Penguin You Were Gone Weaver Tim

A secret that will change lives forever • When Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside • Dinner's cooking, the TV's on. Carrie, her husband and their two daughters are gone • When the police draw a blank, Emily asks missing persons investigator David Raker to find them. It's clear someone doesn't want the family found • But as he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins to uncover evidence of a sinister cover-up, spanning decades and costing countless lives • And worse, in trying to find Emily's missing family, he might just have made himself the next target

One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found • One month ago, his mother saw him on the street • One week ago, David Raker agreed to look for him • Now he wishes he hadn't • Mary Towne's son, Alex, went missing six years ago. Five years later he finally turned up - as a corpse in a car wreck. Missing persons investigator David Raker doesn't want the work: it's clearly a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity brought to him by a woman unable to let go of her son. But haunted by a loss of his own, Raker reluctantly agrees • Big mistake • For as he digs deeper, he discovers that Alex's life was not the innocent one his mother believed. Buried in his past are secrets that were never meant to be found - and dark, dangerous men willing to kill to protect them

Straight-A student Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. But six months on, she's never been found • Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost, too. So when he's hired by Megan's parents to find out what happened to her, he recognises their pain - but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep • The more Raker digs, the more he realises everything is a lie. People close to Megan are dead. Others are too terrified to talk. And at the centre of it all is a place like no other • They call it The Dead Tracks • And there, Megan's secrets could cost Raker his life

Nine neighbours gather for a dinner party • But by the next morning, they had disappeared without a trace • No bodies. No evidence. No clues • Two and a half years later, it remains a mystery. Desperate for answers, the families of the missing turn to investigator David Raker • How did an entire village vanish overnight? • And is he looking for nine missing people, or nine dead bodies?

A young man wakes up bruised and beaten, with no memory of who he is or where he came from • The press immediately dub him 'The Lost Man' • Naming himself Richard Kite, he spends the next ten months desperately trying to find out who he is. But despite media appeals and the efforts of the police, no one knows him • Richard's last hope may be private investigator David Raker - a seasoned locator of missing people. But Raker has more questions than answers • Who is Richard Kite? • Why does no one know him? • And what links him to the body of a woman found beside a London railway line two years ago? • Could Richard be responsible for her death - or is he next?

No goodbye • When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie left London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor, everything seemed perfect. But then Leonard heads outside to fetch firewood from the back of the house - and never returns • No trace • Nine months later, Leonard's family turn to David Raker - a missing persons investigator with a gift for finding the lost. But nothing can prepare Raker for what he's about to uncover • Nowhere to hide • Because, at the heart of this disappearance lies a devastating secret. And by the time Raker realises what it is, and how deep the lies go, it's not just him in danger - it's everyone he cares about

I buried you. I mourned you... But now you're back. A woman walks into a police station. She has no phone and no ID, just a piece of paper that reads 'David Raker'. She says she's his wife. She looks just like her. She knows everything about him. But David buried his wife eight years ago

You can live the bold, exciting life you want, but fear and anxious thoughts may be holding you back. Anxiety serves a purpose; it's a powerful too when managed properly. It can help you to stay focused and motivate you to solve problems • Dr Michaela Dunbar has spent years helping ambitious women master their anxiety and overcome self-doubt. Through therapy sessions and online workshops, Michaela has identified seven key ways high-functioning anxiety can manifest in our lives, from people pleasing to imposter syndrome, and shows us how to transform negative thoughts and difficult emotions into positive action

Picture Me Gone is the compelling new novel by the author of How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff • Mila is on a roadtrip across the USA with her father. They are looking for his best friend but Mila discovers a more important truth. Sometimes the act of searching reveals more than the final discovery can. Adults do not have all the answers. It all depends what questions you ask • A brilliantly atmospheric exploration of someone on the brink of adulthood, from prizewinning author Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now. This is a compelling read in the tradition of Meg's acclaimed novels such as What I Was and Just In Case

Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual creativity. There were more places to express ourselves than ever before ... yet no one really had anything to say. Does this have to be our future? • In You are not a Gadget digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how recent developments in our culture are deadening personal interaction, stifling genuine inventiveness and even changing us as people. Showing us the way to a future where individuals mean more than machines, this is a searing manifesto against mass mediocrity, a creative call to arms - and an impassioned defence of the human

Your fate isn't written in the stars, it's in your cosmic code • You know your astrological sign but do you know your numbers? Get to know the ancient art of numerology and the numbers that rule your life • Numerologist Kaitlyn Kaerhart introduces the most important numbers for you and the simple method to discover them. Understand your life path number, personal year cycles, life expression numbers, Karmic lessons and balance numbers. They all have important roles, will help you understand who you are and how to live to your full potential • Find out how numerology works to find clarity and purpose every day

Jill's three grown-up sons mean everything to her • She would do anything for her boys - protect them, lie for them, even die for them • Then one day she receives an email with the subject line: 'You Need To Know' • Jill doesn't want to know. She leaves the warning unread • But some truths you can't hide from • Soon Jill will start to wonder if she knows her sons at all • How long will these secrets stay hidden? • And when they are revealed . . . can Jill's family survive?