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In the desolate mountains of Scotland, there is an abbey that time has forgotten. Its buildings have crumbled, and the monks that once lived there, guarding the abbey's secret, are long dead. When the journal of a crazed monk is discovered, so is the secret of Inchorgrath Abbey. There are tunnels underneath the abbey and in them resides a secret long forgotten. Together with a group of mercenaries, her would-be boyfriend, and her cutthroat professor, Lasha Arkeketa will travel across the world to uncover the secret of The Abbey.

It’s one of the most shocking unsolved missing-child cases in the world. Where is Kyron Horman? Why hasn’t the woman who police suspect is responsible for his 2010 disappearance - Kyron’s stepmother - been charged? That the seven-year-old disappeared from his grade school got the attention of parents around the world.

D'après l'histoire vraie de trois sœurs qui ont survécu à l'enfer des camps. "Je veux que vous me promettiez et que vous promettiez chacune à vos deux soœurs de toujours veiller les unes sur les autres. Que vous ne laisserez rien vous séparer. Compris ?" Slovaquie, 1942. Les années ont passé depuis que Livia, Cibi et Magda Meller ont fait cette promesse à leur père à l'ombre du laurier-rose du jardin. Mais les après-midi insouciants de l'enfance sont bien loin désormais.

Where life as we know it is impossible, the real adventure begins. Venus is a hostile planet, covered by active volcanoes, but NASA launches an expedition to search for life there anyway. Their specially developed airship cruises in the clouds of Venus to serve as a research platform for its four astronauts. When they discover dangerous activities on the glowing-hot surface, there can only be one explanation: A highly sophisticated life form must be at work.

Noted manifestation expert Mandy Morris shares the eight powerful manifestation techniques she has developed based on divine guidance, scientific research, and a decade of work that are fast, effective, and proven. These simple practices have changed not only Mandy’s life but those of her countless clients who include business leaders, athletes, celebrities, and wellness figures.

After the President of the United States is poisoned, Vampire COLONY agent Mason Warner steps in as the man's double. He manages the President's hectic schedule just fine until the political party sends in a public relations expert to clean up the President's image. She is the one woman from Mason's past whom he has never forgotten — the woman who is the measuring stick he compares all other women to — but he compelled her decades ago to forget their one night together.

Tales from the Land of No Mondays is more than a story; it’s a fantastic voyage, a mostly fictional story about a man’s journey from the drudgery of a corporate career to finally living the dream of doing what he loved: singing and telling stories in paradise. To the casual listener, it is a fun listen with some occasionally quirky, rhyming story lines. To his fans, Tales is a wonderful ride through the stories, the songs, and the lyrics of Jim Morris.

Mystery writers and church ladies derail on a cross-country train, chuffing with intrigue, shenanigans, and romance. Too bad Sandra can’t concentrate on honing her writing. Or purifying her heathen soul. Because, she keeps discovering dead bodies. Sandra has an aversion to a particular detective Lt. Hottie. She can’t let things get stirred up with him again. Because of what she did during the hurricane.

Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technical barriers and invisible group norms, increase the uncertainty and risk of the already vulnerable task of collaborating and sharing ideas. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things feel as lonely and intimidating as speaking to a screen with unreadable faces staring back in silence. This book will help you improve the quality of your remote meetings.

"Die Vergangenheit ist wie ein fremdes Land. Nett, mal hinzureisen, aber leben würde man dort nicht wollen." Rebecca Whitaker starb bei einem Autounfall. Mark, ihr Ehemann, trauert noch heute um sie. Da erhält er einen verbeulten Briefumschlag, der vor vielen Jahren an ihn aufgegeben wurde und der eine Liste mit Anweisungen enthält sowie eine einfache Botschaft: "Du kannst sie retten!" Das ist die Chance, auf die Mark gewartet hat. Doch es steht mehr als ein Menschenleben auf dem Spiel. Viel mehr.

A famous writer travels to the remote, windswept islands of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides looking for peace of mind and a chance to dispel his inner demons. On the way, a car accident throws him together with the raven-haired Doctor Kathleen McNeil. He also falls in with the Red Wolf, a man who lives by the old codes - some of them violent. As a love triangle develops, the refined, civilised writer finds himself pitted against the rough-hewn man of nature.

Christmas had lost its charm and wonder. Mrs. Rush hated the feeling, but was powerless to fix things. Traveling to visit relatives for the holidays, the Rush children pass the time with their eyes glued to the screens of their devices. That is, until the flashing lights of a state highway patrol car bring their trip to a sudden and unplanned-for stop.

A sickness has come to the village of Hamelin. Born on the backs of rats, a plague begins to spread. As the town rips itself apart, a stranger appears to offer them salvation. But when the citizens of the town fail to hold up their end of the bargain, the stranger returns and exacts a toll that is still spoken of to this day. That toll? The town's entire population of children. This is the legend of the Pied Piper. It is no fairy tale. It is a nightmare. Are you prepared to hear his song?

There is no time to rest for Eliza D. Braun and Wellington Thornhill Books. The man who has haunted and hounded them since the fall of the Maestro, Doctor Henry Jekyll, is now on a killing spree, using bizarre, theatrical murders as a way to taunt their inability to capture him. It falls on Books and Braun to turn the tables on Jekyll and bring him to justice. As Wellington and Eliza continue their pursuit of the madman, Jekyll, the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences stand against a recent surge in House of Usher activity.

When Desirae Richey agrees to go home with some college friends for Christmas, she expects a small family gathering. Instead, she is taken to the Christmas Lodge in the snowy mountains of Canada to a noisy, fun-loving, adventurous group of family and friends who welcome her as one of their own. Everything seems to be going as planned until an unexpected snowfall occurs.

Big John Spada is a self-made millionaire. From his headquarters in New York, he directs enterprises around the world with military precision. Privately, Spada also funds Proteus, a clandestine movement that works to free political prisoners and combat tyrants wherever they may be. Then news arrives from Argentina that the Buenos Aires secret police have arrested Spada’s daughter, Teresa, a Doctor, after she performed emergency surgery on a man with gunshot wounds. They then take her husband, Rodolfo, whose outspoken editorials have angered the country’s fascist government.

Memories. Gifts. And so much more. When her beloved grandmother suffers a heart attack, Olivia pours her love, fear, and grief into a new quilting project, rekindling the passion they once shared. But only through a very special Christmas does she come to see the true significance of her gifts and the legacy they carry.

Across the years we have seen a few very strange diets, but the carnivore diet is among the unusual. The diet includes meat and animal products, totally excluding all other items, as you'd expect from the name. Diet advocates say it can lead, amongst other health benefits, to weight loss, mood problems, and blood sugar control. 

American Ambassador Maxwell Gordon Amberley has a reputation as a tough negotiator. Yet when he is sent to Vietnam, the dilemma he faces throws him into self-doubt. He is made arbiter of his nation’s fate on the one hand and of the life and death of the ruling house of Vietnam on the other. Out of every international crisis comes at least one great story.

One of the most famous victims of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was the brilliant Dominican monk Giordano Bruno, burnt at the stake for heresy in 1600. Morris West recreates a diary of Bruno’s intimate thoughts as he languishes in Rome’s worst prison for seven years. Bruno’s reflections and frank memories of his life reveal him to be both a fine thinker and a flawed priest - and a man willing to pay the highest price to be true to himself.