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Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. They compose a secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of modern times, and offer a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.

♥♥Full-Color Premium Printing Edition with Vibrant Color Pictures of Each Finished Meals for the Recipes♥♥ Discover how effortless home cooking can be with simple 5-ingredient crockpot recipes that deliver big flavor every time. Looking to make dinner without spending hours in the kitchen? Wondering how to enjoy warm, home-cooked meals with almost no effort? With just a few minutes of prep and the right ingredients, you can let your crock pot do all the work while you go about your day. From comforting soups and stews to hearty mains and even sweet treats, you’ll discover how easy...

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST MYSTERY NOVELS OF 2025 A clever and hilarious new mystery about a mother who thinks she has to do it all—even solve a murder—from the author of It's Elementary After rage quitting her job, Mavis finally has time to get all the rest she’s been putting...

Credit Suisse was a 166-year-old bastion of global banking. But a veneer of high-class service disguised a darker, much dirtier reality. From its sterile Zurich headquarters, Credit Suisse banked dictators and drug dealers, hid stolen Nazi gold, and helped corrupt bankers fleece the firm's own clients of billions of dollars. Its top executives oversaw a global operation that laundered money for autocrats; they hired spies to track one another through the cobbled streets of the Swiss financial capital; and they helped clients hide their money from the world's tax authorities. 

It’s World War Two and Darwin is bombed. Mavis wants to help the war effort, but what can a ten-year-old girl do? Become a plane spotter! Imagine her surprise when she sees an enemy plane through her binoculars! Does she have what it takes to save the town?

In Mavis’s dystopian world, starvation, sacrifice, and poverty haunt a country trying to recover from The Great Patriotic War. Protected by a peacekeeping force, the nation struggles to coax profits out of a sprawling industrial complex to pay wartime reparations. In this world, the future of every citizen is decided on their 16th birthday during a single exam, The Selection. They either join Defense, Productivity, or Leadership. Mavis is assigned to a chemical plant to solve a productivity paradox and struggles with her colleagues as they race to meet the reparations deadline.

Imagine opening a long-forgotten trunk to find diaries written by your foremothers. Four generations of thoughts, heartaches, challenges and triumphs. What lessons did they write inside the yellowed pages? What lessons could they gift you now? THE LEGACY OF MAVIS MCCALL – Book Three of the Silver Cross Ranch Legacy It takes a bit of conniving and a few subtle lies, but Mavis finds what she’s been searching for when, against her father’s wishes, she’s accepted to study at the Colorado College of Agriculture. She can’t imagine how life could get any better. Halcyon days are filled ...

“My take on life is this: stand up for yourself, be courageous and loyal to those you love, and never pass up a chance to consume good human food. I want the world to know that I AM DACHSHUND—the guardian, the sentinel, the keeper of everything my family holds dear!” My all-out favorite human by far is my Papa Duke, and wow, can he tell some stories! The “Alligator Story” and the “Haystack Story” from his Army days are new tales I heard him tell our family. How he’s managed to live through such exciting experiences is amazing—in fact, I think somebody ought to make a movie...

An epic true story of ambition, greed and hubris that nearly brought down the British government. 'The British version of Bad Blood . . . [but] better' – The Sunday Times 'Terrific' – The Observer, Book of the Week In March 2021, an obscure financial technology company called Greensill...

Something that ends in regret comes only with time, move forward and be careful not to rewind, don't get twisted when life is unkind, because there's nowhere to run and the EXIT is hard to find.

In this wonderfully simple yet profound book, professional counselor and teacher Mavis Karn, author of the letter to kids (and former kids) known around the world as "The Secret", shares lessons learned from over 45 years of working with individuals, families, schools, businesses, hospitals, prisons, professional athletes, and teams.

After living through a world in collapse, Garnet finds the true sweetness of life in a new realm. Friends, a chocolate shop, and its adorable owner. As a refugee gargoyle, his needs are simple: restful sleep and a full belly. Always adrift, he never suspected he would meet someone like Wyn, a fairy living on the outskirts of town. Amidst the forest and flowers, Wyn waits to teach Garnet a new trade—one he would never have dreamed of: making chocolate. Though Garnet loves chocolate from the first bite, such luxuries don't exist in his home world, and the tiny shiny pieces test his patience...

This is the story of Mavis Harvey and her struggle to figure out who is her date, and who goes on a plate. While most high school juniors are worried about acne, grades, and dating, Mavis has a host of issues to deal with, like her appetite for human flesh.

Chock full of hilarious antics and doxie wisdom, Sarge the dachshund (a real chow hound) relates his life from adoption at eight weeks of age until he "retires" from writing with Book 5. Dog lovers of all ages love this insight from the family dog, and he pulls no punches in sharing exactly how he feels about humans and life in his "circus," a.k.a. his human family. Those strong doxie traits of loyalty, love, comedy, stubbornness, and unconditional love are prevalent throughout Sarge's tales of both joy and disappointment, but he rises to all occasions with savvy and keen doxie perception. ...

'This is more than a richly detailed story about the hubris, corruption and incompetence that doomed Credit Suisse; it's a stark warning to all of us about what happens when we let bankers do what they like' - Oliver Bullough, bestselling author of Butler to the World --- For centuries, Swiss...

A TARGET BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ A GMA BUZZ PICK ∙ A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF 2024 ∙ AN AMAZON BEST MYSTERY OF THE MONTH ∙ A SARAH SELECTS BOOK CLUB PICK A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too involved in their kids' schools, from...

Is falling in love only for the very young? Never married, Mavis, a retired college librarian, has created a new life and new friends for herself near her “adopted” niece Ellie. She has found her anchor by becoming “Auntie” to the children in Ellie’s blended family. Over a year ago, John lost his wife, who was Mavis's best friend for nearly forty years. Since the funeral, he’s spent the past year traveling in his camper, seeing the country, and trying to figure out this new life without his wife. But when his only daughter Ellie faces complications with a difficult pregnancy, ...

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered - by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus - with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plunged into chaos. Nearly everybody stands to reap some sort of benefit from his death excepting Santa Klaus, the one person who seems to have had every opportunity to fire the shot.

En 1928 a Virginia Woolf le propusieron dar una serie de charlas sobre el tema de la mujer y la novela. Lejos de cualquier dogmatismo o presunción, planteó la cuestión desde un punto de vista realista, valiente y muy particular. Una pregunta: ¿qué necesitan las mujeres para escribir buenas novelas? Una sola respuesta: independencia económica y personal, es decir, Una habitación propia.