A Family Tragedy. Amy's always felt like something's been missing in her life. When a tragedy forces the family she works for as a nanny to retreat to a small lakeside cottage, she realises she cannot leave them now. A Sister' Secret. But Amy finds something unsettling about the cottage by the lake.[...]
In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in o[...]
One of America's most popular broadcasters and writers, Garrison Keillor presents his loving recreation of small-town America. 'Half memoir, half fiction, Lake Wobegon Days is wholly a success' - The Times.[...]
Smart Flexibility: Moving Smart and Flexible Working from Theory to Practice is an engaging and practical management book to help organisations implement Smart Working, and take a business-focused approach to 'Flexible Working'.Written for managers at the leading edge of change, Andy Lake takes a st[...]
A hilarious coming-of-age novel, this text serves up the world according to 14-year-old Gary, an endearing geek, a self-described "tree-toad", and a writer-in-the-making whose best friend is his Underwood typewriter.[...]
A chronicle of this imaginary place, narrated by a skinny kid with wire-rimmed glasses who is raised as a straitlaced Protestant but is fascinated by the Catholic Church (he dreams of being burnt at the stake) and by the notion of a more exotic family background (he'd like to be called Keillorini).[...]
"Intriguing premise, stunning reveal, irresistible read." (Val McDermid). "Wilde Lake is a standout novel: an intelligent, emotional, satisfying mystery that explores huge themes in small-town microcosm, in the manner of To Kill A Mockingbird, the inspiration on which it reflects." (Alex Marwood Lui[...]
Radical Happiness is for seekers who are ready to be finders and anyone asking the question, Who am I really? Radical Happiness provides the keys to experiencing the happiness that is always present and not dependent on circumstances. This happiness doesn't come from getting what you want but from w[...]
A true life, unsolved murder that took place in the Finnish land over 50 years ago comes to you in a detailed story from an American Author. The Lake Bodom murders is 1 of the most heinous talked about unsolved, triple murders case in the history of the Finnish land. It's still talked about today an[...]
What is collecting all this data? machine-generated data)? At what level of maturity would you classify your organizations technical capabilities? What do you create? Hash tables for term management? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective[...]
A woman's homecoming, a family secret and an old house that holds the key to a shocking legacy...After years abroad, Lucy returns home from Japan. At a crossroads in her life, she is newly haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Late one night, as she paces the hallways of her family'[...]
From the author of the bestselling and beloved novel "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards, comes a mesmerising story of startling family secrets and lies in the "Sunday Times" bestselling novel "The Lake of Dreams". The darkest secrets are the ones we hide from ourselves...Ten years ago, tr[...]
The darkest secrets are the ones we hide from ourselves...Ten years ago, traumatized by her father's death, Lucy left her home and her country. Now, she returns to her family's rambling lakeside home to lay old ghosts to rest. However, sleepless one night, she makes a momentous discovery. Locked in [...]
William Kent Krueger joined the ranks of today's best suspense novelists with this thrilling, universally acclaimed debut. Conjuring "a sense of place he's plainly honed firsthand in below-zero prairie" "(Kirkus Reviews), " Krueger brilliantly evokes northern Minnesota's lake country -- and reveals [...]
The author offers sage observations on life and fly fishing in essays that discuss fly tying, fly fishing, snobbery, the joy of success and the miseries of going fishless[...]
Just as Henry David Thoreau 'traveled a great deal in Concord', Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the world from the window of his study overlooking Lake Austin. In "Lake Views" Weinberg, considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive today, continues th[...]
Just as Henry David Thoreau 'traveled a great deal in Concord', Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the world from the window of his study overlooking Lake Austin. In "Lake Views", Weinberg considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive today, continues th[...]
A year in the lives of the unforgettable inhabitants of a modern-day Irish village--the Ruttledges, Londoners seeking a new way of life; the womanizing John Quinn; Jimmy Joe McKiernan, local head of the IRA; locals Jamesie and his wife Mary; and "the Shah," the wealthiest man in town--unfolds throug[...]