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A childhood game of wild imagination takes a frightening turn in this dark, strange, moving tale of intense friendship, tangled secrets and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Eat the Ones You Love, one of the Sunday Timess Top Ten Irish Books of 2025.For Daphne McSharry, Valentia Island was a place of joyful childhood holidays: independence, adventure and playing with her beloved friends, Ronan, Leonie and Finn. They returned to one game of their own making year after year, and let their imaginations roam free. But when the game is stolen from them by an outsider, it becomes something dark and strange, forcing Daphne to make a choice with a terrible cost. When tragedy brings her back to the island years later, she and her friends finally have to face the consequences of what she did.Daphne never took her final turn... And there is a debt that must be paid.

A propulsive and thrilling chase through the multiverse as a washed-up writer joins an elite crew of scouts on a mission to stop terrorists destroying entire realities. Perfect for fans of character-driven multiverse adventures such as The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, and The Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen BaxterTim Drake is bottoming out. Having failed to sell his new book he finds himself without a publisher, an agent, a partner, and now a job, something needs to change. But when they do, its the wrong things the cafe on the corner, the bank thats now a burger restaurant, maybe even who hes meant to be.Suddenly broken off from his reality, Tim finds himself wheeling through new worlds. Dangerous places, worlds that have no place for him.And when his path leads him to Fred, a grizzled soldier who travels between worlds, and Zhue, a mysterious person sent back from 5,000 years in the future, he discovers events far greater than his next book are at stake.Zhue and Fred are on the trail of John Cho, a man who is destroying entire worlds, and who killed Freds last team. And with no way home, Tim must join them on a deadly pursuit through realities and time, or risk losing his entire world.

From Transactional Faith to Transformational Life in Christ Are you tired of feeling stuck in your faith? Do you long for real, lasting spiritual transformation that feels relational rather than formulaic? Like many Christians, you may feel as if youre living in a cycle of fits and starts, seeking to grow closer to God but feeling disillusioned in your faith. In a culture of hustle and hurry, maybe you long to trade a transactional faith for a transformational relationship with God.In Dwelling in Christ, Jonathan R. Bailey reintroduces the Threefold Wayan ancient, time-tested path of Christian spirituality. Moving beyond quick fixes and performance-based faith, this well-worn path offers a practical movement through three stages for growing in Christlikeness over a lifetime.Discover anew how to walk the Threefold Way: Purgation: Learn to release the harmful and unloving things that pull you away from God. Illumination: Dwell more deeply in Gods presence as you intentionally and gradually align your heart more and more with his. Union: Experience an ever-deepening friendship with God that increasingly transforms you into Christlikeness from the inside out. Aided by the wisdom of ancient monastics, contemporary theologians, and thoughtful reflections on his own spiritual journey, Bailey invites you to trade the illusion of control for the reality of love. In continuity with spiritual voices such as Dallas Willard and Richard Foster, this book offers a hopeful and practical way of life through retrieving a framework reaching back into the earliest centuries of the church. With Dwelling in Christ, be free from chasing quick fixes and enter the steady, lifelong journey of becoming like Christ.

A darkly magical retelling of Hans Christian Andersens "The Snow Queen" for fans of Ava Reid and Katherine Arden,from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Nettle & Bone. Gerta has been in love with her neighbor, Kay, for as long as she can remember. Kay thinks Gerta is...fine.When Kay is stolen away by the mysterious Snow Queen, its up to Gerta to find him. Her journey will take her through a dangerous land of snow and witchcraft, spirit roads and shape-shifters. Accompanied by a talking raven and a strangely entrancing bandit girl named Janna, Gerta travels further north than north to confront the Snow Queen and rescue Kay.The journey will be dangerous, but the unpredictable currents of her own heart might be the most frightening thing of all.

From Rosiee Thor, the critically-acclaimed author of Life is Strange: Stephs Story, comes the next chapter in the tumultuous tale of Drugstore Makeup, the up-and-coming punk band led by the wildly charismatic Izzie Margolis!In the years since the split in Haven Springs, Izzie has recruited a full band to bolster her energetic sound and heartfelt lyrics. Chasing success and fighting for greater recognition, Drugstore Makeup find themselves on the cusp of their next big break.So when their new manager kicks them out of their comfort zone, Izzie and the band enter a tornado of activity: writing and rehearsing fresh songs as they prepare to record an album, embarking on a tour of grimy live music venues to grow their fandom mosh pit by mosh pit, and vigorously debating the optimum ratio of band merchandise to sleeping bags in the back of their shared touring van.But with a drummer who cant keep time, debts that wont stop piling, venues that never live up to the photos online, and a manager who seems more troubled than the band, will this year, and this tour, see Drugstore Makeup reach the next level - or has Izzie finally bitten off more than she can chew?Dive into an unseen side of the Life is Strange universe with this captivating and original novel!

Amaze your friends and family with the illusion of magic by learning these fun card magic tricks. Marc Lemezma provides you with a brief history of cards and its terminology. Then its all fun and games as you learn 22 card tricks the increase in difficulty to do and to solve. From the simple Five Alive trick to the Absolute Absurdity trick, you will spend hours performing and perfecting your skills and perplexing your audience.

Your Institutions Mission Is Key to Its Flourishing For church-related colleges and universities, a mission statement is a powerful tool. It communicates what is distinctive about each institution and its relationship to its faith tradition. Yet having a clear and compelling mission statement is not enough. Universities face ongoing challenges in stewarding their missions in a rapidly changing culture.In A Mission Held in Trust, leading administrators and educators from both Protestant and Catholic institutions provide wisdom on mission alignment in higher education. Mission is designed to be held in trust by members of a community and stewarded for the next generation.Contributors shed light on a number of topics to help church-related colleges and universities advance their missions, including: how mission statements serve as organizing rationales for exercising institutional identity; challenges to mission in a post-secular cultural context; issues of law, lobbying, messaging, and finance; the theological, philosophical, and legal characteristics of fiduciary service; and how students, educators, board members, and other stakeholders are formed for service. This book brings together a distinguished roster of higher education leaders from presidents of Notre Dame, Baylor, Biola, Pepperdine, Franciscan, and Samford to senior officials from Wheaton, Villanova, Saint Louis, and the Catholic University of America. Spanning Catholic, evangelical, and ecumenical institutions, their combined experience in leadership, formation, and ministry offers readers practical, hard-won wisdom they can trust.In the midst of uncertainties and change, mission remains a sacred trustinherited from predecessors and passed along to successors. A Mission Held in Trust is a unique ecumenical resource providing wisdom and encouragement for leaders seeking faithfulness in these vital vocations.

A true story based on a false storyLate one night in February 2018, the award-winning Irish journalist Olaf Tyaransen returned home to find his name trending on Twitter.To his horror, he discovered that Brooke Magnanti - controversial author of the Belle de Jour books - had published an article accusing him of physically and sexually assaulting another woman a few years earlier.Tyaransen had never met Magnanti, and the woman in question had recently died in tragic circumstances. While the allegation was completely untrue, it was already going viral. Hundreds of people were rushing to judgement and sharing Magnantis article.In a painfully honest and compelling memoir, Tyaransen details the emotional, social and professional impact of that false accusation.His lacerating, unflinching account highlights the importance of due process, the mindless cruelty of crowds and the potentially fatal consequences of online vigilantism

What is power, and what is the crowd? How do the two relate to each other? Crowds and Power is a striking and unclassifiable study of how human beings behave in groups and how collective forces shape history. Rejecting conventional sociology, 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elias Canetti creates a unique framework that draws on anthropology, mythology, psychology, history, psychoanalysis and literature to explain why crowds form, how they act and what makes them so powerful. Drawing on his experiences in Vienna in the 1930s and a range of material spanning centuries and every continent, Canetti offers insights into the psychology of the crowd, the variety of religious experience, the paranoia of rulers and the pathology of power. A visionary and provocative book, Crowds and Power is a major work illuminating the forces driving mass movements and offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition ever written.

In the last jittery years of the eighteenth century, England is hungry for marvels. In rides Doctor Gustavus Katterfelto, a celebrity conjurer who once performed for Kings and now lives by his wits, with his battered stage gear and his black cat Cleo.He is joined by Roger Gossage, a young Moroccan Jew stranded in Britain. When a river accident leaves Katterfelto injured and Roger combing the Severn for lost property, he finds a dented silver horn, cold as a grave coin. When breathed into, it answers with a womans voice - she speaks of far-off cities, strange machines and in riddles, and soon "the Oracle of Clevelode" is the sensation of the Midlands. Crowds pack Duvernets theatre and fields at dusk. Doom-preachers chant her phrases. Rival magicians and zealots circle. But then a shadowy Constable of the Night sets a trap.As hysteria rises, Roger begins to suspect the horn is not a trick at all. In Nottingham a scientific committee is formed to test the oracle. What begins as theatre becomes obsession, and ends in a public trial for "pretending to sorcery", with Roger fighting to save Katterfelto and the voice inside the horn.Told as a breathless true account, The Trial of Katterfelto is a darkly comic historical fever dream about spectacle, belief, and the price of hearing the future.

What if one moment one split second changed everything?When a firearms officer shoots a suspect dead and wounds another, who later dies in hospital, the official line is that the sun was in her eyes. Her body cam failed.Known only as Officer X, her anonymity is meant to protect her until a judge releases her name and a media storm erupts.DSI Jack Dylan and DI Charley Mann are called in to determine whether it was a justifiable use of force or something darker. And when its revealed that Officer X knew the victim, and her brother died of a drug overdose linked to the same woman, the case becomes charged with personal and political tension.As pressure mounts, a vulnerable witness dies and a lost phone surfaces with a photograph and a message that could unravel everything and reveal the truth about what happened that day.Split Second brings Dylan and Mann together for the first time, in an investigation that will test their instincts, their loyalties and the limits of justice itself, as both detectives must decide how far theyll go and what theyre willing to sacrifice to uncover the truth.________Praise for R.C. Bridgestock:A cracking storySunA compelling story with a procedural authenticity that few authors can matchM.W. CravenR. C. Bridgestock always deliver a cracking story with an experts insightHoward Linskey**Voted #8 Best Crime Authors of All Time by WHSmith readers**

The incredible story of a war between gangs of tomb raiders, from Maremma to CaliforniaMany of the Etruscan artifacts now exhibited in the worlds most prestigious galleries have a story. This one, for exampleTuscany, 1972. Bardo is the best tomb raider around. Over the years, he has managed to build an illicit traffic of Etruscan artifacts, via the capital and all the way to America. When his son Giovanni takes over the trade, it soon becomes apparent he lacks his fathers talents. As if that werent enough, rival gangs see this moment of weakness as a good opportunity to take over the market.A story of betrayal, revenge, and true love, The Witchs Mouth offers a glimpse into the world that shaped the history of many museums, from Italys provinces and the romantic land pirates and their excavation fever, all the way to the highest echelons of global trading.

Top scientist in her field Ava Green doesnt spend much time outside of the lab. But when her best friend suggests she present her innovative work in AI at a big competition to win a funding prize, Ava is one of the four finalists chosen.For the next three weeks, the short-listed contestants will live and work at Castle Beaumont, and Ava will have to do things like attend dinners and actually interact with people. To make matters worse, shes in competition with the surly and aloof poet Forrest Faulkner, whos had a huge chip on his shoulder since the moment they met. Whats so great about poems that dont even rhyme, anyway?But one of the finalists literally looks like hes Avas fantasy come to life... and maybe thats not so far from the truth. Could it be that Avas idea of perfection isnt whats perfect for her, after all?

As a young writer of blazing promise, Felix Hartlaub went missing in the final days of the Second World War, leaving behind diaries, notes and incomplete drafts that provide a singularly evocative portrait of life in wartime.From 1941, Hartlaub was posted in various Nazi military command headquarters, a historian tasked with writing the Wehrmachts official record of the war. In private, he wrote the disaffected, ruthlessly clear-eyed and often beautiful fragments that make up Notes from Fuhrer HQ, now translated into English for the first time by the acclaimed Michael Hofmann.Moving from a strangely bucolic barracks in Ukraine to tense bureaucratic headquarters on the Eastern Front to the bizarre, seedy micro-climate of a command train, these dispatches conjure the absurdity and turmoil of life within Hitlers war machine through the eyes of a remarkably perceptive, disabused observer.

The leading authority on our contemporary prime ministers Dominic Grieve, GuardianAfter almost a decade and a half of Tory rule, the 2024 General Election saw the Conservatives suffer their worst-ever defeat: they received 7.14 million fewer votes than in 2019; 23.7 per cent is their lowest ever vote share; and their current 121 MP contingent is their smallest since 1832. Meanwhile, the rise of Reform threatens the partys very existence.How did it all go wrong so quickly, following Boris Johnsons record-setting win in 2019?From taking office amidst the cost of living and energy supply crises and the panic caused by Liz Trusss disastrous mini-budget, through the agenda-dominating Ukraine and Gaza wars and the Rwanda Asylum Plan, to the stunning 2023 local election results, Sunak at 10 is the definitive and jaw-dropping window into Rishi Sunaks premiership.

Seaside is a small coastal town, once known for its local amusement park, Wonderland - now more famous as the site of a string of murders twenty-five years ago by a serial killer dubbed The Carnival Killer.Now, Wonderland is about to reopen, revitalizing the dying town. But when the Carnival Killer recants his confession about killing a high school girl called Lorelei, and the dead body of a young woman washes ashore, the truth about what happened to Lorelei twenty-five years ago - and what is happening now - threatens the very fabric of Seaside itself.--Readers love Jennifer Hillier...CAPTIVATING! Right from the very beginning I was hookedShe literally blew my heart and mind away at the same time5 billion stars! I loved it so muchHad me reeling several hours after finishing itExactly the type of thriller that I LOVE...I cant tell you enough that you cant miss this one

Janus Lodge isnt your typical retirement community. Sylvia Abercrombie and her knitting-obsessed gang of octogenarians are feisty, foul- mouthed, and fiercely protective of their home. So when a shady developer plots to evict them and build a "gentlemens club", they hatch an audacious plan to save their sanctuaryby starting a secret knitwear empire with a scandalous twist. As sales skyrocket, secrets unravel, and Sylvias ex-husband lurks in the shadows, the gang must pull off the ultimate heist to protect their beloved Lodge.Hilarious and heartfelt, Knit One, Heist One is a riotous romp proving that age is no barrier to action.

Terrifying and thrillingly romantic, this is horror romance at its absolute best: steamy, haunting, and sharpMolly OSullivan, author of The Book of AutumnThese violent delights have violent ends.After surviving a shadowed childhood marked by ghost stories and loss, Mallory Webb is ready to start fresh as a theater major at her mothers alma mater, a sanitarium turned liberal arts university in Rhode Island. Landing the lead role in Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet feels like a dream until the blood-soaked spirit she suspects caused her mothers death resurfaces after years of quiet. With nothing to go on but cryptic symbols in an old college notebook, Mallory hopes the reason behind her mothers haunting lies somewhere on campus, and resolves to find answers before she meets the same fate.Shes surprised to make an unexpected ally in Ezra Pierce, the magnetic fourth-year directing the play, and takes solace in their undeniable chemistry. But Ezra is a master secret-keeper, and its clear he knows more than hes letting on about Saskia Garin, Mallorys elusive understudy whose past eerily mirrors her own.When an ancient, bloodthirsty evil calls to collect on a bargain that dates back to the New England vampire panic, Mallory, Ezra and Saskia will have to untangle the tragic ways in which their histories are linked and face the devastating consequences of their own star-crossed love story.

**Can you crack a cunning code as you visit GCHQ? Did you know Stroud used to have its own time zone, Wyedean School helped shape the Harry Potter books and a Cirencester woman reduced Margaret Thatcher to a quivering wreck?**More Adventures in Glorious Gloucestershire is a new journey with author Mark Cummings to explore literary locations, fascinating folklore and secret viewpoints. Follow in the footsteps of local celebrities who share their favourite walks, delight in Gloucestershires natural healing properties, learn about ancient rivalries and rebellions, go behind the scenes at Cheltenham Racecourse and meet the inspirational local women who have changed the world, from philanthropists and fashion designers to queens and sporting legends.For locals and visitors alike, this new guide delves even deeper into the soul of Gloucestershire with unique ideas for day trips, peaceful walks and intriguing adventures.

As beautiful as it is heartbreaking... Perfect for fans of Cathy Rentzenbrink and Joan Didion Juliette Bottomley, Mr Bs EmporiumHannah Richell was lost in writing her new novel when the outside world finally broke in to tell her that her husband, Matt, had been killed in a surfing accident. This is the story of the grief journey she travelled over the first two years of loss, but it is also an account of what happens beyond those early years, when time and distance have offered some perspective and healing.Not just a love letter to her late husband, but a love letter to the country that stole her heart, to motherhood, and to the healing power of creative endeavours. More than anything, its a story of recovery and hope.