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From an electrifying new voice in epic fantasy comes The Raven Scholar, a masterfully woven and playfully inventive tale of imperial intrigue, cutthroat competition, and one scholar’s quest to uncover the truth. Let us fly now to the empire of Orrun, where after twenty-four years of peace...

London, 1728. Tom Hawkins is headed to the gallows, accused of murder. Gentlemen don't hang, and Tom's damned if he'll be the first. He may not be much of a gentleman, but he is innocent. He just always finds his way into a spot of bad luck. It's hard to say when Tom's troubles began. He was happily living in sin with his beloved, Kitty Sparks, though their neighbors were certainly less pleased about that.

It's 1727. Tom Hawkins is damned if he's going to follow in his father's footsteps and become a country parson. Not for him a quiet life of prayer and propriety. His preference is for wine, women, and cards. But there's a sense of honor there too, and Tom won't pull family strings to get himself out of debt - not even when faced with the appalling horrors of London's notorious debtors' prison: The Marshalsea Gaol.

The new twisting mystery from CWA Historical Dagger 2014 winner Antonia Hodgson. Late spring, 1728, and Thomas Hawkins has left London for the wild beauty of Yorkshire - forced on a mission he can't refuse. John Aislabie, one of the wealthiest men in England, has been threatened with murder. Blackmailed into investigating, Tom must hunt down those responsible - or lose the woman he loves forever.

Autumn, 1728. Life is good for Thomas Hawkins and Kitty Sparks. The Cocked Pistol, Kitty's wickedly disreputable bookshop, is a roaring success. Tom's celebrity as 'Half-Hanged Hawkins', the man who survived the gallows, is also proving useful. Their happiness proves short-lived. When Tom is set upon by a street gang, he discovers there's a price on his head. Who on earth could want him dead - and why?

She called him a pitiful loser to his face. Now she’s renovating a motel with him. When Mollie Fisher insults billionaire Justin Abbott in front of the paparazzi—and lands flat on her face—the video goes viral, and the internet explodes. To spin the scandal, Justin offers her a deal: Pose as his business partner. Help restore an old Hollywood motel. Keep things strictly professional. Mollie knows better than to trust billionaires—especially smug, frustratingly hot ones. But she needs a reset. And she really needs the paycheck. The problem? Fake partnerships don’t stay fake for ...

In this twisted psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling co-author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, a woman is tormented by nightmarish visions of her future—and then they start to come true. “A compulsively readable nail-biter.”—Kimberly McCreight...

The national bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wives of Henry VIII. France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate...

In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a page-turning account of one of the nation’s last segregated asylums. "A book that left me breathless." —Clint Smith, New York Times bestselling author of How The Word Is Passed "Fascinating." —The...

Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society's heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia.

Envolons-nous jusqu'à l'empire d'Orrun, où, après vingt-quatre ans de paix, le règne de Bersun doit prendre fin. Dans la chaleur suffocante de l'île impériale, sept candidats s'affrontent afin de prendre sa place. À l'image de leurs Gardiens respectifs, ce sont des guerriers, des penseurs, des stratèges exceptionnels ; les meilleurs qui soient. Puis l'un de ces candidats est assassiné. Il revient à Neema Kraa, l'étrange et brillante Érudite de l'empereur, de démasquer le coupable avant la fin des épreuves.

Be careful! It’s going to be really hot. :) ⚠️ Warning: This is not a safe story. Explicit content, violence, sarcasm, school drama, magical duels — all included. Earth. The year 2622. A world where magic and technology coexist. A world ruled by clans and aristocrats, each with their own unique Gift. They can control elements, soar through the skies, twist minds, or turn into beasts. To them, you're just a toy. A stranger from another era — the distant future — wakes up in the body of an ordinary guy. Betrayed and killed in his old world, he gets a second chance here. His new ...

In this exclusive collection, Audible presents six of his most-celebrated short stories, chosen and performed by Richard Armitage. Richard, whose interest in the work of Chekhov was sparked by his appearance as Astrov in a stage production of Uncle Vanya, also introduces the collection with a brief overview of each of the stories and his thoughts on why Chekhov’s short stories are not to be missed.

Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her noble head. Instead, Mary Stuart became the victim of her own impulsive heart, scandalizing her world with a foolish passion that would lead to abduction, rape, and even murder. Here is her story, a queen who lost a throne for love, a monarch pampered and adored even as she was led to her beheading, the unforgettable woman who became a legend for all time.

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In August...

Vanessa March's husband, Lewis, is meant to be on a business trip in Stockholm - so why does he briefly appear in newsreel footage of a fire at a circus in Vienna, with his arm around another woman? Vanessa flies to Austria to find her husband, inadvertently becoming involved in a mystery that spans three countries...and the famous dancing stallions of the Spanish Riding School. The moonlight flooded the meadow, blanching all colours to its own ghostly silver. The pines were very black.

England 1727. Tom Hawkins will lieber verdammt sein, als Landpfarrer zu werden wie sein Vater. Er liebt die Frauen, das Bier und das Glücksspiel - und landet eines Nachts im berüchtigten Londoner Schuldgefängnis "The Marshalsea". Schnell erkennt Tom, dass in diesem "Teufelsloch" nur überlebt, wer sich nützlich machen kann: Er verdingt sich als Ermittler in einem hinterlistigen Gefängnismord - eine Idee, an der sein düsterer Zellengenosse Fleet sogleich Gefallen findet. Doch Tom ist auf der Hut, gilt Fleet doch selbst bei den abgebrühtesten Bütteln des Marshalsea als Ausgeburt der Hölle.

The six wives of Henry VIII have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry's obsession with a male heir, but they displayed considerable strength and intelligence at a time when their sex supposedly possessed little of either. Inevitably there was great rivalry and jealously between them. The story Antonia Fraser tells is romantic and cruel, funny and sad, dramatic and enthralling.

With SCALIA: Rise to Greatness, 1936-1986, the opening installment in a two-volume biography, acclaimed reporter and bestselling historian James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of the life of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose singular career in government—including three decades on the Supreme Court—shaped American law and society in the twenty-first century.

From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture. The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that...