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HERCULES IS BACK. AND YOU'RE BOUND TO LOVE HER. <br/><br/> <strong>In this hotly anticipated follow-up to Jasmine Mas's BLOOD OF HERCULES, the stakes are higher and the villains darker than ever...</strong> <br/><br/> <strong>Every hero has their monsters.</strong> <br/><br/>And Alexis is bound to hers: tied eternally, irrevocably to the Underworld's dark heirs in a marriage that has shaken the foundations of Olympus - and everything Alexis once believed. Reeling, she enlists in the Assembly of Death with her mentors, set on wrecking vengeance on her husbands and uncovering the truth behind her deadly powers. <br/><br/>She will soon teach them all that a god can't be manacled. And a monster can't be caged...

<b>The <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author concludes her compelling Lost Bride trilogy as two women - one dead, one alive - prepare for a terrifying final showdown...<br/></b><br/>Long ago, Arthur Poole built a grand house overlooking the turbulent ocean, in a Maine village that bore his name. Today, Sonya MacTavish lives in that house-a manor that has been cursed for generations. Within its walls, she has witnessed the deaths of seven brides and the thefts of seven wedding rings.<br/><br/>Determined to bring light to this haunted place-to fill it with people, with life and hope, once again - Sonya decides it is time to break the curse and banish a malevolent spirit once and for all.<br/><br/>But the enemy in the black dress continues to hover, to come at her in frightening forms. They may be illusions-but illusions can be powerful enough to wound, even kill. This dark-hearted witch wants to be mistress of Poole Manor, at any cost. And Sonya will need to fight a battle across two realms to finally take possession of the house on the clifftop-and of her own future...

<strong>'A superb work of history' </strong>JAMES HOLLAND <br/><br/><strong>'A thrilling account from a master of Second World War history' </strong>DAN SNOW <br/><br/> <strong>A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves.</strong> <br/><br/> <strong>Winston Churchill famously remarked that the threat of the German U-Boats was the only thing that had "really frightened" him during World War Two. The U-Boats certainly claimed a bitter harvest among Allied shipping: nearly 3,000 ships were sunk, for a total tonnage of over 14 million tonnes, nearly 70% of Allied shipping losses in all theatres of the war. With justification, then, they are an integral part of the traditional narrative of the Battle of the Atlantic; a story of technological brilliance, dramatic sinkings, life and death, and - of course - the sinister, unseen threat of the U-Boats themselves.</strong> <br/><br/>For Allied seamen during the war, the U-Boat was a hidden menace, a faceless killer lurking beneath the waves; and the urgent needs of survival afforded them little time or energy to consider the challenges and privations of their enemy. History, however, affords us that time and energy, and any pretence of comprehensiveness demands that we consider what life was like for the crews of those most claustrophobic vessels; packed into a steel hull, at the mercy of the enemy, of the elements - and of basic physics. <br/><br/>Germany's U-Boat crews posted the highest per-capita losses of any combat arm during World War Two. Some 30,000 German submariners were killed - over 75% of the total number deployed - the vast majority of whom have no grave except the seabed. Using archival sources, unpublished diaries and existing memoir literature, this book will give the U-Boatmen back their voice, allowing their side of the narrative to be aired in a comprehensive manner for the first time. <br/><br/>With that testimony, <em>Wolfpack</em> takes the reader from the heady early days of the war, when U-Boat crews were buoyed with optimism about their cause, through to the challenges of meeting the Allied counterthreat, to the final horror of defeat, when their submarines were captured by the enemy or scuttled in ignominy. Using the U-Boatmen's own voices to punctuate an engaging narrative, it tells their story; of courage, certainly, but also of fear, privation and - ultimately - failure.

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All is a stunning Girls Love manga that depicts the budding romance between a high school girl and her classmate who she mistakes as a guy outside of school.

<i>"Did you hear Evan Dando died last night?"</i><br/><br/>After Kurt Cobain's passing in 1994, everyone expected Evan Dando to be next. Rising to fame in the 90s as frontman of the Lemonheads, he was infamous for his decadent lifestyle, from his extensive drug-taking and partying with Keith Richards and Kate Moss to sleeping on floors in his punk days and crashing at Johnny Depp's house in Hollywood. But despite the rumours that are constantly circulating about him, he has lived to tell the tales.<br/><br/>Following decades of the press wanting to label him and fit him in a box, <i>Rumours of My Demise</i> sees Dando tell his own story. Reclaiming the innocence and exuberance of his early days and encapsulating the spirit of the era, this candid autobiography presents a portrait of an artist who lives wholly for his music, and one that makes no apologies for doing so.

<b>For the first time, </b><b>director Rob Reiner and co-creators </b><b>Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer provide the full behind-the-scenes story of the making of the groundbreaking mockumentary <i>This Is Spinal Tap</i> and its upcoming sequel<i>.</i></b><br/><br/> Since its original release in 1984, <i>This Is Spinal Tap</i> has evolved from a beloved cult film into a cinematic landmark: an all-time comedy classic that pioneered an entire genre: the mockumentary. Now, director Rob Reiner and his co-writers and co-stars, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, tell the complete story of the movie and its fictitious band - how they met, how Spinal Tap came to be, and how their low-budget indie film took on a life of its own. Years after the movie first came out, the Library of Congress selected <i>This Is Spinal Tap</i> for inclusion in the National Film Registry and Tap went on to play the Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Stadium, and to over 100,000 fans at Glastonbury.<br/><br/> Reiner, Guest, McKean and Shearer provide the backstories to the movie's famous lines - among them 'Hello, Cleveland!,' 'None more black,' 'You can't dust for vomit' and 'These go to eleven' - and to such Tap anthems as 'Big Bottom' and 'Stonehenge'. Featuring never-before-seen photographs, band memorabilia and personal reminiscences of their enduring creative partnership, <i>A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever</i> will delight Tap-heads of all ages - just as the long-awaited <i>Spinal Tap </i>sequel is hitting theatres.<br/><br/> BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! <i>A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever</i> also comes with a bonus memoir by Reiner's directorial alter ego, Marty DiBergi, in which he interviews Tap band members Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls about their musical journey and their drummers who paid the ultimate sacrifice to the rock gods.

THE <em>SUNDAY TIMES</em> AND <em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> BESTSELLER <strong>Step into the Coliseum at the Spartan War Academy where monsters are made, immortality is won, and even a god can die...</strong> <br/><br/> <strong>Alexis Hert isn't a hero, and she certainly isn't a god. All she's ever been is a survivor.</strong> <br/><br/><strong>But the Fates disagree</strong>. <br/><br/>When a blood test leads to her admittance at the Spartan War Academy, she'll have to do more than merely survive. <br/><br/>Alexis will have to claim her birthright: immortality. <br/><br/>But immortality is a privilege, one earned in the crucible of the academy, where the heroes are villains and classrooms battlegrounds. While gladiators Achilles and Patro, her demanding mentors, hone her into a warrior, Augustus and Kharon, her professors and the brooding heirs to the underworld, haunt her steps and her thoughts. <br/><br/> <strong>Because where there are gods, there are bound to be monsters, and there is more than one hunting Alexis...</strong> <br/><br/>You might just come across these favourites: <br/><br/> War academy <br/><br/> Villainous love interests <br/><br/> Gods, gladiators, and warriors, oh my! <br/><br/> Adorable animal companions <br/><br/> Animal companions with a lot of ~opinions~ <br/><br/> Prophecies <br/><br/> Dark romance <br/><br/> Why choose? <br/><br/>Touch her and die <br/><br/> Marriage law <br/><br/> Post-apocalyptic world <br/><br/> <strong>The romantasy OBSESSSION of 2024:</strong> <br/><br/><strong>'This was addictive</strong> as hell' <br/><br/> <br/><br/>'THAT WAS SO GOOD!!! Wow. I'll be thinking about this book for awhile. Greek mythology + a spartan war academy + a STRONG FMC?! It was perfection. I love all the twists and turns and the guessing along the way. It was such a unique Hercules story and I'm<strong> OBSESSED</strong>! I need book 2 asap. <br/><br/> <br/><br/>'Actually <strong>iconic</strong>' <br/><br/> <br/><br/>'LOOOOOOOOOVED IT <strong>OMG</strong> I literally tried to read it as slow as possible so I would have the book, the characters, their world... EVERYTHING for a little longer... but IT WAS HARD OK bc I really wanted to binge it in one night ' <br/><br/> <br/><br/>'Literally gonna<strong> live rent free</strong> in my brain' <br/><br/> <br/><br/>'Perfection, <strong>favorite read this year</strong> so far'