An Earth politician disappears on Luna. A young woman misses her man. An old mystic appears on a spaceship. Ava Levin seems to have it all: the face, the body, the beach house, and the revered husband. But when her love disappears on Luna under suspicious circumstances, everything else loses its meaning. Determined to find him, she defies the interplanetary travel restrictions and boards an illegal space flight with an eccentric mystic, Rasputin. Unlike Earth, space is a perilous place even without the militant Lunar police, shady underground organisations, and armed-to-teeth Martian warships. To survive, Ava must learn to trust herself, even if every step closer to her husband is a step deeper into the unknown. On the eve of the biggest seizure of power in the millennia, she must make a tough choice and face her destiny... or risk a war that could kill billions.If you're looking for a space...

My Sand Life, My Pebble Life is a new book focusing on one of poet Ian McMillan's great loves – the sea – and the places and memories that have shaped who he is today.Comprised of a series of perfectly crafted, evocative, funny and nostalgic essays, Ian revisits the coastal places that stamped themselves on his childhood: Cleethorpes, where a bird once landed on the seat next to him as the miniature railway chugged along, California in Suffolk where his Auntie accidentally put her hand through the window of a caravan and bled spectacularly, Minehead in Somerset where his dad kept stalling the car and the family limped across the map and took all day to get a very short distance, Broadford on the Isle of Skye where midges descended on Ian like an apocalyptic umbrella.This book will transport you from your everyday life to a coast rich in memories of childhood and times spent by the sea.

In Search Of One Imaginary Boyfriend After one disastrous date too many, Abbi Horowitz would love nothing more than to swear off dating for the rest of the foreseeable future. As it is, she's too busy juggling a full-time job and law school to date anyone. Unfortunately, her mother has other plans.Desperate times call for desperate measures, and for Abbi, that means inventing a fake boyfriend that she can date for the next few months before conveniently breaking up with him when her life isn't so hectic. There's no way that a plan this perfect will fail. In Search Of One Imaginary Girlfriend When Abbi tells her neighbor Daniel Cohen about her plans, he proposes an alternative.Use each other's very common Jewish names to create fake people to date for the next few months, and go on pretend dates to strengthen their tenuous cover story. Dan's an accountant muscling his way through busy season and...

After a shocking death at a luxurious Italian resort, two very different women must question everything—and everyone—they love in order to untangle truth from lies in this twisty, captivating read.One year ago, Leah’s feisty 21-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned in the beautiful lake near her family-owned resort in Northern Italy. Now, Leah’s grief has caught up with her, and she decides to return to Lake Garda for the first time since Amy’s death. What she finds upon her arrival shocks her—her sister, brother-in-law, and surviving niece, Olivia, seem to have erased all memories of Amy, and fought to have her death declared an accidental drowning, despite murky circumstances. Leah knows she must look beyond the resort’s beautiful façade and uncover what truly happened to Amy, even if her digging places both her family ties and her very life in danger. Meanwhile, in Central England, thirtysomething...

"For all of you who need some great fantasy to read while you're waiting for The Winds of Winter...try Quillifer, by Walter Jon Williams. WJW is always fun, but this might be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting and amusing by turns, exquisitely written." —George R. R. Martin, author of the Song of Ice and Fire series "Chock full of derring-do, blood and thunder, swashbuckling, and other good stuff." —Paul di Filippo, Locus"You have risen as far as you can, and from this point, you may only fall. The matter is inevitable, and I need not intervene." Quillifer's archenemy, the beautiful and vengeful goddess Orlanda, predicts his inescapable fall from power, and Quillifer has to admit that she may be right. Quillifer has risen high at court. The butcher's son is now a lord, and now is the confidential agent of the state, the caretaker of the kingdom's secrets, and the secret...

This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art – when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o’-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs. Find “Jack the Giantkiller”, “Tom Tit Tot” and other quintessentially English favourites, alongside interesting borrowings, such as an English version of the Grimms’ “Little Snow White” – as well as bedtime frighteners, including “Captain Murderer”, as told to Charles Dickens by his childhood nurse.Neil Philip has provided a full introduction and source notes on each story that illustrate each tale’s journey from mouth to page, and what has happened to them on the way. These tales rank among the finest English short stories of all...

Sarah Campbell told one tiny white lie.When her tech-giant employer moves her to a cottage on a small Scottish island to work on a classified, controversial, and potentially world-saving project, Sarah must keep her eco-terrorist mother in the dark to prevent her from disrupting everything. Sarah's cover story—she's fallen in love, she and her girlfriend are escaping the bustle of the city, she couldn't be happier... But Sarah's better at firewalls than real walls, and when she arrives at the run-down cottage, she quickly discovers she needs help.Pippa Kent is a widowed, semi-retired structural engineer who's done with love. She fills all her free time running a handywoman service on the island. When Sarah calls Pippa out for the most basic repairs, Pippa can't help but wonder—often out loud—how anyone could be so inept at home maintenance.Then Sarah's mother suddenly decides to visit and meet her daughter's wonderful new partner. With little option,...

Knight Takes Queen [Queen of Lost Stars, Valiant Chaos, The Iron Knight, Silversword]

Kendra Hall is a fixer. As far as Mark Luciano is concerned, nothing in his life needs fixing—not him, and certainly not his business. As part owner of Club Apocalypse, a resort catering to those who share certain proclivities, he's perfectly happy with the small, select clientele they've curated. He doesn't need some fancy suit telling him how to run his business—even if the advice is coming from the most stunning woman he's ever seen. Worse, she's right more than she's wrong. When he discovers that behind closed doors Kendra enjoys taking orders rather than giving them, their relationship takes a turn he never expected. But trouble is coming for Club Apocalypse. If Mark can't learn that sometimes even the Master must bend, he risks losing everything he's worked to build.