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From the drowned kingdoms of Ys and Lyonesse to the phantom islands of the Atlantic, this book journeys through the stories born where land meets sea. We meet the Kappa water spirits and Mayazakis inspirational Yakushima island, the Inuit of the Arctic islands and their tales of selkies and transformation, and trace Mami Wata the black mermaid said to have accompanied slave ships the Outer Banks. We encounter the taniwha sea monsters of Aotearoa and the fairy people of the dry islands of the Cajun swamps, discover flooded Valles in both Wales and the Seneca Nation, and hear whaling tales from New England.These stories highlight issues of rising sea levels, water pollution, displaced people, isolation, mismanaged fishing and the legal rights of water.

Flight 868 is a ticket to paradise, a non-stop service to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Over a dozen tipsy passengers are off to a destination wedding. A team of high school baseball players are headed to a tournament. The plane is packed with people looking forward to the trip of a lifetime.But under cover of turbulence, a killer strikes and when the lights come back on, a passenger is found brutally murdered. As holiday dreams turn into nightmares, a bewildered air marshal must solve the crime. For this is no ordinary flight and theres only one certainty: the killer is on the plane and the only way out is down

When youve spent your life trying to be perfect, how easy is it to let go?Marion Marksharp is the undisputed queen of Penmenna and has the perfect life - ask anyone. Doting husband? Hmm, maybe not... Well-behaved, angelic children? Definitely not. A network of close, supportive friends? Not so much, it turns out.Marion sets out to change her bossy ways by starting up a wedding planning enterprise in the village. But between her husbands suspicious absences, her PTA frenemies and her own perfectionist tendencies, organising the dream wedding for her friend isnt going smoothly, and shes running out of time to pull it off...In this final book in the Cornish Village School series, the village comes together one last time to make sure everyone gets their happy ever after.A second-chance romance perfect for fans of Tilly Tennant and Cathy Bramley.

"Call me Ishmael" On the vast, unpredictable oceans, Captain Ahab of the whaling vessel "Pequod" is a man possessed. Haunted by the loss of his leg to the elusive white whale who claimed it, Ahabs thirst for revenge knows no bounds. Heedless of any consequences, he and his crew pursue his ghostlike nemesis: Moby Dick. Herman Melvilles classic tale is a thrilling maritime adventure novel as well as a powerful allegory on the untamable essence of nature and fate. Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian ... Ishmael Moby Dick gilt als das Meisterwerk der amerikanischen Literatur Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth. Captain Ahab

Award-winning broadcaster Iain Dale has led a life full of incident and success but also some very public failures. In this refreshingly honest account of his life and careers in business, politics and media, he tells all for the first time.With the same raw candour that earns him 750,000 weekly listeners, he recounts his journey from driving a combine harvester at age eight to driving the national conversation on LBC, taking in his encounters with a host of household names, including HM Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Cliff Richard, Kylie Minogue, Joan Rivers, Jennifer Saunders, the Duchess of York, Olivia Newton-John, Terry Pratchett and twelve of our fifty-eight Prime Ministers.He also reflects movingly on coming out at age forty, coming to terms with his thwarted political aspirations, and the heartbreaking phone-ins that have made him the friend theyve never met to millions.This is the ultimate insiders guide to the corridors of power and the pressures of the studio. Whether hes nearly throwing up on Margaret Thatcher, coming to blows with senior MPs or accidentally calling the Archbishop of Canterbury something less than pious on live radio, this is Iain Dale off-air and unfiltered.

"We see best with our heart. The things that really matter are invisible to the eye." In 1943, aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry penned "The Little Prince," unaware of the timeless impact his tale would have. His enchanting narrative follows a young princes cosmic journey across curious planets in search of friendship. Celebrated for its poetic depth and philosophical insights, the story is a universal call for compassion and understanding, captivating readers worldwide. This hardcover edition embossed with silver foil contains the original coloured drawings by the author and the complete English text. All grown-ups were once children but only few of them remember it. The Little Prince The most translated story in the world [...] ever since its original publication in French in 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exuperys story has enchanted audiences of all ages. The Guardian Mit den Originalillustrationen des Autors im Innenteil

"Mako has a lot of wise things to say about beauty in this book . . . one point is worth emphasizing: Beauty refreshes. Beauty alters. Beauty is a revolution in outlook. That makes beauty both a potent balm and a potent provocation, especially in times like these." from the foreword by David Brooks, New York Times columnist and author of How to Know a Person Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year Christianity Today Book AwardsAward of Merit Cultivate Practices That Care for the Soul of Our Culture "Culture is not a territory to be won or lost but a resource we are called to steward with care. Culture is a garden to be cultivated."We live in an era of cultural war and combativeness. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it in ways that help people thrive. In this second edition of Culture Care, internationally recognized artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship in which we become generative and feed our cultures soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity, serving others as cultural custodians of the future.This is a book for anyone with a calling to createfrom visual artists, musicians, writers, and actors to entrepreneurs, pastors, and business professionalswho wants to reach across boundaries with understanding, reconciliation, and healing. As creative catalysts, we can contribute to the shared culture that affects human thriving today and shapes the generations to come.Whats New in the Second Edition Carries forth the call to steward and restore culture so that people and communities may thrive A new introduction and additional content addressing the significance of culture care in an era of culture wars New material on generative thinking and culture care as public theology Enhanced with 15% more new content including real life stories and fresh insights to help deepen your understanding This book also includes a study guide for individual reflection or group discussion. Culture care is about shaping culture by fostering beauty, cultivating understanding, and offering hope. If you want to learn how to engage with culture in a more meaningful way, read Culture Care and discover how to become a hopeful, generative contributor to the world around you. Culture Care is your invitation into a vision of cultural engagement rooted in beauty, restoration, and spiritual depth.

If quilting sometimes feels overwhelming or time-consuming, this book is your new best friend. 200 Sanity-Saving Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Quilters is packed with practical advice and clever workarounds designed to make your quilting experience smoother, faster, and more enjoyable, no matter your skill level. Youll find expert solutions to common quilting problems, like how to fix bulky seams and tangled threads. With clear, step-by-step photo tutorials throughout, anyone can jump right in with confidence. Every tip is easy to follow, tried-and-true, and designed to help you avoid frustration while making the most of your fabric, tools, and time.Author Ellie Perez, also known as "Ellie the Quilter," is the creative force behind Mojave Farms Quilting Co. and a trusted voice in the online quilting community. Drawing from her years of experience teaching and creating, Ellie shares her favorite hacks for cutting more accurately, pressing more efficiently, storing supplies on a budget, and keeping your projects organized and stress-free. Shes turned those endlessly scrolling Instagram tutorials into something tangible and useful you can reach for anytime. If youre ready to quilt smarter, not harder, this is the book youll reach for again and again!

London is a city steeped in history, a place where the past lingers in every shadow. More than 2,000 years in the making and covering 600 square miles, like any modern capital it reinvents itself on an almost perpetual basis, yet its almost impossible to walk its streets without finding a survivor from one of its previous incarnations. Besides fragments of Roman wall, intact Norman churches and even traces of the odd Saxon fish trap in the Thames, London still boasts working medieval markets, a handful of ancient timber-framed survivors of the Great Fire, and scores of streets and squares that grew out of early experiments in town planning. Many of these treasures are enjoyed by visitors, but an awful lot has been lost over the intervening years. Often there are tantalizing clues to what has gone, in old documents, fading photographs, or a curious street name. This book provides the perfect place to begin a search for the lost history of London.

Why do women fight in wars? The short answer is simply that women, like men, fight because they must. The longer answer is inevitably more complex. Spanning an arc of over 2000 years, including examples from across the globe, Why Women Fight reveals the major themes that drive women to take up arms, examining them through the lives of individuals on the front lines. Busting the myth that female soldiers are a manifestation of modernity, the book begins in the ninth century BCE with Semiramis, a former milkmaid attributed with expanding the Babylonian empire, and concludes in 2024 with a former shop assistant who went on to command a Ukrainian Battalion of a thousand men. Incorporating extraordinary interviews with Marxist guerillas, resistance fighters, illegal paramilitaries, conscripts and regular volunteers, the book explores some of the myriad reasons that women across the ages have broken one of humanitys most fundamental taboos, to take up arms and fight for their kin, their ideas, their liberty, their lives

¿Cómo sabemos que el Nuevo Testamento es confiable? Es una cuestión importante, pero los debates sobre si el Nuevo Testamento es históricamente exacto pueden ser tediosos y abrumadores. Queremos tener la certeza de que los relatos del Nuevo Testamento son verdaderos y dignos de confianza, pero las discusiones academicas sobre la autenticidad de los eventos narrados en las Escrituras pueden resultar dificiles de abordar.Benjamin Shaw ofrece la introduccion clara que necesitabamos para comprender la fiabilidad historica del Nuevo Testamento. En su libro Confiable, realiza un repaso sistematico de los temas clave relacionados con la confiabilidad del Nuevo Testamento y proporciona orientacion para quienes se inician en la exploracion de las evidencias. Con capitulos breves y directos al punto, equipa al lector para responder a las preguntas dificiles que surgen al hablar sobre la credibilidad del Nuevo Testamento.Abordando una amplia variedad de evidencias incluyendo la arqueologia, la autoria, la critica textual y las fuentes no cristianas Shaw guia al lector a traves de los temas academicos esenciales relacionados con la confiabilidad del Nuevo Testamento. Esta es la verdad: podemos confiar en el Nuevo Testamento no solo por su exactitud historica, sino tambien como guia para la vida.How can we be sure the New Testament is trustworthy? Its an important question, yet debates about its historical accuracy often feel overwhelming and difficult to engage with. We want to be confident that the New Testaments accounts are true and reliable, but scholarly discussions around the authenticity of the events recounted in Scripture can be challenging to navigate.In Trustworthy Ben Shaw provides the clear introduction weve needed for understanding the New Testaments historical reliability. In this book Shaw systematically surveys key issues related to New Testament reliability and provides guidance for those setting out to explore the evidence.Concise, to-the-point chapters equip readers to answer the challenging questions we encounter when discussing the credibility of the New Testament. Addressing a wide variety of evidence, Shaw leads readers through the key scholarly topics related to New Testament reliability. The book also includes thoughtful recommendations for further reading for readers who want to explore various topics in depth, as well as helpful charts and figures.Shaw compellingly demonstrates that we can trust the New Testament not only for its historical accuracy but also as a guide to life. With thoughtful analysis and clear evidence, Trustworthy invites you to embrace the reliability of the New Testament with confidence.

A savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th Century Paris, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell and Elizabeth KostovaParis, 1869. The Theatre Saint-Simeon is the place to be, if you can get in. The black slips of paper that guarantee entry are rare and highly desired, and given only to certain persons. The actors on stage are magnetic and ageless, performing only at midnight and never seen during the dayArnault and his clan of vampires have survived for as long as they have by observing a rigid set of rules. At night, they perform on stage at the Theatre Saint-Simeon, picking off just enough people in the audience to survive. But they understand the city, and how to live in it without being noticed.Their peace is shattered first with a visit from Beatrice, a witch who forms a strange connection to Arnault; then with the arrival of Victor de Rouvray and his sister Françoise, vampires from a very different world. And, as Arnault grows closer and closer to the beautiful, enigmatic Victor, he risks becoming distracted from the constant bickering of his immortal friends, from the daily running of the theatre, and worse, from the premonitions of blood, death and starvation that he receives at night.For a terrible change is on the horizon, revolt and revolution are brewing in the streets and soon, the city, and Arnault will never be the same again.

A bloody and wickedly funny twist on Hitchcocks iconic classic Psycho. Trapped in a world full of sexism, abusive men and glass ceilings, Marion is on the run. Then one fateful night at a rundown motel, she turns the knife on Norm, kicking off a murder spree and with the knife in her hands, shell prove shes no victim.NORMAN WAS HER FIRST.Marion is in deep. Shes stolen money from the Manhattan ad agency where she works in a desperate bid to help her sister escape an abusive marriage, but the bus breaks down before she can make it to Saratoga Springs. Its late at night, and the only place with vacancies is an old set of cabins on the outskirts of town. She pays for a room in cash, and ends up chatting with Norm, the young innkeeper whos handsome, charming and a touch hung-up on his elderly mother. Back in her room, she steps into the shower, scrubbing off the late-summer heat, when the curtain is pulled back...Norm Billings is there with a knife. He raises his arm to strike, but before he does, Marion knees him in the balls, grabs the knife, and stabs the life out of him. Now, shes covered in blood, and shes a woman on the runnot just a thief, but a killer, too. Where will she go? How will she save both herself and her sister? And what mysteries will she uncover as she does?In Psycho, Hitchcock shocked audiences when he killed off his protagonist. But what if the leading lady had fought back? Marion offers an alternate history of the most famous dead blonde to ever grace the silver screen. Only this time, the knife is in her handsand shes no victim.

National treasure and television pioneer Anneka Rice has had an action-packed career jumping out of helicopters, racing against the clock on Challenge Anneka and inspiring millions with her boundless energy and much-loved jumpsuits. But the daring spirit on screen was forged in a very different kind of challenge.In this candid memoir, Anneka opens up for the first time about the crucible of her unusual childhood, revealing how the crippling loneliness she felt as a child and the teenage years she spent bringing up her baby sister sparked the fierce resilience that would later define her.With her trademark warmth and wit, she shares the vibrant, transformative possibilities that emerged from her arrival, aged nineteen, in Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, knowing no one, and describes the epiphanous moment in a refugee camp in Kowloon that taught her to imagine a life far beyond the one she had left behind.Full of heart, humour and hard-won wisdom, this is an astonishing story of adventure and survival, of personal battles and public triumphs. Its a manual on how to reinvent yourself, throw caution to the wind and take the path full of jeopardy. Its mad, bad and dangerous and should come with a warning: dont try this at home.

A twisty New York City-set mystery that sees Teddy Roosevelts daughter, Alice Roosevelt, team up with Holmes and Watson to save the president from a kidnapping and attempted assassination on the eve of international peace talks. Holmess British parlour tricks meet hard-boiled American noir in this pastiche for fans of Gareth Rubins Holmes and Moriarty.Celebrity socialite Alice Roosevelt is taking London by storm in 1905 when her letter containing sensitive details of upcoming peace talks between Japan and Russia is stolen. The case pulls Holmes from retirement, and with Alices help the letter is retrieved.After returning to the U.S., Alice goes missing. At Teddy Roosevelts request, Holmes and Watson travel to New York where they discover Alice has turned detective herself, working undercover to thwart a kidnapping plot targeting her father. Her warnings are dismissed, but then the president is kidnapped. Alice and the detective duo join forces to search for her father, only to lose Holmes to the escaping kidnappers.Alice proves herself the equal to the great detective by leading Watson in the rescue of Teddy Roosevelt as well as Holmes, but the stakes are higher than they realise. In a race against time, they must stop a plan to bomb the peace talks or risk an escalation of war on a global scale.

The next body on the embalming table may be hers. Preparing bodies for burial wasnt on Ashleys career list until a horrifying accident left her to inherit Fallons Funeral Home. She spends her days applying final touches and ensuring the departed look more peaceful than they ever did in life. When a crash echoes from the embalming room late one night, she expects to find a fallen tray or her clumsy assistant. Instead, she unveils a body laid out on the stainless-steel table, posed with unsettling care. The woman has Ashleys face. Ashleys hair. Ashleys scar just beneath her chin. Shes even dressed in Ashleys clothes. Clutched in the corpses pale fingers is a single note: Murderer Someone knows what Ashley covered up. As strange threats arrive and familiar faces turn watchful, she realizes the funerals she controls so expertly have become her own fate. She must uncover who is exhuming her past before she becomes the final viewing. As the town undertaker, she buries secrets with the dead. But someone is digging up hers, and they plan to Take Her Under.

Trail-blazing journalist Mea Allan was born in a leafy suburb of Glasgow in 1909 and made her name as a tenacious reporter on the grim streets of a city ruled by Peaky Blinders-style gangs, even interviewing members of the IRA. Soon she went south to Fleet Street, where she reported on life on the Home Front, witnessing the worst of the London Blitz and experiencing it too, as she was bombed out herself. As the war turned in favour of the Allies, she was the first woman accredited to the British Forces as a war correspondent, accompanying them across the Continent, witnessing the liberation of Belsen and the plight of thousands of displaced persons.After the traumas of the war, she immersed herself in village life, became an avid gardener whose works on the subject were immensely popular and finally found love and set up home with photographer Grace Woodbridge, with whom she collaborated on several books. By the time she died in 1982, Mea had 12 non-fiction books to her name, four novels, thousands of yards of newsprint, and a legacy that is begging to be told.

One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnors life - from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner - had differing opinions of him.Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jurys partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: his sister, missing for years and presumed dead, has just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge.Funny, eccentric and fueled by Richard Jurys talent for seeing clues in the most unlikely places, The Red Queen is a welcome return to a classic character and an exciting addition to a series that has been called delightful, surprising, even magical (Washington Post).

James Sallis collection of five novellas.James Sallis is a superb writer - TimesJames SallisWorlds Edge presents five masterful novellasDayenu, Carriers, Settlers, Allotments, and Reconstructionexploring fractured societies, human resilience, and the fragile intersections of morality and survival. Salliss prose, as sharp as it is evocative, captures the nuances of his dystopian and near-future settings, resonating with themes of dislocation and identity. Widely regarded as a pivotal voice in contemporary US fiction, Salliss work aligns with literary giants such as Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, weaving the poetic bleakness of the former with the incisive character studies of the latter. These stories draw readers into a world both intimate and unyielding, where existential questions lurk beneath stark, elegant narratives.

The highly anticipated second poetry book by one of the UKs most innovative poets, following the Forward Prize shortlisted Comic Timing. A utopian, stylish and completely unique anti-epic long poem that moves through the history of the cafe space, exploring workers rights, foodie culture, the importance of the third space and bohemian and artistic histories. A contribution to the growing body of contemporary literature around food and restaurant culture, for readers of Vittles, Ruby Tandoh, Rebecca May Johnson, and readers of caffs not cafes Comps: Gunslinger by Ed Dorn, Fourth Person Singular by Nuar Alsadir, How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil.