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Cities of the Drift - The Lighthouse at the End of the World
Enter a London like no other in this fast-paced, captivating fantasy novel, perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab and Genevieve Cogman. Oyster McLellen has spent his life causing mischief. Running with a small-time gang and fleecing money from tourists in Hyde Park to support his struggling family in the absence of his father, who abandoned them years ago. When a simple money drop for his boss, Big Mickey, goes wrong, Oyster's future looks bleak. His only chance to redeem himself in the eyes of Mickey is to get the money back, but as he pursues the thieves across South London he suddenly finds himself washed up on a beach, surrounded by broken phones and shattered office furniture. His new world: Greater London. A city built on the detritus of our own, where leviathans crafted from broken skyscrapers roam the seas, where ink beetles nestle beneath the skin of its residents and where Oyster's father, Lucas, may well have escaped to all those years ago. But there are bigger things at stake. Oyster's allegiances are torn between the enigmatic Nonesuch, the eccentric escapist Marya Petrovna, and the terrifying Mr Primrose - and he will have to choose who to align himself with quickly. Because plans are afoot: something ancient is brewing, and a choice needs to be made, the consequences of which will determine the fate of Londons, and life, everywhere.
I Won't Let Mistress Suck My Blood Vol. 2
Matilda thought she found the perfect job that even provided her with room and board. Sure, the mansion she works at is known as the “Haunted House,” but she’s completely smitten with her new boss, August. Unfortunately, August is a vampire and naturally thirsts for Matilda’s blood. Not ready to give up on her paramour, Matilda ventures into the town’s library in search for a cure. Will the mysterious sister the two encounter help, or will she be one more roadblock on Matilda’s quest for love?
The Fight for a Supranational World
In the 1848-1867 period, the Habsburg Adriatic was contended by incipient nationalisms, particularly the Italian, German, and South Slavic. The Fight for a Supranational World focuses on Trieste, Fiume/Rijeka, and Dalmatia, where opposing nationalisms found themselves at grips with centuries-long traditions of municipal autonomy, dynastic loyalty, regional patriotism, and ethnic hybridity—all qualities enshrined within Habsburg supranationalism. There were attempts by nationalist activists to exploit ethnic and linguistic elements to form or join national states, but these largely failed until much later in the century. Contrary to the current consensus within nationalism scholarship, which is steeped in the notion of "liberal nationalism," The Fight for a Supranational World argues that in 1848 and the following years, nationalism was illiberal due to its exclusionary or assimilatory tendencies in its quest for cultural and linguistic homogeneity. This work also shows how Habsburg supranationalism, neglected within nationalism studies and political science more broadly, needs to be the bedrock for more accurate theorizations of nationalism that would prove the relevance of Elie Kedourie's and Eugen Weber's works, among others, despite Ernest Gellner's and Benedict Anderson's enduring popularity.
What to Make of a Life
THE QUESTION
What to make of a life?
It is a question we all wrestle with more than once. How do we find our way in the world? How do we make it past the cliffs, significant events that can radically change a life? How do we keep the inner fire burning bright, long and late?
Inspired by relentless curiosity, Jim Collins devoted a decade to studying these questions and to minutely analysing those moments when life flips from clarity to confusion and casts us into a befuddling fog.
THE STUDY
His exploration compares various lives side by side, paired together at cliffs, and analyses the different choices made and divergent paths taken.
• Two rock musicians confronting a future without the group that had brought them success.
• Two suffragists achieving their epic goal and then left with the puzzle of what to do next.
• Two public figures tainted by scandal having to make decisions about how to rebuild their lives.
• Two figure skaters seeking new purpose when their Olympic careers come to an end.
What emerges from Collins's extensive studies - of writers, actors, scientists, leaders, and many others - is a framework for understanding how individual lives can be built, sustained, and constantly renewed.
THE FINDINGS
By examining the long arc of these remarkable lives, Collins tackles life's questions. What does it take to:
• Discover a deeply fulfilling role in life - one that you are naturally 'encoded' for - and then find a second one, if the first one ends?
• Overcome a major cliff - a fracture point that forces choices about what's next and calls for you to reenvision the years to come?
• Make your personal economics work so that you can focus on One Big Thing that feeds your inner fire?
• Navigate the fog when you feel uncertain or even outright lost, and build confidence step by step
• Minimise the impact of bad luck and ensure the maximum return on good luck?
• Build personal momentum decade upon decade, so that your most creative and energetic years are spread across an entire lifetime?
• Achieve the imperative to 'Know Thyself' and apply self-knowledge to each phase of life?
THE TRANSFORMATION
For the first time, Collins movingly chronicles his own story to reveal how undertaking this project transformed him, changing his thinking and reshaping his emotions in fundamental ways. 'After this study,' writes Collins, 'I will never look at life the same ever again.'
Imperial
Against the fallout of someone mysteriously killing the rulers of the Marvel galactic empires, the fires of war are lit! As that conflict simmers, Nova and Star-Lord race to discover who is behind all these evil acts - a journey that takes them to the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda! Featuring Hulks, Black Panthers, Guardians and cosmic kings and queens, it's a must-read saga from the scribe who reshaped mutantkind with House of X/Powers of X! Collecting: IMPERIAL (2025) #1-4, IMPERIAL WAR: NOVA - CENTURION (2025) #1, IMPERIAL WAR: PLANET SHE-HULK (2025) #1, IMPERIAL WAR: IMPERIAL GUARDIANS (2025) #1, IMPERIAL WAR: EXILES (2025) #1 AND IMPERIAL WAR: BLACK PANTHER (2025) #1
At the Cookout
CiCi just can't wait to get to her Grandma's house for the family's first big cookout of the summer. There's plenty to look forward to: the food, the games, the music, and seeing all her aunties and uncles. But most of all, Cici is excited to catch up with her big cousin Chase. There's just one problem: she can't seem to find him anywhere! CiCi searches all over the party, asking everyone she meets if they've seen Chase, until she finally thinks to look for him in the most unexpected of places . . . From the cousins playing Double Dutch, to the uncles throwing horseshoes, to the savoury smells of Grandma's cooking, this is a love letter to family, summer, and the magic that happens when we all get together.
Tifo: The Art of Football Fan Stickers
A lone PSG sticker on a North-London Street sign; the towering Maradona mural that watches over Naples. Europe’s fan-made canvases tell football’s biggest stories. Timed perfectly for World-Cup fever, Tifo: The Art of Football Fan Stickers—Revised & Expanded presents 500 plus images from over 100 clubs, printed on premium matte-art stock and bound in a linen-wrapped hardback with foil stamping. Stickerbomb founders Suridh Hassan and Ryo Sanada spent more than two years tracking down these graphics and the tales behind them: the unlikely bond between Boavista and Aberdeen, St Pauli’s anti-fascist iconography, Sevilla’s surprising love affair with Karl Marx, and how Parma became entangled in Europe’s biggest bankruptcy scandal. Insightful essays by award-winning journalist James Montague and Design Museum curator Eleanor Watson deepen the cultural and historical context. Equal parts visual archive and behind-the-scenes anecdote Tifo is the ultimate gift for ground-hoppers, quiz-night champions and anyone who bleeds club colours.
Women and Resistance in the "Annals" of Tacitus
Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Throughout his Annals, women discover ways to resist without relying on traditional forms of power. Women engage in political protests, legal disputes, public processions, and subversive religious rituals. They demonstrate resistance in acts of mourning and commemoration and overturn gender stereotypes by enduring pain and displaying courage in death. Tacitus illustrates how women's public movements, rituals, suicides, and survivals become sites of resistance and opportunities for civic engagement open to women. Caitlin C. Gillespie situates nonimperial Roman women at the fore, reading them in comparison with Tacitus's narratives of imperial women and hierarchies of power. With this new analytical approach, stereotypes against women are variously confirmed or denied, challenged or evoked as evidence, or employed as a means of attack or defense. Women emerge to claim agency over their bodies, reputations, and actions, and though a vulnerable population, refuse to be passive victims of their circumstances.
One World Under Doom
Victor Von Doom saved the world from vampires by assuming the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme... then disappeared behind Latveria's closed borders. Six months later the world wakes up to a new reality: Doom has declared himself the ruler of the planet under the flag of a new United Latveria! And shockingly, impossibly, all global leaders seem to be going along with it. Luckily, whether it's mind control or Doombots, whatever's affecting them hasn't affected Earth's heroes - so they quickly form a strike team to stop Doom's machinations. But nothing will go as expected for the Fantastic Four, the Avengers and their allies! What happens when some begin to welcome their new Emperor with open arms, clamoring for One World Under Doom? Collecting: ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM (2024) #1-9
Late—Later
In this extraordinary debut collection, Kathleen Bridget Eva O’Hanlon dives deeply into a personal history that holds a mirror up to all the ways we piece together a lifetime of memories to weave a story of our many connected selves. Rich in references to literature, history, myth and culture, the poetry here remains accessible and resonant, clear-eyed, acutely observant and bristling with intelligent humour. We are reminded of the ways fragments of our pasts become defining moments – the casual remark to a child over a Crunchie bar that remains brutally clear decades later, the act of undemonstrative kindness that makes a child feel seen and valued in the simple gift of a wooden butter curler, the radical grandmother who ‘called a penis, a penis’, the life events and ordinary days that mark us – from almost marrying Casanova to childbirth, from our hungry ghosts to the way insomnia blurs into vision, threading loss and memory. It’s late and getting later, but still there is wit and life, still there is a legacy to leave and hope to insist on, memories that reshape both past and future. Still there is a credo – in the ‘great and final roar that is to come’ and in love.
Love Out on a Limb 1
From the acclaimed shojo creator of Those Not-So-Sweet Boys, Love in Focus, and That Wolf-Boy Is Mine! comes a new high school manga filled with taboo thoughts and curiosities. This love triangle is not so simple! After her divorced parents remarry, Yui returns to her hometown for the first time in eight years. She has not seen her older brother, Hayato, during that time, so she is amazed to see how popular and grown up he has become. She also bumps into her childhood friend, Ritsu, who she remembers as a crybaby, and almost doesn't recognize him. Now living with her brother again, she can't help but notice her heart fluttering with each interaction. Does this mean she might like him?! Knowing how taboo these thoughts are, Ritsu suggests he and Yui date as a way to nip her feelings for Hayato in the bud. Yet this family tree may not actually be as simple as it seems… Japanese title: Bokura no suki wa warikirenai
Sublime Lungs
In Sublime Lungs Kate Noakes turns her attention to the breath. For the first time, she explores her lifelong asthma and explains the impact of this chronic and disabling condition. The breath and breathing are subjects for poems from many chronologies and geographies in this her ninth collection. ‘If one measure of a poet’s line is their breath, then you’d expect a poet with asthma to be a little curtailed by it. Not so Kate Noakes. Sublime Lungs finds poem after poem burgeoning out of the condition and leading her to find no trace of Keats in Rome, but allegories in witchcraft, Kent Marsh Frogs or Blade Runner, and to have a double-edged view of nature, which for her can be kill or cure. Whether in Machu Picchu or Boston Library, referencing Charles Olson in Gloucester, or relating to lovers and children, Noakes starts from the breath in her lungs and takes off into air.’ — MATTHEW CALEY‘From Egyptian breath cures to Katherine Mansfield’s inhaler to the thin air of the Rocky Mountains and Machu Picchu, Kate Noakes’ latest collection evokes all the elements of a life lived with asthma. With each successive poem, Sublime Lungs expands the scope of how this condition affects one’s experience of the world in poems by turns witty and moving. This is poetry that attunes us to the nuances of our own embodiment.’ — CARRIE ETTER
Secret Hideaways
Discover the hidden treasures of the Mediterranean with Secret Hideaways—an exclusive guide to some of the most beautiful and luxurious holiday homes in the region. Renowned journalist Christine von der Pahlen presents around 30 exceptional retreats, organised by country and offering an authentic insight into the true essence of Mediterranean living. Each chapter transports readers to a new paradise, from the idyllic coasts of Italy and the sun-drenched islands of Greece to the hidden oases of Spain and France. Particularly compelling are the stories behind these unique refuges. Carefully curated insider tips on shopping, markets and restaurants in each region round out the home stories, while portraits of the homeowners add a personal dimension, revealing the creative minds behind the Secret Hideaways. Published in both English and German, Secret Hideaways is more than a photographic coffee-table book—it is an invitation to experience the Mediterranean way of life and explore some of its most inspiring destinations. Perfect for anyone searching for their next dream getaway, or simply longing to immerse themselves in the magic of the Mediterranean. Text in English and German.
Princess Academy graphic novel
Miri lives high atop Mount Eskel where, for generations, her ancestors have lived a simple life, working in the quarry. But everything changes when word arrives that the prince of the kingdom will choose his princess from among the village girls.
A makeshift academy is set up on the mountain and every eligible girl must attend and learn how to become a proper princess. Soon Miri finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires. Being chosen could give her everything she ever wanted, but does Miri really want to leave her home and family behind for a royal life?
Bridgertonovi 1: Vévoda a já, 5. vydání
Simon Basset, vévoda z Hastingsu, vymyslel plán, jak se zbavit všech dohazovačů a vdavekchtivých dívek ze společnosti. Předstírá náklonnost k půvabné Daphne Bridgertonové, mladší sestře svého přítele, s níž uzavře dohodu, že se jí bude naoko dvořit. Přestože nemá v úmyslu se oženit, na té dívce je něco, co mu zrychluje srdeční tep.br Daphne brzy zapomene, že jejich námluvy jsou pouhá přetvářka. Postupem času se do temperamentního šlechtice doopravdy zamiluje. Musí však za každou cenu zabránit tomu, aby jí pohledný vévoda, který se zapřisáhl, že zůstane navždy svobodný, zlomil srdce.br Osudy hlavních hrdinů můžete nyní sledovat i ve velkolepě pojatém a doslova návykovém seriálu Bridgertonovi, který vysílá stanice Netflix.
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Před několika lety mi sebrala všechno, na čem mi záleželo. Předhodila mě zvířeti, připravila mě o nevinnost, naději, víru a nechala mě zkrvavenou a zničenou uprostřed ničeho. Jenže já jsem přežila.Stvořená z hrůzného činu a cizí krutosti si jdu pro svou pomstu a nezastavím se, dokud ti, kteří jsou zodpovědní za moji zkázu, nebudou trpět.Uprostřed chaosu, který rozpoutám, mi do cesty vstoupí muž s karamelovýma očima. Dokáže ve mně probudit kapku naděje, nebo je jedním z těch, kteří poznají můj hněv?
Runes
Step into the world of ancient symbols and timeless wisdom with this complete beginner’s guide to the art of rune divination. This comprehensive introduction takes you from the origins and history of the runes to their modern-day uses for insight, guidance, and self-discovery. Learn the meanings and attributes of all 24 runes, as well as their combined interpretations for deeper readings. Discover how to cast and interpret the runes, try your hand at traditional reading layouts, and explore creative applications such as runescripts, runic relationships, and using runes in gardening and with gemstones. Whether you’re drawn to runes for spiritual practice, personal growth, or curiosity, this book offers everything you need to begin your journey into this mystical tradition.
Good Morning, Good Life Expanded Edition
Not a morning person? No problem. Amy Schmittauer Landino, best-selling author and top lifestyle coach, gives you the tools you need to build a morning routine so you can own your day before it owns you—now updated for today’s fast-paced, screen-filled world. Do you struggle to get going in the morning, constantly hitting the snooze button and scrambling to start your day? Are you tired of being told you need to wake up at 5 a.m. or do sunrise yoga to be successful? What if you could design your own morning routine—one that actually makes you want to get out of bed? In this newly updated edition of Good Morning, Good Life, best-selling author and top lifestyle coach Amy Schmittauer Landino shows you how to design a morning routine that fits your lifestyle. With her signature blend of practical wisdom and infectious positivity, Amy gives you the tools to:· Define your “why” so you wake up with energy and intention· Avoid common morning traps that drain you before your day even starts· Create daily rituals that reflect who you are and align with your goals· Build momentum that lasts all day with smart, simple productivity tips You can unlock a more empowered version of yourself right away, starting with the first moments of your day. It’s time to stop dreading your alarm, take back your mornings, and start living a life you love.
On Sports
What are sports, really? What do we love about them? And what, in our digital age, have they becom? n Sports reads like a conversation between friends at the ballpark in those golden days before the kiss cam and college co-eds with T-shirt cannons spoiled the fun; a book that feels like the sun on your forehead and the breeze in your hair, beer and laughter on your lips; a book that celebrates communion and friendship and the beauty of these games—whether it be baseball or football or soccer or tennis or cricket—that we’ve designed to distract ourselves from the end of the world. It’s about what 7Up tastes like when drunk from the Grey Cup, how much work it takes for talent to shine, and the near impossibility of language to properly capture athletic excellence. It’s about the beauty of good sports copy, the ephemerality of even the biggest sports story, and how sport remains perpetually powered by the eleven-year-old in all of us. It’s a book about rediscovering the spirit of sport, before online gambling and the manufactured spectacle of today’s professional sports suffocates the last of it; and it’s about where that spirit today is best found.
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