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Some people move tourists.Some people move terrorists.Rosie Winterbourne is a former Royal Navy NCO with an unusual skill set: she speaks Arabic, remembers everything she has ever seen, and sails alone with absolute confidence. When a covert British intelligence unit recruits her to quietly observe yacht traffic in Gibraltar, Rosie expects to find drug runners and people‑smugglers.What she finds instead is a secret humanitarian network rescuing baby girls from ISIS‑controlled territory.But salvation has a price.As Rosie digs deeper, she discovers that the same maritime routes are being use...

How far would you go to save a friend—if the people trying to stop you are on your own side?When British intelligence trainee Rosie Winterbourne learns that her closest friend, yacht skipper Michael McCaffey, has been kidnapped by a Daesh splinter group in Libya, she makes a choice that will change her life forever.She disobeys orders.She disappears.And she goes in alone.Armed with her gift for languages and an infallible memory, Rosie crosses North Africa under false identities, pursued by her own agency and aided by men she knows she should never trust. To reach Michael, she must pose as a...

A jewel stolen from legend. A curse that never left the sea.In 800 BCE, a slaver seizes a gold pendant said to be a gift from King Solomon to the Queen of Sheba—and the ocean answers with a storm that swallows ship, crew, and treasure alike.Nearly three thousand years later, Royal Navy petty officer Patrick Redman is on leave in Mombasa when a routine dive turns into a nightmare: a squall erupts out of nowhere, their boat vanishes, and the sea takes one of his friends in a brutal shark attack. Redman survives the impossible swim back to shore—battered, half-conscious… and carrying a heav...

Return to Saba: search for the Eye is the gripping continuation of The Eye of Saba tale—where a lost relic, a fabricated murder case, and a brutal countdown collide.Patrick Redman thought he’d escaped Kenya for good. Haunted by guilt and a past he can’t outrun, he returns in secret to the coast where it all began—only to discover the nightmare has grown darker. Hannelore Friedmann and her friend Thomas Dennie have been condemned to die for a crime they didn’t commit, framed by evidence that shouldn’t exist and a system that won’t listen.With time running out, Patrick hunts for th...

A rogue ex‑operative. A hijacked yacht with hostages. A smuggling route that leads straight into Russia.After losing her dream job at Firegate, Rosie Winterbourne rebuilds her life inside Michael’s yacht brokerage—launching a new enterprise dedicated to tracking down stolen boats. It should be clean work. Insurance cases. Paper trails. Recoveries.Then Sir Tamlyn Battersby’s £2m yacht is taken—along with its skipper and Battersby’s daughter.Rosie is hired to bring them back. But the hunt drags her into a shadow network moving sanctioned goods into Russia: electronics, weapons compo...

Pranita Upadhyay has everything she thought she wanted — a dream job, a promising career, a life that shines from the outside. But when tragedy strikes, the glittering façade of the corporate world shatters, leaving her alone with an irreparable loss.Haunted by what she cannot change, Pranita leaves behind the chaos of the city and retreats into the Himalayas. There, under the guidance of a wise yogi, she discovers a different way of being — a path of meditation, introspection, and renewal.Years later, she returns, transformed and ready to build a life not just for herself, but for countl...

Forgotten Objects traces the life of Anna d’Amio, daughter of opera singers Louis and Francesca d’Amio, from Mussolini’s Italy to the city of Pittsburgh during the mid sixties. The novel proper is made up of three parts: Italy, Cuba and United States. Married at seventeen and widowed at twenty, Anna leaves war-torn Italy to find her fortune in Cuba, she eventually meets Ramón Contreras, a wealthy tobacco grower who later becomes her second husband. The idyllic world that the couple had so laboriously built suddenly comes crashing down after the communist take over of the island and Ram�...

Faded Dreams is an epic autobiography by my fellow writer and good friend Carlos Rubio. Beyond being a very personal story of a young man growing up to the backdrop of this remarkable country of Cuba, there is as well a political subplot of a country that is dragged through the mud by one of the most ruthless dictators in recent world history. The people who populate his world all fantastically come alive on the pages; Carlos does so well in telling how special they were to him, and are still special today. This book now gives us a close-up, in your face look at the very human side of Cuba as ...

A neobaroque novel that immerses the reader in a bedazzling and surrealistic vortex where a search for an idealized goal often turns into a mirage. The four protagonists, Li-Tzu, Candy Slice, Dhalia Meanor and Adela Carroza anxiously await the arrival of Mr. Ioso, the Greek who will fulfill their dreams. It is during this anxious wait that they recount the story of their turbulent lives which are often distorted by desire, ambition and revenge. (Spanish)

Arraigada en el folklore afrocubano tan bien captado por Fernando Ortiz, Lydia Cabrera y Alejo Carpentier, Orisha dibuja una elipse que magistralmente enlaza el ámbito primigenio de la isla con el contemporáneo. Desde el punto de vista anecdótico, toda esta nueva novela de Rubio traza el desenlace del vaticinio de un babalao lucumí que anuncia con detalles el nacimiento y futuro de Ignacio Benítez, alias Agua Dulce. Mulato de ojos azules, Ignacio es el elegido sucesor del brujo lucumí y el encargado de ratificar la veracidad del pronóstico de los caracoles courís sobre su propio destin...

Un aparato de aire acondicionado descompuesto, cerveza tibia, bomberos dementes y una misteriosa carta. Estos son los puntos de partida de SAGA, una novela que arrastra al lector en una búsqueda obsesiva de una mujer.  Su siempre cambiante imagen sumerge al protagonista en un laberinto surrealista de deseo, y a la postre en una alucinante sucesión de imágenes donde la realidad se desvanece para convertirse en una distorsión de sí misma.

LOS OJOS DEL CORONEL  es la historia de Opalina Lamar, cantante famosa  y mejor conocida como La Divina.  Hija ilegítima del coronel Froilán Garmendía, desde temprana edad intuye que los escuetos datos que posee sobre su supuesto padre son apócrifos.  Es entonces que comienza una  incesante y obsesiva búsqueda sobre la verdadera  identidad de su padre. Una serie de sucesos  aparentemente inconexos, reforzados por el  vaticinio de una pitonisa, le dan las pistas necesarias para desentrañar el enigma que la ha acompañado a lo largo de su vida.  ...

Basada en un hecho real sucedido en la ciudad de La Habana a finales de los años 40s(el asesinato de una prostituta llamada Lola a manos de uno de sus amantes), la novela Doble Filo nos conduce a través de sus páginas hasta este violento suceso.La mayor parte de la novela está narrada en primera persona, desde el punto de vista de otro de los amantes de Lola, un abogado prominente cuya relación con ella comenzó cuando él era aún estudiante universitario. Un narrador omnisciente nos ofrece, en tercera persona, episodios de la niñez de Lola, los cuales hacen relucir su personalidad ego�...

En este volumen Carlos Rubio nos ofrece Hubris --palabra griega que significa arrogancia pronunciada-- una novela corta que describe la accidentada llegada del norteamericano Jason West al pueblo costero de Costa Blanca. Desde el principio vemos sus frustraciones y dificultades con el idioma, con los habitantes del pueblo y con las costrumbres en general. También presenciamos su cambio radical después de conocer a Nara Montero, residente del pueblo y su sorprendente reacción cuando ya está libre de regresar a los Estados Unidos. Además de la novela, el autor nos ofrece unos...

Expert Latin-American satirist Carlos Rubio presents a new tongue-in-cheek masterpiece that scales new heights of satire even as it follows the life of a young protagonist in his journey through growing up and into manhood. Rubio pulls out all the stops on ironic humor in American Tripytch.Rubio explores the potential of transformation in a young boy as he moves from one experience to the next in three volumes filled with the ironical embellishments of the Neo-Baroque writing style. In the first part entitled The Neophyte, Rubio unfolds the life of a young boy rescued from a flood by a somewha...

Creativity isn’t a talent you’re born with.It’s a habit you can build.In a world of constant distraction, The Creativity Habit: 21 Days to a Creative You offers a calm, practical path back to curiosity, focus, and original thinking. Through simple daily practices, reflective prompts, and real-life stories, this book helps you reconnect with the creative mind you already possess.Designed for busy adults, educators, parents, and lifelong learners, these 21 days don’t demand more time — they help you see differently and approach problems creatively. One small shift at a time, you’ll r...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKMilo Jenkins is the king of lost things. Pencils, socks, and especially homework vanish in the black hole of his messy backpack. But when his maths homework disappears for the third time in a week, Milo discovers something amazing. At the bottom of his bag is a glowing zipper that opens to another world.He tumbles into the Planet of Lost Homework, a wild place where forgotten assignments soar like butterflies, and excuses grow on trees.With the help of Scribble, a wobble-eyed alien guide, Mi...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKZara and the Zero Waste Quest is a picture book that inspires eco-friendly habits in an easy, and enjoyable way.When Zara notices her neighbourhood becoming cluttered with rubbish, she sets off on a quest to find out how she, and everyone else can help. Along the way, she learns about,RecyclingCompostingAnd reusing materials, that all make small changes that have a big impact on the planetThe book has:Vibrant artworkInteractive ideasAnd a hopeful message, that should encourage children (and ...

Not All Curses Can Be Broken...Yelena, a hardworking laundress and pleasure-woman, is driven from her village by false accusations of dark sorcery, forced to leave behind everything she knows and loves. Her only recourse is the dark forest, from which a fungal rot is oozing and infecting all in its path. When the voices of the restless dead guide her to a cursed castle at the forest's heart, she discovers a forgotten tyrant from centuries before, still living in the form of a monster, much changed from the brute he used to be, and whose name is an echo of her own. Yelen and Yelena quickly...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKA Journey Through Numbers and Puzzles is an enchanting, math-filled picture book adventure that takes young readers on a thrilling journey into a world where math and magic collide. Join Sam, a curious but frustrated boy, as he is transported into a maze powered by numbers, fractions, patterns, and shapes. With the help of Digit, a clever black cat with a cape and monocle, Sam faces fun and engaging puzzles that teach key math concepts in a creative, interactive way.In the maze, Sam must nav...

Punkin is a mischievous little pumpkin who loves rolling in pumpkin juice, jumping in muddy puddles, and playing silly pranks on everyone in Pumpkin Patch Valley. Unlike the other pumpkins who follow all the rules, Punkin thinks being naughty is much more fun. But when one of his tricks makes sweet Poppy, his kind and gentle friend, burst into tears, Punkin starts to wonder if kindness might feel better than causing trouble.Perfect for preschoolers and kindergarteners, Punkin The Rebellious Pumpkin is a beautifully illustrated friendship picture book that teaches empathy, caring, and...

Max hates brushing his teeth! Until he discovers a mysterious toothbrush named Brushy that can travel through time!What starts as a boring bedtime routine turns into an epic adventure through the ages.With Brushy as his cheerful guide, Max is whisked away to surprising destinations: ancient Egypt where pharaohs invented early toothpaste, a medieval castle where knights wore wooden dentures, a pirate ship full of toothless sailors, and even the futuristic world of the year 3000 where brushing is a high-tech game! At every stop, Max learns fascinating facts about how people took care of their te...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKDeep in the countryside, where silver leaves shimmer under moonlight, a secret waits to be heard. Saffi, a curious and gentle-hearted girl, discovers she can hear the whispers of the trees. Their voices speak of forgotten promises, hidden magic, and a forest in need of her help.Drawn by the glow of ancient branches, Saffi steps into a world where the wind carries secrets, rivers hum lullabies, and every tree holds a story. Guided by the forest's wisdom, she learns how even the smallest acts ...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKEllie thought she knew every nook of her favorite library, until a mysterious whisper led her to a hidden doorway and into the Library of Invisible Animals. There, she meets the animals:Alba the anxious axolotl,Tiko the disoriented tardigrade,Pippa the stage-shy pangolin,Norwin the dreamy narwhal,Hazel the hyper hedgehog,Glint the gecko afraid to glow,Olive the overwhelmed octopusSuma the sloth with a secret.Guided by a magical clipboard, Ellie uses her curiosity, compassion, and courage to ...

The Secret School Beneath The Sea. Protecting Oceans One Wave At A Time.Dive into a magical underwater adventure where friendship, teamwork, and environmental action come to life!The Secret School Beneath the Sea. (Protect the Ocean. One Wave at a Time) is an illustrated, heartwarming children's picture book that follows Lena, a curious young girl who discovers a hidden ocean school filled with sea creature classmates and powerful lessons about protecting our planet.Invited by a dolphin messenger and welcomed by the wise Professor Shellstein, Lena joins an extraordinary class where octopuses o...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKA heart-warming, empowering picture book that helps children explore the language of emotions through the eyes of a young child named Riley. When Riley wakes up one morning tinged in blue, they begin an extraordinary journey through a week of color-shifting feelings. From red-hot anger to yellow-bright joy, nervous green, foggy gray, and more.With the gentle guidance of Miss Arlo, a wise and caring teacher, and the comfort of family and furry friend Bongo, Riley learns that every feeling has...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKWhen dark fog clouds the bright waters of Brainport Bay, Captain Brain and the Thought Pirates launches into a courageous quest across the Sea of Emotions. Calm, Confidence, and Kindness have been stolen by a sneaky crew of Thought Pirates, and it's up to Captain Brain and his sparkly sidekick Neuron to get them back.From the buzzing Island of Anxiety to the echoing Caves of Criticism, from the wild Feelstorm to the healing Inner Island, readers follow an emotional odyssey full of talking wa...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKIn this enchanting picture book, follow Luna, a curious girl with a glowing Leaf Locket, as she travels through diverse and vibrant ecosystems — from melting Arctic ice to whispering forests, coral kingdoms, and desert secrets.Each chapter reveals a new part of the natural world that needs care and remembering.With rich, vivid illustrations and gentle storytelling, Luna's journey teaches children and families aboutecologyconservationAnd the power of listening to nature's quiet voices.As Lu...

The Sock Who Ran AwayWhen Sully, the orange sock with yellow stars, wakes up to find his matching twin Sunny missing, he refuses to stay behind in the laundry basket. Determined and a little nervous, he hops out on a daring journey through the house and into the great wide garden beyond.Along the way, Sully meets a parade of curious bugs, joins frog “pirates” on a puddle adventure, outwits a nest-building bird, and even befriends a wise old sneaker and a patch who remembers every thread in the yard.Through courage, kindness, and a few muddy missteps, Sully discovers what it truly means to ...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKIllustrated, heartwarming collection of magical short stories about invisible comfort, emotional healing, and the quiet power of hope.No one sees them, but everyone feels them.Elias and Orion are the Empathy Brothers. They are silent companions in a loud world. They drift across oceans and cities, mountains and rainstorms, drawn not by sight, but by sorrow. Wherever someone is losing hope, they arrive, invisible and glowing, to offer comfort, courage, and healing.Through ten deeply emotional...

The Chillin’ KingIn the peaceful kingdom of Willowmere, King Chester is known for one thing:Doing absolutely nothing!While his people struggle with leaky roofs and wobbly bridges, Chester naps in hammocks, braids his horse Buttercup’s mane, and sings songs about nothing at all. He’s the very definition of a lazy king.But when a ride through the woods leaves the “Chillin’ King” lost, injured, and alone, he begins to see his kingdom, and his people through new eyes. With the unexpected help of a wise old goat herder, Chester embarks on a quiet, heartfelt journey home and learns what ...

Windy and Wendy Get Bendy and Fly!

This book will help teach young children all about the transformation of caterpillars into butterflies.
The book includes Windy and Wendy's transformation story as well as a whole bunch of interesting facts and figures, along with some caterpillar and butterfly quotes and jokes.

FUN AND CAREFREE CATERPILLAR CRAZINESS

INTRODUCING WINDY & WENDY

Ideal reading book for young children to learn how the wickedly-wonderful-wriggly caterpillar turns into the bold-beautiful butterfly.
 

 

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINKEden’s Eco Quest – An Interactive Adventure for Eco Warriors invites children on an exciting mission to explore, protect, and reconnect with the natural world. This beautifully designed interactive book blends story, rhyme, puzzles, games, and real-world ecology to inspire young readers to become heroes for the planet.Across seven magical chapters, readers follow Eden throughForestsOceansRiversAnd secret wildlife hideaways.Each chapter includes a full-colour picture and a rhyming eco mes...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINK"Marisol and the Guardians of Nature" is a vibrant picture book brimming with environmental wonder.Over ten immersive chapters, Marisol rallies her friends, young Guillermo, Manuel, Diego, Presi, and Yolanda, are the Guardians of Nature.Each chapter takes them on a mission to restore and explore diverse ecosystems in southern Spain. From the crystal-clear Río Majaceite to the cork-oak forests of Los Alcornocales, from dune-guarded marshes to a lush botanical garden.Along the way, children w...

Me, Him, Her, Them, and the Others.This is a totally strange and weird laugh-out-loud, offbeat tale of seven strangers who meet for a week-long camping holiday at a place known only as The Place. They’ve only ever met online. But now, with mismatched tents, mysterious silences, secretive habits, and an overwhelming number of sardines, things get weird fast.Told from the hilarious point of view of Me, this quirky novella is packed with British humour, awkward dynamics, mysterious identities, and the slow, unsettling realisation that you might be sharing marshmallows with spies.Perfect for fan...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINK"What time is it?""And what time is it through the human interstellar portal?"Amy and Fin know all about weird dreams...They get them all the time...What they don't know is that everyday life is about to change for them inextricably, and in so many ways...Ways that they could never have imagined?For one thing, they don't have the faintest idea about the human interstellar portal or their special genealogy and secret hidden powers.And for another, the missing Lorentz force law quantum equatio...

Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINK"Is it a bird… or a plane… or another labor pain?"Since falling hook, line, and sinker for globetrotting English ecologist, James, Eden, and her son Jamie's worlds have changed for the better.Then, life changed even more after they left the past behind, and moved from Kentucky to England.It was time to distance themselves from the wreckage and ghosts of their past, for once and for all.A new life, with a new love.And low and behold, it worked!At least it seemed so.Until the skeletons hol...

Pip and the World Beneath Our Feet.The Tiny Creatures That Run the Earth.What if the smallest creatures on Earth were actually the ones helping keep our planet alive?Meet Pip, a curious little ant with a big question: What difference can one tiny ant make?As Pip explores the bustling world beneath the forest floor, he discovers an amazing secret. Ants may be small, but they play a huge role in helping forests grow, spreading seeds, enriching soil, and keeping nature in balance.Along the way Pip meets new friends, learns about teamwork, and discovers that even the smallest actions can help chan...

Meet Hamish, the clumsiest hedgehog you’ll ever fall in love with!From a lonely garden along the River Clyde to the exciting adventures along his very own hedgehog highway, Hamish’s story is full of tumbles, wiggles, and unforgettable fun.This interactive book includes:Clumsy, playful illustrations bringing Hamish’s night adventures to life.Three musical songs by The Eco Band™ – sing along and join the hedgehog fun!Tumbling Through the GardenSniff and Cuddle (Hamish & Heather’s Song)Wiggle, Wobble, Tumble, TwirlFamily, friendship, and teamwork – from Hamish’s first meeting ...

THE GRUMPY TRUMPERSA bottom-blasting, side-splitting family fart-fest!Meet the Trumpers.They're loud.They're proud.They're honestly quite flatulent.And thanks to a mysterious condition called AUBS (Almost Uncontrollable Bowel Syndrome), they let rip at the worst possible moments.Life was already gassy on their run-down council estate...But when the Trumpers inherit a giant posh mansion from their estranged Uncle Elijah, the inventor of an IBS cure.Things go from bad to absolutely hilarious.Dad (Terence Senior) blows more than just hot air.Mum (Marjorie) tries to keep order with air fresheners ...