Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

You think you know the truth about the people you love. But one discovery can change everything.... Eight-year-old Billy goes missing one day, out flying his kite with his sister Rose. Two days later he is found dead. Sixteen years on, Rose still blames herself for Billy's death. How could she have failed to protect her little brother? Rose has never fully recovered from the trauma, and one of the few people she trusts is her neighbour Ronnie, who she has known all her life.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in Mary Jane, a poignant and intimate drama following a single mother’s journey caring for her chronically ill young son. Set in New York City, the play unfolds in two parts—Mary Jane's small Queens apartment and a pediatric hospital. With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, we witness Mary Jane's tireless devotion, her interactions with medical professionals, and her struggle to maintain her sense of self.

Mark Rivers was a firefighter until he got trapped in a wildfire and suffered third-degree burns on his face and body. After a year of recovering, Mark is trying to piece his life back together but struggles both emotionally and psychologically. He's been a recluse until he forces himself to attend his niece's school play and sees Riley, the school's art teacher. Immediately, Mark feels a connection to her. Maybe it's the kind way she greets his niece or the way the art she created for the school play is reminiscent of his late mom's artwork.

“Of all the things she finds, she never expected to find love…” Noelle’s life is next to perfect. It’s the Christmas season, and she has a loving family, a brand new job right out of college, and just closed on her first home. That is, however, until she finds out that she has a birth sister that she’s never met. How could this be? How could her parents have kept this secret from her? Noelle spent the last 23 years of her life believing she was an only child. Until now. Noelle decides to go on the journey of finding her sister. In the process, she finds a whole lot more over the...

Check what's under your tree this Christmas! The Billionaire's Christmas Gift: Everything in his life is planned. How’d she get on his agenda? Quint Fairchild, head of Fairchild Films, learned long ago that in Hollywood everything’s make-believe, including love. So why can’t he resist the small-town innocence of struggling scriptwriter Chrystelle Bach? She’s entirely too fascinating, but he can convince himself he doesn’t want her⸻he wants her script. Chrystelle wishes she could spend Christmas with her beloved grandmother in her Colorado hometown. Then Quint offers her a ...

Four best friends from college decide it’s time to make up for lost time. It’s been nearly 15 years since they graduated from college together and life hasn’t gone as expected for Scarlett, Madison, Hannah, or Marcy. After years of chasing careers and heartbreak, they decide it’s time to reunite their friendship. For once, everything else can wait. The best friends start planning and decide it’s time to book a trip over Christmas. This year, it will be Christmas at the Pinecone Cottage in the snowy mountains of Vail, Colorado. What they expected to be a simple relaxing weekend ...

Lily is back from Australia for the first time in seven years to spend Christmas at her mum’s house in a small, gossipy English village. To her surprise, she returns to find that her mother is dating the man next door, who also happens to be the father of her ex-boyfriend Tom. Tom, who broke Lily’s heart all those years ago. Tom, the real reason Lily fled to the other side of the world and stayed there. Tom, who is also home for Christmas and right there, next door.

Four best friends from college decide it’s time to make up for lost time. It’s been nearly 15 years since they graduated from college together and life hasn’t gone as expected for Scarlett, Madison, Hannah, or Marcy. After years of chasing careers and heartbreak, they decide it’s time to reunite their friendship. For once, everything else can wait. The best friends start planning and decide it’s time to book a trip over Christmas. This year, it will be Christmas at the Pinecone Cottage in the snowy mountains of Vail, Colorado. What they expected to be a simple relaxing weekend ...

Four best friends from college decide it’s time to make up for lost time. It’s been nearly 15 years since they graduated from college together and life hasn’t gone as expected for Scarlett, Madison, Hannah, or Marcy. After years of chasing careers and heartbreak, they decide it’s time to reunite their friendship. For once, everything else can wait. The best friends start planning and decide it’s time to book a trip over Christmas. This year, it will be Christmas at the Pinecone Cottage in the snowy mountains of Vail, Colorado. What they expected to be a simple relaxing weekend ...

If you love sweet, clean Christmas romance books then you will adore this collection of historical Western romance reads set during the most magical time of the year. This heartwarming collection of joyful romance will take you on a rollercoaster of courage, despair, heartbreak and love. Follow the journeys of 5 courageous women who search for happiness and romance at Christmas time as Mail Order Brides. Their stories are all different and filled with challenges along the way. For some they almost don’t find their happy ending as their past comes back to haunt them, and some are separated...

Rosie Hopkins, newly engaged, is looking forward to an exciting year in the little English sweetshop she owns. But when fate deals Rosie and her boyfriend Stephen a terrible blow, threatening everything they hold dear, it's going to take all their strength and the support of their families and their friends to hold them together. After all, don't they say it takes a village to raise a child?

Sir John Penlyon is planning to spend Christmas at his estate with his niece and his friend Danby, the closest thing he has to family since disowning his daughter years ago. (She eloped with the parson, who was, of course, penniless.) Danby suggests that at Christmastime the estate needs the presence of small children, and offers to find some - the “hirelings” - despite Sir John’s skepticism. Three children duly arrive, and the youngest, precocious four year-old Moppet, quickly endears herself to Sir John.

“Of all the things she finds, she never expected to find love…” Noelle’s life is next to perfect. It’s the Christmas season, and she has a loving family, a brand new job right out of college, and just closed on her first home. That is, however, until she finds out that she has a birth sister that she’s never met. How could this be? How could her parents have kept this secret from her? Noelle spent the last 23 years of her life believing she was an only child. Until now. Noelle decides to go on the journey of finding her sister. In the process, she finds a whole lot more over the...

“Of all the things she finds, she never expected to find love…” Noelle’s life is next to perfect. It’s the Christmas season, and she has a loving family, a brand new job right out of college, and just closed on her first home. That is, however, until she finds out that she has a birth sister that she’s never met. How could this be? How could her parents have kept this secret from her? Noelle spent the last 23 years of her life believing she was an only child. Until now. Noelle decides to go on the journey of finding her sister. In the process, she finds a whole lot more over the...

When Simon Blacklock, a handsome, whimsical stranger, breezes into her shop and buys a cupcake and then returns the next day and the day after, Olivia begins to dream. Can romance blossom amid the sugar and flour? And after a lifetime of living on the sidelines, is she brave enough to star in her own story?

“Of all the things she finds, she never expected to find love…” Noelle’s life is next to perfect. It’s the Christmas season, and she has a loving family, a brand new job right out of college, and just closed on her first home. That is, however, until she finds out that she has a birth sister that she’s never met. How could this be? How could her parents have kept this secret from her? Noelle spent the last 23 years of her life believing she was an only child. Until now. Noelle decides to go on the journey of finding her sister. In the process, she finds a whole lot more over the...

At the pinnacle of my career, a patient’s death sends my world into a tailspin. I had a million-dollar practice, a luxurious Manhattan apartment, and a reputation as one of NYC’s top surgeons. Then a patient dies, and my reputation is challenged. Exonerated in a lawsuit from any wrong-doing, The truth lags far behind. Depressed and disillusioned from the experience, A tranquil island off the coast beckons. Surprised to fall for a beautiful, compassionate woman during a snowstorm, My future’s outlook is turned upside-down. She’s built a simple life in a community she loves and ...