A once-violent Edinburgh tough who has reinvented himself in California as a successful artist and family man is forced back to Scotland after his estranged son’s murder, where grief and old grudges drag him into a relentless hunt for the killer; as the polished façade cracks, the brutal instincts he tried to bury resurface, blurring the line between redemption and revenge in a escalating spiral of blood, loyalty, and self-deception.

An ambitious young professional, desperate for a big break, is guided by a seasoned mentor through the Five Laws of Stratospheric Success—Value, Compensation, Influence, Authenticity, and Receptivity—illustrated by meetings with high achievers. By shifting focus from getting to giving, he learns to deliver extraordinary value, put others’ interests first, build genuine relationships, be himself, and receive with gratitude. This mindset transforms his results and reveals that lasting success and fulfillment arise from generosity and service.

A hybrid of memoir and literary criticism, this work follows years of rereading five novels by Jane Austen alongside experiences of grief, parenthood, and relocation, using close attention to language and social nuance to think through time, marriage, and care. Weaving personal narrative with literary history and reflections on letters and biography, it shows how returning to a writer’s work can offer steadiness, companionship, and new ways of seeing during seasons of loss and change.

An inventive chain of biographical sketches traces meetings, friendships, and rivalries among American writers and artists from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1960s, showing how brief encounters shaped aesthetics, careers, and reputations. Through delicately linked vignettes, it maps a web of influence across salons, letters, and public events, illuminating the contingencies of cultural history and the intimate textures behind celebrated works.

In Regency England, twins Lady Augusta (Gus) and Julia Colebrook, often overlooked as “old maids,” secretly use their wits to protect women and children failed by the law. When Gus’s friend Lord Evan asks them to hide his sister from a vengeful brother, they are drawn into clearing his name for a decades-old murder. To find the truth, they must outsmart thieftakers and navigate London’s shadowy clubs and spy networks—risking their safety, reputations, and a fragile new romance.

An anthology of iconic investigations featuring a brilliant consulting detective and his steadfast companion, spanning royal scandals, ingenious heists, cryptic ciphers, and chilling murders. Set across atmospheric Victorian London and beyond, each tale showcases razor-sharp deduction, memorable adversaries, and twisty revelations that expose the human motives behind crime while highlighting the duo’s enduring partnership and the evolution of a singular analytical mind.

A doctor's first encounter with a brilliant, eccentric detective leads to the unraveling of a transatlantic revenge murder rooted in a tragic saga of love, betrayal, and frontier fanaticism; later, the duo tackles a puzzle involving a missing treasure, a secret pact among four convicts, and a chilling trail through London's fog, cementing their partnership as they expose greed, deception, and the limits of justice.

A boy with the rare ability to cross into a parallel realm called the Territories embarks on a perilous quest to recover a mystical object that can save his dying mother and protect both worlds from a power-hungry adversary; decades later, now a retired detective in a Wisconsin town plagued by a series of child murders, he is forced to recover his buried memories and “flip” between realities again to confront an otherworldly predator whose evil threatens to spill across worlds.

Ernestina é mais do que um romance autobiográfico ou um volume de memórias de famílias ficcionadas. É um fresco de Trás-os-Montes, dos anos 1930 aos anos 1950, uma obra que transcende o relato regionalista e que transpôs fronteiras, transformando-se num fenómeno editorial na Holanda. Ernestina é também o nome da mãe do autor e da intrépida protagonista deste livro. Sobre ela J. Rentes de Carvalho disse: «Mãe de um só filho, a sua vida, que foi de uma tristeza, amargura e terrível solidão, dava um livro. Escrevi-lho eu. E a sua morte quebra o último elo carnal que me ligava à terra onde nasci. Felizmente são ainda muitos os laços que a ela me prendem.»

A young boy is sent to a Catholic seminary in rural Portugal, where austere routines and moral strictures stifle his emerging sensibility. Through lyrical recollection he navigates friendship, desire, and guilt, while the beauty of the world beyond the cloister exposes the contradictions of imposed faith. As he comes of age under an authoritarian climate, the struggle between obedience and freedom pushes him toward a decisive break and a search for an authentic self.

An ambitious young clerk, dependent on his devout aunt’s fortune, feigns piety while pursuing a libertine life. Seeking to secure his inheritance, he travels to the Holy Land to obtain a sacred keepsake, experiences a vivid vision that transports him to biblical Jerusalem and exposes religious hypocrisy, and returns only to have a scandalous mix-up—substituting his lover’s nightgown for a holy relic—ruin his schemes and satirize the collision of faith, desire, and social ambition.

An unflinchingly candid collection of personal essays that confront anxiety, depression, addiction, disordered eating, and fraught relationships with dark humor and stark self-awareness. Navigating lust, love, internet persona, and the search for meaning, the narrator exposes contradictions between public bravado and private fragility. The result is a raw, intimate portrait of modern despair and the messy, sometimes comic attempts to survive it.

Set in a crumbling patriarchal empire, this queer fable blends satire, aphorism, and tender vignettes to show how outsiders and their allies live and love in the cracks “between revolutions.” Eschewing linear plot for fragments and instructions, it celebrates chosen family, pleasure, rest, gossip, and mutual aid as everyday acts of resistance. The result is a mischievous, hopeful blueprint for surviving the present while imagining a freer world.

A raw, darkly funny memoir in which a man working at a Boston homeless shelter is forced to confront his estranged, alcoholic father when he turns up among the clients; through vivid, lyrical scenes and painful memory, the narrator reckons with childhood abandonment, addiction, shame, and the complicated mixture of anger and compassion that comes with trying to help someone who once hurt you.

A lyrical, intimate memoir that follows a poet’s coming-of-age in a close-knit Black family, tracing childhood memories, faith, and the wrenching loss of her father; the narrative explores how grief and the search for meaning led to the discovery of poetry as a way to reckon with history, identity, and ordinary moments made luminous by language.

A gentle, character-driven sequel that follows a tea monk who left the monastery and their curious robot companion as they travel a pastoral, post-scarcity world, visiting towns and meeting people. Through quiet, philosophical conversations and everyday encounters they examine questions of purpose, belonging, work, and care, discovering how small acts of connection and empathy can reshape identities and communities.

A humorous and moving memoir that traces a family's perilous escape from war-torn Vietnam, their struggles as refugees adapting to life in Australia, and the author’s journey from hardship and odd jobs to success and public recognition—anchored by resilience, gratitude, family love, and a determination to find joy despite adversity.

An archaeologist unearths the remains of a prehuman civilization whose astonishing technologies and inscrutable motives have been buried for millennia, and the discovery unleashes forces that challenge modern humanity’s assumptions about identity, agency and stewardship. As the past reaches into the present, the narrator and other characters must navigate ethical and political fault lines—deciding who gets to control ancient power, how to reckon with beings that are not simply ‘other,’ and what it means to inherit a world shaped by vanished, elder minds.

A grim, atmospheric tale of a desperate expedition into a ruined city to investigate an ancient device that traps and manipulates souls; as survivors face monstrous guardians, rival parties, and the moral cost of using the Cage’s power to revive or control the dead, their choices reveal brutal politics, human desperation, and the price of salvation in a collapsing world.

A darkly comic and deeply researched hybrid of history and metafiction that follows the rise and methods of a key Nazi architect of terror and the daring 1942 Czech operation to assassinate him, tracing both the planning and violent aftermath while repeatedly interrupting the narrative to examine the challenges and ethics of retelling such events; the result is at once a vivid portrait of a historical monster, a tense spy-thriller about the men who hunted him, and a self-aware reflection on the limits of historical reconstruction.

A concise biography that traces the rise of a gifted Continental Army officer whose bold early victories earned him fame, then charts his growing frustration with perceived slights, financial woes, and political enemies. It examines the complex motives and circumstances that led him to conspire with the British—culminating in the infamous plot to betray West Point—and balances his military achievements against his act of treason to present a nuanced portrait of a conflicted Revolutionary-era figure.

A concise, approachable collection of essays by Lon Milo DuQuette introducing tarot, magick, Qabalah, divination, and key figures in the occult. The writings combine clear explanations, informed scholarship, and the author’s wry humor to guide readers new to these subjects without revealing any secrets or spoilers.