Down Among the Dead Men (Sarah Cable Book 1)by Michael Hartland

Nepal, 1978.

High in the Himalayas, a renegade Chinese agent is brutally murdered while trying to reach the British Embassy in Kathmandu. A Triad revenge killing? Or does the mutilated corpse point to sinister espionage activity that might set the powder-keg of South East Asia ablaze?

SIS China-watcher David Nairn sends vulnerable Ruth Ash to investigate. In Hong Kong she mistrusts the loyalty of station chief Benjamin Foo. But, threatened by danger at every turn, Ruth uncovers an ugly trail of deception and violence snaking back through fifty war-torn years – and forward to the most terrifying clash yet between China and the enemies at her gates . . .

Hurtling from Hong Kong and Bangkok to London and Vienna, Down Among The Dead Men is the spectacular debut of a major international thriller writer – and a sensational novel of action and betrayal.

Praise for Michael Hartland:

‘Cleverly plotted and impressive’ – The Guardian

‘A book as current as today’s headlines… rich, well-paced cat-and-mouse novel, authentic in detail, well-grounded in historical fact’ – Baltimore Evening Sun

‘Fine first novel . . . sinuously sinister’ – The Scotsman

Before taking up writing, Michael Hartland spent twenty years travelling widely in Europe and the Far East as a diplomat, then working in counter-terrorism and for the United Nations. His series of five espionage novels published in the 1980s and 90s established him as one of the leading thriller writers in Britain and the United States. They have been translated into twenty-seven European languages and Japanese – and remain among the most iconic, chilling and gripping spy novels ever published. Michael Hartland and his family live in Devon.

Rabbit Cakeby Annie Hartnett

People Magazine Book of the Week

A Best Book of the Year at Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, The Chicago Review of Books, Minnesota Public Radio, and more

An Indies Introduce and Indie Next Pick

Fans of Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go Bernadette and and Kevin Wilson’s The Family Fang will delight in Annie Hartnett’s debut, a darkly comic novel about a young girl named Elvis trying to figure out her place in a world without her mother.

Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking, for exactly eighteen months. But there are things Elvis doesn’t yet know–like how to keep her sister Lizzie from poisoning herself while sleep-eating or why her father has started wearing her mother’s silk bathrobe around the house. Elvis investigates the strange circumstances of her mother’s death and finds comfort, if not answers, in the people (and animals) of Freedom, Alabama. As hilarious a storyteller as she is heartbreakingly honest, Elvis is a truly original voice in this exploration of grief, family, and the endurance of humor after loss. 

How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brainby Gregory Berns

A Wall Street Journal bestseller.

The powerful bond between humans and dogs is one that’s uniquely cherished. Loyal, obedient, and affectionate, they are truly “man’s best friend.” But do dogs love us the way we love them? Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns had spent decades using MRI imaging technology to study how the human brain works, but a different question still nagged at him: What is my dog thinking?

After his family adopted Callie, a shy, skinny terrier mix, Berns decided that there was only one way to answer that question–use an MRI machine to scan the dog’s brain. His colleagues dismissed the idea. Everyone knew that dogs needed to be restrained or sedated for MRI scans. But if the military could train dogs to operate calmly in some of the most challenging environments, surely there must be a way to train dogs to sit in an MRI scanner.

With this radical conviction, Berns and his dog would embark on a remarkable journey and be the first to glimpse the inner workings of the canine brain. Painstakingly, the two worked together to overcome the many technical, legal, and behavioral hurdles. Berns’s research offers surprising results on how dogs empathize with human emotions, how they love us, and why dogs and humans share one of the most remarkable friendships in the animal kingdom.

How Dogs Love Us answers the age-old question of dog lovers everywhere and offers profound new evidence that dogs should be treated as we would treat our best human friends: with love, respect, and appreciation for their social and emotional intelligence.

His Rough Touchby Jessica Mills

She hates my family & I’m falling for her.

A pretty local girl needs some help moving furniture for a clearance sale, and I was just being nice.

I didn’t realize she had serious hate toward my family. It’s almost comical.

Regardless, she’s got me trapped. Something about her leaves me willing to ignore the signs to run, and instead, I find myself wanting more and more time with her.

That time wasn’t supposed to include a tumble in the sheets, but it did.

One night was all I got. Then we went our separate ways.

I tried not to think about her too much, not until I heard she was pregnant.

Why wouldn’t she tell me about the little one?

There’s no choice but to make her mine, which was my desire in the first damn place.

She’s wrong about us Montgomery boys.

We may have a rough touch, but we have good hearts.

Time to take back what’s mine.

Runaway Groomby Weston Parker

He’s promising to marry this girl, but he’s running away with me.

The entire City of Angels is hung up on the latest season of their favorite reality show and its star, Rhett Roberts.

The cocky jerk has women throwing themselves at him in every episode, and it looks like he’s loving it.

Well, good for him.

He’s a cocky player with a wild streak ten miles wide.

The man defies death for a living as a stuntman, for heaven’s sake. Well, when he’s not too busy being fed champagne by fifteen different girls on a yacht or breaking the hearts of the ones he sends home.

No thank you. That’s a hard pass from me.

All I want to do is make a name for myself by making sure the flowers on the finale are the best they can possibly be.

Until I meet him.

He’s famous for his gorgeous eyes, daring personality, and doing stunts for some of the biggest celebrities the city has ever seen.

People love this guy.

Men want to be him and women want to be with him, but one wrong move makes him the most hated man in the whole country.

He’s the runaway groom, and his sidekick?

Me. The girl that isn’t supposed to be in love with him.

What could possibly go wrong?

Every good girl deserves a bad boy. ~ Weston