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Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. His captors assume Reacher was the driver's accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk. A plan that will backfire spectacularly . . .

A swoony small-town romance that will set your heart racing. I've been running from the past for most of my life, hiding in a small town and hoping no one discovers who I truly am. Which was working just fine until my brother moved his best friend onto our property. Now, I'm stuck trying to avoid the brooding billionaire's probing questions and piercing stares. And it doesn't help that I almost killed him the first time we met. Oops. But I can’t ignore him forever. And when all my lies come crashing down, it's Linc who steps in to shield me. Only, it's not just my safety at risk—it's my heart. Because when Linc touches me, I lose all sense. We might be building a life together. But Linc and I both have secrets and it’s only a matter of time until the forces from our pasts come back to tear everything apart. Forever.

When Cerys’ best friend and secret crush Jake moves to a new college, she realises she’s running out of time to take their relationship from platonic to romantic. She’ll do anything to get out of Jake’s friendzone, even if that means diving into the huge fantasy fandom he loves so much. But when Jake introduces Cerys to his shiny new friend Max, who goes to all the conventions and loves a costume, she realises she’ll need to do a lot more to grab Jake’s attention than just read a few fanfics. Can Cerys convince Jake they should become the new couple to ship? Or will he see straight through her cosplay?

Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, shifting, solidifying, and weathering. We might spend a little less time on earth, but humans are also weathering: evolving and changing as we're transformed by the shifting climates of our lives and experiences. So, what might these ancient natural forms have to teach us about resilience and change? In a stunning exploration of our own connection to these enduring forms, outdoor psychotherapist and geologist Ruth Allen takes us on a journey through deep time and ancient landscapes, showing how geology - which has formed the bedrock of her own adult life and approach to therapy - can offer us a new way of thinking about our own grief, change and boundaries. In a world shaken by physical, political, and medical disasters, Weathering argues for a deeper understanding of the ground beneath our feet to better serve ourselves and the world we live in.

One king caged my body. Another has caged my mind. War has broken out between Annwyn and Orea, though that’s not the only battle being waged. There’s a fight inside me, and it’s one I’m determined to win, no matter how much they try to strip me down and hollow me out. Yet they’ve forgotten one thing. The ancient magic of the pair bond. One can never truly be lost when two souls are already bound. Because Slade and I? We are connected by more than just fated magic, and we will always find each other. In any life. The fae king is trying to destroy me. My heritage. My memory. But what he hasn’t realized is this: gold bends, but stone breaks. And a Goldfinch does not fall. It flies.

Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner. And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox, who have acted and looked very different since they returned from spending the summer with their British father in the UK. She tells Jessica that her children have unnaturally perfect skin for teenagers and have lost all the tics and habits that made them who they were. They are not Lark and Fox, she tells Jessica. Something has happened to them. To find out more, Jessica travels to Essex to talk to their father and once there meets Belle who is living a curiously isolated existence in a run-down farmhouse with her guardian Debra. Jessica knows that Lark and Fox had spent the summer with Belle?but can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for Lark and Fox's new personas? Jessica soon discovers that, behind Belle and Debra, evil geniuses are playing a dangerous game with technology in order to make the world a "better place", not caring who gets hurt, maimed or even killed in the process. Can Jessica stop them from wreaking destruction on a whole generation of young people? Nothing is certain in Lisa Jewell's gripping and most imaginative novel yet.

A swoony small-town romance that will set your heart racing. Trust doesn't come easily when you've been running for as long as I have, which is why moving in with a man I barely know is such a bad idea. Shepard Colson is all golden-boy charm and devastating good looks. But I know the dangers of easy smiles and promises-I have the scars to prove it. Only the handsome contractor won't stop coming by the bakery and prying little truths from my lips-those amber eyes of his seeing far too much. And when secrets from my past come crashing down, it's Shep who's determined to keep me safe. Even if it means moving into my rundown cabin and working his way into my heart. But a ghost from my old life has unfinished business. And when he finds me, he'll do anything to tear my life apart. Including ending it for good. . .

Impossible puzzles, shocking twists and addictive romance combine in this unmissable, brand-new mystery set in the #1 bestselling INHERITANCE GAMES world - guaranteed to keep you hooked until the very last page... Play to win millions. Risk it all for love. The stakes have never been higher . . . A RUTHLESS GAME. Welcome to the Grandest Game, a life-changing competition run by billionaire heiress Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. SEVEN MYSTERY PLAYERS. Swept away to a luxury private island, some of the players are in it for money. Some for power. Some for reasons all their own . . . And admidst it all is the enigmatic and irresistible Grayson Hawthorn, tasked with a vital role. LOVE AND LIVES AT STAKE. But as sparks fly and tensions rise it soon becomes clear that everyone has secrets, and those seven players will do whatever it takes to win.

With a foreword by Lauren Asher, author of The Fine Print and Love Redesigned Craving adventure, seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland leaps at the opportunity to step into the dizzying world of British high society in the resort town of Bath. Adventure arrives in the form of handsome clergyman Henry Tilney, and the ominous promise of his family home: Northanger Abbey. But for romance to blossom, Catherine must find answers to her dark suspicious about the abbey and face that most terrifying of enemies: money-minded social climbers. Fall head over heels for First Impressions, Penguin's boldly designed new Jane Austen collection for young-adult readers. Full of meet-cutes, missed connections and drama, this eye-catching six-book series is an open invitation to embrace your inner romantic.

A fake! A quack! A charlatan! Get a grip on yourself, woman! We’ll say another rosary and then I’ll leave you home.’ Stories of Ireland is a brilliant, colourful compendium of mid-century Irish experience from one of Ireland’s greatest ever writers, Brian Friel. Demonstrating all of Friel’s peerless instinct for voice, scene, and the uncanny mystery found in the everyday, these tales tell of beauty, struggle and discovery: from the drowning of a man in the bog-black waters of Lough Keeragh, to the camaraderie of teenage potato gathers in County Tyrone, and from the careful work of the German War Graves Commission in Glenn na fuiseog, to trawlermen’s talk of sunken gold off the coast of Donegal. Selected by Friel himself, and introduced by acclaimed author Louise Kennedy, this charming, heartful collection truly offers some of the best stories ever written.

With a foreword by Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis and Love, Theoretically Elizabeth Bennet must get married - her family's status depends on it. But she and Mr Darcy, her suitor, don't exactly see eye to eye. He's embarrassed her, she's snubbed him. As a pair, they're headed for disaster. In one of the world's most enduring love stories, both would-be lovers must overcome their personal pride and social prejudices to allow their turbulent, but true, love to bloom. Fall head over heels for First Impressions, Penguin's boldly designed new Jane Austen collection for young-adult readers featuring the complete and unabridged texts. Full of meet-cutes, missed connections and drama, this eye-catching six-book series is an open invitation to embrace your inner romantic.

With a foreword by Krystal Marquis, author of The Davenports and The Davenports: More Than This When Fanny Price is taken in by wealthy relatives, she finds herself abused, overlooked and thoroughly unloved. Her only solace is her friendship with their youngest son, Edmund. But they are just friends. At least for now. Soon, the arrival of Henry and Mary Crawford sets off a flurry of matchmaking and Fanny must decide who she loves and how they might all end up living happily-ever-after. Fall head over heels for First Impressions, Penguin's boldly designed new Jane Austen collection for young-adult readers. Full of meet-cutes, missed connections and drama, this eye-catching six-book series is an open invitation to embrace your inner romantic.

From an unmissable new voice comes the powerful and epic story of mythology's darkest heroine Shunned. Persecuted. Tormented. Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented by her brother and father. All because of a unique and dangerous talent: witchcraft. Fierce. Powerful. Sorceress. But when a dashing young hero, Jason, arrives to claim the famed Golden Fleece that her father fiercely protects, Medea sees her opportunity for escape. Her offer to help Jason overcome the trials set by her father sets in motion a journey that will test every ounce of her strength, magic and loyalty; a journey that will see her battle monsters, dethrone kings and fall in love. When faced with the ultimate betrayal, Medea is driven to an act of desperation so brutal it rips apart the lives of everyone involved...

A hauntingly beautiful, unforgettable Norwegian classic, ripe for discovery In the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful stranger across a station platform. She follows him home, and over one heady night of wine and cigarettes, recounts to him the devastating story of her life . . . First published in 1947, Nothing Grows by Moonlight tells the haunting tale of one woman’s soul-shattering love affair. When an obsessive passion for her high school teacher consumes a small-town seventeen-year-old, her life spirals out of control, giving way to pregnancy, poverty and alienation. Here, darkness and light converge, and unrequited love blooms against the shadows of societal injustices, as she fights for autonomy: over her life, her mind and her body. Captivating, visceral and brimming with emotion, Nothing Grows by Moonlight is a feminist classic of Scandinavian literature, and an uncompromising ode to female desire.

With a foreword by Tessa Bailey, author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line and Sinker Self-appointed matchmaker Emma Woodhouse is convinced that she’ll never marry. ‘Handsome, clever and rich’, the headstrong Emma has lived a charmed life and has no need for love. But, when her meddling ends a friend’s relationship and upsets the romantic social order, Emma discovers that her actions have consequences – and that love might have been waiting for her all along. Fall head over heels for First Impressions, Penguin's boldly designed new Jane Austen collection for young-adult readers. Full of meet-cutes, missed connections and drama, this eye-catching six-book series is an open invitation to embrace your inner romantic.

For seventeen-year-old pirate Aster Oberon and her family, life at sea has been a refuge from Nightweavers - mystical beings with elemental powers that rule the land. But when the Oberons are finally defeated in an epic battle that shatters Aster's world, they are thrust into a new life, to live among the very beings they hate. Handsome Nightweaver Will shows Aster uncharacteristic mercy, by offering the Oberons employment on his family's opulent estate. Despite her hatred for his kind, Aster finds her attraction to Will growing by the day. Will this illicit romance and the chilling secrets that hide at the heart of Bludgrave Manor unravel everything she's ever known, loved and fought for...?