",Many years have now gone by, and jealousy compels me to keep her name a secret, even from my readers. But I must provide a full and truthful account of what happened.",It is mid-1980s Istanbul and Master Mahmut and his apprentice use ancient methods to dig wells - they are desperate to find ...
A whimsical read-aloud of delicious answers to ridiculous questions about what can - and cannot - be done in the kitchen!Food critic and author Joshua David Stein tackles the world of cookery with his signature quirk and charm. From the practical ("Can I fry a scoop of gelato?") to the playful ("Do frozen ...
One life-changing summer Sixteen-year-old Charlie meets Fran. 8 million copies since STARTER FOR TEN first introduced us to his incomparable talent for making us laugh, cry and wince with recognition in the space of a single sentence; ten years after ONE DAY became the iconic love story for a generation; ...
Journey back in time and find out where the dinosaurs roamed. This unique children\''s atlas explores each continent, revealing fossil sites and stories on every map. Part of the best-selling What\''s Where on Earth series, this atlas is packed with maps of early Earth and more than 40 profiles of dinosaurs ...
Presents an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, this novel charts Blackthorne´s rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually, ...
In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brene Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers and culture shifters, she''s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. Leadership is ...
A New York Times No. 1 best seller §On the New York Times Best Seller List for more than 52 consecutive weeks §Includes an excerpt from the much-anticipated sequel and an interview with author Ransom Riggs §A mysterious island.§An abandoned orphanage.§A strange collection of very curious photographs§It ...
2016 Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet Amanda Lovelace returns in the witch doesn''t burn in this one - the bold second book in her "women are some kind of magic" series. The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now-indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience ...
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance ...
In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough dust kicked up by Turkish horses is spotted from a citadel. Brightly coloured banners, hastily constructed ...
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself \''Mogor dell\''Amore\'', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, ...
Meet Kate Mackenzie. She: works for the T.O.D. (short for TyrannicalOffice Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Divisionat the New York Journal) is sleeping on the couch because herboyfriend of ten years refuses to commitcan\''t find an affordable studio apartmentanywhere ...
Since the gripping conclusion of Once a Witch, Tamsin Greene has been haunted by her grandmother’s prophecy that she will soon be forced to make a crucial decision — one so terrible that it could harm her family forever. When she discovers that her enemy, Alistair Knight, went back in time to Victorian-era ...
