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For A Lark: A Novel

From Debut Author, Seth Goodman, comes a tragic tale of love, helplessness and desire. A new age story of a young and innocent girl breaking through molds to find her place in this world.

Melody “Lark” Larkness is trying to run from her past. Working at Scottsdale’s most exclusive Gentlemen’s Club—Starlight—feels like a step toward stability. But when the new floor manager’s dangerous obsession puts her in his sights, she realizes nowhere is truly safe.

Romeo Mendes has always played it safe. A food service manager with a long-distance girlfriend and a
predictable life, he isn’t looking for complications. But when Lark’s world collides with his, he can’t turn away. The friendship they build is a risk he shouldn’t take—but one he can’t resist.

When violence erupts, Lark disappears, forcing her to confront the ghosts of her past alone. Romeo is left to pick up the pieces, torn between returning to the life he knows and chasing something he never expected.

If their paths cross again, will love be enough to bridge the distance, or will the past pull them apart for good?

When The Peperos Align

Falling in love one Pepero stick at a time.

When K-pop rookie Choi Do-hyun (Hyde) of Cosmo goes up to his company’s rooftop to catch a break, he ends up catching feelings and vows to do all that he can to keep JADE’s Lee Hae-won (Wonwon) from crying.

So, now his to-do list looks something like this:
• Make a petition to save Golden Monkeys
• Buy Hae-won Peperos
• Ask Hae-won out on a date
• Panic about not knowing where to take her on a date

But being a K-pop idol doesn’t come without its challenges, especially if you’re a rookie trying to keep your young love a secret with a dating ban. So will the peperos align to bring together two K-pop idols?

Emma Cho’s When the Peperos Align is a story about fighting for your love with sprinkles of humour and struggles of being an idol. Perfect for the fans of Shooting Stars, The Idea of You and Imitation.

Love is sometimes written by stacking together Peperos.

Fated To Love Him

Is It Love or Is It Fate?

Kathryn Hughes thought she knew ordinary—a steady job at a bookstore and occasionally overprotective parents. But one fateful night changes everything. A terrible incident propels her into an ancient werewolf prophecy, shattering her mundane existence.

Now, Kathryn finds herself at the mercy of Alexander Bennet—her unexpected guardian. A Werewolf guardian.

As danger looms and secrets unravel, Kathryn has a choice in front of her—embrace the extraordinary or lose herself to the madness of it all. But one thing is for sure; she must trust Alexander to protect her life and her heart. But can she trust him with the truth of who she’s becoming?

Sunburn

Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp.

It’s the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she’s always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn’t appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.

Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah.

But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. But only one can offer her real happiness.

An atmospheric sapphic love story and coming-of-age novel with the intensity of Megan Nolan’s Acts of Desperation, the long hot summer of André Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name and the female friendships of Anna Hope’s Expectation.

How to Train a Happy Mind

Based on the hugely successful podcast A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment, this book provides a simple 8-step guide to using the power of analytical meditation to improve mental wellbeing by mixing Tibetan Buddhist Meditation with modern science, psychology and popular culture.

Train your mind toward lasting connection and joy.

Eager to share the life-enhancing benefits he found in Buddhism, skeptic Scott Snibbe presents this 8-step programme that allows anyone to build positive mental habits. Inspired by the ancient Buddhist path to enlightenment yet firmly grounded in modern science, How to Train a Happy Mind is the first mainstream book to show how you can achieve happiness using analytical meditation. Working in much the same way as cognitive behavioural therapy, analytical meditation goes beyond the calm-inducing practice of mindfulness to actively train the brain through easy-to follow narrative visualizations.

Breaking the path down into concise steps and written in a relatable tone with plenty of references to popular culture, this is the ideal book if you recognize your mind as both the source of your problems and the source of your solutions.

Why Politicians Lie About Trade: … and What You Need to Know About It

‘Why Politicians Lie About Trade…’ explains how international trade in goods and services actually works and the compromises and concessions nations must make to take part in this $32 trillion-a-year jamboree: the greatest commercial show on earth.

Daily we can see the fruits of international trade on display on the shelves of shops, from American oranges to Chinese mobile phones to Kenyan coffee. But hidden from view is the geopolitical wiring that allows global cross-border trade to make it all happen: a network of treaties, tariffs, taxes and disputes that is remote and unintelligible to most people. Until now.

With clear, often humorous writing and case studies, former trade negotiator Dmitry Grozoubinski takes readers through the intricacies and surprises of global commerce. He reveals the underlying political and geographical forces that shape trade policy and our everyday lives. He spells out the impact of trade treaties on topics such as food, jobs, gender conflict and climate. And he reveals what politicians cover-up about the system— and why it matters.

A companion to books such as How to Lie With Statistics, Why Politicians Lie About Trade illuminates a much misunderstood and underestimated network that is vital to our modern interconnected world. With the US-China trade war, Brexit, and other disputes regularly hitting the headlines (and sometimes our nerves), grasping how trade actually works has never been more important.

A Deadly Faith

Redemption is a dangerous game.

Perfect for fans of Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn and The Village by M. Night Shyamalan, A Deadly Faith will pull you into a web of suspense, where every revelation is more chilling than the last.

In the middle of nowhere, a giant Eye watches over a tiny village.

For generations, no one has left—terrified of the deadly disease that lurks in their blood. Until someone did leave; a lonely boy, ending up dead by his own hand, spurred on by a book.

Now it’s up to Connor White, the guilt-ridden and depressed author of that book, to find the boy’s family, to confess to his sins and perhaps find salvation. But Levion is unlike any other. A secret town hidden from the rest of the world for hundreds of years; rife with death and deceit.

Until there is Victoria, a resident of Levion. Can she be the redemption Connor so desperately seeks?

From author Varun Gwalani comes a new dark and intense cult thriller. A Deadly Faith is a fast-paced suspense novel set in a small village buried under dark and twisted secrets. One man’s guilt might just bring them all to light…

A Brief History of Love

Is love about chemistry or do biology, evolution and psychology all have a part to play?

Love is one of the most complex and confusing emotions in the human experience. It consumes so much of our lives and yet we don’t truly understand it – what it is on a biological, chemical and evolutionary level. This book takes you on a fascinating journey to explore the science of love, looking closely at the interplay between genes, hormones, emotions and relationships.

Discover everything you need to know about why you are attracted to certain people, the brain’s role in your emotions, how to pick “the one” and how to preserve that love over time. Learn how to have better, healthier and more loving relationships by understanding the inner workings of love in your body.

You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song

If you want to know anything about how music surfaces today, how to find it, or how to create it, you will find what you need right here.’ Joseph Menn, Washington Post writer

For the first time in history, almost every song ever recorded is available instantly. Everywhere.

This book charts what music’s dazzling digital revolution really means for fans and artists. As a former data guru at the world’s biggest streaming service, Spotify, Glenn McDonald reveals:

What the tech giants know about you
How they serve up your next song
Whether fans can cheat the algorithm
Whether jazz is dead and ASMR is the new punk
Your chances of becoming a rock star

Having analysed the streams of 500 million people, McDonald explores what the data tells us about music and about ourselves, from the secrets of russelåter in Norway to Christmas in the Philippines. Statistically, you have not yet heard your lifetime’s favourite song. This book will take you on a voyage of discovery through music’s fast-flowing new waters.

10 bonus playlists of wonder included!

Sin and Seduction

Don Russo’s darling daughter Sofia Russo is about to enter a marriage of convenience, convinced it’s her only option. But as the altar draws closer and her future starts to seem more and more bleak, the trajectory of life is altered forever. It’s not a knight in a shining armour that saves her, however, he is the one born out of darkness. Fated to be enemies; when the two collide, will it spark trouble—or will they give into the seduction of sin?

Amaranthine

For fans of the classic Little Women and the iconic Enola Holmes comes Amaranthine, a young adult novel that will leave a lasting impression on any woman who’s thought she deserves more!

Amaranthine leads a solitary life deep in the woods with her mother Margaret and her beloved horse Faith, away from the kingdom of Elynasia. While Margaret has done her best to keep Amaranthine content, Amaranthine can’t help but feel there’s something missing. She’s meant for more.

But with her mother refusing to let her venture out into the world, how is Amaranthine supposed to find her destiny?

She decides she’s going to make it instead! Two unlikely friends, one handsome stranger, and a determination to find her true self lead Amaranthine on the journey of a lifetime to discover her future—and her past.

Lovers of fierce female leads and friendships, ready your steed for the adventure of a lifetime!

The Advice Columnist

You’re your own best friend. Nobody knows you better than you. Talk to yourself like you would talk to someone you love.

These are all cliches advice columnist Joannie Simmons shied away from—until a ghost of her younger self confronts her via email.

Joannie always thought that advice was timeless. The devices and the lingo may change, but the problems remain the same. But Joannie’s in for a rude shock when she’s unceremoniously dumped from The Valley News where she worked for over 30 years as an advice columnist.

Joannie doesn’t know what to do with herself anymore. What advice would she give herself? Move on, go with the flow, reconnect with the things you love. But is her advice as obsolete as she seems to have become?

Joannie’s family certainly thinks so. Her older daughter is planning a major life change and doesn’t bother consulting her; her younger daughter only calls her for babysitting; and Joannie is sure her husband is hiding something huge.

Nobody knows the right words to help Joannie—except herself from over thirty years ago. When she’s bombarded with texts, emails and calls from the young Joansie, will she answer her younger self? And after shelling out advice to others for years on end, will Joannie be able to follow her own advice?

For fans of Sarah Addison Allen, Jodi Picoult & Jojo Moyes, Janie Emaus’ The Advice Columnist is going to be the next favourite read!

My Littlest Russian Doll by M.Q. Nguyen

Winnie knows what love is.
But is it really “true” love or is she just fooling herself?

Winnie Star is an eccentric and an offbeat incarnation of her parent’s hippie era.

But after her parent’s divorce and grandmother’s death, Winnie is on the verge of dropping out of college and embracing her life as it comes. At the same time, she can’t get enough of her boyfriend, Jasper. But when Jasper questions Winnie’s life choices, it sends her down a spiral and she finally decides to reign it in, and starts a jewellery business.

Soon the jewellery business is a success and she couldn’t be more in love with Jasper. That is until a certain dinner party makes Winnie feel left out of Jasper’s life and think that he’s hiding something from her. Is there really something Jasper is hiding? Will Winnie unravel Jasper’s secret? Will the business finally give her some direction? Or has fate something even bigger in store for her?

M.Q. Ngyuen’s My Littlest Russian Doll is a tale of love, resilience and self-discovery, that makes you question the true meaning of being loved, and finding your identity and purpose in a relationship.

Parallel

A Laurelville college dropout and aspiring model, Sonja swore off men and dating apps, and especially men on dating apps…until she met Jonas.

A straight-A student and prospective counselor, Jonas had no time for dating and women…until he met Sonja.

They spent three hundred hours, ninety days, three months, in the talking phase—and now they’re finally ready to meet in person.

A first date at their local favorite café Out of This World sounds perfect—but when Sonja shows up at the decided time and day, she finds Jonas missing from the café. Did they get their wires crossed? Was it a different location? Or worse…did he just not show up?

Little does she know, Jonas is experiencing a similar fate at his local Laurelville café.

The two assume they’ve been stood up, and although it may be the trend of the times, it hurts nonetheless. However, a quick video call turns their despair into confusion. As Jonas shows he is indeed in the café, so does Sonja…so who’s in the wrong? If it’s the same time, date and place…what’s different?

Are there forces beyond their understanding lurking in their universe, wreaking havoc on their dating life? And are they the only ones affected?

How AI Ate The World

Artificial intelligence will shake up life in the 2020s as dramatically as the internet did in the 2000s.

This accessible, up-to-date book charts Al’s rise from its origins in the Cold War to its increasing impact on us today and in the coming years. Journalist Chris Stokel-Walker (TikTok Boom and YouTubers) meets the Silicon Valley innovators making rapid advances in ‘large language models’ of machine learning like Google’s Bard and ChatGPT and reveals the extraordinary plans they have for them.

And he explores the dark side of Al by talking to workers who have lost their jobs to chatbots and to futurologists worried that we are unwittingly creating a force that could destroy humankind.

How Al Ate the World answers all the key questions, such as how Al will transform the way we live and work; the professions that will ultimately win and lose; and whether the likes of Elon Musk are right to warn about a looming threat to humanity. This is a pithy ‘start here’ guide for anyone who wants to know more about the next big technology that will govern our lives, whether we like it or not.

Who Saves The Hero?

The love of Sean’s life is coming back to town, and he’s terrified.

Samantha broke his heart and left him an anxiety-riddled mess, but now that she’s back, will they get back together?

Or will Sean heed the warnings of his best friend, Angelica, who claims that Samantha is not who she seems?

What Sean doesn’t know is, something darker and more vicious awaits him. Will he be able to survive it?