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The Way We Live Now is a complex and compulsive tale that traces the career of Augustus Melmotte, a strange and mysterious financier who bursts into London society like a guided missile. In setting up a dubious scheme based on speculative money and stock market gambles, Melmotte manages to lure in several members of the English aristocracy, for whom money is the summum bonum. The world is at his feet - until the corruption catches up with him.

Treat yourself to three funny, spicy full-length sports romance novels written by a dude who loves football and a chick who’s still trying to figure it out.

Lena Zurak has never mastered magic. Mocked at the Academy of Light and ignored by her god, she turns instead to the bow, the only weapon that has never betrayed her. When whispers of a rising cult reach her kingdom, Lena is sent on a mission she cannot refuse. Cult leader Karkathi ed’ Sayana wields forbidden power, twisting young men from the Tahlari clans into monsters through black magic. Entire families vanish as a new order rises, its rituals steeped in blood, corruption, and necromancy.

The men who succeed with women aren't playing the same game you are. While you're figuring out what to say, they're triggering psychological responses you didn't know existed. While you're being "nice," they're flipping switches that make attraction inevitable. This isn't natural talent. It's understanding the hidden architecture of female desire. This guide decodes the psychological operating system beneath every interaction. These triggers—hardwired through evolution—determine within seconds whether you're the man she wants or the man she forgets.

코드네임 시리즈, 그 긴 여정의 마지막 이야기! 세상과 인류를 구할 수 있을까? 2049년에 도착한 강파랑과 스칼렛. '에고'에 의해 무너져 버린 미래 세상을 본 강파랑은 넋을 잃고 만다. 그러나 '펜리르'를 타고 우주로 날아가...

Innerhalb weniger Tage wird die Berliner Kripo mit zwei Morden konfrontiert. Die vierzig Jahre alten Männer wurden brutal hingerichtet, und um beide Opfer hatte der Täter einen Kreidekreis gezogen. Im Zuge der Ermittlung fügen sich diese dramatisch zusammen und offenbaren den Blick auf eine Tragödie, die bereits zwei Jahrzehnte zurückliegt. Schnell wird klar: Der Mörder befindet sich bereits in unmittelbarer Nähe seines nächsten Opfers. Ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit beginnt.

Things That Go Bump Into Each Other is a paranormal romantic comedy about ghosts, grudges, and one house that’s sick of waiting for these idiots to kiss already. Sephie Blake doesn’t believe in ghosts. Or fate. Or men who smile like that and mean it. A cynical paranormal investigator with a serious caffeine dependency and zero patience for nonsense, she’s made a career out of dismantling the supernatural one cold spot at a time.

From the Palestinian struggle against Israeli Apartheid, to First Nations' mass campaigns against pipeline construction in North America, Indigenous peoples are at the forefront of some of the crucial struggles of our age. Rich with their distinct histories and cultures, they are connected by the shared enemy they face: settler colonialism.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. This decade is resplendent with literature and its many prodigiously talented authors who write on as varied a range of subjects as might be thought possible. Yet each is studded with careful literary precision and narrative verve. It is a remarkable decade.

Along the centuries numerous interpretations and definitions of Sufism have waxed and waned but the undeniable beauty of their verse in its myriad of forms including the musical Ghazal (love song), Masnavi (narrative) and Rubai (quatrain) always remains. Our chronological volume of the classic Sufi poets helps us understand the spiritual direction of Sufism, starting with Rabia in the 8th century through to Khwaja Ghulam Farid over a thousand years later.

The Sound Inside follows Bella Baird, an accomplished English professor at an Ivy League university who prizes her solitude. But when she faces a challenge she cannot tackle alone, she allies herself with a brilliant and mysterious student, Christopher.

Science fiction that both hurts and heals. Olivia Sarven has always trusted the fragments of her life on Ellipso. Until the day cracks appear: forbidden zones no one mentions, truths erased from every record and whispers of a past. As she follows the hidden thread of her identity, Olivia realizes she is not alone. Her awakening sparks a dangerous rebellion to restore what was stolen from an entire people.

After being held prisoner for years, Artemis Fowl's father has finally come home. He is a new man, an honest man, much to Artemis's horror. He makes his son promise to give up his life of crime, and Artemis has to go along with it. But not until he has completed one last scheme.

As a small-business owner, entrepreneur, or marketer, are you absolutely certain that you know what your customer wants? And even if you know what your customer wants, are you sure that you are able to clearly communicate that you offer the exact thing that they are seeking? In this revised and...

Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl is back...and so is his cunning enemy, Opal Kobol. At the start of the fourth adventure, Artemis has returned to his unlawful ways. He's in Berlin, perparing to steal a famous impressionist painting from a German bank. He has no idea that his old rival, Opal, has...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! “With classic rom-com hijinx and herbalist witchy vibes, this novel will have you happily spellbound.”—The Boston Globe Fake dating gets a magical twist in this enchanting queer romantic comedy where a witch worries that the real feelings brewing between her and her...

For a century Bram Stoker's Dracula has reigned supreme as the undisputed masterpiece of horror writing. We have all grown up under the shadow of the elegant Count, at once an attractive, brutal, and erotic creature of the night.

Sadie Stephens has loved her brother's best friend, Lincoln Carver, since she was a girl, but a family feud involving a runaway bride closed any options for a romance. Lincoln's only interest in her now is one of obligation and guilt. After all, he's the one responsible for the lassoing "incident" (don't ask. Lincoln's life was perfect until his matchmaking granny stuck her nose in his business. Now, he's accidentally injured his best friend's sister, the woman partly responsible for a family feud.

It is natural for us to fear artificial intelligence. But does Siri really want to kill us? Perhaps we are falling into the trap of projecting human traits onto the machines we might build. In Evolutionary Intelligence, Neuman offers a surprisingly positive vision in which computational intelligence compensates for the well-recognized limits of human judgment, improves decision making, and actually increases our agency. Neuman takes the listener on an exciting, fast-paced ride, all the while making a convincing case about a revolution in computationally augmented human intelligence.

The short story by Anton Chekhov published in 1889 tell the story of a bet between a banker and a young lawyer on whether a death sentence or a life in prison is better. At the end of the bet trying to measure the value of human life, the banker shall give two million rubles to the young lawyer if he lasts in prison for 15 years.