From New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy comes a dark and twisted romance full of secrets and lies... Dive into Monica Murphy's Lancaster Prep series with this 5 book collection! Titles in Set: Things I Wanted To Say A Million Kisses In Your Lifetime Promises We Meant To Keep I'll Always Be With You You Said I Was Your Favorite I'll Always Be With You. Weston Fontaine is the hottest senior at Lancaster Prep. He could have any girl on campus, except for one Me I'm a Lancaster, meaning I'm basically untouchable - or so I thought. My family owns the school which I have to endure ... |
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Love moves to its own beat. Evie is disillusioned about love ever since her dad left her mum for another woman - she's even throwing out her beloved romance novel collection. When she's given a copy of a book called Instructions for Dancing, and follows a note inside to a dilapidated dance studio, she discovers she has a strange and unwelcome gift. When a couple kisses in front of her, she can see their whole relationship play out - from the moment they first catch each other's eye to the last bitter moments of their break-up. For Evie, it confirms everything she thinks she knows about love - that it doesn&# ... |
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A Colourful Compendium of Space and Science. Why is blood red? Why are carrots orange? Who invented the lightbulb? Why is the world going green? Is the sky really blue? And what is ultraviolet light? You'll discover the answers to these questions - and many more - in this incredible collection of scientific facts about colour. We'll talk about light (the most important thing) and waves (not the kind you see at the beach - though you will learn why the sea looks blue!). You'll find out how some animals are able to glow in the dark and how others change their colours to hide from predators. Keep reading to ... |
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Based on the true story of Dita Kraus. Fourteen year old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezin ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the secret librarian of Auschwitz, responsible for the safekeeping of the small collection of titles, as well as the living books - prisoners of Auschwitz who know certain books so well, they ... |
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Belly has always lived for the summertime, because summer means all her favorite things: swimming, the beach, and the Fisher boys, Conrad and Jeremiah. For as long as she can remember, she's shared her summers with the brothers at Cousins Beach. And for as long as she can remember, she's been in love with Conrad. Then one summer it seems like he might have feelings for her too but so does Jeremiah. As the summer seasons pass, Belly has to choose between two brothers who love her... and she'll have to break one of their hearts. The box includes: The Summer I Turned Pretty It's Not Summer Without You ... |
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Humbert Humbert – scholar, aesthete and romantic – has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky-skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers viciously in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Savagely hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust. " ... |
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A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth. When journalist Dan McCrum followed a tip to investigate the hot new tech company challenging Silicon Valley, everything about Wirecard looked a little too good to be true: offices were sprouting up around the world, it was reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs. In the space of a few short years, the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market. As McCrum dug deeper, he encountered a story stranger and more dangerous than he ever imagined: a ... |
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Who are you if your destiny lies with another person? 17 year old Avery Montgomery isn't sure if she wants a soulmate. As a member of the Hellenicus - a race descended directly from the Greek gods. Avery will soon be attending her first Gathering, where she'll gain the ability to share her thoughts with her soulmate and be tied to them forever. Whilist the date looms, Avery hopes her soulmate will be the charming, passionate Adrian, but why does she feel such an intense pull to the wise and protective Vladimir - her best friend's older brother? Then she discovers that the world of the Hellenicus is not quite ... |
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How our minds predict and shape reality. A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds. For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding has advanced in the last few decades, a hugely powerful new view has flipped this assumption on its head. The brain is not a passive receiver, but an ever-active predictor. At the forefront of this cognitive revolution is widely acclaimed philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark, who has synthesized his ground-breaking work on ... |
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Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted-and will come. n vivid, page-turning detail, including never-before-seen correspondence from prison, Navalny recounts, among other things, his political career, the many attempts on his life, and the lives of the people closest to him, and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly ... |
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"Not all love stories are written the same way. Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending."Luna Rexroth is everyone’s favorite wallflower. Sweet. Caring. Charitable. Quiet. Fake. Underneath the meek, tomboy exterior everyone loves (yet pities) is a girl who knows exactly what, and who, she wants - namely, the boy from the treehouse who taught her how to curse in sign language. Who taught her how to laugh. To live. To love. Knight Cole is everyone’s favorite football hero. Gorgeous. Athletic. Rugged. Popular. Liar. This daredevil hell-raiser could knock you up with his gaze alone, but ... |
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A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible ... |
