Adena and Paedyn have always been inseparable. Fate brought them together when they were young, but friendship ensured they’d always protect each other and the home they built in the slums of Loot.
Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya...The exceptional. The Elites. The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the Plague, while those born Ordinary are just that, banished from the kingdom and shunned from society.
After surviving the Purging Trials, Ordinary-born Paedyn Gray has killed the King, and kickstarted a Resistance throughout the land. Now she’s running from the one person she had wanted to run to.
Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York – she's the breadwinner working two jobs and he's the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is discovered by a Sony exec and becomes an overnight success – and their life changes for ever.
A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of travel writing in its own right.
When a secret message turns up hidden in a book in the Cinnamon Bun Bookstore, Hazel can't understand it. As more secret codes appear between the pages, she decides to follow the trail of clues… she just need someone to help her out.
When Jeanie's aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job.
An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself"
Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change.
Big-time dope dealer Kenan Khoury is a wealthy man. One fine spring morning his wife Francine is kidnapped and a ransom is demanded. Kenan pays and his wife is duly returned to him-in - small pieces in the boot of an abandoned car.
t's hard to ignore someone with his hands in your mouth.Bernie Rhodenbarr's all ears when Dr.Sheldrake,his dentist,starts complaining about his detestable,soon-to-be-ex wife,and happens to mention the valuable diamonds she keeps lying around the apartmen
Bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn't generally get philosophical about his criminal career.He's good at it, it's addictively exciting - and it pays a whole lot better than pushing old tomes.He steals therefore he is, period.
Eine Liebeserklärung an die Welt des östlichen Mittelmeeres. Ein Bild aus kräftigsten und zartesten Farben vonden Wäldern und Olivenhainen, den Buchten der Phäakeninsel, vom Alltag und der Geschichte ihrer Bewohner.