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Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games in this spicy, page-turning romantasy where humans and direwolves forge unbreakable bonds and fight for survival at all costs. Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She'll risk her life - and her heart - to be one of them. Meryn Cooper has always hated the Bonded, elite warriors who form mental links with the massive, vicious direwolves they ride. While they live in luxury, Meryn struggles to keep her family out of poverty. When her little sister, Saela, is kidnapped - stolen across the border by the immortal monsters her country has spent centuries fighting - Meryn's world falls apart.Desperate to cross the front and save her sister, Meryn enlists in the army and is thrown into the deadly Bonding Trials, where any mistake will cost her life.Now Meryn must survive four months of training at the castle. She is bound to a feral direwolf who refuses to communicate. The other trainees would love to spill her common blood. And her cold and beautiful instructor, Stark Therion, is eager to punish any weakness.Everything is a competition, and everyone is out to get her - everyone except the dangerously handsome crown prince, whose attention adds another target to her back. In the castle, every smile hides a knife ... and the halls hide dark secrets.It's bond or bleed. Duel or die. Failure is ruin. ------------------------------------------------'A God Tier Fantasy book!!! I just finished and still trying to mentally and emotionally recover to what just happened to me. You need to read it IMMEDIATELY.''If you're into dark romantasy with high stakes, fierce characters, and just the right amount of emotional wreckage, Dire Bound is your next obsession.''OMG THIS BOOK YOU GUYS!!! I'm OBSESSED and I need to know what happens next like ASAP.''What an incredible read!! ... I am blown away ... The romance, the anguish, the BANTER! I love a book with good banter and this was FULL OF IT!''I. Am. OBSESSED. ... Left me spiraling in the best way possible. The morally grey anti-hero? Perfection. The slow-burn tension? Electric ... I was completely immersed.''This book is soo FREAKING GOOD! It had me on the edge of my seat. This plot has so many twists and turns ... I loved every second of that'TROPES:

In this fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, Bill Bryson makes complex subjects clear and compelling for everyone with an interest in the world around them. NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED.'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' GuardianBill Bryson can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 is the result of his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from being nothing at all to what we are today. Now fully updated to reflect the many scientific discoveries in the last twenty years since this book was first published, it explains among much else:

This journey through time and space will inform a new generation of readers, young and old, as well as those who read this book on first publication with a new perspective based on what we know now.Written in his inimitable style, Bryson makes complex subjects fascinating and accessible to everyone with an interest in the world around them.A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 reveals the world in a whole new way.Praise for A Short History of Nearly Everything:'I doubt that a better book for the layman about the findings of modern science has been written.' Sunday Telegraph'Bill Bryson has an unmatched gift for explaining the most difficult subjects in the clearest possible way.' Mail on Sunday'A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide' The Times'Hugely readable and never obfuscating.' Sunday Times'A genuinely useful and readable book... A thoroughly enjoyable, as well as educational, experience. Nobody who reads it will ever look at the world around them in the same way again' Daily Express'The very book I have been looking for most of my life... Bryson wears his knowledge with aplomb and a lot of very good jokes.' Daily Mail'Destined to become a modern classic of science writing' The New York Times

As dark forces rise, Princess Aurora is caught between two powerful alphas. Princess Aurora may have survived the Wolf King, but now he wants her back.To take his throne, Aurora and Callum form a dangerous alliance with one of the most feared Wolves in the Kingdom, Blake. He's the enemy, but Aurora's life is bound to his. If he dies, so does she.As she fights their connection, she suspects Blake is keeping secrets. There is a bigger game at play than who sits on the Wolf Throne - one that threatens both kingdoms.With enemies closing in, Aurora may be the only one who can stop an ancient evil from rising.To survive, she must decide where she - and her heart - belong.THE ROMANTASY SENSATION DRIVING READERS WILD! 'It's a little bit Outlander, a little bit ACOTAR, and its own thing in just the perfect way.''Now that's what I call ROMANTASY.''Gahhhh. I AM OBSESSED with this series.''The Night Prince downright wrecked me. SO MANY FEELINGS.''I thought I was emotionally prepared. I wasn't.''There will NEVER be a shifter romance series better than this'

When war erupts between humans and werewolves, a princess finds herself torn between duty and desire.On the eve of her wedding, Princess Aurora catches the eye of a powerful alpha, Callum.Believing she's the key to ending a brutal war, Callum kidnaps Aurora, whisking her away to the rugged lands north of the border. There, a forbidden attraction starts to grow. Just as Aurora learns not all Wolves are bad, Callum discovers that she is in danger from those closest to him.With monsters on both sides and a bloodthirsty war raging, will their story end in love or tragedy? And will Aurora ever get home?Does she even want to?THE ROMANTASY SENSATION DRIVING READERS WILD! 'It's a little bit Outlander, a little bit ACOTAR, and its own thing in just the perfect way''I devoured this''So unexpected. Unpredictable. Deeeeelish!''EXCUSEEEE ME this was so fun?''Kilt-wearing wolves? PLEASE''THIS LOVE TRIANGLE HASME IN ITS WERE-JAWS''COMPLETELY CONSUMED ME'

The mesmeric new novel from the author of the award-winning global bestseller, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS____________'Heart-wrenching and beautifully set. A gorgeous feast of a novel about family, community, love and the lengths we will go to save them all' RACHEL JOYCE, author of The Homemade God'A big, bold story of tragedy and resilience. I was completely swept away' BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry'One of those rare books that fill the soul' DONAL RYAN, author of Heart be at Peace and The Spinning Heart'Truly a masterpiece. The kind of book you will remember for the rest of your life, and I love the very bones of it' JOANNA CANNON, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep'Epic, grand, intimate and aching. I loved it' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of The Paper Palace____________Western Australia, 1958. A truck rumbles along a lonely outback road. A moment's inattention, and in a few muddled seconds the lives of the MacBride family are shattered.Instead of leaving them to heal, fate comes back for them in a twist of consequences that will cause one of them to lose their life, and another to sacrifice theirs for the sake of an innocent child.Set in the expanse of a vast and flat landscape, where the weather is a capricious god and a million-acre sheep station is barely a dot on the map, A Far-flung Life explores the hearts of a handful of isolated souls and the secrets they shield in order to survive.Capturing a family, a community, a generation, M L Stedman tells of the many ways humans can do each other wrong and how we move on when things can't be put right. With shimmering prose and a delicious wit, the mysteries of being human are laid bare in this hopeful meditation on time and resilience and the lengths we go to to protect what we love.*****Praise for The Light Between Oceans:'An extraordinary book...Unforgettable' Guardian'A moving tale . . . prepare to weep' New York Times'A moving tale. One of this year's must-reads' Stylist Magazine

The dystopian fantasy romance that everyone's been waiting for!'I haven't been this excited about a book since THE HUNGER GAMES''Dystopia is SO BACK!''This is going to be my new obsession' 'I need it in my hands like yesterday' 'This is not a drill! I need it so badly' -------------------------------------A deadly prison. A forbidden romance. A fight for survival.THERE'S ONLY ONE RULE IN ENDLOCK: OBEY OR DIE.In Dividium, all crimes are punishable by life in prison. A prison that's a life sentence in more ways than one. Where the wealthy can hunt the inmates for sport.Raven's mission is simple: infiltrate the infamous and deadly Endlock Prison to save her brother.There's just one problem: Raven has a target on her back. Her reputation as the most ruthless bounty hunter in Dividium precedes her, and the inmates she's sent to Endlock want their revenge.So when the prison guard she's sworn to hate becomes her only chance to survive, Raven has no choice but to trust the one person she shouldn't...Readers have been captivated by To Cage a Wild Bird 'This is the BEST DYSTOPIAN BOOK I HAVE EVER READ' 'This book will bring back the 2000s dystopian stories we have been lacking. OVERALL PERFECTION' 'AN INSTANT FAVOURITE!!!'