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There isn’t a serial killer stalking the canals of Detective Sergeant Carrie Flynn’s home town of Manchester. That’s what the police tell the local community, but Carrie knows that just isn’t true. Six years, a dozen victims… Carrie spends every night alone in her flat, going back over the hundreds of files, looking for the missing clue. Now, another person has vanished, only this time the police haven’t found a body.

Trained and traumatised by a secret assassin program for minors, Isabel Ryans wants nothing more than a new life as a normal civilian. And she might just be in with a shot when she befriends Emma Westray, because for the first time in her life things are looking up. But when Isabel blows her cover by impulsively murdering a burglar, she draws the attention of the guilds—the two organisations who control the city of Espera. An unaffiliated killer like Isabel is either a potential asset...or a threat to be eliminated.

Tiffany has had a secret crush on her step dad for quite sometime. She decides to trick him one night when he least expects it. When he finds out about her plan, he hammers in the punishments. Did Tiff learn her lesson or will the man of the house have to fill her full of instruction.

One moonlit night, glamorous Venetian, Gina Lombardi is thrown together with a masked stranger during the Venice carnival and finds an immediate and unforgettable connection. Izzy Roberts is personal assistant to Hollywood’s biggest action star, Brad Redford. But she’s been keeping a secret — one that could ruin their relationship. Lucia Bruni is the ultimate diva. As Italy’s biggest opera star, she can have whatever and whoever she wants. Now she wants something she can’t have, and she’ll do anything to get it.

Jenny is unloved, unemployable and emotionally unfiltered. Her long-suffering friends seem sick of her, and whilst her social media portrays her life as a bed of roses, it is more of a dying succulent. Adults is what you want it to be. A misadventure of maturity, a satire on our age of self-promotion, a tender look at the impossibility of womanhood, a love story, a riot. And Emma Jane Unsworth is the only voice to hear it from. Adults is excruciating, a gut punch of hilarity and an audiobook laden with truth that you will listen to again and again.

Harriet Hatley is running away from everything. Getting married. Her boyfriend’s family. Her past. A dream house-share seems like the perfect place to hide, but her unlikely housemate Cal is no stranger to running away himself. And he's also hiding secrets of his own. Can these two take a crazy risk, face the past and finally find a reason to stay?

Three dramatic true stories, this is investigative journalism at its very best. In these three gripping series, prominent journalists investigate fascinating human stories, shining a light on history and politics and deepening our understanding of the word we live in.

Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they've signed up for. Each of these strangers has a secret. If another player can guess the truth, they won't just be eliminated - they'll be exposed live on air. The stakes are higher than they'd ever imagined, and they're trapped. The disappearance of a contestant wasn't supposed to be part of the drama. Detective Ffion Morgan has to put aside what she's watched on screen, and find out who these people really are - knowing she can't trust any of them.

Picture Day is the best day of the year, in Nancy's opinion. She has a fancy outfit all picked out, so now all she needs is a new hairstyle! Beginning readers will laugh at this addition to the Fancy Nancy I Can Read library.

When Hannah Nichols last saw Marco D'Alessandro five long years ago, he broke her heart. The bad boy with a hidden sweet side was the only guy Hannah ever loved - and the only man she's ever been with. After one intense night of giving in to temptation, Marco took off, leaving Scotland and Hannah behind. Shattered by the consequences of their night together, Hannah has never truly moved on.

Paisley Adams is a Discerner. All she wants is to be normal, but she’s full of magic. Her ability to see and manipulate auras and emotions makes her powerful, but it also sets her apart. Bouncing between her two worlds, Paisley struggles to navigate high school while keeping her magic a secret. That is, until she has a strange encounter with the school outcast, James Bennett.

Ronnie Chandler's past - especially the identity of her ex-husband - is a secret, held close and shared with only a trusted few. Planning never to see him again, she’d moved halfway across the country and found a job in a profession where he'd never in a million years look for her. Ready for a bigger challenge than selling small cabins, Ronnie and her colleagues at Horse Country Real Estate attract The Westlake Group, venture capitalists from Virginia, to underwrite the creation of Riverwood, a planned equestrian community. Senator Evan Parker is in Tennessee on a fact-finding trip.

Simone is a mind reader. She knows a great many things, but she can't seem to remember anything about her past. So when she gets the chance to search for her family, she sets off to finally find her home. When she stumbles across a man with two minds inside him - the real one, shoved deep down, and one of a body walker, someone who can take over a person's body against their will - Simone is even more eager to leave her old life behind.

Location coordinator Erin McGregor has finally found the perfect setting for her romance reality show, Your Prince Charming. The Chisholm clan stronghold in the Scottish Highlands has it all - romantic moors, windswept cliffs, misty lochs, a 400-year-old castle, and possibly the most gorgeous man she's ever laid eyes on in chieftain Dylan Chisholm.

Isabel Ryans has fled Espera, leaving behind her identity as teen assassin the Moth. Now she’s trying to adjust to the reality of the outside world. But her grief and trauma are catching up with her, and surrounded by civilians who will never understand what life is like in the walled city, she feels more alone than ever. When a journalist is murdered nearby, suspicion falls on Isabel. And inside Espera’s walls, the abolitionist movement is gaining strength. When Isabel’s search for the killer leads to a reunion, she’s forced to decide whether she can really leave the city behind.

Does anxiety interfere with your joy? God knew his people would suffer from anxiety even though he warned us not to worry about our lives. But he didn't leave us alone to suffer from the worry that life brings. In The God of Comfort, you'll find Scripture and reflections that will guide, support, and assure you that God is with you through every trial. God's Word is chock-full of rich insight on everything from trusting the Lord, to bringing your troubles to him in prayer, to finding refreshment for your soul.

Flailing in jobs, failing at love, getting addicted and un-addicted to people, food, and drugs - I'll Tell You in Person is a disarmingly frank account of attempts at adulthood and all the less than perfect ways we get there. Chloe Caldwell has an unsparing knack for looking within and reporting back what's really there, rather than what she'd like you to see.

Nobody gets through life free from the pain of loss. However, we aren’t very good at processing what grief does to us. If left unchecked, it can seriously damage our mental health. In this book, chartered psychologist and trauma counsellor Dr Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell offers a roadmap for grief recovery. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, stories from her own patients, and a series of practical tools and exercises, this book will help you work through your loss so you can embrace life with hope again.

In the watershed year of 1962, events and people came together to reshape baseball like never before. The season saw five no-hitters, a rare National League playoff between the Giants and the Dodgers, and a thrilling seven-game World Series where the Yankees won their 20th title.

As a female cop walking the mean streets of Manchester, life can be tough for PC Lucy Clayburn. But when one of the North West's toughest gangsters is your father, things can be particularly difficult. When Lucy's patch is gripped by a spate of murder-robberies, the police are quick to action. Yet when it transpires that the targets are Manchester's criminal underworld, attitudes change.