Henrietta Meire
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Old secrets dragged into the light . . . can turn deadly.
Someone wants Niall Kier's secrets exposed-even if they lead to scandal, unrest . . . and murder.
Miss Kara Levett has discovered a talent for unearthing secrets and truths, but she's vowed not to turn it on her friend-and more-Mr. Niall Kier. His secrets are his own, until he chooses to share them.
Unfortunately, someone else is not so patient. Niall needs to find who is digging so furiously...
142) The friend
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On a train with her husband, miles from home and their four-year-old son, Ben, Sophie receives a chilling phone call. Two boys are in hospital after a tragic accident. One of them is Ben. She thought she could trust Emma, her new friend, to look after her little boy. After all, Emma's a kindred spirit--someone Sophie was sure she could bare her soul to, despite the village rumours. But Sophie can't shake the feeling that she's made an unforgivable...
143) Father of Lies
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Ruby is the most violently disturbed patient ever admitted to Drummersgate Asylum, high on the bleak moors of northern England. With no improvement after two years, Dr. Jack McGowan finally decides to take a risk and hypnotizes her-with terrifying consequences. A horrific dark force is now unleashed on the entire medical team, as each in turn attempts to unlock Ruby's shocking and sinister past. Who is this girl? And how did she manage to survive...
144) Magda
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The dark and twisted community of Woodsend harbors a terrible secret-one tracing back to the age of the Elizabethan witch hunts, when many innocent women were persecuted and hanged. But there is a far deeper vein of horror running through this village; an evil that, once invoked, has no intention of relinquishing its grip on the modern world. Rather, it watches and waits with a focused intelligence, leaving ward sister Becky and police officer Toby...
145) TRIZ For Dummies
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Are you new to TRIZ and looking for an easy-to-follow guide on how you can use it to enhance your company's creativity, innovation, and problem-solving abilities? Look no further! Written in plain English and packed with tons of accessible and easy-to-follow instruction, TRIZ For Dummies shows you how to use this powerful toolkit to discover all the ways of solving a problem, uncover new concepts and identify previously unseen routes for new product...
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It is 1951 and a remote mining village on the North Staffordshire Moors is hit by one of the worst snowstorms in living memory. Cut off for over three weeks, the old and the sick will die; the strongest bunker down; and those with evil intent will bring to its conclusion a family vendetta spanning three generations. Inspired by a true event, The Soprano tells the story of Grace Holland-a strikingly beautiful, much admired local celebrity who brings...
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I have dealt with thousands of people in my 35-year banking career. Paul is one of the most precise, thoughtful, and prepared clients I have experienced. This kind of commitment to details is rarely seen in our industry. Paul is qualified, through his vast experience and achievements, to share on the subject of creating a strong business plan and acquiring financing for a business. Thinking outside the box is a strength of Paul's and shows that securing...
148) Affair, The
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Alexandra couldn't help herself. She fell madly in love with married man Ryan, the father of her pupil Mia. When he stopped calling, her heart was broken-and she consoled herself with an acquaintance named Henry. But neither man is really out of her life. Henry wants more. And she can't avoid running into Ryan at school. Before long, Alexandra is caught between two men. When she discovers her actions will have a greater effect on her future than she...
149) Tanners Dell
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Following the hypnosis of violently disturbed psychiatric patient, Ruby Dean, an unholy dark force was unleashed on the medical staff who tried to help her. Now only one of the original team remains-Ward Sister, Becky. Despite her fiance, D.I. Ross, being unconscious and many of her colleagues either dead or critically ill, Becky is determined to rescue Ruby's twelve-year-old daughter from a similar fate to that of her mother. But no one asking questions...
150) The Droll Teller
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1962, and on Christmas Day at precisely 6pm, a mysterious old man by the name of Silas Finn, calls on the new owners of an ancestral home in Devon and asks which they'd prefer to hear-a story or a song. Ten-year old Enys Quiller is adamant they must have a story, just as Cousin Beatrice instructed.
"You'll be sure to tell me dreckly, won't you?" says Beatrice. "What the droll teller says?"
But the strange and macabre tale of Victorian poisoning...
151) The Water Garden
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Sarah has given up her career to raise her children in the countryside, while her husband works long hours in London. Alone, she explores the fields and the woods near her home and discovers an enchanting lake, a memorial bench for a boy who drowned in mysterious circumstances, and Finn, a beautiful troubled teenager who plays truant from school.
As Sarah pieces the mystery together, an uncomfortable attraction between her and Finn builds, climaxing...
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Despite 21st-century fears of an "epidemic" of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the present, historian of the emotions Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal...
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Wishing for a different perspective on life? Whether new or ancient that's hidden from you behind the curtain of conditioning? Looking for the sacred the underlies the irreverence or contempt for life as it is? Demonstrates reverence or respect for all? Explains your true nature?
Provides insight into the changes that are occurring across the planet? Shows how to contribute to the wellbeing of all? Directs you toward your highest good?
If so, this...
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Breathe Like a Badass is a no-BS guide to creating a life-changing, burnout-busting emotional toolkit-one breath at a time. Want to quieten your inner critic, rediscover your inner badass, and build a successful, freedom-filled life you love? Then BREATHE.
Hannah Jane Thompson is on a mission to help ambitious-but-anxious women like you banish patterns of self-sabotage.
This down-to-earth guide teaches you how to start-and stick to-a non-woo woo...
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The Soldier with the Golden Buttons - Adapt For Youth
"The Soldier with the Golden Buttons - Adapt For Youth" presents a child's view of the Holocaust. It is the story of Jewish children wrenched from a carefree childhood to be overwhelmed by the brutal savagery of war. A few days are enough to turn them into adults forced to content with hunger and thirst, fear of death, and with the horror of being taken away from their mothers. Closed in a wagon,...
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Reconstructed from actual letters and diaries, this is the story of four young people living in Philadelphia whose lives become intertwined when the American Civil War begins in 1861. Jan is a German immigrant who begins his studies at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg. Emma is a Quaker who has learned survival skills growing up in a thick forest. Gabrielle, is a Southerner, was raised by her governess and wealthy Virginian father. Maura...
158) The Owlmen
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Ellie Blake is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Deciding to move back to her northern roots, she and her psychiatrist husband buy Tanners Dell at auction-an old water mill in the moorland village of Bridesmoor.
However, there is disquiet in the village. Tanners Dell has a terrible secret, one so well guarded no one speaks its name. But in her search for meaning, Ellie is drawn to traditional witchcraft and determined to pursue it. All her life...
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"The story of becoming sober signifies a great deal more than simply not 'picking up' or 'using'. This is a story not only of recovery, but also of what it means to live in sobriety."
Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy
1st District, Rhode Island
"This book, written by a recovering addict who became a successful therapist, is a perfect road map for addicts, codependents, and therapists. Among the milestones are sobriety, emotional maturity, and personal...
160) Desperate Wife, The
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In this unmissable psychological thriller, the affair that was supposed to be a respite from Ava's vicious marriage might just be another, even more terrible, trap. Trapped in her marriage to Rex, a violent and controlling man, Ava has one bright spot in her life: her online tutoring sessions with Ali. He is thousands of miles away but wants very much to return to the United Kingdom. As Ava and Ali grow more intimate, Ava begins pouring her heart...