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Meet Manny, Max and Elsa, Melanie Applebum, Rory, Atticus Busby, Battie, Amba, Debra Jo-Woo, Tamara Noodle and Mrs Gonsha as they get up to all sorts of shenanigans during Little Lunch. Follow the crew as they invent a new ball game, eat BAD birthday Pavlova, have a Disgusting Joke Competition, play Chinese Whispers, fight over what kind of sandwich Manny was eating, squeeze through the portable classroom and the fence, bring in exactly 100 things from home, find something GROSS in the sandpit, and more…

Bronson Butcher. My high school obsession. We were desperately in love until I made a mistake that severed our shared heart. So when he wakes up in the hospital and hears my voice, he stalks me down the corridor. He pins me to the wall and inhales me as though starving... But he's not that wild boy anymore. No. He's a ruthless man who takes what he wants, and what he wants is to punish me for running from him, remind me how my body hums beneath his—What he wants is to take me back to his city with or without my consent.

During a sleepover, a letter comes to five children begging for the urgent assistance of Esther Mettlestone-Staranise; she must arrive before 10am on Monday to save an entire town of elves trapped under layers of silver. And a regular-size boy who, soon after seeing the children, dies. Oscar is that boy who skipped school in our world on Monday to skate, and found himself in the city of the elves at just the wrong moment: He fled as fast as he could, but not fast enough because the silver wave struck him and he fell down dead. And that's just the beginning!

Bowen Barclay lived to ride bulls—until his single-minded focus cost his wife her life. Four years on, raising his son alone is the only thing he’s getting right. His rodeo career is going down in flames, and instead of dating, he’s playing his kid’s video games.

Juno should've known it was too good to be true. Her old bonds may be gone, but the alphas who entrapped her are not. Andrew Zhao is hellbent on shattering her newfound peace and is going to extraordinary lengths to punish her. Her crime? Daring to be happy. Despite her pack closing ranks around her, Andrew is determined to drag her into the spotlight. Juno soon realizes hiding away will have devastating ramifications—not just for herself and the men she's come to love, but omegas everywhere. And the best person to help her? Might be the alpha she's just let go.

The National Omega Commission has announced they are expanding their experimental clinical trials. This marks the first time omegas have the ability to dissolve bonds without their alpha's consent. For Juno Liu, who has been forcibly bonded since she awakened, this changes everything. But it turns out that breaking her unwanted alpha bonds is the easy part.

Being judged isn’t something foreign to me. I’m used to the whispers, the stares, the way people scatter or cross the road when they see me walking their way. It comes with the territory when your last name is De Bellis. But being judged by her before she gives me a chance to prove her wrong? Yeah, I’m not going to stand for that. Zoe thinks she knows who I am, assumes I’m nothing more than a street thug with no morals or ethics. Letting her walk out of my life isn’t an option. I’ll show her just how virtuous this sinner can be.

Chicago, 2003. For twenty-year-old Will Slater, each day is a matter of survival on the crime-ridden streets of Englewood. Possessed by a rigid moral code, he allies with the city’s ruthless gangs only when absolutely necessary, and doesn’t hesitate to turn on crews he finds reprehensible. Orphaned at fourteen by a harrowing chain of events, he’s walked this tightrope for years without a safety net. Then it all changes. When a gang approaches Will with a job, memories are triggered that he’d rather forget. But once he accepts, he’s plunged into a web of deceit.

My peers think I'm a tramp. The District believes I'm the flawless youngest daughter of a tycoon. Neither is true. And I'm about to have my world, my house, my rose-coloured glasses, and all, stripped from beneath my Jimmy Choo heels. With one flickering light at the end of the tunnel. Xander Butcher.

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nina Levine comes books 1-3 of the Escape with a Billionaire series.

Yuwonderie's seven founding families have lorded it over their district for a century, growing ever more rich and powerful. But now—in startling circumstances—one of their own is found dead in a ditch and homicide detectives Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan are sent to investigate. Could the murder be connected to the execution of the victim's friend thirty years ago—another member of The Seven—or even to the long-forgotten story of a servant girl on the brink of the Great War?

Three years have passed since Axel Nguyen shattered Leah Jones’s heart into a million pieces. She pretends to move on with a guy from University, but she can only truly escape thoughts of Axel when she's painting. At least one good thing has come out of all of it: her dream of exhibiting her work is finally coming true. Axel is achingly aware of how much he misses Leah every day. He thought seeing more of his best friend Oliver, Leah’s brother, would lift his spirits, but it hurts even more. When Oliver lets slip to Axel about Leah’s exhibit, Axel knows he has to go see her.

A controversial entrepreneur is murdered in a remote mountain valley, but this is no ordinary case. Ivan and Nell are soon contending with cowboy lawyers, conmen, bullion thieves and grave robbers. But it's when Nell discovers the victim is a close blood relative, that the past begins to take on a looming significance. What did take place in The Valley all those years ago? What was Nell's mother doing there, and what was her connection to troubled young police officer Simmons Burnside?

Wyatt robs banks and payroll vans. Most men like him are dead or in jail, but Wyatt stamps a cold, pitiless style on his heists and has never been caught. Now his funds are low and his luck is running out - until the day Anna Reid explains about the kickback in her partner’s safe. But other players are involved. In Wyatt’s world, there is no yielding, no redemption, and when he’s crossed, the outcome is inevitable.

March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island's Indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most speak next to no Borneo languages and know little about Dayaks, other than that they were once headhunters who might kill them on arrival. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face.

Dahlia's lies have been discovered, and now she must suffer the consequences. Trapped and alone, her pleas for help remain unheard. When Dahlia is finally ready to let go and give in to the darkness calling her name, there is a flicker of hope. A continental summit is called in the face of a looming threat, and an opportunity is presented. A way out. A way to make things right. A way to make them so much worse.

He’s the world’s biggest movie star. We met on a beach in Italy. He loved me like no other, but then he ruined me. Now, six years later, he'll do whatever it takes to make me his again. But I'm not the girl I was back then. I’ve moved on. I’m over Jack. Or so I thought. The thing is, you don’t just get over Jack Kingsley. And saying no to this man is the hardest thing in the world.

After slighting Malachi, Dahlia wakes to find herself transformed and trapped in an entirely new world. Determined to outwit her foe, save the luminaries, and return home to Ryken, she begrudgingly accepts Malachi's offer of mentorship, but not without motive. She plans to observe him and study his weaknesses and strengths until she can surpass him in every way. Yet as the months stretch into years, the faces of Dahlia's loved ones begin to blur, and the memories of their time together quickly fade.

In Riversend, an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest steps out of his church and calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself. A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend to write a feature on the anniversary of the tragedy. But the stories he hears from the locals about the priest and incidents leading up to the shooting don't fit with the accepted version of events his own newspaper reported in an award-winning investigation.

It was just supposed to be a marriage on paper. Koa needed a path to citizenship and I needed the money to open Bridges and Bitters. All I've ever wanted is to take care of my sisters and run my own bar, my way. What did I care if I had a technical husband? A husband with too many dimples and more charm than he should have… So when he rolled into town after five years to deal with some paperwork, he's turned everything upside-down. Sure, Koa is charismatic and fun, but he's also a nomad. I don't have time for vacations and I don't know how to play games.