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Nate wants more to life than moving from town to town, hustling chess with his con-man grandfather or wagering pick-up games online. A new immersive game opens up the chance to bring in a steady paycheck. Maybe enough to convince his grandfather to stay straight. Little does he know how his actions will change his life. A GameLit coming of age story.

State and Revolution (1917) describes the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution. It describes the inherent nature of the state as a tool for class oppression, a creation born of one social class' desire to control all other social classes. Whether a dictatorship or a democracy, the state remains in the control of the ruling class.

Two and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka's Tamil minority is pushed inexorably towards the coast by the advancing army. Amongst the evacuees is Dinesh, whose world has contracted to a makeshift camp where time is measured by the shells that fall around him like clockwork. Alienated from family, home, language, and body, he exists in a state of mute acceptance, numb to the violence around him, till he is approached one morning by an old man who makes an unexpected proposal: that Dinesh marry his daughter, Ganga.

In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a...

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. But war is waged in many ways. From the dark places where 10,000-year-old psychic warriors interrogate living machines from a time before man, to a treacherous assassination plot that could bring an end to a centuries-old legacy of honour, to relic hunters who want to wrest secrets from a plague-ridden traitor or cross swords with a sinister Chaplain of the Dark Angels.

In this eye-opening book, angelologist Father Marcello Stanzione tells the fascinating story of Father Amorth and his life as an exorcist. You'll learn of his daily schedule and how he managed to perform dozens of exorcisms each week. You'll find out what his exorcism room looked like, and how various devils responded to his bold practice. Best of all, you'll hear Father Amorth's own startling explanations of many truths about the Devil that our culture has forgotten and about the canny methods the Deceiver has adopted in recent years to corrupt believers and unbelievers alike.

There is a wild man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Old secrets better left buried are dug up, and Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past - both the green magic of the woods and the dark things that rest in its heart.  

We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We're building more products than ever before, but most of them fail - not because we can't complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product. What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That's the promise of Running Lean.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER What would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memory has shown us anything, it’s that America has lost the will and the means to lead. We can’t compete with the huge population clusters of the global marketplace by keeping...

Marketing has never been more powerful. It has also never been easier to do it in ways that quietly erode trust. In White Hat Marketing, Matthew Newell makes the case for a different kind of career in one of the world’s most exciting industries: one built not on manipulation, noise, or short-term tricks, but on clarity, restraint, respect, and results that can actually last. This is not a book about being soft. It is a book about being good enough to win without lying, cornering, obscuring, or burning out the people on either side of the screen.

Having defeated the corrupt concubine Soo Hebin, and cast the first witch into a prison she shouldn’t be able to escape easily, Tam thinks some rest is in order. Sadly, because the Zinferan emperor has it in his mind that Eli should be the heir to his throne, there isn’t much time for that. With help from Katarina Ashowan and the Ryu family, Tam, Eli, Luca, and Penelope set sail for Daxaria at long last. Only, leaving Zinfera doesn’t get rid of their troubles for long.

Narnia meets Stranger Things in this debut four-part fantasy inspired by the worlds of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. The world was whole, once. Before the Phoenix drew his line. Before the River split it in two. Before the Bridge of Evon.  When Foxlaris Scottsworth steps onto the legendary Bridge of Evon, he becomes the first to cross into the forbidden East in over a thousand years. But what begins as a triumph ends in desolation, casting Foxlaris into a forgotten world.

In Hong Kong a young scientist stumbles upon a strange new species of rat—one that defies the rules of evolution. It's not a product of chance, but something far more sinister. Thousands of miles away in Denmark, a mysterious organism spreads like a fungus, infiltrating ecosystems and baffling researchers. As a team of scientists races to contain it, they uncover patterns that shouldn't exist in nature. Soon, people begin to die.

England, 1985: Sent back in time to the year he lost everything, Robbie James is determined to turn the tables on the man who stole his future. In 2024, Robbie James is a brilliant IT developer who has just created an AI so advanced it can improve itself without human help. The result? He’s engineered himself out of a job. The man handing him his cards is Toby Fleming, a lifelong thorn in his side. So when Robbie is offered the chance to travel back forty years in time, he’s eager to settle the score. In 1985, teenage Robbie finds himself back at Splat!

The Art of Balanced Living introduces the body-type diet of the ancient Indian Ayurveda tradition and shows how it can help us live healthier, happier and more balanced lives today. The advice in The Art of Balanced Living is designed to help you sustain wellbeing and overcome stressful times and events. It is based on the bodytyping system of Ayurveda, India's traditional system of healing. Elements of Ayurveda are well known around the world, for example, yoga and meditation.

A young governess is hired to care for two charming orphans, Miles and Flora, at the remote country estate of Bly. What seems like a dream job soon transforms into a chilling nightmare. The protagonist begins to see sinister apparitions of the former caretakers, Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, haunting the children. Convinced that these malevolent spirits seek to corrupt the innocence of her pupils, she embarks on a desperate and obsessive battle to save their souls in this classic of psychological horror.

How much of our time is spent trying to figure out what everyone else is thinking or dealing with the negative thoughts we have about ourselves? How many stories do we write in our own heads to fill in the gaps? Joe, our main character, is an executive for a software company who’s just like the rest of us. He makes his way through life convincing himself that his stories are true... that is until he meets with his daughter and learns about her favorite Journalism class.

Do you feel like your life is running on a faulty operating system? In Reprogram Your Reality, former programmer Taylor King teaches you how to delete the mental "viruses" sabotaging your well-being. Through a brilliant technological metaphor, King tackles issues like procrastination, low self-esteem, toxic attachments, and addictions, treating them as coding errors you can rewrite. You don't need magic, just conscious maintenance.

Winning the Second Half is a powerful, relatable conversation between a man and a woman facing the realities of midlife head-on. With honesty, humour, and hard-won wisdom, they tackle everything from mindset shifts to emotional growth, reigniting passion to redefining success. This isn't just a book-it's a wake-up call to embrace the next chapter with clarity, confidence, and excitement. If you're ready to thrive-not just survive-in the second half of life, this is your guide.

Inspector de Silva is caught up in the excitement when a professional theatre company comes to Nuala, but matters take a dark turn when the company's actor manager is murdered. Our inspector has a new case to solve, and he has to consider some very unpalatable motives for the crime. He will need all his persistence, coupled with his wife, Jane's, invaluable help to unmask the villain of the piece.