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Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating and outraging us for much longer than we might realise. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans into an erotic frenzy; or the cheetah-owning, coffin-sleeping, one-legged French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who launched a violent feud with her former best friend; or Edmund Kean, the dazzling Shakespearean actor whose monstrous ego and terrible alcoholism saw him nearly murdered by his own audience.... 

Something is wrong with our banking system. We all sense that, but Mervyn King knows it firsthand; his 10 years at the helm of the Bank of England, including at the height of the financial crisis, revealed profound truths about the mechanisms of our capitalist society. In The End of Alchemy, he offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance.

Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often positioned as a distraction, a drain, a problem to be solved.

At 28, with a PhD under her belt and a meteoric rise to head of Research and Development at Mercer Robotics, Reese feels her decision to put her career first has worked out pretty well for her. Sure, she doesn’t have many personal relationships to speak of, but she does love her team and they like her too. So when she’s called to the Big Boss’s office and told she will be looking after his son while he does a rotation in her lab, she’s not thrilled that her hard work and achievements have boiled down to being a glorified babysitter – especially to a billionaire playboy.

Threatened with an arranged marriage to a cruel lord who despises him, Aster claims the protection of the one man no one will dare to challenge: Sir Corin, disgraced dragon knight…and the man Aster’s sister betrayed so publicly that he fled the court for a gloomy, isolated mountain hideaway. But Aster didn’t plan to be stranded there with one bed between them—or to give in to years of longing and beg for the monster’s forbidden touch.

Wes Cooper was dead. Then he wasn't-though he's not exactly alive, either. As an immortal not-ghost, he can transition between this world and the otherplane, which makes him the perfect thief for hire. For 70 years he's made a "living" returning items to their rightful owners, seeing his fair share of the bizarre in the process. But he's never witnessed murder. Until now. 

Hello all, Jory Harcourt here. Back in 2017, I started writing a newsletter. Why? Many reasons. As a keepsake, to vent, to talk about my wonderful kids as well as to remember special moments and memories. Some entries might sound like silly ramblings or slice-of-life events with my favorite...

Gifted with a brain that works like a video recorder, twelve-year-old aspiring detective Elmo Fitzroy—famous on YouTube, thanks to his mother, as “Muppit Boy” because of really humiliating videos—becomes embroiled in a world-domination plot hatched by an evil scientist out to control humanity with deadly allergies. Mo’s life plan is simple: ditch his dweeby childhood alter ego and fly under the radar to survive middle school.

When an outcast demon is thrust into a medical technician training program, are death and destruction sure to follow? After centuries of being bound to one greedy magician after another, Auni-jel-Chandu broke free and retreated to Sheol, outcast even among other demons. But then the Realm Accords passed, and suddenly he's thrust into the Sheol Retraining Initiative as the newest supernatural medical technician student at United Memorial Hospital (aka St. Stupid's).

Is Capitalism arbitrary and ultimately counter productive to human flourishing or has it been intrinsic to human advancement? Wealth of Ideas proposes an answer to this question by exploring key Capitalist inventions spanning human history and putting them in context with those times and ours.

WHAT IF YOUR LIFE ISN’T HAPPENING TO YOU—BUT BEING SHAPED BY YOU? Every outcome you experience, every pattern you repeat, every limit you quietly accept is being formed by an invisible system running beneath your awareness. It’s the lens through which you interpret the world—and it’s bending your reality whether you realize it or not. In Reality Benders, Greg Cagle reveals a radical yet practical truth: reality is not fixed. It’s flexible. And those who learn how to interrupt the cycles shaping their thoughts, emotions, and actions can redirect the trajectory of their lives on purpose.

A teaser novella, providing a peek into Cameron's hardboiled and cinematic series ...March 2022. Twenty-three-year-old Haley Wolfe is visiting Florida from New York, staying in the small town of Englewood to help her ailing 90-year-old grandmother. Haley is missing out on being with her friends over in Miami Beach for spring break, and she is both frustrated and dismayed with having to sort out her grandmother’s waning finances.

When we hear about thousands of Christians killed every year for their faith, or tens of millions living under extreme persecution, the numbers seem overwhelming and impersonal. From the Sidelines to the Frontlines will bring readers up close to those who have paid an enormous price to follow...

Our darkest secrets are best left buried... When a local journalist is found dead in an isolated spot on Roydon Common, lying beneath a hangman's noose on the anniversary of a teenager's suicide, DI Tom Janssen is asked to take on the investigation as a favour to local colleagues and must unpick...

A secret worth dying for is a secret worth killing… When a violent storm uncovers the remains of an unknown young woman, long buried among the sand dunes, DI Tom Janssen must piece together fragmentary evidence to determine how she came to be there. In the years she lay undiscovered, several...

One lie requires commitment. Multiple lies require dedication... When the remains of a young woman are discovered near to Branodunum, a Roman archaeological site on the Norfolk coast, DI Tom Janssen and his team must work to discover who she was and how she came to be buried there. The area is...

What would you do to keep your past a secret? When the mutilated remains of a woman are retrieved by local fishermen, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his team to identify how she came to be in the water and what put her there. Joined on the case by his new permanent boss, DCI Tamara Greave, it...

The explosive first novel in the Hidden Norfolk series from the million-copy bestselling British author, JM Dalgliesh. The darkest secrets often hide in plain sight… When a body is found on a lonely cliff top path, the angelic face of a murdered teenager lies facing the rising sun. Strangled...

When the bonds of brotherhood are strained, who do you turn to? The celebration of the Viking Festival of Scira ensures that thousands descend annually on the small coastal town of Sheringham, but when one man dies amidst the grand finale, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his team to identify who...

In a world of lies, one truth remains. Dead men tell no tales… When the body of an unidentified man is found at the foot of Sheringham cliffs with injuries inconsistent with a fall, DI Tom Janssen must piece together his final days to determine how he fell to his death... or who pushed him...