Rock and Roll dreams. Johnny has them big time. The only problem is he's an awful guitar player. But an encounter with a special guitar made by a psychotic craftsman changes everything. For Johnny starts to become the guitar player of his dreams not realizing he's being stalked by a psychotic madman. But fate may be on his side for only the special guitar can decide who stays and who dies.

Former CIA agent Ash Ryan has finally found a stress-free dream job. But his life turns bitterly painful when he falls desperately in love with Ellery Mayne, the entrancing but clueless subject of his company’s security contract. This excerpt from the Mayne Attraction Series reveals the secret life of Ellery as seen through the eyes of a man who adores her but believes he will never meet her.

What does it mean to be a sporty woman in the 21st century? From the launch of Net-A-Sporter, serving up sports clothing for fashionistas, to the introduction of #plankie as the new Instagram selfie for yoga bunnies; exercise for women has finally gone mainstream.But if sweating has never been so hot for female celebrities, then why are there still so many obstacles for girls and women when it comes to sport? Why do girls still hate school sports lessons? Why is sport consistently defined as male territory, with TV cameras replicating the male gaze as they search out the most beautiful women in the crowd? Will women ever flock to watch football, rugby and boxing in their millions? Or turn up to the park with friends for a Sunday morning kickabout? How long do we have to wait to see the first multi-millionaire female footballer or basketball player?Eat. Sweat. Play is an engaging and inspirational work by sports writer Anna Kessel.

Part of the re-launch of the popular "Nancy Drew" series, this story finds Nancy hot on the trail of poachers in Yellowstone National Park. Her boyfriend Ned has been studying the marmot population and calls for Nancy when he discovers someone is stealing the prized animals for profit.

From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker's “Talk of the Town" department under the pen name “The Long-Winded Lady." Her unforgettable sketches—prose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the Village—together form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the “most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and coldest and most human of cities." First published in 1969, The Long-Winded Lady is a celebration of one of The New Yorker's finest writers.

Sometimes you just need to bang the hell out of someone. Like after a particularly tough week at work. Or when you get dumped by your girlfriend. Or screwed over by your cable company. Or after one of the million other random, aggravating things that happen on a daily basis in this fucked up world of ours happens to you. When that happens I call Kristina. She is a very naughty lady. 18+ only.

Every July, the lucky owners of Cornish holiday homes set off for their annual break. They close up their desirable semis in smartish London suburbs - having turned off the Aga and turned on the burglar alarm - and look forward to a carefree, restful, somehow more fulfilling summer.Clare is more than usually ready for her holiday. Her daughter, Miranda, is hitting adolescence bigtime, and her husband Jack is harbouring unsettling thoughts of a change in lifestyle. No wonder that Clare is contemplating a bit of extra-marital adventure, possibly with Eliot, the successful, heavy-drinking author in the adjoining holiday property.Unexpected disasters occur, revelations are made and, as the summer ends, real life will never be quite the same again.

Set in France and Belgium in World War II, 'Blood and Blitzkrieg' tells the harrowing story of Joe Dean, a young Australian lieutenant, as he discovers love, fear and hatred in the cauldron of the German invasion of 1940.

Stella Feehily brings her trademark wit and emotional insight to this revealing play that goes behind the public face of charities, journalists and NGOs, and is drawn directly from workshops and interviews with aid workers, doctors, human rights defenders, government advisers, journalists and photographers. A seasoned human rights defender and her idealistic young colleague embark on a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. For Mathilde, it's an induction into a life less ordinary. For Sadhbh it's back to madness and chaos away from her lover and London - exactly as she likes it. But while Mathilde lets off steam with a photographer and a spliff, Sadhbh has her own encounter: tea with a smart but brutal young warlord she's investigating. 'ambitious, well-researched and sharply presented' - Guardian 'Stella Feehily's best work to date' - Whatsonstage.com

The tale of an ambitious young girl struck down by an alien disease who straps on a spaceship and continues her archeological searches among the stars. Selected by the New York Public Library for their 1993 Books for the Teen Age list of the year's best YA books. "A perfect combination of SF, adventure, and romance...." Starred review in Kliatt.