioned psalter. After Folcwin is selected the victor, his brother is accused of murdering another competitor, and he escapes. While Aelfwynn begins a patriotic battle against Viking raiders, Folcwin’s fame as a scribe increases.

Historian and professional investor Alasdair Nairn predicted both the dotcom and subprime collapses, and in this compelling new book shares the evidence that we are living through such a period of deadly excess right now. Markets appear to be going up and up, but they have gotten perilously ahead of themselves. Danger lies in every single investable asset class. What some have called the "Everything Bubble" has inflated to unprecedented proportions. And now the bubble is about to burst.

Archaeology for Beginners offers a crash course in the fundamentals of archaeological work. It is the go-to place for student and volunteer archaeologists attending their first dig, or for anyone with a passion for human history who wants to find out more about what archaeology is all about.

A masterpiece of classic science fiction. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. Physicists and science popularizers Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking have both commented on and postulated about the effects of Flatland.

After surviving the Battle of Culloden in 1746, young Hughie MacKim swears a blood oath to avenge the murder of his brother. Trained as an infantryman in Fraser's Highlanders, Hugh joins the Army himself and follows the trail across the horror of war in North America, through to the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in September 1759. But how can he trace the men in the anonymous ranks of the British Army?

Fifty years after bombs fell, society struggled to scrape by a meager existence. Chaos and disorder are the norms. Most people live in squabble among the rubble, trying to forage or farm resources to survive. Orin and his brother, Liam, begin hearing rumors from members of their Squad of a utopia nestled deep in the Rocky Mountains. After a band of mercenaries attacks their group, Orin recovers to find his brother missing. Having lost everything, Orin makes it his mission to discover what happened to his brother.