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Revolutions never start at the top. If we dare to dream of a more loving country—kinder, more compassionate, more cooperative, more respectful, more inclusive, more egalitarian, more harmonious, less cynical—there’s only one way to start turning that dream into a reality: each of us must...

Mystery and suspense surround a seance in a snowbound house on the edge of Dartmoor, where the prediction of a grisly murder is only the precursor to an ingenious deadly crime and one of Agatha Christie’s most gripping thrillers… In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy...

Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane and of Inspecteur Clouseau's hapless gaucherie.

From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, ahead, across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings are on holiday at the opulent Grand Metropolitan Hotel in Brighton, where they meet the wife of a wealthy stockbroker. As they discuss the jewels worn by Mrs. Opalsen, the great detective relates his experiences in cases which have concerned some of the...

4. maj 1945. Tyskland kapitulrer, og Danmark er atter frit. Samtidig strander 1400 pludselig frie, tyske krigsfanger på Påø Strand på Langeland. Krigsfangerne, som var allierede soldater fra Beligne, Frankrig og Sovjetunionen, var blevet gennet ombord på en flydedok på Rügen fire dage...

Danmark ligger strategisk klemt mellem stormagter i vest og i øst. Vores stræder er smalle, og det gør os til en essentiel passage til Østersøen og Det baltiske Hav – og det betød, at vi kom til at spille en central rolle under Den kolde Krig. I Den hemmelige krig bliver Danmarks...

Det er svært at sige Storm P. uden også at sige Johannes Møllehave – og omvendt. Johannes Møllehave nåede at skrive to bøger om Storm P.'s Fluer – de berømte livsfilosofiske vittighedstegninger, der er blevet en del af vores nationale kulturarv. Faktisk havde han planer om at skrive...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. Travelling in Greece, Parker Pyne befriends a doting mother and her 18 year old son. When her son is kidnapped for ransom, Mr. Pyne offers his services. But his involvement could make the perpetrators...

Well that didn't go quite the way I expected… So the short version is, I used my forbidden magic. But weirdly enough, I'm still breathing. Not only that, but I have a job, a great apartment, and a boss who isn't nearly as grumpy as he wants everyone to think. The only flaw in all this...

She was supposed to be a rescue. Not a temptation. Ozzy Oliver is sent in to pull Salem Bloom out of a trafficking pipeline. But the moment he gets her free, the ring realizes she's gone… and the hunt begins. Now they're trapped in a safe house with one bed, no time, and enemies closing in...

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He's handsome and broody—the kind of quiet that makes you wonder what's going on under the surface. I'm the new rookie at the station—and the only woman firefighter in the history of Waterford Fire. Translation: every move I make is being measured, and quietly evaluated. No pressure. Not to...

My name's Francesca Lucia Salazar—Frankie, if you don't feel like choking on the syllables. The title I usually get stuck with? The Alpha's Bastard. My father, Antonio Salazar, Alpha of the Queens Pack, had an affair and got stuck raising me when my mom died giving birth. Guilt made him keep...

A powerful and hilarious personal history that tells the true story of the queer ’90s and how it transformed queer life in the decades that followed The 1990s were a decade of transformation. Globalization reshaped geopolitics, and the rise of the World Wide Web revolutionized technology...

I vowed to avenge my parents, readying myself year after year. And now, I'm going to die. I should have heeded my father's warning when I stumbled upon the Fae warrior, but I froze. I remember every horror tale recounting the atrocities committed by these monsters, abducting, torturing, and exploiting humans. My survival instinct was screaming loud inside, yet I couldn't move. His strange crimson gaze fell on me as I contemplated his large double-bladed sword and my last moments on this earth. 

This choice collection of spine tingling tales runs the gamut from slightly spooky to "I'm sleeping with all the lights on tonight!" A splendid grouping of tales from the pens of some of the great writers of the past. Enjoy these classic stories alone or with a friend, whenever your ears are free.

The truth was supposed to set her free. Instead, it might destroy her. All her life, Millie Marsh has held onto one fact… her father loved her. Completely. Unconditionally. Fiercely. It's the one thing that survived every lie, every mission, every loss. But now even that certainty is beginning...

Intense and densely layered, Involuntary Bliss is the latest intriguing story from the award-winning young Canadian writer Devon Code. Situated in modern-day Montreal during a weekend in late August, two young men attempt to restore their friendship.

A Ph.D. biochemist and immunologist goes through the data on one of the greatest public policy disasters in human history—the lockdown response to COVID. How deadly was COVID originally and after it had evolved for a year or two? How many COVID deaths were prevented by the lockdowns? How many people did the lockdowns throw into depression? How many people did the lockdowns kill by deaths of despair? But the good news from the lockdowns is it shows citizens are willing to make enormous sacrifices for their society and that we can transform society on a dime.