Interesting tale about a wealthy young heiress who, no Paris Hilton, marries when still a virgin. Her husband sets off to parlay her fortune into an enormous sum, but has an affair and realizes that he'd been missing out on quite a bit in life. Divorce on the way, he leaves, and she discovers her own sexuality while losing a few pounds and teaming up with a man unlike any she'd met so far. In many of his titles, author Flinders would work in themes of gay and biseual experience, and he doe...

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s most daring and macabre novel yet, The School of Night is an indelible tale about dark temptations, moral depravity, and what we forget when we bargain with the devil.One of Vulture's 'Best Books of the Year So Far'London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all.Kristian Hadeland, young and ambitious, has moved to London to study photography. His family ne...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR"Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.” —Dwight Garner, New York TimesA major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless.One lo...

Three Finnish siblings head for the logging fields of nineteenth-century America in the New York Times–bestselling author's "commanding historical epic" ( Washington Post).Born into a farm family, the three Koski siblings—Ilmari, Matti, and Aino—are raised to maintain their grit and resiliency in the face of hardship. This lesson in sisu takes on special meaning when their father is arrested by imperial Russian authorities, never to be see...

In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory material reveals the renewed importance of Polanyi's seminal analysis in an era of globalization and free trade.

Over seventy safe, simple exercises you can do virtually anywhere for better strength, balance, and functional fitness—no heavy weights required!Resistance bands were first used in physical therapy settings to introduce low-intensity strength training for rehabilitating patients. Today they're an increasingly popular fitness tool that comes in all levels of resistance and is perfect for targeting and working every major muscle group. Using this simple, lightweight, ...

Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches...

This is the fourth eBook in the Orgasm Incorporated series. It's set in the distant future where the population explosion has led the way for far too many people in the world.The poor got poorer while the very few Rich folks got richer and richer.For the poor, life is brutal and short.The business called Orgasm Incorporated supplies the very Rich with whatever they want in the way of sex.If you enjoy reading stories of bent, twisted, perverted, and omnisexual ac...

Live pain free once again with this proven guide designed to help you easily treat and prevent injuries like frozen shoulder, rotator cuff, tendinitis, and dislocation right from your own home.Millions of people suffer from debilitating shoulder problems every year. But with this user-friendly guide, you can begin to understand the causes for common shoulder conditions and then learn the steps you need to take to heal your body. Healthy Shoulder Handbook features 100 easy-to-follow exercis...

The transporting, standalone continuation of the acclaimed, apocalyptically-charged novel The Morning Star—the second in a bold new series.In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn’t really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns cha...

The inhabitants of post-apocalypse Labrador have vague knowledge of the “Old People,” a technologically advanced civilization they believe was destroyed when God sent “Tribulation” to the world to punish their forebears’ sins.Now the inhabitants of this new world practise a form of fundamentalist Christianity. To follow God’s word and prevent another Tribulation, they must preserve absolute normality among the surviving humans, plants, and animals—and therefore practice a brutal fo...

Capital. Critique of Political Economy (German: Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, pronounced [das kapiˈtaːl, kʁiːtɪk deːɐ pɔliːtɪʃən øːkoːnoːmiː]; 1867–1883) by Karl Marx is a foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy, economics and politics. Marx aimed to reveal the economic patterns underpinning the capitalist mode of production, in contrast to classical political economists such as Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill.Marx d...