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Homeless on Aucklands streets, Max Grimes fights to survive when someone starts killing the citys forgotten. Pulled into a dark past, he must stop the killer or be next. The gripping second instalment in a breathtaking series, from New Zealands queen of crime.___A killer is hunting Aucklands homeless. No one cares. No one but Max. These are his people.Max Grimes is homeless, living on the streets of Auckland among the forgotten, the invisible. But now someone is hunting the homeless, killing them one by one. No one cares. Except Max.Trying to put his shattered life back together, Max is pulled into a deadly game when a face from his past reappears, reopening wounds he thought were long buried.As whispers of a Grim Reaper spread terror through the city, Max must race against time not only to find the killer, but to outrun the ghosts chasing him.Because if he fails, hell be next.____

In Hamburgs troubled Wilhelmsburg district, Prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a brutal double murder amid corruption and gentrification. Battling personal demons and powerful foes, she fights to expose a citys dark secrets.____In Wilhelmsburg, Hamburgs so-called problem area, an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict villa.Prosecutor Chastity Riley is assigned the case, and quickly finds herself waist-deep in a murky tangle of city planners, shady investors and vanishing officials. The gentrification machine is rolling on, and someone is sending a very clear message.As November fog settles over the city, Chastity is coughing up blood, her personal life is a slow-motion disaster, and her former colleague, Faller, wont stop interfering. But nothings going to stop her from cutting through the lies not even the sharks circling ever closer.Dark, caustic and piercing, Sharks is a searing investigation into greed, power, and the price of resistance in a city devouring itself, from one of Germanys finest, most original crime writers.______

The writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M. finds herself unable to write, unmoored in a present where the future feels unknowable. When she travels to a nearby country for an event, a twist of fate leaves her stranded in an unfamiliar city, phoneless and untraceable. In this rupture, she feels a flicker of liberation the possibility of starting over but memories of childhood, books, films and tarot cards pull her back, the last fragments of a vanishing world. Then she meets a troupe of circus performers and, for a moment, reinvention seems within reach. Oscillating between reality and dream, written in rich, hypnotic prose, The Disappearing Act is a haunting meditation on identity, language and the fragile desire to disappear by Maria Stepanova, one of the greatest living Russian writers.

The Marquis de Sade, infamous for his obscene writing and his cruelty to women, nonetheless lived a life dominated by them - his charismatic mother, iron-willed mother-in-law, and his wife. A wife who, despite her husbands peccadilloes, and although their marriage was arranged in order for their families to combine financial and social capital, loved him devotedly for thirty years, through betrayal, imprisonment, and national turmoil.This biography reveals how Renee-Pelagie de Montreuil, Marquise de Sade, endured the chaos caused by her frenetically dissolute husband with grace, and how she carved out her own independence in an era when women were entitled to little of their own. She bore the Marquis three children, loved him, put up with his wild behaviour, edited his manuscripts for him, tried to help him escape prison by means legal and illegal, and acted throughout the decades of their marriage as his only reliable friend.Their complex relationship, set against the last years of the Ancien Regime in France, the Revolution and its aftermath, are brought to life with humour and compassion by Margaret Crosland, also the translator of Sades Gothic Tales. She shows how the Sade marriage symbolized the decay of the old aristocracy and conveys the struggle of one individual to establish her personal identity at a time when women in France had virtually no rights of their own.

A Forever War: Israel and Palestine achieves something quite extraordinary. At a time when passions run high and the Israel-Gaza war intensifies, so much coverage is based on prejudice, fear and ignorance. Colin Schindler, Professor of Jewish Studies at SOAS, presents a calm, scholarly and dispassionate view of the past and of what might lie ahead.Since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Middle East has been thrown into conflict. Schindler reflects on the key questions: How did this state of affairs come about? Is it even possible to write an impartial account? Was the Balfour Declaration a disaster? Could all the conflict have been avoided? How is it that Israel itself is a divided nation and even other Arab nations treat the Palestinians so badly?On both sides are the extremists terrorists and Ultra-Orthodox Jews who are determined to seize land from Palestinians and dream of a new Jewish theocracy but A Forever War strives for objectivity and asks how we can best approach the truth in a time of such complex division.

Detective Nosegoode and the Music Box Mystery. When a mysterious man with a fake black beard comes to town and a music box goes missing from the workshop of clockmaker Mr Ignatius Blossom, the two friends begin to investigate.Detective Nosegoode and the Kidnappers. Detective Nosegoode wants to enjoy his well deserved retirement, but it seems the villains of Lower Limewood are determined not to let him rest: Cody has been kidnapped! Will he be returned safe and sound? Never fear, Detective Nosegoode is already on their trail.Detective Nosegoode and the Museum Robbery. A famous picture is in danger of being stolen, the headquarters of the Circle of the Aficionados of Checkers has been robbed and an elusive pickpocket strikes at the celebrations to mark the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Lower Limewood. This small town seems to have a attracted quite a number of thieves - a good job they can count the brilliant Detective Nosegoode and his faithful Cody among their residents.

A saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt paintingPainted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimts Portrait of a Lady was purchased by an anonymous collector in 1916, retouched by the master a year later, then stolen in 1997 before reappearing in the gardens of an Italian modern art museum in 2019.No art experts, museum curators, or police investigators know the identity of the young woman in the painting, nor the mysteries that surround the turbulent history of her portrait. From the streets of Vienna in 1900 to Texas in the 1980s, and from Manhattan during the Great Depression to contemporary Italy, de Peretti imagines the destiny of this young woman as well as that of her descendants, and creates a masterful fresco that intertwines family secrets, disappearances, and thwarted loves.

Whilst the war raged across Flanders fields, an equally horrifying and sometimes more dangerous battle took place underground.Beneath Flanders Fields tells the story of the tunnellers war, which still remains one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of the Great War.A wealth of personal testimonies reveal the engineering, technology and science behind how this most intense of battles was fought and won. They speak of how the tunnellers lived a relentless existence in the depths of the battlefield for almost two and a half years, enduring physical and mental stresses that were often more extreme than their infantry counterparts. Their lives were reduced to a complex war of silence, tension and claustrophobia, leading up to the most dramatic mine offensive in history launched on 7 June 1917 at Messines Ridge. Yet, Messines was not the end of their story, which continued with the crafting of a whole underground world of headquarters, cookhouses and hospitals, housing the innumerable troops who passed through this part of the Western Front.Here, this extraordinary, hidden world is revealed and the fragile legacy it has left behind on Flanders fields is brought to light.

The best work I know on positive psychology and grief is Lucy HonesDr Martin Seligman20 questions that will help readers cope with, and grow from, loss and grief.Grief is probably the most universal human experience of all; it shapes our lives, our choices, how we see ourselves, and the world around us. This book will help readers articulate their living losses, experienced for example after divorce, illness, job loss...and give research-informed practical tools needed to rebuild their world.A global thought leader in the field of resilience psychology, tragic circumstances tested Dr Lucy Hones own resilience when her 12-year-old daughter and friends were killed in a horrific motor accident.Of this this lived experience of grief and study of living loss, Hone says: We might not like change, but somehow we survive. Growth from adversity is real: post-traumatic growth is far more common than post-traumatic stress.How will I Ever Get Through This? Will leave readers more resilient, empowered and better-equipped to face the future than ever before.

Freya Indias writing is compassionate, gripping, and deeply psychological Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious GenerationComing of age has always been a time of angst and inner turmoil, especially for girls. But today girls have to contend with those worries in a world of AR filters, TikTok plastic surgeons, dating apps, hook up culture, online porn, modern sex-positivity, profit-driven online therapy apps, direct-to-door medication and even fully customisable AI girlfriends. All personalised by algorithms to play on their innermost fears and insecurities. It is an onslaught of advertising, it is on portable platforms designed to be maximally addictive, and it is far beyond what any previous generation of girls have ever faced.Girls teases out and traces both technological and cultural shifts in the last decadefrom social media to shifting family structures, waning religious attachment and the collapse of communal spaces. And Girls exposes the sinister and rapid intensification and ruthless commercialisation of the inner lives of girls and young women which leads to the loss of their authentic selvesa loss that corporations are all too ready to exploit.Girls is a personal journey and intimate portrait of girls today, in all their mystery and torment: one that captures the soul of the most complex and misunderstood generation so far, and that empowers them to see their lives through a different lens.

Wyl Thirsk is very young when he inherits the role as commander of the Morgravian army for a new king he detests. His first act is one of compassion to the accused witch Myrren, and this earns him her reward but is it a gift or a curse?As war threatens from the north, the king deliberately sends Wyl on a perilous mission. But as Wyl discovers the true nature of Myrrens gift, he is confronted with an unimaginable choice.As the line between traitor and saviour becomes increasingly blurred, Wyl must navigate treacherous waters where the sinister new power he wields could either save or destroy him and his entire country.

Geraldines judgment is sharp. But this case cuts deeper than most.When Peter Selby vanishes after reporting a suspicious encounter, few take notice until a man is found brutally stabbed in a quiet York suburb. Detectives Geraldine Steel and Ariadne Croft begin to investigate, but what looks like a random act of violence soon unravels into a dark and deeply personal mystery. As they dig into the lives of the victims, the emotional landscape grows increasingly fractured.Peters wife is guarded, their daughter erratic and angry. The second victims family are cold, evasive, and seemingly determined to keep the past buried. Then a second disappearance throws everything into chaos. With each revelation, the detectives uncover layers of resentment, betrayal, and psychological trauma lurking behind the neat façades of domestic life.Under mounting pressure, and with Ariadne in growing danger, Geraldine must navigate a maze of fractured relationships and shifting motives before the killer strikes again. Taut, unsettling, and emotionally charged, this psychological crime thriller exposes the darkness beneath the surface and the human cost of secrets left to fester.

When Im Dead is nigh-on impossible to put downBookPageOne girl murdered. Another one missing. And a medical examiner desperate to uncover the truth.Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughters best friend. Yet just hours later, she makes the devastating discovery that her own daughter, Chloe, has vanished. A morbid trail of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth disturbing details about Chloe and her secret transgressions.Amidst the noise of navigating her newfound grief and reconciling the sins of her past, an undeniable fact rings true for Rowan: karma has finally come to collect.

Economists such as Kate Raworth and Jason Hickel have long argued that endless growth is ecologically damaging, proposing the idea of de-growth in response. But what if de-growth was baked into the capitalist model?We often assume that poor countries will bear the brunt of climate change, pandemics, and other exogenous shocks, but this book argues the opposite: western societies have more wealth and capital to lose, and are less inherently resilient. Icarus Economics shows how rich countries can help poor countries to decarbonise as they develop and, in the process, repair their own stagnating economies - as well as the planet.

Eleven strange buildings. One terrible secret.A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison...Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle.Look closely... and youll see that everything is connected.All leading to a revelation so horrifying you wont want to believe it.Millions of readers have become addicted to solving Uketsus dark mysteries.Strange Buildings is the strangest, and darkest, of them all.

Mit dem Superhelden-Duo Muffin & Tort zum Leseprofi! Comicartige Erzahlweise: wenig Text, viele Bilder Ideal fur ungeubte Leserinnen und Leser ab 7 Jahren Perfektes Geschenk (nicht nur) fur Jungs, die Spa an witzigen und spannenden Geschichten haben Muffin, der gemutliche Kater, und sein quirliger Freund Tort erleben ihr drittes groes Abenteuer! Diesmal fuhrt sie die magische Katzenklappe mitten hinein in eine echte Piratengeschichte: Plotzlich finden sich die beiden auf einem Piratenschiff wieder, treffen auf schrage Seerauber und werden von Kapten Klappe fast uber Bord geworfen, weil sie zu nett sind. Doch eigentlich wurden auch Klappe und seine Piratencrew lieber freundlich sein und ihre Opfer mit Gold entschadigen. Also segeln sie gemeinsam mit Muffin und Tort zur sagenumwobenen Monsterinsel. Dort erwartet sie zwar ein Schatz, aber auch ein hungriges Seeungeheuer .Mit wenig Text und vielen Bildern ist dieses Comic-Kinderbuch perfekt fur Leseanfanger geeignet. Die witzigen Dialoge und die turbulente Handlung sorgen fur Lesespa von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite. "Muffin und Tort Bei den Piraten" macht Lust aufs Lesen und ist ein Highlight fur alle, die Abenteuer und Humor mogen.Alle Bucher des urkomischen Superhelden-Duos:Muffin & Tort 1: Bei den Wikingern (ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Kinderbuchpreis)Muffin & Tort 2: Bei den RitternMuffin & Tort 3: Bei den PiratenIdeal fur Leseanfanger, Comic-Fans und alle, die spannende Piratengeschichten lieben!

*** Available for pre-order now ***What a joy! A novel with endless ingenuity and enormous heart. Kaliane BradleyOne of the finest prose stylists of his generation.The Times My God can he write. Richard Osman Its the summer of 1939. London is on the brink of catastrophic war. Iris Hawkins, an ambitious young woman in the stuffy world of City finance, has a chance encounter with Geoff, a technical whizz at the BBCs nascent television unit.What was supposed to be one night of abandon draws her instead into an adventure of otherworldly pursuit - into a reality where time bends, spirits can be summoned, and history hangs by a thread. Soon there are Nazi planes overhead. But Iris has more to contend with than the terrors of the Blitz. Over the rooftops of burning London, in the twisted passages between past and present, a fascist fanatic is travelling with a gun in her hand.And only Iris can stop her from altering the course of history forever.

Brick-Stitch, Peyote, and Other Bead Weaving Techniques walks you through 18 original beading projects, from elegant earrings to statement bracelets and artistic brooches. This book is designed for jewelry makers of all levels who want to explore or deepen their understanding of bead weaving techniques. Inside, youll find detailed, step-by-step instructions for each project, supported by full-color photographs and easy-to-follow diagrams that visually break down both the beading techniques and the jewelry assembly process. Techniques covered include brick stitch, even- and odd-count peyote stitch, circular peyote, crossed-thread weaving, and loom work, all clearly explained and applied across a variety of wearable creations. With its practical guidance and artistic flair, Brick-Stitch, Peyote, and Other Bead Weaving Techniques is an essential resource for anyone passionate about handcrafted jewelry!

Sometimes, there is a perfect time and a place to have the experience of your life. An Entire Year of Unforgettable Events is here to help you find yours! In this book from renowned British-born traveler Sarah Woods, armchair travel enthusiasts and seasoned travelers will discover that traveling isnt just about where you go, but when. Dont simply pick a spot on the map. Pick a reason to travel there. An Entire Year of Unforgettable Events is about finding the most awe-inspiring, unusual, and engaging experiences and events worldwide. Split month-by-month and day-by-day and with all seven continents represented, Sarah provides detailed insight for events happening every day of the year and where they take place. Are king penguins taking their first swim in Antarctica? When is Malis outlandish Festival of the Desert? Why is Elvis Day the best time to pay homage to The King near Graceland? Its all here, with high-quality photos and detailed information on each event, all conveniently color-coded to help you find must-visit places near your neck of the woods.

Published ahead of the centenary of the Queens birth, this beautifully illustrated book uncovers the hidden history of the Crown and how it survived a tumultuous era and two world wars. **Features over 100 sumptuous images**From the birth of the house of Windsor in 1917, its leading women - Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duchess of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth II - faced abdication and assassination, revolution and the rise of fascism, the threat of invasion and all-out war. Their sartorial decisions, alongside those of their royal husbands, projected power and perpetuity, diplomacy and defiance. In this cinematic story of espionage and exquisite couture, Justine Picardie reveals the undercover lives of the creators behind the facade - including Hardy Amies, Cecil Beaton, Norman Hartnell and Edward Molyneux - and traces the ways in which visual iconography safeguarded the monarchy even when their reign seemed to be hanging by a thread.Drawing on original research in the Royal Archives and her own experiences at Balmoral, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, Picardie explores the family feuds and international conflicts that challenged the Crown, and how royal fashion is wielded as a weapon.