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Every journey might start with a single step, but where does it end? Albert Smith and his faithful dog, Rex Harrison, have been on the road for far longer than they ever expected, but they can't go home yet. Not until they solve one final case. Following a near-invisible breadcrumb trail of clues to find a character they know only...

Readers can discover all the foul facts about Rotten Rulers, including who gave the job of high priest to a donkey, who choked to death while eating a crow, and who celebrated victory by eating his enemy's head. With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit...

Why are ladies like arrows? When is a bird not a bird? What do you call a nun with a washing machine on her head? Welcome to the weird new word adventure from David Astle, plunging into the realm of riddles, chasing down and prising open 101 curious questions from around the planet. A mindtrip across time and place, Riddledom...

Baking. It can get a guy killed. And this time it does. A murder staged to look like a suicide fools everyone except Albert Smith. He knows better. In Lyme Regis with his faithful dog, the victim invited him to visit the seaside resort. Now he's dead and Albert wants to know why. But when the trail of clues leads...

Why do we laugh? What does comedy reveal about human nature, society, and the mind's strange elasticity? In this classic 1900 essay, philosopher Henri Bergson anatomises the comic impulse with surgical clarity and lyrical wit. For Bergson, laughter is no mere reflex. It is a social gesture, a corrective, a way for life itself to defend its supple intelligence against...

Baking. It can get a guy killed. Visiting a small Lancashire town to learn their culinary secrets, a retired detective and his former police dog dream of delicious dishes ... ... what they get is the dead body of a famous TV chef. Instantly plunged into a mystery that threatens to test their limits, Rex and Albert must stay one...

I couldn't stop reading or laughing! If you love mystery and dogs, you have to read this! On the southeast coast of England, three wine growers have just gone missing and a fourth was found dead at the scene. Could this be the work of the master criminal Albert Smith has been chasing all over the country? You'd better believe...

National Bestseller. "For anyone who has felt fate intervening on their TikTok feed" (USA Today) comes a "gothic horror story wrapped up in a mystery with much to say about Hollywood, social media, and the creator economy" (Los Angeles Times). "Here you'll find that gothic horror, so often lurking in the dingy dark, can manifest also in the fluorescent world...

Baking. It can get a guy killed. When the chef tipped to win this year's annual Eton Mess competition falls to his death in mysterious circumstances, Albert races to investigate—surely this is the work of the Gastrothief again. However, Albert barely makes it out of the train station before his detective's brain sees something most other people would never spot—a...

Baking. It can get a guy killed. Anyone wanting a laugh with a mystery included will have all they can handle in this hilarious read! Snoozing on the train ride into Dundee, a horrified scream tears both Albert and Rex from their dreams and back to reality... ... where they discover a woman has just witnessed a murder. It would...

Baking. It can get a guy killed. I am loving this series. Mystery, crime, and some comedy. It is all I could ask for and a whole lot more. After the drama in Biggleswade, our crime-busting duo head to York for the annual Yorkshire pudding competition and a well-earned rest ... ... well fat chance of that because they interrupt...

From world traveller, entrepreneur, and content creator @DearAlyne, a vulnerable and hilarious memoir of how she escaped the restrictive expectations of her family and faith and found herself in the process. Alyne Tamir was raised to live her life for others: for her husband, her family, and the Mormon church. For twenty-five years, she put others ahead of herself, repressing...

Baking. It can get a guy killed. On the trail of a master criminal, a retired detective and his former police dog expect a quiet time in the Cumbrian village of Keswick. However, when Rex picks up a scent upon arriving at their B&B... ...the discovery of a body in a shallow grave draws them into a mystery someone does...

Baking. It can get a guy killed. With this series the author has created the most perfect pair of crime-busters since Holmes and Watson. Except Albert and Rex are WAY funnier! Following a trail of clues to a sleepy seaside village in the southwest corner of England, retired police detective, Albert Smith, aims to prove his theory of a master...

Here is a magnificently clear-eyed portrait of our times lit equally by sorrow and rage. Neel Mukherjee is a superb writer, and Choice is his greatest work yet. ― Michelle de Kretser 'Dazzling... by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking' ― Monica Ali 'Profound and beautiful' ― Paul Murray 'A vital, haunting, devastating read' ― Sarah Waters A publisher, who is...

Baking. It can get a guy killed. In the small Bedfordshire town of Biggleswade, retired detective Albert, and former police dog, Rex, are enjoying a peaceful break from the murder and mayhem of the last week. Until the waitress serving him is arrested for murder... ...and he discovers she killed the café's owner three days ago. But Albert saw her...

How do you poke fun at a man who’s so absurd he practically satirises himself? Even two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Mike Luckovich admits it’s been a challenge covering the Cheeto-in-Chief in his internationally syndicated political cartoons. But Mike rose to the challenge, pulling no punches and stripping down Trump and his cronies with his signature wit and style. Covering Trump’s...

Baking. It can get a guy killed. Wow, this book was hard to put down. The characters come to life and you become engaged in their adventures. On a culinary tour of the British Isles, a retired detective and a failed police dog intend to taste the kippers that made the town famous... ...but when the first person they meet...

The legendary comedian, actor, and writer of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and A Fish Called Wanda fame shares his key ideas about creativity: that it’s a learnable, improvable skill. “Many people have written about creativity, but although they were very, very clever, they weren't actually creative. I like to think I'm writing about it from the inside.”—John Cleese You might...

When a sexy silver fox, and a man of means, meets his next-door neighbour's sister, healing her broken heart might be worth more than gold. At the ripe age of forty-seven, I find myself reflecting on love, and the lack thereof. Exhausted by life, I ran away from my small, mountain town to the opposite coast hoping for some perspective....

Hollywood Bad Boy Loomis Powell Dating Heiress Keegan Fritz Amid Secret Baby Scandal. That headline, plus a broken wrist, my ex showing up, and it leaking that Loomis has a son no one knew about, and suddenly we're in a fake relationship. He needs help keeping his son and saving his career, and I need someone to stop me from...

What's tall, handsome, with a devilish smile and piercing blue eyes? My best friend's older brother that was completely off-limits. It wouldn't be such a problem to avoid Jack (and the butterflies he causes to swarm in my belly), except that he was constantly in my space. Or maybe I was in his? It was hard to tell since I...

The Wicked Aftermath is an emotionally gripping story of love, loss, and hope, with a rich and entrancing happily ever after. All Wicked novels may be enjoyed as stand-alone romances. When the person you blame for your grief is the only one who can save you from the pain... Tank Wicked lost his sister and has since vowed to save...

TROY Sometimes I want to punch that smirk off Atlas McCallister's pretty face. He's cocky. A troublemaker. A pain. And, unfortunately, my stepbrother. We've been fire and kerosene since our parents got together, and to keep from exploding into fistfights, we've used challenges, dares, and bets to battle out our differences. Our past bets have been a little inappropriate—scandalous, even—but...

I never expected the hottest one-night-stand of my life to turn up at my studio as the grumpy single dad to one of my dance students. But teaching here is only a temporary gig because, at the end of six weeks, I'm moving on. And it was all going according to plan until Dylan Matthews showed up with his dangerous...

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As a professional football player, I had a playbook for everything on the field. Then I retired and found out there's no playbook for life—especially when the one you thought was perfect gets flipped upside down. There's no play for suddenly becoming a divorced, single dad. There's no plan for moving your family back to the town you grew up...

You're cordially invited to the wedding of Oliver Price and Izzy McCall... That's how my wedding invitations should have started. I should know, I've had my wedding planned since I was ten. I should've been wearing a designer tuxedo, not a tuxedo t-shirt. The wedding should've been in a church with family and friends, not in a 1960's style chapel...

Wanted: Nanny for preschooler. Must love dinosaurs, silly songs, hand puppets, and will definitely not fall for his single dad. After my three-year-old terror on two feet turns my live interview into a viral joke, I'm crowned the internet's favourite "zaddy." Whatever that means. But when my newfound fame threatens my shot at tenure, I know I need help to...

Book One in a new series of romantic comedies by USA Today-bestselling author Angela Casella. Send help and wine. My sister is trying to set me up with the grump next door. Claire A few hours after losing my job, I get a call from a stranger who claims I've inherited property from my father. I assume it's a scam,...

They say opposites attract. And we couldn't be any more different. He's whiskey and ink, and I'm cupcakes and old books. But our connection is instant. He sets my heart aflutter and my body on fire with just one look. Until I realise he's the arrogant jerk in 7C. Suddenly, all that I found appealing becomes a turn-off. The harder...

I love you, he said. Forever, he said. Turns out, he lied. When he leaves me high and dry after a cross-country move, I push him out of my life as much as I can, which is hard to do when the guy who broke your heart also happens to be the most famous dude in town. After a disastrous...

I never thought I was the type of girl to care about marriage. I've always firmly been in the "If it happens, it happens" camp. Even after I met Zach and decided to move in with him, I still felt that way. Until last month. I want to get married. I want to purchase a home that's completely ours, draw...

Enjoy heart-meltingly beautiful and toe-curlingly sexy romance in Tempted by Love, an emotionally riveting story about a man who has lost it all and carries a torturous secret, a divorced single mother who has everything to lose, and the little girl who helps them heal. Fall in love on the sandy shores of Silver Island, home to coffee shops, boat...

Discover the magic of New York Times bestseller Melissa Foster's writing and see why millions of readers have fallen in love with the fiercely loyal and sassily sexy characters in the Love in Bloom big-family romance collection. All Love in Bloom books can be enjoyed as stand-alone novels or as part of the larger series. For this sweet bookstore owner,...

Now in a special edition hardcover with enhanced design! A Confederacy of Dunces meets Liar's Poker in this rollicking roman à clef from inside PwnShop's "bored" room as the embattled company hobbles through an extraordinary short squeeze. Why do good things happen to bad companies? In early 2021, the stock value of PwnShop—a dead to rights bricks-and-mortar retailer disrupted by...

Semi-Sweet On You (Special Edition) is a slow burn, second-chance rom com that will tug at your heartstrings. She broke his heart ten years ago. Now he's back— and her new boss. And she might still be semi in love with him. But that's no problem, right? They can keep it professional. Until her grandmother gets involved. She's thrilled to...

A new year at Palm South University means new classes, new chances at love, and of course, new fresh-off-the-grill drama. Cassie faces a ghost from her past in her new Genetics class while Adam fights for his brothers' respect as second-term president. Jess has some fun with her latest distraction, Erin discovers an unexpected friend at therapy, Ashlei deals with...

When a sexy silver fox finds a woman in his vacation home, a little icing and a long-overdue apology might give him a second chance to restore his dreams with the one who got away. Go, my business partner urges. I deserve a vacation. I've worked hard to establish my bakery and I'm proud of my accomplishments, but an absence...

A marriage of convenience between a dirty-talking prince and the socially awkward scientist who brings him to his knees... A marriage proposal from a deliciously handsome and wickedly charming prince sounds like a fairytale. But for a nerdy scientist with severe social anxiety, it's a horror story. Prince Torin O'Grady, with his mischievous blue eyes and cocky grin, is always...

Refugee Wolf follows Big Bad Ben, a larrikin wolf seeking refugee status on the Planet of Straw, the Planet of Sticks, and the Planet of McSpaceMansions. Our anti-hero, who speaks Aussie slang, is at the heart of this speculative, dystopian satire set in 2500 AD. Big Bad Ben hurtles through space in a clapped-out space shuttle, relentlessly pursued by humans....

Turns out the gorgeous stranger I had a one-night stand with is not only my sister's best friend but also my new employee. Worse? I shared a whole lot more with Avery than one mind-blowing night. I told her my deepest, darkest secret. Despite my constant worry that she'll let the truth slip to my family, I can't stay away...

The 2nd standalone novel in The Pucked Series Miller "Buck" Butterson has been banging his way through life ever since a puck to the face fixed his messed-up front teeth. After five years in the NHL, deflecting goals on the ice and scoring them with puck bunnies, Miller has decided he's ready for a girlfriend. A real, non-bunny girlfriend to...

Randy Ballistic and Lily LeBlanc are head-over-heels, bed-breakingly, screaming orgasmically in love. But even they have their challenges, mostly outside of the bedroom. With the off-season coming to a close and the boys gearing up for training camp, one more weekend of fun is the perfect way to welcome the new season. The entire crew piles into vehicles and drives...

Randy Ballistic and Lily LeBlanc are head-over-heels, bed-breakingly, screaming orgasmically in love. But even they have their challenges, mostly outside of the bedroom. With the off-season coming to a close and the boys gearing up for training camp, one more weekend of fun is the perfect way to welcome the new season. The entire crew piles into vehicles and drives...

A Standalone novel I'm NHL defenceman Lance Romero, AKA Lance "Romance." I'm notorious for parties and excess. I have the most penalty minutes in the league. I get into the most fights. I take the most hits. I'm a player on and off the ice. I'm the one women with no inhibitions want. Not because I like the notoriety, but...

Pucked Off (Special Edition Hardcover) is a standalone novel by Helena Hunting. I'm NHL defenceman Lance Romero, AKA Lance "Romance." I'm notorious for parties and excess. I have the most penalty minutes in the league. I get into the most fights. I take the most hits. I'm a player on and off the ice. I'm the one women with no...

As an NHL player, relationships haven't been my thing. Shrouded in secrecy and speculation, they never last very long. But then that's what happens when you require an NDA before the first date. Until Charlene. She's like a firefly. She's elusive, and if you catch her, she'll burn bright. But keeping her trapped dulls her fire and dims her beauty....

As an NHL player, relationships haven't been my thing. Shrouded in secrecy and speculation, they never last very long. But then that's what happens when you require an NDA before the first date. Until Charlene. She's like a firefly. She's elusive, and if you catch her she'll burn bright, but keeping her trapped dulls her fire and dims her beauty....

Hockey players are off limits especially ... if they're on your brothers' team. The last time Jordan did that, it ended in disaster. It was easy to promise her brothers she'd never date another one of their teammates again. Until she meets Jake. The spark she feels when she spends time with him makes her promise harder and harder to...

It's a new year at Palm South University, and a new chapter for Cassie—who's excited to take her relationship with Grayson to the next level. But when he asks her to make an impossible choice between him and Adam, loyalty will be tested, and hearts will be broken. Meanwhile, Jess fights growing frustrations with a long-distance relationship, Erin tries to...

I've been in love with my best friend since the day I met her freshman year of high school. She was a halo of sunshine on a rainy day, pulling me out of the shadows and making me feel like life was one big roller-coaster ride of excitement. Until the day we graduated and she left on the back of...

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Help Wanted: Producer for the latest album from multi-platinum selling band Birds of Prey. Enter Sammy Rhodes. Famed DJ The Spin Doctor. Musical genius. Fits with the band like he's our sixth member. We hired him on the spot. So what's the problem? He's also all broad shoulders and dazzling smile, and has this flop of hair I constantly yearn...

When a sexy silver fox encounters a single mother in crisis mode, love might be the second chance to fix both their hearts. Forty-one and feeling unaccomplished, my midlife crisis begins with burnt toast on my birthday. Hardworking yet underappreciated, I never say no—not to my ex-husband, not to my three children—but I want to. Boy, do I want to....

This new city was supposed to keep me alive, not burn me to the ground. You know that moment when you realise you're supremely screwed? That's me when I realise I'm trapped in my building and see smoke. In the last twenty-four hours, I've been cheated on, quit my job, and insulted a sexy stranger - now I'm staring death...

A laugh-out-loud standalone romantic comedy readers are calling their favourite romcom of all time! A wrong number is supposed to be just that—a wrong number. Delete. Done. Do not continue to text. Do not flirt. A wrong number shouldn't be the first person on your mind in the morning, or the last at night...and you're definitely not supposed to talk...

An elegant, deluxe edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller—marking the 2nd anniversary of its publication—that will make the perfect gift or treat for yourself. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at...

Spring Break is on the horizon, and if the PSU crew thought last year was crazy, they have no idea what's in store for them this time. Adam and Cassie face a whole new set of challenges that will define their relationship once and for all. Ashlei makes an enemy at her internship that could cost her everything. Bear tries...

If all your wishes could suddenly come true, what would you do? A year ago when the love of her life dumped her for no apparent reason, Ally thought she had hit rock bottom. But now that she has seen him with another woman, and one she knows only too well, her life seems to have reached a whole new...

When I put up a ROOMMATE WANTED poster, he was the last person on earth I thought would respond. He was also the last person on earth I'd agree to let live with me... on purpose. But, here we are—roommates. I'm certain we can coexist without it being awkward, and I'm determined to make it work. There will be no...

Aurelia Whitlock is an ex-stepsister I forgot long ago. Until she shows up as a design intern at my fashion company. And that's the easy part. The part where she stirs my lifeless blood, drawing me away from my soulless, miserable side is another. She has no business being here. Her presence far from a coincidence, the more I learn...

Twenty-nine-year-old Blair Walker is a girl with a plan, or more a girl with a list. A list of dos and don'ts to live the perfect life, land a dream career, and marry Mr. Right. But when Blair loses her job and gets dumped by her boyfriend all in one day, she starts to wonder if she's had it all...

Dancing on bartops means the night is going great. Exiting the bar hauled over the shoulder of Heston University's infamous hockey captain? Not my idea of a good time. But my would-be knight would have to do. I needed an escape route from my brother... his biggest rival. Easton Blake is the perfect reminder of why I avoid hockey players....

Cindy and Blossom never expected their quiet routines at Higgin's Hotel to collide with a criminal investigation. Cindy, a real estate agent, and Blossom, a housekeeper, lead very different lives - until hotel owner Jack Higgins is indicted for racketeering. With his wife wintering in Florida, Higgins unexpectedly promotes Blossom, placing her in the crosshairs of gossip and suspicion. Meanwhile,...

Cindy and Blossom never expected their quiet routines at Higgin's Hotel to collide with a criminal investigation. Cindy, a real estate agent, and Blossom, a housekeeper, lead very different lives—until hotel owner Jack Higgins is indicted for racketeering. With his wife wintering in Florida, Higgins unexpectedly promotes Blossom, placing her in the crosshairs of gossip and suspicion. Meanwhile, Cindy discovers...

I'm a good girl—until I got drunk in Vegas and married a panties-flaming-hot Irishman. Oops. I've always lived my life by the rules. Unlike my two sisters, I'm the good one. The responsible one. Going outside my comfort zone is when I wear red lipstick before five PM. That comfort zone of mine? It's smashed to smithereens on a wild...

"If Gossip Girl and Riverdale had a love child, it would be PSU." – #1 NYT Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken Spring Break always means chaos for the Palm South University crew, but this year is a little different... for many reasons. After the shocking discovery last semester, Jess finds herself torn between what feels like an impossible choice, and...

The epic conclusion to the Palm South University Series... Sisterhood is forever, but can it survive life's biggest curveballs? Erin fights for justice while Bear continues to fight his demons in order to be the man he wants to be for the woman he loves. Skyler considers what will come after graduation—and whether or not Kip will be a part...

A new town. A new bar. A new life. At least, that's what I'm hoping for. I moved to Denver to try to piece my family back together, but I have no idea how to do that. Then the most beautiful woman I've ever seen walks into my bar, and I think things are looking up. She needs a fake...

I need this promotion. Too bad I have to temporarily move to a small town to prove I deserve it. And, it's not as easy as I thought it would be. My car? Ends up in a ditch. A hot shower? Interrupted by a snake. Not to mention the quiet. How do people fall asleep without background noise? The only...

A friends-to-lovers romance that will make you melt. Oliver's a dreamer who is always ready for the next big adventure. Piper's the steady one who keeps his feet on the ground. He's wildly successful, thanks to her always being there to catch him when he leaps before he looks. But she wants more. While he's as clueless as ever. So...

A Cinderella story with a hot boss so charming even a fairy godmother couldn't do better. Everyone thinks Dax Marshall is a prince of a guy. And he's definitely charming. But Jane has enough going on without adding a torrid fling with the boss to her life. Between her father's illness, her wicked-ish stepmother, her little sister's teenage drama, and...

Being engaged to Alex Waters, team captain and the highest paid NHL player in the league, is awesome. How could it not be? In addition to being an amazing hockey player, he's an incurable romantic with an XL heart, and an XXL hockey stick in his pants. And he knows how to use it. Incredibly, orgasmically well. Alex is the...

I'm falling for my best friend's sister and at some point, I'm going to need the whole world to know it. I think I'm screwed. Seriously. Why, you ask? Because when one of the first warnings you get after joining the Chicago Red Tails hockey team is to never even think about touching Dex Foster's sister, you abide by your...

She's a badass musician and mechanic with no patience for overinflated egos. He's a billionaire with no time for drama. Going head-to-head has never been so much fun... or so dirty. Scorching heat, laugh-out-loud humour, and loads of heart make this sexy enemies-to-lovers, close proximity, forbidden, workplace, small-town standalone romance unputdownable. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and happily ever afters guaranteed...

On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabited by several of Huxley's most outlandish characters—from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable words an hour by "getting in touch" with his "subconscious," to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with writing the definitive History of Crome. Denis's stay proves to be a disaster amid his...

"Hi Monty. Wanna see my python?" That's how I ended up in the bathroom of some dive bar with a stranger. Me, Monty Andrews, the quintessential virgin girl next door. I was so out of my element, but there was no denying our explosive attraction, even via text. Commence Operation Bang Each Other Out of Our Systems, because that was...

Boomerangers [boo-muh-rang-ers] noun, informal: an adult that moves back home to live with a parent after a period of independence. Spencer I love sex. I love the power, the intimacy, the euphoria it brings. Too bad I'm not having any... You'd think as New Orleans' most renowned sex therapist that I'd be swimming in single men. In a way, I...

I have two goals this season: 1. Be named captain of the Seattle Serpents. 2. Stay single. I'm right on track... until she happens. Auden Sinclair. We're stuck together for a night when our plane is forced to make an emergency landing, and that's all the promise we make—one night, then we go our separate ways. Except she pops up...