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Dead in the Water
From the multi-million copy bestselling author comes a chilling tale about life flashing before your eyes—including terrifying scenes you don’t remember. When Damon survives a near-drowning, his life flashes before his eyes. Every memory is crystal clear—except one. A dead boy. A face he can’t place. A moment he doesn’t remember living. At first he tells himself it’s a trick of the mind. But everything else he saw was real. So why not thi? ith his waking life stalked by the disturbing scene, confusion quickly turns to obsession. Desperate for answers, Damon digs into his fractured past, and becomes convinced that the only way to remember…is to die again. And again. And again. When he meets a perfect stranger who’s all too willing to help, the stage is set for his dice with death. But if this is what it takes to uncover the truth, maybe some memories are better left buried…
Rook & Rebel
A dark revenge romance with tattooed bikers, hilarious banter, high speeds, and high heat. Hold on tight for a hell of a ride!
Stalker romcom
Biker romance
Morally grey MMC
Found family
Revenge
Opposites attract
I used to have big dreams.
Finish college, make beautiful art, and take over my dad's business. But his illness wasn't part of the plan. Neither was his sudden need to keep me locked up in his mansion. Until one night, I came face-to-face with a street biker. Rook Emberson is everything I should fear, yet he's the only one who's ever made me feel alive.
But loving him means risking everything.
Revenge has always been my plan.
I've spent years plotting the perfect way to take back everything Regan Fletcher's father stole from me. When fate puts us together, I know I've found the key to his destruction. Regan is everything I didn't expect, and my plans begin to unravel. What starts as a twisted game of vengeance turns into an obsession.
The lines between love and vengeance blur, and I'm not sure where one ends and the other begins.
The Ancient Near East
The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization" - and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinarily rich and successful culture. Indeed, it was a time and place of earth-shaking changes for humankind: the beginnings of writing and law, kingship and bureaucracy, diplomacy and state-sponsored warfare, mathematics and literature.This Very Short Introduction offers a fascinating account of this momentous time in human history. The three thousand years covered here - from around 3500 BCE, with the founding of the first Mesopotamian cities, to the conquest of the Near East by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE-represent a period of incredible innovation, from the invention of the wheel and the plow, to early achievements in astronomy, law, and diplomacy. As historian Amanda Podany explores this era, she overturns the popular image of the ancient world as a primitive, violent place. We discover that women had many rights and freedoms: they could own property, run businesses, and represent themselves in court. Diplomats traveled between the capital cities of major powers ensuring peace and friendship between the kings. Scribes and scholars studied the stars and could predict eclipses and the movements of the planets.Every chapter introduces the reader to a particular moment in ancient Near Eastern history, illuminating such aspects as trade, religion, diplomacy, law, warfare, kingship, and agriculture. Each discussion focuses on evidence provided in two or three cuneiform texts from that time. These documents, the cities in which they were found, the people and gods named in them, the events they recount or reflect, all provide vivid testimony of the era in which they were written. About the Series:Oxford''s Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field. Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library. Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
The Price of Collapse
How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule.The mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster, the Ming price regime collapsed, and with it the Ming political regime.A masterful work of scholarship, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it.
Mattering
In a world where loneliness, burnout, and disconnection have reached crisis levels, Jennifer Breheny Wallace offers a transformative solution: mattering. Through vivid storytelling and groundbreaking research, Mattering: The Secret to Building a Life of Deep Purpose and Connection reveals how feeling seen, needed, and valued isn't just a nice-to-have-it's essential for our wellbeing and society's future.
Filled with stories of individuals who have discovered the power of mattering, from the story of a fire chief who re-energized his emotionally exhausted team by helping them see their long-term impact, to a woman who transformed her grief into a movement helping thousands rebuild their lives, Wallace shows how mattering can be cultivated in every sphere of life. She demonstrates that when people feel they truly matter-that their presence and contributions are noticed, needed, and missed when they aren't there-everything changes. Productivity soars, relationships deepen, and communities strengthen.
Drawing on compelling research and intimate portraits of people who've discovered the power of mattering, Wallace provides a practical blueprint for creating lives of deeper meaning and connection. She reveals:
• How small acts of recognition can transform workplace culture and prevent burnout
• Why helping others often energizes us rather than depletes us
• How to build "mattering spaces" that foster genuine connection in our communities
• Practical strategies for navigating life transitions while maintaining our sense of purpose
Perfect for readers of Brené Brown and Adam Grant, this timely book offers both hope and concrete solutions for our modern crisis of disconnection. Mattering isn't just another self-help guide-it's a revolutionary framework for rebuilding the connections that make life meaningful and creating positive change that ripples outward from ourselves to our relationships, workplaces, and communities. With clarity and compassion, Wallace shows us that the antidote to our cultural crisis of isolation isn't to turn inward, but to recognize how much we matter to each other. This book will forever change how you think about your role in the lives of others and offer a path to a more connected, purposeful life.
Příběhy Artura Gordona Pyma
Poea k napsání tohoto příběhu inspirovala novinová zpráva o ztroskotání lodi a následné záchraně dvou mužů na palubě.
Toto strhující námořní dobrodružství, vydané v roce 1838, pojednává o chlapci z Nové Anglie, Pymovi, který se spolu s kapitánovým synem Augustusem načerno dostane na velrybářskou loď. Oba chlapci se opakovaně ocitají na pokraji smrti nebo jim hrozí, že budou objeveni, a jsou svědky mnoha děsivých událostí, včetně vzpoury, kanibalismu a zběsilých pronásledování.
Poe tomuto příběhu vtiskl alegorickou bohatost, biblickou obraznost a psychologické postřehy, jimiž ovlivnil spoustu jiných spisovatelů, mezi nimiž byli například Melville, James, Verne a Nabokov.
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Temný Olymp 6: Půlnoční zmar
Utekla jsem do podsvětí, abych našla roztříštěné střípky svého já. Místo toho jsem ale našla jeho.
Eurydika Dimitriouová byla vždy jen chráněnou nejmladší sestřičkou, ale konečně je připravená vystoupit z dlouhého stínu vrhaného svou mocnou rodinou – a bývalým přítelem, který jí zlomil srdce. Drsné ruce na jemné kůži jsou možná přesně to, co potřebuje, aby na svůj srdcebol konečně zapomněla…
Charón Ariti je už celá léta Hádovou pravou rukou. Dolnímu městu dal všechno, ale nyní si chce vzít něco sám pro sebe. S velkým potěšením poskytne Eurydice velice výjimečný druh vzdělání… Je však její srdce opravdu dost svobodné na to, aby si ho mohl přivlastnit?
Orfeus Makos zoufale touží věci napravit. Bývalý zlatý chlapec horního města je jen stínem svého dřívějšího já. Udělá cokoli, aby Eurydiku získal zpět… i kdyby to znamenalo, že do jeho náručí nepřijde sama.
Tři srdce. Tři budoucnosti. Bezpočet způsobů, jak by se to mohlo pokazit. Ale když selhávající bariérou Olympu proniknou nepřátelé a zaútočí na dolní město, budou zlomená srdce to nejmenší, co bude nadějnou mileneckou trojici trápit.
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The Power of Moving On
What do you want, why can't you get it, and how can you make it happen?
Learn how to manifest what you want in life from romantic relationships to financial freedom.
The Power of Moving On will teach you how to:
- Discover what you really want in life
- Turn your desires into your reality
- Remove the negative beliefs that are holding you back
-Allow the universe to manifest through you
'Leave your past behind and change your life for the better' - Norman E. Rosenthal, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine
If you've tried meditation and failed then this life-changing book is for you. These simple yet powerful tools will help you to manifest your desires much more easily - often in ways you never imagined.
By reading this book, you will discover a vital truth: when your inner world changes, your outer world is transformed.
Psycho Fae
Are you ready to enter into a new realm?
Fight for survival in the deadly gladiator Fae Games.
I shifted into a saber-toothed tiger...but that was just the beginning.
Jax, Cobra, and Ascher are now my teammates.
Once again, we're fighting for our lives. And our futures.
But nothing is as it seems, and for every secret we uncover, another unfolds.
Under the spiteful watch of Xerxes and the evil Fae Queen, it's not clear we're going to survive.
Can we work together? Or will we implode?
One thing is for sure, I'm about to uncover my destiny.
Power is in my veins.
This book 2 of a Trilogy. Psycho Shifters must be read prior to Psycho Fae.
Glasses with a Chance of Delinquent Vol. 5
A HIGH STAKES DATESo much has been going on that Momose and Ichikura have hardly gotten to spend any time together. They plan to go on a date since they haven't gone on one for a while, but instead the couple end up visiting Ichikura's house! Can Momose make a good impression on her boyfriend's family?
Wuthering Heights
When Heathcliff, a poor young boy, is adopted into wealthy Catherine Earnshaw's family, he and Catherine form a bond that progresses from childhood friendship to teenage passion. Because of Heathcliff's lowly social status, however, Catherine decides she cannot marry him, and instead marries the gentleman Edgar Linton. This sets in motion a chain of events that ravages both the Linton and Earnshaw families with jealousy, revenge, and bitterness, leaving only the ghosts of Catherine and Heathcliff to haunt the moors.
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Servants of the Most Merciful
One of the most beautiful portions of the Qur?an describes a detailed manual for how a believer should live their life. How one becomes Ibadur Rahman, the servant of the most Merciful. It encompasses multiple elements and dimensions of worship, family life, character, reflection, and living as a community. These key qualities, if properly implemented in our lives, will allow us to become the true servants that we should all aspire to become. This book will take you on that journey to identify and implement those qualities in your life, solely for the pleasure of Allah.
Belonging on Both Shores
For most of their history, the people around the Persian Gulf littoral were socially intertwined and economically interdependent. But the twentieth century ushered in nationalization projects, British imperial intervention, and border regulations, all of which posed challenges to everyday mobility in this oceanic world. Those crossing the water became the primary foil for bordering spaces, restricting and regulating movement, and defining difference more generally. Belonging on Both Shores tells the story of people's struggles to move freely between Iran and the Arab shores of the Gulf as the unregulated mobility that had characterized everyday life in the nineteenth century was increasingly policed in the twentieth. Using a wide range of Arabic, Persian, and English sources, Lindsey Stephenson demonstrates how state officials refined notions of territorial belonging against the movement of Iranians, the most visible mobile "group" in the Persian Gulf arena. Engaging migrant voices, Stephenson narrates how Iranians challenged a perceived requirement to belong to a single place and highlights the techniques these migrants employed to remain connected to both shores. Tracing the movement of Iranians across and around the Persian Gulf and investigating how the technologies of state and mobility transformed fluidity and people's understanding of movement, this book tells a new story of how the modern Gulf was formed.
The Auschwitz Goalkeeper
Story of a Welsh POW who endured the horrors of the Nazis'' most notorious death camp, and was then brutally forced to march across Europe as the SS retreated before the advancing Russians. He came home a shadow of his former self, saying. 2I witnessed things I wouldn''t wish my worst enemy to see."
The Anatomy of Exile: A Novel
The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in predictable tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil that threatens to tear the family apart. In the wake of the 1967 Six Day War, Tamar Abadi’s world collapses when her sister-in-law is killed in what appears to be a terror attack but what is really the result of a secret relationship with a Palestinian poet. Tamar’s husband, Salim, is an Arab and a Jew. Torn between the two identities, and mourning his sister’s death, he uproots the family and moves them to the US. As Tamar struggles to maintain the integrity of the family’s Jewish Israeli identity against the backdrop of the American “melting pot” culture, a Palestinian family moves into the apartment upstairs and she is forced to reckon with her narrow thinking as her daughter falls in love with the Palestinian son. Fearing history will repeat itself, Tamar's determination to separate the two sets into motion a series of events that have the power to destroy her relationship with her daughter, her marriage, and the family she has worked so hard to protect. This powerful debut novel explores Tamar's struggle to keep her family intact, to accept love that is taboo, and grapples with how exile forces us to reshape our identity in ways we could not imagine.
Introduction to Classical Chinese
This textbook provides a comprehensive scholarly introduction to Classical Chinese and its texts. Classical Chinese is the language of Confucius and Mencius and their contemporaries, who wrote the seminal texts of Chinese philosophy more than 2,000 years ago. Although it was used as a living language for only a relatively short time, it was the foundation of Chinese education throughout the Imperial age, and formed the basis of a literary tradition that continues to the present day. This book offers students all the necessary tools to read, understand, and analyse Classical Chinese texts, including: step-by-step clearly illustrated descriptions of syntactic features; core vocabulary lists; introductions to relevant historical and cultural topics; selected readings from classical literature with original commentaries and in-depth explanations; introductions to dictionaries and other reference works on the study of ancient China; and a guide to philological methods used in the critical analysis of Classical Chinese texts. The extensive glossary provides phonological reconstructions, word classes, English translations, and citations to illustrate usage, while the up-to-date bibliography serves as a valuable starting point for further research.
Liberal Worlds
The intellectual biography of a Victorian Liberal polymathJames Bryce (1838–1922) was a leading figure in Britain’s Liberal Party and a distinguished historian, a versatile scholar-politician who moved seamlessly between academia and politics. He was, among many other things, a cabinet minister and a popular ambassador, an expert on American politics and on Roman law, an advocate for the Armenian people and an architect of the League of Nations, a world traveller and a climber of Mount Ararat. In Liberal Worlds, Stuart Jones offers an intellectual biography of Bryce, tracing a Scots-Ulster Presbyterian’s assimilation to the increasingly multiconfessional Victorian state, and a late Victorian Liberal’s encounter with the wider world. Jones shows how a polymathic intelligence grappled with a dizzyingly wide range of concerns and issues, including the challenges of democracy and race relations, the rise of modern universities and the reconstruction of the international order after World War I. In mapping the evolution of Bryce’s thought, Liberal Worlds illuminates the international intellectual networks and the many places across the globe that shaped his thinking. Jones considers, for example, why a man who had a lifelong revulsion against slavery seemed to accept racial segregation in the American South; how a vigorous activist for girls’ and women’s education became a tenacious parliamentary critic of women’s suffrage; and why, over the objections of his Ulster Presbyterian family, he backed Irish home rule. Above all, Jones rescues Bryce—immensely influential in his time, now little remembered—from being consigned to a historical pigeonhole, restoring him to the centre of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates over the nature of democratic politics.
Becoming Arab
How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clansDuring the later Middle Ages, peasants in Egypt and Greater Syria came to view themselves as members of Arab clans that had originated in the Arabian Peninsula. They expressed their Arab identity by wearing Arab headgear, adopting an Arab dialect, and circulating a new genre of popular epic that told heroic tales of pre-Islamic Arabia. In Becoming Arab, Yossef Rapoport argues that this proliferation of Arab village clans did not come about through mass migration and displacement but reflected an internal transformation. Drawing on extensive documentary, literary, administrative, and material evidence, Rapoport shows that the widespread formation of Arab village clans in late medieval Egypt and Greater Syria was a gradual process, the result of mass rural conversion to Islam and a new landholding regime in which peasants shifted from being landowners to being tenants. After the eleventh century, Rapoport contends, Middle Eastern villagers were turning Arab. These Arab village clans were not merely administrative regimes imposed from above; villagers enthusiastically embraced their new identities. New converts to Islam adopted Arab lineages to claim status and as a counter-identity to urban-based Turkish elites. Arab identity was used by clans to mobilize rural uprisings against the ruling sultans and to resolve disputes among villagers. Challenging traditional historiography of the Middle East, which views Arab clansmen as pastoralists whose identity separated them from that of the wider peasantry, Rapoport argues that the pervasive establishment of Arab village clans was the most important development in the history of the Middle Eastern countryside in the Islamic era.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Fafnir the Recluse Vol. 5
A BROMANCE IN FULL BLOOM!Fafnir the curse dragon enjoys his shut-in gamer lifestyle while mooching off Miss Kobayashi's co-worker Takiya. He gets hooked on scratch tickets, drags Takiya along on a flower viewing excursion, and...bravely battles an evil spirit from another dimension?! Fafnir's pursuit of treasure in the human world is as heated as ever in Volume 5 of this interspecies otaku roommate comedy!
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