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After a lifetime beside his sister, a brother has six weeks to keep one final promise. When an unexpected diagnosis brought Nancy home for hospice, the doctor gave her about six weeks. For her brother Bill, those weeks became more than a countdown. They became the final chapter in a family story shaped by duty, silence, erased women, hidden labor, and weight carried quietly from one generation to the next.

TO THE PUBLIC, "THE SHOT" IS A TRIUMPH. TO GUY MANTOOTH, IT'S EVIDENCE. Thirty years ago, wildlife photographer Guy Mantooth took a photograph that changed everything. The image captured a bird previously believed extinct—the last known member of its species. It became iconic. Exhibited around the world. Reproduced in books, magazines, museums, documentaries, and calendars. Critics hailed it. Environmentalists embraced it. Guy called it a mistake.

Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation and catapult it towards euphoric highs. With a few keystrokes, the Fed can conjure up trillions of dollars and fund virtually unlimited Federal spending. And with a few poor decisions, the Fed can plunge the entire world into a recession. The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful institutions in the world, and also one of the most difficult to understand.

Minions & Monster erzählt die abgefahrene, absurde und natürlich absolut wahre Geschichte von den Minions und wie sie Hollywood erobern, Filmstars werden, alles verlieren, Monster auf die Welt loslassen und sich dann heldenhaft daranmachen, den Planeten vor genau dem Chaos zu retten, das sie selbst angerichtet haben.

From the dusty ranches of his youth to the chaos of combat, from city streets to wilderness that nearly claims him, Jack’s life is measured not in victories but in the partners who stood beside him when everything else fell apart. Where Heroes Run: The American K9 Elegy is a literary novel inspired by real events, told through five interconnected journeys. Together, they trace a life shaped by service, tested by loss, and defined by the unbreakable bonds forged between humans and dogs in moments where trust is the only thing that keeps you alive.

'You’ve never really made it in fashion. Nobody cares how good you used to be. It’s about today and tomorrow.' Describing his journey from leaving school at fifteen with undiagnosed dyslexia to his life changing accident that would end his dream of becoming a racing cyclist, Sir Paul’s...

'Essential for any leader in any industry' – Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical Candor Working Backwards gives an insider's account of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives. In 2018 Amazon became the world’s second...

Read by Bill Nighy. From the minds of Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and Terry Jones (Monty Python) comes Starship Titanic, the hilarious novelization of the third-best adventure game of 1999. Welcome on board the Starship Titanic. The Ship that Cannot Possibly Go Wrong. At...

'[Percival Everett's] books always feel like an encounter with substantive, playful thinking . . . sad, affecting and marvelous' New York Times A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Telephone is an astonishing story of love, loss and grief from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr...

THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is a generative fluid,” she explains...

Bill Schindler takes us deep into his lifetime of archaeological research to show us why and how our dietary choices and cooking techniques need to follow our ancestors' lead and focus on nutrient density and bioavailability. Our relationship to food is filled with confusion and insecurity...

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations and by individuals to solve problems and save lives both "down the street and around the world". Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, "regardless of income, available time, age, and skills", can do to help.

In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live. Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business – eating, sleeping and merely endeavouring to get more comfortable.

The Appalachian Trail covers 14 states, and over 2,000 miles. It stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south. It is famous for being the longest continuous footpath in the world. (Compare this with the Pennine Way, which is a mere 250...

From his days growing up in Scotland to his harrowing experiences fighting in Italy during World War Two, Bill McLaren has always been in the thick of it. Used to being caught up in the most dramatic moments rugby has ever seen, McLaren relives the highlights of his illustrious career, and talks of the game today and his regrets that rugby went professional.

When Marshal Guarnaccia is called upon to investigate the murder of a young woman, he is convinced that there's more to her family than meets the eye, and wonders if the girl's father, Paoletti, might have had something to do with her death. Enlisting the help of a local journalist, Marshal...

The book explores the soul and how it projects to others. Two examples, Steve Jobs and Jesus Christ, are examined for what each did as an "extreme entrepreneur," to provide a position that has changed and will continue to change humankind. In his words, Steve Jobs provided technology that provide a "bicycle for the mind," putting complex technology in the hands of the non-technical masses. Jesus Christ converted living in fear to living in love as a way to tap the God within each of us.

Three years after I kissed Andre Moreau on Centre Court, we have a life. A flat in South Kensington. A love I thought nothing could break. Then he breaks it. One confession. One night he can't take back. And suddenly the man I built my entire world around is someone I don't recognize. I leave. I fly to the other side of the world and play tennis like a man trying to outrun his own heart. I tell myself the silence is easier. I tell myself not to look at my phone every night, waiting for him to say something that I'm not sure could fix this anyway.

What if the thing keeping your company small is you? You built something real. People depend on you. So why does growth feel heavier than it should? In Busy Is Broken, veteran CEO coach Bill Gallagher names the trap that catches even the most talented leaders: busyness itself. Most leaders wear busyness like a badge. Packed calendars, constant decisions, always the last one out the door. It feels like leadership. It isn't. The secret isn't working harder, managing time better, or finding the right productivity app. It's redesigning the system that keeps producing the chaos you're managing.

Everyone in Portage thought Emma Schultz was sweet, beautiful―and harmless. They were wrong. When a beloved small-town bookkeeper turns out to be the mastermind behind a chilling series of murders and millions in embezzled funds, defense attorney Mike Jorgenson is thrust into a case that...