A man has drowned in the River Ouse after a skirmish with boys from St Peter's School. Owen Archer, Captain of Archbishop Thoresby's guard is brought to the scene by his adoptive son, Jasper. When another body is found in the river and Owen and Jasper get nearer to the truth, they find their own lives in jeopardy.
In this sequel to the acclaimed Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—now a major motion picture, Love, Simon—we follow Simon’s BFF Leah as she grapples with changing friendships, first love, and senior year angst. When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. She’s an anomaly in her friend group: the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.
De Britse advocate Quinn, Q voor haar vrienden, is zwanger van haar eerste kind. Ze moet tijdelijk haar drukke baan in New York 'on hold' zetten, want de dokter heeft haar bevolen om de laatste drie maanden van haar zwangerschap rust te houden. Q besluit een dagboek te beginnen om iets anders te doen dan chocoladekoekjes eten, zwangerschapsboeken lezen, soaps kijken en smachten naar het avondeten. Maar alle uren op de bank leiden tot piekeren. Waarom is haar man Tom meer bezig met zijn werk dan met haar? Wat is er aan de hand met haar buurvrouw mevrouw Gianopoulou? En waarom probeert haar zus haar áltijd de loef af te steken? Tegen de achtergrond van het bruisende New York en met op de voorgrond de rust van een bed en een grote sofa, is In bed het herkenbare en hilarische verhaal van een vrouw die drie maanden rust goed kan gebruiken!
Scotland, 1297. Passionate, brave and fiercely loyal, Margaret Kerr - a young woman estranged from her husband - is determined to play her part in saving Scotland from the hammer of Edward Longshanks - King of England and would-be King of the Scots. And so she travels to Stirling to discover why the informer upon whom the Scottish rebels depend has become unreliable. It is an important and difficult mission, for he who holds Stirling Castle holds Scotland, and with fresh English recruits marching forth, a bloody battle for the castle is imminent. As the Scots prepare to cast off the English yoke once and for all, Margaret soon realises she can trust no one, not even her closest friends. Is she prepared to give her life for her country?