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Outdoor enthusiast, cyclist and acclaimed travel writer Simon Parker was restless for a new adventure, but with a small baby his explorations needed to begin at home. He decided to cycle through all 15 of the UK's national parks in the anniversary year of the first one's founding, the Peak District. This became a life-changing journey through a landscape, and nation, in flux.

It is the first murder that the remote Highland village has ever seen. It will not be the last. Someone is targeting the elderly and vulnerable in their homes. Someone they know. Someone they trust.

For its own very good reasons, Scotland Yard sends Dover off to remote Creedshire to investigate the disappearance of a young housemaid, Juliet Rugg. Though there's every cause to assume that she has been murdered - she gave her favours freely and may even have stooped to a bit of blackmail - no...

Just before Christmas in 1996, a beautiful French woman - the wife of a movie mogul - was brutally murdered outside of her holiday home in a remote region of West Cork, Ireland. The crime was reported by a local journalist, Ian Bailey, who was at the forefront of the case until he became the prime murder suspect. Arrested twice, he was released without charge.

This urgent exploration of why American society is in trouble—and how to fix it, starting with the places we call home—is an “essential and engaging read for everyone who wants to better understand the challenges facing our cities, towns and our nation.” (Richard Florida, author of The...

Frühling auf Kreta - Vor der Hafenstadt Chania blühen die Olivenbäume, doch ganz in der Nähe bricht eine alte Fehde wieder auf... Wenn Kommissar Michalis Charisteas morgens vor der Arbeit seinen ersten Ellinikos trinkt und dabei den Blick auf den malerischen venezianischen Hafen seiner Heimatstadt Chania genießt, kann er sich nicht vorstellen, an einem anderen Fleck der Erde zu leben. Die Touristen schlafen noch, von den Bergen weht der Duft von Thymian, Oleander und den blühenden Olivenbäumen herüber und vom Meer der Geruch von Salz und Muscheln.

Am Brauneck in Lenggries werden an einer Felswand die Leichenteile einer Frau entdeckt. Doch was auf den ersten Blick wie ein Kletterunfall aussieht, entpuppt sich als grausamer Mord. Kurz darauf tauchen weitere Leichenteile am Achensee in Tirol auf. Stammen sie ebenfalls von der Toten? Doch weshalb sollte der Täter die Leiche auf zwei Länder verteilen?

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Seven years in the making, Amity and Prosperity tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and of one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney...

The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country, Norwich gives “parents of young athletes a great gift—a glimpse at another way to raise accomplished and joyous competitors” (The Washington Post). In...

*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction* Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold’s Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible...

The people of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania voted Democratic for decades, until Donald Trump flipped it in 2016. What happened? Named one of the "juiciest political books to come in 2018" by Entertainment Weekly. In The Forgotten, Ben Bradlee Jr. reports on how voters in Luzerne County, a pivotal...

Am Brauneck in Lenggries werden. an einer Felswand die Leichenteile einer Frau entdeckt. Doch was auf den ersten Blick wie ein Kletterunfall aussieht, entpuppt sich als grausamer Mord. Kurz darauf tauchen weitere Leichenteile am Achensee in Tirol auf. Stammen sie ebenfalls von der Toten? Doch weshalb sollte der Täter die Leiche auf zwei Länder verteilen?