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A stunning hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition of When He Was Wicked, the sixth novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series, featuring beautiful endpapers, a ribbon marker, and a gorgeous, decorated spine. Collect all 8 in the series to unveil the beautiful imagery when shelved together! Watch BRIDGERTON, created by Shondaland for Netflix. FRANCESCA’S STORY In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one’s life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to become engaged, he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder he managed to remain standing. But unfortunately for Michael, Francesca's surname was to remain Bridgerton for only a mere thirty-six hours longer—the occasion of their meeting was, lamentably, a supper celebrating her imminent wedding to his cousin. But that was then . . . Now Michael is the earl and Francesca is free, but still she thinks of him as nothing other than her dear friend and confidant. Michael dares not speak to her of his love . . . until one dangerous night, when she steps innocently into his arms, and passion proves stronger than even the most wicked of secrets . . .

It's a hot, humid July night in New York City. Where were you when the lights went out? As Zapped begins, the Reillys return home from a summer weekend to the loft in Tribeca they are in the agonizing process of renovating and expanding. They are looking forward to a quiet supper on their newly acquired rooftop terrace. But it's not meant to be. While Jack goes to pick up Chinese food, Regan enters their apartment, unaware that a nervous thief, who preceded her by minutes, is hiding in the front closet. A thief who knows about a hidden safe that Regan and Jack have yet to discover. Minutes later, the blackout strikes, and both Reillys are called into action. A new gallery in SoHo, featuring treasured glass sculptures from all over the world, has been burglarized. As head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, Jack oversees several departments. Art theft is one of them. PI Regan hears from her best friend, Kit, who is in Manhattan on business. She's been abandoned at a comedy club by a colleague from an insurance convention, Georgina Mathieson, who ran out for a cigarette moments before the blackout struck and never came back. Kit gets a call that Georgina is disturbed and dangerous. Fueled by her rage at a college boyfriend who dumped her, Georgina seeks revenge on unsuspecting young blond men. She was last seen getting into a cab outside the club?with a tall blond. Regan heads the search for Georgina and her potential victim. Meanwhile, Lorraine Lily, an almost famous actress, returns to New York City the night of the blackout, after spending three months in England doing a play, and is informed by her estranged husband, Conrad Spreckles, that he'd sold his loft to their next-door neighbors, the Reillys. Lorraine had never told him about the hidden safe she'd had installed in the closet. If she doesn't get back what's in there, she's sure her budding career will be ruined. In Zapped, Clark takes readers on a tour of the city they won't forget and introduces them to a wonderful cast of colorful, eccentric characters whose stories intersect in precarious and often humorous ways during one very dark and hot summer night.

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Siobhan Davis comes an emotional, angsty, new adult romance that will rip your heart apart before mending it again. I'm head over heels in love with my best friend. Although, I can't pinpoint exactly when Reeve Lancaster became my entire world. Was it when we were little kids, practically brought up together, after Reeve's mom died during childbirth and his dad subsequently fell apart? Or when I doodled his name in my school journal at age ten? Maybe it was when we became boyfriend and girlfriend at fourteen or when we shed our virginity at sixteen, pledging our forever? I was there as his star ascended-like I'd always known it would-and there wasn't a prouder person on the planet. As the only child of Hollywood's golden couple, I've lived my life in the spotlight enough to know it wasn't what I wanted for my future. But I sacrificed my own desires, because Reeve's happiness meant everything to me. Until he crushed my heart into itty-bitty pieces, forcing me to fly halfway around the world just to escape the gut-wrenching pain. The opportunity to study at Trinity College Dublin came at the perfect moment, and I jumped at the chance without hesitation. If I'd known fate was meddling in my life, perhaps I would have chosen differently, but my future was cemented the instant I laid eyes on him. Dillon O'Donoghue was Reeve's polar opposite in every way, and perhaps, that's why I felt drawn to him. He was the dark to my light. The thorn in my side, irritating me with his cold disdain, wild recklessness, and a burning rage hidden deep inside him that spoke to a silent part within me. Yet Dillon showed me what it was like to truly live, opening my eyes to endless possibilities. What happened next was inevitable, and I only have myself to blame. He warned me, and I knew my reprieve was temporary, because there is only so far I can run. Especially when fate hasn't finished messing with me yet. This is a full-length 168K-word emotional, angsty, second-chance romance novel. It cannot be read as a stand-alone, and it ends on a cliff-hanger. M/F romance. Recommended to readers aged eighteen and older.

Fall Away with this addictive series from the bestselling author of PUNK 57. From BookTok sensation and New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a riveting companion novel to BULLY. This is Jared's story . . . .............. Have you ever been so angry that hitting things felt good? Or numb to all emotions? The past few years have been like that for me. Travelling between fury and indifference with no stops in between. Some people hate me for it, while others are scared of me. But none of them can hurt me, because I don't care about anything or anyone. Except Tatum. I love her so much that I hate her. I hate that I can't let her go. We used to be friends, but I found out that I couldn't trust her - or anyone else. So I hurt her. I pushed her away. But I still need her. She centres me. Engaging her, challenging her, pushing her - it's the one last part of me that feels anything anymore. But then she went and screwed everything up. She left for a year and came back a different girl. Now, when I push, she pushes back . . . and I'm not sure either one of us will ever be the same. .............. Praise for the Fall Away novels: 'As gripping as it was sexy!' COLLEEN HOOVER 'Penelope creates incredible tension between their characters in this best friends to enemies to lovers romance. It touches on the trauma of high school relationships, first loves, and broken hearts, and most importantly, how to be with someone without losing yourself' Helena Hunting 'A wonderfully addictive read that kept my heart racing from start to finish. I could not put it down! 5 stars!!' Aestas Book Blog 'I got completely wrapped up in Bully' Scandalicious Book Reviews 'Freakin' awesome! I absolutely love, love, loved this book . . . It totally rocked. Three times I honestly thought I might spontaneously combust' Smitten's Book Blog 'There's a very thin line between love and hate! Did I know the line could be so blurred and painful? No! But can I say I didn't absolutely, without a doubt love this damn book? No! I freaking Loved it!!' SBookLover Reviews .............. Read the whole series in order: BULLY; UNTIL YOU; RIVAL; FALLING AWAY; AFLAME (novella); NEXT TO NEVER (novella)

Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine The two-time National Book Award winner and author of Salvage the Bones and Let Us Descend, contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a Black man in the rural South. "We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped." -Harriet Tubman In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life-to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth-and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own. Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue higher education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity. A brutal world rendered beautifully, Jesmyn Ward's memoir will sit comfortably alongside Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying, Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

This comforting collection of prayers, blessings, Franciscan wisdom, and heartwarming photos is the perfect gift for anyone who is grieving the loss of a beloved dog. Every page is filled with reassurance that we will see our animal friends in heaven. The death of a beloved animal friend can be one of the most difficult events we face, often surprising us at the depth of the grief and emotion we feel. It can be very comforting to know that the animals we love so much are safe with God, who created and loves them. Throughout his many years as a Franciscan friar, Jack Wintz came to know—the Bible gives us many clues—that we will be with our pets in heaven for eternity! St. Francis himself shared a close relationship with animals, preaching to the birds, releasing Brother Rabbit from a trap, or letting Sister Raven awaken him for early morning prayer. Franciscan spirituality tells us that all creatures form one family of creation, and God's plan of salvation includes the whole created world. This new, expanded edition of the original bestseller includes: - Wisdom from Friar Jack in 14 short and simple readings - Blessings, prayers, and stories from Scripture - Special presentation page to personalize the gift - Adorable photos and short memories of beloved dogs Sections of the book include: - Three Prayers of Blessing - The Happiness Principle - Noah, the Ark, and the Dove - Jonah and the Whale - The Song of St. Francis - Jesus and the World of Creation - Praying with Creatures - The Soul of a Dog With it reassuring message of God's eternal love and care for all creation, I Will See You in Heaven helps us to know that we are not alone in our grief, and that our "goodbye" is not forever. Cover photo: Hollie Betzler (2001-2018), Michigan's first grief therapy dog, served faithfully at her family's funeral home and area nursing homes for 16 years, giving a comforting paw at just the right time to just the right person. Her family anticipates her serving the same role at the gates of heaven, where she now waits for them.

Fall Away with this addictive series from the bestselling author of PUNK 57. From BookTok sensation and New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a riveting companion novel to BULLY. This is Jared's story . . . .............. Have you ever been so angry that hitting things felt good? Or numb to all emotions? The past few years have been like that for me. Travelling between fury and indifference with no stops in between. Some people hate me for it, while others are scared of me. But none of them can hurt me, because I don't care about anything or anyone. Except Tatum. I love her so much that I hate her. I hate that I can't let her go. We used to be friends, but I found out that I couldn't trust her - or anyone else. So I hurt her. I pushed her away. But I still need her. She centres me. Engaging her, challenging her, pushing her - it's the one last part of me that feels anything anymore. But then she went and screwed everything up. She left for a year and came back a different girl. Now, when I push, she pushes back . . . and I'm not sure either one of us will ever be the same. .............. Praise for the Fall Away novels: 'As gripping as it was sexy!' COLLEEN HOOVER 'Penelope creates incredible tension between their characters in this best friends to enemies to lovers romance. It touches on the trauma of high school relationships, first loves, and broken hearts, and most importantly, how to be with someone without losing yourself' Helena Hunting 'A wonderfully addictive read that kept my heart racing from start to finish. I could not put it down! 5 stars!!' Aestas Book Blog 'I got completely wrapped up in Bully' Scandalicious Book Reviews 'Freakin' awesome! I absolutely love, love, loved this book . . . It totally rocked. Three times I honestly thought I might spontaneously combust' Smitten's Book Blog 'There's a very thin line between love and hate! Did I know the line could be so blurred and painful? No! But can I say I didn't absolutely, without a doubt love this damn book? No! I freaking Loved it!!' SBookLover Reviews .............. Read the whole series in order: BULLY; UNTIL YOU; RIVAL; FALLING AWAY; AFLAME (novella); NEXT TO NEVER (novella)

'OH. MY. GOSH. This may be my new favorite romance from Rebecca Yarros so far. This was heartbreaking, it was beautiful, it destroyed me & put me back together... that's the only way I can describe it'_ _ _ _ _ From the author of Fourth Wing comes a bestselling romance sensation that has broken millions of readers' hearts. *cover may vary* CAMDEN I came home because my father needed me. Not because he wanted me back. Six years ago, I left my hometown carrying the blame for my brother's death. The people here never forgave me. Neither did my father. And honestly? I'm not sure I ever forgave myself. Now he's battling Alzheimer's, my family is falling apart, and every road in this town leads back to the past I've spent years trying to outrun. And to Willow Bradley. My childhood best friend. The woman I've always loved. The one person I need to stay away from. Because loving her is the one thing that could ruin us both. WILLOW Camden Daniels was the boy I was never supposed to love. He was my best friend, my almost, my what-if. Then he left, and all our town remembered was the tragedy he carried with him. But now Cam is back, and I can see what everyone else refuses to. He isn't the monster everyone made him out to be. He's wounded, stubborn, and still trying to protect everyone but himself. Choosing him means risking my family, my reputation, and the fragile peace I've built without him. But walking away might mean losing the only man who has ever felt like home. But this time, the truth might not set us free. It might destroy us completely. Perfect for readers who love: _Emotional small-town romance _Second-chance romance _Forbidden romance _Friends-to-lovers _Family secrets and complicated history _Military heroes _Slow-burn love stories _ Books that make you cry ;Rebecca Yarros delivers a heartbreaking, hopeful, and deeply romantic love story about grief, forgiveness, and a love that's worth fighting for. Perfect for fans of Elsie Silver, Paisley Hope, and Devney Perry. ' This book was EVERYTHING!!! I wish I could give this 10 stars'_ _ _ _ _ 'My heart broke for this book, and belongs to this book' _ _ _ _ _ ' BEAUTIFUL, raw, and emotional...I have no other words ' _ _ _ _ _ 'Why can't I give this book more stars?!? Never has a novel deserved its title better. GREAT AND PRECIOUS THINGS was insanely great and incredibly precious'_ _ _ _ _ 'OOOMMGGG!!! Here I sit, days after reading Rebecca Yarros' GREAT AND PRECIOUS THINGS, a story that stole my heart from the very first page... so stunning...so special...a marvel...a meaningful masterpiece. This broken beauty held my heart hostage the whole time reading'_ _ _ _ _ ' Heartwarming, heart-wrenching , and oh so worthy, Great and Precious Things painted itself all over my soul...oh my stars ... IT'S EVERYTHING! If I could give this beautifully broken book 10 stars, I would' _ _ _ _ _ 'Guaranteed to not only break your heart but to put it back together again. A story you won't be able to put aside and one you won't stop thinking about when you're done reading' _ _ _ _ _ 'This book is constantly living rent free in my mind' _ _ _ _ _ Rebecca Yarros, Sunday Times bestseller, August 2024

'OH. MY. GOSH. This may be my new favorite romance from Rebecca Yarros so far. This was heartbreaking, it was beautiful, it destroyed me & put me back together... that's the only way I can describe it'_ _ _ _ _ From the author of Fourth Wing comes a bestselling romance sensation that has broken millions of readers' hearts. *cover may vary* CAMDEN I came home because my father needed me. Not because he wanted me back. Six years ago, I left my hometown carrying the blame for my brother's death. The people here never forgave me. Neither did my father. And honestly? I'm not sure I ever forgave myself. Now he's battling Alzheimer's, my family is falling apart, and every road in this town leads back to the past I've spent years trying to outrun. And to Willow Bradley. My childhood best friend. The woman I've always loved. The one person I need to stay away from. Because loving her is the one thing that could ruin us both. WILLOW Camden Daniels was the boy I was never supposed to love. He was my best friend, my almost, my what-if. Then he left, and all our town remembered was the tragedy he carried with him. But now Cam is back, and I can see what everyone else refuses to. He isn't the monster everyone made him out to be. He's wounded, stubborn, and still trying to protect everyone but himself. Choosing him means risking my family, my reputation, and the fragile peace I've built without him. But walking away might mean losing the only man who has ever felt like home. But this time, the truth might not set us free. It might destroy us completely. Perfect for readers who love: _Emotional small-town romance _Second-chance romance _Forbidden romance _Friends-to-lovers _Family secrets and complicated history _Military heroes _Slow-burn love stories _ Books that make you cry ;Rebecca Yarros delivers a heartbreaking, hopeful, and deeply romantic love story about grief, forgiveness, and a love that's worth fighting for. Perfect for fans of Elsie Silver, Paisley Hope, and Devney Perry. ' This book was EVERYTHING!!! I wish I could give this 10 stars'_ _ _ _ _ 'My heart broke for this book, and belongs to this book' _ _ _ _ _ ' BEAUTIFUL, raw, and emotional...I have no other words ' _ _ _ _ _ 'Why can't I give this book more stars?!? Never has a novel deserved its title better. GREAT AND PRECIOUS THINGS was insanely great and incredibly precious'_ _ _ _ _ 'OOOMMGGG!!! Here I sit, days after reading Rebecca Yarros' GREAT AND PRECIOUS THINGS, a story that stole my heart from the very first page... so stunning...so special...a marvel...a meaningful masterpiece. This broken beauty held my heart hostage the whole time reading'_ _ _ _ _ ' Heartwarming, heart-wrenching , and oh so worthy, Great and Precious Things painted itself all over my soul...oh my stars ... IT'S EVERYTHING! If I could give this beautifully broken book 10 stars, I would' _ _ _ _ _ 'Guaranteed to not only break your heart but to put it back together again. A story you won't be able to put aside and one you won't stop thinking about when you're done reading' _ _ _ _ _ 'This book is constantly living rent free in my mind' _ _ _ _ _ Rebecca Yarros, Sunday Times bestseller, August 2024

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Multimedia, Internet, neue Technologien, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The purpose of this research is to combine theories of manipulative use of music with videogaming. In recent years, video-gaming has become more important, due to an ever rising popularity among children, teenagers and adults alike. The first part researches general facts about music listening in different environments, while the second and third part concentrate on video-game genres and their music, the theory of composing, as well as the social impact and phenomena arising from the increase of video-gaming in pop-culture awareness. Specific uses of video-game music are presented with recommended listening examples. With a broad approach to many aspects of music use, mood manipulation and video-game soundtracks, this paper may serve as a guidepost to further research in the field of studies of music and emotion in popular media. I was in awe: How could a scene in a game stir up so many emotions, remind of so many personal quarrels and yet comfort and soothe a young teenager, all but within a virtual world? Even when the controller was put aside, watching or remembering the scenery and story unfold, a feeling of reassurance and companionship with the protagonists came alive. Humming their melodies or quoting their wisdoms - at that time video-games were in critical observation by parents, friends and society - with an almost rebellious intent, the motivation arose to further examine and not let go of this medium. The songs were always so memorable, as they came by easily and fit a multiplicity of personal experiences. Nowadays, with video-games becoming part of main-stream media, players might still face criticism from often half-hearted examinations of video-games in news reports. Yet now, there is a community to share, speak and play with. With the increasing use of the internet, people are able to communicate with each other, duel each other with virtual cards, play mini-games, or fight strategic battles - all sharing their own proper experiences with the games' soundtracks. However, with a relatively new medium such as video-games, delving deeper into why they are becoming more and more popular is difficult. With almost a century of filmmaking dominating the entertainment industry, video-gaming created a new niche of entertainment. Collins is one of few to explore these "invaders in our homes". The use of music in video-gaming in general is even less examined. Juslin and Sloboda assembled data and essays examining the correlation of music and emotion.

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Multimedia, Internet, neue Technologien, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The purpose of this research is to combine theories of manipulative use of music with videogaming. In recent years, video-gaming has become more important, due to an ever rising popularity among children, teenagers and adults alike. The first part researches general facts about music listening in different environments, while the second and third part concentrate on video-game genres and their music, the theory of composing, as well as the social impact and phenomena arising from the increase of video-gaming in pop-culture awareness. Specific uses of video-game music are presented with recommended listening examples. With a broad approach to many aspects of music use, mood manipulation and video-game soundtracks, this paper may serve as a guidepost to further research in the field of studies of music and emotion in popular media. I was in awe: How could a scene in a game stir up so many emotions, remind of so many personal quarrels and yet comfort and soothe a young teenager, all but within a virtual world? Even when the controller was put aside, watching or remembering the scenery and story unfold, a feeling of reassurance and companionship with the protagonists came alive. Humming their melodies or quoting their wisdoms - at that time video-games were in critical observation by parents, friends and society - with an almost rebellious intent, the motivation arose to further examine and not let go of this medium. The songs were always so memorable, as they came by easily and fit a multiplicity of personal experiences. Nowadays, with video-games becoming part of main-stream media, players might still face criticism from often half-hearted examinations of video-games in news reports. Yet now, there is a community to share, speak and play with. With the increasing use of the internet, people are able to communicate with each other, duel each other with virtual cards, play mini-games, or fight strategic battles - all sharing their own proper experiences with the games' soundtracks. However, with a relatively new medium such as video-games, delving deeper into why they are becoming more and more popular is difficult. With almost a century of filmmaking dominating the entertainment industry, video-gaming created a new niche of entertainment. Collins is one of few to explore these "invaders in our homes". The use of music in video-gaming in general is even less examined. Juslin and Sloboda assembled data and essays examining the correlation of music and emotion.

"Elana K. Arnold paints prose like a master. A fascinating journey through time, love, and forgiveness." - A.S. King, Printz Award-winning author of Dig Award-winning author Elana K. Arnold returns with a boldly visionary, deeply felt story that crosses space and time to examine loss and love in a world on the brink. It is the late summer of 2021, and a girl named Nora is on the Paris Metro. Nora, whose mother loved her, even though Nora was broken. Nora, who couldn't help her mother when her mother needed her most. Nora, from whom the pandemic has taken nearly everything, save the object she clings to: a cylinder containing her mother's ashes. With no family left, no friends to speak of, and no way to turn back time, Nora has come to France to keep a promise she never got to make: to spread the ashes in a place her mother never got to see. But instead, Nora finds herself on the run through a forest in the night, taking refuge in a dark holloway. And when she wakes, and tries to make her way back to something she recognizes, she realizes that is impossible. Because it is no longer 2021. Questioning everything-including her own sanity-Nora sets out on a journey through a time and place completely foreign to her, and yet one that, much like the time and place she came from, is defined by death, loss, fear, and uncertainty. A journey in which she must find a way to honor her mother-and heal herself-in a world that feels irrevocably broken.

Marooned on a deadly alternate Earth, Colonel Lewis Cayce and his soldiers find themselves outnumbered and outclassed in this riveting new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. After being stranded on a very different and more perilous Earth, Colonel Lewis Cayce led his small army of displaced Americans, natives of the Yucatán, and Jaguar Warriors to defeat the biggest host the Dominion general Agon could assemble. Most unexpectedly, General Agon came to recognize the inherent evil of the Dominion and its depraved Blood Priests and turned on his former leaders. Awkwardly at first, Lewis Cayce and Agon join forces to press their common enemy back toward the dark heart of the Dominion in the Great Valley of Mexico. But more Dominion troops have been drawn from the west to stop the Allied march on the Holy City, and a grueling race has begun. Worse, the Gran Cruzada-a vast Dom army that was marching on the far Californias to eject yet another heretic foe-might've already been recalled to face Cayce's soldiers. Time has become more precious than ever, and before Lewis Cayce can even try to implement his plan for total victory, he and his force must brave their greatest challenge yet-a brutal fight against a larger, better-trained army whose commander has a gift for strategy to rival Cayce's own. The struggle to keep all his soldiers alive, new friends and old comrades alike, will test Cayce like never before, and, win or lose, nothing will be the same.

When Nazi warplanes blast an American fighter pilot out of the sky, he awakens not in the expected afterlife but on a far-flung planet-one of eleven interconnected worlds hurtling around a strangely constructed star system. On Poloda, he earns a new name-Tangor, one who came from nothing-and a new home among the brave people of Unis, a nation locked in perpetual war against the brutish, totalitarian Kapars. But when news comes of a powerful invention that could turn the tides of the conflict, Tangor must undertake a daring undercover mission behind enemy lines. There, in vile Kapara, he will not only risk life and limb, but also brand himself as a traitor in the eyes of his newfound friends, as he continues his fight for freedom beyond the farthest star! The creator of the immortal characters Tarzan of the Apes(R) and John Carter of Mars(R), Edgar Rice Burroughs(R) is one of the world's most popular authors. His timeless tales of heroes and heroines transport readers from the jungles of Africa and the dead sea bottoms of Barsoom(R) to the miles-high forests of Amtor(TM) and the savage inner world of Pellucidar(R), and even to alien civilizations Beyond the Farthest Star(TM). Mr. Burroughs' books are estimated to have sold hundreds of millions of copies, and they have spawned 60 films and 250 television episodes. (c) 1941, 1964, 2021 Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. > Trademarks Beyond the Farthest Star(TM), Edgar Rice Burroughs(R), and Others Owned by ERB, Inc.

"Ram Dass lived a full life and then some. His final statement is thorough and, yes, enlightening." -Kirkus Reviews Perhaps no other teacher has sparked the fires of as many spiritual seekers in the West as Ram Dass. If you've ever embraced the phrase "be here now," practiced meditation or yoga, tried psychedelics, or supported anyone in a hospice, prison, or homeless center-then the story of Ram Dass is also part of your story. From his birth in 1931 to his luminous later years, Ram Dass saw his life as just one incarnation of many. This memoir puts us in the passenger seat with the one-time Harvard psychologist and lifelong risk-taker Richard Alpert, who loved to take friends on wild rides on his Harley and test nearly every boundary-inner or outer-that came his way. Being Ram Dass shares his life's odyssey in intimate detail: how he struggled with issues of self-identity and sexuality in his youth, pioneered psychedelic research, and opened the doorways to Eastern spiritual practices. In 1967 he trekked to India and met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba. He returned with a perspective on spirituality and psychology that changed millions. This intimate memoir chronicles the cultural and spiritual transformations Ram Dass experienced that resonate with us to this day, a journey from the mind to the heart, from the ego to the soul. Before, after, and along these waypoints, listeners will encounter many other adventures and revelations-each ringing with the potential to awaken the universal, loving divine that links us to this beloved teacher and all of us to each other.

'Gallops through the pre-mobile phone era with wit and chaotic energy.' Sunday Times'A joyous rags-to-riches tale.' Financial Times'Nostalgic, salacious and bitingly witty.' Joe Lycett'A delicious, neon-soaked fever dream.' Munroe Bergdorf'I couldn't put it down.' Annie MacmanusThe defining book on the iconic noughties-era of pop culture in London as told by DJ Jodie Harsh, who saw, did and survived it all. Jodie Harsh arrived in London aged fifteen in 2001, heading straight off the train from Canterbury to her first club night at the Astoria. Intoxicated by this initial taste of city nightlife, she didn't leave the party for years, falling in with the right wrong people and exploring the sides of London best experienced under cover of darkness. Throughout the noughties, from Camden and Soho to Mayfair, from Notting Hill and Primrose Hill to Hackney Road, the city was a messy, beating, slick and sordid melting pot. New music, new fashion, new art, all came together in a mad, dizzying rush before - and during - the financial crash of 2008. Different scenes collided, exploded, were reborn and shaped across the city, at rapid speed. Harsh grabs us by the hand and leads us back to those decadent times: from the Astoria to The Cross, the Soho Revue Bar to Mahiki, Boombox to The End and her famous friends' houses; to a time before social media and cameraphones were ubiquitous and a life without their perpetual scrutiny allowed for a more liberated, hedonistic and creative existence. You had to be there, and Jodie Harsh was. Every single night.

A bold new story for fans of We Were Liars, intertwining past and present, love and loss, from the bestselling author of The One Memory of Flora Banks. ' A sun-splashed Cornish thriller with a dark heart, ideal for YA fans of E Lockhart' Guardian ONE HOT SUMMER, FIRST LOVE AND SO MANY BURIED SECRETS . . . Senara has never been in love before. She's not done anything exciting before. Always the sidekick . . . Until the summer that changes everything. Cliff House is closed off for most of the year until its rich Londoner owners come down to Cornwall for the summer. This year, despite herself, Senara finds herself pulled into this world of wealth and ease, sunbathing and beautiful people. She even finds herself falling in love for the first time. But Cliff House and its owners are hiding things. They've been hiding things for too long and now, despite all their efforts, their secrets are coming out . . . Secrets that involve Senara's friends and her family in a way she could never have imagined. 'An intoxicating mix of mystery, suspense and first love' The Daily Mirror 'A perfect holiday page-turner' The Sunday Express 'This is another young adult novel that will have younger readers transfixed' The Metro 'A slow-burn summer novel packed with intrigue' Culturefly - 22 Books to add to your Summer Reading List Read more captivating fiction from Emily Barr: The One Memory of Flora Banks The Truth and Lies of Ella Black The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods Things to do Before The End of the World Ghosted

"Could any biographer have been better suited to this gargantuan undertaking?" -The New York Times, on Gerald Martin's Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life The long-awaited biography of Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize-winning literary colossus and debonair provocateur whose contradictory life is rendered here in astounding detail. By the time he died in April 2025, the Peruvian novelist and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa was internationally renowned and celebrated, considered to be perhaps the greatest contemporary writer and most influential intellectual in the Spanish-speaking world. He was also indisputably the most controversial: He was never out of the headlines in more than six decades of literary and political activity, from the moment he exploded onto the cultural scene in the early 1960s with his first novel, The Time of the Hero, until his last, I Give You My Silence, in 2023. At first a self-declared socialist, he changed his mind about the meaning of "freedom," made the long march through ideologies, and renounced collectivism of every kind until ending up a provocative supporter of Reaganite neoliberalism. At nineteen he married an aunt, then replaced her with a teenage first cousin a decade later, only to abandon her in scandalous fashion after fifty years in favor of the most glamorous socialite in post-Franco Spain. He knocked his friend and rival Gabriel García Márquez to the ground with the most famous punch in literary history in 1976, came within a whisker of the presidency of Peru in 1990, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. Handsome, debonair, and almost incomparably ambitious, Vargas Llosa's personal life was as head-turning as his politics, rendered here in outrageous detail.

"Could any biographer have been better suited to this gargantuan undertaking?" -The New York Times, on Gerald Martin's Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life The long-awaited biography of Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize-winning literary colossus and debonair provocateur whose contradictory life is rendered here in astounding detail. By the time he died in April 2025, the Peruvian novelist and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa was internationally renowned and celebrated, considered to be perhaps the greatest contemporary writer and most influential intellectual in the Spanish-speaking world. He was also indisputably the most controversial: He was never out of the headlines in more than six decades of literary and political activity, from the moment he exploded onto the cultural scene in the early 1960s with his first novel, The Time of the Hero, until his last, I Give You My Silence, in 2023. At first a self-declared socialist, he changed his mind about the meaning of "freedom," made the long march through ideologies, and renounced collectivism of every kind until ending up a provocative supporter of Reaganite neoliberalism. At nineteen he married an aunt, then replaced her with a teenage first cousin a decade later, only to abandon her in scandalous fashion after fifty years in favor of the most glamorous socialite in post-Franco Spain. He knocked his friend and rival Gabriel García Márquez to the ground with the most famous punch in literary history in 1976, came within a whisker of the presidency of Peru in 1990, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. Handsome, debonair, and almost incomparably ambitious, Vargas Llosa's personal life was as head-turning as his politics, rendered here in outrageous detail.

National Bestseller! Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! A Publishers Weekly "Best Books of 2017" pick! Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel! Shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award! Winner of the Prix Julia-Verlanger! Embark on an exciting, adventurous, and dangerous journey through the galaxy with the motley crew of the spaceship Wayfarer in this fun and heart-warming, character-driven space opera—the sequel to the acclaimed The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace, a newly sentient AI, learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who’s determined to help her learn and grow. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet introduced readers to the incredible world of Rosemary Harper, a young woman with a restless soul and secrets to keep. When she joined the crew of the Wayfarer, an intergalactic ship, she got more than she bargained for—and learned to live with, and love, her rag-tag collection of crewmates. A Closed and Common Orbit is the stand-alone sequel to that beloved debut novel, a compelling dual timeline story perfect for fans of Firefly, Joss Whedon, Mass Effect, and Star Wars.

The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I smile a little. "You should tell us about it sometime." "Yes, sometime."' This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. There are more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide and it is estimated there are some 300,000 child soldiers fighting. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. Ishmael Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve in Sierra Leone, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

Champagne is a short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, written in 1887. The story is written in the first person. The young head of a remote railway stop lived with his wife and without children in solitude, amusing himself with vodka and watching passing trains. Life was boring. One day before celebrating the New Year, he sat with his wife at the festive table, drank enough and thought about boredom. We waited for the clock to show the arrival of the New Year. At five minutes to twelve he uncorked the bottle, the cork flew out, and the bottle slipped out of his hands and fell to the floor. The wife greeted Happy New Year with frightened eyes. She knew that the falling bottle was a bad omen and meant that something bad would happen in the new year. After arguing with his wife, the narrator left the house thinking that this had already happened to them, that the worst could not happen. He remembered his dead parents, how he was kicked out of the gymnasium, how he wandered around with nothing to do and friends. He did not love his wife; he married when he was still a boy. Returning home, he saw his wife cheerful - "good aunt" Natalya Petrovna, the wife of the hero's wife's uncle, a woman of free behavior, came to them for three days. At dinner, "aunt" and "nephew" drank well, they became dizzy, and their romance began (a terrible, mad whirlwind). In this whirlwind, the hero loses his wife, mistress, and job. He asks "what else bad could happen to me?"

Order now and receive the stunning DELUXE FIRST PRINT RUN while supplies last -featuring gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and special cover design features. This breathtaking collectible is only available as part of a LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN in the US and Canada only, a must-have for any book lover. Sometimes relationships come along that define you. Someone who brings out sides of you that no one else sees. The reason that you try to be the best version of yourself. Savannah Abbott was my North Star growing up. She was my best friend, my neighbor, and the person who knew me best. But without warning, she was gone in the blink of an eye. My life began unraveling the day she left Magnolia Falls. Because apparently, when you lose the best thing in your life, it's all downhill from there. But I'm a survivor- and I forced myself to move on. My guard went up, and my ability to trust people disappeared. Until the day Savannah came back to town-more than a decade later. And now she's acting like I'm the enemy. She wants nothing to do with me, even all these years later. Until she needs a favor. A temporary husband. I may not be the marrying type, but for Savannah, I'm willing to bend the rules. None of this is real, and she reminds me of that every day while we're playing house. I may fight fires for a living, but my new wife is a flame that I don't want to extinguish. She's the fire that's been missing all along.

'Gallops through the pre-mobile phone era with wit and chaotic energy.' Sunday Times ' A joyous rags-to-riches tale.' Financial Times 'Nostalgic, salacious and bitingly witty. ' Joe Lycett 'A delicious, neon-soaked fever dream.' Munroe Bergdorf 'I couldn't put it down.' Annie Macmanus The defining book on the iconic noughties-era of pop culture in London as told by DJ Jodie Harsh, who saw, did and survived it all. Jodie Harsh arrived in London aged fifteen in 2001, heading straight off the train from Canterbury to her first club night at the Astoria. Intoxicated by this initial taste of city nightlife, she didn't leave the party for years, falling in with the right wrong people and exploring the sides of London best experienced under cover of darkness. Throughout the noughties, from Camden and Soho to Mayfair, from Notting Hill and Primrose Hill to Hackney Road, the city was a messy, beating, slick and sordid melting pot. New music, new fashion, new art, all came together in a mad, dizzying rush before - and during - the financial crash of 2008. Different scenes collided, exploded, were reborn and shaped across the city, at rapid speed. Harsh grabs us by the hand and leads us back to those decadent times: from the Astoria to The Cross, the Soho Revue Bar to Mahiki, Boombox to The End and her famous friends' houses; to a time before social media and cameraphones were ubiquitous and a life without their perpetual scrutiny allowed for a more liberated, hedonistic and creative existence. You had to be there, and Jodie Harsh was. Every single night.

A bold new story for fans of We Were Liars, intertwining past and present, love and loss, from the bestselling author of The One Memory of Flora Banks. ' A sun-splashed Cornish thriller with a dark heart, ideal for YA fans of E Lockhart' Guardian ONE HOT SUMMER, FIRST LOVE AND SO MANY BURIED SECRETS . . . Senara has never been in love before. She's not done anything exciting before. Always the sidekick . . . Until the summer that changes everything. Cliff House is closed off for most of the year until its rich Londoner owners come down to Cornwall for the summer. This year, despite herself, Senara finds herself pulled into this world of wealth and ease, sunbathing and beautiful people. She even finds herself falling in love for the first time. But Cliff House and its owners are hiding things. They've been hiding things for too long and now, despite all their efforts, their secrets are coming out . . . Secrets that involve Senara's friends and her family in a way she could never have imagined. 'An intoxicating mix of mystery, suspense and first love' The Daily Mirror 'A perfect holiday page-turner' The Sunday Express 'This is another young adult novel that will have younger readers transfixed' The Metro 'A slow-burn summer novel packed with intrigue' Culturefly - 22 Books to add to your Summer Reading List Read more captivating fiction from Emily Barr: The One Memory of Flora Banks The Truth and Lies of Ella Black The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods Things to do Before The End of the World Ghosted

Don't You Have Time to Think? collects the witty, eccentric and moving letters letters of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman. Richard Feynman was no ordinary genius. Brilliant, free-spirited and irreverent, he upset those in authority, gave captivating lectures, wrote equations on napkins in strip joints and touched countless lives everywhere. He also wrote hundreds of letters to friends, family, critics, colleagues and devoted fans around the world. Now these letters have been brought together for the first time. From down-to-earth advice to eager students to discussions of time travel and the atom bomb, and from blunt rebuttals to journalists to poignant exchanges with his first wife as she lay dying, they will introduce you to a unique person whose wisdom and lust for life inspired all those who came into his orbit. 'Nobel-winning physicist, expert bongo-player, safe-cracker and all-round genius, Feynman was, as this wonderful and inspiring collection records, also a champion letter-writer ... Witty, deadpan, warm ... some are unbearably poignant' Guardian 'Plain-speaking ... touching' Daily Telegraph 'He sparked excitement not just about science but also about the power of creativity, passion, curiosity' The New York Times Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) was one of this century's most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers. Feynman's other books, also available in Penguin, include QED, Six Easy Pieces, Six Not-so-Easy Pieces, Don't You Have Time to Think, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, What Do You Care What Other People Think? and The Meaning of it All.

A bold new story for fans of We Were Liars, intertwining past and present, love and loss, from the bestselling author of The One Memory of Flora Banks. ' A sun-splashed Cornish thriller with a dark heart, ideal for YA fans of E Lockhart' Guardian ONE HOT SUMMER, FIRST LOVE AND SO MANY BURIED SECRETS . . . Senara has never been in love before. She's not done anything exciting before. Always the sidekick . . . Until the summer that changes everything. Cliff House is closed off for most of the year until its rich Londoner owners come down to Cornwall for the summer. This year, despite herself, Senara finds herself pulled into this world of wealth and ease, sunbathing and beautiful people. She even finds herself falling in love for the first time. But Cliff House and its owners are hiding things. They've been hiding things for too long and now, despite all their efforts, their secrets are coming out . . . Secrets that involve Senara's friends and her family in a way she could never have imagined. 'An intoxicating mix of mystery, suspense and first love' The Daily Mirror 'A perfect holiday page-turner' The Sunday Express 'This is another young adult novel that will have younger readers transfixed' The Metro 'A slow-burn summer novel packed with intrigue' Culturefly - 22 Books to add to your Summer Reading List Read more captivating fiction from Emily Barr: The One Memory of Flora Banks The Truth and Lies of Ella Black The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods Things to do Before The End of the World Ghosted

An Irish Times Best Food Book of the Year. 'A dream of a cookery book. Sumptuous, tempting with quite beautiful photography.' Irish Examiner 'The book is so beautiful, full of [your] own photographs, that look like gorgeous still life paintings.' Suzy Kline, BBC R4 Saturday Live 'The best kind of cookbook are those that you make you want to scribble and make every dish.' The Hampstead Kitchen 'A menu of Middle Eastern gems to tempt the taste buds' Sunday Express Gourmand World Cookbook 2019 award finalist Author and photographer Atoosa Sepehr offers not just mouthwatering traditional Iranian recipes, but also her own sumptuous photographs of both her food and the people and landsapes of Iran. Born and brought up in Iran, Atoosa came to work in the UK in 2007, but she never left behind the wonderful flavours of her family and childhood. Cooking these dishes for her family and friends over here has given her the passion to share the authentic, home cooked Persian cuisine with an international readership. The book contains traditional recipes handed down the generations, but converted to fit into Atoosa's busy life. They are delicious and easy to prepare, using ingredients you can get in any supermarket. 'Every time I cook a Persian dish, I feel connected to this long and varied history, knowing that despite changing geographical and political boundaries, Persian cuisine has survived and thrived, bringing people together, sharing and celebrating.' Atoosa Atoosa's Persian Kitchen is an impressively practical recipe book, but it is a photographic celebration of an entire country, too.

When Nazi warplanes blast an American fighter pilot out of the sky, he awakens not in the expected afterlife but on a far-flung planet-one of eleven interconnected worlds hurtling around a strangely constructed star system. On Poloda, he earns a new name-Tangor, one who came from nothing-and a new home among the brave people of Unis, a nation locked in perpetual war against the brutish, totalitarian Kapars. But when news comes of a powerful invention that could turn the tides of the conflict, Tangor must undertake a daring undercover mission behind enemy lines. There, in vile Kapara, he will not only risk life and limb, but also brand himself as a traitor in the eyes of his newfound friends, as he continues his fight for freedom beyond the farthest star! The creator of the immortal characters Tarzan of the Apes(R) and John Carter of Mars(R), Edgar Rice Burroughs(R) is one of the world's most popular authors. His timeless tales of heroes and heroines transport readers from the jungles of Africa and the dead sea bottoms of Barsoom(R) to the miles-high forests of Amtor(TM) and the savage inner world of Pellucidar(R), and even to alien civilizations Beyond the Farthest Star(TM). Mr. Burroughs' books are estimated to have sold hundreds of millions of copies, and they have spawned 60 films and 250 television episodes. (c) 1941, 1964, 2021 Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. > Trademarks Beyond the Farthest Star(TM), Edgar Rice Burroughs(R), and Others Owned by ERB, Inc.

The epic, million-copy selling novel of a fugitive's transformation in India "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured." So begins this epic, mesmerizing novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees a maximum-security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and exiles seeking what they cannot find elsewhere. As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums and serving an apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. His path leads him through war, prison torture, murder, and bloody betrayals. The keys to Lin's fate are held by two people: Khader Khan, a mafia godfather and criminal-philosopher-saint, and Karla, an elusive, dangerous beauty driven by tormenting secrets. Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas-this sweeping novel reaches across the entire spectrum of human experience. Based on the extraordinary life of the author, Shantaram is a passionate, unforgettable love letter to India.