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'Invaluable guidance on how organizations can embrace the flexibility of remote work while sustaining wellbeing and connection . . . Immensely timely, practical and encouraging.' – Caroline Webb, author of How to Have a Good Day Transform your career or your business with these simple tips and...

Listen to this audio collection of classic dog stories read by an ensemble cast of treasured readers - including Lorelei King, Samuel West, Thomas Judd, Imogen Church and Gordon Kennedy. From the grit of a frontier man’s dog, from pampered lapdog to wayward mongrel, from faithful guard dog to...

Listen to this collection of celebrated classic cat stories read by an ensemble cast of beloved audiobook readers - including Samuel West, Lorelei King and Imogen Church. Classic Cat Stories is an anthology that includes fairy tales and fables from the likes of Rudyard Kipling and Charles...

From the legendary author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Think and Grow Rich comes the ultimate guidebook to success, featuring Napoleon Hill's two most popular books on prosperity and abundance. Napoleon Hill’s teachings have guided countless individuals to achieve extraordinary success...

One rainy night in New York, psychologist James Cobb gives a talk on the art of recovering lost memories. Afterwards, he's approached by a stranger: a dying man who, 40 years ago, woke up in a hotel room with a murdered woman and no memory at all of what happened. 

Recently released from prison, David Marion didn’t expect to find a hitman at his door. Warned that a powerful secret organisation is after him, David goes underground and off the radar – waiting for the perfect moment to wreak revenge. Physicist Helen Freyl has just accepted a job offer from a giant pharmaceutical company who are close to finding a cure for radiation poisoning.

She can’t be tied down Unless he can persuade her it’s worth it…! Mills & Boon presents The Marriage Clause by Alexx Andria Katherine Oliver is not interested in getting married. The only problem is she can’t keep her hands off gorgeous billionaire Luca Donato, who wants to put a ring on...

Tales of Tahitian Waters describes Grey's fishing expeditions to the Tahitian Islands during 1928, 1929, and 1930, in which he claims to be the first big-game fisherman to fish these waters. He came to the area after having passed nearby on other fishing trips. Hearing accounts of there being marlin that were 30 feet long and sharks that measured 50 feet in length, he became determined to pursue these fish and add to his many fishing records. It was here where he describes catching a marlin weighing 1,040 pounds. The catch was recorded as the first 1,000-pound fish ever caught.

Summer, 1962. A scorching heat wave is suffocating LA. PI Jim Keegan is offered a small fortune to find a beautiful woman from a set of photographs. He refuses; the job seems suspicious. But the next day the same woman, Eve, turns up, unbidden, on his doorstep. Eve fears for her safety. She is being watched. Before Keegan knows it, someone has been killed with Keegan’s own gun, and he gets sucked into a world of suspicion and betrayal where he’s never quite sure where the truth lies....

Dupin needs Poe’s help solving a deadly crime. Poe agrees and soon becomes enmeshed in Dupin’s quest to bring down the man who single-handedly ruined his family. This rival now wishes destruction upon Poe’s head too. Caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse game within Paris’ famous necropolis, Poe and Dupin must use their wits to survive. And they discover that when venturing down into the Empire of the Dead, it’s not so easy to return from the darkness.

When Eddie Ryder is burned alive by fellow members of the Hell Riders motorcycle gang for ratting on them, he vows revenge with his dying breath. He returns as a ghost, with his custom motorcycle diablo by his side. After he finds out he can possess people, he launches a campaign of vengeance that leaves plenty of bodies in its wake and the police in a state of confusion.

First published in 1930, As I Lay Dying is largely considered one of William Faulkner's greatest works and is frequently ranked among the best novels of the twentieth century. A deeply ambitious and compelling Southern gothic, As I Lay Dying follows the tale of the Bundren family as they journey to bury their late matriarch, Addie, in her hometown of Jefferson, Mississippi.

Giants in the Earth is a stark, emotionally powerful portrait of Norwegian settlers struggling to build a life on the limitless Dakota prairie. Blending the sweep of frontier adventure with the intimate pressures of isolation, the novel captures both the thrill of possibility and the quiet unraveling that comes when the land asks more of its people than they ever expected to give.

Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces shaping the American educational system—with scholarship that is often cited as a primary source—Joel Spring introduces readers to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education...

This book provides you with a clear look at the one single document that defines America, including the birth of the Constitution and the history and details of its amendments. This revision will also include recent court rulings related to the Constitution and how those decisions have ramifications for everyday Americans. If you've never fully read the Constitution before, this guide will give you an opportunity to learn about the greatest document in US history.

After being separated by an unforgivable lie, a dying father tells his son about the con men who cheated him of all he had - and the small North western town called Mission that spurned him. Now it is time for revenge. What follows is a twisting story of guile and brutality, mud and gold, as the old man's enemies are played by a young man who has nothing to lose and everything to gain

Irving Ash is a private investigator down on his luck. His life's in the gutter and work has dried up. With bills mounting, he's forced to take a job working security detail at a porn studio. He's barely started the job when the porn company's highest earning star, Brandi Dyvine, goes missing. Irving can't resist digging deeper into her disappearance, and trails Brandi through the dive bars and deadly streets of Denver - the Mile High City.

Asleep, he's plagued by dreams of murder, women strangled with a red velvet rope then left with a playing card tucked in the corpse. While awake, he's hallucinating that he's being stalked by a man painted like a skeleton. It's getting hard to know what's real.

Howard Barton comes to the remote northern coast of California in search of a folded scrap of paper rumoured to bear a sketch by the legendary Japanese artist Hokusai. Unfortunately, there are plenty of others in search of the Paper Grail.… Mrs Lamey, who waters her garden with blood, among other strange and noxious substances; the enigmatic Mr Jimmers, whose garden shed conceals a bizarre invention designed to raise the dead; Uncle Roy, founder of The Museum of Modern Mysteries and builder of haunted houses.

This mesmerising collection from World Fantasy Award-winner James P. Blaylock offers seven brilliant excursions into one of the most idiosyncratic imaginations of our time. Highlighted by the acclaimed novella, The Trismegistus Club - a brilliant riff on the antiquarian ghost story - In for a Penny goes from strength to strength, taking us deep into the heart of a quirky, deeply engaging fictional world that no one but Blaylock could have created.