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In a Parisian apartment window, a woman and her husband can be seen battling an intruder. Under the eyes of the crowd below a fatal shot is fired. The police rush to the scene, but the murderer has vanished into thin air. Six more locked-room crimes follow, and the authorities are baffled. But private detective Andre Brunel is on the case: these seemingly insoluble mysteries are connected, and its up to him to piece the puzzle together...

I know my mother loves me and Im sure she means well planning a big baby shower for me, but she seems to have forgotten our family is the worst. Of course, I assume half the family being thrown outfor reasons I wont get into right nowwill be the lowlight of the day. Somehow, though, it gets worse.The detectives bust into my already epically bad baby shower to pull Declan (mate, baby-daddy, and werewolf Alpha of the Big Sur Pack) into the forest to check the remains of a hiker who appears to have been mauled by a wolf.As Im ready to give birth any minute, Im told to stay home. Meaning, I, of course, go with him. Hes not the boss of me. Lets just say it goes from bad to worse quickly. Wish me luck and feel free to pick up something for little Quinn from the registry.

Smart Guide: Using Your Table Saw delivers the practical guidance woodworkers need to work safely, accurately, and confidently with this essential shop tool. Covering safety fundamentals, machine setup, blade selection, and proper alignment, this hands-on reference helps you get the most performance and value from your table saw.Step-by-step instruction and clear diagrams demonstrate key techniques, including ripping, crosscutting, cutting dados and moldings, and building simple jigs to expand your saws capabilities. Compact, durable, and easy to use, this pocket-sized guide is designed for quick reference right where it belongsin the workshop.

Smart Guide: Using Your Lathe gives woodworkers the practical knowledge they need to move beyond basic setup and start turning with confidence. Covering essential safety, machine setup, tool selection, and sharpening, this hands-on reference helps you get the most performance and value from your lathe. Step-by-step guidance walks you through core turning techniques, including spindle work, faceplate turning, and bowl turning, along with tips for improving accuracy and control. Whether youre new to woodturning or looking to refine your skills, this compact, durable guide is designed for quick reference right where you need it mostat the lathe.

Smart Guide: Using Your Band Saw provides practical guidance for getting safe, accurate, and reliable results from this essential workshop tool. The book covers safety fundamentals, machine setup, blade selection, and key techniques for making straight cuts, smooth curves, and clean resawing. Clear diagrams and step-by-step instruction help woodworkers improve performance while getting the most from their equipment. Compact and durable, this pocket-sized guide is designed for quick reference right where its needed mostat the bench.

Smart Guide: Using Your Router provides the practical information woodworkers need to use this versatile tool safely, accurately, and efficiently. Covering essential safety, machine setup, bit selection, and basic project preparation, this hands-on reference helps you get the most performance and value from your router.Clear diagrams and step-by-step instruction demonstrate key techniques for edge treatments, grooves, dadoes, joinery, and decorative details. Compact, durable, and easy to use, this pocket-sized guide is designed for quick reference right where its needed mostin the workshop.

Provence, 1938.Seventeen-year-old Yvette Barbarin lives on a small rural farm in the lavender-soaked hills behind the great port-city of Marseille with her widowed father and her five younger sisters.When she learns that her father is planning to marry her off to a local farmer, she runs away to the city where she dreams of joining a troupe of travelling players.In Marseille, Yvette is bowled over by the magic of cinema, and the thrill of make-believe. She falls in love with an actor, a rising star, but all is not as simple in real life as it is in the world of movies, and war is coming.

What Does It Mean to Be Human in the Age of AI? With all the hype and speculation around artificial intelligence, its most profound effects have yet to be revealed. The bigger question is not just what AI is doing to our jobs but to our soulsour relationships with God and one another.In Godlike Power, Russell Haitch cuts through the noise to tell the story of three core developments: the push to humanize machines, drawingus into emotional bonds with AIs; the drive to mechanize people, rooted in Enlightenment reason and the Industrial Revolution; and how God became human, so that humans could become more like Godand how techno-religion proposes a rival path to divinity. These three stories offer contrasting religious visions. Haitch argues we are now confronted with two rival paths to divinity, and we must choose the right one. Godlike Power argues that the third storythe Christian story of real people becoming like Godoffers the timeless and hopeful vision we need, allowing us to journey into the age of AI on a path that leads to life.AI is the latest chapter in humanitys Promethean quest for godlike power. But it is also a story about our perennial quest for intimacy. Even as AI technology rapidly changes, Haitch argues we need wisdomsomething more than superintelligenceto attain the power and love we long for.With Godlike Power, you can wisely examine AI through a theological lens, enabling you to engage thoughtfully and responsibly with how AI is reshaping our understanding of identity, truth, and what it means to be human.

Every quilter, modern or traditionalist, has either made a bargello pattern or has one on their list of future projects to make. Its essentially strip piecing, a beginner technique learned early on, but with fabrics and colors strategically placed so the results are a design in motion. Unlike scrappy patchwork, bargello starts and follows a plan one fabric misplaced can spoil the effect, but the organized approach is well worth it. Bargello can be multi-colored or varying shades from the same family, but every quilt is bold and eye-catching, and bargello will forever be part of the quilting landscape. Beginner Bargello Quilting will ease quiltmakers into this technique and give them the confidence to start and finish that quilt theyve been itching to tackle.Quilters will find this book: Covers different methods strips set, and "unsewing" Includes 10 patterns of varying sizes including baby Shares tips and tricks for fabric selection, seam alignment and more Adds a clever applique touch Provides finishing and binding information

Knit 365 Stitch Dictionary covers 365 stitches that will grow your skills. This visual dictionary of knitting stitches selected for both popularity and diversity, modernity and simplicity of execution, is a must have for any yarn-lovers library. Each stitch is pictured with instructions and a step-by-step stitch glossary is included for easy replication; variants are covered. QR codes will take knitters to online visual instruction as well. Organized not only by day, but by season, the stitches for each section are presented in yarn colors and weight appropriate to the time of year. All knitters love a good stitch dictionary. They are collected, examined, and are timeless. As one craft writer observed about knit dictionaries, "stitch dictionaries demystify the brickwork that supports the architecture of knitting." Knit 365 Stitch Dictionary includes: 365 different knit stitches Hundreds of photos Stitch Variants Easy step-by-step instructions Learn a stitch-a-day approach Stitches organized by seasonal colors and density

His Holiness needs to meet Museum Detectives, Mr and Mrs Wilson, urgently. Its been two years since Daniel and Abigail Wilson visited the Eternal City, and this time theyre invited by none other than Pope Leo XIII himself. But this is no sightseeing visit, as the renowned detectives are asked to put their skills to good use, investigating a suspected assassination attempt from within the Vaticans walls. Who can be trusted when murder could come from any direction? As the detectives begin to delve into the workings of the Vatican they encounter all manner of threats, with possible Mafia involvement likely. It seems not everyone views the presence of two British non-Catholics as welcome in such matters, and they certainly do not appreciate them meddling in finely laid plans.

A chilling, claustrophobic retelling of Rebecca, rooted in Chinese-American history from the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of Bound Feet. Perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic and Get Out.Mixed media fine art photographer Lydia Chen dreams of gaining fame and fortune, even as shes forced to do odd jobs to pay the billslike running a gothic portrait photo booth for Seattles elite during a lavish charity event. But fate intervenes when she wins the event raffle for a once-in-a-lifetime retreat to Stormraven, a 19th-century estate owned by the Vandermeer family on a private island off Washingtons coast. There, she meets Henry Vandermeer, the enigmatic young scion of his clan. Charmed by Henry and drawn to his beautiful estate, Lydia joins his mysterious family and moves into Stormraven.With her sudden change in fortune, Lydia leaves behind the daily grind to chase her artistic aspirations, settling into seemingly idyllic surroundings. But with each passing day, ominous nightmares come to the fore, as Lydia catches glimpses throughout the property of a ghostly woman who eerily resembles herself. The more she investigates the mansions chilling secrets, the more she feels her sanity slipping under the weight of its emerging terrors. For Lydia soon discovers she is not the first to be trapped in Stormravens hallowed hallsand if she fails to unearth its rotten truth, her new home may soon become her eternal prison.

Learning to Drink and What Came After is an irreverent take on a life that has been lived across the pages of The Times, within the darkly glamorous haunts of Soho and behind the scenes at The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.Geradines remarkable life has enjoyed a ringside seat in the drinking dens of Soho alongside artists and criminals, the last days (and nights) of 1970s Fleet Street, the lofty world of the Mayfair auction houses and the dangerous glamour of post-glasnost Saint Petersburg.

One family. One cursed house. One hundred years.A unique, ambitious, and witty gothic horror puzzle-box, exploring over a century of hauntings across a single house in the North of England. Perfect for fans of Andrew Michael Hurley and Catriona Ward.Delfling Hole, a small country cottage nestled in a dark, wet corner of the Peak District. Home to many. Grave to many more. You could say that it has seen better days, but thats not really true. Is it?1819.A young doctor arrives in a small village to help with a smallpox outbreak, but when his wife takes against an old friend of his who comes to stay at their house, he begins to believe she may be possessed.1946.A young girl takes part in a seance as her father lies dying upstairs, but as she and her siblings summon the ghosts of war, they realise they may have welcomed something terrible into their home.1987A tabloid newspaper, desperate to exploit a local story of a man living in a haunted house, takes things much too far, with devastating consequences.2023.After the death of her mother, Vee discovers that Delfing Hole has been left to her. But she doesnt want it. Who would? Returning to the house that served up so many nightmares to her as a child, she soon discovers that she may hold the key to stopping them once and for all.But after more than a century of horrors, is Delfing Hole ready to give up so easily?A searing and ambitious take on the haunted house novel, this is a wildly inventive debut about one working class family, haunted across generations, marking the arrival of an extraordinary new voice in horror.

From the USA Today bestselling author of Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die comes a laugh-out-loud, genre-bending gay monster romantasy, in which a body-snatching alien is unwillingly transformed into the weedy prince of a fantasy kingdom. But he isnt going to let that stand between him and total world domination. Or true lovePerfect for fans of Chuck Tingle, Kimberly Lemming and Katee Robert.Protactinium-231 is a body-snatching alien whose crew have burned through the galaxy conquering planet after planetor at least, theyve been trying. They havent been very successful.While attempting to conquer the Canada (of all places), Protactinium gets on the wrong side of a god, who strips him of his alien body, transforms him into the weedy, useless Prince Proculo, and sends him to rule over a fantasy kingdom. With no tentacles, no physical prowess, and no allies, Proculo is forced to put aside his plans for world domination and join the battle between humans and half-human monsters that is ravaging his new home.After capturing the half-human, half-spider Tantalus, Proculo falls desperately in love with his bristling muscles and sharp fangs. And Tantalus is an eager ally in Proculos mission to conquer the world. Together, they will be an unstoppable forceagainst new enemies and old friends alike.

On her latest case, wisecracking Private Investigator, Helena Handbasket, is faced with a lot of tough questions. Did Robin Banks have a hand in the theft of Evan Stubezzis jewels? And if so, was the hand one of those packed in ice in the freezer box that was delivered to his brother, Owen? Is there a serial killer on the loose? Or are all those handless corpses with scarlet fish sewn into their chest cavities purely coincidental?What shoes should you wear for a meeting with a killer? Why does her next-door neighbour smell of cheese? Which of her true loves is her real true love? And, more importantly, is there anything in the fridge for dinner? Can our man-loving, cocktail-loving, food-loving, not-so-very-intrepid heroine answer these questions any of them without leaving a cliche unturned?

Where is Charles Simonds? Throughout the 1970s, his diminutive Dwellings, tiny architectural ruins of an imaginary civilization, could be found throughout the crumbling infrastructure of downtown New York. Preoccupied with the relationship between the grown and the built, the archaeological and the urban, Simonds shared friendship and ideas with Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson. Like Lucy Lippard, with whom he lived during that decade, Simonds believed in combining art and activism, always preferring what he called the "real world" to the art world. Yet despite taking part in many of the seminal exhibitions and art events of 1970s New York, Simonds has left few traces on art history. In order to explain Simondss absence while simultaneously arguing for his central place within it, Jules Pelta Feldman reconsiders the decades self-conception, finding that Simonds exemplifies much of what has been ignored in 1970s artand much of what establishes it as a unique period of experimentation and possibility.

Where is Charles Simonds? Throughout the 1970s, his diminutive Dwellings, tiny architectural ruins of an imaginary civilization, could be found throughout the crumbling infrastructure of downtown New York. Preoccupied with the relationship between the grown and the built, the archaeological and the urban, Simonds shared friendship and ideas with Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson. Like Lucy Lippard, with whom he lived during that decade, Simonds believed in combining art and activism, always preferring what he called the "real world" to the art world. Yet despite taking part in many of the seminal exhibitions and art events of 1970s New York, Simonds has left few traces on art history. In order to explain Simondss absence while simultaneously arguing for his central place within it, Jules Pelta Feldman reconsiders the decades self-conception, finding that Simonds exemplifies much of what has been ignored in 1970s artand much of what establishes it as a unique period of experimentation and possibility.

A dark and unsettling queer adult horror from the award-winning author of The City Beautiful. Perfect for fans of Eric LaRocca and Stephen Graham Jones.Ten years ago, the quiet mining town of Coalfield, Pennsylvania was thrust into the national spotlight when a boy at a local foster home was found brutally murdered. After the foster mother was arrested on suspicion of murder, the four remaining children were dragged in front of a court to explain what truly happened. There, Elliot Wolffjust eight years-oldtestified.What emerged were disturbing tales of child abuse, the sacrifice of animals and infants, and strange rituals performed in the woods and mines of the town. And the Dragon, always the Dragon, a specter who lurked in the shadows of the home.Now on the cusp of adulthood, Elliot is still struggling to move on from the trial. He still finds his thoughts circling Coalfield, thoughts that he pours into writing music or drowns out with various substances.Then, he is approached by Dean Corvin, a washed-up grindhouse director filming a documentary on the Satanic Ritual Abuse allegations at Coalfield. While sitting in front of a camera and rehashing his trauma is the last thing Elliot wants to do, Dean makes him an offer he cant refuse, an offer that might finally allow Eliot to escape his aunts stifling house and start over somewhere far away.But Elliot isnt the only survivor joining the documentary: the other survivors are there, too, and each one has different memories of what happened.The first few days of filming are strange, with bizarre dreams and memories resurfacing that he had long thought lost to time. As Elliot begins to reenact his final days at Coalfield Childrens Home, he begins to wonder if there may be a grain of truth to the lies he told on the stand. If something sinister and otherworldly really did happen to them.If the Dragon is still out there, and intends to keep the past buried.