What comes after the death of literature? Kojin Karatani, winner of the 2022 Berggruen Prize, examines the corpse, investigates the cause of death, and offers glimpses of an afterlife from various theoretical perspectives. The End of Modern Literature reimagines the significance and concept of literature.Alongside Karatani's essential essay comes commentary and responses by Fredric Jameson, Bruce Robbins, Kenneth W. Warren, Gauri Viswanathan, Andrew Gibson, Young-il Cho, Y...

Emma Fisher was five years old when a shadow stepped through a burning doorway and left her an orphan. She saw a face bent low in the firelight. She has spent fifteen years trying to unsee it.Jake McKellar came east from Colorado with a brother's death on him and a compass he has no right to carry. He works the Appalachian ridges alone, keeping his life small enough to survive.At a remote winter shelter, four people are waiting to be found. Not all of them are alive.

Feed your fascination with sharks! This complete resource enlightens readers on the biology, ecology, and behavior of sharks with approachable explanations and more than 250 stunning color illustrations.Studies of shark biology have flourished over the last several decades. An explosion of new research methods is leading to a fascinating era of oceanic discovery. Shark Biology and Conservation is an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of the diversity, evol...

Every Porch. Every Christmas Morning. No One Ever Sees a Thing.Every Christmas morning for three years, Nick Heron's family—and everyone else on Parkside Court—wakes up to presents on their porch. Perfect gifts. Exactly what everyone wanted, down to the smallest detail no one remembers saying out loud.Everyone else finds it charming. Nick finds it unsettling.So this Christmas Eve, with a storm bearing down on Lakewood, Colorado, he sets up cameras, ...

A series of violent and calculated murders, perpetrated across a six-day period in the heart of wartime London.A city plunged into utter darkness for fourteen hours at a time. An erratic and desperately charming RAF man with an overactive imagination and a penchant for lying. A tense and furious geopolitical background as the world reels from the effects of warfare. This is the world in which Gordon Cummins was hunted down, tried and convicted of the crimes of the ...

Surviving Myself is a raw, honest, and ultimately hopeful memoir. The author explores how the most formidable obstacle he ever faced was the one living inside of him, and how he found his way through it. This is not simply a story of all the bad things that happened to him; it is a story of how he learned to stand in his own truth, quiet the voices that told him he wasn't enough, and rebuild himself from the inside out.Woven throughout are moments of humor, grief, hard-won...

The New Testament proclaims the arrival of God’s long-promised Deliverer. Across the four Gospels, the book of Acts, the apostolic letters, and the visionary Revelation, we encounter the life, ministry, and mission of Jesus Christ, along with the stories of those who followed Him. While the Old Testament offered shadows, patterns, and prophecies that pointed forward to the Messiah, the New Testament boldly announces that the Light of the world has come.We need to understand the New...

What is the difference between living and waiting to die? What is it that makes life worth living?Finding the Meaning and Beauty Life Cannot Measure is not just a title. It is a lens.Rob Abel, award winning author of the Amazon #1 best seller "This is WHY Understanding Human Behavior" presents his second published work "Live Between the Lines Theory."Between the lines are the things we cannot measu...

**'History as it should be written: as page-turning and compelling as the best thriller.'JAMES HOLLAND'A mesmerising account.'THE TIMES**'Abel Smith takes us right into the heart of the drama. Utterly gripping.'AL MURRAY-Summer, 1940. Winston Churchill watches in horror as France falls to the Germans in just six weeks, completing the Nazi conquest of mainland Europe. He faces an ...

They thought I was collateral. I made them sign on the dotted line.Saint Ash club takes its deliveries through a black steel door in a rain-slicked alley. That's where Claire Ward's father dragged her to pay off his gambling debts. He thought he was trading an omega for a clean slate with the Mercer pack.He was wrong.Behind the steel door are four alphas who don't rely on posturing or cheap threats. Daniel's control is like winter steel. Michael kee...

Summer, 1940. Winston Churchill watches in horror as France falls to the Germans in just six weeks, completing the Nazi conquest of mainland Europe. He faces an urgent question: what will happen to the mighty French Navy? Under Hitler's control it presents a major threat, and could make the German advance unstoppable.With the Nazis closing in, Churchill orders Operation Catapult. By the end of one of the most agonising but necessary military operations of the war, the British will ...

Natalia Morozova has spent months running from the sins her dead husband left behind. But when Roman Orlov's men corner her in a closed diner with her young son sleeping in the back room, survival stops being something she can manage alone.Viktor Sokolov is older, ruthless, feared, and powerful enough to turn her name into a warning. His offer is simple: marry him, take his protection, and become untouchable.Natalia knows better than to trust dangerous men with soft voices ...