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The second book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard. New York Times Bestselling Series “Terrifically entertaining. Fans of the first book...

In January, 1965, the growing town of Ballycrea has four new residents. The O’Leary siblings arrive in their new village under suspicious circumstances. Desperate to make a new start and leave their troubled life behind, the O’Learys offer few, contradicting details about their past. As they slowly settle in to town, the siblings are taken under the wing of Betty and Bill Nevan, a wealthy couple in their forties who have always wanted children. However, as one O’Leary sister grows close to Betty, lines are crossed and their intense relationship becomes difficult to define.

The first book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard. New York Times Bestselling Series “A deliciously spellbinding series opener.” —Kirkus...

Markus Bauer tells the moving story of his great-uncle, Leonhard März, who experienced the madness of the Eastern Front as an anti-tank gunner – and never returned from the Tarnopol encirclement in 1944. “If things continue as they are now, there won’t be anything left of our regiment within a month. Every day ten to twenty of the boys are wounded or killed.” “We drove the Russians out of the city. They had suffered terrible losses. They lie around in heaps.” Drafted into the Wehrmacht in early 1941 and trained on an anti-tank gun, the young soldier is thrown into the hell of ...

“As intellectually playful as the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of Kurt Vonnegut, The Heap is both a hilarious send-up of life under late capitalism and a moving exploration of the peculiar loneliness of the early 21st century. A masterful and humane gem of a...

The seventh book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard. New York Times Bestselling Series “To wrap up her deservedly popular series, Sage calls...

The third book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard. New York Times Bestselling Series “Few fans of the best-selling Septimus Heap series will...

In this fifth book in the Magykal series, Septimus ends up on a captivatingly beautiful island, one of seven set in a sparkling sea. He's stranded there with his badly injured dragon, Spit Fyre, along with Jenna and Beetle. There are some strange things about the island, including a Magykal girl...

Selling your photos as prints for someone to hang on their wall is a dream of many photographers and this guidebook will help you achieve that. This is a guidebook to selling your work online as prints or on other products. Whatever other books might claim, there is no "one size fits all" recipe for success. Let me say straight away that not everything I do will work for you. And some things that didn’t work for me could work for you and so I have included details of all my experiments and approaches so you can understand what is likely to happen and can then decide if it will work for you.

This deeply moving narrative explores the spiritual and emotional battles David fought long before Goliath ever appeared. From ridicule and rejection to hidden callings and sacred whispers in the wind, David learns five essential principles—Vision, Courage, Self-Discipline, Perseverance, and Faith—each symbolized by a stone he carries in his pouch. The 5 Stones of David is for anyone seeking purpose, strength, and spiritual clarity in the face of life’s challenges.

A crucial, clear-eyed assessment of what connects the two most influential moments of political violence in recent American history, and where we go from here.

There's trouble at the Castle, and it's all because Merrin Meredith has returned with Darke plans for Septimus. More trouble awaits Septimus and Jenna in the form of Tertius Fume, the ghost of the very first Chief Hermetic Scribe, who is determined to send Septimus on a deadly Queste. But...

In the ashes of tragedy, a journey of faith and redemption begins. Raya Applewood’s life is shattered when a fire claims the lives of her husband and his brothers, as well as the family sawmill and their entire life savings. Facing the harsh realities of life alone on the frontier, she’s torn between returning to her father or following her destitute mother-in-law back to the East—a place she swore she would never go. As Raya navigates the challenge of rebuilding her life in a world determined to break her spirit, she’s guided by the wisdom of Mother Emaline and the kindness of Atlas Fairbury.

January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings—Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy—arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start. After being met with suspicion from most of the locals, the family are thrilled when they're taken under the wing of their well-respected neighbours, Bill and Betty Nevan, who offer them work, companionship and an opportunity to fit in.

They’re back! The all-star cast multi-award-winning cult hit comedy returns, with more surreal goings-on in the lives and loves of the doctors and staff at East Hampton Hospital (warning: contains very little medical content).

In the sixth book of the Magykal series, Alther Mella has been Banished, a Darke Domaine engulfs the Castle, and a Darke dragon is on the loose. Septimus Heap must use all of his skills to save the Castle and the Wizard Tower from destruction: He must enter the Darke. But he cannot do this alone...

First introduced in Vaughan's A Rambling Man, Lucas Cain is back in the saddle, searching for some peace of mind and some solace after the loss of his wife and newborn child. He has continued his traveling from town to town, an itinerant lawman focused on capturing the bad guys for whatever amount is on the wanted papers for them. Local sheriffs and marshals, though initially wary of him, come to love him because does what he does without pay—other than the reward money.

The Iremongers are a mean and cruel family, robust and hardworking, living in the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items. A storm is brewing over Heap House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the whispers are getting louder. When Clod meets Lucy, a girl newly arrived from the city, everything changes. The secrets that bind Heap House together begin to unravel to reveal a dark truth that threatens to destroy Clod's world.

Mark Robichaud killed a lot of bad people while avenging the fact that he spent five years in that hellhole called Yuma Prison for a crime he didn’t commit or have any knowledge of. That seems to be pretty much behind him now. He is now sheriff of the little town of Silver Creek and his life has been fairly peaceful. He hasn’t given a lot of thought to the possibility that relatives, friends, or just acquaintances of these bad people might take it upon themselves to avenge the ones he has eliminated. Like a lightning bolt out of the sky, he suddenly realized there is more ways to hurt ...

“Riveting . . . There is a wealth of new information here that adds considerable texture and nuance to his story and helps to set Russia apart from previous works.”—The Wall Street Journal An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of...