Brad Thor   Scot Harvath has exactly the skills the CIA is looking for. He’s a former U.S. Navy SEAL with extensive experience in espionage. Working for a private intelligence...

Andreas Malm How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power. The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we...

Ruth Oliver Israel today is a feast for food lovers, a culinary melting pot of traditions from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Markets abound with choice seasonal produce,...

Amy HarmonItaly, 1943―Germany occupies much of the country, placing the Jewish population in grave danger during World War II.As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but...

Dr Sharon Shalom Some two thousand years ago, a group of Jews settled in Ethiopia and was for millennia cut off from the rest of world Jewry, preserving its heritage...

Chosen by Helen PaibaThis bright and varied selection of wonderfully entertaining stories by some of the very best writers for children is perfect for reading alone or aloud—and for dipping...

Kathleen Glasgow Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The thick glass of...

Karen Perry   'I think you might be my father . . .'When first-year student Zoë Barry walks into Professor David Connolly's office and tentatively says these words, he is...

Taschen Born in the Brazilian countryside, and nearly six feet tall by the age of 14, Gisele Bündchen grew from humble roots into the most successful supermodel in the world....

Author: Victoria Aveyard From the NEW YORK TIMES number one bestselling author of RED QUEEN.If there's one thing Mare Barrow knows, it's that she's different. Mare's blood is red - the colour of...

Toni Morrison A New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City StarAt the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning...

Francis Spufford New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746.One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a...