Land Loss

In this new collection, recorded live, on-location from Massachusetts to California, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend, in essays that are “among the best of his career" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “A welcome return to form for...

Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestseller and “wild, powerful, disturbing” (The Washington Post Book World) classic about evil that exists far beyond the grave—now featuring a stunning vintage cover! When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of...

'You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow' A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy. 'Maggie O'Farrell is a miracle in every sense' Ann Patchett 'Maggie O'Farrell takes up a bow...

From drugstores in Sydney, Iowa, to skeet shooting in rural Illinois, to the mega churches of Minneapolis, Lenz set out to discover the changing forces of faith and tradition in God's country. Part journalism, part memoir, God Land is a journey into the heart of a deeply divided America. Lenz visits places of worship across the heartland and speaks to the everyday people who often struggle to keep their churches afloat and to cope in a land of instability.

The Obesity Fix is a groundbreaking book about identifying the root causes of the obesity epidemic and providing long-term solutions to it. It draws information from decades of research and thousands of scientific studies, articles, and meta-analyses. Education about the cause of obesity and weight gain is a critical part to achieving optimal body composition and metabolic health. Instead of prescribing any particular diet or discarding others, The Obesity Fix seeks to teach you how to become the master of your body and fat loss.

The journey continues for Rod Calaway, as he ventures further into the Desert of Loss. With the succubus dealt with and reunited with his friends, the hunter chooses the isolation of the Wasteland to lick his wounds and prepare himself for what is to come in the Dark City. Other forces, however, are moving pieces into play that will alter the course for Rod and his friends. The Dark One is no different and is working tirelessly to maneuver Rod into place. Can the hunter distinguish between his thoughts and motivations from the malevolent entity lying in wait within his mind?

Through the darkness of her life after her husband’s suicide, Author Athena C. Shack embarked on a journey to healing, wholeness and restoration. In this book, she answers the one question asked the most from others who are hurting: How do you get your life back after a tragedy, trauma or loss has compromised your faith, destroyed your peace and shaken your confidence in God? Using personal experience, biblical illustrations/revelations with an engaging and refreshing writing style this book will help you get through a dark place and grow spiritually from it. Grace for the Journey will ...

A collection of short stories covering a 70-year span, from childhood events to adulthood lessons, this easy-to-listen-to collection includes a bonus story exclusively for Audible and a special interview in which the author sits down with producer Alison Larkin and, in a world gone mad, talks about the simple things that really matter.

The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland. Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates...

This book is really about impetuous love, you see, and its inevitable conclusion. Core Hollow invites you through our lost portal, that place of heart’s connection and hard-hearted truth, the place we fiercely loved, the place that ultimately changed us forever. And for every love there is a first time, right? Did I ever tell you about the first time? That was the night we drove straight up the hard, laddered gravel road, right to the top of the ridge in a rusted Ford pickup. And then what? There was nothing. No road, just a sighing eternity of grass, and no house, just the waiting woods,...

In this haunting collection of three interconnected novellas, Tracks Beneath the Clay unearths the forgotten voices and brutal legacies of a Southern family bound by land, silence, and blood. Set across generations on the cursed grounds of Peachtree, Georgia, these prequels reveal the unspoken history behind the Cheney estate and the women who dared to defy it

The brand-new prequel to the Cornish Girls series from bestselling historical saga author and Romantic Saga of the year nominee Betty Walker Meet the Cornish Girls before the war! War looms on the horizon. Their lives are about to change forever… Dagenham, 1939. Sheila Hopkins has always put...

Brought to you by Penguin. Mesmerising, mythic and timeless - the most unmissable debut novel of 2022 - for fans of Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison and Monique Roffey Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and...

Santiago de Albistur es un noble cántabro, a quien el príncipe godo Witiza ha arrebatado su familia y sus tierras, obligándole a huir de Hispania y buscar refugio en Tierra Santa. Acompañado por su primo Germán y su tío Simón, viajará a Jerusalén, donde servirá como guardia personal de un rico mercader sarraceno, convirtiéndose en un hábil y valiente guerrero. En Tierra Santa vivirá sus años más felices, pero también los más aciagos, pues conocerá el lado más amargo del amor.

Where is my home? This is the story of a woman who watched “home” slip away again and again—through her parents’ divorce, a foreclosure, two international moves, ten rental homes in ten years, and her mother’s terminal battle with cancer. Add in the challenge of cross-cultural marriage, and Kate Motaung was constantly adapting to a new environment. When home is supposed to be synonymous with love and comfort and safety, unpredictable and unwelcome life events—even the chosen but challenging ones—can shake you to your core. A Place to Land is a globe-spanning memoir that ...

“Essential reading, filled with exactly the kind of truth that this precarious moment demands.” —Kaira Jewel Lingo, author of We Were Made for These Times Abby Reyes lost her partner, Terence Unity Freitas, as he and two others were murdered after departing Kajka Ika—the heart of the...

A husband believes his wife is an imposter. A man's sudden, intense Catholic piety provokes his wife. A mother and daughter struggle to come to terms with the disease that intensifies an already dependent relationship. At their root, these existential dilemmas grow out of long-established patterns of behaviour that bind together patients and caregivers. Travellers to Unimaginable Lands explores the complex and profound psychology of caregiving, illuminating how the healthy brain's biases and intuitions make caring for people with dementia disorders so profoundly and inherently difficult.

In Graft, Maggie MacKellar describes a year on a Merino wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania, and all of life - and death - that surrounds her through the cycle of lambing seasons. She gives us the land she knows and loves, the lambs she cares for, the ewes she tries to save, the birds around her, and the dogs and horses she adores.

The Wind at Major Creek Echoes of the Columbia Gorge If you stand long enough in the Columbia River Gorge, you will hear it—the wind moving through the basalt, carrying something older than memory. This is not just a story about a place. It is a story about what a place remembers. At the confluence of Major Creek and the Columbia River lies a stretch of land shaped by centuries of life, labor, and loss. Long before the arrival of settlers, the Klickitat people stood watch over the river, reading the wind and the water as one reads a living language. Their presence was quiet, steady, and ...

The newest heartfelt, engrossing World War Two saga from bestselling historical fiction author Molly Green: pre-order now so you don't miss it! The Ladies' Club survived the Blitz — but can it survive betrayal? September 1944. Deirdre Rowan is a spirited Irish receptionist at the exclusive...