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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents--only to watch as she takes over their lives in this riveting novel of suspense from the New York Times bestselling author called "an ingenious master of domestic suspense" (Samantha M. Bailey). In the end, I have only myself to blame. I'm the one who let her in. Jodi Bishop knows success. She's the breadwinner, a top-notch real estate agent. Her husband, Harrison . . . not so much. Once, he had big dreams. But now, he's a middling writer who resents his wife's success. Jodi's father, Vic, now seventy-nine and retired, is a very controlling man. His wife, Audrey, was herself no shrinking violet. But things changed when Audrey developed Parkinson's eight years ago, and Vic retired to devote himself to her care. But while still reasonably spry and rakishly handsome, Vic is worn down by his wife's deteriorating condition. Exhausted from trying to be all things to all people, Jodi finally decides she's had enough and starts interviewing housekeepers to help care for her parents. She settles on Elyse Woodley, an energetic and attractive widow in her early sixties, who seems perfect for the job. While Vic is initially resistant, he soon warms to Elyse's sunny personality and engaging ways. And Jodi is pleased to have an ally, someone she can talk to and occasionally even confide in. Until . . . She shuts Jodi out. And Audrey's condition worsens--rapidly. Who is this woman suddenly wearing her mother's jewelry? What is she after? And how far will she go to get it?

A #1 New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Daphne Bridgerton, in the first of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince—while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable...but not too amiable. Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen. Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society—just as his callous father shunned Simon throughout his painful childhood. Yet an encounter with his best friend's sister offers another option. If Daphne agrees to a fake courtship, Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, will see her prospects and her reputation soar. The plan works like a charm—at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London's elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule... This novel includes the second epilogue, a peek at the story after the story.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises . Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content . The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning ( CEFR ). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary. The Summer I Turned Pretty, a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past continuous and present perfect simple for general experience. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages. Every year, Belly goes on holiday with her mom and brother to Susannah's beach house. Susannah has two sons, Jeremiah and Conrad. Belly has always loved Conrad, but he thinks of her like a little sister. But Belly is 15 now, and this is the summer that she has turned pretty... Visit the Penguin Readers website Register to access online resources including tests, worksheets and answer keys. Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock a digital book and audio edition (not available with the eBook).

The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series! Return to the warm, cozy town of Serenity in this collection of classic stories from the Sweet Magnolias series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods. Catching Fireflies When bullying threatens to destroy a teen's life, painful memories resurface for dedicated high school teacher Laura Reed and pediatrician J. C. Fullerton. Both J.C.'s and Laura's passion for the cause is deeply personal, and their growing feelings for each other are just as strong. But with so many secret hurts to overcome, can these two vulnerable lovers find the strength to believe in happily ever after? Where Azaleas Bloom Contractor Mitch Franklin is an unlikely knight in shining armor for single mom Lynn Morrow. A widower with two grieving sons, Mitch once admired Lynn from afar. Now he sees in her not only the sweet girl who got away, but a determined woman desperately in need of support. While rushing to the rescue comes naturally to Mitch, he's also wise enough to encourage Lynn to find her own way...hopefully straight into his arms. Swan Point With a new home and a new job, Adelia Hernandez is ready to start over as an independent single mom after her divorce. Gabe Franklin, back in town to make amends for past mistakes, has no intention of settling down, but Adelia's proving irresistible. He's bringing long-absent passion and laughter into her life. To their surprise, sometimes a rolling stone is just what it takes to build the rock-solid foundation of a family. Read the Sweet Magnolias Series by Sherryl Woods: Book One: Stealing Home Book Two: A Slice of Heaven Book Three: Feels Like Family Book Four: Welcome to Serenity Book Five: Home in Carolina Book Six: Sweet Tea at Sunrise Book Seven: Honeysuckle Summer Book Eight: Midnight Promises Book Nine: Catching Fireflies Book Ten: Where Azaleas Bloom Book Eleven: Swan Point Bonus: The Sweet Magnolias Cookbook

Bloomsbury presents In Pursuit of Love by Mark Bostridge, read by John Hastings.From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adèle Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love – and the writer who chased after her more than 150 years later.It's 1863. The daughter of the most famous writer in the world, Victor Hugo, who has ambitions as a writer and composer, suddenly leaves her family's home on the Channel Islands bound for Nova Scotia. She is in pursuit of a young British soldier, with whom she is desperately in love, but who has rejected her. Eight years later, after stalking him to the Caribbean, where he's stationed with the army, Adèle Hugo is brought back to Paris by a benevolent former slave woman who has taken pity on her. She is admitted to an asylum where she dies decades later, rich from the inheritance of the rights to her father's books.This story of hopeless love has inspired writers, composers, and a well-known film by François Truffaut. Yet much about Adèle Hugo's tragic life has remained shrouded in mystery – not least the true character and identity of the soldier who ultimately contributed to her undoing.Mark Bostridge was drawn to Adèle's story in his twenties, thanks in part to the François Truffaut film, and has been following her story ever since. Now he sets out in pursuit of the truth about her, travelling halfway across the world, acting as sleuth and tracking down the descendants of the soldier she loved. In so doing he recognises the source of his fascination with the aspects of Adèle's life that reflect and parallel his own. The result is a moving book about the pain of loving too much and of parents loving too little; about the ways in which we are haunted by the dead; and about our insatiable appetite for other people's stories which possess us and invade our own lives.In Pursuit of Love is part memoir and part travelogue, as well as an invigorating new approach to the writing of biography.

Bestselling author of Capote s Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his legendary movies at the center of the story. Alfred Hitchcock was fixated not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest, Rear Window, and other classic films didn t much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle, or were the rarest human specimen a natural blonde as long as they shone with a golden veneer on camera. The lengths he went to in order to showcase (and often manipulate) these women would become the stuff of movie legend. But the women themselves have rarely been at the center of the story, until now. In Hitchcock s Blondes, bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer offers an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories helped chart the course of the troubled, talented director s career from his early days in the British film industry, to his triumphant American debut, to his Hollywood heyday and beyond. Through the stories of June Howard-Tripp, Madeleine Carroll, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Eva Marie Saint, and Tippi Hedren who starred in fourteen of Hitchcock s most notable films and who bore the brunt of his fondness and sometimes fixation we can finally start to see the enigmatic man himself. After all, his blondes (as he thought of them) knew the truths of his art, his obsessions and desires, as well as anyone. From the acclaimed author of Capote s Women comes an intimate, revealing, and thoroughly modern look at both the enduring art created by a man obsessed and the private toll that fixation took on the women in his orbit.

“Raffish and spirited . . . a nonconformist cri de coeur . . .  Usually, comparisons to Bourdain are fatuous. This time it’s accurate . . . It’s been a long time since I’ve read so good and rowdy a memoir about blue-collar work.” — Dwight Garner, The New York Times AN INDIE BESTSELLER A Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to "stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears" . . . This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean. Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started working as a garbageman to pay for school, and after earning graduate degrees and working in more “respectable” fields, he is still on a truck — out of love for the physical rush, for his rough-and-tumble colleagues, and for an honesty and freedom that no other job has yet given him. Includes eight black and white photographs of the author on the job.  His sociology background informs his inquiry into our collective wastefulness and individual failure to confront the trash we produce. Every abstract observation comes with hilarious and hair-raising stories from the collection route to his days off spent hunting down furniture and toys for family and friends, as a committed freegan. Trash! — the French edition of which is a runaway bestseller in Canada — explains and questions efforts to “clean up” a business with longstanding conventions of its own, a last bastion of well-paid employment for people who cannot fit in anywhere else. Aligned with great books about work from Zola to Orwell to Lucia Berlin, and in dialogue with societal critiques like How To Do Nothing, Trash! will change how you think about your waste and the people who handle it.

A New York Times Bestseller From the New York Times bestselling author of Love & Gelato comes a Mamma Mia!–inspired tale about a teen girl finding romance while trying to connect with her absent father in beautiful Santorini, Greece. Liv Varanakis doesn’t have a lot of fond memories of her father, which makes sense—he fled to Greece when she was only eight. What Liv does remember, though, is their shared love for Greek myths and the lost city of Atlantis. So when Liv suddenly receives a postcard from her father explaining that National Geographic is funding a documentary about his theories on Atlantis—and will she fly out to Greece and help?—Liv jumps at the opportunity. But when she arrives to gorgeous Santorini, things are a little…awkward. There are so many questions, so many emotions that flood to the surface after seeing her father for the first time in years. And yet Liv doesn’t want their past to get in the way of a possible reconciliation. She also definitely doesn’t want Theo—her father’s charismatic so-called “protégé”—to witness her struggle. And that means diving into all that Santorini has to offer—the beautiful sunsets, the turquoise water, the hidden caves, and the delicious cuisine. But not everything on the Greek island is as perfect as it seems. Because as Liv slowly begins to discover, her father may not have invited her to Greece for Atlantis, but for something much more important.

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early Church. The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus's lifetime-and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. How Jesus Became God tells the story of an idea that shaped Christianity, and of the evolution of a belief that looked very different in the fourth century than it did in the first. A master explainer of New Testament history, texts, and traditions, Ehrman reveals how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty, Creator of all things. But how did he move from being a Jewish prophet to being God? In a book that took eight years to research and write, Ehrman sketches Jesus's transformation-the development of early Christology-from a human prophet to the Son of God exalted to divine status at his resurrection. Only when some of Jesus's followers had visions of him after his death-alive again-did anyone come to think that he, the prophet from Galilee, had become God. And what they meant by that was not at all what people mean today. A work of compelling biblical scholarship written for secular historians of religion and believers alike, How Jesus Became God will engage anyone interested in the historical developments that led to the affirmation at the heart of Christianity: Jesus was, and is, God. How did this belief take hold? Historical Jesus Scholarship: Explore the difference between the Jesus of history, an apocalyptic prophet from Galilee, and the Christ of faith. Early Christian Beliefs: Trace the evolution of doctrine through the first centuries, showing how the claim that Jesus was God was not what the original disciples believed during his lifetime. The Role of the Resurrection: Understand why the visionary experiences of Jesus's followers after his death became the turning point in the development of Christian doctrine. Ancient Historical Context: Discover the surprising world of divine humans, sons of God, and exalted rulers in Greek, Roman, and even Jewish traditions that shaped how early Christians saw Jesus.

She spent ten years waiting for him to look. He spent ten years pretending he didn't. He had spent fifteen years moving across Europe without leaving a trace. >Valentino walked into a back room of a palazzo in Milan looking for a twenty-five-year-old American who had been gone too long from his side, and he found her on a red couch, drugged, half-dressed, three men with phones standing over her. He shot one. >Amanda had come to Milan for the campaign of her life. A first-class flight. A suite at Casa Aurelia. Two years of work cashing in. She had known the man at the next table since she was fifteen - her best friend's cousin, the one who had never once looked at her, the one she had given up loving when she was nineteen. She had no plan for him being there. >Valentino has spent thirty-eight years not letting himself want anything that could be taken from him. He has carried his father's rosary in his pocket every day for twenty-four years. >He has never asked a woman to stay. >And every man who put a hand on her in that palazzo is about to learn what the Sartori family's diplomat becomes when he stops being polite. *Valentino is a full-length mafia romance novel with no cheating and a guaranteed HEA. It is the seventh book in the Sartori Syndicate series. Each book features a different couple and can be read as a standalone. Tropes Age Gap Slow Burn Best Friend's Cousin Forced Proximity Dark Protector He Falls First Only Soft for Her Possessive Hero Dark Themes HEA / Happily Ever After

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK - AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What if you got to do everything in your life-twice? The heart of Mitch Albom's newest novel is a stunning love story that dares to explore how our unchecked desires might mean losing what we've had all along. When he is eight years old, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a second chance at everything. He can undo any moment and live it again. The one catch: he must accept the consequences of his second try-for better or worse. He grows up correcting his mistakes and saving himself from adolescent embarrassments. He even takes foolishly dangerous risks, just to see what it's like to come close to death, before tapping back to safety. Eventually, Alfie turns his gift to his love life, studying his crushes and going back to make himself more appealing. In time, he falls deeply in love with Gianna, the woman he believes is the one. He seems to find contentment. But as the years pass, Alfie's eye begins to wander. Which is when he learns a lone caveat to his power: once he undoes a love, that person can never fall in love with him again. Knowing if he gives into to temptation, he will risk losing what he has with Gianna, Alfie makes a choice that changes his life forever. The book begins many years later, after an ailing Alfie is arrested for allegedly cheating and winning millions at a casino roulette wheel. As a curious detective interrogates him, he slowly uncovers Alfie's incredible story, and its most unlikely conclusion. In Twice, America's favorite storyteller, Mitch Albom, is at the top of his powers. A love story that is enchanting, probing, and clairvoyant in matters of the heart, Twice will make you think, weep, and overflow with love from beginning to end.

Soon to be a major motion picture, Other Mommy, starring Jessica Chastain. 'This is the rare novel that's authentically scary' - Stephen King, the bestselling author of The Shining and IT From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box, Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman is a chilling, wholly unique tale of true horror about a family as haunted as their home. To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There's Mommy, Daddy and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: 'Can I go inside your heart?' When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay. Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe, but other incidents show cracks in her parents' marriage. The safety Bela relies on is about to unravel. But Other Mommy needs an answer. 'This book is the monster that lives inside your closet' - Grady Hendrix, author of How to Sell a Haunted House 'A gleeful, mean, old-school scare machine' - Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts Readers are terrified by Incidents Around the House . . . 'Super creepy and unsettling' 'I think I've hurt my vocal cords after screaming too much!' 'Terrifyingly immersive' 'Probably the scariest thing I've ever read'

'To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing ... A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about [America's] origins as a people and a nation. It is difficult to imagine any reader putting this beguiling book down without a smile and a tear.' New York Times In June 1773, King George III attended a grand celebration of his reign over the greatest, richest empire since ancient Rome. Less than two years later, Britain's bright future turned dark: after a series of provocations, the king's soldiers took up arms against his rebellious colonies in America. The war would last eight years, and though at least one in ten of the Americans who fought for independence would die for that cause, the prize was valuable beyond measure: freedom from oppression and the creation of a new republic. Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about the Second World War has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. In this new book, he tells the story of the first twenty-one months of America's violent effort to forge a new nation. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1776-77, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world's most formidable fighting force and struggle to avoid annihilation. It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes one of America's greatest battle captains; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves himself the nation's wiliest diplomat; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. Full of riveting details and untold stories, The British Are Coming is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of America's creation drama.

24 Days. 2 Teams. 1 Family Champion. This December, the North Pole is watching your living room. Your family has been officially selected for the North Pole Family Championship : 24 events, Kids versus Grown-Ups, one gold star at stake every single day until Christmas. No boards, no batteries, no shopping list. Every event uses things you already have (almost always nothing at all), takes minutes to play, and is read out loud straight from the page. Open today's door, play today's event, claim today's star. By Christmas Eve, one team is crowned Family Champion of Christmas . Inside the Championship: 24 official events , including The Great Sock Toss, The Blind Snowman, The Great Paper Snowball Battle, The Cookie Face, The Swap Quiz, The Wrap Star and The Slowest Race Ever Three dramatic phases : The Qualifiers, The Semi-Finals, and Finals Week, where every event counts DOUBLE Team registration pages : team names, captains, victory chants, victory poses and hand-drawn logos The Official Championship Scoreboard and Star Tracker to follow every win The Family Record Book and phase reviews : funniest fail, most dramatic win, best excuse from a grown-up Everyone Wins days , so younger players are never left behind The Hall of Fame , an official championship photo page, and memory pages you will read out loud for years Works for every family: classic Kids vs Grown-Ups, mixed teams, or everyone for themselves Included with this book: The Family Championship Pack, with a Star Tracker poster for the fridge, three champion certificates, eight official tiebreaker events, and cut-out gold star cards. Print it once and use it year after year. Written with a wink from the Committee, the North Pole's most serious officials, this is the advent calendar that trades chocolate for belly laughs and screens for victory chants. Perfect for kids, parents and grandparents, as a family gift, a chocolate-calendar alternative, or the start of a brand-new December tradition. The Committee has spoken. Scroll up, start the Championship, and may the best team win. The socks are waiting.

Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers This second volume of the bestselling Teach Yourself Graded Readers series features 8 compelling new stories in a variety of genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller, so you'll have fun reading , while learning a wide range of new vocabulary and rapidly improving your Italian comprehension ! Short Stories in Italian for Beginners, Volume 2 is written for students from high-beginner to intermediate level. The eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when reading. You'll enjoy reading in Italian, grow your vocabulary in a natural way, and improve your comprehension at the same time. Based on extensive research into how people most enjoy and benefit from reading in a new language, this book eliminates the frustrations you experience when trying to read in Italian. Stories are broken down into manageable chapters, so you make progress with the story and feel a sense of achievement. Realistic amounts of new vocabulary are introduced so that you're not deterred by complex words. Instead of pausing to look up every word, you'll absorb new vocabulary from the context of the story, and have the satisfaction of that moment when you say: "I totally understood that sentence!" This book includes: - Accessible grammar for high-beginner and low-intermediate level learners (CEFR A2-B2) - Natural dialogues in each story, so that you can learn conversational Italian and improve your speaking ability! - Controlled language at your level, including the most frequent words, to help you progress confidently - Pleasure! It's much easier to learn a new language when you're having fun. Carefully curated to make learning a new language easy, these stories include key features that will support and consolidate your progress, including: · A glossary for bolded words in each text · A bilingual word list · Full plot summary · Comprehension questions after each chapter. As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoyingreading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. The stories are levelled from A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference and from Novice High to Low-Mid Intermediate ACTFL Receptive Proficiency.

One of the most iconic characters in children's books Join the world's most famous travelling reporter in his exciting adventures as he braves an ancient Incan curse in the two-part story The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun, and investigates espionage in the Middle East in Land of Black Gold. The fifth of eight volumes containing Hergé's best loved adventure stories, with two thrilling mysteries: The Seven Crystal Balls The world's most famous travelling reporter is faced with an ancient Incan curse, which is causing its victims to fall into a life-threatening coma. The tomb of Rascar Capac has been unearthed! But one by one, the finders fall into a terrifying coma. Can this be the curse of the Inca gods? Tintin must somehow fathom out the meaning behind his only clue: the shattered crystal ball lying beside each of the victims ... Prisoners of the Sun When Professor Calculus is kidnapped, Tintin and a desperate Captain Haddock set off to Peru on a rescue mission, braving runaway train carriages, yellow fever and avalanches. Then they must find an ancient Inca tribe if they are to find their great friend. Land of Black Gold Boom! Doctored petrol is blowing up vehicles all around the country. Determined to find the culprits, Tintin heads for the Middle East, but he is in for a nasty shock when he encounters a familiar face in the desert. Join the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on extraordinary adventures spanning historical and political events. Still selling over 100,000 copies every year in the UK and having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson in 2011. The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 90 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then more than 230 million copies have been sold, proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children and adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th. Hergé (Georges Remi) was born in Brussels in 1907. Over the course of 54 years he completed over 20 titles in The Adventures of Tintin series, which is now considered to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, comics series of all time.

Jurassic Park. The Piano. Peaky Blinders. A vineyard in Central Otago and a pig named Bryan Brown. One quietly extraordinary life. On 13 July 2026, the news went out from an Instagram account better known for ducks: Sam Neill was gone at seventy-eight, three months after telling the world his cancer was cured. Tributes came from Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman, Cillian Murphy, Laura Dern, two prime ministers, and from millions who knew him less as a movie star than as a friend they'd somehow never met. This is the story of how that happened. It begins in a rented farmhouse in Northern Ireland and a childhood spent as a stammering English boy in a New Zealand playground, until, at eleven, Nigel Neill made the first great creative decision of his life and renamed himself Sam. It runs through a country with no film industry to a career no one could have planned: New Zealand's first modern leading man; the actor who walked away from James Bond and, seven years later, starred in the highest-grossing film ever made and the Palme d'Or winner in the same year, and was never once nominated for an Oscar. It follows him into the second life he quietly built alongside the first: Two Paddocks, the Central Otago vineyard that began as five acres of paddock and became one of the region's most admired estates. And it stays with him through the extraordinary final act, the menace of Peaky Blinders, the joy of Hunt for the Wilderpeople, the lockdown ukulele broadcasts, the pig named Bryan Brown, and the diagnosis he kept secret while he worked, the experimental therapy on which he was the first patient in the world, and the verdict he insisted on phrasing himself: not a miracle, science at its best. Drawing on the full public record: his interviews across five decades, his bestselling memoir, and the outpouring that followed his death, this is the complete journey, from Omagh to the final harvest: the stammer and the voice it built, the fame he never chased, the friendships he never lost, and the vineyard wager he made against his own mortality in his last year, planting a Chardonnay he knew he might never pour. It was, by any measure, a remarkable life. This is the whole of it.

【Android 15.0, 8-Core, 8GB RAM+128GB ROM】12.3 inch GPS Car Radio for Mercedes C-Class W205 GLC Class X253 C253 NTG 5.0 / 5.1 / 5.2. Built-in Can-Bus decoder, support steering wheel remote control and COMAND button. IPS Ultra HD Screen with 2K Quad HD Resolution 2400*900 Pixels. 12.3” large touch screen and ultra-thin 8-10mm monitor. Android 14.0 operating system. Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 chip, 6nm technology, eight-core processor. Built-in 8GB RAM+128GB ROM and support 2 USB up to 2* 256GB external storage. 【Compatibility】This android car screen with android auto is suitable for Mercedes C-Class W205 (2015-2018) C180 C200 C220 C250 C300 C350 C320 C63 COMAND APS NTG 5.0 / 5.1 / 5.2; Mercedes GLC-Class X253 / C253 (2016-2018) GLC63 GLC43 GLC300 GLC350 GLC200 GLC250 COMAND APS NTG 5.0 / 5.1 / 5.2. This unit ONLY supports NTG 5.0/5.1/5.2.Please check if your car's system is NTG 5.0/5.1/5.2. 【Keep Original System Functions】Keep the original car COMAND knob, easy access to all functions (not supported after installing APK); keep the original HiFi audio system; keep the original audio/CD player function and does not destroy the original cable; keep the original rear camera screen（Support CVBS, AHD 720P-25FPS/30FPS, and 1080P-25FPS/30FPS rearview cameras）; show Bluetooth 5.1 and steering wheel functions. And show the original system on this new android screen. 【Supports Steering Wheel Control and GPS Navigation】Support steering wheel control, you can use this function to control your music and volume in the car; Bluetooth 5.1 function can free your hands and make your driving safer. It has built-in WiFi that allows you to surf the internet freely. You can download online GPS apps such as Waze, Sygic and other apps in the Play Store or get offline map source from map providers to use satellite navigation. Split screen function make you can use navigation while listening to music. 【Support Wireless CarPlay & Wired Android Auto】Simply connect your iPhone to this unit via Bluetooth to use CarPlay or connect your Android phone via USB to use Android Auto. Users to make phone calls and listen to music.This car stereo also has built-in DSP amplifier. The 16-band equalizer adapts to your taste and listening environment, bringing the perfect sound effect to you.

Foreword by Fraser Heston In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1968 science fiction cult classic film the Planet of the Apes, a handsomely designed commemorative volume full of rich, behind-the-scenes detail and exclusive, never-before-seen photographs and illustrations. Based on Pierre Boulle's novel La Planete de Singes, the original Planet of the Apes was one of the most iconic films of the 1960s. Starring Hollywood stalwarts Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell, the movie captivated audiences and sparked a franchise that included eight sequels, two television series, and a comic strip. Now, five decades after its theatrical release, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Rinzler tells the thrilling story of this legendary Hollywood classic-a film the book's author thought would be impossible to make. With a foreword by Fraser Heston, Charlton Heston's son, The Complete Making of the Planet of the Apes is an entertaining interactive experience that transports readers to the elusive alternate earth ruled by apes, bringing to life memorable characters such as Cornelius, Zira, Dr. Zaius, and George Taylor, the human astronaut whose fate becomes entwined with their lives. Jonathan Rinzler recreates how some of the greatest talents in Hollywood transformed the French novel to the big screen, drawing on material from a variety of sources, including early publications and interviews, Fox and Warner Bros.' studio archives, and records from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Complete Making of the Planet of the Apes is illustrated by a wealth of artwork, ephemera, and never-seen-before imagery, including rare journal pages and sketches from Charlton Heston's private collection, official color and black-and-white photographs, posters, lobby cards, and licensed material and merchandise. Meticulously designed to capture the look and atmosphere of the film, the book contains numerous spreads, each which tells a specific story. This keepsake volume also features exciting, removable interactives. Comprehensive in scope, The Complete Making of the Planet of the Apes is the definitive look at the original film available and is a must for fans, film buffs, and collectors.

'I've fallen in love with the characters in this series' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'Her books are like magnets: one page turns into five, turns into fifty, and suddenly it's 2 a.m.' ¿¿¿¿¿ He's tracking people down one by one And you're next on the list... A MAN MURDERED, LIVE ON CAMERA When a DVD is delivered in the dead of night, DCI Cara Elliott hits play on a horrifying showreel of violence... This is death, on demand. A KILLER COUNTING DOWN Avid viewers are paying for the killings, with twisted specifications. A request, an abduction, a murder. And always in a forty-eight-hour pattern. A MISSING DETECTIVE But when the killer finds out they're being investigated, they reveal their next target. In forty-eight hours, a police officer will be the one in front of the camera. The hunters have become the hunted, and the clock is ticking... Praise for Sam Holland's thrillers 'Smart and brooding, icepick-sharp and shadow-dark; best of all, though, it's scary as hell. Think you're tough? Pick up this novel and prove it' A. J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window 'Really disturbing and gripping but with a trademark sexy cop at the heart to offset the serial killer gore. Lots of fun in a very nightmarish way' Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange 'Fierce, frightening, twisted and addictive.' Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End 'Fast and furious, Sam Holland doesn't take her foot off the pedal for a second' Victoria Selman, author of Truly Darkly Deeply 'If you like crime that's dark, twisted, and keeps you up all night, Holland is the author for you' Jack Jordan, author of Do No Harm 'I raced through this page-turner and slept with the light on after finishing it!' Elle Croft, author of The Guilty Wife 'Fascinating, complex characters, whose relationships are every bit as humanly messy as the crime scenes they face' Dominic Nolan, author of Vine Street Readers love The Countdown Killer... 'I've fallen in love with the characters in this series' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'Her books are like magnets: one page turns into five, turns into fifty, and suddenly it's 2 a.m.' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'An unputdownable read and I read most of it in 24 hours' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'Captured me from the first page and didn't let go' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'Gripping, disturbing, and timely' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'Honestly, my favourite so far - which says a lot as I was obsessed with The Echo Man!' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'One of my most anticipated reads, and it did not disappoint!' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'A must-read for fans of gritty police procedurals and serial killer fiction' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'A compelling crime thriller with interestingly flawed characters you hope come out the other side intact' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'The pacing is electric, with tension that never lets up and twists that genuinely surprised me' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'More than just a police procedural thriller' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'The writing is immersive and addictive - I completely binged the second half in one sitting' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'This series is one of my all-time favourite thrillers, and The Countdown Killer totally lived up to the hype. Actually, scratch that-it might be my favourite one yet' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'Words cannot explain how much I loved this book' ¿¿¿¿¿

Join trans-temporal adventuress Iris Wildthyme (Katy Manning) for a series of eight brand-new half-hour episodes as she travels through time and space aboard her trusty double-decker bus, accompanied by her new friend Captain Turner!1. Comeback of the Scorchies by James GossOne-hit-80s wonder, Brian Bonamy, is back - and he's wowing the crowds of Margate! But when Iris and Captain Turner take in the show, they quickly realise something else is behind his success and that Iris is still under contract!2. Dark Side by Nick CampbellNeeding a break from adventuring, Iris decides to return to her former home -Pink Gables - where she is more than a little surprised to discover that unearthly forces have subsequently taken up residence.3. Oracle of the Supermarket by Roy GillCassie Burdock works on the till in the local branch of Fergusons. She thinks she's nothing special, that she's just like everyone else: until one day, she finds that she can predict the future with unnerving accuracy.4. Murder At The Abbey by Mark B. OliverAfter witnessing the death of one of their friends, Iris and Captain Turner turn sleuth to get to the bottom of things. But just who would want to commit such a beastly crime; and why? Wildthyme is on the case!5. The Slots of Giza by Hamish SteeleThe Giza is the Hawkhead Nebula's premier casino experience: Vegas on an intergalactic scale! But when one of Iris's fellow slotters dies at her machine, she and Captain Turner quickly learn that the Giza's guests are gambling with their lives.6. High Spirits by Cavan ScottWhen Iris lands the bus on the infamous Garden in the Clouds, she and Captain Turner are expecting a world of peace and tranquility. Instead, they arrive on a world plagued by hauntings, where they ghosts want to lay them to rest.7. An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium by Scott HandcockAfter an unexpected incident with a transdimensional entity in the 1970s, Iris makes an emergency landing in Flanders, where legends of an ancient wolf-like bogeyman soon prove to be frighteningly real.8. Looking for a Friend by Paul MagrsIn a bar in central London, a strangely-dressed woman reappears night after night, drowning her sorrows and searching for a friend she left behind!

From MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Judy Leigh'Brilliantly funny, emotional and uplifting' Miranda DickinsonIn the imposing Glen Carrick House overlooking Scotland's famous Loch Ness, lives eighty-eight-year-old Mimi McKinlay, cared for by her three adult sons.Hamish has inherited his mother's musical talents, Fin is the responsible brother, and Angus has the complicated and brooding personality to match his dashing good looks.But what all the brothers share is a concern that their beloved mother is living in her memories of her days on stage, while letting her present days pass her by.Jess Oliver is at a turning point. Amicably divorced after years of being married, this trip to the Highlands is a first taste of independence. It isn't long before the beauty and hospitality of Scotland captures her heart.When Mimi and Jess's paths cross, a friendship is formed that will change both women's lives. And as together they find ways to look forward instead of to the past, long forgotten dreams are within reach, and every new day is fresh with possibilities.Take a trip to the Highlands with Judy Leigh for an unforgettable story of glorious pasts and fabulous futures, of love, friendship, family and fun. The perfect feel-good novel for all fans of Dawn French, Dee Macdonald and Cathy Hopkins.Readers love Judy Leigh:'Lovely... a book that assures that life is far from over at seventy' Cathy Hopkins'Brimming with warmth, humour and a love of life... a wonderful escapade' Fiona Gibson'This book, like its main character Mimi, exudes a certain joie de vivre feeling as you turn the pages. Highly emotional in places but heart warming and uplifting. Highly recommended' Jennifer Bohnet'The story's simply wonderful, the theme of second chances will resonate whatever your age, there's something for everyone among the characters, and I do defy anyone not to have a tear in their eye at the perfect ending' Reader Review'With brilliant characters and hilarious antics, this is definitely a cosy read you'll not want to miss' Reader Review'A lovely read of how life doesn't just end because your getting old' Reader Review

24 Days. 2 Teams. 1 Family Champion. This December, the North Pole is watching your living room. Your family has been officially selected for the North Pole Family Championship : 24 events, Kids versus Grown-Ups, one gold star at stake every single day until Christmas. No boards, no batteries, no shopping list. Every event uses things you already have (almost always nothing at all), takes minutes to play, and is read out loud straight from the page. Open today's door, play today's event, claim today's star. By Christmas Eve, one team is crowned Family Champion of Christmas . Inside the Championship: 24 official events , including The Great Sock Toss, The Blind Snowman, The Great Paper Snowball Battle, The Cookie Face, The Swap Quiz, The Wrap Star and The Slowest Race Ever Three dramatic phases : The Qualifiers, The Semi-Finals, and Finals Week, where every event counts DOUBLE Team registration pages : team names, captains, victory chants, victory poses and hand-drawn logos The Official Championship Scoreboard and Star Tracker to follow every win The Family Record Book and phase reviews : funniest fail, most dramatic win, best excuse from a grown-up Everyone Wins days , so younger players are never left behind The Hall of Fame , an official championship photo page, and memory pages you will read out loud for years Works for every family: classic Kids vs Grown-Ups, mixed teams, or everyone for themselves Included with this book: The Family Championship Pack, with a Star Tracker poster for the fridge, three champion certificates, eight official tiebreaker events, and cut-out gold star cards. Print it once and use it year after year. Written with a wink from the Committee, the North Pole's most serious officials, this is the advent calendar that trades chocolate for belly laughs and screens for victory chants. Perfect for kids, parents and grandparents, as a family gift, a chocolate-calendar alternative, or the start of a brand-new December tradition. The Committee has spoken. Scroll up, start the Championship, and may the best team win. The socks are waiting.

Teaching Int/Adv Learners with the Direct Method: 50 Activities for the Speaking-First Classroom Break the intermediate plateau and get your stronger learners producing the language they already understand. Most learners at this level can follow a film and read a sophisticated argument, then open their mouths and produce a fraction of what they take in. This practical handbook tackles that gap head on, turning the Direct Method into fifty ready-to-teach activities that push learners off their safe core and into real, extended, precise speech. The fifty activities sit in five sets that build higher-level spoken command step by step: Beat the plateau with activities that refuse the short, safe answer and demand more Close the gap between what learners understand and what they can actually say Build real fluency across sustaining long turns, narrating, arguing, handling nuance, and controlling register under pressure Pick up and teach in minutes thanks to a consistent eight-field format covering aim, level, time, materials, target language, procedure, variations and a teacher's note Stretch any group from B1 to C2, with variations built into every activity to push stronger learners and support less confident ones Develop precise, adult speech including hedging, emphasis, implication, tone and the language of genuine debate Every activity runs on three moves: sustain, shape, sharpen. Learners keep talk going past the comfortable full stop, organise it into connected narrative and argument, then tighten it through inductive noticing and self-correction. The method is built entirely on production, which makes it ideally suited to the level where production is exactly what's stuck. Whether your learners are stalled in comfortable fluency or reaching for genuine command, this book gives you everything you need to run a speaking-first course that moves them on. Written in a clear teacher-trainer voice by an experienced ELT author, it's a companion you'll reach for lesson after lesson. Buy the book today!

Today's leaders are under pressure to innovate-or else. Trouble is, they never learned how. Story Design fixes that. It's the only book that shows you how to design for the future using expertise you already have-narrative intelligence. "Fusing expertise from documentary storytelling and design science, Story Design is a valuable resource for innovation practitioners, corporate strategists, change agents and any organization or group struggling to change trajectory in a dynamic and uncertain environment." -Lara Lee, President, Orchard Supply Hardware (division of Lowe's Companies, Inc.) Narrative intelligence is today's untapped superpower; it's the fuel that drives our creative and analytical engines. We use it constantly, to make sense of and shape our world. It's what enables us to imagine new services, analyze experiences, predict customer behavior, test theories, map business model canvases-and much more. In this practical playbook, Denise Withers shares tools from her thirty-five years of work as a filmmaker, consultant and academic to help you go beyond storytelling and learn how to use story design to create everything from sneakers to strategy. Drawing on real world examples, she shows you how to: discover and develop fresh ideas create and test breakthrough solutions plan and lead innovation ventures. Narrative intelligence isn't new. Neither is design. But no one has combined them before to reveal their hidden potential. Whether you're an entrepreneur running a start-up or a world leader tackling system change, Story Design can help you develop the creativity and design thinking capacity you need to innovate on demand. ---- Denise Withers launched her story career thirty-five years ago as a white-water filmmaker. After getting her feet thoroughly wet, she craved tougher assignments, and spent the next twenty years writing and directing documentaries for Discovery Channel. Ninety stories, eight awards and five continents later, she left the media to earn a Master of Science in design and start her own story studio. Since then, Denise has used story design to lead innovation in health, education and economic development across the Americas. She has worked for 100+ clients from industry, government, academia and not-for-profits.

Un bestseller del New York Times Selección del club de lectura Read With Jenna del programa Today Ahora una película de Netflix "Criaturas luminosas es un debut en última instancia reconfortante, pero profundamente sensible... memorable y conmovedor." --The Washington Post Una novela encantadora, ingeniosa y cautivadora sobre la amistad, el autodescubrimiento y la esperanza, que sigue a una viuda que forma un vínculo inesperado con un pulpo gigante del Pacífico. >A Marcellus no se le escapa nada y es mucho más inteligente de lo que nadie podría imaginar, pero nunca se le ocurriría mover un solo tentáculo para ayudar a uno de sus captores humanos... hasta que comienza a formar una inesperada amistad con Tova. Con su perspicacia de detective, Marcellus ha deducido lo que sucedió la noche de la desaparición. Y ahora tendrá que ingeniárselas desde el otro lado del cristal para revelarle la verdad, antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Una novela deslumbrante y conmovedora sobre una amistad capaz de vencer la peor de las soledades. Y una historia de esperanza sobre dos almas generosas, criaturas imperfectas... y, quizá por eso, increíblemente luminosas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Now a Netflix Film A New York Times Bestseller! A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! "Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender." -- Washington Post For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium--and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago. After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. >Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.

Jurassic Park. The Piano. Peaky Blinders. A vineyard in Central Otago and a pig named Bryan Brown. One quietly extraordinary life. On 13 July 2026, the news went out from an Instagram account better known for ducks: Sam Neill was gone at seventy-eight, three months after telling the world his cancer was cured. Tributes came from Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman, Cillian Murphy, Laura Dern, two prime ministers, and from millions who knew him less as a movie star than as a friend they'd somehow never met. This is the story of how that happened. It begins in a rented farmhouse in Northern Ireland and a childhood spent as a stammering English boy in a New Zealand playground, until, at eleven, Nigel Neill made the first great creative decision of his life and renamed himself Sam. It runs through a country with no film industry to a career no one could have planned: New Zealand's first modern leading man; the actor who walked away from James Bond and, seven years later, starred in the highest-grossing film ever made and the Palme d'Or winner in the same year, and was never once nominated for an Oscar. It follows him into the second life he quietly built alongside the first: Two Paddocks, the Central Otago vineyard that began as five acres of paddock and became one of the region's most admired estates. And it stays with him through the extraordinary final act, the menace of Peaky Blinders, the joy of Hunt for the Wilderpeople, the lockdown ukulele broadcasts, the pig named Bryan Brown, and the diagnosis he kept secret while he worked, the experimental therapy on which he was the first patient in the world, and the verdict he insisted on phrasing himself: not a miracle, science at its best. Drawing on the full public record: his interviews across five decades, his bestselling memoir, and the outpouring that followed his death, this is the complete journey, from Omagh to the final harvest: the stammer and the voice it built, the fame he never chased, the friendships he never lost, and the vineyard wager he made against his own mortality in his last year, planting a Chardonnay he knew he might never pour. It was, by any measure, a remarkable life. This is the whole of it.

AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK "Extraordinary. Books like this are why I love reading. This novel about marriage and friendship and life and dying is a marvel." —Elin Hilderbrand “Profound and moving and real.”—Andrew Sean Greer “Some Bright Nowhere is a novel that draws you in deeply and holds you there. Wonderful.”—Meg Wolitzer The bestselling, beloved author returns with her first novel in over a decade, an intimate and profoundly moving look at a long marriage and the ways in which a startling request can change a couple’s understanding of who they are, together and apart. Eliot and his wife Claire have been happily married for nearly four decades. They’ve raised two children in their sleepy Connecticut town and have weathered the inevitable ups and downs of a long life spent together. But eight years after Claire was diagnosed with cancer, the end is near, and it's time to gather loved ones and prepare for the inevitable. Over the years of Claire’s illness, Eliot has willingly—lovingly—shifted into the role of caregiver, appreciating the intimacy and tenderness that comes with a role even more layered and complex than the one he performed as a devoted husband. But as he focuses on settling into what will be their last days and weeks together, Claire makes an unexpected request that leaves him reeling. In a moment, his carefully constructed world is shattered. What if your partner’s dying wish broke your heart? How well do we know the deepest desires of those we love dearly? As Eliot is confronted with this profound turning point in his marriage and his life, he grapples with the man and husband he’s been, and with the great unknowns of Claire’s last days. Ann Packer makes a triumphant return with this powerful novel that is tender and raw, visceral and unexpected. Emotionally vibrant and complex, Some Bright Nowhere explores the profound gifts and unexpected costs of truly loving someone, and the fears and desires we experience as the end of life draws near.

New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight delivers a tour de force of character-driven suspense: the story of two women whose secrets and desires entrap them in a deadly love triangle. You had to rely on the power of love. That he loved you enough not to do the thing that would break your heart. It was paper-thin ice on which to stake your survival. Gretchen Falk, a Park Avenue sophisticate born into great wealth and blessed with a storybook marriage, knows she lives a charmed life, and she’s not about to risk losing any part of it. That’s why she tried to convince Richard, her devoted husband and father to their three children, not to join his old college friends on an expedition almost eight thousand miles away, to the imposing peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. Little did she know the beautiful artist climbing alongside him might prove the far greater danger.  Frankie Callahan’s dream of artistic success is within reach, with her career-making exhibition at a celebrated New York gallery only weeks away.  If all goes well, the show will leave her financially independent, free of the tainted money that ties her to a past—and a man—she’s desperate to escape. To mark the end of this chapter, she is going to climb Kilimanjaro. But when she learns she’s the sole female accompanying a group of male friends, Frankie realizes that nothing about the trip will be as she expected. She certainly hasn’t counted on meeting anyone like the very charismatic, very rich, very married Richard Falk. By the time the group descends—with one fewer than when they began—they have lost more than they ever could have imagined.   Now, just two weeks after returning to New York, Frankie is dead, her East Village loft a blood-soaked crime scene. When Richard is charged in Frankie’s death, it falls to Gretchen to piece together how the life she so carefully constructed could have imploded so completely. There are only two things Gretchen knows for sure: she’s the only woman Richard has ever loved, and he would never hurt anyone. Someone Else’s Husband is the sweeping and suspenseful story of two women on a collision course with love—and with each other—in which no one is right and everyone is very, very wrong.

Daddy Yankee is a record-breaking rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and icon. In his first book, ReaDY, published simultaneously in English and Spanish, he shares the story of his journey from Puerto Rico to global fame, his brush with death, the reclaiming of his faith, and how tests of strength can transform your life. Known by his fans as Daddy Yankee, Raymond Ayala is a record-breaking rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and icon. He is also a philanthropist advocating for vulnerable children and an accomplished entrepreneur. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Daddy Yankee broke though in 2004, releasing his international hit single "Gasolina," along with the history making album Barrio Fino. In 2021, "Gasolina" was ranked number 50 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of all Time." In 2024 Luis Fonsi and DY collaborated on "Despacito," a chart topper in close to 50 countries and the second most-watched YouTube video ever. After 8 studio albums, 94 singles, and over 100 music videos, Daddy Yankee has won five Latin Grammy Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, 14 Billboard Latin Music Awards, two Latin American Music Awards, eight Lo Nuestro Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, and six ASCAP Awards. Now, he is speaking to his fans, and readers everywhere in ReaDY, his first book. ReaDY is an inspirational guide to building the life you dream of in a book threaded through with the story of his rise from the streets of Puerto Rico to international superstardom. When he found himself at the wrong end of a gun, the victim of a random shooting that brought him face-to-face with mortality and ended his dream of becoming a professional baseball player, Raymond had to find a new path. He set his sights on his other passion-making music. In this collection of lessons learned in his now three-decade long career, DY shares the roots of the set of convictions that have led him to the top of his profession-to face fear, to be an ambassador for his culture and all Latin culture, dedication to family, to always be learning, and most importantly, a reliance on his faith. ReaDY shows how he transformed his story-and empowers readers to do the same. Meant to inspire his readers to action and their own transformations, ReaDY showcases Daddy Yankee's drive, while humanizing one of the biggest music stars in the world.